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Ok so this chapter is gonna have some funnies in it.


Merc and Johnny barely spoke to each other for three days. They were so distracted being mad at each other that they were of no help when it came to stopping some jewellery thieves. Johnny made a wise ass remark about how Merc could just flirt with them to make them stop and the two of them started arguing so loudly that the thieves overheard them and managed to get away before the others could apprehend them.

On the fourth day after her run-in with Spiderman, Merc was walking along the streets; occasionally being stopped by people but otherwise was left to her own devices. She was too caught up in her own thoughts that she bumped into someone and both of them fell to the ground.

"Oh…sorry." Merc said. "Usually I'm good at not walking into people."

"That's ok." The man she walked into said. "Same here just a bit busy thinking."

"Yeah." Merc said. She looked at the man she walked into. "Do I know you?"

"Maybe." He said. Wait if she can read minds then she'll know I'm Spiderman and…

"Oh hey!" Merc said, smiling.

"Mind reading?" He asked. Merc nodded. "Peter Parker."

"I'd introduce myself but you already know it so there's no point." Merc said. They finally stood up. "So what are you up to?"

"Just walking really." Peter said. "Thinking about stuff. MJ, the girl I told you about, me and her are slowly getting back together."

"You do what I told you?" Merc asked. Peter nodded. "Good."

"So what about you and Torch?" Peter asked.

"Not so good." Merc said. "We got in a fight after you left and we've barely spoken since then. We were arguing so loudly the other that the criminals we were trying to get managed to get away."

"That's bad." Peter said. Merc nodded. "Anything I can do to help?"

"Not unless you tell him your gay or something." Merc said.

"I don't think that'll happen." Peter said.

"Didn't think so." Merc said. She sighed. "I just gotta clean up this mess on my own…somehow. It doesn't help that I have to spend more time with my boss now because of the whole book thing and practically everyone knows that he likes me. I'm laying odds that, if I told him how bad things were, he'd see it as his chance to try and move in."

"Yeah, now it's really bad then, huh." Peter said.

"Bad doesn't even begin to define it." Merc said. "God, Pete, what am I gonna do? It's seriously bad enough that I have a weird wedding-phobia. My uncle got engaged and married AND adopted a kid all within the time that me and Johnny have been engaged."

"Uh…wedding-phobia?" Peter asked.

"I'm good with being a bridesmaid." Merc said. "I just…can't be the bride. I can make it through the rehearsals and everything but I just can't do the real thing. Either I run away from it or I spend too much time forcing myself into getting into the stupid dress that I miss my cue…or I freeze up and can't say any vows or…I just can't do it."

"Maybe you're just afraid of the dress?" Peter asked.

"One of the tries didn't involve any white dresses." Merc said. "There was no white anywhere. Even the guys' shirts had to be coloured. And I still didn't manage it. Two years now, we've been engaged and have gone through so many attempts and nothing had worked. And to top it off, now that Sue has Natalie, even though she cries an awfully, I kinda want a kid but Johnny doesn't want any right now so I don't want to do anything else to…"

"I'm getting the picture." Peter said. Merc sighed. They walked into a coffee shop and sat down. "You're in quite a mess here."

"I know." Merc said. "I don't know what to do. We're both too stubborn to talk to each other so there's no real way either of us is going to apologise anytime soon."

"And the mess gets bigger." Peter said. Merc smiled slightly.

"Ok enough about my problem. How are things with you?" She asked.

"Ok, I guess." Peter said. "I told you about the MJ stuff already." Merc nodded. "Nothing else really. Except a made a few burglars look like they were in cocoons."

"Sounds like fun." Merc said, absently twirling the straw around in her cup.

"Some of them tried running." Peter said, watching her. Merc nodded. "And your hair is changing an ugly grey colour."

"That's nice…wait what?" Merc asked.

"Just making sure you were listening…and you're not." Peter said.

"I'm sorry, Pete." Merc said. "I guess I'm more distracted by all this then I thought."

"Maybe you should talk to him." Peter said.

"Yeah and say what?" Merc asked. "I'm not gonna give him that satisfaction. I'm not the wrong one here. I wasn't flirting with you."

"Is that what this is about?" Peter asked. Merc nodded. "Want me to talk to him or something?"

"Nah…I'll deal with this myself." Merc said. "But thanks anyways." Her phone went off and Merc looked at it. "Oh…gotta go, trouble is a-brewing. Here…" She quickly wrote her number down. "If you need me for like any reason like…if you wanna get MJ something and need a girl's opinion."

"Thanks." Peter said. "I'll keep that in mind." Merc left.

