#mj marvel

summer has ended, and school time was now here… yeah you 100% bawled because you had unfortunately found out that Hazel went to the same school as you and when you met her after that she just kept on pushing it, kept on running into you when you went out with your friends out of costume and the whole attention from her was just simply getting too much. Felicia had noticed everything then it went into a domino effect with how the rest of the friend group noticed.

when you walked into the building you saw Otto at his locker which all of your lockers were put into a line together because you had always requested every year for your classes and lockers to get in line together which was nice. when you opened the locker you put some of your things inside the thing then you heard it. "hey, [Name!]" you heard that agitating GRATING voice.

"hey.. Hazel…" you forced a smile looking at her, she didn't seem to notice your discomfort and she started to talk your eat off, "oh, well, look at the time! me and Otto have science together! ah, I'm so sorry but we have to go.." you strained out, before running off with Otto to go to science class, once you sat down in the seat, Otto sat down next to you as you took a deep breath in and out.

"you should set some boundaries with her, or you should stop being nice to her, hazel's attention and want for friendship is unwanted by you so why do you keep feeding into her delusions." Otto whispered to you, he was right of course, but you just didn't have it in you to be mean to Hazel, she seemed like she needed a friend and you've been there before, In a less creepy way though. you nodded, "I will do it at some point I just… " you replied, he gave you a look. "You better do so." he said.

week after week she tried to insert herself into your life, she ended up finding out you Uncle and Aunt's phone number and she would constantly ask if you and her could hang out which Uncle Ben and Aunt May always said that you couldn't go out, which was perfect cover for you when you'd be out and about fighting crime. it was just really hard to be juggling your life constantly when all she'd do was revolve her whole f*cking life around you constantly. it was tiring, and it made everything harder and harder.

when you went to Jason's grave that night you just slumped down next to it in costume as you just started to cry and tell him everything that was going on, and how tired of it you were, it was hard to just do this constantly, so you just continued to cry lifting your mask up so you can not get your mask all dirty because you did not want to clean that, "I got an eyebrow piercing so.. that's a plus.. right?" you sniffled, "i— I just don't know what to do Jay.. everything I do it feels like I'm being idolized and I don't want that… I don't want to be idolized by anyone at all!— Otto told me to set boundaries with her but its still… its still hard to do so because shes.. she seems like shes had no friends in her whole life and being… whatever it is to her is just not my thing right now…" you whimpered.

after a bit you pulled your mask back up and shot out a web as you shot out your webs swinging to get back to the ware house, once you got inside you picked up your phone from the counter and saw the amount of messages that were there, it was all from Hazel asking you 15 thousand questions, you just put her on silent and walked to go up the stairs to your room, when you flopped onto the bed you just passed out immediately because of the whole thing.

the next day when you stepped foot into the school there was Hazel, her bangs were styled to be like those heart or frog bangs Jason had, she had clothes like him and a copy of pride and prejudice in her hands. "what are you doing?" you asked being very direct this time, she smiled at you as if she was doing nothing wrong, "oh, I'm doing nothing wrong Ladybug!" she smiled, you stared at her in utter silence, "what the hell is wrong with you?" you asked again, she looked utterly confused on why you were asking her that. "I don't know what you're talking about." she smiled, the smile becoming more strained as she fidgeted some more, "'i don't know what you're talking about'. no, you know exactly what you're doing!" you hissed, Hazel looked shocked that you'd even imply that.

she giggled nervously, "you don't just get to walk in here in that outfit and pretend nothings wrong!" you yelled, Hazel's brows furrowed as if she was trying to act confused, she just smiled nervously, "you are nothing but a good for nothing asshole who's trying to tarnish Jason's memory!" you cried out, you felt tears prick at your eyes.

"i wont stand for this! you don't just get to play dress up and call me things that only he called me! so go fuck off and find someone else to jack off to!" you shoved her away, she looked shocked, then angry at you being upset at her, "you're awfully protective over someone whose dead [Name] don't you think that's weird or is that some kink you have?" she taunted getting upset at you while she was the one dressing like him and acting like him.

"the fuck did you just say to me? my best friend is dead and i cant speak to him or see him anymore hazel! just because you want to pursue a friendship with me doesn't mean you can go out and around saying that I'm wrong for mourning him! you don't get it hazel you never will, my best friend is gone and you just want to be best friends with me when i cant stand being around you for even a moment!" you yelled, your breath hitched slightly as you thought about Jason.

"we are not friends and we will never be friends. plus if you ever try to act or dress like him again i will kill you." you said before slamming her into a locker and walking off. when you got into science you just sat down and put you head into your hands your breath started to shake bit by bit, then before you knew it tears started to fall as you cried more and more, of course you kept it quiet but it was just hard to have that happen and to not be able to do anything about it unless it were to be a yelling match, you heard people file into the room and there Otto was walking on in but you just didn't look up unwilling to just look at anything at the moment. the main reason for that was the feeling of your eyes burning from the tears. Otto sat right next to you, he looked at you for one moment and decided to join you in laying your head down on the table world! yayyy…

"what happened?" he asked keeping his tone of voice down to a mere mumble. you turned your head to look at him quietly, "Hazel, just… dressed up as him and held a Pride and Prejudice copy.." you sniffled, the whole situation didn't feel great but you'd have to persevere or whatever. he looked shocked for a moment then his brows furrowed as his expression got serious, "are you serious?" he asked before looking at your face and noticing you were more than serious about the whole situation, "oh, God I knew she had some crazy screws loose.. well, I'll tell the others about it for you and now we have a serious enemy in school now." he tried to joke with you to make you feel better.

you nodded in reply and he got up and grabbed tissues for you because you needed something for comfort at the moment. "it was about time you did something you know," he said softly, patting your arm before he handed you the tissues. he then sat down calmly and poked your arm some more. when the science teacher came in you looked up immediately she told everyone to grab their things from their bags, and what not. when you grabbed your textbook it was a biology text book which you were more better at for some magical reason, anything with engineering was something you were more… bad at… believe it or not, yet it was just something you beat yourself up over which Otto would take over all of the work in there even if you weren't in the same class together. it was just something that could not be controlled and you always have felt bad when he would do all of the work for you.

in return you did all of the work he wasn't the best at, anyway, you stared at the teacher as she mentioned something about radio active stuff and what places were radioactive, one girl said Chernobyl which made you mad, not because she was right, but because with how OFTEN she named the place, it was at least TWICE— no FIVE times each day already. that's what made it bad, like it IS an answer but at this point its an overused one. like there are other things that are radioactive, like those clocks that the radium girls painted, there's also Hiroshima, Fukushima Daiichi, Hanford, The Polygon (Kazakhstan), Lake Karachai, Mailuu-Suu, Sellafield, Ramsar, Goiania, Siberian Chemicial Combine, the radium girls bodies, Marie Curie, people who consumed radium or anything like that, people who drank radithor, the places where uranium was found at. there were so many places and so many people who died due to radiation but Chernobyl is the only one worth knowing??

plus she knew about Chernobyl because you first mentioned it, plus she got the story behind the place wrong, and you corrected her, ever since then Chernobyl was her go-to answer. yeah, you did not like hearing that answer half the time, it for sure wasn't a bad one it was just irritating to hear the same answer over and over again.

when lunch rolled around you sat at the lunch table, you all were talking and yapping to each other, you were complaining about something, the whole group knew what went down with Hazel earlier that day, yet Felicia noticed that Hazel was more… angry for some reason, and it was very clear with the reason why but Felicia expected Hazel to look more… humiliated instead of angry, because anyone in their right mind would be upset for being humiliated In-front of a crowd, but Hazel didn't seem to understand what she did was wrong, and that's what made the whole thing suck. at some point Felicia got up and she said she was going to ask Hazel on how she felt on the whole thing.

you all nodded giving Felicia the go ahead to ask Hazel why she was angry. when Felicia walked she asked a few people where Hazel went, they all pointed her in the direction where Hazel was which Felicia thanked them and continued to walk, when she found Hazel she just stood next to the sitting girl, who was clearly fuming on what happened, "hey, Hazel why are you so… angry?" Felicia started with, Hazel looked right up at her and glared across the room to look at you. "[Name] is the problem, I HATE her, she had the gall to yell at me for dressing this way when I want to be friends with her…" Hazel stabbed the food with her fork, Felicia hummed staring at Hazel, "well, since I am [Name]'s friend and I've known her a week after her best friend died well… dressing up as him and trying to act like him isn't the way to go, he died and she can't get him back, just seeing you in that outfit with that book just… got to her, you know?" Felicia asked, she was trying to get Hazel to see it from your perspective. which was no problem but it still didn't seem to click with her. "I DON'T CARE! she should've known that I wanted to do for her, she probably didn't know her own best friend, no wonder he's dead, he probably died because of her because shes a good for nothing ^!" Hazel yelled, Felicia blinked just staring at her for a moment.

