Disclaim: I'm afraid this is the end folks! I'm sorry, and don't worry this isn't about the lack of reviews, I would have went up to fifthy chapters with only 9 reviews! It just made me happy that somebody read it! So here's a shout out to Mary Jane Watson-Parker, Screamfan, Sarpedon, rockofmarduk, Dragon, and The Cure. May god bless you! I'm discontinueing it because my freshman year begins tommorrow and I don't have time for this, I may return next summer though. Till than feel free for anybody to continue it, in fact you can bet I'll review it! Thank you and please like always pray for our boys in Iraq. HUGS AND KISSES!
Part 1: The Peacemaker
Jesse hung up the phone and turned to her fellow companions. "I've called the police they should be here in a few minutes."
They woke up whe n they heard strange noised coming from the roof, Julius ran over to hs window and saw the Green Goblin take Chris away. They been up since trying to find someway to get him back.
"I can't believe this night!" Aidan yelled angrily.
Niecy just tried to calm her sons and Jesse down. "Okay we all gotta stay calm, panicking won't help us find Chris."
"Well this sure as hell ain't doing anything!" Jesse hollered infuriated.
Julius sat there with a blank expression on his face. 'Green Goblin grabbed Chris, one of his enemies captured his civilian form. Which risks exposure.'
Standing up Julius ran out the door.
"Where are you going!" Niecy demanded.
"To save my best friend!" Julius hollered before disappearing.
Back in a old movie theater Julius crept in silently till he reached the basement filled with weapons and fluids set to destroy the undead.(A/N: If your wondering how he found this place, remember that Chris took him here to get cleaned up when Eriol attacked him)
"Hello?" Julius whispered throughout the room. He stopped at a picture of a beautiful woman wearing a bandana on her head. "Well she sure is-AH!" Julius was totally spooked because the minute he turned around Blade appeared two inches away from his face.
"My mother." He finished Julius previous sentence before going over to his bike.
Morbius entered and stared at the intruder copiously.
"Hi, I take it your Morbius, don't mind the my rudeness. See the last time I met one of your kind, It wasn't a very good experience." Julius alleged pressing himself against the wall very terrified.
Blade dropped his wrench and rolled his eyes. "You don't even need to tell me your name, Christopher only has one friend that could possibly talk as much as you!"
"Good you remember me! That's a good start. But you see, I'm here because Chris is in trouble and I need your help." Julius admitted.
Morbius approached him. "What kind of trouble?"
Julius looked at him frightened. "Okay could you like take ten steps away from me, 'cause anything with fangs like, freak me out!"
Morbius sighed disgustedly before obliging.
"Okay! See Chris got abducted and not by aliens, even though he looked like one!" Julius quipped. "One of his enemies named the Green Goblin grabbed him, and let's just say he grabbed Chris Parker not Spider-man."
"Hold on!" Blade said getting up. "This boy let himself get kidnapped in his civilian form by one of his enemies? I though he knew better than that."
"He does, he got taken at our house. Look we have to find him before that thing figures out who he is!" Julius stated.
Blade sighed. "And here I thought it was gonna be a quiet night....Okay me and Morbius will go on a patrol and you..." Blade looked at him up and down. "Get your ass out of here before you piss me off anymore!"
Julius ran up the stairs in a flash. "Consider me gone!" He than looked at Morbius' claws. "Hey have you ever thought about getting those trimmed?"
Pain. It was the first thing he felt when he woke up. He tried to stand up his body felt weak and his head was pounding, not a good combination. The first thing he realized was that he was tied to a pole, the second was that he was shirtless.
'One of these days I'm gonna have to learn to keep my suit under my PJs.' He thought as he lifted his head up slowly to search for where he was.
"Well looks like young Parker has woken up from his nap." The sinister voice echoed as the Green Goblin crept beside him.
"Why are you doing this?"
The Goblin laughed. "Lets just say I'm a friend of Paul. See, me and him got two enemies that we need to remove and you? Well your linked to both of them, under the offense of being one of them and the other that you know where the other one is."
Chris was really disoriented. "Wha?"
"About twenty something years ago a photographer from the Dailey Bugle took Spider-man pictures, being his son, I was HOPING that you would know how to find him." Green Goblin scorned.
"Please, even if I knew, I would never tell you!" Chris scoffed.
The Green Goblin tightened his fist and a surge of electric currents passed through his knuckles. "Wrong answer!" He slammed his fist at Chris' chest causing a rush of blue light went throughout Chris' body.
"Well?" He asked stalling what he was doing.
Chris collapsed. That nearly took all the air out of him! "I ain't talking so why don't you make nice with yourself or something!"
"This could take a while." He said shocking him once more.
A few hours later....
"Ah!" Chris screamed in anguish. He had been doing this for hours and he didn't know how much longer his strength would hold up.
"Come on save yourself the agony and tell me already." The Green Goblin spat.
