when water and webs combine

when life gives you lemons (chapter 1)

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1

Peter lay with his head on his desk, he sighed. He was bored out of his mind, ridiculously tired and just wanted to go home. His day had been rotten from the start, first the project that he had stayed up all night blew up, then he was told that his partner wouldn't be back from their mission for another three days. He had been shot twice on an early morning patrol which wasn't helping anything. Zia was absent (she had overexerted herself heroing the day before and was being forced to take the day off) and now he was stuck in science learning things he already knew and trying his hardest to pay attention to the teacher drone on about something she didn't understand. Eventually it began to get more interesting as she began to talk about a field trip they'd be taking.

"Alright class I know you're all excited to know where we will be going on Friday but it's a surprise so you'll have to be patient and wait" Miss Smith was positively glowing with excitement. Looking at her, Peter wondered where they could be going, that was so exciting. She continued "MJ would you mind passing out these permission slips to the class." MJ swiftly passed them out to the class, pausing briefly in front of Peter with a small smile. "That's it for today, class you can go collect your things and go home. Please remember to get your permission slips signed or else you won't be able to come. Peter, please stay behind for a minute. I need to talk to you."

"OH Parker got in trouble," Flash said with an enormous cocky smirk, while snickering to his goons. A chorus of ya and defiantlys broke out throughout his group.

Quickly the students began to pack up and leave the classroom, until finally Peter was the last one present. He looked nervously at his teacher, not sure what he'd done to get in trouble. He sat quietly playing with his hand waiting for Miss Smith to tell him what he was needed for.

After a moment of silence she spoke up, "You're not in trouble, Peter. I just wanted you to deliver Zia's permission slip to her since she's absent and you know her." She stated semi-awkwardly.

"Oh I can do that, that's easy. Do you need anything else from me ma'am."

"No, you can run along home now. Please try to sleep, you look exhausted, dear." She smiled looking down slightly at him as he nodded his head and tiredly wandered out of the classroom.

(time skip)

The elevator dinged as a grumpy teenager exited. He was on the communal floor of the tower. He was exhausted and just wanted Percy, and the idea of the field trip wasn't helping at all. Peter walked to the kitchen where he found Zia cooking, no doubt she was supposed to be resting but she obviously wasn't. She glanced up from her work with a smile.

"Hey Pete, how was your day? Did I miss anything important."

"Not really," he sighed. "We have a field trip with the science class on Friday, but other than that not really. What are you making? It looks yummy!"

"I'm making macarons. I figured we could use some junk food."she bit her lip as she began piping the filling onto the cookies. " There's going to be chocolate ones and strawberry ones as well as some combination of the two. Papa's moping too, we can mope together as soon as I'm done with this, everyone else is out or on mission right now. You can pick the first movie, I'll be finished in like half an hour or less."

"Star wars?" he asked hopefully.

"Of course. Why don't you go change into something comfier. Can you fetch papa for me, he's probably on his and dad's floor. Tell him we're having a movie night and that I made junk food. There's brownies in that dish over there as well." the young Strange stated pointing to a yellow pan sitting next to the stove.