DISCLAIMER: (Speaking to someone) Is this really necessary? I obviously don't own Marvel, Avengers, or Spider-Man.
Tony Stark: It's called technicalities dear.
Me: Shut it Stark.
Tony Stark: You sound like Cap. No wonder you made a story from his daughter's point of view.
Me: Would you like a little hellion of your own? I'm sure I can whip up a one night stand with a kid to hand over to you.
Tony Stark: GOD NO! Pepper will kill me! Have mercy.
Me: Eh, maybe. Can I borrow the suit?
Tony Stark: You're sixteen.
Me: Cheaper than driving my car around. Please Tony?
Tony Stark: I'll get a variant of the Rescue armor out, okay? Just say what you have to say so I can leave.
Me: Thanks Tony. And fine. I DO NOT OWN MARVEL, AVENGERS, OR SPIDER-MAN!
Tony Stark: Good. Now, would you mind going up in the vents and getting Bird Brains out? He's shooting people with nerf darts. *is hit by nerf dart*
Clint Barton: No, she'll join my side!
Me: Good god. I'm out of here.
Sarah thinks about the stories and smiles. This one should have SJ and Thor laughing quite hard.
"This one has to deal with a bit of fun Loki and I had. But we could not have picked a worse time to teach me magic," Sarah chuckles thinking back on the memory. She places the journal on her lap and sits back on the couch. "I had a day off of regular training. Sif was needed elsewhere as were the Warriors Three and the Valkeries. So I decided to spend my day with Loki."
"How bad was the mischief?" Thor inquires.
"I shall get to that Thor!"
"Anyone else notice she's talking in an accent?" Clint inquires.
"It grows on you, Clint," Sarah says. "Loki decided to teach me how to cast enchantments on water to do simple things." Sarah continues to talk about mediocre things she learns until she gets to the climax. "Loki and I used magic on the same pond at the same time. That was a grave mistake on both of our parts in hindsight. The pond came to life. It took the form of a water dragon. My powers gave it form, his life.
"The water dragon reared into the air and lunged at a nearby garden worker. I was there just in time to knock him over. Loki tried to kill the dragon by taking away the magic but our magic had combined so neither of the spells we used could be removed. A guard informed Odin of the incident as we continued to try everything related to water that we could. When all else failed, Loki started to throw fireballs at it.
"As you can imagine the creature was not happy with his attack. It attempted to attack us. We both ended up drenched with water from its attack. By this time Odin had arrived and found, much to his amusement, Loki and I drenched and attempting to defeat the creature still. I gave Loki enough time to get a larger fireball going but my attacks were nothing compared to his. Odin watched on as Loki threw the fireball straight up at the serpent's mouth causing it to explode. Loki and I had just started to dry, but all the water came tumbling down on us. Much to our chagrin, we had lit a few bushes on fire as well. Loki took care of those. Odin said the experience alone was enough for punishment," Sarah laughs.
"What fine tales you speak, Sarah," Thor chuckles. "My brother did something very similar when I was much younger. However, Amora the Enchantress had to defeat the creature for him. She was his teacher at the time."
"Marvelous dear," Natasha says from the hallway where she and Pepper are waiting. Tony and Steve watch on with smiles on their faces. "Dinner is ready." The group files into the kitchen but tony stops her for a moment.
"Can you still perform magic?" Tony inquires.
"Some yes."
"Could I convince you to play a prank at dinner?"
"On who?"
"Clint. He has water tonight." Sarah smirks.
"Any requests."
"I just want him wet." Sarah nods and walks on into the dining room. She sits down next to SJ and looks over at Clint who sips his water. Natasha gives her a look that says who told you to do it written all over her face. Sarah tilts her head toward Tony causing Natasha to smirk. She puts her hand to her face and mouths 'Clint has it coming' to Sarah. Sarah smiles and waits until everyone is eating and Clint is drinking from him glass. As he lowers his glass, Sarah lifts two fingers in his direction and whispers soft enough no one hears her. Clint stares as the water changes and a hawk forms out of the water. It rises and opens its mouth spraying him with water. Clint jumps back from the table and runs around the table trying to get the chasing hawk to go away. Sarah sends it dive-bombing for Clint's head and it hits him with a splat. Tony roars with laughter as does Sarah and Natasha. Thor joins in as he realizes it was Sarah playing with magic. Soon the whole team is laughing, well other than Clint.