It didn't take her long to find the others and things were going relatively fine with the apprehending until Merc and Johnny started arguing about where she had been. She absently flung her hand out and used her powers to drag back one of the bad guys as they tried to run. She held him against the wall, making him drop the weird gun thing in his hands. Sue, Reed and Ben all shouted as Merc and Johnny got shot with some ray but they didn't seem to notice but just kept on arguing.

Reed insisted on a scan of both of them to see if there was anything wrong but he couldn't find anything. They went off to their separate rooms and Sue flinched as the two different doors slammed at different times.

"How much longer are they going to be like this?" She asked.

"I dunno." Ben said. "But I hope they stop soon." Sue nodded. She went with Ben down to his apartment in order to get Natalie. For having a blind woman and a five year old boy…they did pretty well at watching the new baby.

The next morning Sue and Reed were sitting in the kitchen, debating on whether or not they should wake up Merc and Johnny. They heard Johnny scream and looked at each other before hurrying to his bedroom.

"Johnny? What is it?" Sue asked.

"Wha…I don't know…and…what did you call me?" Johnny asked.

"Uh…Johnny." Sue said.

"Does anyone know why I woke up in Merc's bedroom?" Merc asked, walking into the room and rubbing her eyes.

"Uh…" Sue said. Johnny screamed again.

"WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING OVER THERE?!" He asked.

"WHAT THE FUCK!!" Merc yelled.

"Two very good questions." Reed said.

"What the hell did you do?" Johnny asked.

"Me? I didn't do anything!" Merc said.

"Ok, ok, hold on." Sue said. She looked at Merc. "Who are you?"

"I'm the tooth fairy, who the hell do you think I am, sis?" Merc asked.

"Well you look and sound like Merc." Sue said.

"Great…this is just what I need." Johnny said. "Flame boy in my…do we still have our own powers or did they switch too?"

"They stayed with the body." Merc said. "God this is giving me a headache."

"Try living with it twenty-four seven." Johnny said. He finally got out of the bed. "This can't be happening."

"Why?" Merc asked.

"Hello…did you forget I had that meeting with Brian and the book cover artist today?" Johnny asked.

"Well then cancel cause I sure ain't going in there with your boss being the way he is towards you." Merc said.

"Johnny you have to." Johnny whined. "This artist is really well known and it took a lot of time and persuasion to get her down here."

"Guys…" Sue said.

"Well then you're screwed because I don't know anything about the book so I can't do anything." Merc said.

"Guys…" Sue said.

"How the hell can you not know anything about it?" Johnny asked. "I told you about it like ten times."

"GUYS!!" Sue said.

"What?" The bickering duo asked.

"Both of you go." Sue said. "And…Johnny can just…read Merc's mind as she thinks of stuff and then vocalise it for her."

"Do I have to?" Merc asked.

"Yes!" Johnny said. "This is huge! I don't wanna have to have anything delayed. Johnny please."

"Fine…just don't whine in my body." Merc said. "Shower and change and I'll meet you downstairs in half an hour."

"Deal." Johnny said.

(((A/N: I hope that bit didn't confuse anyone. From now until I switch them back, I'm just gonna write their name. So instead of writing the name of the person who's body it is, it's gonna be the person inside the body. I.E: Merc's body talks…I write Johnny…and vice versa.)))

"Could you have put any more clothes on?" Merc asked, looking at her body that had on a zipped up hoodie and jeans. Everything but the face and hands were covered.

"If it stops Brian from flirting with me then yes." Johnny said. "Do you know how wrong that is going to be?"

"What did you put on under the hoodie?" Merc asked.

"A t-shirt." Johnny said. "But all you have are low v-neck ones."

"Gee…I wonder why." Merc asked, sarcastically. "Who's the one that just loves seeing me in them?"

"Just keep your eyes on the road." Johnny said.

"My whole wardrobe is 'Johnny-friendly' which means that most of the stuff is going to show off skin." Merc said, turning a corner. "Look let's just get through this and then we can hide in the apartment until Reed and Sue figure out a way to switch us back."

"Deal." Johnny said.

"You also have to…kinda hug Brian." Merc said.

"What? Oh no, no way." Johnny said.

"I always do it. Just friendly, three second hug." Merc said.

"Why?" Johnny asked.

"Because that's what I do." Merc said. "You should know that." Johnny sighed and dragged his hands through the long blonde hair currently residing on his head.

"Alright, fine." He said. Merc pulled into a parking spot and they got out of the car. Johnny looked at the body he possessed before sighing and taking off the hoodie. It was far too hot for it anyways. Merc grinned at him.

"There's my favourite author!" Brian said, coming up to them as they walked into the building.

"Hey Brian." Johnny said, trying to sound cheerful as he allowed the other man to hug him.

