Throwing Caution to the Wind

Chapter 9

The rest of the week passed by as normal. Wake up, go to school, get best up by the Flash Bandits (that only happened on Tuesday and Wednesdays because Flash found out that Peter had gotten a much higher test score then him), patrol for a few hours, do his homework and sleep.

It had been peaceful week on all fronts. Even patrols had been pretty lax. Sure there was an apartment building on fire on Wednesday, but the firemen had it contained by the time he got there so all he had to do was get some people out in pretty limited fore and smoke. And there had been a mugger with a gun on Thursday, but he had managed to web him up before he even had time to fire a single shot.

Then came Friday. He had been looking forward to it all week. Even though MJ's suspicions kept making an appearance in his thoughts, he figured it was just her being a little bit too invested in true crime.

When he walked in, he was immediately waved over to Elenora. She gave him a hello and handed him his employee badge. Taking a deep breath he figured it was as good a time as any to see if MJ's claims had anything to back them up.

Doing a quick scan of the card he found that where it said "Position" there was a colon and a blank space.

"Ms Glint, I don't mean to be a bother" he started.

"You're not a bother at all Peter" she said cutting him off.

"But what exactly is my role here at SI. It's blank on the card."

"Ohhhh, that, see Dr Boonton filled out all the other paperwork but left that blank. I of course went to ask him, I even brought the page with me that he needed to fill out for that particular detail, but he said he was too busy to do it" she told him.

"Maybe MJ was right", he thought. But he wanted to trust the Dr so he decided to chalked it up to an honest mistake.

When he got to his office today, he found Dr Boonton already there.

"Peter, hello. Take a seat, we have some things we need to discuss" he said motioning towards one of the visitors chairs.

Peter immediately felt strangely light. Did he do something wrong, did he say something last time that had upset him. Did the Dr realize he made mistake by choosing Peter.

Once he sat down, he expectantly to Dr Boonton.

"Last week when you started talking about improvements for the Flood Vacuum, you seemed to be Getty very ahead of yourself. You were suggesting things that while they seem good, are actually a lot more costly. You got the scientists very exited and I had to sit them down on Monday and explain all the reasons it wouldn't work. So this week when we go to another design meeting, I'd rather do you just watched. In fact, I don't want you saying anything at any design meetings for the time being. Its a lot more complicated then you seem to think it is.

He felt terrible.

"I'm so sorry I never meant to do that, I was just thinking without thinking I guess." Peter said.

"I know you didn't, which is why I'm taking to you, just keep everything to yourself fr now on him" said Dr Boonton.

"My lips are sealed" said Peter miming a zipper over his mouth.

The day went a lot like the last one, he enjoyed it alot. The only difference was that this time he wasn't looking forward to the design meeting.

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This time, they were trying to think of a way to get drones into a warzone safely. Mr Stark was there from the beginning this time. Peter just stood akwardly in the corner. Eventually though Mr Stark cleared his throat loudly enough that the other scientists in the room stopped talking (arguing) and looked at him.