"I'm going to get you," Clint growls getting up off the ground.
"Don't punish the kid, I had her do it Clint," Tony confesses. Clint leaps at Tony and wrestles him to the ground leaving the whole group laughing. Later, Sarah and SJ fall asleep on the floor in the living room listening to Thor tell stories of his childhood for the rest of the night.
"I'll take her to bed," Steve says looking down at his oldest child. With Clint's help, they ease her onto her back and Steve picks her up. Natasha opens Sarah's bedroom door for him and Steve lays his baby down to sleep. He kisses her forehead softy and leaves the room with Natasha. The next few days pass without anything interesting occurring, well other than a boring date with Flash but Sarah and Flash still had fun watching the movie. On Christmas Eve, they all head to the living room to drink eggnog (half of it had alcohol but they had some plain as well), sing carols, recall old Christmas stories, and watch the classic Christmas movies.
"I'm going to bed," Sarah says getting up to set her glass of spiked eggnog on the table. Steve had let her try the alcoholic eggnog it wouldn't affect her so he didn't see the harm in it. Sarah sets her glass down on the tray on the coffee table and heads to her room. Just as she reaches her room, her phone rings. Looking at the caller ID she opens it up.
"Hey Peter," Sarah says with a giggle.
"Sarah, I need some help," Peter says. "Helicarrier isn't in town. And the crew is gone to see relatives. God, pain." Sarah's face drops drastically.
"Where are you?" Sarah demands. The panic in her voice is evident as she sprints into her room and throws on a jacket.
"The roof of the school, hurry please." Sarah turns tail and runs back to the living room.
"Clint, Bruce with me now!"
"What's going on?" Steve demands.
"Peter's hurt, the whole crew is gone, and the helicarrier is in Canada, remember?" Sarah says quickly. The trio is in a jet before the others can get to them. Clint parks on the roof where Peter is laying down with half of his suit torn up.
"Oh my god, Peter!" Sarah cries out running to his side. The first thought through her head consists of First Gunnarr and now Peter. This can't be happening!
"Doesn't hurt too much," Peter chuckles. Bruce kneels next to Peter and starts to examine Peter's wounds.
"What happened?" Sarah demands.
"Sniper shots, all I know. Got here after I was shot."
"There's a doctor I know at one of the hospitals, I'll give her a call. Sarah, get him in the jet and get him changed into different pants. He can't go in with the suit," Clint says. Sarah picks up Peter as Bruce applies pressure to the wounds. She sets him down on the floor of the jet forgoing the cot.
"Peter, I'm tearing your suit," Sarah says looking at the suit.
"You can buy me a new one," he says through ragged breathes. Sarah rips the suit off her friend and puts a pair of sweat pants on him. She uses a shirt to help slow the bleeding. Sarah takes Peter's mask off and sees the tears.
"You're going to be okay," Sarah insists as Clint flies them to the hospital just outside of the city.
Peter grabs her forearm and holds it tightly, drawing her attention back to his face. "Aunt May, I want you to get her," Peter says.
"Promise. I'll go once you're being taken care of." Peter nods slowly.
"Peter, I need you to stay with me. Tell me what happened exactly," Bruce orders.
"I was out on patrol. I stopped mugging and was headed for home. I heard a shot and then two more. I felt the pain so I webbed them and headed for the school. The blood made the webbing deteriorate," Peter stammers. "It hurts."
"You're going to be okay, promise," Sarah insists. She brushes his hair away from his face. "I'll call Mary Jane, Gwen, and Harry too."
"Thanks." Sarah nods and kisses his forehead.
"Landing. They've got a gurney waiting," Clint tells them. Clint hits the button and rushes the gurney up. Sarah lifts him onto the gurney and the paramedics take over. Sarah follows them all the way to the door where the friend of Clint's meets her.
"His chances Doc?" she asks.
"I'll do my best. Does he have family?" The doctor watches Peter move past her.
