The Void

Chapter 16 - Homework Night

(Your POV):
Friday approached much sooner than I was expecting it would and I found myself almost dreading after school. Peter had almost given me permission to skip out on account of what I had told him was an illness, but my body had been adjusting rather well to the serum and I didn't seem sick enough during the school day to weasel out of my promise.

Yesterday had been the first day that I had not passed out during an injection so I was hoping for a similar response today that way I would still be able to go to Peter's apartment and not have to try to explain myself after having missed it. Besides, there was a small part of me that was happy to be going over to Peter's, I wanted to spend more time with him. However I had to keep reminding myself that that desire needed to be quenched. I had been raised my entire life not to have attachments and yet here I was, falling into a relationship with Peter Parker.

Immediately after school, I headed to Oscorp for my daily injection. Even though my body had adjusted to it nicely, that did not mean that it no longer hurt. Every time I was injected, I was still on the brink of passing out due to the immense pain, but I tried to blink back my tears and restrain a scream from ripping through my vocal chords.

After the injection, I gave myself about half an hour to calm down and for the pain to abate. However after that, I knew that I needed to get to Peter's apartment, so I forced myself out of the medical bed. I was still a little shaky on my feet, but I knew I was going to be mostly recovered by the time that I reached Peter's.

Before leaving, I found my father to remind him of what was happening, "I'm going to head out to Parker's now to get this stupid project finished, I should be back by, at the latest, eleven tonight."

He gave me a distracted nod, "don't be late. Tomorrow we're going to give you an actual mission since your body is now recovering quicker from the injection."

Peter's apartment was a bit of hike, but not far enough for me to ask a car to bring me there. I didn't want Peter seeing the vehicles that I would get dropped off in, especially since I knew he lived in one of the poorer areas of Queens. He probably knew that I was fairly wealthy, with both my parents working at Oscorp, but I didn't want to rub it in his face.

It was funny how much I had changed, had this been a month ago, I probably would have brought the car if simply to intimidate him as well as establish myself as above him. Of course, I would have found a way out of going to his apartment in the first place, most likely through a means that would hurt his feelings. Yet now I didn't want to do that, no matter how much my brain told me that this was not a good idea. If either of my parents were to find out, I would be screwed.

"Hey, (Y/N), I'm so glad that you could make it!" Peter smiled at me as he opened the door to his apartment.

"Well, you guys seemed to be forcing me to, so it wasn't like I had much of a choice," I replied, hoping to recover a shred of my former self.

I walked inside the apartment to find Ned already waiting there, sitting on the ground of his living room with a chem book unopened in front of him. Other than that, it was just me so far, although I didn't know if there was going to be anyone else besides the three of us. Harry was planning on joining us, but he wasn't sure that he would be able to.

"You can have a seat wherever you want, we mostly work on our own work unless we have a question, in which case we ask each other about it," Peter explained as I stood in the corner of the living room, unsure what I should do. "Feel free to help yourself to food and well also be ordering dinner later on. Can you work with music playing?"

I nodded as I took the seat on the far end of the couch, "I can work in most conditions."

"Ok, Ned, you can continue playing it," he spoke to Ned, causing his face to light up. Almost immediately orchestral music began to fill the room, causing me to give Peter a confused glance. That was not what the music that I was expecting from the two boys.