I want to thank everyone the new support really helped me to keep me going with this story knowing there are still lots of people that enjoy this series. Also someone mentioned more X-Men related plots but that's a bit hard to do with Spider-Man and when this is taking place, if you have suggestions let me know. Although no Apocalypse, this story will not go that far.

Sensational Spider-X

Chapter 21: What is Normal?

Peter had to admit that after a week of being just a normal human again, he was getting used to it all. He was wondering about what he would do when school started up again, that was starting to get closer and what was he to say? He wasn't a mutant anymore? That was something he needed to think on, that is if the school let them in. Xavier had been meeting with some layer to make sure that the school couldn't bare them from showing up.

But there was at least one good thing, he had so far gone a full week without any real problems. Currently he was walking back with Rogue, hand in hand coming back from a date. So far they had actually managed to do just that, have actual dates that didn't end in disaster, it made for a good chance of pace with them. They had just came back from watching a movie at the afternoon showing, since it was way cheaper and they would avoid the crowds. It was just nice to be normal teenagers for once.

"You know, I can't remember the last time we had this good a record of dating," Peter commented as they walked up the long driveway to the front door.

"Don't jinx it," she told him. "Ah've been enjoyin' this and Ah don't want it ruined."

"Right, universe has ears and loves to mock us for some reason," Peter nodded his head. "You ever get the feeling we're just the playthings of some being or that we did something in a past life and comes back to screw up our dates?"

"Maybe ya got a voodoo curse on ya," she smirked at him. "Ya have pissed off a lot of people."

"Great that's all I need," Peter sighed dramatically, "convicts with Spider-Man voodoo dolls in their jail cells." He rubbed his eyes something Rogue noticed him doing a lot.

"Ya okay?"

"Just my vision," He sighed only this time he meant it. "Ever since that cure hit me my vision has slowly been going. It's still there but I guess as my DNA resets to more human I have to get glasses again. Which sucks let me tell you that, they break too easily, the scratches on the lenses really get annoying, you have to be careful of them not to mention expensive. When I woke up the next day after that spider bite and didn't need them I was freaking happy about that."

"No more four-eye jokes or jocks messing with them."

"Ya never tried contacts?" She asked as they walked into the mansion by now.

"My eyes ache after an hour wearing them, so I just stuck with the glasses plus they're a pain to get in and out sometimes." Peter shrugged if off. "Hope you don't mind me getting them at some point, I know I kind of look like a dork with them."

She just shrugged, "Ah didn't fall in love with ya because you didn't have glasses ya know."

"So why did you fall in love with me?" He grinned as he wrapped an arm around her waist. "Was it my sense of humour, me heroic deeds, my charming ways or the fact I said you were hot the first time we met?"

She just rolled her eyes but smiled anyway, "No, you're just a really kind guy and well, you did a lot for me that most others haven't."

"Well you're special," He said honestly not knowing just how touched she was to hear that from him. That earned him a quick kiss to the lips as a reward.

"Oh I think I see some tongue action," a female voice said as the two separated.

Both looked up the stairs to see Bobby with a slightly unfamiliar blonde girl grinning. She made a pouting face at them. "Aw, don't stop on our presence."

Peter finally remembered the girl, she was that human girl that Bobby and the other New Mutants met awhile back. He only saw her from a distance a few times she visited the mansion but from what he heard she sounded okay to him. "You're Gwen right?"

"You got it, and you must me the elusive Peter," Gwen grinned down at him. "I heard you got sick for a bit."

"I got better," Peter said with a shrug although he did eye Bobby wondering just how much he told the girl.

"Yeah Mr. McCoy gave him a clean bill of healthy," Bobby jumped him hoping to steer the conversation in a new direction. "You remember him right?"

Gwen gave a small laugh, "Yeah I'll try and keep it straight with all the other big blue furry men I know." She raised a hand and started to count off her fingers. "Let's see, Mr. McCoy…Kurt…yep that's it. I think I can handle that Ice-Boy."

"It's Iceman," He said in his defence.

"But Ice-Boy sounds cuter," She told him although she was just kind of messing with him. She liked the sound of 'Iceman' better but the way he looked, like he might actually consider the name change because she said it was 'cute', well she couldn't pass up the chance.

"Just messing with ya Bobby."

"I knew that," he tried to cover it up and failing.

Gwen rolled her eyes while smiling as she walked down the stairs, "Well at least I finally got to meet the ever elusive Peter, I was starting to think you were made up and they were just messing with me."

