A Little Bit More Of Her
( I know that S.H.I.E.L.D. is one of the most disciplined organizations in the world, but this is just ridiculous!)
Our dear superhero was in his daily training with his private tutors, no Spider-Man suit by the way, only sport clothes. Since Ava left the academy, hiss classes were harder than the first day. Captain America trained him with the military style to make him more dedicated. Daredevil used the blind method to make stronger his arachnid sense, and Hawkeye… well let just say that he used his own style to enforce his coordination, but without doubt, the worst tutore that Peter could have in his life is Black Widow, A.K.A. Natasha Romanoff, and when I said the worst, I mean the most extrict, sadic, and hardest teacher in the world. All these classes with her always ended with him on the floor exhausted, and being honest, the poor boy do not even know what was the propose of all of this, but he is afraid to ask Black Widow. Like in that moment, he was doing one of the exercises that consisted in standing on a yoga ball with one foot while with the other he was doing a scorpion, he also had to carry little bags with the weight of 2.0 tons each on his shoulders, but this was not even the worst part. If he lose his equilibrium, Black Widow will hit him with a ruler made of Vibranium, and he can not whimper about this because she will hit him harder.
(I just want a little bit of mercy. 'Chibi Spider Appears' "You want mercy? You can go to train with Hulk, maybe he will be less violent with you")
Natasha hit him on the leg that was on the yoga ball, and Peter had to bite his tongue to prevent any sound from his mouth.. -Focus, Parker. If I see your leg bending again, I will hit your harder. I am clear?- She asked him.
-Yes, ma'am!- Peter responded; 5 minutes passed, and then he looked at the clock of the wall. 3 minutes to 1:00 p.m.
(Just 3 minutes more, and I will be free!)
His spider sense sounded, but it was too late because by the time he realized it his leg bended losing the equilibrium and falling directly to the floor. His head, right leg, and part of his waist were the parts of the his body that hit the hard floor, and the bags falled on the other part of his body. The sound of his body hitting on the floor was like the sound fragile egg impacting against the ground.
-Aaugh!- he screamed. Natasha quickly took off the bags and tried to help the hero.
-That is why I told you that you need to concentrate.- She sit Peter in the floor, and put her hand in front of him - Now tell me how many fingers do you see.?-
-Uggh, five?- She was showing four fingers. - Good enough, c'mon, hold my shoulder; I am going to take you to the Dr.s Cage. Maybe you hit your head with the floor.- He hold her shoulder, but he had to blend a little his body because Natasha was shorter than him. Peter saw how everything moved in differents directions.
(I hate this classes.)
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Peter and Natasha walked through the halls of the academy in direction of what Peter believe was the medical area, but suddenly Natasha stopped in front of a door. -What's happening? We suppose to go to the Drs. Cage.- Peter said while Natasha passed his ID through the electronic panel without letting go Peter.
-And that is what I am doing. Romina Cage is in charge of Ava's lavatory while she is gone. For your lucky, she is here.- The door opened,
Inside of the laboratory, Romina Cage and Mary Parker were talking about a special patient and her tratament while Nat and Peter came in. When Mary Parker saw her son hurt, she almost run in direction of him.
-My baby! What happened to you?- Mary helped Natasha to put him on a litter.
-He had an accident while we were practicing flexibility and resistance, and he lost the equilibrium casing that a heavy bag fallen on him. I think that maybe he has a contusion.-
-I'll judge that. Tell me, son, do you feel dizzy or seeing double?- asked Mrs Cage while she checked his eyes.
- I am seeing more than double, ma'am.-
-And what about the rest of you body? Anything broken?- Cage asked.
-I couldn't tell. Right now everything hurts.-
-Mary, Natasha help me to lay down Peter.- And they did. Romina started to give little hit in the parts were he was hurted. After a while, She ended. - Luckily, You don't have any broken bones only a little contusion, but it will disappear in a few hours. I recommend you go home, put ice on you, and sleep. I'll give you a few pills for any pain, and by tomorrow you will be fine -
-But that's it? Only regulars pills? What if he need the stronger pills like Ayala's? Romina.- Asked indignated Mary.