"I guess you guys patched up your little fight." Brian said. The couple nodded slowly. "Well then…Johnny if you don't mind just sitting out here for the time and…"

"I want him to come in too." Johnny said, frowning. Brian looked between the two then shrugged and turned to lead them into another room.

"Merc this is Shauna Morgan." He said. "Ms Morgan this is Mercedes Denver and Johnny Storm."

"Such a pleasure to meet you." Shauna said. Merc narrowed Johnny's eyes at the woman. She was hot to say the least. Merc wasn't quite sure what to do, being in Johnny's body she really couldn't do much.

Jealousy doesn't suit you. Johnny thought.

Well take a good look at whose body I'm in, giving those looks. Merc said. They sat down and talk was turned to the cover. Merc kept her mouth shut and let Johnny use her powers to read her mind and dictate what she wanted. She kept looking up to see either Brian looking at her body or Shauna looking at Johnny's body.

Johnny wasn't having fun with this either. He could hear Brian's thoughts about his fiancé and he had to keep telling himself that he couldn't throw fire at him. He also couldn't help but start thinking about why Merc had chosen to stick with him for so long. Brian was thinking of all the rotten things Johnny had done to Merc, trying to understand why the girl was still with him. And now that he thought about, Johnny couldn't come up with an answer. All the times he had abandoned her and yelled at her and everything else he done. He was suddenly very glad he had Merc's powers and she didn't because he knew that she would hear him thinking about what he had done a while ago that only Ben had found out about and the uncle had actually threatened to clobber Johnny into icky paste if the younger man hadn't told Merc. Although…as far as Ben knew, Johnny had told her and neither man was willing to bring it up to the psychic so Ben swiftly pushed it out of his mind.

"Mercy." Merc said, suddenly. Johnny shook her head and growled at the hair as it fell into his face. "You were asked a question."

"I was? Sorry." Johnny said.

"You weren't reading our thoughts now by any chance, were you?" Brian asked, teasing.

"Maybe…" Johnny said.

"Well there's good news." Shauna said. "Unless there's something else you want to add to this, we're done here." Johnny reprised sighing in relief but Merc did it for him. "So I'll draw up a rough sketch, photocopy it then send it to you and Brian and see what you guys think."

"Sounds good." Johnny said. He shook the woman's hand.

"It was nice meeting you, both of you." Shauna said, leaning over and shaking Merc's hand with a grin. Johnny raised an eyebrow as Merc slid her hand away, holding something. He had seen and done this gesture many times to know what it meant. There was a bit of small talk and then the couple left.

"So?" Johnny asked. Merc opened her hand and a little piece of paper caught on fire and burnt up. "I see."

"Oh yeah as if I was going to keep it." Merc said. "I'm not about to let you know the number of some other girl you've met through me."

"I wouldn't have even wanted it so don't get all crazy." Johnny said.

"So how'd it go?" Sue asked, once they got back.

"All good except Johnny spaced and I had to fill in a few questions." Merc said. "Did you guys find out anything?"

"No luck." Reed said, shaking his head.

"Why'd Tinkerbelle space?" Ben asked, ready to hear about the younger man probably staring at some girl.

"I don't know." Merc said. "He was just staring at the table. What were you thinking about?"

"Nothing." Johnny said, quickly.

"Are you hiding something from me?" Merc asked, suddenly, crossing Johnny's arms over his chest.

Shouldn't have anything to hide. Johnny heard Ben think. Johnny looked over at the rock then quickly dropped his gaze.

"Don't say it…don't you dare even think it!" Ben said, suddenly extremely angry.

"What?" Sue asked.

"You never told her didn't you?" Ben asked.

"It…never…really came up." Johnny said.

"Johnny…" Ben growled.

"What?" Merc asked this time.

"It's not that big a deal!" Johnny said.

"Not that big a deal…IT'S A HUGE FUCKING DEAL!!!" Ben shouted. Johnny and Merc winced.

"What is he talking about?" Merc asked.

"Well…uh…" Johnny said. He looked at Ben.

"Oh no, I ain't doing it. Like I told you last time, you have to tell her." Ben said.

"Tell me what?" Merc asked, now almost as angry as her uncle. She accidentally set a chair on fire. "Shit! I'm sorry, Reed."

"It's ok, don't worry." Reed said, putting the fire out with his hands that he had stretched. "Johnny, maybe you should tell her."

"Maybe you should tell all of us." Sue suggested.

"No way!" Johnny said. "I'm gonna have hard enough time…" Merc turned around and went up to the rooms.

"Tell her." Ben said.

"But…" Johnny said.

"Do it!" Ben said. "I'm not gonna threaten you with the whole 'do it or I will thing' because you seem to think it'll be easier if I do it."

