Notes: I do not own any marvel characters; original characters are my own creation. This fiction will change ages of Spiderman, from 15 to 18. As we know Tom Holland is 21 years of age. As I will be writing some heated moments, violence and angst in this fiction I have changed Spiderman to a legal consenting age.
Please leave comments and let me know what you think, currently trying to finish of my first part of life as we know it fiction which 30 chapters are on my fanfiction page.
The Red and Blue
Chapter 0ne: Juggling
Late November came with the first snow fall of the year and New York sparkled, the snow glittered in the moon light and the city was quiet and magical. Christmas started to whisper in the air as trees and lights decorated the shops. But for peter parker things would never be as still and magical as the city seemed to be in the winter snow. He was Spiderman, he had been since he was 15, now at the age of 18 Peter had more on his plate than ever. He moved out of his aunt Mays and into student accommodation. Juggling college life, work life and being the whole friendly neighbourhood Spiderman man was just too much at times. He was tired which had caused him to make judgement errors. He thought he was helping a bunch of teenage girls from an angry and violent man who grabbed on to one of them causing a scream from the girls, turns out they stole alcohol from the store and the man was the shop owner. But peter assumed the worse and dealt with the guy by webbing him to a lamp post and letting the girls get away with $60 worth of liquor. It could have been a lot worse, much worse.
Things weren't that great for Peter, his best friend Ned moved two states away with his family, so college life was a lonely one, peter didn't make friends easily, he was awkward in nature and quiet, always keeping himself to himself, Peter introverted ways kept him from getting involved in parties and activities that every college student should experience at least once.
BUZZZ BUZZZZ BUZZZZ Peters alarm vibrated letting him know that his long day of lectures was ahead of him, he groaned in annoyance slamming his hand down breaking yet another one of his alarm clocks. He peeled his way out of bed and sluggishly moving his way to the sink at the other end of the room. He stared in the mirror seeing his blood shot eyes and dark circles.
"wow, I look like crap" he said to himself.
He moaned again realising that the communal showers were a war zone on a Monday morning, he took a small bit of joy however that the small sink and toilet in his room was private.
He grabbed his towel off the floor and made his way to the showers.
He sighed as he entered he showers, around 20 guys were laughing, running around and in general acting like a bunch of school kids, one guy in particular was always the one to flex his muscles and start whipping others with his towel. Christopher Cummings, a loud mouth over confident ass, he always mocked and bullied people he deemed weak and pathetic, and it so happens that Peter was always on the receiving end.
"whoa Parker, are you auditioning for the walking dead, get some sun dude"
Peter just smiled shyly and tried to push his way through to get to a shower.
"hey Parker, you coming to the Kelsey's party to night… oh wait forgot you don't do parties, such a prude Parker"
Peter just shrugged his shoulders, turned on his heel to find a cubicle free, he turned on the shower and tried to drain out the childish commotion, he hissed at the hot water that hit his bruised back, teamed with multiple cuts. He rested his head against the shower tiles exhausted. He closed his eyes for what seemed mere minutes.
BANG BANG "hey come on you've been in there 20 mins, some of us need to get to class douche bag "
Peter snapped awake, he was sat at the bottom of the shower clearly fell asleep and now he didn't have time for breakfast.
"sorry, I'm sorry I'll be right out"
Scrambling for his towel he turned off the shower and made his way out, the irritated guy who was waiting shoulder barged Peter, but the guys efforts just resulted with him falling backwards while Peter stood there un moved.
"oh, hey man I'm sorry, you ok? Peter said while offering his hand to help the guy up.
His hand was swotted away in annoyance "you're such a loser!
Peter backed away apologetic and headed towards the exit and to his room.
He realised the time and started to panic, moving as fast as he could to get dressed and to grab his books.
He was basically still wet from the shower when he bolted thorough the college, running as fast as he could towards his biology lecture, apologizing to everyone he nearly bumped into.
He just made it as the register was taken, he squeezed past people as he made his way to an empty seat. He hated this lecture hall. It was small for 200 students, so basically, they were all sat in close proximity.
The lecturer was talking on the human brain and how sleep and balance were subjected to certain parts of the brain.
The girl sat next to him was humming and haying scrabbling to look for a pen.
"excuse me, but do you have a pen I could borrow? She whispered.
"yeah sure"
Peter smiled and handed her a pen, she smiled backed. "thank you"
"You're welcome"
He had never noticed her before, she must be new or that he was so busy with other things he just stopped noticing people around him. He kept shyly looking over at her while she was busy taking notes down, she would stick out her tongue slightly while she concentrated on note taking. He smiled to himself thinking it was cute. She had wavy Auburn hair and deep brown eyes, she wore glasses that had pink frames. She had freckles across her nose and pink cheeks. She was pretty, too pretty to even notice him.
