From The Dark | Peter Parker x OC ✔️

Chapter Twenty-Seven

A/N: I know this is a little late but this chapter is kind important to Adie's past and I had to do some research and plotting before I published it just to be sure that the plot would line up in the future when I zoom in on her past. A fair enough excuse, I hope. This author's note is gonna be super short because it's literally 12:30 and I have to be up in like 4 1/2 hours so RIP me lmao.

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"How much can

Captain America

really lift?"
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Adelaide was nervously twisting her hands together as she was waiting in the hallway before school started.

Last week, she hadn't exactly left on good terms with Peter. If anything, he probably thought that she was angry at him. All weekend long, she had thought about ways she could make plans for the three of them to hang out together. She had to figure this out – Peter was her best friend.

At the same time, Adelaide was equally anxious about talking to Ned. She had the urge to send him the email or even tell him over the phone, but she knew better than that. It would be safe if she told him in person, but not here, in school. Adelaide had tried messing with the email herself on her laptop, but nothing happened and she eventually gave up, having gotten sick of the shrill beep it made whenever she clicked anywhere on the screen. Computers were definitely not her cup of tea. She was going to leave it all up to Ned and hope he would know what to do with it. Vision had definitely thought he would, even if it was based off of an eavesdropping of her phone call with Ned.

"Adelaide?" Ned asked, suddenly appearing in front of her. She looked around to see if Peter was anywhere close by. Assured that no one was listening to their conversation, she leaned closer so that only Ned could hear her.

"Listen," she said, dropping her voice to a whisper, "I have to tell you something."

Ned furrowed his eyebrows.

"What happened?" Adelaide looked around again as a safety measure before turning back to Ned.

"Come to the Tower at 5:00 today. I found a way to decrypt you-know-what."

Ned's eyes grew wide.

"No way! But you – how?! You're not even –"

"Shh!" she said, looking around to see if anyone had heard.

"Yell louder, will you?" she whispered.

"Oh," he said sheepishly, realizing, "Sorry."

"So can you come? It's urgent," she said. Ned opened his mouth to answer, but was cut off by someone else.

"Hey Ned," Peter greeted, walking up to them. Adelaide straightened up, clearing her throat.

"H-Hey Peter," Ned said, trying to regain his composure while understand the information that Adelaide had just dumped on him.

"Hey," Adelaide offered with a small smile.

Peter was slightly taken aback. Wasn't she mad at him last Friday? After his fight with Flash (which did not end well for Peter), Adelaide had walked away in anger and hadn't even called to ask if he been okay after he had been taken into the counselor's office.

The school counselor, Mr. Perry, had had a very, very long talk with Peter and they came to a conclusion that he would be given detention for two days. When Uncle Ben and Aunt May had found out the next morning via a call from Mr. Perry himself, they had gone berserk. Their sweet, innocent little nephew Peter had gotten into a fight? It must be the end of the world. Luckily, Peter had been able to calm them down and convince them that he was fine. Although, he couldn't say the same about Flash but he didn't dare relay that to them and he had managed to get away with only a week of grounding. In all honesty, that hadn't stopped him from sneaking out of his window after they were asleep to test out the cool things that had been happening to him.