Chapter 4

I ran into the kitchen, my head screaming in pain. I had signed a paper that handed over my human rights and I had done so of my own fee will. Tony patted me on the back as he walked past, looking understanding. "You did good, Peter. Hopefully, this will get rid of some of the hard feelings that the Avengers are dealing with right now." May sprinted in and hugged me tightly.

"You did so good, Peter. So good." She mumbled to me. She knew I disliked crowds and that they really hurt me. I smiled at her, knowing she had been wondering.

I turned to Tony. "What about the others? Are you still in contact with them, or did they not give you a way to talk to them?" Tony winced, but didn't answer. I looked at the clock, and to my horror, it was already evening. Where had the day gone?

"I think I'm going to head to bed now." I stood and walked out. I turned to Tony just before I was out of sight. "You need to contact the others if you want to rebuild the Avengers. This isn't the Avengers, me, you, Colonel Rhodes and Vision. You need the others, else it's not the team."

And with that I turned and left, leaving Tony standing shocked in the room. Once in the room, I called out to Karen. "Karen, you there?"

"Yes Peter. I'm here, what do you need?" The AI's voice echoed through the room.

"Do you have call making ability's. I have a few friends I want to talk to." Thinking of MJ. I really wanted her frank opinions on this whole business.

"Yes, I do have the ability to make calls. I can even make them from your number, so people will know it is you. Who do you want to call? Is it your friend Ned?"

"Yeah, called Ned." I realised I probably owed him an explanation before I talked to anyone else. He was my best friend after all, and he did know about my Spider Man secret before anyone else. The familiar buzzing came through the room, signifying a call was being made. It only buzzed twice before Ned picked up.

"Peter, oh my God, are you ok? Where are you? Schools been on fire with rumours ever since you ran out. What have you been doing? Flash nearly fainted when he saw. MJ was not even surprised."

"Ned. Shut up." I managed to wheeze out between laughing. He immediately did.

"Peter, their better be a good reason for all this." Ned was calmer now, I could hear it in his voice. I winced at the accusatory tone he was using.

"Yes, there is a good reason. I just want to chat before we get to all the craziness that is my life. How's school been?"

Ned laughed. "You don't want to know about school, do you? You want to talk about MJ and what she thinks." I turned beet red, before trying to stammer out a sentence. Ned laughed then. "Don't worry mate, she still see's you as a big idiot. She's been sketching you, and I think she may have suspected you weren't what you were saying." I sighed in relief.

"So, MJ then Pete?" Tony's voice echoed from the hall. I turned an even brighter shade of red. "The girl that was at the bottom of the monument that day? The one with frizzy hair?" He laughed. "FRIDAY, save a picture of Spider Kid's face right now and send it to my phone." A second later, an even bigger laugh came from out in the hall. "You would put a tomato to shame right now." I heard footsteps as he moved off.

"Was that Iron Man?" Ned's breathless voice came from the speakers. I smiled at his hero worship even though I was redder than I have ever been in my life.

"Yes." I raised my voice now. "And he's a big immature prat!" A snigger from down the hall told me that he had heard my comment.

"He's right, you know. You so have the hots for MJ and have for a while. When you gonna get some balls and ask her out?" Ned almost sounded like he was judging me.

"I do not 'have the hots' for her, as you so crudely put it. I am her friend and I wanted to know what she thought as she did not know before the reveal." I said this with the most mature tone I could manage.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever helps you sleep at night." We talked inanely for another 10 minuets before Ned's mum called him and he had to leave. I martialled my courage before calling to Karen.

"Hey Karen, call MJ." The ring echoed through the room whilst I tried to get a hold of my breathing. It didn't work, and I didn't have long anyways. She picked up after the first ring.

"If I swore, Parker, I would be filling the room with the foulest of oaths I could!" She practically screamed down the phone. "You better have a damn good explanation for your running act or hell is going to pay!" I winced, knowing that this would last a while.

"You disappeared of the face of the planet! I have called you every time I could, and did I get a response? No! I thought you were dead! Or HYDRA had got you! I was so scared! You, you, you!" She then started crying. "I've been so worried."

I felt awful. "I'm sorry MJ. I won't do it again." She stopped crying, ut really had only been a single sob. "I do have a good reason. I had to leave and quick. Technically, I'm a criminal. Tony picked me up before the government could and had me…" She cut over me.

"Sign the accords. I saw the press conference. That's how I knew you were alive, I saw you on TV. I thought we were friends Peter. I really did!" I swallowed hard.

"We are friends. I didn't mean to hurt you, I was just so caught up in what was happening around me. It's not every day your secret identity get's compromised." A thought hit me. "Ned thinks you suspected me. Did you?" She laughed.

"I knew something with Spider Man was going on. I didn't think he was you! I thought you were using your smarts to help him track down criminals or something. Ned doesn't lie very often and when he does you never know. He wouldn't blurt out that you knew Spider Man unless you did." I smiled at that.

"You missed my Decathlon speech. I should probably take you off the team as you won't be coming back." My heart lurched. If I never went back, I would probably not see MJ that much, or Ned.

"I will be coming back. I just needed to sort some things out before I do, and with summer coming up, I think I will have that time." We chatted for a while, all the time with her making comments about my disappearing act. She really wasn't happy with me.

Eventually, she had to go. I smiled, knowing I was temporarily forgiven in her eyes, and Ned was too much a little puppy to not forgive me. I pulled on my Iron Man PJ's (courtesy of the man himself) and climbed into bed. I looked up at the ceiling and smiled. Today had been a good day.

At some point in the night, I woke with a start. A man was stood over me, a rag in his hands. "Night little spider. Hail HYDRA!" My mind went black.

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