Chapter 3

* Disclaimer note characters are not mine, this is just my own alternate universe of the popular Spiderman series*

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          M.J. and Peter arrived at the hospital after a fifteen minute walk. Peter went up to the receptionist, "Hi, I'm a friend of Eddie Brock I was wondering if I could see him?" Peter asked.

          "I'm sorry sir but Mr. Brock is having emergency surgery right now, but if you'd like to wait I can tell you when he is ready to receive visitors." The receptionist told him.

          "Do you know how long he will be in there?" Peter said, "I figure it might be a while considering he's got a major back injury."

          "At least 3 hours," the receptionist said, "And he won't be fully conscious until about an hour afterwards."

          "Thank you," Peter said turning to Mary Jane, "Do you want to go somewhere for a bit?"

          "Sure did you have anything in mind?" M.J. asked.

          "I figured we could go across the street to the mall for a little while and then go get something to eat," Peter suggested.

          "Sounds like a plan," M.J. agreed.

          They wandered the mall for about an hour window shopping before they went to the food court to get something to eat. As they were eating M.J. noticed Peter kept starring at her right arm.

          "What the matter?" M.J. asked, "Usually your eyes are diverted to the right."

          "Your arms," Peter said, "They're so, so buff looking. Have you been working out or something?"

          "It's for an audition I'm doing," M.J. lied, "They want a really muscular lead actress."

          "Ah," Peter nodded, "I like the look, makes you look tougher."

          I'm a lot more tougher then you think, she thought.

          Peter stood up and to clear their tray, "Want to go catch a movie?" he asked, "We've still got a good two and half hours before Eddie comes around."

          "Alright," M.J. agreed, "Let's see a really violent one. The movie I'm trying out for is going to be really violent."

          Peter frowned; normally M.J. didn't like violent movies, but then again she a had a good reason for wanting to see one. So when they got to the mall's movie theatre they got tickets to watch Army Assault 3, a movie that was nothing but the main characters senselessly killing for 2 hours. Peter however left the movie with something else on his mind besides how senseless the movie was. Through out the movie M.J. almost seemed to be enjoying every single brutal death as though it was making her orgasm. When they had gotten out of the movie her face had been covered with sweat. She had gone into the bathroom to clean herself up and Peter was now waiting outside the bathroom thinking about how he was going to ask her about her strange behavior.

          Just then the door to the bathroom opened and M.J. stepped out.

          "M.J." Peter said, "You've been acting a bit strange today, is something wrong?"

          "No," she snapped, "In fact I haven't felt this great ever."

          Peter frowned, I guess I'm not going to get a straight answer out of her, he thought.

          "I guess we should go back to the hospital," Peter said, "Eddie will probably be awake now."