"I'm not telling you anything!" Chris quarreled.
The Green Goblin just sighed heavily before going back to his glider. "I need a coffee break, I'll be back, not like you have a choice in sticking around." With that he was gone.
Chris slowly rose his upper body up. Though he has supernatural powers he is still human. When he falls of a building his bones WILL break, when he gets cut he WILL bleed, he feels pain just like everybody else.
Chris bared his teeth, straining against the chains. They were so close to giving out, he was so close to freedom! His form slackened, and he panted for breath. This was taking far to long. He had to get out before that thing came back! He groaned and closed his eyes. He opened his eyes once more, determination written on his features. Summoning all the muscle he had he pushed against the chains until one link began to stretch, after a moment, it gave way and the chain flew apart.
Chris' limp body gave way. "If I wanted to do that I could have moved to Japan and become a Sumo!"
He got up and started wobbling over the ledge of the roof. It was than that he noticed where he was, on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. He looked over to the nearest building.
"Oh boy!" He than put his middle and ring fingers upon his palm as a web line formed. "This has got to be a 50 yard leap! Why am I surprise that this isn't easy?!?!"
'Biggest swing of my life, will probably hurt very much, but I gotta do it.' Chris whimpered in his mind.
Chris pushed himself off the ledge and swung like a maniac across the city...faster and higher by the minute until pretty soon he...slammed into a water tower.
He slide off slowly before smacking into the ground, he was paralyzed his body had been drained of energy and pain erupted throughout his body. He was about to go under, but not until he felt two powerful hands grab his shoulders...
I always thought something was weird about that child, when I fought him I could sense a powerful aura emitting from his body.
'He must die, you know that.'
We finish this now, no more games, no more bullshit, man to man. Than and only than will we truly know which is better.
"Huh!" Chris shot out of bed, a little too fast for his condition so he grabbed his chest in pain.
Julius was sitting across from him with his arms cross. "Welcome back, that's my bed your sleeping on by the way."
"Hey you stitched me up." He declared running his hands over the bandages wrapped around his ribs.
"That's right thanks to that human blood bank dragging you in!" Blade explained.
Chris tried to think back to what happened until he came to a conclusion. "He knows who I am."
"What?" Julius questioned.
"The Green Goblin. When I broke free of the chains he laughed out spider-man, he was far away but I could hear him." Chris explained.
Julius looked scared. "Oh no if he knows who you are he may come after us!"
Chris stood up angrily and grabbed his shirt.
"Where I are you going?" Julius demanded.
There was fire in his eyes. "To finish this!"
After he left Julius looked away sadly. He knew why he fire burned within his blood, the Green Goblin most definitely underrated Chris' father, and he doesn't let anybody get away from with that.
Chris was slinging around the city, he still could feel pain within his mid-section but for the moment it wasn't fazing him. Nothing could stop him, he was a stubborn one, alright. Once a challenge arises there's no stopping him.
"Where is that green eye-sour!?!" He asked himself when he landed.
"Right beside you." The eerie voice said. Turning around Chris got a glimpse of him on his hover board.
'There's something weird about his voice. It's not so taunting anymore. Almost innocent.' Chris thought to himself.
"Look I know who you are, now it's time for you to know who I am." Taking off his mask the Green Goblin revealed himself as Paul Cameron.
Chris gasped. "Paul!" He than crossed his arms. "I got this nagging feeling in the back of my head that keeps telling me. 'Duh!"
"Listen we finish this now." His voice than went from the innocent bystander tone to the venomous utter that haunted many. "It's time to die, Parker."
"How'd you know!?!"
"What kind of idiot believes I really took a coffee break? I was watching you from the corner. Though I got to admit, you being Spider-man has it perks. I want to finish this but not this way." Paul admitted.
Chris just glared. "What are you talking about."
"Take me on in a basketball game." Paul's voice went back to the innocent tone. There was something in Chris' mind that thought that maybe Paul was in some sort of internal conflict.
"Okay, if that's the way you want it."
Julius grabbed the basketball from the warming up Chris. They were at the gym of Angel Copse, nobody was around except for Paul, Julius and Chris.
"This is really crazy! You guys made bets about this! The future of the city is in one measly game!" Julius piped up. He was hanging really close to Chris, especially when he found out that the Green Goblin was Paul. He didn't want any of that!
Chris grabbed the ball back. "Look he said he wanted to finish it like this so that's what I'm gonna do!"
"Listen, you want to finish it, grab a brick and smash it over his head!"
Chris sighed. "There's no way you could possibly understand this."
"Understand what? That basketball is a plague to me?! You know how I feel about this sport, so..." He trailed off because he stared deeply into Chris' hazel eyes. The were the gaze of a season veteran that cross the threshold of the battlefield. You know he's seen something rough.