"Yeah. I promised I would go get her."
"I'll let the front desk know you're coming Miss?"
"Rogers." Sarah walks toward the jet her phone in hand. She calls Steve. "Dad, need a favor. Drive a decent car over to my school. I'll meet you there. We have to pick up May Parker and bring her to the hospital to see Peter."
"Tony's coming with me," Steve states.
"See you then." Sarah hangs up and looks at Clint. "Back to the school. Did you call Fury?"
"No." Sarah starts to find the Director's number in her phone directory.
"I'll call him. Fly." The three settle in and Sarah calls Fury.
"Sarah?"
"Director, Peter's in a hospital. He was shot three times. The doctor is a friend of Clint's. Thought you should know." Sarah runs a shaking hand down her face. She can feel the tears there.
"Damn it! We're on our way back already." Sarah can hear Fury order the helicarrier to go faster toward New York in the background.
"See you when you get here."
"Call the rest of the team." Sarah had already figured that job would go to her. She makes a mental order of who to call in her head. She'd call the civilians too. They had a right to know. They know who Peter is, they'd find out one way or another.
"I will once I get three others out of the way first." She calls Harry next.
"Sarah?" Harry asks sleepily.
"Hey Harry. Peter's in the hospital," Sarah says quickly.
"What happened!" Harry demands suddenly awake. Sarah smirks; it was amazing how fast he could wake up like that.
"He was shot. I thought I should call and tell you."
"Call me with news, will you? I don't care at what time," Harry insists. That's a true friend, promising to pick up no matter what time she gets the news.
"No problem. Got to call everyone else." Harry hangs up and Sarah calls Gwen.
"Hey Sarah. You're calling late," Gwen remarks. Sarah can hear her family laughing in the background. It made it a lot harder to tell her the news.
"I thought you should know, Pete's in the hospital, he was shot," Sarah says. "I'll call you with more information when I know, okay?"
"Yeah sure. Give him my best wishes." She can hear Gwen starting to cry in the background.
"Will do." Sarah calls MJ next.
"Sarah, is something wrong?" Mary Jane asks. "You're calling pretty late." Figures Mary Jane would be the first one to figure out why she was calling late.
"Pete got hurt tonight. Three shots. He's in the hospital," Sarah explains. Sarah hears the phone drop and then MJ picks it back up.
"Oh god! Does May know?"
"I'm going to her now." Sarah can hear the ruffling of MJ's coat in the background.
"Take me with you to the hospital. I'll wait on my porch until you get to May's," Mary Jane says.
"All right. See you then MJ." Sarah hangs up and calls Ava as she jumps out of the jet and lands in front of the school. The hover-SUV lands in front of her and she climbs in.
"Sarah, you do realize what time it is right?" Ava questions. The Tiger sounds exhausted.
"Yeah I know. Peter's been shot. He's in the hospital. I'm going to take Aunt May to the hospital now. Don't worry we got him out of the suit before we got to the hospital," Sarah says. She can hear Ava take a very shaky breath on the other end of the line.
"The helicarrier?"
"On its way back from Canada."
"Call me when you know more." Sarah knows that Ava and Peter have had their differences, but they're team members. Sarah can hear Ava's breathing change as worry overcomes the Tiger.
"I will." Sarah calls Luke next who happens to be with Danny. They put her on speaker in Danny's bedroom once leaving their family.
"What's up Sarah?" Luke asks. Luke's mission voice is instantly recognizable.
"Peter was shot on the job. His identity is intact we got his suit off. But he's in the hospital right now." The sentence was becoming numb to her. I shouldn't be numb! Damn it! One of my best friends is in the hospital! He could have died! Tony and Steve glance at her as they travel to Aunt May's house. Both men are worried about the blond in the backseat.
"Call with more information later and the address of the hospital. We'll visit him tomorrow," Danny says firmly. She hears something smash on the end of the line. Seems Luke didn't react well.
"Danny, it is Christmas tomorrow," Sarah protests. She knows that Danny's family situation is a bit tough, so is Luke's. She really doesn't want to take them away from their families. Well, what's left of them.
