"hi guys! Is that really all you have to say?" Aunt May sternly asked before abruptly swatting her nephew in the head. "I have been worried sick Peter! How could you be so reckless?" Aunt May swatted him again, "and you put the responsibility on Ava to tell me! That was just low Peter!"

Peter stood in place with his eyes facing his feet waiting for the next strike. But instead Aunt May wrapped her arms around him, hugging him. she had him back safe and sound she couldn't pretend to be mad anymore, peter was home.

The sound of suppressed smug laughter was shortly heard emitting from Sam trying to hide his laugh behind his hand. "nice welcome home eh, Parker?" he snickered. Peter however stared at Sam with his response already in mind, scaring Sam.

Before anybody blinked Peters hand quickly drew from his belt, pointing his revolver at Sam. "you know Sam you always were a pain" Peter said.

"Parker!"

Fury went for his pistol despite the stares of the onlooking heroes. Peter Parker had pulled a gun on his own teammate, whatever version of Parker this was there was no way it was the hero.

"Peter no!" Ava shouted.

Peter squeezed the trigger before Fury even reached holster. Sam was thrown backwards to the floor, his mouth sealed in webbing. "MMPMM!"

Sam tried screaming into the webbing and tearing it off. The others burst out laughing as they realized what had happened. He was still their friend after all. Ava and May let out a sigh of relief and their heart rates slowed down. "what a jerk stunt to pull Parker" Ava sighed.

Peter turned back to face her, smiling his childish smile. Giving into his smile Ava slowly raised her hand and caressed his cheek earning whispers from the others. "uh Ava?" Peter gulped, out of nowhere Ava's right hand tensed on his cheek as her left hand slapped him from beyond his vision. Peter staggered but kept upright, in the trick of the light he could have sworn he was looking at Sasha.

"ok I deserved that" Peter chuckled "but can I get a chance to tell my story? Cause there's more to it then me calling home from a burger joint in Kansas" he pleaded.

And so Peter went on to tell his story, at least what Ava already hadn't found from the history books. He told them of the team he rode with and the nature of the adventure since history seamed to had miswritten the truth. "…and yeah at that point the sceptre sent me back to modern day Kansas" he finished.

Everyone kept staring at him and the gun belt laying on the table "Fury for god sake just take it" Peter slid the belt over so Fury could examine the revolvers "so what did I miss while I was away?"

"Ava cried over you!" Sam blurted out.

Sam!"

Peter only smiled even after he watched Ava throw Sam across the room. He missed this, all of it. So after all the catching up and the secret destruction of the sceptre Peter took advantage of his first 5 minutes of down time (in 200 years) standing on the tri-carrier roof breathing in the fresh night air. He almost forgot where he was until he saw Ava walking up to him. "hey Ava" he grinned "not like you to skip training"

Ava shrugged before dropping down beside him "and it's not like you to hideaway from everyone"

"not hiding, just missed this…relaxing" Peter breathed. "hey Ava, did you by chance read my letter I sent home?" he asked.

Ava smiled but kept it hidden before looking back at Peter "Parker did you ever think this through? If our enemies ever found out? What it would mean to our lives?"

"no, not really but Ava I saw a couple in the past everyone knew about them even their enemies and you know what it didn't bother them at all" Peter replied.

"Parker…"

"Ava really what's the worst that can happen?... If you don't feel the same way I can live with that but if it's only fear…"

"Parker shut up already… look I've missed you a lot while you were away and the truth is… oh screw it" Ava turned on Peter and pulled him in for a kiss.

"it's about time!"

The guys were looking out from the bridge wolf whistling and cheering even Sam brought out his camera for the night.

"that midget son of a bit.."

Peter quickly cut Ava off by planting a kiss on her "how about for tonight we ignore the midget and just enjoy the night" he whispered.

"oh, alright Parker" Ava grinned "for you, for coming home I'll ignore Sam tonight and kill him at paintball tomorrow…by the way Parker we have paint ball teams so get some gear by lunch tomorrow"

(1895)

weeks have passed since Shades death and the Osborne empire has taken charge of the rail way clean up.

Selina Osborn sat in her bed cuddling her newborn Child but she felt a great loss...her true love and father to her child was slain by his own blood. "if it takes 200 years the Parkers will pay for this!"