(Prologue)
Peter Parker took the death of his last living family members pretty hard. Before the CPS could find out he was an orphan, he had already taken refuge in his old home.
When his parents and Aunt and Uncle died, they had left him with a gracious amount of money in the bank, and his parents had left him a house.
A fake ID in hand, he took possession of the house with it, and position of everything inside.
He knew if he used the money his Aunt, Uncle and parents had left him carefully, it could last him a few years. But he needed more than a few years, so, he sold what he didn't need from the house. Two of the three TVs, all the computers, the desktops, the drawers, his parent's bed, everything in his nursery, his mother's jewelry, most of his parent's clothes, shoes. His mother's piano. His father's violin.
He sold two out of three of his father's cars, but couldn't bring himself to sell the fourth car, the red Audi 2009. He was too young to drive so he kept it in the garage.
He sold so many things, all which he had an emotional attachment to, just because they had been his parents, so it hurt when the people came to take them away. His Uncle had told him many times to be smart though, and he was being smart, now he had more than enough money for college and money for food.
One of the first things he bought was a laptop. This, he used for school.
For a moment, he considered dropping out of school. Why, because everyone in the movies did so when they were orphans, and he was tired. He preferred to stay at home all day instead of going to school and coming back home to no one.
But he knew that that wouldn't do anything for him, and just because they did it in the movies, it didn't mean he should do it too. He could live off the money he had for as long as he wanted, but he knew at some point he would need to get a job, and that needed school. Anyway, he had to stop brooding.
So he still went to Midtown High School, a place he worked hard to get a scholarship to.
The second thing he bought was red spandex pants, a red hoodie, a thin red ski face mask, and black converse hightops. This outfit wasn't for school, but for Spiderman.
Yes, he took the death of his Aunt and Uncle really hard.
His abilities, he had gotten accidentally from a radioactive spider. For the first few months he had them, he thought, if he just ignored them, they wouldn't really be there. But then, Ben and May died, and it was his fault, because he had been too panicked, and had not wanted to reveal his abilities.
What a stupid mistake, because of this mistake, Ben and May died, right in front of him.
He still had their blood on his hands, and he knew he could never clean it off, the least he could do though, was to do better.
So, with the few ingredients he found in the basement, and the few notes he found there too, the many notes had been his parent's, they had been scientists before they died after all, and with a few of his own notes, he was able to create the web fluid that he used with a web launcher, he had this to his suit.
In the end, he wanted to add his own special touch to his suit, he refused to call it a costume, so, he traced a big spider on a piece of cloth and sowed it on the back of his hood, died the sleeves of his hoodie blue, just because he didn't want to be all red. These were the last touches.
Six months after his aunt and uncle's death, he made a bold decision. He'd walked to a building, climbed the walls to the top, then threw himself off it.
Before he fell, he shot a web to the building across and swung.