The Aftermath || PETER PARKER [2]

[07]: Hijacked

2023 ― Venice, Italy

"Good news. We're going to Prague." Mr. Harrington announced to the group. Amaya was standing with MJ, and she rolled her eyes before making eye contact with her boyfriend and they shared the same knowing look. Nick Fury just hijacked their trip. Amaya was so tempted to text her mom and ask her to tell Fury to leave them alone.

"What?" Peter asked as Mr. Harrington walked by him and Ned.

"Yeah. The tour company called. They upgraded us. You should've heard me on the phone with them. I really gave them hell." Mr. Harrington said.

"All I heard was crying." Mr. Dell said and Amaya rolled her eyes. This was annoying to her for a couple of reasons. Her classmates didn't deserve to have their tripped messed with and they don't even have any idea what's going on. She was really excited to go to Paris. As cliched as it sounds, she was excited to go to one of the most romantic cities in the world and make memories with her boyfriend.

"Look at our upgraded ride. Huh?" Mr. Harrington said as he led the kids around the corner, and Amaya's stomach dropped as she came into step with Peter and Ned when she saw who was standing outside of the all-black van they were going to be riding in, with a small sign in his hands that read, 'Midtown High.'

Dimitri.

"Peter... Maya, what...-what's going on?" Ned asked them.

"Nick Fury just hijacked our summer vacation," Amaya said and Ned smiled.

"Awesome." He said, walking ahead and Peter looked at his girlfriend and sighed.

"Yeah... awesome."

―

The kids were now all on the bus, riding through the Alps of Austria. Amaya sat next to Peter with her head on her pillow, and her pillow was on his lap, while she was asleep. She had covered herself with her blanket, and Peter was sharing it with her, but only had it on his lap. While his girlfriend was asleep, Peter was looking up romantic places to go to in Prague, because he still wanted to have his moment to give Amaya the necklace and tell her that he loves her.

Then he looked down in his bag and saw the case with the glasses in it. He took the glasses out and then noticed a card at the bottom of it, and read it out loud. "For the next Tony Stark, and Pepper Potts... maybe even Cap and Katherine. Anyways, I trust you both. P.S. Say, Edith." Peter said and as soon as the word 'Edith' left his mouth, the AI system came to life.

"Stand by for retinal and biometric scan." The system said, and then after a couple of seconds, the AI spoke again. "Retinal and biometric scan accepted." It said.

"Hello?" Peter asked.

"Hello, Peter. I am EDITH. Tony Stark's augmented-reality security and defense system." EDITH said.

"So he made you for me and Amaya?" Peter asked.

"No. But you both have access to all of Tony's protocols... but a biometric and retinal scan will have to be run on her as well before she has access." EDITH said.

"Cool," Peter said.

"Would you like to see what I can do? EDITH stands for, 'Even dead, I'm the hero.' Tony loved his acronyms." EDITH said which made Peter laugh, and he only wished Amaya was awake to hear this because he knew it would make her laugh too. He looked down at his sleeping girlfriend and continued to run his fingers back through her hair. He discovered a while ago, that she loved when he played with her hair. It made her feel relaxed.