"what is wrong with you? he didn't commit he was at a place and died due to a gas leak or something, you don't even know her at all Hazel, I came here to understand your side and you ask why you're upset. but also no matter which side is right or wrong, it was and is wrong of you to play dress up with someone that died and that person is specifically close to the person you want to befriend." Felicia hissed, Hazel seemed to get more mad at the whole thing most likely was that she still thought she was the one in the right plus she believed she just did nothing wrong, when the thing she did was on so many levels of wrong. "I don't care about that, [Name] showed her true colors! I want her dead!" Hazel yelled, Felicia groaned and just decided to walk away because dealing with this situation would only make it worse and worse. Felicia wasn't planning on doing anything else with the whole thing at this point in time.

when she came back to the table, she sat down, "yep, Hazel does not understand what she did is wrong, oh, also she wants you dead [Name]" Felicia groaned, Otto just nodded, "Okay, okay at least shes gaining an original thought." Otto hummed, you just stared at him and nodded.

"yep, life is great trust me!" you smiled, Max just thought for a moment, he looked up at everyone, "well, knowing Hazel shes kinda legit on what she says, you may need to like genuinely watch your back [Name]." Max murmured.

"oh," you hummed, everyone else got quiet for a moment. you all looked at each other for a moment, "well, we stick together and we make sure the person who got us into this vigilante crap wont die and we'd be damned if we let that happen." Eugene hummed, you just stared at everyone, "what in the my little pony…" you mumbled that seemed to get at least a chuckle out of everyone. "but… Thank you." you hummed, they all nodded smiling a bit, the subject then changed pretty fast, then before you knew it the bell rang and you all went into class.

in History you just stared at what was being shown as the teacher spoke on some genocides that had happened in the past, personally you loved to learn about genocides because you wanted to know how to prevent it in the future, you loved learning about everything serious in history. some people disliked history because it was too political, but at the end of the day, everything is political you cant really do much about it. so if they only shame history for how political it is then how about you shame absolutely everything the world hands to you. mostly everything has an undertone of some meaning, plus lots of media is political so it has always been a normal thing you didn't really care about.

anyway, when the school day ended you were walking towards the entrance so you could go home like what everyone else was doing. once you stepped foot outside your spider sense came out of nowhere to warn you about something, then you heard running behind you, so you ducked just at the right time before side stepping, you moved your leg off to the side slower than you expected then the person who tried to tackle you tripped and fell after you moved away from the entrance. glancing back you saw Hazel right there and a trash can on the ground Infront of her and it had water falling out of it, "what the heck?" you yelped unsure on how to feel on the whole situation at hand. there Hazel was in all her glory with her hair and absolute mess and the pride and prejudice copy skidded to your feet, you picked up the book and opened it, the copy had two names on the side and a small doodle that was more than familiar to you, when you saw the doodle and names it got painfully obvious on who it belonged to.

it belonged to you, the copy in itself used to be Jason's but he always called it his and your own copy, like you both were the owners to the copy, not just one person. staring at the book you looked up to stare at Hazel, "you stole my book too?" you asked firmly, even more upset. first she decided to dress like your late best friend, tries to act like him, calls you by a nickname he gave you, steals your copy of Pride and Prejudice, talks to you like you've known eachother for an eternity, then she acts very parasocial even though you go to the same school and are on a first name basis.

you both weren't friends, you knew that, you thought she understood that in some sort of vague way, but it seems like you were wrong. "are you kidding me?? I swear on everything around us if I find one little writing on it one little doodle that wasn't there before, I swear you're done for!" you yelled, putting the book in your bag, it honestly hurt that she took something that was so dear to you, so completely dear to you. it made you even more angry than anything, the whole thing was making you feel… a lot was an understatement. this was your fault, that was what was starting to enter your mind.

if you just told her from the get go that she was being weird and creepy with you then none of this would've happened… right..? that feeling was getting worse, when you looked back up you saw her fist moving towards your face, you dodged pretty quickly and she skidded to the floor falling on her face, the people around you stopped and started watching the scene Infront of them. many pulled their phones out to take a video. you didn't exactly care about that at the moment, you were more worried on what Hazel was trying to do. she got back up, her nose was bloody probably broken— "Hazel are you okay? we should get you some ice." you said on instinct, but she flung herself at you again which you grabbed both of her wrists, her standing was unstable which was what you noticed, "stop pretending like you care you snake!" she yelled.

"oh, I'm the snake?? says the one who dressed up like my dead best friend, tried to act like him, followed me around outside of school, and you stole my book!" you replied, it just simply upset you when she acted like she was the one in the right. the people watching in the back let out some 'oooh's, Hazel started to scream and she tried to kick you but out of instinct you put one leg in between hers and knocked her down, she tripped over the trashcan and fell into the trash water which you didn't mean to do.

her fall took you by surprise and she just kept getting up and she grabbed something out of her bag, it made your spider sense tingle, once she showed what she was holding, you saw that she was holding onto some scissors, she lunged at you with them in her hands, "everyone please back up!" you yelped, moving to grab her wrists again as everyone screamed a bit and they ran into the building, probably to get a teacher but some stayed to film, you personally never thought the day would come when you'd get attacked with some scissors which was VERY dangerous, those things were really sharp too.

this fight made one thing very clear, she was not okay in the head, which was very obvious from the start but now everyone knew she was more than crazy at this point. she was still pushing to hurt you but you continued to keep a firm hold on her wrists, "you are a mean person and you don't deserve to walk on this earth! I'll help you see your best friend again!" she laughed, you just stared at her in utter shock not knowing how to respond.

"what are you talking about??" you snapped at her, at some point a teacher came and a school security guard came they had to pull the scissors out of hazel's hands as she kicked and screamed at everyone and everything. a teacher moved Infront of you as the officer took care of a screaming Hazel, the other people put their phones away immediately. the whole thing was just messy.. no it was more than messy— if that was even possible, the teacher guided you to your aunts car, "hey Mrs. Parker, there was a situation with your niece and another girl and it got really bad, the whole thing will be taken care of but tomorrow [Name] may need to get pulled away from her classes." the teacher told your aunt, she seemed shocked for a moment but you just got pushed into the car as the teacher walked away to go see what was going on.

"do you need to stay at.." aunt may trailed off, you knew what she meant. you looked at her wide eyed, "Aunt May…? I need to tell you something really important.." you muttered.

she looked at you calmly, "what is it [Name]?" she asked softly not even going to say a thing to push it immediately. "this is a really bad idea…" you mumbled, glancing back up you made eye contact with her, "you know that Web-Spinner vgilante?" you asked reluctanly, Aunt May nodded keeping that gentle look. "well, that's me. I work with some people and there's a… warehouse used as a base and it has enough rooms for us all so I have a room there… can you… drop me off there?" you asked, Aunt May seemed shocked by what you had just told her, she then looked forward and sighed, "kid, there's a lot of criminals here in Gotham… and you usually take on the big guys at least that's what the news said… but are you sure that is something you want to continue doing for the world?" she asked, making eye contact with you. "either option you choose then i'll support you.. I just need you to be careful [Name]… you cant save everyone and that's okay… you don't need to save everyone in the world to prove that you can be successful." Aunt May responded, she looked at you softly, the whole thing was a shock, you'd at least thought she'd be upset or tell you to stop doing the vigilante stuff.

"well, I don't plan on stopping… I have gotten in way to deep already," you hummed.

