Walking in the Wind // Avengers

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

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Lexie and Erin were sat on the couch wearing pajamas and watching a movie when someone knocked on the window. Both of them jumped and looked in the direction of the balcony.

"Peter, what the fuck!?" Erin exclaimed, quickly getting up and letting him in. He was wearing his Spider-Man suit and pulled off the mask when he was safely inside, away from potentially prying eyes.

"Thanks," he muttered.

"I thought you were at Liz's party."

"Yeah, I had to leave early." He was holding what looked like a broken piece of a weapon, but what was even stranger was that a part of it was glowing purple.

"Um... whatcha got there?" Lexie asked.

"That's what I needed to talk to you about." He sat down on the couch next to her and Evie jumped up in his lap.

The cat had taken quite a liking to him.

Erin went into the kitchen to make some hot cocoa, leaving the two to discuss whatever superhero business was going on. She was still adjusting to seeing Peter in that position, and figured it was best that Lexie handled it.

He explained what he'd seen at the ATM robbery and how there was a group of some sort building and selling high-tech weapons to criminals. 

He'd had a run-in with some of them earlier that night and there was apparently some guy in a winged suit who'd dumped him in the river, and Tony had apparently rescued him without even being there... It was a very messy and fast explanation.

The bottom line was that Peter had found one of the weapons, that he and Lexie figured probably had to be like a power source from the chitauri, and the people making the weapons were combining their own technology with alien technology.

Long story short... it was pretty bad.

"Okay," Lexie sighed. "I'll take care of this, alright? I'll talk to Tony and he'll get the people who handle these things to look into it. You did good, Pete. But I think you should let this go, yeah? Go back to being the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man."

Peter almost smiled at the fact that Tony and Lexie had said pretty much the same thing. He didn't though. As much as he wanted to do what they told him to, it was the very wish to be like them that made him say what he did next.

"You're right." He was a horrible liar, but tried to sound believable. He was kind of happy Erin wasn't there, she'd see right through him immediately, but Lexie, as good as she was at spotting his lies, didn't know him as well and he might get away with a little white lie. "I can take that," he picked up the weapon.

"Uh, I don't know if..." Lexie was hesitant to letting him take it.

"For safekeeping, of course," he continued, slowly backing up towards the window again and picking up his mask. "I'll hide it somewhere safe until this whole mess is over. Promise."