-Mary, this is nothing compared of what the amulet did to him weeks ago. Your son is strong enough to resist a little contusion.- Mrs. Cage responded.
-The amulet is one completely different thing. We are talking about a contusion.- said Mary.
-Sorry, but what amulet are we talking about?- asked Peter. The three women saw each other with a unscriptable face that beyond it represented worry.
-We did not mention any amulet Peter.- Said Romina.
-No, I am pretty sure that I heard the word amulet.- Peter said with complete security.
Something awesome about women is that most of us know how to communicate with simple looks, and I am not talking about telekinesis. This is an old technique that women had used since millions of years ago. So Mary Parker used this technique to said something like "Keep the play."
-Do you see? He is even hearing things that nobody said; he is still weak. Am I right? Natasha.- Now the looks were to Natasha. -I can't say who is right because both of you have a point.
-Obviously, I am right.- Mary Parker said capturing all the attention to her. -Oh, I am sorry, but what did you said?- asked Romina.
-What you heard, sweetheart. I am his mother, and that means that I know what is better for him.-
-And I am his Doctor, that means that I know what is better for him because I have more than 11 studying medicine.- I have to make clear that these women weren't fighting just acting.
( What the heck is going on here?)
Peter was impacted for what he was seeing. His mother and one of his best friend's' mother was about to "fight." Natasha know what will happens there, so she desired to make a pause before this will get uglier.
-Mary, Romina, While you two found who has the reason, I will take Parker to eat something. He hasn't eaten yet.- said Natasha while she make signals to Peter to stand up. -It is fine; take my purse and the files to home. Those are on the desk. When I get back home, I will bring you the pills that you need.- said Mary.
-Yes, mom.- Peter said while Natasha took the purse of Mary, and in less than a second they were outside the laboratory.
-What happened there?- Asked Peter to Natasha.
-It is called friendship. Your mom and Romina had been friends since they met for first time in England.-
- It is a quite strange friendship in my opinion.- Natasha stared to walk without say anything. - Mmm, Widow, I need the purse of my mom.- He started, with difficult, to walk with her.
-I know, but I said to you mother that I will take you to eat something, and that's what I am going to do.- Peter said nothing to fight back Nat because he was starving and too tired to contradict her. -So, what do you want to eat?- Natasha asked.
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Mcdonald's is the most, in my humble opinion, popular restaurant in United States. You literally can find one around the corner. So after borrow a civilian car from S.H.I.E.L.D., Peter and Natasha were to Mcdonald's to bought six hot n' spices, ten hash browns, and an ice cream cone for Peter. The teenager asked her if she wanted something, but the spy said that she wasn't hungry. They took the food and were to Peter's house.
Finally they arrived to the Parkers'. Peter took of the keys to opened the door while Natasha hold the purse. - Thank you to take me to my house, Nat.- She said while they came in the house.
-You need to concentrate.- Natasha said putting the purse and the folders on the sofa.
-I expected a "You are welcome. It was a pleasure to help you after you get hurt a cause of my cruel and pointless training that Ayala assigned", but a "you need to concentrate" is good too.- There was silent, the kind of silent that announces the death of someone.
(Please tell me that I did not say what I said.)
Natasha kicked Peter's face, but before it can even touch it, he double all his back until his hands touched the floor. She gave another kick, and this time he avoided it again doing a reverse mortal. He ended in a fight position, but Nat was just standing.
-Okey, I know that what I said was inappropriate, but that is not reason for give me another contusion.- He said.
-You trust too much in your "Spider Sense" and your natural instincts. The fever that you have incremented this two factors making you too lose control of yourself.-
-I have control of myself.- Peter defended.
-No, you don't. A prove of this is that you jumped from a building and did not know what to do when you failed. Two weeks ago, you would not responded the same way as you did today.-
-Yeah, well it is because I was sick, still I am, but the thing here is that I have control.-
Natasha look directly to Peter's eyes. -Listen, Parker. I would never give classes to another superhero at least it is because a favor, and Ayala ask me to teach you because she believe that you have potential to be a better hero than you're right know. I start to believe it too, but all that training, not only my but all ones, does not have a point if you don't cooperate. This is not the old pilot program that you started; this is almost the major leagues. And for be here, you have to admit that you are not perfect as you always thinks and start to recognize your defects to correct them. But if you do not want keep doing this "pointless" training, you can go to Fury ask him if you can change my class for another class, Maybe Captain Marvel can be your teacher; she is pretty good.- and cross the principal door to leave the house and a so confused Peter.
