Chapter 2: Remember This
Spider-Man falls and keeps falling. Six stories. The crowd below yelling and screaming at him. He can hardly hear them. He's near unconscious. His brain screaming at his arms, "Fire the web dammit!" Spidey lifts one arm (barely) and fires a web, not really knowing where it'll hit. It hits a billboard, Spidey's saved himself! He's swinging, swinging, swinging, and swinging again. Like Tarzan. Until he slams head on collision into the side of a building. "What! Whuzat? Uh. Bluh! Okay! It's okay! I'm awake! I'm fine! Don't worry about me! Ah!" Good Ol' Spidey's back. Fires another web and swings upward. "My head reeeeeeeaaaaaaaally hurts." Not really going that fast. Come on! After saving someone from a fire, being hit by some explosion, thrown out of a building, and your head hurts a lot. How can you go your fastest? Spidey lands on top of the Daily Bugle. Quickly stripping off the costume of Spider-Man, and grabbing the clothes of Peter Paker. Quickly putting those on, Peter goes inside.
Going in the elevator rather than the stairs because his head still hurts and he's still throttled from the explosion. Main Floor. Enters the workroom. Reporters hard on their computers working their latest story, gofers running getting supplies, others yelling "Copy!" Peter walks to one desk of Betty Brant, secretary of the Publisher of the Daily Bugle. J. Jonah Jameson. Peter says to Betty, "Hey, uh, hi, uh, Betty." Betty, just realizing Peter was there, "Oh, hi Peter. Didn't see you there." "Figured." Peter, looking inside JJJ's office. Jonah, mid-40's, weird haircut, bad mustache, is yelling at a man in his mid-20's. A lot more handsome. "Looks like hell in there.What's going on?" Betty replies, "He's with his son, John." "Oh. Right." Peter remembers what had happened two months ago. With the wedding and Mary Jane. "Perhaps I should come back at another time, I didn't get any pictures anyway." "I think thats a good idea." "Okay." Peter leaves out the front door.
He's surprised to see who's waiting for him. "Hey tiger." says the beautiful girl. Red hair, blue eyes, great lips. This obviously is Mary Jane Watson, MJ, the love of Peter's life. "Wh-What are you doing here?" says Peter. "What? Don't want to see me?" says MJ. "No, just, just surprised. We were gonna see eachother later tonight." "Do I have a problem if I want to see my guy when I want?" "Well, uh, I, uh, guess not." "C'mon, let's go." They both go into a taxi, together.
"So, uh where are we going?" asks Peter. "Ari's Villiage Deli and Bakery. We haven't been there in awhile." replies MJ "Are you really sure you want to go there?" says Peter. "Yes. Yes I do." "Really? I mean remember last time?" says Peter, recalling when Doctor Octopus threw a car through the window, nearly killing both Peter and MJ. "Of course I do. But I love their pies." MJ says back to Peter. "Well, I do too." Peter says, not able to argue, his head still throbbing. They arrive. They get out of the Taxi. The driver says, "Twenty dollas." "Twenty bucks? Well, okay." Peters says to the driver. Then as Peter reaches for his pocket, MJ interrupts and says, "No Peter I'll pay, after all, I owe you." "No MJ, really, I'll pay." "No!" says MJ sternly. "I, I mean, that's okay, I can handle it." "Okay, but I'll pay for the food." says Peter, startled.
They walk in the deli, sit down at a table. Look around. "Well, it looks a lot better." says Peter. The deli has recovered from its wounds from Doc Ock. "Yeah it has. A lot." replies MJ. "So, what'll you guys get?" says a waitress that just walked up to Pete and MJ. Her nametag says Ashley. MJ says "I'll take a slice of your classic apple pie and some coffee. Cream." "And I'll take a BLT and black coffee." Peter says to Ashley. "Okay. Be back in a sec!" MJ looks at Peter. He looks down. "Are you gonna be...okay?" MJ asks Peter. Peter says to MJ, "Yeah, it's just, this year hasn't really been normal. For all of us. You, me, Harry, Aunt May. It's been full." "Yeah, it has. I almost got married! Can you believe it?" "No. Not at all." "Also, about the (SM2 SPOILER ALERT!) y'know, the secret." "Yeah. (ANOTHER SM2 SPOILER!) You and...Harry."