Complicated
By FairyDustCloud
Disclaimer: I do not own Spider-Man.
Author's Note: Hi! I hope you like this chapter. Here are the replies to my reviews:
DiabloDude1- Totally saucy? I hope that's a good thing. =]
LordLanceahlot- Hehe. I think the MJ/Peter pairing is really sweet. But there'll have to be a few obstacles before they can end up together. =D
Someone who likes peanutshells- Here's an update.
getfuzzyfan04- Lol. Don't you just love being hyper? xD
NightMage- I'm glad that you liked my fanfic so far.
hpdancer92- I hope this update was quick enough. =]
LoonyLoopin- Don't worry, there won't be too much blood, violence, and angst in here... or will there? xD Hehe.
Well, on with the fanfic! Enjoy!
"Hey, MJ," Peter called out as Mary Jane approached him.
"Hi, Peter," MJ said, smiling. "How did your tutoring session go?"
"It went okay. Felicia was acting a bit weird, though," Peter said as he fumbled with the lock on his locker.
"Felicia Hardy?" MJ asked.
"Yeah. At first, she seemed a bit snobby, but she's alright," Peter said. "By the way, how was spending the day with Zach?"
"It was going well in the beginning, but I don't know... Zach scares me sometimes," MJ replied.
Peter nodded and flung open his locker. He tried stuffing a textbook inside but was clearly having trouble with it.
"Can I squeeze in there, too?" MJ joked, peering into Peter's cluttered locker.
'Of course,' Peter thought to himself, blushing slightly.
"Hey there, cutie," Felicia said, walking up to Peter.
"Oh, hi, Felicia," Peter said, shutting his locker. He turned to face her. "How are you?"
"I'm okay. Thanks so much for helping me yesterday," Felicia said, linking her arm with Peter's. MJ raised an eyebrow at this sight.
"No problem," Peter said, oblivious to Felicia's moves on him.
"The world would be a better place if there were more intelligent guys like you," Felicia said, softly. She leaned her head on Peter's shoulder.
"Uh, thanks," Peter said, inching away from Felicia and forcing her to lift her head up. "Felicia, you know MJ, right?"
"Oh, I think she's in a few of my classes," Felicia responded, tossing her platinum-blonde hair to the side.
"Yeah," MJ said, mentally shooting daggers at Felicia. Felicia chose to ignore MJ's glares.
"Peter, is it okay if I ask you to tutor me again if I need any more help with science?" Felicia asked.
"Any time," Peter answered.
"You're the best," Felicia grinned, resting her head on Peter's shoulder again.
"Don't you think you're touching Peter a bit too much?" MJ asked, annoyed.
"I have no idea what you mean," Felicia said, brushing MJ's question away.
"Eh, I just remembered that I promised one of the teachers that I would, um, help them clean up the room before class started," Peter lied, quickly walking away.
Just as Peter turned a corner, he felt a tap on his arm. Peter whirled around.
"What do you want, Zach?" Peter asked.
"What do I want?" Zach barked. "I want you to stay away from MJ."
"I think that you should be the one staying away from her," Peter said.
"Fine. If you don't listen to me, I"ll just have to go on with my plan," Zach said, walking into an empty classroom.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Peter asked. He ran into the classroom that Zach had gone into, but it was empty. Peter heard a squeak and jerked his head to the right. He saw someone leaving through the back door of the classroom. But it wasn't Zach. It was some football player with blonde hair.
'But I'm positive that nobody else but Zach was in here,' Peter thought. 'Something's going on... I have a feeling that Zach isn't who he says he is.'
After school, Peter looked around for Zach, but couldn't find him anywhere. 'Hopefully, he isn't going to do anything drastic,' Peter thought.
"Peter!" Felicia shouted, running up to him.
"Hey, Felicia," Peter said, still scanning the high school for any signs of Zach.
"Listen, I want you to come over to my house," Felicia said.
"Why?" Peter asked.
"Uh, because I need you to tutor me some more," Felicia lied.
"Can we do this another time? I'm kind of busy," Peter said, worried about what Zach planned to do.
"Come on, it'll be fun. And just so you know, I won't take no for an answer," Felicia said. Peter looked at her with confusion. Felicia smirked and dragged Peter into her limo.
"Wha-" Peter blurted out as he was shoved into the limo. "Wow. I didn't know you were that strong."
Felicia grinned. Her strength came from being Black Cat.
In a few minutes, the limo pulled in front of Felicia's home.
"Whoa," was all that came from Peter as he hopped out of the limo.
