Listen With Your Heart Chapter 5

Peter couldn't stop thinking about his sister every hour on the hours, but now something far more sinister was added to the mix of all this craziness.

Ever since he'd gotten back from Oscorp, Peter had been experiencing strange symptoms that came to a head when he woke up the next day. Previously he'd been delirious, breaking out in a cold sweat, and extremely tired. Also, Peter had eaten an outrageous amount of food he never should've been able to consume in one sitting before. In the morning Peter's delirium subsided, but was replaced with brand new sensations.

All his senses were enhanced tenfold. He could hear, feel, and see things that never caught his attention before along with heightened agility and strength. Peter thought he might be asleep and pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming. Turns out he wasn't. Then he remembered the spider he'd pulled from his neck the night previous and that he'd had dozens of genetically altered spiders fall on him when he was at Oscorp. He thought he'd knocked all of them off, but the one that remained hidden in his clothes must've bitten and left its mark without him knowing.

Investigating further into spiders on his computer Peter pulled up multiple files on webpages searching for the source of what was ailing him. He compared what his body was undergoing to the diseases that came with regular spider bites for an explanation. During his search into his fathers scientific work on the arachnids Peter discovered a new symptom. Realizing what he was typing into his keyboard was no longer legible he looked down at his hands and found the letters on the device were stuck to his fingers without any sort of explanation.

At this point Peter was seriously freaked out. He needed to dig deeper if he were to find out what was happening to him inside and out.

Later on in the day Peter was sitting outside his room on the canopy that stood over the stoop of the house with one leg dangling off. Earlier he'd gone to the nearest bookstore to buy Curt Connors book and was now looking at it along with the data he'd found in his fathers briefcase.

Peter noted the decay rate algorithm was a focus on both sides. By what he'd written down Richard Parker had completed the formula, but failed to give it to Connors before his disappearance and death.

Peter wondered why that was.

During this time his Uncle Ben was returning from his shift at work when he saw Peter sitting dangerously off the edge.

"Peter," said Uncle Ben.

"Hmm," said Peter, throwing his head up.

Worriedly, Uncle Ben said "What are you doing up there?"

"I'm, uh…," said Peter, trying to think of something that wouldn't let on to what he was up to. "Homework."

Heading inside, pointing at Peter's leg, Uncle Ben said "Be careful."

"Sure," said Peter, humoring his Uncle Ben by retracting his leg.

Turning over the book Peter saw a photograph of Dr. Connors on the back. Tracing the outskirts of the picture Peter made a decision he'd avoided for some time.

Perhaps it was time to brave a visit to the good doctor under his real name instead of the one he stole at the labs. There were a lot of questions he wanted answered. Questions he knew his aunt and uncle would never be capable of completely providing suitable responses by themselves.

Authors Note:

So Peter is finally going to confront Dr. Connors. Wonder what he's going to learn there.