This was definitely not like the 'I am totally an adult and I respond maturely to things' Peter that Alec knew. He stubbornly stayed in the door frame.

"Alright, spill it. What's wrong? Something with your dorky friend? You have a fight with Liz?" He almost made a snarky comment about Stark not tucking him in at night, but didn't say it out loud. "You're a pain in the ass to be around right now so something has to be wrong."

Well, a different sort of pain in the ass.