The Genesis Effect

Angelo: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha wipes tear AHAHAHAHHHA… HAAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAH pauses, thinks then… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh man my lungs hurt…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAA

DF: It's not that funny

Angelo: It is. HAHAHAHHHHHAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHA

DF: No it's not…look he's acting this way because someone suggested we were together

Angelo: Hahahhhhahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaahahahaha

DF: Okay where's that wok you use to beat me over the head?

Angelo: In the shop for repairs here's a toaster though whacks DF out. Sorry it's been so long muses had funerals. This chapter probably won't be very long.

DF: Mfff….ung…whuh?

Angelo: Okay buh-bye

Part 3: So it hurts

Harry woke up feeling content…and then realized he had someone lying on him. Someone who had a slender frame…and slightly stubbled chin.

Harry looked down.

This was a more-then-roommate-y position.

Oh.

Shit.

Peter woke up. Looked at the chest…blinked went back to sleep for three seconds then sat up with a shout. Then they rocketed apart frantically after three seconds of staring.

"I should…um…get the…breakfast…" Harry exclaimed, holding a pillow over his nakedness. Peter was wrapping himself in a sheet.

"I – today's laundry day…" Peter ran out of the room. Harry grabbed clothing pulled it on and left the apartment like it was about to explode.

Peter sat in the shower with his eyes cold. Well crap, he thought

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Jade shook her head. "You're an idiot" she said.

"Jade!" Harry exclaimed indignantly as she walked him to his old home.

"An Idiot. You just blew off one of the most adorable guys I've ever seen!"

"I'm not gay!" hissed Harry in a whisper.

"Yeah well who cares? He doesn't deserve to be messed around like that you bully" she punched him with surprising strength for someone so dainty. "If you don't apologize I'll castrate you".

Harry frowned as they stepped into the elevator and rose into the castle of the Osborne Mansion. "I – I amn't gay!"

"All men are – they just don't know it yet" smirked Jade. "Well 90 of men are, unless they're confident in their sexuality and don't have a problem with Gay men then they're not gay…if they thrive on gay bashings etc, yeah Gay Orientation is most likely"

"Really?"

"Insecurity issues make men act like that so it just means they're most likely gay it's so obvious" Jade said. They walked out into the mansion hall. "So…talk to him".

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"Wow…you and Harry?" MJ plopped into the couch. "I'd never have…well maybe I did see that Orlando Bloom Poster in your room…"

"That was for a Media assignment!" protested Peter as he handed her the coffee. "It was on-"

"hot guys in tight, low-hanging jeans?"

Peter groaned and sat down. "I don't – I don't know what's happening anymore. We just started all this stuff suddenly and before I could stop it…we were naked in bed!"

"Interesting visual" mused MJ as she sipped her coffee. "Look, you know Harry – he's never been sure of what he wants. If he did this then he'll have to confront it so you'll not be left hanging too long." She patted his back. "What you need to worry about is how you feel".

Peter sighed and stared into his coffee. "I don't know" he admitted. "When he was with me…when he touched me…" he shook his head. "But then there was the "Morning After" – and it all cracked apart…"

MJ hugged him and Peter ignored the little tear on his cheek.

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Harry pulled open the door. He was alone here…Jade had been paged to go back to the lab so he was left alone. He poured a drink, trying to get rid of the thoughts, the kisses and grips and moans from his night with Peter. He slugged the brandy back, letting the liquid numb his mental banter.

"Harry…Harry…" he couldn't shake Peter's voice. He hurled the glass across the room. The mirror shattered…Harry frowned…that was wrong…there wasn't supposed to be a space behind the mirror. He walked forwards, glass crunched under his foot, he stepped into the room.

"No…" he gasped.

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Harry was upstairs for the past hour. Peter just assumed Harry was avoiding him he didn't think much of it. Harry was splashing his face, taking a long shower, trying to think straight. But he was still ready when MJ dropped in with her bottle of wine – and he was already pretending to be happy when Jade arrived.

MJ opened the door. "You must be Jade" she smiled.

Jade nodded as she sauntered in wearing a long black coat and red high-necked sweater with black trousers. "Yeah. You're MJ…hi!" she said as she put her coat on a hanger. "I saw your new Perfume commercial…and Peter hasn't stopped talking about you."

"He's a sweetie" MJ said in the direction of Harry who paled a little. Jade nodded and linked arms with Peter.

"Sweet as chocolate…here lets all sit" before the men knew what was happening they were seated beside each other at the round table and the girls were chatting about how Orlando Bloom was most probably gay.

"So, then the guy leans out the window and shouts: HEY RED! YOU WANNA SEE AN ANACONDA? And I turn around and before I know what I'm doing I shout: Anacondas are longer and bigger then my pinkie you jerk! I couldn't believe I said that right in front of the guy who was supposed to hire me…on the bright side I'm cast in the part of Laura Steel in Damage Report – it's a small thing, a straight-to-video bit…but it's a foothold. And I have the part of Lady Windermere down for next month and that run will end about December and I'll be all set for Damage Report…"

"I'm so glad for you" Peter smiled.

"Sorry, I've just talked for five minutes straight about my trip…so…Jade what's your story?"