"Ah you figured it out," Peter sighed. "Yeah, I'm just an image in your mind being put in there by a telepath. In fact this is all fake." Peter waved his hands around the whole mansion before him in a grand gesture.

Gwen stopped in front of him as she considered that, then she hit him in arm. "That's not funny. Messing with someone's head would be really a short way to screw someone up."

"Sorry, couldn't resist the urge," Peter joked. "Anyways always nice to meet someone that isn't out to get us."

"Yeah no kidding," Bobby joined in as he caught up to Gwen. "I mean it's bad enough with the giant killer robots, the kidnapping, the battles with evil mutants and the crap we deal with just walking about the city. Hey, I'll take anyone that isn't out for us. Plus she's cool so it's a major bonus."

Gwen grinned at his compliment, it was nice feeling appreciated for who she was. Back home her father never seemed to do that anymore. He was too busy with work, okay so she did act out to get some kind of attention from him but still, she shouldn't have to. Maybe hanging out with mutants might have started as a way to 'rebel' but they were really good people. Plus they had kickass powers and a mansion.

"You know it sounds like you guys deal with a lot of crap." Gwen commented.

"Yeah and that's all on top of tha normal teenage stuff too," Rogue sighed as she rolled her eyes. "School, grades, and all tha rest." She suddenly felt conscious of Peter and how he was 'normal' now as well. She cast a look but he didn't seem fazed by it, then again he might not be trying to show it.

"Oh please what is normal anyway?" Gwen shrugged. "I mean no one person has the same life or deal with the same things. There are kids growing up in war zones who will never see their teens, places where they genocide is common, some places kids are used seriously messed up ways."

"My dad has told me a few horror stories of some teens he's found in drug houses and stuff. So you guys have powers, you're people just like everyone else. Everyone has problems and everyone has gifts so my personal reasoning is, there is no real normal. Normal is just a word some groups use to control people into thinking that their way is the right way."

"Remind me not to get into a debate with you," Peter said surprised by the things she said. You wouldn't think a teenager with that kind of insightful look at things like that. And he meant that, this was a girl he didn't want to get into a debate or argument over.

"Best keep that in mind," Gwen smiled at him. "But like I said, normal is just a word people throw around for their way of life. So by that definition your lives are perfectly normal."

"Well that's depressin'," Rogue scowled at the thought of her life forever being like this. Then again what was she hoping for? College? A nine to five job somewhere? Truth was she never even thought of living like a regular person ever since her powers kicked in.

"Well Ah think Ah'll grab somethin' ta eat," Rogue told them figuring she didn't want to get thinking of her future at the moment. She was content with just living in the present and in the present she could use a snack. "Anyone else want ta go?"

"No I'm good besides I think I should e-mail MJ and Harry," Peter told her making his way to his room. "Since I've been 'sick' I haven't been able to keep them up to date. They're most likely getting a little worried so I better let them know everything is fine."

"Sure thing," Rogue looked to the other two but they didn't seem interested. "Well see you later and nice meetin' ya."

"Same here," Gwen told her as she and Bobby went off together.

Rogue soon found herself in the kitchen looking for a snake, mainly something cold. Only to find Jean there eating some ice cream and looking like she was lost in thought. Rogue considered leaving her alone but things between them had improved a lot since they first met. Truth was, Jean had been the one to give her that device to call the X-Men in that graveyard. That had seemed like a lifetime ago. Although she had been jealous because of her crush on Scott at the time, being with Peter helped her to get over it and start to warm up to Jean more.

It also helped that Jean had started to stop caring so much about being popular in high school, that was something that hadn't helped Rogue like her. Maybe it was because of her own issues with the 'popular' girls at her old school always looking down on her and giving her crap just because she was a goth. At least Jean never did that.

So she found a popsicle in the fridge and sat down across from her, "Hey, ya look like a girl with trouble on her mind."

"Yeah," Jean sighed and looked around and tapped her head. Rogue raised an eyebrow before she got what Jean was asking and nodded.

'Thanks,' Jean's mental words entered into the goth's head. 'I really don't want to take the chance of anyone else hearing this.'

'Okay…so what's up?'

It was odd hearing an actual mental sigh from someone in your own head, Rogue thought.

'Tabitha saw me coming out of Scott's room.'

'So?'

'At night…when everyone is supposed to be asleep.'

'Oh no…' Rogue could see where this was going.

'She cornered me and I had to tell her everything,' Jean then noticed the panicked look on Rogue's face. 'Don't worry I kept you and Peter out of it, I'm not the type to drag someone down with me.'

