Spider Gwen & The Recluse Assassin

V1: 『Hero or Villain?』

So as they were exiting the side of the school, Gwen's things in her cyan blue backpack, Jack turned his head to look at her with a curious and quiet gaze.

"...So how did you get your... New found skills anyways?"

Now that they were outside and no longer in the building, making their way towards the tree lined eastern wall, he seemed to be talking a bit more clearly than before. He was more comfortable with Gwen, at least outside of school.

"I think it was from when I was bit by the weird florescent glowing spider during my lab trip earlier... I think," she sounded somewhat unsure. She never had this or heard of this happening before. She stared at her hand where she had been bitten, the bite was gone. "Pretty sure it was radioactive..."

"Where's the spider?"

"Squished. Flash idoitically crushed it and threw it into a trashcan before I could capture it with a container," she said with a frown, rubbing the location of the bite with her hand. "Just happy I'm not dying from rad poisoning."

"Ah... Must have been an Osborn experiment." Jack shook his head lightly, "that man has problems."

Blinking a few times when she heard him, "What do you mean an Osborn experiment?" She blatantly ignored the fact that Jack said he had problems.

Jack shrugged as they reached the wall and looked up the massive construct which shadowed over them. "Lets see you climb this wall," he'd look over towards Gwen who was staring at him, boring holes though his face.

"What kind of experiments are you talking about?"

Jack stared right back at her for a few moments before letting out a sigh. "He wants to be able to manufacture mutates as a major military contract."

"I know the difference," She craned her neck forward as she looked at him with a near empty gaze. "But that does sound kind've risky and confidential. I didn't even hear of this before."

"That's because it's not public knowledge, and their 'business' partner make sure it stays that way." Jack muttered quietly to himself as he had a personal grievance against them. Of course when he referred to the business partner, he meant Advanced Idea Mechanics.

"My so-called parents worked for them."

That dull look on her face became that of shock.

"Yup..." Jack could read that look on her face pretty well, leaning against the wall, he pretended to look prideful as he studied his the reflections in her eyes. "I'm a designer mutate..."

Despite him trying to make light of the story, without any warning, she slammed into him again. This time though... this time he didn't fall. Her arms were wrapped around him and her hand forcing his head into her shoulder. She was hugging him.

Jack just closed his eyes, not entirely used to the idea of multiple encounters with prolonged physical contact over such a short period of time. He didn't move, he didn't embrace her. He just let the feeling of her touching, caressing, his neck comfort him.

"That makes me one too," Gwen whispered quietly.

Jack was pretty sure she was smiling wide outside his field of vision. If she only knew the pain he had gone through since he was young. The torture, the experiments, the mutations.

"...The wall." Jack stated as he lightly nudged her lower rib with his palm.

Gwen smirked as she giggled, lightly pushing herself off of him. "You really need to get better at hugging, you've been over my house plenty of times. We should be a bit more familiar, don't you think?"