[16] Public Identities Suck

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"WHAT THE FU-" Peter yells from atop the lamp post. 

"That's right, folks. Peter Parker. A 17-year-old high school delinquent harboring a homicidal hunger is in fact the vile vigilante villain Spider-Man." Jonah says, spreading his fake propaganda around MSG and the rest of the world. 

Bystanders look at him with new eyes then turn to me on the sidewalk.

"She knows him." One states.

"It's the Stark girl!" Another exclaims

"They swung in together."

"Are you Spider-Man's girlfriend?" One asks. 

People begin closing in on me and Peter quickly jumps down to protect me.

"Whoa, it's him!" One cries.

Another person reaches out to touch me. 

"Whoa whoa whoa. Please don't touch her." Peter says pushing the person's hand away.

"Come on kid, let me see that face." A woman says reaching for his mask. 

He swats her hand away and she cries, "He hit me! Spider-Man hit me!"

People react a "Woah" echoes around the crowd as they record the scene on their phones. I feel an arm around my waist as Peter jumps to get us out of there. He swings away and a man leaps to grab him but fails miserably. 

Jonah's voice echoes through the city as we swing above it, "All this time, people looked up to this boy and called him a hero. Well I'll tell you what I call him: Public Enemy Number One!"

I hold tight to him, accidentally grabbing onto his face. 

"I told you I never wanted to do this ever again! Only if I get my powers back!" I exclaim, my eyes shut tight. 

"Emma, I'm so sorry, but I can't see anything with your hand in my--" 

"I'm sorry. Sorry..."

We swing past another jumbo-screen featuring half of Peter's face and Spider-Man's mask under the words "PUBLIC ENEMY #1"

"Okay, where are we gonna go?" I ask.

"I don't know! Your house?!" 

"No, no! We cannot go to my house, Pepper will kill you!"

"What? I thought you said Pepper liked me?"

"Yeah, well probably not anymore!"

He lands on top of the Queensborough Bridge and his phone vibrates. I try to keep my balance. My butt cheeks have never clenched together so hard in my entire life.

"DUDE!" Peter yells at the phone

Neds picture appears on the screen.

"DUDE! 

"DUDE!"

They repeat it back and forth

"DUUUUDE!" Ned says before I grow tired of the overwhelming threat of falling off a bridge and dying with no way of being able to catch myself because I have no ability to access my powers at the moment. 

"DUDE!" I yell. 

"Ah, I'm so sorry. Are you okay?" Peter says running to my rescue.

"No! Of course not I-"

I'm interrupted by one of the Gondola passengers grabbing our attention, "Yo, Peter!"

The eyes of the whole city are on us. The daughter of Tony Stark and Spider-Man on top of a bridge right after Spider-Man's identity was revealed. A helicopter flies up to our level and so does another. Privacy please?!

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