"Thanks for that." Rogue said out loud feeling very relieved.

'Anyway, Kitty and Amara had been hiding in the closet while we were talking and- it's not that funny!'

'Sorry, it just kind of is,' Rogue was smirking and guessed that Jean picked up on the emotions she was giving off. 'So what everyone else knows?'

'No, I managed to convince them to keep quiet but it's only a matter of time by now. Those three are watching for any small signs and it's starting to make me feel paranoid. You know, sometimes I wished that we didn't live in a mansion full of people with super powers. It can be hard to keep secrets at times.'

'So says the telepath.' Rogue smirked at the irony of what Jean said.

'I don't look on purpose and you should know that,' Jean said slightly offended after all Rogue had zapped her enough times from either training or from other moments to have picked that much off her memories.

'Okay low blow,' Rogue agreed. 'Although if we were normal, we wouldn't be here would we?'

'That's true,' Jean ate a bit more of her ice cream. 'It can just be stressful at times. I mean if I was caught what about you and Peter? That is you two are still…'

'Yeah we are…crap,' Rogue just remembered that Peter used to just crawl outside of the building or even the ceiling of the halls when they were to meet up in her room for a night together. Now he couldn't do that and they would have to sneak in the halls like normal people. The odds of bumping into someone just shot up and it could easily happen to either of them.

Rogue really didn't want to deal with that, she was perfectly happy everyone not knowing what she and Peter got up to when they were alone for the night. It was bad enough that she had accidentally told him, a moment that forever she would regret. Thankfully at least Kurt wasn't too much of a problem with it.

'So...what are ya goin' ta do?'

'Hopefully lay low until they get bored,' Jean slumped down in her seat. 'I can't believe I'm actually wishing for a Brotherhood attack to give me something else to think about.'

"Well they'll get bored eventually," Rogue finally spoke out loud. "Although Ah'm goin' ta have ta be more careful from now on."

"I know, I'm going to have to make a quick scan of the halls from now on," Jean told her. "You know, I don't think we've ever just sat down and talked like this before."

Rogue thought about it and it was right, normally it was just related to school or being an X-Man. Rogue shrugged it hadn't been too bad plus Jean was the only girl she could really talk about her relationship with Peter openly. Since Jean also was at the same level in her relationship. It was nice to talk to another in the same boat as her.

"Well, ah didn't mind it," Rogue shrugged.

Jean smiled at her, "Same here and thanks to listen to me vent. You're the only person I can talk to about this kind of stuff."

Rogue nodded, "Ah was thinking that too, well if ah ever got to talk about this stuff can ah at least come to ya?"

"Sure anytime Rogue."

Rogue nodded and after finishing her snack felt it was time to get going. Leaving Jean to herself Rogue went to her room and was looking forward to one of her books. It had been a few days since she could just relax and read.

-Elsewhere in the Mansion-

Spyder and Jamie were currently in his room a bit bored. They had already swam and she didn't have the energy after that to do much else. So she was lying on his bed reading a comic book with him on the other end doing the same.

"You know have you ever thought how our lives are kind of like this?" Spyder asked him.

"All the time," Jamie told her flipping the page. "Although I don't think that they get everything right. I mean the guys are all over blown, I could work out for the rest of my life and maybe not look like some of them."

"Oh please you want unrealistic, then look at the women sometimes," Spyder frowned. "Sometimes their waist are smaller than their heads or they got breasts way too big."

She looked down at her own chest which hadn't grown yet, she knew it would happen sooner or later she had started puberty but so far she was still flat. Even Rahne how had only been a year older had some. Although she wasn't sure about what that would be like, she didn't want to be the only 'child' of the house anymore. Looking back at the pages she doubted that she would ever look like that in the future.

"Jamie...do you think I'm good looking?" She asked suddenly as she heard a thumb of him falling off the bed. She looked up to see him and several other Jamies getting up and pulling himself back together again.

"What do you mean?" Jamie asked confused.

She frowned as she dropped the comic and sat up to look at him. "You heard me."

"Of course I do," Jamie told her sitting on the bed with her.

"Why? I mean all different shades of grey, my skin, hair and eyes are all slightly different shades of the same color. I shoot out electrical webbing from my finger tips. So why do you think that?"

Jamie blushed not sure what she wanted to hear. She had never asked anything like this before so he wasn't sure why she was asking now. So what was he supposed to do in this case, was she looking for something in particular or something else?

"Well?" She asked getting a little angry with waiting around for it.