"He is my friend and a teammate. We'll be there."
"I'll talk to you later." They hang up and she calls Sam.
"Oh god," Sam says hearing the news. "Call me when you have more information."
"You and everybody else. Talk to you later Sam." Sarah hangs up as they reach Aunt May's house. Mary Jane walks over and stands by the porch as Sarah knocks with Tony and Steve at the bottom of the steps. May opens the door and smiles at Sarah softly.
"Sarah dear, Peter's not here right now," May says.
"I know, Mrs. Parker. Peter's been shot, ma'am," Sarah says. May falls into Sarah in shock. "I'm here to take you to the hospital. It's just outside of town and he's getting the best care possible." May nods numbly and Mary Jane retrieves May's purse and coat. They take the older woman to the SUV and sit on either side of her. Steve uses the blacked out windows to prevent May from seeing the fact that they're flying. They land in the parking lot and walk into the hospital.
"Can I help you?" the front desk asks.
"I'm Sarah Rogers, we're here about Peter Parker," Sarah explains. "This is his aunt."
"Ah yes. The doctor told me to be expecting you. The tenth floor. Your friends Barton and Banner are waiting there," she says. Sarah nods and looks at the nearby wheelchairs.
"Can we borrow a wheelchair? I think Mrs. Parker is in shock," Sarah says softly. The receptionist nods and Steve wheels one over. They go to the tenth floor where Bruce and Clint are waiting.
"Where'd you park the jet?" Steve asks.
"The second helicopter pad," Clint answers. "He's still in surgery but they already have his room picked out." Clint points to the room with the SHIELD emblem on it. "Fury called ahead."
"Oh dear, how are we going to pay the bills," May whispers looking around the top security level.
"You won't, May," Tony says. "Whatever SHIELD doesn't pay for, I will."
"I couldn't impose."
"It's not a problem. Peter's helped us in ways you don't know about." They wait in the waiting area of the SHIELD floor for two hours. The doctor, Sharon Marshall, walks over and looks at Clint. Clint motions to May.
"This is Peter's aunt," Clint says.
"Missus Parker, your nephew will make a full recovery. We have him sedated for now. There were four bullet wounds in your nephew but they weren't life threatening. You can all stay in his room until he wakes," the doctor says. "We understand this is a special case. Once he's moved in you can go inside." May nods and Mary Jane hugs her lightly. Sarah pulls the doctor aside.
"Four shots?" she asks.
"Yes, three sniper rounds one closer up. Why?" Sharon asks.
"I talked to Peter, he only heard three shots," Sarah answers.
"I don't know. She doesn't know, does she?" Sharon asks pointing to May.
"No, but I suspect she's going to be told. Thanks for your help."
"No problem." Sharon walks away and Sarah rejoins the group. They go into the room and sit down in the seats around the room. Peter looks peaceful in his sleep.
"My sweet boy," May whimpers stroking his hair. "What did you do?" The door opens to reveal Phil and Fury. Sarah stands up and walks over to them.
"We didn't tell her," Sarah tells them.
"How is he?" Phil asks.
"Bullets are out. Four shots, he heard three. I don't know why his spider sense didn't kick in. With that regenerative property of his, he'll be back on his feet before school starts," Sarah says. "I told the team and our friends that know about his secret. They're all worried about him."
"All right. We'll talk to May. You might want to stay here for it." Sarah nods and takes her seat again. Phil closes the door and Nick clears his throat. "Mrs. Parker." May looks up at Nick. "My name is Director Nick Fury of SHIELD. Your nephew works for me," Nick states.
"Peter's job is at the Bugle," May states.
"That's a side job, ma'am," Phil says.
"What does Peter do?" May asks.
"The simple version is, he's Spider-Man," Fury states. May is silent.
"You had better be joking," May says deathly serious.
"No ma'am I am not. Over a year ago, your nephew was transformed into Spider-Man. SHIELD took him in for protection and training as of this school year. Phil is his handler, along with his other super friends. Peter was on patrol tonight when this happened. I can assure you ma'am that we will find out what happened," Fury says.
"Shots came from the Bugle's tower," Tony says showing his tablet. "Permission to investigate?"