Aunt May nodded in response, "well, kid.. wheres this warehouse you've mentioned?" she asked you, glancing at her you told her exactly where the place was and she started driving there taking some hidden ways to get there sneakily, when you both got there she parked in an alleyway locking the car as she hopped out to follow you. when you opened up the door to the place you let her inside and she got to see the whole place, "wow, you kids really rehabilitated this place…" she hummed, staring at some of the phones which were put in a bowl next to the door, she recognized the who owned each one. along with the shoes by the door.

"so, its you and them?" she asked, staring at you quietly. you looked at her and smiled cheekily, she did follow you as you toured her around the place, her suspicions on who the people there were solidified when she saw the names and photos on the fridge.

"sorry for not telling you sooner.." you hummed shyly, Aunt May just stared at you and sighed shaking her head, "[Name], its fine. its no big deal, its hard to take a guess on what the reaction will be…" she smiled, you stared at her face for a moment. then you thought about what to say, before shrugging, "well, Uncle Ben found out quite fast if I do say so myself, but what he doesn't know is that theres a whole base and team for this type of thing." you said without a care in the world. now that's what got Aunt May in shock, "he knew???" she asked very alarmed, you just stared at her in silence for a moment. "oops…" you murmured, aunt may just started to laugh at your reaction to her reaction.

"kid, don't worry its not your fault, its just really surprising he found out first since… he can sometimes be more on the slower end with things." she smiled, you just stared at her some more thinking about if you should take her to the underground area where most definitely everyone was getting ready for the vigilante work. but also your suit was down there so it'd be pretty useless if you didn't go down there and get changed, after all you and them had some stretching to do. "Well, I'm going to go home and tell your uncle everything if that's okay with you [Name]." she smiled, you nodded and watched her leave but you followed after her in the end.

once she got to the car safe and sound thats when you left to go back inside. when you entered the building again you made sure to lock the door and you walked to the middle of the room and stepped on the small metal ring around the middle, then you typed in the code before it went back down, you stepped back and watch the elevator lift up, you walked into the elevator listening to it close as it started to desend.

once it did you waited till it hit the bottom and it then opened up and you walked on out of the elevator, "hey!" you hummed, everyone else looked at you Felicia smiled and ran on over to you, "I brought my aunt over here… she and Uncle Ben know about… this whole ordeal… I felt like it was right to tell her." you told them shyly, they all looked at you and Felicia snorted, she patted your back softly. "Don't worry so much Webs, out of everyone who could know, the most trustable ones would be your aunt and uncle, along with Jason… but he's kinda…" Felicia hummed, you nodded in response unsure of what to say.

"anyway, everyone get dressed we have a long night ahead of us!" Max called out, you moved away from Felicia and ran to the bathroom down there and got changed as fast as you could, once suited up you walked back out. you all moved to sit in a circle in the spinny chairs down there, "okay, so there's a whole illegal trade of this stuff called Goublin Green going around, its meant to make people smarter but also with the wrong dosage or using too much every day is what makes it all fall down. the stuff in general isn't the greatest. its very very flawed and dangerous. I also did somehow manage to get in contact with the bat from the thing he gave you [Name] he's letting us do this on our own. this is our run down on how the team will operate with the same goal in mind." Max explained, you all nodded.

"okay what will our jobs be?" Eugene asked, Max looked at him and then he looked at Dmitri.

"me and dmitri made this plan, Otto will be here and making gadgets as usual but the gadgets needed will be directly for this whole plan to find the Goublin Green, Eugene you will sweep the streets and question the gangs who have their hands on that stuff, Felicia you will check over anyone who is funding any of this stuff, Dmitri you need to gain information, and [Name] you gotta find the direct source of this stuff, I have warehouses counted off of suspicious activity with the Goublin Green." Max told you all, everyone of course nodded, you all put your hands out in the middle, Otto added one of his tentacles, "okay, one, two, three, Team!" you all said together before getting up and moving to Otto's lab to grab some things like a updated wristband for you, but everyone else finally got their own, "this is an extra contact thing, and it has a map, this right here is an SOS type of thing, which its meant to contact the bat, or anyone close to that is here in Gotham." Otto explained happily, you all put the device on and started to do the practice drills in the biggest room in the basement area.

once it got dark enough out you all snuck out, "good luck everyone" you told them before leaving to go do what you were told to do, it was pretty simple for the most part, many people were out and about, you ran into some people who were selling Goublin Green, and marked the spot for Eugene to get, and you just swung away finding what warehouses you could find, there was not much of any guards in the area. you squinted and swung to get closer, moving towards the window of the place you quickly found out they were only guarding the interior, making the Goublin green. you checked if the window was unlocked and once you found out it was infact unlocked. these people need to learn how to lock windows, or at least to block them off.

you crouched down listening to them talk, then you tapped on the device in order to record the conversation, you heard them talking about doing a mass selling, and surprisingly found out the black mask had nothing to do with the spread of Goublin Green, so this was very obviously not his workings, for some reason it relieved you, maybe you'd have to figure that out some other time, it was simply just a not right now type of thing at the moment.

once you gathered enough information you decided to show yourself but first you took out the bigger guys, the ones making the Goublin Green didn't seem to notice. too busy talking among themselves to notice that you were taking out all of the stronger guys. which… unlucky them. once they were all knocked out you decided that it was finally time to strike.

getting up on a crate you stared at them, "hello, may I talk to the person who started this whole.. smuggling thing?" you hummed, they looked at you so unbelievablely fast, shocked. "What the—" you webbed them up before they could get any more word in, "electro, got one place marked, they are all webbed up, its safe to call to the location." you hummed, you heard typing in the background, "got it, sending a call right on in." Max hummed, you then left from where you came and swung away, you patrolled a little longer before going back to home base. you were the first one there, Otto was working on something as you gave him a sample of the Goublin Green you got your hands on. "you got a sample???? THIS IS AMAZINGGG" Otto yelled, then he started to maniacally laugh.

you took off your mask and walked off putting the sweaty costume in the washing machine, the wrist cuff's were put back into your locker, when you came back to Otto he was taking a small sample and looking at the thing, "hrm… oh! [Name], we need to do some tests on your whole durablility and powers at some point, everyone else's test runs are done already so you're the next one." he muttered, as he concentrated on his work.

"yep, yep I know Otto.." you hummed.

"you better know." he responded, you smiled and walked off to go to your room so you can sleep in peace. once you got into your room you decided to take a shower first, once that was done you went straight to bed and passed out when you woke up you saw your phone right on the nightstand, Felicia probably brought it over to your room once she got home. letting out a huge yawn you got up and went to the closet and grabbed some of the clothes in there and put it on. the jeans were low-rise since whenever you went to go thrift with Felicia she got everyone clothes she knew would look great on you all. anyway, you then grabbed a shirt and put it on, it was a halter top, the color was a color that looked really good on you, dang.. Felicia absolutely knows what colors are complementary. you put on some makeup, and got a necklace on along with some bracelets. you then grabbed the jacket that you took from Jason's room a long time ago, Bruce did call and he said that you could keep it, so you did keep the jacket, when you walked out of the room you walked down the steps which everyone was in the kitchen eating some food.

"how'd everything go on your guy's ends last night." you asked, Eugene looked fine, Dmitri had his head slumped onto the table, Otto looked energized, Max looked calm and content, and Felicia looked a-okay too. "Dmitri's fine he wanted everything to be absolutely perfect. but his whole act was not… the best he's done." Felicia said for Dmitri, Eugene nodded looking back at Dmitri before looking back up to you. "yeah…" Eugene mumbled.

you all made sure to eat some food first before running off to go to school, you of course took the faster route, "my whole body hurts.." Dmitri whined, Felicia looked back at him and you followed her gaze. "is it the walking or how you got a whole beat down last night?" you asked, Dmitri glared at you, "ha, ha." he responded sarcastically. you just smiled at him and continued to walk through the streets, you turned back around to look Infront of you.

you all continued to walk, once you got to the school you walked into the building but a teacher stopped you from continuing to walk, you just sighed and followed the teacher into the principals office, there were officers and there was Hazel in one seat, and you were guided into a different seat. an officer stoop in-between you and Hazel, she was sending you a death glare. you just looked ahead not making eye-contact with her.

the principal asked for her side of the story and she gave her side of the story which it was exactly honest and it was exactly how everything happened, then when it was your turn you waited for a moment unsure of what to say at the moment. "uhm, so me and Hazel met at a party, she was getting picked on so I helped her but after that she started showing up in places where I was at when I was with my friends.." you started to explain. they looked at you, one officer was writing everything down. "and when school started she just started sitting with us, which wasn't any problem but like everytime she'd ask for my number, my aunt and uncle's number, and then she'd just continue on and on. talking to me everyday, knocking at my bedroom window when I was getting changed, sometimes she'd try to follow me to the grave yard, I've always went there once every week to talk to one of the graves because my best friend had passed away." you murmured, you felt your cheeks heat up as you looked down to your lap. they all nodded which Hazel looked like she wanted to interject and explain why she did what she did. but also she actually just skimmed over the big stuff.

