Peter couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. After being on edge all day after seeing Ned he called Steve that night and filled him in. "I need you to find everything you can on Basil Sandhurst."

"Isn't that the kid from the computer camp? The one that created that mess with Technovore?" Steve was already typing the name into the computer.

Natasha leaned over his shoulder and switched the call over to speaker. "Do you want me to come to California? You're supposed to be on vacation."

"Nat, do not come to California. I just want to find out about this guy. Oh, and let me know if you come across anyone with the initials ZS connected to him. They were in the lab notes." Peter looked up when Wyatt walked in. He waited to speak again once he was sure Jennifer wasn't with him. "I'll let you know if we come across anything else."

"Peter, have you told Tony what's going on?" Steve asked, already knowing that he hadn't called Tony.

"I am not calling him about this. It could end up being nothing but you know the second I call he's on a jet to California." Peter turned and looked at Wyatt who was chuckling. "Let me know what you find."

Wyatt waited for Peter to hang up. "Your dad would just take the armor. He wouldn't even bother with the plane."

Peter knew Wyatt was probably right which is why he hadn't called his dad. He was about 85% sure Nat and Steve wouldn't call either. "Where is everyone."

"Watching a movie. It started raining so we opted to come in." Wyatt looked at Peter. So far he had spent most of the week wrapped up in the mess with Ned. "You're going to need a vacation from your vacation. Let it go for right now and go cuddle with MJ on the couch. It'll do you some good."

Peter sighed and followed Wyatt back into the living room. Squeezing next to MJ he propped his feet up on the coffee table and let her lean against him. He realized about 30 minutes into the movie he had no idea what they were watching nor did he know what was going on. His tablet was sitting on the table behind the sofa just out of reach. Making sure Jennifer wasn't looking in his direction he formed the web shooter, flicked a web onto the tablet and pulled it towards him. He grinned at MJ when she glared over her should at him. She adjusted enough so he could hold the tablet behind her and read. Soon he was logged into a SHIELD database Nat had gotten him into, reading what he could about Basil Sandhursts' 'known associates'. He was a little surprised to see Ned listed. Basil had been under SHIELD surveillance since the computer camp incident. SHEILD had several levels of surveillance. Basil was being observed at the lowest level. Just enough to know where he was.

The lack of information was frustrating at best. He texted Ned a couple times the next day just to check on him. He purposely didn't say a word about the project. Nat and Steve hadn't really found anything yet either. Around lunch, Ned texted him telling him they had been able to finish the project and were just testing now so he might be able to spend both Thursday and Friday with them. Ned sounded almost normal again which made Peter feel extraordinarily better.

"So now you can let this go for the night, right?" Wyatt looked at him from in front of the refrigerator where he was pulling out sandwich stuff for lunch. "Johnny, Davis, and Bobby want to go out tonight to some club they found. You would hate it so we thought maybe you, MJ and Jennifer and I could go out to eat. You know...like an actual double date."

Peter looked over at MJ who was sitting at the table talking to Jennifer. She had been incredibly patient and understanding the whole week. Fancy dinners weren't necessarily her thing but an idea popped into his head of something she would love. "Ok, but before dinner I want to take MJ to this thing I saw earlier." Peter sat down next to MJ. "Want to go do a walking tour of famous Hollywood murders? There's a whole part on the Black Dahlia murder. Then we could go have dinner with Wyatt and Jennifer."

MJ grinned. "That sounds great!" She looked over at Jennifer. "Murder tour. Are you in?"

Jennifer smiled. "Of course!"

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Peter and Wyatt didn't hate the murder tour. If Peter were honest, he probably liked MJ enjoying the tour way more than he liked the tour itself which was all that really mattered in his mind. Wyatt had found a low key but nice restaurant for dinner, which was surprisingly enjoyable. He and MJ hadn't been out on an actual date since getting back together. For the first time in a really long time he felt like a normal 19 year old.

Leaving the restaurant they headed towards the SUV. Rounding the corner to the parking lot Peter stopped short. "Ned?" Peter was surprised to see his friend but the vacant look on Ned's face caused him to tense up. His Spidey sense definitely should have been going off. But it wasn't. Just like when Basil surprised him in the lab. He missed Ned pressing his hand against his chest until it was too late. His body convulsed and he collapsed as Ned triggered the handheld taser.

Wyatt hadn't missed the three men with Ned but it all happened so fast all he could do was push Ned to the ground and away from Peter but the damage was already done. He barely had time to register his friends completely still body before he found himself in the middle of a fight. He was gaining the upper hand on two of the men until the third man caught his attention. He had a gun pointed at Peter's head. MJ was on the ground next to Peter and Jennifer was next to her. Then he felt a tremendous amount of pain in his head before blacking out.