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Free Fall

Chapter Nine: Spiderwoman

Kenzie stared at the newspaper in disbelief. She was caught between being angry and laughing. The Daily Bugle had a fuzzy shot of her in the St. Anne's ER, surgical mask and all, dubbing her Spiderman's girlfriend. She never bought newspapers, not really caring too much about what they had in their pages but today she did. The story that was written was just as ridiculous as the headline.

"Who had Spiderman caught in his web of love" was the title of the article and Kenzie couldn't keep from laughing. By the end of the article, the only thing they had gotten right had been the fact she exhibited the same powers as Spiderman. She actually felt sorry for the doctors and nurses at St. Anne's. They were all under suspicion for being "Spiderwoman."

She thought back to the event, which had only happened yesterday, and smiled. The exhilaration of doing something good and brave made her feel better than she had in weeks. Peter had been particularly pleased with how it went down, praising her for the use of the surgical mask. Last night he had presented her with her own "Spidey" costume. It was basically the same design as his with some minor alterations. It even came with her own mask.

And Harry had kept his promise and took her out to lunch afterwards. Not that she was that interested in food after a radiation treatment, saving the patients and nurses in the ER, and having a knee-weakening kiss planted on her afterwards. She swore she slept through the whole night with a smile on her face. Her lips still tingled if she thought about it too much.

"And here comes little Ms. Smiles."

"Morning, Doris." Kenzie dropped her backpack by the nurse's station. "How are you today?"

"Not as happy as you are apparently." Doris was smiling despite her comment. "Did he kiss you?"

"How did you know?"

Doris playfully tapped Kenzie's cheek. "It's written all over your face. Besides, I knew he was a smart boy."

"He is," Kenzie agreed and walked down the hall with Doris towards the radiation room. "He's really sweet, too."

Doris fixed her with a look before opening the door to the radiation room. "He didn't make you sit in the wheelchair did he?"

Kenzie found herself momentarily speechless. How could she explain her exit from the hospital without giving away her secret identity. "Well, there was all that commotion that was going on out front so we went out the back."

"You're the one that set off those alarms?"

"We thought it would bring the police faster."

Doris gave her a hard look, as if she knew Kenzie wasn't being entirely up front, before shooing her into the room and closing the door.

Kenzie's nurse, Doris, was giving Harry a very serious eye as he waited for Kenzie to emerge from her treatment. He actually felt like he was back in high school under a teacher's stare, a teacher that already knew you did something wrong. It was very unsettling. He tried to get distracted with magazines or other people, but whenever he glanced over at the nurse's station, there she was, staring him down. Well, maybe he could confront the problem head on.

He waved and smiled. "Hi, Doris."

She gave him a very unconvinced look and started to walk towards him. It was everything he had him not to jump up and run. She stopped right next to his chair and crossed her arms.

"Did you set those alarms off yesterday?"

He felt like he was back in the principals office again. "Yes, ma'am."

She nodded curtly. "Honesty, that's good." And then she sat down. "I've known Kenzie for awhile now, ever since she was sixteen and her mother came in here with cancer. It breaks my heart to see her fighting the same thing that took her mother. She's a very special girl."

"Yes, she is."

"Quiet, I'm still talking."

Harry went to say "yes ma'am" but quickly swallowed it. Apparently you don't mess with Doris.

"Like I said, Kenzie is very special to me and if you break her heart, I'll break your face." She smiled pleasantly after that last comment. "Alright?"

Quite frankly, he was afraid to say anything at this point. Threatened by a nurse…that was definitely new.

"You can talk now," Doris said.

"Yes, ma'am. I break her heart, you can break my face."

Doris patted his knee. "Good boy."

Harry watched her walk back to the nurse's station and she never looked in his direction again. She did walk away briefly but when she came back Kenzie was in tow. He liked seeing her at those moments when she didn't know he was there. Whenever she was with him she always had a smile on her face, which was definitely a good thing, but he liked the quiet moments when he could just study her face and learn her expressions. Right now, she just looked tired. But then she saw him and her whole face lit up. He wondered how she managed to do that.

"I hope you weren't waiting too long," she said before coming over and giving him a hug.

"No, not long at all. Doris came over and kept me company."

Kenzie leaned back and seem to study his face very seriously before turning around towards the nurses station. "Doris, what did you do to him?"

The nurse looked up with raised eyebrows. "What makes you think I did something to him?"

"His eyes are screaming. Did you give him that 'break her heart, I'll break your face' speech?"

Doris closed up the file she was working on and shrugged. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Kenzie gave his arm a slight push. "Come on, Harry, let's get you away from the crazy nurse."

He tried to stifle a laugh with a cough but as he was leaving he heard Doris say "I heard that!" He and Kenzie stumbled out into the daylight and started laughing together.

"My eyes were screaming?"

Kenzie laughed. "The guy that I was dating when my mom was sick got the same treatment from Doris and she effectively drove him off. She just told me now that she likes you so you must have gotten her stamp of approval somehow. I figured she must have given you 'the talk.'"

"And what a talk it was." Harry reached and slipped his hand around Kenzie's. "Where would you like to go to lunch?"

"When you pick me up from my treatments are you always going to take me out to lunch?"

"If you'll let me."

"Well, I won't. Not today."

Harry was shocked at the blatant remark. Before he could question it however, she had continued.

"It's my treat today."

"No, you don't-"

"I know. But I want to. Besides, think of this as a thank you for letting me sleep on you, not once but twice, this weekend." She laughed. "You must think I'm most boring person in the world."

"Hardly." And to prove his point, he leaned down and kissed her. It wasn't as desperate as yesterday's kiss in the alley, but it conveyed his feelings for her. And when he pulled back, she still had that silly grin on her face like she did all day yesterday.

"Why is it my legs feel like they're going to give out on me whenever you do that?"

He wrapped his arms around her waist and drew her closer to him. "I think that may be a symptom of something."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah, because I've been feeling it too."

She wrapped her arms around his back. "And what do you think we have, Dr. Osborn?"

"I think I'm in love with you."

Kenzie smiled up at him. "I know I am."

He ducked his head to kiss her again when a bright flash of light drew his attention elsewhere. Kenzie followed his gaze and then narrowed her eyes. All Harry could see was bleached blonde spikes sticking up from behind a camera lens.

"Eddie Brock!" Kenzie shouted.

A cheeky looking face popped up from behind the lens. "Kenzie Marshall! I thought that was you!"

"Listen to me you little jerk," Kenzie stalked towards the photographer and all Harry could do was watch the confrontation and not laugh. Kenzie snatched the camera out of Eddie's hand and pulled the film out in one swift motion before handing it back to Eddie.

"Aw, come one, Kenz!"

She poked him in the chest with her finger. "Don't you call me 'Kenz' or anything else like that. And the next time you snap a picture of us, I promise you, I will cut you off."

Eddie laughed slightly and started to say something when Kenzie moved her finger from his chest to his face.

"And when I say cut you off, I'm not talking mid-sentence."

Harry couldn't take it anymore, the look on Brock's face was priceless. He turned his back on the situation and tried to look interested in the street signs. Only a couple seconds ticked by before Kenzie returned to his arm.

"Sorry about that."

"You were right," Harry said with a grin, "you can be formidable."