This is my first headcanon, have mercy. I had to! Thank you to @centixue whose artwork inspired this fic. (Click that link the images will change your life.)
Ballet!Peter, LipSyncBattle!Peter, Crossdressing!Peter, Spideychelle
So one day it just randomly came up that Peter knows how to dance ballet
Maybe Ned and Michelle are joking around about how Michelle used to have to do ballet when she was five, and how she only stayed for two lessons. All she remembers are the stupid ballet buns that she hated being pulled into.
And Peter being the little shit he is walks up and mentions eagerly that he still danced ballet
And Michelle and Ned are like no you don’t
And Peter does a pirouette and a leap to show them
And Ned is like BLOWN AWAY and keeps asking him to do it again.
So Peter decides to try and teach them how to do it. While Ned is just having a blast, Michelle falls a lot. Peter is doing his best to stop laughing but finally she hits the floor face first and he just loses it.
And Michelle is like “if you’re so good at it, how many can you do?”
Being Spiderman, Peter says 100 which is impossible but he likes challenges. Besides, he’s Spider-Man, so he can do anything.
Michelle insists that’s impossible but since Peter disagrees, she decides to make it a bet. So she proposes Peter needs to wear women’s clothes and do a wild dance for her and Ned if he can’t do it and if she loses, then Michelle and Ned will swap clothes for a week. Ned isn’t okay with this part of the deal but Michelle insists because Peter will lose.
Peter is so confident about this, he just goes for it without worrying. He’s on 34 pirouettes when he sees Michelle staring at him. She’s biting her lip and looking very amused, almost too amused. As he spins, he starts wondering why. This matters soooooo much for some reason.
Suddenly his focus point, what he uses to keep his balance, becomes her face. So he makes eye contact with her for every spin and she starts giving him these really confusing looks. He wants nothing more than to figure out what this face means and why it’s making him blush. Is she checking him out?
That question is enough to startle him, he stops spinning, he nearly falls flat on his face.
While Ned asks if he’s okay, Michelle just smiles down at him.
“Make it a really good dance, Parker,” she requests before walking out like she got what she wanted.
Once his ego recovered, Peter decided he’d have to really go for this. He took a week to prepare. He went into Aunt May’s closet for her party clothes and he put together an outfit. He rehearsed every day, sticking more and more risque dance moves in the routine, knowing he’d really make his friends laugh if he made it scandalous.
They settled on meeting in Ned’s house. When he walks in, he sees an open box of monopoly.
Michelle’s there already and she is splitting all of the monopoly money between herself and Ned
“The entertainment arrives,” she announces when she sees Peter.
“We figured we could toss money at you while you dance.” Fuck.
This is to be expected from her.
He ignores her to go change in the bathroom. Peter even gives himself a pep talk in the bathroom mirror.
Something like “You’re Spider-Man. You can do this.” bc this little shit has battled giant mechanical birdmen and lived, he stole Cap’s shield, he took a punch from the Winter Soldier. He is ready to dance like he’s never danced before.
As he comes out, Ned and Michelle raise their voices and holler at him, Michelle even wolf whistles. Peter gets really into the song, his prop umbrella becoming almost a partner in the dance.
He’s shaking his hips and gesturing at both of them. Ned is covering his eyes for most of the routine, and Michelle is grabbing onto Ned’s shoulder for help as she holds her stomach and laughs.
Peter keeps running through his routine because he’s practiced and he knows exactly how to impress them. He’s flexible af and he uses that to the best of his ability.
He even gets so cocky he starts mouthing the lyrics to the song.
Finally, Ned and Michelle come back to the present and just starting clapping whenever he does something impressive. There’s one part where the umbrella goes between his legs and they both cover their eyes and have another laughing fit before they throw the fake money at him.
Peter actually starts to enjoy that part.
Honestly, this isn’t half bad.
Finally, Michelle seems to recover and just watches him as Ned still can’t keep it together.
And in that moment, Peter recognizes a difference. She isn’t embarrassed anymore, she’s just watching him with this smug look on her face. Just like when he was spinning. He stops for a moment, suddenly very self-conscious about the experience.
“No one told you to stop, Parker,” she chimes jokingly.
They stare at each other for a second before Peter resigns himself to his fate
He continues the routine, putting his game face on, but regretting including the part where he grinds against the umbrella
Especially since his eyes naturally traveled towards Michelle to see if she was making fun of him
Instead, she was making smug eye contact, looking content with herself and watching him dance.
When he finishes, there is a long silence before Ned and Michelle pushed into each other laughing. Ned asks how Peter learned to dance like that, and Michelle just praises him for going all out
How Michelle went back to pretending she wasn’t watching him like that, he didn’t know
She was acting like nothing happened.
Peter just bowed, keeping up his good spirits as they applauded him
When they finally stopped laughing, ten minutes later, Ned asks him where he got the outfit
Michelle stands up suddenly.
“I’m going to be late for dinner,” she pipes up. She walks up real close to Peter and takes a good look up and down before smiling. “The look suits you.” She pulls up one of his dress straps and tucks in a small folded up wad of Monopoly money, letting the strap snap him when she let it go.
Peter stares after her, wondering what he’d just done and how he’d let himself walk into this situation.
