Doomed Timeline no. 2: Poison

Chapter Two

Peter's POV

Somehow, word of me dying had gotten out to the press, it was all over the place. Every news show mentioned it, or did a story on it, and every newspaper had it, somewhere in there. They all basically said the same thing:

Hero's kid, dying from disease. At this time we are unable to say what disease it is, because Captain Rogers and Doctor Stark will not tell us.

Walking into school that Monday was great. Almost everyone was staring at me, and I didn't have my backpack. I wasn't actually going to school, Steve had pulled me out, he wanted to spend as much time with me as possible. Tony was working 24/7 in his lab trying to find a cure for me. I made my way to the normal meeting spot for my friends and I.

Walking up, I lifted my chin and straightened my shoulders, "So who's going to take care of my dog?"

"What?" Julez looked up from her conversation.

"Has... Have you not seen the news?" I asked, slightly confused.

"Nope. Lost power in my room earlier this week. Why?"

"Oh God..." I muttered and dropped into a seat, Harry moved over to me and placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.

"I'll tell her." His voice was soft, knowing.

"Thanks Harry." I ran my hand through my hair, stopping my hand to rest on the back of my neck.

Harry was hesitant to tell Juelz the whole truth at once, but he got it out, and she was devastated. She wanted the three of us to spend as much time as possible as we could, and I pointed out that the two of them had school. She scoffed, waving her hand dismissively, saying she had control of herself coming to school, and Harry could talk his father into taking him out of school for as long as possible.

I rolled my eyes, "Sometimes I can't believe what you do for this friendship..."

"Hey, Pete. You never explained what disease you have." Harry questioned.

"That's because... It's not really a disease. Technically I shouldn't tell you this, but uh... This is the exception. You know that field trip to Oscorp?"

"Yeah." They said together.

"I may or may not have been bitten by a spider that may or may not have been radioactive or something... I think the exact words were 'genetically mutated with radioactive' something... I can't exactly remember... But long story short I'm Spider-Man, and my mutated DNA is producing a poison natural to the spider, but it's killing me."

"Wait... So you expect me to believe are... Spider-Man, and that's killing you?" Julez asked sarcastically, "You're kidding me, right?"

"No, I am completely serious, and confused as to why you would actually think I'm lying about my death, and why I'm dying..."

"It just seems pretty damn far f-"

I rolled my eyes and twisted my hand, palm facing up. Pressing down, I webbed her mouth shut, mid sentence.

Harry and her eyes widened, Harry turning to face me, as Julez slowly brought her hands to the webbing. She attempted to tear it off, upon failing, she stared pleadingly at me. I smirked and walked the short distance to her. I pursed my lips at her and shooed her hands away, I carefully pulled it off, rolling my eyes as she 'gasped' for breath. She proceeded to tackle me in a hug.

"Oh my God you weren't lying! That's so freaking cool!"

"Holy crap! Peter Parker is Spider-Man!" All three of us froze, and turned to the girl standing next to us. It was a blonde, and from what I could tell of her, she was popular.

"Stacy..." Harry took a step forward, holding a hand out, trying to stop her. She took a step back, and turned on her heel, moving to run off.

Just then, Julez sprung forward, pinning Stacy to the ground. Stacy shrieked, calling attention to herself a Julez. Julez quickly covered her mouth, whispering something quietly to Stacy. Stacy's eyes widened, and she immediately went silent.

But Julez trying to keep her silent had still been futile, people were rushing to get her off Stacy, and our junior varsity quarterback, Flash Thompson, looped his arms under hers and pulled her off Stacy, ignoring Julez's feet and hands hitting at him. (A/N Just imagine an angry Satan cat when you pick them up, that's Julez right now.  Or Edward Elric being called short.)

"So," Flash said, turning to me, Julez going limp in his arms, pouting, "Puny Parker is Spider-Man?"