"your late best friend was.. Jason Todd correct?" the principal asked you.

"yes." you confirmed, they nodded and they looked at you so you could continue recounting what happened, "at first I wanted to be kind and nice to her but she just continued to push and pry at everything in my whole life, like who Jason was to me when it can be found at any news source or whatever. One of my friends told me to talk to Hazel and to set boundaries with her.. but I felt like it was the wrong thing to do when she seemed so desperate to have a friend. so I put up with it but once she started to get touchy it put more of a strain on how I felt, she asked me to go out to watch movies with her, but when I would look at the plotline I found out quickly they were all rather.. explicit in some sort of way." you continued, you finally brought your gaze up to look at Hazel. she seemed like she was fuming.

"then one day she came to school in an outfit that Jason would wear, she tried to parrot his voice in some way. her bangs were made to look like his too… she then held a Pride and Prejudice copy that I later found out was mine, it had doodles and small little notes In the page he and I had made. but at the moment I didn't know that, she tried to act like him and thats what set me off, I yelled at her and I did nothing else, I knew she was upset only because of how humiliating that would be but I was tired of everything that was going on so I just snapped at her. at lunch my friend walked over to talk to her to try and get her side, along with that she found out that hazel quite literally wanted me dead. which I thought nothing of it because.. I thought she meant that in the more non-literal sense, but at the end of the day I found out it wasn't a… non-literal." you recounted the events trying to keep your eyes down, the whole situation in itself wasn't stressing you out, you knew you could handle something like that on your own so it wasn't a panic type of thing.

"I didn't throw the first punch but what set Hazel off was me taking my book back so then it just escalated from there, I did make sure she didn't hurt anyone and when she tried to kick me that's the only time I really pushed her," you explained, the officers nodded and after a bit of talking you decided to press charges and Hazel was confirmed to be expelled that day, you of course felt bad for what happened but you had to tell yourself that it wasn't your fault.

the whole day and week went by rather normally. You told Jason's grave what had happened, and of course, you got absolutely no reply which was whatever. you stopped expecting some ghost of him to respond, when you all were at the basement of the warehouse, you just talked to each other. Max was reading the progress report (you had to make a progress report for Batman because he wanted to know how you guys were doing). Tonight was possibly going to be the last day to get the job done. Well, actually it was the estimated end of the work before Batman had to take over for you guys.

Which that whole deal was what you all were fine with that, Batman was very unwilling to let you guys run free with this type of thing, you all talked out the plan for that night and you left the place swinging off to the last warehouse you had to go to. something in you was telling you to not go and rush into the whole thing, so you did stop some crooks a bit. then you had to psyche yourself back up and once you got to the warehouse something felt wrong. so you tapped on your comm link, "hey, guys?" you murmured swinging up to a gargoyle and sitting there.

"yeah?" they all symontainously asked, You sighed as relief flooded Your system. glancing back to the warehouse You saw a hooded figure walk on inside of the warehouse, "I'm having a very bad feeling about this warehouse, and I think my suspicions have been confirmed…" You told them, You heard Max curse. "I got into the camera's into that warehouse and there's like huge tanks of that stuff… and… wait, is that Hazel???" he yelped, Your eyes widened. everyone symotainously said "WHAT?" all together.

"this warehouse may need to be a batman thing, but you can grab Hazel and web her up." Max said, everyone didn't exactly agree with that from what you could hear, Felicia sounded unsure on the idea, "this whole thing is how we can prove ourselfs Electro, it would suck to call it quits when a building is full of that stuff, Web's can contain it just fine without our help, shes done it so many times to count— Webs if anyhting goes wrong then we'll come to help okay?" Felicia said. Max sounded unsure but when everyone agreed then he sighed and agreed to the whole thing, "fine, we'll do it on our own but if anything goes wrong then we call Batman." Max finally said.

everyone cheered and You just swung to the warehouse, opening a window and sliding on in, Hazel was there in big oversized clothes, she had cuffs on her wrists, but yet that seemed to not deter her, she climbed up to the ledge of the neon green goublin green liquid, "hey, if I remember correctly you're not meant to be here miss." You showed Yourself, she looked at You she glared at You for a moment, "what do you want? I can be here whenever I want, my dad is the one making this stuff." she said carelessly.

"huh, well, why are you here?" You asked, she rolled her eyes as if that was obvious. You kept quiet for a moment, eyes trained on her as a whole, "I'm here to become smarter than [Name] Parker, she sucks and I hate her! and if I become smarter then her I can find out why she's playing victim!" hazel hissed. You were just kinda taken aback on why Hazel said that, like yes You knew she was crazy but what You didn't know was that she had it in her to holler about You 'playing victim'.

"and you cant stop me!" she yelled before jumping into the goey liquid, You ran over concerned, You hoped that she was okay but You weren't going to take a bet on her being just fine and dandy, but You weren't going to jump in to grab her since You still didn't know of what that liquid was capable of. so You decided to click on the call Batman button and when he answered You just rushed an explanation because what the heck, "whatever you do don't jump into it web-spinner, I'm in the middle of doing something so I wont be able to help you right away. get away from the tank and call your team." he told You, it made sense on why You should do that along with why he was telling You what to do, You were still a kid and new to this even if You've been doing this whole thing longer than Your teammates. "o-okay.." You whimpered, before hanging up and calling the team to get over to where You were at. "hey, uh so Hazel jumped in and I may need backup just in case." You told the team, before backing away from the tank, You still saw hazel's body inside of the green goo, it was starting to twitch. "on it!" eugene responded very quickly, "I'm coming over right now!" Felicia said, You heard typing in the background which was max, "otto's going over there too. Dmitri are you able to run over to help them out?" max asked. You all heard a hum, "yep! running over there now!" he responded.

"good!" Max then said, it took a few minutes but everyone got there, when looking at the glass of the tub— You realized that Hazel's body was starting to contort and it sounded like her bones were breaking. she was also starting to grow bigger, "its…" Otto trailed off. Dmitri stared at what was going on, "everyone get in your places, we've practiced this too many times to count!" You all followed what was commanded You used Your webs to get up on the fence thing, You crouched down waiting for something to happen.

Otto had his metal leg thing's get the shield mode out, Felicia got her 'claws' ready, Eugene bent down getting into a jumping position, and Dmitri stood back getting the gauntlets that Otto made him ready, You placed a small recording module on one of the metal bars so it can record the fight, "recording module set up," You told them. watching the body in the goo was weird to see, "keep Hazel inside of the building, the outside cams show a civilian walking close to the warehouse." Max informed You all through the comm, "thanks electro." You hummed.

there was choked screaming in the goop, as there was a louder cracking and breaking sound, You waited for a moment and You all saw the body grow bit by bit, after a good five minutes she climbed out of the goop, she was a bright green, her eyes were red, her hair was more straw-like, the oversized orange clothes were hanging by a thread, "oh my goodness this is the best learning experience on what happens with this stuff!!" Otto yelled joyously.

"Doc Ock!!—" You all groaned.

"what?? I'm being true to myself!—"

"not the time!" Dmitri yelled.

Hazel opened her mouth and roared, at You all then she threw the first punch, her tail lashed around, oh she had a tail now— when the tail went in Your direction You jumped out of the way and moved to a pillar, You distracted her a bit as the team waited for the right moment, "go, go, go!" Dmitri yelled.

the whole team ran at Hazel, Eugene was the first to kick her as Otto grabbed a scale and put it in his pocket, it made Hazel let out a screetch as she moved to fly up to the ceiling, You hopped down to the ground and You attached Your webs to her legs, Otto then used his metal octo arms to grab onto Hazel. You attached the webs to the metal pillairs around then You attached the webs to the wings on her back, You kept trying to pull her down until help could come.

