The White Widow (A Superhero novel)

Chapter 15- Parents always lie.

Chapter 15- Parents always lie.

We both ran at each other at full speed, I jumped up quickly with my fist rolled up and read to pound. Once Tyler and I collided I punched his chest with great force sending him flying backwards.

He slowly got up laughing "That all you got? You're weak, just like you're parents!"

Rage burned through me, my body started to burn "You know nothing about me!" I shouted.

I ran towards him whilst he was still trying to get up, I took out his legs with my signature fall move. He got up again and punched my lip, the side of it burst open giving out a cut. He went for my legs kicking them, sending me flying backwards.

I slid across the floor, my knees becoming grazed. I coughed and forced myself up again, but my legs felt weak. I started limping as I walked towards him "What do you want?" I asked him.

"I want what you have, I don't have enough" He explains.

"My powers?" I squeaked.

"Of course, you have a month. Before then, we will meet again"

He then took off, jumping away and in to the night. I looked down at my watch, it had been a half hour since I was there and Peter would be at the restaurant waiting for me.

I ran with a limp, jumping off the building ripping my dress and getting more cuts along my body. I walked through the alleyways avoiding people as the thought of being seen might have been a disgrace. I slowly limped to the French restaurant and sat on a bench outside of it.

I looked inside to see Peter, checking his watch. He was dressed neatly in a suit, he did not have his glasses on and a waiter looked over to him every now and then. The waiter intervened asking him questions but Peter ignored him, he looked down.

I continued to watch him, twiddle his thumbs and his starter untouched. But I was in no condition to go inside, so I continued to watch. Until he looked up and spotted me, he smiled but I didn't.

He ran outside but I backed into the alleyway, into the darkness and unseen from Peter. "Sierra?" He shouted out.

"I'm here" I whispered.

He couldn't hear me, I slowly walked away from him and down the alley. Unseen from him, I looked behind my shoulder to see him walking back inside. I had given up on him all because I wasn't appropriate, I wasn't properly dressed, my lip was cut open and I had multiple cuts and bruises along my legs and arms.

*****

When I got home the lights were mostly all on and a land rover was parked outside of the house. My Dads car, I limped inside opening the door slowly with tears in the corner of my eyes.

Dad saw me first "Sierra? What happened to you?" He ran towards me running his hands over my cut lip and cuts on my arms.

"Can I go to bed?" I asked.

"Not until you explain what happened young lady" He snaps "Bernie! Bring in some disinfectant and some antiseptic scream!"

I then hear rustling in the kitchen, then a elderly man appears dressed smartly in a suit with a bow tie. "Sir your medical kit" He says handing him it "What happened to you? Were you mugged?"

"No" I say "There is something I need to tell you"

Dad raises his eyebrows "That you're White Widow? Please would know my daughters abilities anywhere. But how did you get all of this? I didn't see you on the news"

"A SLA worker, a guy named Tyler. Dad he was bitten by Aranea! He kind of has the same sort of powers I have yet he told me he needs more of it, and by that I mean he needs my DNA " I explain, but then I think back to what Tyler said. My DNA was in Aranea's but not the old spider the new spider. "He told me my DNA was in the spider. But how could it? You don't have my blood unless-"

I look up to my Dad, "You took it from me! When I was just bitten! You never did blood tests, you just took my blood and mixed it with Aranea!" I yelled.

I got up and pulled away from him, Bernie peered round the corner and brought in a glass of water. "Now Sierra, you know that we wouldn't do that if we had no choice. The old Aranea was gone, you had her DNA and we needed it. The government was going to stop funding our research unless we had some DNA of her. We did it to protect you Si, we didn't want to lose our jobs or get us into debt" Dad explains.

"Without my permission" I growled, I ran up the stairs quickly leaving my Dad and Bernie behind.

They lied to me.

My own parents did it for the sake of their jobs.

*****

When it came Monday, Bernie drove me to school. I hadn't spoken to my Dad or Mom the entire weekend, I only spoke to Bernie who was there for me.

He dropped me off outside the school, I waved him off and he disappeared. I limped into school, my leg was slowly healing and my cuts had formed into scabs. My lip cut was still visible, only a small scar remained of it.

Once Lennie saw me, she freaked out.

"Sierra! What the bloody hell happened to you! You look like you were mugged on the way to school, yet I know you would beat them up but still! Look at you!" Lennie panicked.

"Please, can we go inside" I said starting to walk towards the school.

"No, Peter has been looking for you everywhere. He told me you blew him off"

I shake my head, tears formed in the corners of my eyes "Tyler, the guy from last week. He attacked me on the night I was going to see Peter, he came out of no-where but the worse news is he has my powers" I explain "We fought, said I had a month to give him my blood to complete his full powers. Then he left, I looked at Peter and saw him inside. But Lennie, I couldn't do it. Not after what happened"

Now i'm fully crying, Lennie pulls me into her arms "I can't get you, Peter or my parents involved in this. That's what I didn't go, he knows who I am and who he can hurt" I say.

"It's okay, we will be ready"

I knew she was lying, he would hurt everybody I loved.