𝐴𝐿𝐼𝐾𝐸 - Peter Parker

5.

Peter's POV

My tiny mission had... partly been a success. I was not expecting her to go all ninjutsu on me, but that's just another example of her being a lot more experienced than me. She's a lot stronger than me, but I swing just as fast as her. That was the only thing I had really gotten straight, but it was probably also one of the important ones to have control over.

I crawled in through my window, but the door creaked open, so I crawled to it on the ceiling, and very carefully closed it. I jumped down from the ceiling, and landed perfectly and silently down on the carpet. "Peter dinner's ready!" May yelled from the kitchen.

Wow, perfect timing.

"Just a second!" I yelled back, and quickly changed out of my suit. I put on the outfit she had seen me go to school in this morning, and proceeded to exit my room. "It smells good May," I smiled at her, and her face lit up.

"You really think so? " she asked in a high pitched voice. I knew she would be happy if I complimented her food, but this time it actually did smell good.

"Yes. What are we having?" I asked, as I sat down and looked at the pot on the table.

"It's some noodle recipe I found on the internet," she said as she poured it in her own bowl. "I just hope it tastes as good as it smells," We both poured up in our bowls, and started eating. Surprisingly enough it tasted good, maybe even better, than what it smelled like. "So how did your Spanish presentation go today?" she asked briefly, her bowl completely empty.

"Good. I got an A+," I answered, while inserting the last noodle in my mouth.

"Good job," she said proudly, as she got up from her chair. She picked up her plate and put it in the dishwasher. I helped her clean up after the dinner, and headed into my room. I checked my watch and it was only nine, so I decided to just study a little, before heading out again. Time flew by quickly and suddenly it was ten thirty. I got changed and crawled out the window. When I got to the building, she wasn't there yet, so I pulled out my phone and checked the time. There was still ten minutes till our arranged meetup, so I waited. Finally I saw her swinging towards my direction, and what felt like two seconds later, she was standing right in front of me.

"You ready?" She asked.

"Yeah, let's do it," I said and started moving for the edge, but she put a hand to my chest and stopped me before I could come any further.

"But before we go there's something we need to get out of the way," she said with her head turned sideways and her eyes penetrating me. For a split second I thought she wanted to kiss me, but instead she pulled her hood down, letting me see her brown thick hair. She then removed her mask, and looked up at me.

"Rue?!" I asked while quickly pulling off my own mask, still in shock. She squinted her eyes as she inspected my face.

"Peter?" she asked, not really matching my shocked voice, but more expressing a confused tone. "Peter Parker, right?" she asked in a chuckle.

"Yeah and you're Rue Hart," I exclaimed and smiled.

"I really had no idea," she said in a stunned tone, while backing a step up. "But... how do you even know who I am?" I froze for a short second, to let my brain do the work.

"Uhh you know... I'm just good with names," that was a total lie. I had had a crush on her the last year, when we had science together, but when we didn't share a single class the next year it kinda faded away... and landed right onto Liz. Rue nodded understanding, and was just about to say something when we heard glass shatter. We had both felt it right before we heard it, 'cause we turned our heads to each other just when it happened. While we put on our masks we looked out over the building, and saw three men enter a store, through the shattered window. Those idiots didn't even know how to pick a lock.

"Okay just follow my lead Parker," she uttered right before she ran over the edge, with me right behind. We both landed down there quietly, and snook to the broken window, stopping right beside it. "Okay, I'll take the big one and the little one. You can take the last one," she whispered to me, as she had turned her head back to mine. I nodded, and we both looked back inside. She then took a step inside through the window, and waved for me to follow. The guys were only about five steps in front of us, so I had to be as quiet as she had been.

Of course my dumb ass steps on a shard of glass, that made a tiny crack noice. The guys immediately turned to us, and two of them pulled out guns. Rue shot both her hands forward and shot a web onto each of the guns, and pulled them out of their hands. The next second she was fighting the big guy who was apparently tougher than he looked, leaving me with the two others. They sprinted towards me, but right when they were about to lash out for me, I jumped over them and while in the air, I shot a web that split up and stuck itself to one leg of each of the men. When I landed I pulled it as hard as I could, and the men fell on their faces. "Don't let them get away!!" Rue yelled while on the shoulders of the big man, trying to choke him with a web. I turned back to the guys and before they could get on their feet, I shot all the mesh out I could, until they were white from the neck down. Basically they were plastered to the floor. I was kinda proud of myself, until I heard a loud noise from behind me.

The guy had slammed his back into the wall behind him, in desperation to get her off. "Big mistake man," I heard her utter and then in a motion my eyes couldn't even follow, she swung down his body and off his neck and pushed him down onto the ground in a slam. She took his arm and pulled the now unconscious man across the floor, and sat him up against the counter. She ensured that he wouldn't be going anywhere, by shooting a web on his hand, making it stick to the floor. "One's enough by the way," she jokingly commented, as she walked by me out of the store. I looked after her, still thinking about how she had put the man down like that. "You coming or what?" she asked, causing me to snap out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, right behind ya," I said as I caught up to her. We decided to just lay low, and talk for the rest of the night, so we went back to the building we had met earlier on. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure," she answered briefly, without taking her eyes off of the stars.

"When did you get bitten? Or did you even get bitten?"

"About eight months ago... you?" she said, making me a little embarrassed. I shouldn't be though. It wasn't my fault that she got bitten before me.

"Three months ago," I sighed, with one of my arms supporting my head. She came up on her elbows and looked at me.

"Wait, did you say three months?" she asked. I nodded. "I got my strength after three months. Maybe you will too,"

Interesting.

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