You saw everyone else attack her as You and Otto kept her from flying off, when she was finally pulled down to the ground You saw her tail move, You did Your best to keep her down for longer but that was easier said than done. yelping You webbed her tail down and once she was down right Infront of You all she didn't move. "boom, at least its all done now!" Eugene chirped turning away from Hazel with everyone, she looked at You and grabbed You, yelling she flew on out, the movements more messy and unsure as she held You. once out of the warehouse she slammed You onto the ground stepping on Your right ankle using all her weight, You screamed, and connected Your webs to her face and slam her head into the ground, everyone ran out trying to get to You.

Hazel picked You up and chuckled You to a building, You fell Infront of a red haired girl that went to Your highschool, "h-hey, you may need to run.." You smiled, Your voice strained, her eyes went wide as she bent down checking Your ankle, "you're hurt." she said.

"yeah maybe a little." You muttered, the girl looked back to the team ganging up on Hazel so she wouldn't be a threat to anyone. "may I see? also what happened?" the blue eyed girl asked, "that's Hazel Osborn, she jumped into the goop and frog-man decided to jinx it when she went down." You informed her, the red-headed girl took off Your shoes and peeled off Your sock, when she saw the swelling of the wound it made her pause, "its most likely broken. not bad, bad but it is bad enough to keep you limping for a few weeks." she said softly, checking over Your wound for a bit longer, "I need you to stay down." she told You, keeping quiet You nodded.

"can you please go and get to safety?" You asked quietly, she nodded and she got up and ran off but she first got You leaned up against the wall, when she was gone You got up and jumped into the fight so You could help Your friends, it took like an hour to get Hazel down and not fighting anymore, when Batman's car showed up he walked over to You and helped You stand. he looked at the scuffed team, and You all just looked at eachother. Otto moved first, "are you okay Web-Spinner? you really got thrown around like a ragdoll. I need to make you more durable things—" he was about to go on a rant but Felicia stopped him, putting a hand on his shoulder, their gaze turned back to Batman, "so.. what'll happen now?" Felicia asked.

"you kids did good on your first run, but nextime you need to make sure the person your fighting isn't getting back up." Batman told You all. Dmitri nodded looking back up, he thought for a moment, "alright we'll do better next time we promise." Dmitri promised for the team.

You kept silent just focusing on keeping weight off of Your leg, "i'll take your friend to a doctor that I know, and I need you guys to only talk to the commissioner for me, anyone else then they'll probably scold you." he said before turning around and getting You into the back of the Bat-mobile, You looked out the window looking at Your friends, it was scary for some reason, but You trusted him so he has to be helping You in some sort of way, he already had helped You and the team so many times to count.

he sped over into Crime-Alley, then he stopped Infront of a clinic, 'leslie's clinic'… huh, "are they good?" You asked, he looked back at Your masked face, "yes, shes good, shes also very trustable with your secret identity." he reassured, he helped You get inside of the building, You just kept quiet and once taken inside he called out for Dr. Thompkins, she came and gasped when she saw you, it wasn't a big problem, you were fine, and you stayed off of the injured leg for that whole fight but either way you were just fine there were no problems.. which that was what you thought. when you were taken to the back Dr. Thompkins had you sit down on the bed in there, she then told Batman to leave the room which he did do.

"alright sweetheart, you can take off the mask… you're safe here and I won't tell anyone what I saw I promise," she hummed. you nodded and reluctantly pulled off the mask, she seemed a little shocked at seeing you but she kept her composure, at some point she softly pushed you down to lay on your back, she then gave you a sedative after asking if you had any allergies, and all that stuff, when she was sure you'd be fine, she gave you something so you can go to sleep, when you woke up you had a bandage around your leg which it was wrapped tightly around the wound. when you came to your senses she explained everything to you, that you were durable enough to not need anything big.

when your aunt and uncle came to pick you up aunt may ran over and held your cheeks, "are you okay?" aunt may asked, she was very alarmed it seemed, letting out a yawn they got you in the car, "are you sure we wont have to pay you?" Uncle Ben asked Dr. Thompkins. she smiled and shook her head "I'm very sure, now I need you to make sure shes somewhere safe and sound, probably away from home, I know that may be hard but a girl named Hazel may want her dead and her being away from home is the safest option for everyone. I hope you both can understand that.." Dr. Tho

mpkins explained, the two nodded and thanked her for her help and left. when you got back to the warehouse, you just stumpled on inside of the warehouse, then they helped you up the steps to your room in the warehouse. you hugged them before they left and they walked out of the room.

you got changed in your pajamas and then you flopped onto your bed and went to sleep.

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It's a curse, when they fret over not knowing enough for competitions when she's convinced they'll lead the Academic Decathlon Team to victory.

It's, also, a malediction when they look over her shoulder to marvel at her half done portraits and consequently distract her from memorizing the traits of the person she was busy sketching.

The worst thing there is, though, is definitely having to deal with the disastruous way they handle Peter being Spider-man.

People talk about a sudden fire that the firefighters are struggling with? He suddenly has to urgently use the toilets.

They're leaving on a trip to the museum and there's a robbery near? Ned shouts there's Captain America out there and when the others turn back around to glare at him for lying or hallucinating, Peter's miraculously disappeared only to later reappears at the museum.

Malevolent bot invasion the Avengers haven't taken care of yet?

Tragical. Ned's feeling very miserable and he needs to be accompanied back home.

More daylight robberies than usual, that the police can't handle? Oh, no. Sudden family urgency.

It goes on and on like that.

It's so obvious it actually turned entertaining at some point, in a frustrated, fond way that has her shaking her head to herself.

And they hadn't even realized she knew until she, literally, outrightly said so to their faces, despite all of her heavily hinting comments.

They're so.. dense, sometimes. And absolute fools most of the time.

She's honestly glad those idiots are her friends now. Even if they make her feels annoyed a little too often. It's affectionately.

They're like a slightly bothersome blessing in the disguise of a curse.

Except for now. For now, she's back to thinking of them as curses. A little less fondly.

Grocery shopping went wrong. She had just wanted to go buy some eggs, granolbars, basically whatever was on her shopping list.

She should have just grabbed the eggs and left. Except now, they're broken and splattered on the ground.

Oh, and also: she's being held at gunpoint.

Pointing out the fact robbing a street-corner food shop owned by a local old man isn't too ethical, was, obviousy the wrong move to pull. At least said owner got to go away and probably call the poice. Because now the man's mad and waving his gun around in her face.

He'd still been talking. She couldn't be bothered to be pretending to listen, because he was a little too obviously just talking to listen to his own voice and not to hold a two-sided conversation.

Except that was when Ned decided to answer Peter's latest nerdy ramble on their WhatsApp chat. The man freezed. She freezed.

"What was that? Did you fucking call the police?", the man growled, and this time she did start visibly panicking. Bceause, paranoid and agressive is not a good combination.

"I coudn't have, I didn't have my phone out at any point ", she pointed out, trying to remain calm and unbothered.

And that was when Spiderman came in, entering the shop with a chill quip and quick movements. And that's also when the robber startled and, technically, took her as a hostage. Thanks, Peter.

"Are you kidding me?", the man stepped closer, and she did flinch, this time.

He halted when his gaze landed on her, wich left enough time for the man to back them away into the counter. Awesome.

And now they were having the simultaneously most awkward and most nerve-racking stand-off ever.

"Okay, okay, okay. Let's just.. calm down a little, okay?", Peter goes, voice as high-pitched as when she teases him, uncharacteristically so for Spider-man.

"Shut up", the man barks, obviously on edge.

She goes to speak to try and defuse the situation; the man immediately snaps right again "Shut up", and goes to wave the gun to her head again. Oh my god. Yes, paranoid much.

Peter's body make a brisk motion like he's going to move forwards and, what, says her name, and she glares right at him.

Peter do not expose your identity by showing you know me or else, she tries to transmit.