(I know, my big mouth always getting me in trouble. I did not want to make her upset, but in my defense I am tired of all this training, and I am tired always get hurt. Since my birthday only bad things happens to me. Another thing I never said that I am perfect, but yes, I have control of myself. But maybe she is right, and I need a new instructor.)
Peter decided that he will think about this after eat his food and take a shower.
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Peter was on the living room watching a movie on Netflix, Terminator,with his civilian clothes, but he was not concentrated at all. In his mind was the question of if he should keep training with Widow or not. One part of him says to give up the training with her because he was not what Widow said about him. He had fighted against the most evil villains in the world. The other part of him, say if he had defeated all those villains, why a simple training is making him be, and I am sorry for the descriptions, but it's Peter's mind, an asshole.
Peter moved to research the popcorns that was in front of him, but at the moment of move, the folders that were on his side fall on the floor. For his luck only one folder spread its papers on the floor. He tried to fixed the papers, but at the time that he look through the pages, something catch his attention. In one of the those papers were written his name.
("Don't you dare to read those papers; those are your mother papers." said Angel Spider while Devil Spider appeared. "And so? Those papers have your name, so they are about you." Aghh! Why I am always in the moral conflict of this story. "Listen, Kiddo. Aren't you tired of everyone keeping secrets from you?" said Devil. Yes, actually I am. "Then read the papers. No one will know about it, at least the blue guy speak." Devil said while she pointed Angel. "You know what? Do what do want, but remember my words. Something is better so not know all secrets.")
Peter decided to read those papers. It was a report, a medical report, about him written by Ava D Ayala. -"The next documents is the record of the attack of 'Salvage Stage' of Peter Benjamin Parker that happened the day XX/XX/201X. To background this report it is essential to mention that the individual had contact with AWT the day before of the attack a cause of an accident by the portador of the AWT, Ava D. Ayala. Through the pass of approx. 12 hours of the contact with AWT, the patient started to experiment first signals of the Salvage Stage, weakness, not regulations of corporal calor, cough, sleepwalking, and bleed through eyes, nose and ears. Personally I am impressed for the resistance of Mister Parker; normal people would succumbed to such quantity of essence of life, EL, but Parker is a peculiar man. Anyways, after receive the call of Fury, I ran away to attend him. He was in bad conditions, but not enough to become a "beast." I ask my colleagues to leave me alone with him. I had to act quickly before all that wild EL get mixed with Parker's. After 8 hours of therapy I could take away most of the El, but still a considerate quantility was on the patient. At the end, he sleep around an hour more before wake up in my laboratory. I gave him medications that consist in natural remedies created by me. Those medicaments will take away the excess of EL of his body and will help him to maintain him in orden. As a professional cu... cura…" ugh!- Peter stopped to read when he could not said the world curandera, so he decided to keep going. "As a professional I can not say how many time would take until he get the same normal before the salvage stage because being a superhuman it is quite unpredictable his situation, and also I cannot tell what would be the collateral effects through this time of recuperation. To person who is reading this report, please I remember you that this is a top secret document; that means that no one but agents with level 10 and up can readed it because of the Lemuria trate and the AWT custodian." -
(AWT? Essence of life? Lemuria trate? Top secret? Salvage Stage? What are those things?)
Peter was astonished; he knew it that being in S.H.I.E.L. will always keep secrets from him, but to keep secrets about his own health, that is low even for them. He was not hundred percent sure what or to whom believe know. No Ava, no Drs. Cage, no one, that is for sure, but he need answers, so he had to go to the head of the of this, Furry
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There he was standing in front of Fury's door. On his hand was the folder that he "borrow" from his mother. He was just a few seconds of get into to a true that would be better if it keets as a secret. At different of others doors, this door you have to know and wait for Fury to open it electronically, and he did it. Inside the office, Fury was sitting on his desk revising some papers when Peter came.
