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An interesting meeting
*The next day at the Bugle*
Early in the afternoon, Peter enters the Daily Bugle to turn his pictures to his boss with the feeling that he would love these pictures of his self. He still felt uneasy from last night, but since nothing happens, he shakes the thought off to focus on the now. Though when he presents the pictures, the reaction he gets is not the one he expects.
"Really Parker this is the best you come up with!?" His boss, J Jonah Jameson yells looking at Peter's photos like they were crap.
Peter, taking offense to his comment, response saying, "Oh come on JJ these photos are classic. Can't get these rare photos from just anywhere or just anybody."
J.J thinks otherwise. "I bet Eddie Brock would disagree with that statement. He knows what type of pictures I want and what I want to see is photos of that wall crawling menace doing something sinister to prove that he is no hero, not racing around the city with one member of the Fantastic 4!"
Peter could not for the life of him understands why J.J is, so hell bent on making Spider-man seem like a criminal. It's frustrating enough to take the pictures, but to keep receiving negative feedback from his boss makes it worse. The only reason why he has not left yet is that the money does pay well.
Just like any other time, Peter tries to reason with his boss. "Maybe he is not a bad guy, maybe he just like anyone else who wants to do well in this world."
"If that is the case, why does he needs that goofy mask to hide his self when you have police that shows their face? Hell, why are we having this discussion, I'm not paying you to talk about him now get out!" J.J dismisses Peter, muttering to his self, "My mask is not that goofy." before exiting his office.
Once Peter leaves the building, he simply signs about how unhappy his life is thanks to as he calls the Parker Luck. "So much for my day starting off good getting another lecture by J.J the usual. Man for once can my life just be exciting for once. It just seems like lately the Parker Luck has not been going in my favor." As Peter continues to think he accidentally bumps into someone not paying attention.
"Oh, I'm sorry... Whoa." Peter stops mid sentence of apologizing when he enters a trance of seeing a beautiful woman with long black hair, wearing tight jeans that show off her curves nicely, brown boots, and no strap shirt.
Peter could not help but to stare and admire the lady standing in front of him until she lifts his mouth back up. "You know you are going to get flies in your mouth, staring like that." She teases with a wink snapping Peter out of his trance.
"Sorry that was very rude of me it just you look stunning and.." Peter mentally slaps his self in the face for calling a random stranger beautiful out of now where. "Did I really just say that out loud?!" He screams in his head only to feel a light touch on his shoulder from the woman, who is now smiling at him.
"It's okay; I do not get that often for I most guys are pigs and just want to see what I can do in bed. Hearing a guy calling me beautiful is a nice change." The woman reassures him calming Peter down.
"Glad I did not offend you in that case." Peter then extends his hand out, hoping that the conversation will be less awkward for him. "My name is Parker Peter. No, Peter, my name is Peter Parker." So much for being less awkward, luckily for him, the lady shakes his hand.
"Pleasure to meet you, Peter. I'm Jessica, Jessica Drew." She gives him a warm smile. Little did Peter know however that this Jessica is Spider-woman. She knew Peter would head to the Bugle at some point, so she sat near the building waiting to make her move succeeding in the process when she bumps into him while he came out.
Her first impression of Peter surprises her. As Spider-man, despite running his mouth a lot, he has his type of confidence about his self. As Peter Parker, he is timid but sweet at the same time. Jess had to keep herself from blushing from his beautiful comment because it was true that a lot of guys hit on her for the wrong reason whatever she was Spider-woman or just Jessica, especially when she triggers her pheromones.
"Adorable name it fits you well. Are you from New York?" Peter asks curiously since he has not seen her around.
"Nope was born in London, but I lived in New York for quite a while," Jessica answers with her accent, which Peter automatically thinks her accident is hot.
"I got you. Well, I don't want to keep you from anything you have planned." Peter begins to leave not wanting to bore her.
Jessica answers quickly saying, "Actually, I do not have any plans. You seem interesting though, so maybe we could hang out."
This catches Peter's attention as he turns his head back at her. "Wait.. you.. want to hang out with me?"
Ironically, just yesterday he was just thinking about how it seems like he would not be in another relationship after how bad things ended with Mary Jane and now all of sudden a stranger who is very attractive wants to hang with him. He hopes that the big man upstairs is not playing games or it would be a cruel joke.
"Wow, and he has low self-esteem? He acts like no girl would ever want to date him. I mean he is cute (stop thinking that) and is pretty innocent, surely some girl would want him. That is a topic I could bring up at some point." Jessica observes before she answers his question.
"Well, unless you have other things to do.." Jessica begins to fake pout to guilt trip Peter.
Peter waves his hands not wanting Jessica to think that way. "No, definitely not that, just surprised that you would want to hang out with me. Maybe we could catch some Starbucks if you like?" Remembering he doesn't have anything major plan other than saving someone or stopping some crazy villain if need to, he offers his arm and in return she wraps her arms around his.
"Sounds good to me Peter." She tells him. The two begin to head towards Starbucks with Peter having the mindset that his Parker luck might be towards his favor this time, while Jessica has the mentality of this is the start of learning about the man behind the mask.
Authors note: This is the official first chapter to this story. Just to let you know this and the next two chapters will be a focus on Peter/Jessica, Spidey/Spider-woman with the third chapter being the start of the main storyline. Short update yes, but I decided that I rather the first hang out session to be in the next chapter as the two spider heroes get to know each other as their civilian persona, but will this go in Peter's favor meeting a Jessica who is undercover to find out about all she can about Spider-man? On another note, I start working my new job next week, so that way you all have an update if I don't get to it.
Just to point out in this universe, Peter only knows that Tony is Iron-man and Steve is Captain America. Therefore, he never met some of the other heroes outside their costume which are why Jessica was comfortable to reveal her whole name to him.
Now it's time to remove the elephant in the room since I knew it was going to be mentioned in reviews about let's go head address this. In different universes, Peter's Spider-sense works out differently in this case in the story it "supposedly" didn't trigger. Though it will be addressed later on in the story I will ask that you keep in mind if you watch the animated series when Black Cat attacks him and his spider-sense didn't trigger, and Peter asks his self why the attack activate his spider-sense for it applies somewhat in this story.
Also, I found this app that supposedly helps fix grammar, so hopefully there will be fewer errors instead of a whole bunch even though it's a free trial version. It's called Ginger so if anyone has used the app let me know your opinion on it.