She has no clue if he gets the message or not, because the man go to speak, and when he does that he puts the gun near her head again.

She freezes. Peter freezes. They pretty much all freeze.

Peter's frame go tense with anxiety. She can't blame him: hers do too.

"Don't! Listen- Don't approach, I don't care if you're supposed to be friendly or that you're not like the Avengers, don't step closer or-"

He waves his gun around, a little too close for comfort, and keeps speaking, ending up waving it away as he does. Peter clearly wants to intervene, but he's obviously too nervous about her proximity to the man to try anything.

So that's when she gets the idea.

The dreadful, most dumb idea she probably ever had.

If this works, she's making amends and she's taking every comment she's ever said to Ned back. Every last one of them.

"Oh my god! Captain America??", she goes in her highest, most amazingly surprised pitch, looking through the dusty window.

The robber snaps his head back, half-release his grip on her, and she throws herself to the ground and behind the counter before he can realize the amazingly, stupidly foolish tomfoolery she's just pulled.

Luckily, she doesn't end up with a bullet in her side or head, and Peter's quick enough to react before the man can turns back.

She stays down some more, just enough to make sure there's no bullets flying around.

And breath a little. That, too.

Then when she thinks Peter's done, she stands up and a bit shakily wipes dust off her pants and, hah, there's Peter.

The man's behind him, burrito confined in webs , gun nowhere in sight.

And Peter's freaked out and rushing over.

"Oh my god oh my god, I am so glad you're okay, I don't know what I would have-"

She takes a step back.

He's literally more frazzled than she even is feeling.

"Hi. Spider-man. Thanks for saving me. Which you were expected to, but, still.", she cuts him off, looking right into his eyes with her usual "don't be an idiot right now" look.

His lenses go pretty big, and she can just see the way his eyes go wide under them.

"Oh. Oh, yes, right. Because you're just a random citizen I just saved. Haha."

"Yes. Indeed. Thank for doing your job", she emphasizes on the word job, just in case.

"Haha. Yes. Yes."

There's a lot of people looking into their direction now, likely wondering what happened there. Or simply drawn by the presence of Spiderman like ants to a dropped cube of sugar, who'd know.

"Yes. So you can go."

Not her.

"The police's on its way anyway", she adds when she hears the telltale alarm.

Oh, god. She's gonna have to wait even more until she can gets her dinner, isn't she.

Ned and Peter blows up her phone and she can't even eat as soon as she gets out of being interroguated by the poice officers.

She almost tried, but her phone was vibrating too much to ignore their groupchat in peace.

Predictably, it's full of Ned freaking out about the situation and Peter apologizing in all the possible shapes and forms.

She can just feel his guilt oozing through the screen.

She sighs.

"I'm fine, guys: not feeling even the slightest bit traumatized", she types and send.

Her phone immediately exploses with notifications again: it's Ned answering and saying he's so glad she's not feeling shell-shocked and sending relieved gifs. Lots of them. Peter sent one as well, but it's pretty much a repetion of his previous messages: asking her is she's okay and if she's feeling alright, basically.

She answers back with a thumbs up and a message adding that the only thing she's honestly feeling upset about is her impossible omelet.

There's messages in her personnal conversation with Peter as well, and she winces when she reads them. More apologies. And Peter offering to bring her eggs.

She presses on the call icon.

He instantly answers.

"MJ! Are you really okay? Because I'm so sorry about what happened, I should definitely have been quicker-"

"Dude. Peter. I literally care more about where the gun ended up. Did you take it with you?", she decides to cut him off.

"Oh. I accidentaly webbed it to the ceiling and just.. left it there.", he goes, probably still feeling guilty, but very obviously feeling gawky about this instead, this time, wich is better.

You don't like drinking, but MJ had found and stashed a bottle of vodka in her room and you had drank almost the entire bottle. You had come over for an average sleepover, but as she talked more about Peter You found yourself eyeing the bottle more and more. You don't exactly know at what point you started drinking, all you know is she had one shot and hated it, but you were so consumed with forgetting that you lost track.

"Y/N." Her voice was a warning as she pried the bottle from you hands. "That's it. You're cut off." 

You whined and reached for the bottle, but gave up pretty quickly when you felt your body buzz with each movement. You looked around the room, looked at all the pictures she had on one of her walls. Thats was what surprised you most about getting close to MJ- how secretly sentimental she was. She always acted so indifferent and uncaring about everything. Sometimes it was true, but she had a tell. You knew her tell better than anyone and it was what made your heart so full.

"I don't want to leave." You mumble, looking at your fingers. The feeling is distant and you wish it was gone. You wish you didn't have to feel anything in that moment. You and MJ were meant to raid a parties kitchen that night, as you usually do on a Friday night. But the more she talked about Peter the more you realized she only wanted to go to run into him.

"Well, you've done a good fucking job securing that, Y/N. I'm not letting you go anywhere this drunk." MJ turned away from you, grabbing some clothes from her dresser and grumbling to herself. She turned back around and threw clothes at you. "Put these on. I'm not letting you sleep in your dirty clothes."

You pout, looking down and pulling your shirt out. "It is not." You lean in and smell, head jerking back in response. "Woah! Ok. Don't know how that happened." 

You both laugh for a moment, MJ more laughing at how useless you were in that moment.

"Hurry up. Turn around so i can change too." She twirls a finger in the air and your heart stops.

"R-Right." You turn around and take a long deep breath before taking your clothes off and quickly putting the clean ones- MJs- on. You turn around and freeze when you see her bare back. You could see her smooth dark skin matched with her light slightly frilly bra, unmatching pair of underwear to go along with. You watch her muscles move and you can't help but feel mesmerized. You watch as she bends down to pull on her pajama bottoms, and you begin to panic as she puts her shirt on. You turn to look at a wall opposite to her quickly enough for her to not notice you staring. Or maybe she did and didn't stop you. You would never know.

"Well, since we're clearly not going to be making that party, why don't you just get comfortable in bed?" She was by your side and you can't remember hearing her walk next to you. 

You nod and she begins to walk you to the bed with an arm around your shoulder and suddenly you're both in bed with some show or movie playing in the background and MJ has an arm around you. You smile to yourself, knowing you may have gone overboard with the alcohol but in that moment you don't care because in her arms you are happy. You wrap an arm around her torso and squeeze, your face burying into her hair and breathing deep. She laughs and brings a hand to thread through your hair.

"Remind me to never let you drink again." She says, putting her phone that you didn't notice down. She turns to look you in the eyes, a genuine and gentle smile laid across her face. 

You sigh and pull away from her slightly, just to get a better look at her. "You're so pretty." You say softly, and you grin as she looks away from you for a moment, trying to hide her smile but you can see through the facade.

"You should go to sleep." Her voice echoes through your head. You shake your head slightly and bring and hand up to cup her face, making her look back to you.

“I don’t want to.” You stare at her lips for just a moment before closing the distance. 

Your lips stay on hers for just a few seconds, longer than you expected. The kiss is filled with so many emotions for you, emotions you didn't anticipate you would feel. Your heart is heavy, almost breaking and you can't figure out why. The kiss was gentle and short. You smile to yourself and keep your eyes closed as you pull away. Your brain doesn’t fully comprehend what you just did until MJ starts laughing. It’s not a light giggle but a roaring laugh that causes her to roll out of your grasp. Your heart sinks further and you frown at her.

“You are soooo drunk.” She says as she composes herself. You swallow and nod.

“Yeah, I guess I am.” 

She turns back to you, pulling you close to her so that your head laid on her chest. You feel her chest rumble, telling you she's talking but you don't hear her. Your eyes are closed and you feel yourself falling asleep. You feel MJ move slightly and kiss the top of your head. "I love you." She says softly.

"I love you too." You mumble out, heart breaking knowing her love was different than yours.

MJ didn't understand. She would never understand. She never saw the way you looked at her, as if she were the moon on a starry night and you were the tide. She would pull you in behind closed doors, hand holds and secret kisses, but as soon as Peter came around she put enough distance between you two that you'd think your waves would drown the city. 

Staring daggers into Peter, you didn't notice the body that found its way next to you.

"So…" You ignored them, the alcohol coursing through your veins and assuming they couldn't be talking to you. But after a few seconds, they continued. "Peter and MJ ignoring you too?"

