team spider

xiv.

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"I can't fucking believe you. Are you serious, Peter?"

"Harry, please calm down," Peter pleaded from his hospital bed. "You're the one who said you weren't ready for a relationship!"

Harry turned around, and Peter swore he could see steam coming from his ears.

"First, you get involved with the Avengers—who I may tell you, basically kidnapped me and Harley— and then you had the fucking audacity to go behind my back and hook up with some random person who bought coffee from you?"

Peter felt tears push against his lashes. "You told me you didn't want to have a relationship with me!" he exclaimed, his voice breaking. "What the hell was I suppose to do? Wait around for you to finally change your fucking mind?"

"You threw away everything we had," Harry protested, crossing his arms. "How long."

"What?"

Harry rolled his eyes. "How long have you been hooking up with that dude."

"That's none of your business," Peter replied weakly, pulling anxiously at the mask of his suit.

"How. Fucking. Long."

"Two months," the younger teen answered after a minute.

Harry threw his hands up. "Are you kidding me?" he exclaimed angrily. "You moved on that fast, huh?"

Peter choked on a sob, turning away from the older boy. Harry was about to say something else when the door opened, in coming the Avengers, MJ, and Harley.

"Oh great," Harry muttered bitterly. "Just who I wanted to fucking see."

"Hey, watch your mouth," Steve shot back. "I don't know what's got you so angry, young man, but I'm not having it."

"Okay, everyone needs to calm down here," Tony said, putting his hands out. "Iron-Boy, you go sit in that chair; Spidey, you stay there."

Peter nodded and brought his legs up, crossing them under his weight. MJ sat down next to him on the bed while Harley joined Harry across the room, sinking into the chair next to him. The Avengers fanned out across the room, keeping a close eye on the four vigilantes.

"So, we have some questions for you all," Bruce said, flipping through a stack of papers. "But first, I need to check on Spider-Man's wound."

Bruce advanced towards Peter's because, and the seventeen year old instinctively unwrapped the thick white bandage that sat snugly around his abdomen. As the layers peeled off, they progressively got redder and redder, making Peter's senses go off.

Why wasn't he healing?

"It seems to be getting worse—it just be infected," Bruce said, mostly to himself.

He gently touched the surrounding skin, pressing down with the lightest pressure he could manage. Peter hissed in pain, his eyes squinting behind his mask.

"It should've healed completely by now," he said weakly, sniffling as Bruce messed with it some more. "Like, it should've been healed like two days ago."

"We brought you here two days ago," Natasha said. "How would you have healed then?"

"Super healing," MJ answered nonchalantly, warning a glare from Harry. She shot one back, "...we all have it. It came with the infection."

"Infection?" Clint asked.

"We call our powers an infection," Harley explained. "Technically if we were bitten by normal spiders, we would've gotten an infection at most; unfortunately for us, they weren't so normal."

"Where did you find these spiders?" Tony questioned; he was so excited.

"Oscorp," Peter said, taking in a sharp breath as Bruce applied an ointment to his wound. "My old team and I were on a field trip to the place, wandered off and paid the consequences."

"Field trip? So you're saying you were in school when this happened?"

"Mhm."

"What grade were you in?" Steve asked.

"Nuh-uh, I'm not answering any questions about my age," Peter replied swiftly, sitting back as Bruce finished up. "I'm not ready for you guys to know that yet."

Wanda raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean by, "old team?""

Peter glanced over at MJ, who only gave him a shrug. He tried looking at Harley and Harry, but Harley was distracted by a fly buzzing around the room, and Harry was staring at the wall, arms crossed, and feet kicked up on one of the tables.

"Well, I founded Team Spider with my old teammates: Noir, Gwen, and Miles; they died due to things I will not say, so I recruited these three dingbats," he said with a sigh.

"You told us their names; What happened to secret identities?" Steve pestered.

Peter rolled his eyes under his mask. "They're dead, you fuckwad. And besides, I wiped them from every single file across the globe—you'll never find them."

"And if we were to dig them up?"

"Have fun digging in space."

"Space?"

"Yes, space. Someone owed me a favor, so I used that favor to send their bodies into space."

It was silent for a few moments.

"Well that's morbid."

"Thank you."

"So, you said earlier you have healing powers?" Bruce interjected, trying to steer the conversation back on topic. "Can you explain a bit further on that?"

"Well," MJ began, reaching over a picking up an incision knife from one of the medical carts. She pried off one of her gloves and placed it beside her before pricking her finger, watching as a drop of blood oozed to the surface, dripping down her palm. "Our bodies heal abnormally fast, so this," she cracked her knuckle and the small wound closed up seamlessly, "takes under a minute to completely heal."

"That is fascinating," Tony mumbled in awe. "How long do more intense injuries take to heal."

"I broke my leg during a battle one time," Harley butted in. "I was walking without a limp by the next day."

"I cracked my skull when I fought Rhino," Peter added. "I had near-fatal brain damage, but after two days I was good as new."

Harry groaned from his chair. "We get it, you're better than us."

"What? I was just answering his quest-"

"Ooh, I'm Spider-Man! I almost died but guess who's still here? Me!! I'm so cool!" the eighteen year old mocked.

"You know, you could just say that you hate me," Peter shot back angrily. "You have no reason to be mad at me."

"You cheated on me!"

"We were never together in the first place!"

"So? You knew I liked you!"

"Okay, Mister I'm not ready for a relationship."

"Fuck you."

"No thanks."

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