-Mister Parker, what brings you here?- Fury said.
-I need to talk to you about this.- He gave the folder to Fury. Nick saw the content of the folder, and the expression of his face change. -How do you get this papers?-
-That is not important, what really matter is that I believe that I deserve some answers.- Peter said while he sat on a chair in front of the desk.
-Do you know that this is a document level ten, and you are an agent level 6? I can suspend you for two months.- Fury reclaim.
-I know, but I also know that document have information about my health, information that was keep it as a secret from me, and if my contract does not lies, S.H.I.E.L.D does not have the right to keep secret about my health.- Peter said.
Fury laugh. -Have you considerate to become a lawyer? You could be a good one, but anyways, what do you wanna know? -
-This document wrote by Ayala says that I had a "Salvage Stage," but it does not mention any fever or genetical disorder.. So what is a Salvage Stage, AWT, and essence of life?-
-I am afraid that I can not respond you that.- Fury said.
-So who can?-
-Ayala, She is the only doctor that has the authorization to rebelate that information.- Furry said.
-But why? This is my health not her. And why she is in charge of me if she is not even a doctor. I do not even know who is she. It is too suspicious that I teenager has a medical case.- Peter reclaim. He was tied to this and getting mad-
- You are wrong Parker. Ava Ayala ended her studies in medicine week ago with the highest grades. She is officially a doctor/Curandera/Geneticists, and if I gave her your case, it's because she is a specialist on those themes. So if you want to know the true, you can talk to her.-
-Well, can you tell her to come back, or call and tell that I need to talk to her. This is really important.-
-Ayala is in a part of Italy that cannot receive calls from foreign countries, Her phone only can make calls but not received them.-
-Well maybe if you send a message to her parent or brothers.- Peter asked.
-It better that you wait. She had to end what she is doing.-
-But I think that if she give me five minutes of her time would be more that sufficient.- Peter said desperate.
-Do you know Ayala's family? - this confused Peter -What that have to do with this?-
-Respond the answer, Parker.- Fury said.
- No, I told you I do not know anything about her.- Fury stand up and search in put out some folders from an archive. He gave the folder to Peter who open it.
-Ava's family is dead, She does not have a father, grandparents, just a few uncles and cousins that does not want to see her. Those same relatives bury her father and grandfather in a place where she can't go, and after years of fight for the custody of the bodies. Ava finally won. Ava is in Italy to make sure that rest of her family get save to bury then in a new place the next week.- Peter's questions and angry disappear, and instead a feeling of shame and embarrassment.
-I am sorry; I…- but he was interrupted for the phone of Fury. Nick put off the phone of his pocket. On the screen was the name of "Sobrina* Ava." - Here this is for you.- said Fury while he gave his phone to him. -You can ask her if you want.- Peter did not want to answer the call, but it was too late, Fury All really click the bottom of answer and the speaker. Peter did not said nothing; he did not know what to said.
-Hello, Fury?- a voice of woman spoke.
-Who's this?- Peter said, obviously he knew that Ava was in the other line.
-Better question, who are you? And what are you doing with Fury's phone?- Ava said, Peter look at Fury, and he just had a maleficent smile in his face.
-Ava? Ava it is me, Spider-Man- Peter said.
(I do not why, by I feel that someone called me stupid.)
-Spider-Man, what are you doing with Fury's Phone?- Fury told him something like, "If you say something, you are dead."
-I was in his office talking with him, but he had to leave, and he left his cellphone. Then you call it. -
-Do you know that is rude to answer phones from other persons without their permission, right? -
(Also is rude that other persons make people answer a phone under pressure)
-I know, but in the screen appeared an alert red, and I thought that maybe it was important. I mean… I am not telling that you are not important… I mean your call… I mean your business…- Peter said.
(Why am I so nervous ?)
-Are you Okay? You sound a little bit strange. Have you been taking the medicines that I left you?-
-Yes, I been take them every day as you said, and I am only a little bit... tired for the training, but I am fine, Ava. But how are you? How is your family? - Shit, the only thing that he should avoid to say, and said it.