"I know. My mansion tends to have that effect on people," Felicia giggled. Peter followed Felicia inside the mansion.
"We can go to my room," Felicia said, leading Peter upstairs.
Felicia dramatically opened her door and revealed a room the size of a classroom.
Felicia sat gracefully on her lavender silk bed and invited for Peter to sit next to her.
"So what do you want me to help you with?" Peter asked, taking his science textbook from his backpack.
"Uh, could you go over what the different chemical symbols mean?" Felicia asked.
"Sure," Peter said. He began reviewing the identity of each symbol.
After a while, Felicia closed the textbook.
"Hey, I wasn't done explaining the meanings," Peter said.
"Peter, I didn't actually invite you here to tutor me," Felicia said, smiling.
"Then why am I here?" Peter asked.
"It's amazing how a guy as smart as you can be so stupid," Felicia smirked, leaning closer to Peter.
"Uh, do you have anything to drink? I'm kind of thirsty," Peter said, standing up.
Felicia nodded and walked towards the mini-refrigerator in the corner of her room. She pulled the door open.
"All I have left is pomegranate juice. Is that okay?" she asked.
"Uh, actually, I really want to drink some soda. I should probably leave and buy myself a can," Peter lied. Truthfully, he just wanted to leave.
"Heh, that's okay. I'll get it for you myself. You stay here," Felicia said, pushing Peter back onto her bed and then leaving the room.
Meanwhile, Zach was in the park. He hid behind a tall tree and shut his eyes. Slowly, his dark hair turned to messy brown hair, and his baggy black pants changed into straight jeans. A few more transformations were made, and then Zach opened his eyes. He walked over to a pond and glanced at his reflection.
"Perfect," he snickered. He looked exactly like Peter.
Zach grinned and then began to make his way out of the park.
"Peter?"
Zach continued walking, forgetting that his name was Peter with his new disguise.
"Peter!"
Zach was about to leave the park when he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"What? I mean, what?" Zach said, clearing his throat and adjusting his voice to become the same as Peter's.
"Peter, why didn't you respond when I called your name?" Felicia asked.
"Huh? Oh, that's right. I'm Peter," Zach said, scratching his neck. "Uh, sorry about that. I didn't hear you before."
"Okay... Are you okay? You're acting a bit weird," Felicia said.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine," Zach replied.
"What are you doing out here?" Felicia asked.
"Just taking a walk."
"How come you left? I thought I told you to stay in my room," Felicia said.
'Peter's in Felicia's room? Man, why does the science nerd get all the girls?' Zach thought.
"Oh, I just wanted to get some air," Zach responded.
"Well, are you coming back? After all, I did go outside just to get a soda for you," Felicia said, slightly annoyed.
"Uh, I'll be back by the time you return," Zach said, walking away.
"Wait, where are you going?" Felicia asked, running up to him.
"I'm just going to quickly stop by MJ's home," Zach said. "You better go get that soda." Zach steered Felicia to the side and waved bye as he headed in the direction of MJ's house.
Felicia narrowed her eyes and walked heavily back to her mansion.
"Back already?" Felicia asked as she slammed her room door shut.
"What are you talking about? I never left," Peter said.
"Don't lie, Peter. I saw you when I was getting your soda, which, by the way, I decided not to get after I saw you strolling around the park," Felicia huffed.
"But I never left this room," Peter repeated.
"Yes you did. I even talked to you in the park," Felicia said.
"That's impossible. I was right here," Peter said, with a confused look on his face.
"I'm positive that it was you," Felicia stated in a matter-of-fact way. "Unless you happen to have a twin, which I highly doubt."
"Well, I'm positive that it wasn't me," Peter said, leaning on the foot of Felicia's bed.
"You know, you have some nerve. First, you leave to visit MJ, and then you lie right to my face," Felicia said, throwing her hands up in exasperation.
"MJ?" Peter echoed. Peter knew that he hadn't stopped by MJ's house today. All of a sudden, everything clicked together. That football player he had seen in the empty classroom was Zach. Zach must have used transformation powers or something. That was the only explanation for how Zach could enter an empty classroom and leave as a totally different person. There was also the fact that Zach was obsessed with MJ and would probably go to extreme measures just to be with her. Sure, it sounded a bit farfetched, but it would explain why Felicia claimed to have seen him at the park. After he had gotten bitten by a spider and become Spider-Man, he knew that anything could happen.
"Zach," Peter said, angrily.
"What? What does the new kid have to do with any of this?" Felicia asked. "Peter, you're not making any sense."
