Disclaimer: Same as previous chapters.

Chapter 3

Andrew sighed as Clark was telling Chloe that he was sure that this Scarlet Spider was after Lana and thought, 'Why would anyone be after Lana? She's pretty but I'm not after her.'

He sighed as he walked to the principal's office to get his records from Sunnydale High, he had good grades, nothing to write home about, not like Peter but they were good.

When he walked into the office the nice secretary got him his reports and told him that he was going to miss his first class and he ran out, only to bump into Clark.

Clark looked at him and said, "Chloe asked me to show you around as she's busy right now."

Andrew sighed, "I can handle this myself Clark, alright? I mean I don't want to cut into your busy day of suspecting a man of something he didn't do."

"He was there Andrew," Clark said, "It's suspicious, really suspicious; I mean what if he's playing with her?"

Andrew stared at him and sighed, 'Lovely, was Peter going through this too?' and followed Clark to his first class.

The school was good; the teachers were very good and were willing to help him learn the curriculum of Smallville High.

He was busy studying when Chloe came in and said, "This Scarlet Spider has Clark really worried, that we might have another Greg Arkin on our hands."

Andrew stared, "Yeah, I only know that part but what happened? Can you give me the details?"

Chloe recounted the full story about Greg and his insect powers and Andrew was panicking, 'What if I like this Greg kid and me and Peter went all crazy and tried to make some shmuck our queen or whatever?' But he was grateful that the webs he fired didn't come out of his mouth.

The day passed slowly and Andrew sighed, he'd call Peter about this because he didn't want to be too dangerous.

That afternoon Clark invited Chloe over to his house and he said that Andrew could come if he wanted too.

"See," Chloe said, "Clark's getting to trust you but he's gonna be hard to figure out, sometimes he's there one moment and another one, gone."

Andrew smiled slightly and said, "It's alright, I'm the new kid and I'd be disappointed if I got accepted right away."

"Yeah," Chloe grinned, "But you'll make friends, I'm sure of it Andrew."

As Chloe drove them to the Kent home Andrew froze, 'They lived near that Lana girl's home? So this was the Kent home? I suppose it looks nice in the day as it did in the night.'

Andrew got out and saw Clark playing basketball with another kid, Chloe whispered, "That's Pete Ross; Clark's oldest friend."

"Ah," Andrew nodded as he walked out of the car.

Pete looked him over and said, "Chloe, I still swear your cousin's pictures made him look like a scrawny toothpick."

"Lovely," Andrew said, "Another one."

"I'm just kidding you Andrew," Pete said, "You probably just hit a growth spurt, my brothers all had them."

'Probably not the way you think,' Andrew thought wryly.

Clark tossed the basketball to him and said, "You wanna play with us?"

Andrew shrugged, "Sure," but he didn't know how to play basketball. Clark tossed him the ball and he started to bounce the ball and threw the ball over and it went into the basket.

'Okay,' Andrew thought happily as he got into the game.

Chloe grinned, 'It seems that Andrew is going to make friends with Clark and Pete.'

After awhile Andrew was actually beginning to sweat, he hadn't found anyone who made him sweat unless it was Peter and they were training.

Pete moaned, "Enough, I need to stop."

Andrew nodded and stopped, as he wiped his forehead clean he stared at Clark who wasn't even sweating. Andrew was confused but just shook his head.

As Andrew followed them inside he met the Kent's and they seemed nice and kind, in fact they reminded him of Uncle Ben and Aunt May, only younger.

Martha looked at Andrew, who smiled at her, and said, "So, from Sunnydale to New York and to Smallville, must be quite a trip?"

Andrew nodded, "Yeah, it was busy," 'And exciting,' he thought.

Chloe frowned, "You got shot Andrew, I mean that's what Ben said."

"Umm, yeah," Andrew said, "Actually the doctor said he made a mistake in what happened, I was just lucky. Peter went after the guy."

Clark stared at Andrew and used his X-Ray vision to study his body and noticed that there wasn't any sign of injury, maybe Andrew was telling the truth.

Jonathon asked questions to Andrew about his family to which Andrew answered honestly about his cousins.

"Oh," Chloe smiled, "Andrew's related to me through my mom and, umm, not sure how we're related to Peter."

Andrew grinned, "You're not, they're my cousins through my dad but I guess Uncle Gabe liked Peter so he had him visit every now and then."

Clark grinned, "Pete and I remember Peter Parker; he called Smallville 'inbred county' all the time."

"He is from New York," Andrew said, "But yeah, he's a smartass sometimes."

Chloe grinned, "It runs in the family, I think he learned it from me."

"Don't blame yourself," Andrew grinned, "Aunt May and Uncle Ben raised him to speak his mind."

Chloe laughed and said, "We gotta head home Andrew and besides, you have homework to do."

That night Andrew was working on his homework and decided to stay home while Chloe went out with her friends, he worked on it quietly, enjoying the sense of normalcy. Then he check his email on Chloe's computer and saw a email from Peter, Uncle Ben and one from MJ, he checked the one from Peter first.

Hey Andrew, MJ wanted to keep in contact with you so I gave your address to her, if that's alright? And yeah, have you tried the costume out yet?

Andrew typed his response and opened up Uncle Ben's email.

