Spider-Man: Evolution (Book 1 of 7)

Chapter 3

Peter walked into Aunt May's apartment to find a familiar face sitting beside her.

"Um, is something, uh, I'm not sure, uh...." Peter sighed as he threw his bag down on the table. "Wh,what are you doing here, Mrs.Black , um, Widow Ma'am, uh....Does Mr.Stark know you're here?"

"You can call me Nat, Peter. I think we have reached that point, and no, Tony doesn't know that I'm here." It was Black Widow and Peter was still a little shocked by her presence. May looked a little happy but a little uncomfortable as well.

"What, uh, what are you,uh, doing here Nat?" Peter asked and Black Widow let out a laugh and got up and walked over to him and looked him up and down.

"You really ARE just a kid aren't you?" Black Widow laughed. "The Capt. sent me to check up on you. I know Tony lets you roam pretty freely with your fully weaponized suit, but both the Capt. and I feel like you need to have SOMEONE make sure you haven't killed yourself yet. Then again, now that you have proved yourself able to fight against someone like Thanos, I'm sure a few criminals are no problem for you." Black Widow said as she wasn't necessarily smiling but she wasn't upset either.

"Um, I do ok I guess. I don't really enjoy bragging about that stuff." Peter admitted uncomfortably.

"Well since you still have your suit recording every move you make, we still have access of the video. Now Tony said this wasn't a big deal but I honestly think it's much bigger than Tony thinks. Let's see what you think of this." Black Widow said and she pulled out a phone and Peter saw Aunt May getting incredibly worried.

"Can we do this somewhere else please? My aunt is stressed out enough with what I do every night, she doesn't need to see what happens." Peter snapped at Black Widow and then Black Widow looked slightly impressed and May stood up and Peter saw her and knew he was about to get chewed out.

"Oh come on Peter I have your teachers on speed dial! I know that you slept through every class today! They said you were exhausted! Not to mention how many times I get calls about you showing up late because of problems! Peter you can't save everyone!" Aunt May said as her voice shook and Peter looked incredibly hurt as tears filled his eyes. Black Widow looked from Aunt May to Peter.

"If I don't do something about it and something bad happens then it's my fault! Aunt May you don't have to worry about having deaths on your conscience, do you!?" Peter snapped as his voice shook. May didn't know what to say about what Peter said. She turned to Black Widow.

"What happened to him that you're concerned about?" May asked Black Widow and Black Widow uncomfortably pressed play on her phone and a video transferred out so they could all see it. Peter saw what it was and stood in front of Aunt May.

"You don't, you don't," Peter had to pause stop himself from crying and Black Widow stopped the video for a second. "You don't want to see what's on that video. I'm fine May. It doesn't matter now because I'm fine. Please don't be worried. Because when you worry, I worry and when I worry I don't fight as well as I'm supposed to. You texted me fifty seven times the other night, and I told you fifty seven times that I wouldn't be home till later on because it was a busy night. You called me thirteen times and you were in the process of calling me when I messed up and that was why I was hurt in that fight, but I'm ok now, really, I'm fine." Peter begged Aunt May to stop and then Aunt May turned to Black Widow.

"What is on that video that he doesn't want me seeing? Just tell me why you're here. You don't have to show me." Aunt May said.

"He got shot. He didn't go to the hospital and he didn't go to Tony. Now I know Tony is brilliant but he doesn't know how to heal bullet wounds inside a suit and you weren't wearing the iron suit so you still have that bullet wound Peter. Now where is it?" Black Widow asked and Aunt May looked to Peter in worry.