"Sorry, but I've got to go. It was great being here, Felicia. See you at school tomorrow. Bye!" Peter said, grabbing his backpack and dashing out the door.
"Bye," Felicia said, but Peter was already gone. She smiled. "The man of mystery," she said, fingering the textbook that Peter had forgotten on her bed.
'I just hope I'm not too late,' Peter thought, running into an alley and pulling on his Spider-Man costume. He shot out a web and began swinging to MJ's home as fast as he could.
MJ tapped her pencil lightly on her desk. Her home was so quiet, mainly because her dad was on a business trip. 'Thank goodness,' MJ thought. She honestly couldn't stand her dad. She looked out of her window at Peter's room and sighed. The lights were off and the room was empty.
Ding dong!
MJ placed her pencil on the table and went downstairs. 'I wonder who it is,' MJ thought.
MJ pulled open her door to see Zach in his Peter transformation.
"Peter, what are you doing here?" MJ asked, smiling.
"I came to see you," Zach said, stepping inside. He pressed MJ up against the wall and smashed his lips onto hers, kissing her passionately.
MJ broke away and looked at the person who she thought was Peter.
"Peter, what's going on?" she asked. There had to be a reason for why Peter had just waltzed into her home and began making out with her.
"You know you want it," Zach said, tilted MJ's face up with his finger. He leaned in again and slipped his tongue into MJ's mouth, exploring and tasting her.
Confused, yet also excited, MJ returned the kiss. Zach's hands made their way to MJ's white shorts and began to unzip them.
MJ pushed Zach away, breaking their kiss.
"Peter, this isn't like you," MJ said.
"Come on," Zach said, trying to kiss MJ, but only to be pushed away again. "It's me, Peter. I'm the one you want, right?"
MJ looked away. Something just wasn't right.
"You're not the Peter I know," MJ said, moving away from Zach.
Spider-Man let out another rope of string from his wrist and saw MJ's home. The door was open. He swung inside, not surprised that MJ was with a person who looked exactly like him.
"Spider-Man," MJ gasped.
"MJ, that's not actually Peter," Spider-Man said.
"What are you talking about? Of course I'm Peter," Zach said.
"No you're not, you imposter," Spider-Man said. "Isn't that right, Zach?" Zach's eyes widened.
Spider-Man grabbed Zach's shirt collar and lifted him up. "If you laid one finger on her, I swear you'll wish that you actually were someone else." Zach simply smirked. He morphed his right foot into a huge metal box and kicked Spider-Man right in the chest, sending Spider-Man flying out of the door and forcing him to let go of Zach.
"Spider-Man!" MJ cried out, rushing to his side.
"You're right, Spidey. I'm not Peter," Zach smirked as he walked outside and stood in front of Spider-Man. He transformed back into Zach.
"Zach?" MJ said in shock.
"Yes, sorry about that little trick before. But I knew you didn't want anybody except for Peter," Zach said. He grabbed MJ's wrist and pulled her close to him. "But MJ, wouldn't you rather be with powerful me?"
"Not a chance," MJ hissed. She slammed her shoe onto Zach's foot and squirmed out of his arms.
Spider-Man shot out a web which wrapped tightly around Zach.
"Identity theft. You'll have plenty of time to think about what you've done in jail," Spider-Man said, wagging his finger like he was scolding a child.
"You wish!" Zach spat. "You'll never get me!" Zach transformed into a rhino and broke the web. He then changed into a bird and flew away.
"Hopefully, that'll be the last we see of him," Spider-Man said, looking at MJ. "Did he hurt you?"
"Only mentally," MJ said, softly. "I think a part of me knew that it wasn't actually Peter. But I guess I just wanted to believe that it was." MJ sighed as she realized that the real Peter hadn't actually kissed her.
Spider-Man was about to inquire more about what happened but stopped when MJ walked up to him.
"Thanks," MJ said, giving Spider-Man a quick peck on the cheek through the mask. She smiled at him and walked back to her home.
"No problem," Spider-Man said, even though MJ was already inside her house. He lifted his hand up to the part when MJ had given him a kiss. Of course, it didn't really count as a real kiss since his mask was in the way and it was only on the cheek, but still, Peter couldn't help but feel immense happiness.
Zach's gone, but that doesn't mean that things get any less complicated. There's still the rivalry between MJ and Felicia for Peter. And don't forget about Black Cat. Plus, there are more surprises in store for MJ and Peter. To find out what, tune in to the next chapter!
Author's Note: I really hope you all enjoyed reading this fanfic. Please read and review. Thanks!