Hello Andrew, I hope this works as Peter said it would work as I know nothing about computers but how are things in Smallville? I hope you're taking my advice about going out and making friends, you can't hide from the world you know that and know that you can always stay with us.

Andrew turned pink again; he loved Uncle Ben and Aunt May.

Finally he opened up MJ's email and smiled in surprise.

Hey Andrew, I'm sorry that you didn't stay in New York longer but I understand the reason so I figured I'd try to make a new friend out of you. Smallville sounds nice and I hope you make friends and message me back, okay? If you need someone to talk to.

After he had typed the responses Andrew stretched and decided to go out patrolling, he had no idea where Chloe went but he could probably avoid her.

He snuck out and put on his suit and leapt outside, he learned pretty quickly that he could swing from trees if he didn't cling to them and he loved the feeling of slinging from tree to tree but he wanted to visit Metropolis soon and explore the city.

As he slid from tree and occasional buildings he wondered if maybe that Talon place could work, he could visit there and see if there was something fun to do.

Andrew sighed as he got to Main Street and he frowned as he looked in and saw several people inside and watched them; it was Clark, Chloe and Lana with Lex Luthor. He decided to go somewhere else and look around.

As he swung he saw a green rock on the ground and went down to examine it, it looked interesting, very interesting. As he examined the green rock he noticed that it was glowing as he was staring at it and dropped it.

'This town,' Andrew sighed, 'Isn't nearly as boring as I thought it would be.' When he swung home he saw Chloe's car and a red truck back and froze, 'What if she was looking for him and who's truck is this?'

He jumped down and was looking at the truck when he heard a door slam, he back flipped into the tree and saw that Clark kid, he looked down at him and thought, 'He looks upset.'

"Hey sport," Andrew called from the tree, "Something the matter?"

Clark looked up, his eyes focusing on the figure in the trees and saw a red and blue garbed man in the tree and said, "You're the Scarlet Spider?"

"Yeah," Andrew grinned, "That's me: your friendly neighbourhood web-slinger and you are?"

"Umm, Clark Kent."

Andrew grinned, "It's really nice to meet you Mr Kent but hey, you look upset. What's the matter?"

"Why do you care?" Clark growled, "I mean you have Lana singing your praises and."

"A bit jealous are we?" Andrew smiled, "Umm, I'd have saved anyone; I mean she was being attacked by a guy who shot energy out of his hands. I'd like to think that any decent person would've saved her."

"So you have no interest in making Lana your queen?" Clark said while looking at him suspiciously.

"Not even vaguely," Andrew said and lowered himself on the web and added, "If there was anyone I could be interested in it'd be you green eyes," and before Clark could say anything he swung off, yelling, "See you on the flipside."

Clark froze, stunned by what he had heard but shook his head clear; he got into his truck and drove home.

Andrew was breathing heavily, 'Where did that flirt come from? I never flirted never before, maybe it was the suit? Yeah, it's giving me a shot of way more confidence than even the Spider powers had given me.'

He crawled in and removed his clothes, hoping he didn't scare Clark or anything like that.

The next day Andrew got into Chloe's car and said, "So research, how's that going? Find anything on that spider guy?"

"Umm, just rumours from New York City," Chloe said, "Even a few pictures, but Lana says it's not the same guy, she even drew a picture to show us."

"Was it, umm, any good?" Andrew asked curious, "And did she give it you?"

Chloe nodded and showed him the picture and it was really nice, 'Lana had talent,' Andrew thought and smiled a bit as he listened to Chloe rattle on about how she wished she had a picture and not a portrait.

As Chloe waved goodbye to Andrew as he headed to class she saw Clark sitting on her desk and said, "Clark, something up?"

"No," Clark said, "But I'm confused about something, I think the Scarlet Spider hit on me last night."

"Wait," Chloe laughed, "What did he do? Leave you roses or flies or something like that?"

"No, I was getting ready to leave your place when he introduced himself to me Chloe," Clark said, "And he said he wasn't interested in Lana, though he said she nice. He said, and I quote, if there was anyone he could be with, it would be me Green eyes."

Chloe started to laugh and froze, "Wait, he was outside my home and you didn't call me out? I could've gotten an interview."

Clark smiled at her; he was kind of interested in the Scarlet Spider now as the guy used his powers to help Lana, he wished he could be more open about his gifts. He shook his head and said, "Sorry, so anything about the guy in New York?"

"Yeah, I know the Daily Bugle has it out for him," Chloe said, pointing at the Daily Bugle's website.

"Hmm," Clark said looking at the picture, "Spiderman: Threat or Menace?"

Chloe laughed a bit and said, "I wonder if the editor who wrote that was fired? But look at the costume; it looks similar to Lana's picture, doesn't it? Except for our boy has more red in it and less webbing but the masks are similar, aren't they Clark?"

Clark nodded and said, "Yeah, they are. Anything else on him?"

"Not sure yet," Chloe said, "But I got friends in the mayor's office who told me they have reports of him swinging from trees and buildings and it always looks like he's patrolling, looking for crime or something."

Clark smiled, he was beginning to wonder who the guy was and maybe he could be a friend. After all he was the first super powered person he met who wasn't completely nuts.

TBC

Poll questions: When should Clark begin to figure out that Andrew is the Scarlet Spider? Do you want any people from the Spiderman side appear?

I might have the romance come in the next few chapters.

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