Hearing his name made you jump and eyes snap to the person next to you. You groan when you meet Neds eyes, rolling your own.

"We were supposed to be home by now. Peter always ruins everything." The last part came out as more of a low mumble as you stare down at your drink. You didn't think Ned heard you, but he did. He shook his head.

"What's your beef with him, huh? MJ's your best friend and they like each other. Shouldn't you be, like, happy for her?" You whip your head back to look at him, giving him a deep frown.

"My beef, Ned Leeds, is that MJ was my friend first. He doesn't know her like I do, and he never will." You sneer at Peter again, watching as MJ laughs at something he said, looking down and tucking a hair behind her ear. Your stomach turns and you grind your teeth, deciding to down the rest of your drink. 

Ned looks at you, then back to Peter and MJ, eyes suddenly widening. He leans in close and your heart skips a beat. He knows. "Nooo. You like Peter, don't you?"

You let a short, loud laugh, causing some people around you to give you a strange look before continuing their own conversations. Ned turns his head slightly in confusion.

"Sure, Ned." You hop off the counter, making your way to where booze was to get yourself another drink. "I like Peter."

"Woah."

"Yeah, I know."

You and MJ were laying in her bed, facing each other. You always ended up like this; your hand on her cheek, rubbing soft circles as you shared gentle kisses. You can't help but smile fondly at her. Your heart was so full. You knew she didn't, couldn't and wouldn't feel the same way towards you, but you would cherish these little moments forever. These moments after a night in together, where it's deep into the night and you're both tired and MJ is letting her walls down a little more, inviting you into bed and stealing kisses. They always started as quick cheek or forehead kisses, but her lips always found their ways to yours. You held these moments close to you because you knew any second they would be gone.

"Can I… kiss you again?" You rub your lips together and watch as MJ's eyebrows crease for a moment. You could tell she was deep in thought and you hated that she had to think so much about it.

"I'm not sure that's the best idea." Her voice is as low as a whisper. Part of you thinks she's just saying that to protect herself, but the other part knows better than that.You swallow and try not to let your face show how disappointed you are. You force a smile and rub her nose with yours, sitting up quickly.

"Ok." You say, but it comes out as more of a breath. "So, what movie are we watching now?"

MJ never left you alone at a party this long, and Peter to Ned. Ned was talking your ear off as you downed another drink, going on about how he knew you liked Peter and how it must suck watching your best friend falling for him and you just let him talk. If he kept talking then you wouldn't have to correct him. If he kept talking you wouldn't have to admit to another person you're in love with MJ. Eventually you tried to get away from Ned, only to have him follow you like a puppy. You put your hands over your ears to try and block out his voice which you were now finding annoying. You tried to lose him by going into a room, but the alcohol was making you react slower. 

"What are we doing in here?" Ned says, looking around the room when he turns to you, eyes wide. "Are you going to tell me more about your crush on Peter?" You roll your eyes, moving your jaw in annoyance when he gasps, hands coming up to cover his mouth. "Do you have a crush on me? Is this where your confession-"

You slam the door, getting Ned to stop mid sentence. 

"Shut UP. Oh my god. I don't have a crush on you, and I definitely don't have a crush on Peter. Just stop talking for five fucking seconds." Your hands pull at your hair for a second, before sitting on the floor in front of the bed in the middle of the room. You close your eyes and take a deep breath.

"Oh… Ok." Ned looks around the room for a second before slowly moving to sit next to you.

You open your eyes after a few moments of silence and look at Ned, who gives you a gentle smile. You feel bad and look down at your fingers, picking at your nails. "I'm sorry. The alcohol makes me a bitch sometimes." 

"It's ok, Y/N. If you don't like like either of us, then what's the problem?" You know he's trying to be nice, but you can't help but laugh.

"What are we? Twelve? Crush and like like, Ned? Really?" You chuckle, looking at him and glad to see he has a smile as well. He just shrugs, hoping if he doesn't say anything that you might continue. "I just… God I've never said this to anyone yet." You twist and pull on your fingers.

"You can tell me, Y/N." You squeeze your eyes closed. "I know we don't know each other well, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets, and MJ AND Peter are some of my best frie-"

"I'm in love with MJ." 

And it was out. Your heart stopped and you almost felt Ned staring at you with his dumb wide eyes that he always had. If either of you took a breath you wouldn't have known it with how silent the room was. 

"That… That makes more sense." His voice is quiet to match the silence in the room. The air is thick. So thick it's hard for you to breath. You bring a hand to your chest and swallow hard.

"This is stupid." You grumble to your self. You feel yourself shaking as you run a hand through your hair. Ned put a cautious hand on your shoulder.

"Would… it make you feel better… to talk about it?" You take a breath and hold it for a second. Normally you wouldn't even have to think about it. "Absolutely not! Are you out of your mind! Leave me alone." Is something your sober self would have said. What actually came out was-

"Sure."

Ned nodded and took his hand off your arm. "Ok."

You sat in silence for a few more minutes before you started from the top, starting at your first kiss and then when you first realized your feelings for her, your reaction to MJ and Peter.Ned sat and listened to it all and before you knew it he was rooting for you and sharing in your frustrations. 

"-and I was running my hand through her hair with her head in my lap and she took my other hand and kind of intertwined my fingers with her like this," You lace your own fingers together dramatically, "and then pulls it to her face and kisses it, looking up at me with her beautiful doe eyes when her phone starts to buzz."

"Uh oh." Ned says from his same spot, watching you pace around the room theatrically recounting your relationship with MJ. 

You stop your pace and point to Ned. "Uh oh indeed. And guess who it was?"

Ned bows his head down and shakes it slightly. "It's Peter, isn't it?" 

You shake your head rapidly. "Yup. Peter messaging MJ. And as soon as she sees his name on her phone she lets go of my hand and sits up out of my lap. I ask her what's going on because she sat up pretty quickly and she…" You take a deep breath and put your hands on your hips, looking to the ground. "She said Peter asked her on a date." Ned groans dramatically, but you're too in your head to acknowledge it. "I remember being super taken back and all I could do was just say 'What?' and she started rambling. 'Well, I guess it's not technically a date. We're studying together-' blah blah blah. But I couldn't hear her. My heart was so..."

"Broken?"

"Empty."

Ned pat the floor next to him and you slowly made your way to it, sitting with a thud. "I feel like I should apologize for that one. I kind of gave Peter that idea."

You clench your jaw for a moment then shake your head. "Don't apologize, Ned. You didn't know."

"Well, yeah, but I should have seen it. Hearing your side it just makes everything so obvious. It's funny, actually. Peter and I were just talking about you and we came to the conclusion that you must like him. It never crossed either of our minds that it was actually MJ." You smile to yourself. 

"Well, I'm glad I wasn't so obvious. If you two didn't catch on, she probably hasn't either." You sigh and lean your head back to look at the ceiling, but end up slowly lowering yourself to the ground. He followed your lead and laid next to you.

"What are you going to do now?" He asks, staring at the same spot on the ceiling. You shrug.

"Keep doing my thing, I guess. Keep enough distance that I don't cross too far over the line with her and just enjoy what we have." 

 "You realize that's a terrible idea right?" You let out a little laugh and turn your head to look at Ned, seeing he's already looking at you. 

"Yeah. Yeah it's a terrible idea." You both start laughing but stop when the door opens. You sit up quickly and see MJ walk through the door.

"There you are. Ready to go-what the fuck is going on?" MJ frowns, jestering between you and Ned on the floor, Ned still laying down.

"We were just talking." Her eyes narrow at you and you roll your own. "It's true! Tell her Ned."

Ned sat up and smiled at MJ. "Y/N's having boy trouble so i was talking it out with her." You smack your hand to your face and drag it down.

"No, no I definitely wasn't. He's just making a joke because we were talking about his girl issues." Shaking your head you turn and give a warning look to Ned and he just shrugs.

"Oh… Kay. Weird. I just didn't think you two were friends." MJ crossed her arms, eyes remaining narrow.

"Well, you ditched Y/N and Peter ditched me so we just hung out together." Ned said as he looked at you. MJ was clearly taken back by this and she started sputtering out excuses before giving up. She knew he was right, but him pointing it out just made her feel guilty. She ditched you while you were drinking. No one was there to look out for you because she was too preoccupied with Peter.

