I'm The Son You'll Never Have

Chapter One: The Bite

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my plot.

"Hey Peter, do you want to come over tonight and work on our AP Bio presentation on the human genome? I've already asked Norman, sorry, MY DAD, and he said you could come over." Harry asked Peter in between classes.

"I'm fine with that as long as Aunt May and Uncle Ben say I can. Let me text the real quick." Peter took out his flip phone and shot a quick text to his aunt and uncle. His phone pinged shortly after he sent the message.

"They say it's fine as long as I get home by eight." Peter told Harry.

"Great that gives us more than four hours to work...or in my case play video games..."

Peter smirked and said "Please...You and I both know that you'll work on this project too. The only reason you do all that crazy stuff is to make your dad look bad."

"True, but where's the fun in being responsible 24/7 when I have the ability to make the Osborns look bad."

Peter smiled and snickered at Harry's response and said "Sure. You do that. It gives me more ammunition to look cool for being friends with a bad boy. I really don't think he's that bad, but I also don't live with him, so I can't really complain."

"Correct, and since this is our last class together today, I'll meet you at the front steps and we'll take the subway to Oscorp today. See you later Peter." Harry smiled and walked into his next class since this is one he doesn't actually feel like skipping. Peter walked further to his next class and couldn't wait to hear the last bell that will release him to finally be able to hang out with Harry for a little while.

Peter zoomed out of class and met Harry at the front steps of the school. Luckily, the press that seems to follow Harry is not present today. Probably because Harry hasn't pulled any stunts for the past few weeks since he got drunk and punched a reporter that put a camera too close to his face. That did not go over too well with Norman, luckily Harry didn't get in too much trouble except for Norman confiscating his cell phone and revoking his outing privileges.

"So, I noticed at lunch today you were staring at Michelle. You know she probably knows you have a huge crush on her right?"

Peter groaned and said "Yeah, but you know me, I have no confidence at all, and she probably doesn't like me much. I mean, we hardly ever talk, and when we do I stutter."

"That's true Peter, but I talk to her some too, and I think she likes you."

Peter snorted and said "Yeah, right. She likes the guy that is a complete loser except when he's around Harry. Let's get off this subject. It depresses me, and Ned already pestered me about this at lunch time."

"No problem Peter. Let's just get to Oscorp. We'll go to the kitchen first for snacks and haul them to my room for while we work on the project." Harry and Peter got on the subway and arrived at Oscorp quickly.

Harry and Peter went through the lobby and entered the private elevator. They went down to the kitchen and grabbed some chips and candy. They set up in Harry's room and got to work promptly.

"So how many slides do you want to cover Harry? I've got the first five slides done, and I'm working on slide six. Did you want to handle the other five slides?"

Harry smiled and replied "Duh, all I've done so far is watch you do your slides and maybe contribute a couple sentences. Do you want to handle the pictures?"

Peter creates a new slide and says "You've done more than that, and of course I want to handle the pictures, you know I love photography and diagrams." Harry continued working on his slides while Peter figured out what diagrams and pictures to use.

They heard a knock at Harry's door and heard Norman say "Hey, how about you two take a break for a minute. I've got a surprise to offer."

Harry grimaced, but closed the project for now and said "Well, we've been summoned. Let's hope this surprise is a good one and not something like another college prep class." Peter snickered and followed Harry out of the room into Norman's home study.

"Evening dad, what's up now?" Harry said in a disdainful tone while rolling his eyes.

"Hello boys, I have finally decided that you two are old enough to tour our genetics labs. I figured that it would be the perfect time since you guys are working on a project about the human genome." Norman smiled and watched the two boys's faces light up in surprise and delight. "Really, it's about time. I've been waiting for a while to get into those labs." Harry said while Peter said "Thanks Mr. Osborn, maybe it will help with understanding our project. We know the drill of no pictures though."

"It's no problem Peter, I'll let the lead scientist show you two around. I have some more work to do so I won't see either of you again this evening, but have fun and finish your project after the tour." Peter smiled as he and Harry were led to the labs.

Harry and Peter were led into the labs and heard the door lock behind them. Harry caught the code to get into the lab, but soon forgot it as he and Peter gawked at the projects they were seeing. They even had live specimens.

"Hey look Harry, they have spiders. They're like the ones my parents used in their experiments when I was little."

Peter said in awe that his parent's work lived on after them. They were led away from the spiders quickly and shown other specimens. Peter didn't notice the lead scientist had taken a spider out while they weren't looking. The lead scientist had the spider in his protected hand and walked with the boys while explaining aspects of some of the projects. Peter and Harry didn't notice when the scientist slipped the spider into the hood of the jacket Peter was wearing. The scientist continued droning on and when done he led Peter and Harry out of the lab. The scientist smirked and watched as the two boys went back to their project in Harry's room. He had a report to write.

Peter and Harry opened their project again and conversed quietly about what they'd seen in the labs.

Peter listened as Harry said "Those spiders were so cool, I wonder what they're going to do with them?"

Peter said " I'm not sure what all the details of that project were, but I know that they were studying the spider's DNA when it was my parent's project."

Harry smiled and said "No matter, we need to get back to our project anyway."

They worked on their project for a few minutes until Peter exclaimed "Ow! Something bit me on my neck. I don't feel or see any bugs around though. You don't think one of those spiders got out do you?"

Peter was in a panic and Harry said "Of course not, those spiders are locked up secure, a hair probably just got caught in your shirt, there's not even a bite mark on your neck."

Peter calmed down and said "Okay. Okay, let's just finish this project so I can get home on time." Peter and Harry finished up their project and Peter was getting ready to go home and he became dizzy all of a sudden. Harry noticed and before he could ask what was wrong Peter collapsed. Harry frantically yelled for Norman, and watched as Peter grew evermore pale. Peter's glasses had fallen off by now. They were forgotten on Harry's carpet.