"Not just yet Stark."
"My Peter can't be Spider-Man," May protests. She looks at Sarah and Mary Jane. "You can't believe this can you?"
"He's saved me before, Aunt May," Mary Jane says. Sarah activates her shield and shows it to May.
"I've worked alongside him. I didn't know for a while, I suspected it but I didn't know. Mrs. Parker, Peter is Spider-Man. And I know you're worried about his safety but within three days Peter will be completely healed. I mean, you'll be able to take him home probably around noon," Sarah states. May raises an eyebrow. "Part of his gift is that he heals fast. I do the same, just at a different degree than he does. May, you know me; I would not lie to you."
"So Friday night, when you and that other girl were taken, Peter came after you?" May asks.
"Yes ma'am."
"Mrs. Parker," Fury says and May looks at him, "now that you know about Peter's job, we can pay him all the back cash we owe him. He can stop working at the Bugle. And he will be able to help you two pay bills. This is his job. He loves it. If he didn't work for SHIELD he would still be out there fighting." May nods somberly. Sarah knows the pay thing was mostly BS but the look on Tony's face read Peter's-getting-away-from-the-Bugle-and-getting-a-job-at-SI all over it.
"Mary Jane, Clint stay here with May and Peter until he's cleared to leave," Phil says.
"Stark, Sarah, Cap, Bruce, you got the Bugle. Wake Jameson up, I don't care. Just don't say it's Peter, say it's Spider-Man, please. Wear your uniforms. Well, Stark, you can wear what you have on now. Get to the bottom of this," Fury orders.
"Clint, you mind taking the SUV?" Tony asks.
"Take the jet." Clint tosses Sarah the keys.
"MJ, call Harry and Gwen. Give them an update on everything. I'll get the rest of the crew on the plane communicators," Sarah settles.
"Sarah," May says and Sarah looks at her, "you really do this superhero business too?"
"My dad is Captain America," Sarah states looking fondly at Steve, "runs in the family."
"Ma'am," Steve says looking at May, "your nephew, his friends, my daughter, they saved four members of the Avengers and Mary Jane. He's got powerful friends in high places." May nods slowly. The departing parties leave the hospital quickly. Sarah punches the crew up on the communicator before she takes off.
"You're on the air with myself and the rest of the super crew, minus Pete," Sarah states as the others join the line.
"Sarah, how's Peter?" Ava demands.
"He's going to be just fine," Sarah says with a smile. "His regenerative factor will have him out quick, probably today around lunch. Mary Jane and May are with him. Clint's their babysitter for now. May knows about Spidey. We didn't tell her which of Peter's friends were on the crew though."
"Any clue who did it?" Luke asks.
"I'll pummel whoever did it," Sam snarls.
"Sarah, found your suit," Tony says from in the back of the plane. "You taking the crime scene or JJ?" Tony asks.
"JJ," Sarah replies.
"JAMESON!" four voices bellow at Sarah.
"The shots came from his building so we're going to have a talk with him," Sarah answers. "I'll call with news later. Or you can call Mary Jane."
"Catch this guy," Danny says, "and then let me go a few blows with him."
"Will do Danny." Sarah hangs up and lets Steve take over so she can get dressed. Steve and Bruce would take the floors Tony had figured out the shots came from. Thor and Natasha were on their way to track down where Peter was at the time. Luckily, his communicator had a tracer and they had a pretty good place to start. Sarah tentatively lands the jet on the top of the Bugle thanking that when it had been rebuilt it had a flat top for a roof.
"Fury called Jameson into the office," Tony says looking at Sarah. Tony had pulled a suit out of somewhere and had changed into it. "Ready?"
"Damn right."
"Don't hurt him," Steve warns as he and Bruce take equipment to examine the sites.
"I won't," Sarah promises as they walk toward the stairs, "at least they won't be marks." Tony shakes his head as they make their way to Jameson's office. Tony knocks.
"Come!" Tony opens the door and walks in with Sarah behind him. "Stark, I should have known you were the reason I had to come in on Christmas Eve."
"What did you do Jonah?" Tony questions.
"What are you talking about?" Jonah demands.
