Authors Note: Let the intrigue begin. I'm gonna do a thing here. It's a bit of a thing I haven't done before. I am going to stay in one timeline till the story requires I move on. Also I intend to make as many bad puns as possible! AND I HAVE HER THEME SONG! Midnight's theme song shall be So What? By PINK! So be prepared. I own nothing.
4. Caught on Camera
Spidey swung up into the building through an open window and snuck along the ceiling to the closet where he had left his clothes. He quickly changed back and stuffed his mask into his pocket. He snuck out of the closet and went back to the lab. Reilly was removing her armor when he came in. She looked over at him and grinned.
"Thought you might have run off. Sorry about that. It happens sometimes, comes with the territory of working for, or living with my dad." Peter nodded.
"I kinda thought it might be." Peter grinned. Reilly looked him up and down.
"I'm surprised you were brave enough to come here then. No offence but you look a little shrimpy." Peter grinned.
"No offence taken. I'm a science nerd, not a superhero." He laughed a little and she glanced at him with what he called a suspicious look. He kept grinning hoping she wouldn't question him. His hopes were in vain.
"Why were you in the hallway?" He twitched.
"I heard something break." He lied, he was really bad at it and he knew she saw through it. She shrugged.
"Culture shock it happens." She grinned. He smiled glad she had a reason when he couldn't come up with. She showed him to the lab where he would be working. It was currently occupied. Peter stared in awe. Reilly laughed and the tan haired man in a lab coat turned.
"Miss Stark! I didn't expect to see you here for at least an hour." He smiled and adjusted his coat. The left sleeve hung empty at his side.
"Reilly, please, Dr. Connors meet Peter Parker, your new intern." He smiled charmingly and held out his right, and only, hand.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Parker. I'm Dr…" Peter grabbed his hand and shook it, a grin spreading across his face.
"Kurt Connors! I follow your work. Your paper on molecular restructuring in an attempt to regenerate limbs and cure diseases was sheer genius!" Dr. Connors smiled widely.
"I'm glad you're familiar with that one! That's what I've been working on here. Stark Industries has been very generous with funding for my project. Far more so than OSCORP ever was." Reilly nodded at him with a tiny smirk. She stepped up to one of the screens on the other side of the room and tapped out a pass code. She began to sort through bits of information on the Living Laser's physiological makeup.
"Dr. Connors will give you your pass keys and security codes. You can choose how much he can access Dr. ALICI transfer a copy of the files on the Laser to my main lab. Dr. I'll you and Peter to get acquainted." He raised an eyebrow at her.
"If you don't mind, what do you expect to find in the Laser's files?" Reilly turned to them and sighed.
"Now that SHIELD has the Laser in custody, it's unlikely that he'll get away soon. He's grown insanely unstable, molecularly. He's always been a little mentally unstable and I doubt anyone can fix that bit. But I can help his physical condition, I hope. Being torn apart molecule by molecule doesn't sound like a pleasant way to go to me." Dr. Connors grinned.
"No matter what you may pretend to the opposite, you're a sweetheart under all that acting." She stiffened and stuck out her tongue at him.
"Am not! It's not nice to lie to the interns." She turned to Peter.
"I am not a sweetheart at anytime. I'm a bitch at all times, you'll see." With that she left and Dr. Connors laughed.
"She's really not. She's got an eccentric streak and her fathers tenancies to focus a little too hard but she's a wonderful person under all that." Peter nodded, no person who could admit to being a bad person could actually be one.
Reilly went back to her lab muttering about Dr. Connors and his rose colored glasses. When she typed in her access key she found her brother waiting for her. He raised an eyebrow.
"Are you aware, cause I'm pretty sure you aren't, that you are still wearing the Midnight armor's boots?" She looked down and saw that it was true. Peter had distracted her before she could finish getting out of it.
"Damn it! I got distracted." ALICI strategically chose that moment to pipe up.
"Miss Stark?"
"Yes ALICI?"
"Thare's somthin' you should probably be aware of Miss."
"Then please make me aware of it."
"It's a video Miss."
"Onscreen then." Reilly ordered annoyed at her AI for being so cryptic. A video flashed up on her main screen. It was not a news broadcast like she had expected. It was a security video from a closet down the hall from this very lab. The door opened and Peter Parker hurried into the tiny room. He glanced around and swiftly unbuttoned his shirt. Reilly and Phil gaped.
"Pause video and enhance image!" Phil demanded and ALICI obeyed. The image of the Peter's open shirt was enhanced and both twins could clearly see the Spiderman costume that he wore under his street clothes.