In the silence Fury still saw him with a face with decision -I am fine, and my family is all right, thank you for ask, Parker. - her tone of voice was so clear to Peter. Maybe the question was too hard to answer.
-That is good to hear, Ava. Are you going to come back soon? The boys miss you. They talk about you recurrently. - Actually the boy talked too much about her since she was gone.
-I don't know when I can come back; maybe in a week more or two. All depends in how many time I can finish my family business.-
-Okay, I hope you can finish them soon-
-Thanks, Parker I have to go. If you see Fury, tell him that I called him, and I need him to call me back the soon as possible for talk about the training of others superheroes.- at that moment Peter tough that maybe would be better y he say that Fury was in front of her, but her tone of voice was so exhausted that he decided that was better to let her go.
-I will tell him, oh and before you hold off I want you congratulate you.-
(Maybe this little can make her happier.)
-Congratulate me? What I did?-
-Fury told me that you passed your last test to become a doctor and with the Highest grades possible. Congratulations Doctor Ava don't-know-if-you-have-a-middle-name Ayala.-
-Daisy, my second name is Daisy.-
(That is a pretty name)
-Well, congratulation doctor Ava Daisy Ayala. All that time reading those huge boring books with millions of words get the answer to save millions of people.-
-Yes, but the good thing is that these books were entreating, and you are right they had a lot… - Ava paused for a moment -... a lot of answers. Parker, I really have to go; see you soon, and thanks for this. -
-Thanks for what?, Ava? Ava?!- but it was pointless; she had already hold the phone.
-I guess you and Ava are improving in their relationship. I thought you two would fight at the moment of picking the phone.- Fury said.
-Well, she and I had a little talk, and we accord to be workmates, nothing more nothing less.-
Peter returned the phone to Fury, and took the folders. -What's this?-
-Ayala's expedient. Natasha told me that you was not "enjoying" the classes with her, that you do not see the point with her training assigned for Ayala. Maybe if you see her expedient you will get more convinced that this training can work.- Peter returned the folder.
-No, I do not need the folder. I will give it another chance until Ava came back and gave me the answer that I need.-
Fury smiled, -I'm glad to heard that, now go to your house and repose a little.- Peter standed up and walk away from the office.
(Who knows? Maybe a second chance can be better than the first one.)
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Somewhere in Italy three days after.
The trees covered the most part of the place, and the grass practically covered all the ground with his green color and wild flowers. All places but a little grave, and beside the grave was Ava putting flowers that were from Lemuria. Ava was wearing a bohemian blue dress; on her skin was little white freckles, and her hair was more and more white hair.
-I know that you can hear me papi wherever you are.- under her glasses, the blue eyes of Ava started to let go little tears. - and I want you to know that I am the White Tiger know and the future queen of Lemuria. I am following your steps. I am trying to be the woman that you always want me to be, but do not worry. I have a family composed for the old and new ones. - Ava said. And then a hand touch Ava's shoulder.
-And I am happy to say that the good Ayala family are part of it. - Ava turned to face the man that was on her side, her uncle Felix Ayala.
-Yes, the good one Ayalas. The one that does not hate me.- Ava smiled to her uncle - I love you, uncle.-
-I love you too, mija, and remember "Family is not base it on blood…"-
-"It's base on love." Does not matter that this part of the Ayala does share blood with me. I love you all more than the ones that I share my DNA. And I am sure that my papa loves you all too. Especially you, uncle Felix.-
Felix put a ring on the flowers of the grave. -I know, and I love him too more than his best friend.- He hugged Ava from her shoulders. - Well, it is getting late; your mama Maria will be mad if we get late to diner.-
Ava laugh. -Yes, I do not want her telling us, "In questa casa, la famiglia cena insieme"- In this house, the family take dinner together.
They started to walk out the wood getting with the end of the vineyards of the Ayalas.
"Family is not based on blood. It is based on love." The most beautiful true in the world.
Sobrina: niece
Mija: daughter
Mama: mom
Papa: dad