"Spider-Man was shot. The shots came from this building, well three of them at least," Tony says.
"SHOT!" Jonah shouts. Sarah steps around Tony. Jonah's eyes widen considerably at the sight of the blond, particularly in mission gear. He eyes the guns he can see.
"Remember me, Mr. Jameson?" Sarah questions.
"Yeah, you're Sarah Rogers, the future Avenger," Jonah says with slight hesitation.
"I'm also a personal friend of Spider-Man and he's quite dear to me. So if you say you're not involved with his shooting, and I found out you're lying, well, let me put it this way," Sarah says with a chuckle, "I don't take kindly to my friends being shot at."
"Are you threatening me?" Jonah demands. Sarah walks forward and trails her hands on his desk. "You are not the same kid I met a few nights ago."
"No, this side of me is the side that no one gets to see. You and Tony are the first one to see it outside of the people that held me captive for 15 years," Sarah says with an evil chuckle. She walks around the desk and sits down on it, a hand brushing her gun as she settles on the desk. "See, I'm not a little princess. As good-hearted as I am, I hate it when people go after my friends and family. I'll tell you a little secret." Sarah puts her hand on Jonah's tie. "The people that held me captive, they weren't very nice. But their hours of torment taught me something, Jonah. It taught me just how much the human body can take without leaving a shred of evidence." Sarah grips his tie tightly and brings him closer to her. The look on her face has Jonah ready to pee himself. He had met many scary people, but Sarah had to be in the top five.
"Stark," Jonah says nervously looking over Sarah's shoulder at the billionaire.
"You're scaring him. Give him some breathing room," Tony says. Sarah rolls her eyes and releases Jonah. She flips herself over his desk and lands gracefully on the other side. She walks to Tony's side and crosses her arms. "Good thing your dad isn't here with you."
"Not Mom?" Sarah questions.
"She'd have him hanging out of the window by now. Black Widow, a spider, and Spider-Man, yeah she may not show it but she cares. You should have seen some things she did when you were gone. He hung one guy by his ankle off a bridge."
"Those are good ideas!" Sarah chuckles. "I'll have to remember those for the next set of idiots."
"All right! All right! There was a man here about three days ago, closer to four now. He wanted to know how much I hated Spider-Man, and I told him it was a lot. He said he could get Spider-Man unmasked if I gave him access to the floor below this." Sarah relays the information to Steve and Bruce who climb up to the floor. "I didn't think he was serious!" Jonah insists.
"Be happy this idiot was a bad shot," Sarah snarls. "Otherwise, my friend would be dead and you would have been next on my list."
"Are all you Avengers this sinister away from the public?" Jonah demands looking at Tony.
"Only when it comes to the ones with particularly bad pasts or when someone goes after someone dear to us. I'd be in her position if it was Miss Potts," Tony says. "Hush is the word, Jonah. That is, unless you want people to know you almost got Spidey killed."
"Hush it the word."
"Our jet is on your roof and we're investigating the site. You're free to go," Tony says. Jonah sprints out of the room on the side opposite of Sarah. Tony looks at Sarah who regains her normal composure again. "I don't know who I should be more worried about, you or your mother. You both have scary interrogation techniques. I'm pretty sure Jonah has to change his pants now, not to mention his chair."
"I wasn't kidding Tony." Sarah looks at Tony with a very serious face.
"I know, that's what worries me." They walk to the site and find the rounds there.
"Didn't even police his brass," Steve mutters.
"Did he think no one would suspect J. Jonah Jameson, the man that has wanted Spidey in cuffs for over a year?" Tony mutters. Tony takes one and motions Sarah's gauntlet over. Tony sets it on scanner mode and scans the fingerprint of the crook. Sarah flips her visor down and reads the screen.
"An amateur," Sarah tells them. "I have his last known address." They relay everything to SHIELD who have the boasting crook in cuffs within twenty minutes. Apparently, he thought he had killed the Spider, but he hadn't because Peter had jumped to get away at the last second causing the bullets to hit him lower than expected.
"What about the close range shot?" Sarah asks.
"Natasha to Sarah."
"Go ahead."