"Well, I'm sorry, Y/N." She mumbled out, looking to the ground. Anyone else would have thought this was a half assed attempt at an apology, but knowing MJ it was the best you would ever get. 

"It's cool, or whatever. It was fun talking to Ned." You smile softly at him.

You miss her quick facial changes. Eyes glare at Ned to soft look at you then to the floor sadly. All in just a second. If you were looking at her you would have seen it. You always do. But your new closeness with Ned was jarring for MJ. She was always hearing you complain about Peter and Ned that the idea of that changing in a night was confusing. The look you and Ned are sharing shows you shared a lot while she was gone and MJ quietly kicks herself for it. She couldn't shake away her jealousy. She coughs to get your attention. 

"Cool. I'm ready to go, so let's go. I've got a lot to talk about when we get home." She moves to open the door and jesters for you to come with her. You begin to stand up when Ned pulls you back down.

"Whatever you wanna tell her, you can tell her here. If it's about Peter, I probably already know." Ned crossed his arms and tries to look confident. You look at him like he just grew a second head but he gives you a little thumbs up. You're not entirely sure what his plan is but you decide to follow his lead anyway knowing she's already going to chew your ear off.

You shrug. "Yeah, actually, he makes a point."

"Are you really that fucking drunk? No. Come on, Y/N." She starts to move towards you but stops when she sees Ned move to pat your shoulder. She feels possessive, a thought of telling Ned to fuck off crossing her mind.

"I'll just talk to you later Ned." You give him a tight smile and he nods at you.

"Peter asked me out on a date." Her words pierced through your heart and you were so thankful you were looking at Ned and not MJ. "Like… A real one.." Neds eyes meet yours and he forced a happy look that successfully came off genuine, but he saw your face. How your smile dropped, the light behind your eyes dying. Your eyes close for a moment and you take a quick breath before you turn your head to MJ.

"That's so great. I'm glad it's finally happening." MJ looks into your eyes intensely.

"Are you?" Her tone was different. It wasn't snarky or sarcastic. It was as if she was genuinely asking. There was pain behind her words. If you were sober you might have been able to figure it out, but all it did was confuse you further. So all you could do was nod.

"Of course, MJ. I just want you to be happy." You spend a few moments looking at each other, trying to read the other and failing at it. Ned just watching in silence, long forgotten by both of you.

"So… Are we going home now or are you just going to sit on the ground drunk all night?"

You shake your head and look to the ground, eyebrows pinched tightly together. "Yeah, yeah. Um, I'll be out in a second. I'll-I'll come find you." 

MJ frowns for a second, standing in the door frame looking between you and Ned. She moves slightly to try and meet your eyes but you don't look. You can't bring yourself to look her in the eyes; your heart couldn't take anymore. She shrugs after a moment. "Fine." 

You hear it in her voice. She's annoyed, but you know she will get over it. You'll just have to deal with some passive aggressive responses for awhile, but things will go back to normal.

"That was crazy." Ned stands, walking towards the door and stopping. "I really didn't see that coming."

"Yeah." You picked at the floor in front of you, taking in a deep breath to settle your nerves. Ned turns to look at you.

"You... good?" You look up at him. He's giving you a concerned look and you give him a small smile.

"I'll be ok. I know that I'm nothing more than a friend to her." You stand up. Ned tries to come up with reasons why it could happen, but you just walk past him to the door. "Ned, I really appreciate your help tonight." You give his shoulder a squeeze. He gives you a beaming smile and you turn back to the door, walking out to find MJ.

The journey home was long and abnormally quiet. Usually the air is filled with laughter and jokes. But not tonight. Tonight neither one of you wanted to say anything out of fear the wrong words would slip out. The silence, however, made it extra easy to sneak back into MJ's. You both were able to slip in and back to her room without anyone suspecting anything. Part of you thought about just not going back inside. Telling her you'll just see her later and going to your own house but you knew that would just cause more problems than solve any.  But once her door closed quietly behind you, you couldn't help but hold your breath for what was about to come.

"I'm going to sleep. Feel free to do… whatever." She walks to her dresser and pulls out some clothes. Instead of pulling out a pair for you she only pulled out one pair for herself.  She quickly changed and got into bed. She didn't make you turn around and didn't try to hide anything like she normally would. She didn't pat the other side of the bed, a silent invite to come in. She just went right to her phone, back at ignoring you. You sigh and make your way to her drawers. You feel her eyes burning into your back as you disrobe, putting on one of her oversized hand-me-down shirts she got from her dad. You reach in a drawer to grab pajama bottoms and find nothing. You sigh and close the drawer, anxiously pulling at the bottom of the shirt before turning around. MJ locks eyes with you for a second before turning away. You feel yourself blush to match hers.

"Is this ok?" You whisper. You don't mean to be so quiet, but catching her stare at you has made you suddenly nervous.

"Oh, uh, yeah. That's cool." She gulps and focuses on her phone, trying her best not to look at you. You nod and make your way to the bed, sitting softly on the edge facing away from her. You look around the room, trying your best to come up with something to talk about, but all you can think about is her date with Peter. You don't want to ask about it, but you decide that's just what needs to happen.

"So," You cough, gaining MJ's full attention, "you…. Excited for your date with Peter?" 

She's quiet for a minute and it makes you uneasy. You feel your phone buzz in your hand but you ignore it. Your only focused on the deafening silence around you.

"I, um, I don't know why I said that. He didn't actually ask me on a date. He just asked me… um yeah. It wasn't a date." You look at her with a confused face. She scratches the back of her neck, eyes flickering to yours for just a second before staring at the wall.

"Why would you say it then?" 

"I don't know. I guess to get Ned off your back?" You close your eyes.

"How would that get him off my back?"

"I don't know, Y/N!" She exclaims, tossing her phone to the end of the bed and standing up. "I didn't exactly think it through, did I?"

"You really didn't." You chuckle at her and a sense of relief goes through you for just a moment. Even though her back was turned away from you, you could see the tension in her shoulders release, meaning she was likely smiling too.

"I guess I didn't like you getting to close with Ned." Her confession took you off guard. You stand to join her and cross your arms.

"And why's that?"

She taps her foot quickly and twists her fingers. "You're my friend and I guess seeing you act with Ned how you do with me… I don't know. It made me jealous." You smile, uncrossing your arms and walking over to her. 

"You have nothing to worry about, MJ." You take her hands, intertwining your fingers and pressing your forehead to hers. "You're amazing and beautiful and smart. You're funny and charming and I'm so lucky to have you in my life. I'm not going anywhere."

She smiles at you, gripping your hand tighter. "Good. Because I… need you. In my life." 

You fell into a comfortable silence, enjoying the other embrace. Unspoken emotions surrounding you, but you felt they didn't need to be said. Holding her so close was enough. She does feel the same. You lean in and give her a gentle kiss, one that electrifies your whole body. One had leaves her hand and holds just under her jaw, thumb pressing against her cheek and rubbing softly as you pull away. You look into her eyes and your smile fades. MJ is frowning. 

"I don't want us to change." She whispers. Her words hold so much pain behind them. You rub her cheek softly and give her a reassuring smile.

"Why would we change?"

"Peter…" Your hand drops from her face. 

"MJ, why do you keep lying to me?" You start to step back away from her but she holds your arms.

"I don't want you to get hurt."

"Why would I be hurt, MJ? You keep saying that, but you're my best friend and all i want is for you to be happy." You shale out of her grasp and step back from her. "Please, for once tonight, just tell me the truth. I didn't think I'd ever have to ask that."

MJ looks at the floor between you two and swallows. "Peter… Peter didn't ask me on a date. He asked me to be his girlfriend and…. And i said yes."

You continue to stare at her face and take a deep breath, nodding "Ok." 

"Ok?" 

"Ok. Thank you for telling me the truth." She smiles back at you and takes your hand again. You hesitate, but return the hold. 

You lay in the bed, making sure to keep a respectable distance between you but you know you shouldn't be there anymore. Not when she's now dating Peter. And if she really was dating Peter, why did she let you get so close to her? She must have known you were going to kiss her. Why would she let you do it?