Spider-Widow

Chapter two: I'm Fine

Nathaly was looking out at the city as she stayed with May and Peter at Happy's place. She wouldn't leave May's side.

Nat walked May to her work and walked her back from work but school was starting again and she couldn't take May to her work.

May was a mother figure to Nathaly and she didn't want to lose another important person in her life.

She already lost her parents, Tony, and Natasha. Nathaly can't lose anyone else.

May walk over to Nathaly, "Hey, Nat?" Nathaly looked over at May. "Yeah?"

"How are you dealing with Peter and MJ dating?" May said quietly, but Peter's enhanced hearing he heard. He slowly and quietly walked closer to hear them better.

"I'm doing fine." May gave Nathaly a look. "No really. May, I'm fine beside we could never be together anymore anyway." Nathaly looks at her scared hands.

May looked at the girl and studied her, "You know it's okay to cry." May said softly.

"That's the thing May. As Ms. Ariana Grande says, "Ain't got no tears left to cry." Nat sang softly.

May smiled at the beautiful brunette, "You have a lovely voice." Nathaly rolled her eyes but had a small smile attached to her face.

It was quiet with comfortable silence, "Peter is a very lucky boy to have you as a friend, Nat." May told her.

"You're the Hermione Granger to his Harry Potter." Peter smiled at but it wasn't often you hear Aunt May say Harry Potter preference. But May wasn't wrong there's so many times that Nathaly saved his life.

Peter felt bad that he couldn't love her the way she loved him.

Nathaly chuckles softly, "Thank you, May. We should probably go to sleep."

"You can talk to me on whatever. Like I promised before, it's just me and you."

"Good night, May. Sleep well." May pulled Nathaly into a tight hug. "Sleep well, Nat." When they both went different ways, Peter just stood in hiding.

"We're covering the first day of senior year from Midtown High's most famous student..." Betty Brant said

Just outside the front doors, it's chaos. Fans, protesters, reporters, etc. Including Betty Brant, in school reporter mode.

"Peter Parker! Go get 'em, tiger. Or should I say, "Spider?""

Peter, Nathaly, MJ, and Ned walk down the corridor of chaos.

"The crowd has continued to grow here all morning long at the Midtown School of Science and Technology--" says a random reporter.

Peter and MJ hold hands in support of one another.

"The crowd seems evenly divided between supporters of Spider-Man and protestors." said another random reporter.

"MJ! MJ! MJ! We love you!" said a man with MJ's face printed on his shirt yells for her attention.
(That's so damn creepy)

"MJ, are you going to have his spider babies?!" Another person from the crowd asked.

"Natalia! Are you going to be the next Black Widow?!"

"Natalia! Are you going to become an Avenger?!" A lot of people started to crowd around Nathaly.

"I'm not good enough to be like Natasha." Muttered Nathaly hoping to move on from a touchy subject.

The crowd is growing closer and closer to Peter and MJ. They keep their heads down as Security guides them through.

"Back up! Back up!" Said a security guard.

"You know he's a murderer, right?!" said a person from the crowd. Nathaly sends a harsh glare at the person as they coward from her stare.

"Hey Peter, come here, do a TikTok with me!"

"Hey! Let's see you and MJ kiss!" Nathaly frowned a bit but moved on.

"Natalia, are you going to be taking over Stark Industries?!"

"Marry me, Natalia!" A person from the crowd grabbed her arm.

"Back off!" Ned pulled Nathaly away from the person from the crowd.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Ned Leeds, I'm Spider-Man's
best friend--." Ned was interrupted by Flash.

"I'm Peter Parker's best friend. You come at my boy, you come at Flash Thompson. And if you want to read about our inspiring friendship, you can now in my new book--."

Flash holds up a BOOK with his portrait on the cover. "Flashpoint: One Spider, Two Hearts, a Million Crazy-Ass Memories. Check it out!" Flash continued.

"Right, Babe?" Flash puts his arm around Nathaly's shoulder.

Ned walks off annoyed.

Nathaly stepped on his foot arm and elbowed him in the stomach. "Don't call me babe and Ned Leeds is Peter Parker's best friend!"

She quickly walked to catch up with her friends as there were cat whistles from everyone who saw that interaction.

Nathaly looked at Ned who was upset, "Don't listen to Flash or anyone. They just want to be with Peter because of Spider-Man but you have been friends with him since as long as I can remember."

Ned smiles at the brunette, "Thank you, Nat." But then he lowers his voice with a serious look on his face. "How are you doing? How are you dealing with the whole MJ and Peter thing?"

Her smile became fake very fast and Ned could see the pain and sadness in her brown eyes. "Great! I'm happy for them. Peter looks happy, MJ looks happy." She blinked the tears away. Nathaly didn't want to cry on her day back in school.

"I wasn't asking about how they are feeling. I'm asking how are you feeling?" Ned still kept his voice down.

May's smile fell straight away, "I'm doing fine." She looked away but she could see from the corner from her eye that Ned was lifting an eyebrow at her.

"Hey, Nat?" Nathaly looked at MJ who had a worried face as Peter who joined her side.

Nathaly brought up the fakest smile with the fakest cheerful voice her friends ever heard. "I'm great!"

Peter slightly squinted his eyes at her, "Are you sure?"

She kept her fake smile but her voice changed into a stern one. "I'm fine."

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(A/n: I hope you guys like it so far and I know this chapter is very short I'll try to make the next one longer. Key word: Try)