"I always just thought that," Jamie blushed just going with what he could think of at the top of his head. "I always thought you were cute and I like the way you look. I mean...well...I really like the way your eyes look because grey is kind of rare and yours are really nice to look at. Your skin makes you look exotic and I like your long hair."

He really hoped this was good because he wasn't good at this, this was his first real relationship after all so he had no experience in complimenting a girlfriend who seemed to be a bit sensitive of her looks at the moment.

Spyder seemed to be thinking of what he said and Jamie was nervous enough as it was. She patted the spot next to her and Jamie slid in beside her. She blushed a bit as she looked a little shyly at him.

"You really think that?" She asked.

"Of course."

She smiled feeling happy about that, thinking maybe it was time to give him a reward for what he said. She got even closer to him feeling her face flush slightly as her heart rate going up as she reached up with one hand and turned his face to hers. He was blushing a bit too but knew what she was doing as he leaned down. Their lips met, usually they only kissed in a simple way, after all they didn't have much experience.

That was why a few days ago, Spyder had gone to Tabitha for advice about kissing. She knew that she could have gone to others but Tabitha was just the best one in her opinion. Kitty would act too girly about it, Rogue's only experience was with Peter and she didn't need the mental image of that. Then there was Jean but she didn't really know the older girl all that much. So Tabitha, although single, did have experience and would at least share what she knew.

So Spyder started to change things up, she slowly started to suck on his lip a bit. Jamie was surprised but tried to imitate her. Spyder started to run her tongue over his lips and was surprised by how softer she thought they would be. Jamie wasn't sure what was going on but he was starting to enjoy it. When he opened his mouth her tongue started to enter it.

He was surprised but soon the two tried to get used to the new kissing. There was a bit of awkwardness but soon the two found out a way to kiss like this. Jamie wasn't sure how but eventually he ended up on his back with her on top of him. He couldn't believe how much he was enjoying this, in fact he could feel himself getting exited and wondered if he could push things a bit more.

Slowly his hands went to her hips as he felt her jump a bit in surprise but a moan from her told him she liked it. Spyder felt her hands on his chest and started to run them over it. The slight make out session was new to the young couple in fact this was the most intimate that they had been, but they were no longer kids. They were young teenagers and were starting to explore what that meant.

Eventually Spyder stopped as she felt flushed and panting as she rested her head on his shoulder as she felt his arms wrap around her. She sighed as she just wanted to stay like that, lying on top of him with his arms wrapped around her felt very nice.

"Wow...that was..." Jamie was at a loss for words.

"Yeah I know," Spyder grinned as she snuggled closer to him. She could get used to this kind of thing.

"So...not that I don't mind, what brought this on?" Jamie asked her honestly.

"Well, I just wanted to do something a bit more with you. Plus I liked what you said and felt you should get something for being so nice." She told him as she felt a hand of his running through her hair. She found that she liked him doing that too, it felt comforting.

They stayed like that for awhile just enjoying the feeling of each other. But soon Spyder realised that she couldn't stay here much longer, or else she might fall asleep with him. A thought that wasn't too bad for him but she wasn't ready for something like that. Even if it was something innocent between them. So reluctantly she got up off him.

"Well I better go for bed," she sighed and looked down at him and smiled. She gave him one quick kiss goodbye. "See you in the morning?"

"Yeah of course," He nodded his head. She smiled as he watched his girlfriend leave he wasn't totally sure how things got to this point but he was looking forward to more. He also realized that he didn't know much about girls or dating, he should ask one of the older boys about it he figured. He could use some pointers.

Spyder smiled as she left, feeling flushed and a bit more energized. She could get used to that. She got to her room and changed as she yawned and got on her bed, it was still too hot to go under the covers. She smiled as her thoughts went to Jamie and what they had done. Soon the dreams changed into a giant spider web.

The next morning Jamie woke up, after the usual morning rituals he went down to get some breakfast. He noticed that Spyder wasn't up yet, figuring the might still be getting tired or just sleeping in he went to her room to check up on her. He tapped on her room door and called her name and waited. He tried it again before trying the door. He opened it up only a crack just in case she was in the middle of changing.

An image that made him blush but pushed it away as he didn't want to get caught thinking something like that. He called her again with no answer. So he pushed the door opened all the way and froze at what he saw. There in the room on her bed was a large cocoon looking thing, only it looked to be made out of Spyder's webbing. He got closer to take a look and noticed the slight electrical charges on it just in time before he stopped himself from touching it. If this was from her webbing it would hurt to touch him.

That's when he started yelling for help.

Next up Chapter 22: Cocoon