Sorry this one is a bit late but I would rather give you a bit longer of a chapter and make you wait a bit longer than give you a really short one. Sorry this one isn't super long. I will be writing longer chapters soon. Also, don't be alarmed at the joke about sopranos in the last chapter. It's okay for me to make that joke because I am a soprano in choir. XD And also, this chapter gets angsty, emotional, and warning: there is a bit of minor PTSD throughout this story. Disclaimer: I don't own anything Marvel.

Thankfully, nobody knew I had had a bloody lip, as the small wound had healed itself very nicely in less than an hour.

I could tell my sister wasn't in a very good place, emotionally. When we got home, she went straight to her room. She hadn't said anything since the incident, not even about Spider-Man. It was usually hard to get her to be quiet. So I did what any good sister would do, and bothered her about it.

I knocked softly on her door.

"Can I come in?"

At first, I got no response. But then I heard a small mumble. "I guess."

I opened the door and gingerly stepped inside, making sure not to break anything as I softly shut it.

My sister was curled up on her bed, facing the wall. I sat next to her on her bed.

"Hey. Are you okay?"

Rebecca rubbed her eyes. "I'm fine."

"Well, you don't seem fine."

"I'm fine. That's why I shouldn't be so shaken."

She had already been in this type of situation before. It must not have been easy to be reminded of it.

"It's okay to be scared or-"

"I'm not scared! I just...It won't go away..."

She was referring to the night of her birthday. I thought my sister was okay. She had refused the counseling my mom had tried to talk her into. But I started to wonder if maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea. Maybe she was still just a bit shaken and she'd be a lot better by tomorrow.

"I'm so sorry about today."

"It's not your fault."

"Hey. At least you saw Spider-Man again, like you'd hoped you would here."

Rebecca smiled a bit. "Yeah."

I smiled and put a hand on her shoulder. "Try not to think about it, okay?"

"Yeah."

I couldn't expect her to just stop thinking about it, but I could try to give her something else to think about.

"You know, Spider-Man got to that bus pretty fast. He must live nearby. He might even go to our school!"

Rebecca's smiled grew wider. "I'm going to figure out who he is someday so I can thank him personally."

I chuckled a bit. "I bet he's really cute."

Rebecca's cheeks turned a bit red. I had done my job and gotten things off her mind a bit.

"Well he has to have some pretty great muscles." Rebecca giggled.

I ruffled her hair a bit, then stood to leave. But just as I reached for the doorknob, my sister called my name.

"Trish, do you think I'm brave?"

I was caught a bit off guard by the inquiry.

I turned back to her. "Of course. You've been through a lot and you're still standing. You're very strong. You picked yourself up and had the bravery to keep going, even when things got tough."

Rebecca's eyes lit up a bit.

I stepped out of the room but just sat against her door, lost in thought for a few minutes.

I pushed a bus back onto the road.

Okay so I helped push a bus back onto the road. Nevertheless, I helped save lives today, including my siblings'. It felt pretty good.

At this point, I got that crazy idea that maybe I could be a hero, like Spider-Man. As soon as the thought entered my mind, I shoved it out with all sorts of logic. Reasoning flailed about in my head.

I would suck at being a superhero. I wouldn't have near enough guts to stand up to supervillains, I wouldn't be able to beat up criminals. I'm not good enough.

I hadn't realized at the time that that was the most absurd thought I had thought all day. But I used to it to scoop the thought of being a hero out of my head and instead returned to the thought that I needed to get myself tested. Tomorrow, I decided, I would search the internet for any sign of an Oscorp internship.

But for tonight, I was stuck worrying about my sister. And so even as I got to bed late, I still had trouble falling asleep again.

What a great first day of school...

Next chapter coming soon! Hope you enjoyed! Don't worry, Petricia's logic keeping her from becoming a superhero won't be able to stop her for too long. ;)