"Hey…at least she can't really hurt you." Johnny said. "She can burn me to a crisp."

"She wouldn't do that to her own body." Reed said, looking back at all the data, trying to find a way to reverse what had been done. Merc came back down, this time wearing one of Johnny's uniforms. "Where are you going?"

"Away." Merc said, heading towards the window.

"Mercy, come on." Johnny said.

"No…I don't need to listen to you." Merc said. She went out onto the balcony and flamed on, flying off.

"FUCK!" Johnny shouted, kicking over a stool, loudly. A cry erupted from the other room and Sue groaned. "Sorry."

"She was playing calmly." Sue said before walking over to take care of her child.

"I need to take a walk." Johnny said, turning back towards the elevator.

"Johnny…" Ben said.

"I'll talk to her!" Johnny said. "Just…not right now. When both of us have cooled off."

"He makes a point." Reed said, watching Johnny leave. Ben rolled his eyes but nodded. Even without powers those two could do some serious damage to just about anything when they were mad at each other and choose to fight it out rather then cool off.

Johnny walked around through the streets. He knew that if he was getting odd looks it was probably because he was more then likely not walking like a girl.

"Hey!" Someone called. Johnny didn't pay attention, almost certain that it wasn't someone calling him. "Hey, Merc!" He again didn't stop, until he remembered that he was currently in his fiancé's body. He slowed down and some guy came up and stopped next to him. "Whoa…are you mad or what?"

"Uh…yeah." Johnny said, trying to figure out who this was.

"I'm guessing Johnny did something again?" Ok so this person knew about the problem…s.

"Yeah." Johnny said, sighing.

"What happened?" Peter asked.

"Well I wouldn't…I mean, he wouldn't tell me something." Johnny said. "And her…my uncle knows but he wouldn't say it either."

"Uh huh." Peter said. He raised an eyebrow. I guess this would be a bad time to think about what we did the other day…

"What did you do with Merc?" Johnny asked, completely forgetting about whose body he was in.

"Nothing…just talked." Peter said. "I swear. Working to hard to get back in the all good area with MJ to even think about. But you just proved something."

"What?" Johnny asked.

"You're not Merc." Peter said. Johnny sighed. He put a hand on his forehead then pulled it through Merc's hair before looking at Peter.

"Where's a good place to talk?" Johnny asked.

After quite an awkward moment after Peter suggested web slinging them onto a roof, Johnny chose to take the ladder and Peter just crawled up from the alley wall (after making sure no one was around of course). Johnny then told him about the ray, getting shot with it, then waking up in Merc's body and all the mess that happened that day. By the time he got up to the point were Peter had caught up to him, he was starting to understand why Merc inevitably liked him.

"So what exactly did you do that her uncle threatened to, pretty much kill you because of?" Peter asked. Johnny really wasn't willing to share it but figured that it was better to ask this guy for advice then someone who knew them well. So he told and Peter just stared at him for a while.

"Ok stop." Johnny said.

"Sorry but that's…that's bad." Peter said. "How come you never told her?"

"How the hell am I supposed to?" Johnny asked. "Has she not told you of the countless times my jealousy has started numerous arguments? If she ever found out about that then I'll…she might…"

"Leave you?" Peter asked. Johnny nodded. "I don't know her well enough to say that she won't but from what I've heard, she's stuck with you through quite a bit. But your right…don't know how she'll react to this. You went and did the one thing that you have accused her of a few times without actually having proof."

"I'm not good with relationships." Johnny said. "I think Merc is really the first real one. We've been friends for years then we were together then engaged for the last two years. I just…I just can't imagine living my life without her here anymore."

"Well you guys have gone through a lot." Peter said. "You've endeared her boyfriends, she's gone through all your 'girlfriends'. But from what I understand, you two always put each other first."

"Yeah like…back when we were at the med center at the Von Doom place…" Johnny said. "If I had any inclination that she wasn't feeling good at all, I wouldn't have gone off snowboarding. But she looked fine, she felt fine, she seemed fine…and she said that she was ok but just didn't feel up to going so I went without her."

"Yeah…times like that." Peter said. "I think you just need to suck it up and apologise."

"But…" Johnny said.

"You're expecting to marry you." Peter said. "You're gonna need to learn to do it a lot when it finally pulls through."

"God no wonder Merc likes you." Johnny said. "You're just about the only thing that really makes sense in our crazy lives."

"I try." Peter said.


Holy shit, look at that!!! This is like my longest chapter ever! Wooo, go me!!. Ok so if it hasn't already been made clear by now, in the next chapter we're all going to find out what Johnny did….(dramatic music plays).