Violet Tides: A Spider-Woman Story

Chapter 16. guess who's back

Tw: talk of panic attacks, also a dog dies.

Violet adjusted quickly to her new residence. She shared a room with a girl called Hazel, who for the most part left her alone. The carers were nice and played uno with her and some of the other girls. Most of the girls were nice, it only took her a day to figure out which ones to avoid. Most of them were like her, older girls that had a bit of trouble with the law. Her stuff was dropped on the same day she arrived, all stuffed in a trash bag. It sat at the end of her bed like i usually would whenever she moved to a new place, she wasn't bothered to unpack it unless she was sure she would be staying here awhile. Her backpack was at the bottom violet was thankful to whoever hid her spidersuit inside her hoodie so no one noticed. She was itching to go out as spider-woman but it didn't seem like a good idea until she knew how often the carers checked in at night.

***

There was nothing short of a riot at Avengers Tower when Tony, Natasha and Steve returned without Violet. Peter had been the most upset, he had wanted to celebrate her freedom together. The rest were annoyed that she had to go back in the system, most of them had an idea of how bad it was.

"She shouldn't have to go back there!"

"Why didn't you let her stay with us Tony? We have the resources."

"I want to see her beat up cap again."

Even the avengers that had not had much interaction with her where annoyed, mainly because of the thought of letting spider-woman run around without any supervision.

" I'm trying my best to get everything sorted, but short of going to fury there isn't much I can do." Tony tried to explain.

"Go to fury then!" Peter exclaimed.

Tony pinched the bridge of his nose.

"We can't go to fury, if he got even a whiff of why we want violet with us he won't let it go."

"Tony's right we can't go to fury we have to go through the courts" Natasha cut any complaints off.

"So we're really going to do this?" Steve asked.

"Yes" everyone answered without hesitation.

***

School was... interesting, is how Violet decided to put it. Somehow word got out of her arrest and she had become the current gossip of the school. She was warned by Peter, Ned and Mj before English, which was lucky because Flash was in her class. Unfortunately none of her friends were. She made her way into class taking her usual seat. The teacher started talking about language techniques and violet quickly got back into the rhythm of note taking.

"Hey Violet." an obnoxious voice came from behind her.

Violet ignored it, choosing to focus on the teacher instead.

"Hey, hey, Violet." flash continued to whisper. When she felt something poking in her back she turned around.

"What Eugene?" she hissed.

"Did you really get arrested? Is that why you've been away?" he leaned over his desk.

Violet rolled her eyes and turned away.

"Is that a yes?" He poked her back with a pencil again. "Is that a yes?"

Violet whipped around

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Well what did you do?"

"I beat up a guy that was annoying me." she said dryly, turning back to the board.