"Ah it's the standard boiler plate" Jade smiled, she was seated on the floor near the couch with a glass of wine in hand. "I was 9 when we came to America with my Father's research. I'd grown up between Johannesburg and the Lebanon until then. Anyway I was 16 when I got married to the most wonderful man in the world – he was in my class when we met…anyway…I got knocked up and he offered to marry me and start a family, my family stuck by us while his did not… my baby was born…but his family…they took the baby and tore my family apart – they were powerful people – I couldn't stop them…then tragedy struck in the early stages of my last school year…my family and my husband died in one massive work related accident." Her jaw was set firmly. "I was nearly killed but I was lucky – they all died…my husband died in my arms…" she pinched the bridge of her nose. "Anyway – that's enough about me…"

Peter looked at her – and for a moment she seemed a lot less like Jade and more like a shadow of herself.

He reached out for the box of tissues…his hand touched Harry's and both men recoiled. MJ shook her head and gave a tissue to Jade who was reassuring them that she was okay.

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Harry looked over the notes. The pages talked about formulas for superhuman powers and super soldiers. One prototype had worked to an extent but drove the user mad. Another one had never been tested…there was so much here…his father had been the Green Goblin…Harry pressed back against the wall, surrounded with macabre devices…

But his father hadn't been sane…Spiderman had been evil to kill a sick man… Harry reviewed the upgrades his father had made to the formula since becoming the Goblin. He reviewed it and tested it out in a simulator – matching things and fixing things and making them work out…he spent days in the lab. He didn't notice…at all.

He had only one thing on his mind.

Revenge

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Peter was worried, Harry was spending hours in his old house…days even… he called to say he wouldn't be home til late then didn't come at all. He landed on the side of a rooftop and thought for a few moments about things.

The night with Harry last week was great, he admitted. But I amn't gay so I didn't really enjoy it…seriously, I didn't…

The imprint of Harry still pressed against him when he slept, when he dreamed…

"Man this is complicated" muttered Peter. He'd been trying to get it off his mind for the past week since it happened but he couldn't…it was impossible. He was so frustrated!

"HELP! HELP ME!" Peter leapt off onto the nearest rooftop, happy to be able to forget. He slid down the side of a building on a webline and dropped down in front of the building.

The security guards were lying around, stunned and in pain. The Green Clad girl had the woman by the throat, a foot off the ground. "Tell me Doctor" the girl hissed. "Do you always rely on stupid weapons to do your dirty work?"

The girl squeezed and the taser shattered in her fingers. "Now…how about a conference?"

"Sorry, but you have to make an appointment first" Peter flip-kicked her away and caught the captive in one movement.

"I always make my own appointments Spiderman" the girl hissed. "Just look in her book under Genesis!" Peter sprayed at Genesis but she slashed the webbing away easily. He fired again but she flipped aside. He leapt at her, she caught his punch and hurled him into a pillar. He slid down slowly.

"Ow…why do all the women I meet on the job do things like that?"

"It's probably just the way we women are" was the reply as Genesis bounded at him, her eyes glowing under the mask. She lashed out with a kick, he caught her ankle and hurled her through the glass of the lobby into the building.

She spun and slashed at him with her nails, he blocked and twisted her arm behind her back. "Or maybe all the women who do this are as crazy as I am"

"Crazier even" she replied, she slammed a kick into his stomach and freed herself. "Say Ouch!" she called. He punched her.

"Ouch" he responded in a deadpan sigh.

"That was not a good idea" Genesis replied. She whirled and slammed him in the neck. "Oscorps entire board will pay in blood for past transgressions – so die and let me get on with my job". She stabbed at him but he slid away and flipped over the desk. She grabbed his arm and shocked him but he kicked her off and hit her with webbing.

"Only if I can get on with mine…namely, stopping you!"

She tore at the webbing as he applied it. "When I get out of here, insect, I'll crush you in a really, really, really big BOOK"

"I'm an arachnid"

"yes I know…but spiders are touchy about being called insects" Genesis flipped out of the back of the webbing and hurled her own. It meshed and mingled with Peters. He leapt onto a pillar and kicked off after her; she rolled as if she were boneless backwards and slid up a wall to throw herself down at him.

"SPIDERMAN!" a voice roared. There was an explosion as the rest of the lobby front was blown away. Genesis was hurled away and Spiderman was knocked into a potted plant display. "Vengeance will be mine" growled an inhuman voice that was familiar and yet different.

Standing on a dark purple Goblin Glider rocket slay was a semi-familiar figure. He wore black armour plating with a dark purple bodysuit underneath. His belts were covered in skull shaped cartridges and he had a satchel on his hip. His mask was the chillingly familiar face of the Goblin only it was dark purple and black with red eyes.

He was wrapped in a tattered black mantle that looked like bat wings.

"If you're trying to impersonate the Green Goblin…try a different colour scheme!" Peter chided. He ignored the past fight and focused on the now

"I'm the Hobgoblin" responded the new player. "And that's all you will ever know aside from pain!" The pumpkin bomb was pitched at Peter…

TBC: Check out my BLUDHAVEN fic please! Sorry for the shameless boosting but what can I do? Anyway, if you could that'd be great it's a Robin (as in batman and…) fic where he gets to question his sexuality when he fights the very dangerous Whisper. Or take a look at Academy X which is an AU X-men fic with future slash planned!

NEXT TIME: The Hobgoblin and Spidey throw down in the city! Big trouble and things get awkward when an old friend shows up and gets friendly with one of the boys…oh boy oh boy!