𝓂𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓎 - 𝓅. 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓀𝑒𝓇

chapter 2

2015, New York - Queens

Alec was forced to stay out of the Ultron situation because he had too much work from college that was already accumulating and it was all due next week. The avengers took longer to find Ultron this time, but when they did, they flew to South Korea to retrieve the synthetic body Ultron made for himself.

  While that mission was happening, Alec was invited by some of his college friends to go to a club at Queens and he obviously said yes. Like always, he drank a lot but didn't get drunk because of the healing factor, made out with a couple of people and danced until his legs were tired. But at one point, he decided to go outside for a bit, just to take a breath without so many people around him, he walked into a dark alley, leaning into a wall and pulling out a cigarette and creating a little flame on his finger to light it up.

  He looked up, exhaling the smoke, he didn't like this habit he develop, but sometimes it was the only thing that could calm down his nerves and make him feel like he wasn't going to lose control again. Lost on his own thoughts he saw someone on top of the nearby building, and that someone was really close to the edge and it looked like they were about to jump. Alec was quick to teleport to the building and pull the person - that he could see now that was a boy- towards him, which ended with the boy on top of him.

- Hey- what the hell!? - the boy shouted.

- Are you ok? - he got a closer look at the boy, he was beautiful, curly brown hair and soft brown eyes, but what got Alec's attention was the red and blue suit he was wearing, it had a spider on the center of it and he remembered some of his friends from Queens were saying that there was a hero named Spider-Man becoming popular with the community.

- Of course I'm fine! What- why did you pull me like that? - he asked angrily, getting up. He was also surprised, he could've sworn that he was alone at the rooftop.

- It looked like you were about to jump so I just wanted to help. - he shrugged his shoulders - But now I think you didn't need help. - the raven haired boy looked down at his suit, only the chest part was showing since the guy was wearing jeans and a sweatshirt coat that was half open.

- What? - he looked down too - Oh no, I'm just a fan, y'know? - the boy laughs nervously.

- Yeah, I don't buy that. - he walked closer to the boy, and noticed a blood stain on his stomach - Are you hurt? - he asked and the boy looked down as well.

- Shit, aunt May's gonna get pissed at me. - he lets out when he realized the stain on the sweatshirt.

- Here, let me help you. - Alec said and opened the boy's sweatshirt to put the hand that wasn't holding his cigarette on top of the scratch he had on his stomach.

  Peter was freaking out that a stranger found out his identity like that, but that was forgotten when the stranger's hand began shining in a shade of purple and suddenly he couldn't feel the scratch hurting anymore. Peter brought his gaze up to the boy, seeing him inhale the smoke before turning his head to side so he doesn't blow on Peter's face. Alec took his hand off and grabbed Peter's coat, removing the blood stain on it.

- Now your aunt won't be mad at you. - he said and took a step back.

- How did you do that? - he asked confused.

- Healing powers. - he shrugged while bringing the cigarette to his lips again - I'm Alec, what's your name, spidey?

Peter thought for a bit, could he reveal his name to a stranger like that? Although, said stranger somehow cured him and didn't look like a bad person. For some reason his guts were telling him he could trust the boy so he decided to be honest with him.

- I'm Peter and clearly not just a fan of Spider-Man. - he lets out a small laugh.

- Aren't you too young to be called Spider-Man? - Alec asks, blowing the smoke.

- Aren't you too young to be smoking? - he asked back and the boy smirked.

- I guess you're right... - he trailed off - But this thing isn't bad for me.

- Everyone who smokes says that. - Peter said sarcastically.

Alec was interrupted by his phone ringing and he excused himself for a second to pick it up. It was only his friend Jake telling him that he and the others are leaving because Amy threw up and was feeling bad. The boy answered that he was going home soon as well and said goodbye to Jake, and as he hung up he turn around to find that Peter wasn't there anymore.

  He got frustrated since he wanted at least the boy's number, and to relieve said frustration he cursed every one of Jack's generation. He looked to the ground and something caught his attention, it was a school library card, Peter's library card. He probably dropped it when he left but Alec couldn't be more grateful for it as the card had the boy's number on it.