I'm a spider/tiger fan,

This is my take on Parker's and Ayals's life following their encounter with Kraven the Hunter and the goblins rise. Ava starts to rethink Parker's stupidity (as she puts it) and Peter sees past her stubborn exterior. New feelings start to grow and so does the drama in their lives as a new epidemic has the baddies turning into real monsters.

I do not own Spider man, Marvel or Disney…

It started on a Monday at Midtown High…

It was after class, the school had all left for the day except for a few straggler's, the football team and of course the over achievers. Within the hushed hallways of Midtown, two well-known faces shatter the silence and what should've been a perfect September afternoon.

"C'mon Babe," said Flash Thomson pressing Ava Ayala against her Locker. "How about you and me for a slice after school?" The local school bully/football star had his eyes set on the Hazel-haired beauty, and at the moment it was looking over her body like it was prime cut of beef.

Ava looked away out of disgust. "Eww, please," she said with a gulp, "please don't make me hurl."

"What was that?" Flash scowled.

"What's wrong," she said pushing him away "every other girl in the city turned you down already?"

Refusing to be told off Flash, slammed his fists into the locker doors leaving an impression of his knuckles. "I can have any girl I want-," his voice turned darker, not like the slack jawed Flash she knew and loathed, "-and I want you!"

Flash pushed all of his weight on Ava in attempt to pin her but she fought back. Hitting the jock with her backpack she screamed, "Get off of me!" But the oafish jock wouldn't pull back.

Flash drew closer, a devilish grin stretched out on his broad face. "C'mon-," he breathed, "-you'll like it!"

Ava didn't know what to do, she didn't want to use her powers and endanger her secret identity, but she was beginning to feel that she might have to.

All of a sudden there was a tapping on his shoulder forcing Flash to look back. Standing there was Peter Parker. "I do believe the lady said no, Jock itch!"

Peter's taunting got him a hateful snort. "For once Parker, I have better plans than to shove your ass into a locker." Flash turned his sights back to the captive teen.

"If you say so…," peter sighed, "I hope your first plan is to find a better belt."

Before Flash couldn't even feel a tug his pants fell down around his ankles revealing his pair of Spiderman boxer shorts. "Hey!" He exclaimed.

He lowered his arms to pick up his jeans leaving Ava to escape to Peter's side. The two superhero's watched as Flash bent over letting the large spider man face on his rear to expand, causing them to cringe at the sight.

Ava held her books in front of her face to block out the sight as she gulped the taste of bile, "That's going to be hard sight to forget."

"You're not going to forget?" Peter questioned trying not to look at the image that would haunt his dreams, "It's not your face on his shorts!" Just the thought of his secret identity's mug covering another's guys posterior gave Peter the thought of coming up with a new persona.

"At least he's not going commando." Ava pointed out. The two teens looked at each other and simultaneously they shivered at the thought. "Eww!"

"You're dead!" Thomson Charge just as they had their backs turned, but Peter didn't need his spider sense to see what was coming.

"And you're open." On any other day Peter would let the jock rough him up a little so as not to give any clue to him being the famed arachnid themed super hero, but for some reason he couldn't let it slide. Peter quickly spun around sending his fist into Flash's gut, bringing the oafish teen to his knees.

"You hit a new low today, Thomson," Peter said scolding the windless sport star, "bullying people around is one thing but to force yourself on a girl is downright despicable, not to mention illegal. If spider-man was here he'd knock you on your ass."

Thinking that the conflict was over, Peter turned back to Ava who stood there in surprise at his sudden change. As he had his back turned his spider sense went off. "But since he's not here-," Peter shot around just as Flash leapt up, "-I'll have to do it!" Peter slammed his fist right into the jocks face sending him crashing back against the lockers.

"He's going to be out for a while. May I walk you home," Peter grinned, "Just in case he gets another second wind?"

Ava looked back to see Flash unconscious with a stream of blood tricking from his nose. She knew that he wasn't going to come to for a while. "Uh…sure," she still took Peter up on his offer letting him lead her out of the building.

The two kept silent saying not a single word to each other till New Town was out of view. Ava walked with Peter at her side heading toward the bus stop, something kept weighing on her mind as they grew further from the incident. "Peter…about what happened in there-,"

"I know," Peter interrupted, quoting her own, "you didn't need saving."

"Actually…I did," She said hesitating. Peter stopped in his tracks, never in his life did he hear her admit it. "I didn't know what to do, I wanted to hard to use my powers on him but…I couldn't. I couldn't risk my secret identity, so I…,"

"You were just trying to maintain your cover. You would've gotten out of that situation on your own. It was just an off day."

"Not for you, in fact, that was the first time you actually stood up to flash and beat him. You could've given your secret away back there."

"I'll just start saying I work out with Luke." Peter started flexing his biceps, "That's not a total lie if you come to think about."

"Why did you do it anyway?"

"Hmm?" Peter cocked his brow in question.

"I mean…any other day you'd let Flash shove you in your locker or rough you up a little and you would have shrugged it off like it was nothing. But this time you stood your ground."

Finally a sincere smile broke through Ava's gloominess, she asked, "What made this time any different?"

Peter scratched the back of his head thinking about it hard, he told her, "I didn't like the way he was treating you…I know Flash is an idiot and a real jerk but to think what he wanted to do to you-," Peter cringed at the idea, "-I just had to knock him to his senses." He felt his fist tightened in his pocket, as well as his heart rate quickening.

Ava tugged on Peter's jacket bringing him to look at her, "Peter…," she said softly, Parker looked directly into her glossy hazel eyes and froze when she told him, "…thanks." She walked ahead leaving Peter still holding onto the back of his scalp in a mild state of shock.

"What was that about," Peter thought to himself walking up closely behind Ava, "This day is getting stranger by the second. Something was wrong with Flash, he wasn't himself, he was…meaner. Flash may be a jerk sometimes but he's always surprised me and showed the good inside his heart, deep inside but it's still there."

"And Ava…," he paused thinking about "If I didn't get their when I did, Ava would be-," he paused as he noticed out of nowhere Angel Spiderman popped up on Peter's shoulder, nudging him with his mini elbow he laughed, "I think somebody's in L, O, V-," Peter flicked the figment of his imagination away just before he could finish his sentence, but Peter didn't disagree.

"Good distance," complimented the little Devil Spiderman on his opposite shoulder, "and nice job handling Thomson. Trying to move in on your girl, what was he thinking?" The little red Spiderman snickered and hissed before he got the same treatment as his counterpart.

"What, Love? I mean…I don't love-," his thoughts silenced as he and Ava came to the bus stop. The sun was beginning to set behind the silent Ava Ayala as she looked down at her text book. The sunlight danced along her enhancing her natural beauty while her eyes brightened like dark amber rings. For the first time in a long time, Peter found himself speechless inside and outside his mind.

Ava turned to Peter, with the sensation that someone was staring only to find that it was him. She chuckled at the dumfounded expression frozen on Peter's face. "Everything ok, Webhead," she asked playfully.

"What?" Peter had snapped out of his trance. "Yeah…I mean, I'm…perfect." He looked away just as their bus pulled up, his face turning as red as the mask in his backpack.

Peter's face wasn't the only one to become flushed, as Ava turned to board the bus her cheeks reddened.

"Yep," Chibi Spiderman fell down onto his shoulder with big cartoon hearts for eyes, "you're in love." Peter hung his head surrendering to his figments, he was in love.