"We found our second crook," Natasha says looking at the dead body. "Committed suicide right after with at note saying, 'I killed the Spider' on his chest. You got the other guy?"
"Yep."
"Jameson?"
"He let the guy onto the floors. He didn't know he was going to shoot him," Tony informs them. "Have you been teaching your daughter the art of interrogation?"
"Didn't have to."
"SHE IS SCARY!" Tony announces. Steve and Bruce look at Tony oddly before shaking their heads. "She is," Tony defends like a three year old who had called his sister mean.
"Tony, she's the daughter of the Black Widow, what do you expect?" Bruce says quietly as they head back to the jet.
"Uh, good point." They get onto the jet and Steve flies them home. Sarah calls MJ on her way home.
"Sarah," MJ says. "Peter's up."
"Put me on speaker then," Sarah says.
"Hey Sarah," Peter says with a chuckle.
"Sarah, put that on speaker," Tony says. Sarah does.
"Hey Pete. You got me, Tony, Bruce, and Steve here," Sarah says. "How you feeling?"
"Smallest caliber shot is healing up nicely. The others are a little slower. How's the investigation going?" Pete asks.
"We got both crooks," Tony says.
"Who was it?" Clint asks.
"Some two-bit amateur who forgot to police his brass, one of those ones that wants to gain street respect by taking out a high profile target," Sarah says, "and some guy that wanted to kill Spider-Man and then committed suicide. So, both problems taken care of. Oh, Pete, quit your job at the Bugle."
"Why?"
"Jonah is part of the reason you're in the hospital. He let the guy onto the Bugle floors. He said he'd be able to unmask you. Jonah didn't realize what he had meant. I don't think he'll be messing with you for a while, I'm pretty sure Sarah put the fear of god into him," Tony says.
"What did you do?" Clint laughs.
"Just let a bit of my old personality come back."
"Peter, you need more sleep," May says.
"Yes Aunt May. I'll talk to you guys later," Pete says.
"Bye," everyone says quickly. Sarah calls the gang and relays the news that they had gotten the guys already. Luke tells her that he'd be visiting the first man and personally interrogating the, what was the word he used, ah yes "Dumbass-bastard-that-was-stupid-enough-to-go-after-a-superhero!" When they get home, Sarah crashes hard on her bed making it clear that if anyone woke her up before 10 o'clock, she would kill them, violently and without mercy. Well, that was unless someone was dying or the world was ending. If it was the second one, she made it clear she'd be calling Loki to come bunk in Asgard. (Clint was the one that brought up the world ending.)
Hey gang! So, I'm updating on Saturday my timezone. So, I won't be updating tomorrow. I just finished reviewing this chapter like three minutes ago and wanted to update so I wouldn't forget. I won't update again until next week, it lets you all think about the story and let the facts sink in. (This was told to me by a reviewer.)
So next on the agenda, people have been asking about the wedding. I will give you a heads up when that is coming up, it's not for a while yet. There's a lot that happens in the next ten chapters or so. Hell if I know, I lost track of how far ahead I am with my personal copy. I mean, compare the almost 150,000 words I have written to what's here, that's not including author's notes, and you'll see how far ahead I am.
Next, I hope Sarah scared the hell out of you with Jonah. That was my intention.
Next, no Peter doesn't die. I could never bring myself to kill Spider-Man, well maybe one day but like not in this story.
Also, I have a feeling that along with the prequel that I posted, there will likely be a sequel eventually. I mean, this story is no where close to being done. So yeah, guess that's a bit of a spoiler.
Hm, next one was...
AH YES! I HAVE A QUESTIONS FOR YOU! Yes you staring dumbly at the stupid author's note.
1) (There's only one so please answer it) What do you think of past time travel for Sarah? Like a villain sends her back in time (I will mention anyone that can guess when I want (oh hell, I've already written the time travel) to send Sarah back in time). Anyway, what do you think of a villain sending Sarah back in time to what the villain hopes will be the blond's doom? Let me know, I'm curious people.
So, to wrap it all up, I will update next Sunday if and only if I get ten reviews! So if I don't update next Sunday, you know why. I only received four reviews. I'm disappointed people.
See you next time!