After a long lecture Peter could feel his belly rumble, starving his main objective was food.
Or at least it was until his card was declined, Peter huffed out in frustration knowing that he had no form of money coming in until next week, which meant he would go hungry.
He sat in the canteen with a glass of water, trying not to attract attention to himself he opened his laptop and started on his biology assessment.
"hello, I believe this is yours"
Peter looked up and seen the girl he gave a pen too standing there with it in her hand.
"it's ok, you can keep it I have plenty"
"thanks, do you mind if I sit here, I'm kinda new and you are the first person I've spoken with"
"umm yeah sure, go ahead, umm I'm Peter, parker. Peter Parker" he said awkwardly.
"I'm Jennifer Hobbs, nice to meet you Peter parker"
"I like your accent, British, right?
"yeah from London, where are you from?
"queens"
She sat down, unpacking food from her bag, she noticed that Peter wasn't eating. "you not hungry?
Peter rubbed the back of his neck. "no, I'm good"
Jennifer frowned not believing that a strapping lad like himself wasn't hungry, with water only a glass of water in front of him.
"peter, I have way too much food here, fancy helping a girl out?
She smiled and looked at him like he was some sort of charity case, Peter felt pathetic at this moment, he couldn't even afford to feed himself.
"sorry, I have to go I just remembered I have to call my aunt"
He closed his laptop and rushed off, walking off clumsily through the canteen.
This made Jennifer feel like shit, she realised that she must have insulted him, with just a gesture of good will she emasculated him within 10 minutes of talking to him.
"no wonder you don't have friends" her inner monologed chastising her.
Peter slammed his door in frustration, he was hangry, angry because he was starving. His next class was in an hour. So, he figured to get rid of hunger he would try and nap, he lay on his bed huffing and puffing, turning trying to get comfortable. Nothing was working he was too hungry now to rest. He couldn't call May again he already borrowed money off her. So, he wondered if she would like a guess for dinner later, she would feed him then. Good thing about being Spiderman, he never really needed train or bus fair to travel.
While he was deep in his thoughts there was a knock on the door.
He jumped up and did a little flip to the door.
"who is it?
A muffled voice came from behind the door. "it's Jennifer, can I come in?
Peter opened the door before he could say anything she walked in.
"sorry about earlier, I never meant to piss you off, I just know what it's like being skint, I've been there and I should have been more respectful"
Peter smiled and then looked at his feet embarrassed, "no its ok, really and thank you for the offer it's just that I feel real bad, I should be more careful with my funds, I feel I need to stand on my own two feet"
Peters senses started going wild, he paused and turned towards his window.
"Peter. Peter, hello earth to…..
"I've got to go, sorry Jenny, talk soon ok"
He rushed her out the door in a gentle but urgent manner, leaving her on the other side of the door confused and slightly annoyed. "my name is Jennifer"
Peter stripped to his boxers and grabbed his suit, with a swift motion he was Spiderman, he leaped of the balcony with ease and made his way to the harrowing screams and commotion. Like a profession gymnast he glided and dived through the air webbing his way to a burning building which happened to be a day care centre.
"PLEASE HELP, HELP THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THERE!
Peter without hesitation leaped into the top floor window, the smoke was blinding and he couldn't see.
"ok Karen I need you to locate people"
"no problem peter, I have located four induvial in the top floor east side, Turing on info red capture"
"Thanks Karen, give me the update of the stature of the building"
"updated structure of building, there is an obstruction on the 3rd floor, possible fatalities within 2.5 minutes and counting"
Peter walked carefully through the top floor, he located a teacher and three children.
They were screaming and crying "hey, hey its ok I'm here to get you out, but we gotta to be quick, he smashed the window and grabbed the first kid, he attached a web and lowered the kids down quickly one by one, then the teacher, the fire fighters were working on the building battling the fires. Peter jumped down to the third floor, again with Karen's info red he could located everyone who was trapped, it was a rush against time to get everyone out before the floor would collapse.
"ok guys follow me. Its ok don't worry everything will be fine, we gotta to be fast ok"
The kids were crying and coughing, Peter could feel the floor benefit him start to crack, with a quick decision he used his web grenades to make a soft place to land, he grabbed a group of children and dropped them out of the window, screaming on the way down the kids seemed to be safe, then the last of the teachers followed.
With the last person dropped to safety the floor under peter collapsed. Falling through fire, glass and debris. He shot out his web but the building was falling apart and he was falling too, his webbing would only attach for seconds before it would come undone with the collapsing building.
When he finally hit the ground, he gave out a cry of pain.
" , I t ink I broken mmy ribs" he huffed out in pain.
He suddenly felt blackness take over him as he fell unconscious.
Notes
First chapter done, I hope you enjoyed it. And I hope I captured Peter character well.
Will update soon, still working on my other fiction. So if you like supernatural go have a look xx