"You gonna stand there all day!" Both boys turned around to see Paul grab the ball from Chris' hands. "What you need to do is crawl back in your little hole and you remember your place in all this."
Julius turned to Chris. "Okay forget what I said, beat his ass!"
Both boys set half-court as Chris took it out, the gym filled with Black Eye Peas song 'Lets get it Started' courtesy of Julius 'Sunshine' Miles.
Chris dribbled up face to face with Paul 26 feet away from the basket before throwing it and making it!
Paul threw the ball back at Chris angrily. "I'll let you have that all night."
Same scenario and Chris scores again! "And I'll be making it all night!"
On the bench Julius was playing cheerleader jumping up and down. "Oh yeah!"
Paul has the ball and throws it up in the air before rushing past Chris, he than grabs the jumps and grabs the ball mid-air before dunking it ferociously.
"Damn!" Julius stated before sitting back down. That one really took all the excitement out of him.
The next five possession Chris and Paul dunked, spun, and make really acrobatic baskets.
Chris had the ball and dunked it over Paul for the perfect facial! The score was tied and Paul had the ball with the chance to win it!
"I win, you quite being Spider-man!" Paul reminded him.
Julius stood up rapidly when he heard that. "That's what you bet?!?! You crazy-ass mother fucker, I can't believe you!"
"Don't worry I won't lose!" Chris promised.
"You better not because I re-sewed that costume personally!"
Paul dribbled towards the basket but was stopped by Chris he spun to his left for a fake that Chris fell for before turning to his right for the win!
The ball bounced off the glass but somehow Chris recovered and made a unbelievable block!
Julius threw his arms in the air. "Yes! Thank You!" He gestured to the sky.
Chris walked up to him. "A little early to be talking to god, eh?"
"Who said I was talking to him?" Julius hinted.
Chris smiled before walking back.
Paul angrily threw him the ball. "Nice block! Don't choke!"
"You know I don't know why this game means so much to you. Why can't you just have fun whether you win or lose?" Chris questioned irritated. This guy was getting on his nerves.
"Winning is fun, and losing is unacceptable!" Paul told him proudly.
"Oh that's just beautiful, ever consider being a poet?" Chris whispered sarcastically.
Chris got Paul in the air and spun around in the corner to make the winning shot!
"No!" Paul yelled slamming the basketball down angrily.
Paul stormed out the gym in fury.
'Don't worry we'll get him next time.'
'There is no next time, where finish!'
'No were not! You will finish him off!'
'Forget it! You said if I did all those things I would get what I want, but it got me nowhere. From now on find yourself another lackey!'
'Do you know who your messing with?!?'
'Yeah...A figment of my imagination!'
'No Paul, please don't leave me alone again! Curse you Spider-man I will get my revenge!'
'Shut up you haven't stopped talking since you entered my head!'
"Yo that was ill! So what did you bet?" Julius asked curiously.
"I win, Paul quits." Chris said.
Julius looked at him surprised. "What? I thought it was something like turn himself in."
"Trust me Julius, the last thing Paul need was basketball. I have a feeling its what turned him into a maniac in the first place. He won't hurt anybody anymore." Explained Chris.
"Yeah sometimes we get so caught up in things it takes over our life and we don't even notice it. Kind of like when my mother discovered chocolate!" Julius joked.
The next day things went back to normal. They were in the kitchen Niecy was making dinner, Aidan and Julius were fighting about something again. But Jesse was armed with a miniature camera and was taping everything vigorously.
"I hope its always gonna be like this! I can get a whole lot of film done!" Jesse told her brother filming everything on site.
"Well maybe without the party, but I guarantee you that last night is not gonna be the last time you see Julius doing the tootsie roll on the counter in his underwear!" Chris told giving a small shudder.
Aidan let go of Julius. "Why are we always fighting?"
Julius looked up fuzzily. "I think...It's like the way we talk to each other."
"Oh, I got something else to say!" Aidan knocked him down.
Chris sighed and turned to his sister. "What are you doing with that thing, anyway?"
"It's an experiment. I'm making a movie. I mean I got humor, drama, and angst. But I need a twist!"
The doorbell rang and Niecy went to get it.
Chris snorted. "Oh please."
"Um boys." Niecy trailed off terrified as a strange man entered the house.
'Oh no.' Chris thought, he knew exactly who this was. And he didn't like the looks of things.
Julius held his breath.
"Dad." Aidan said softly.
Jesse lifted up her camera. "Oh , its the perfect twist
Part 2: A Call To Arms
"Hey your old man is back and your just standing there?" Rick turned to Niecy. "It's good to see."
"Wish I could say the same....What are you doing here?" She asked.
Rick gestured to his sons. "I came to see my boys! I heard the playoffs is in a week and I came here to support them!" He than walked over to Aidan and gave him a big hug. But he only nodded to Julius.
He than turned to Chris and extended his hand. "So I heard you grew up to be quite the basketball star, bet your father would be proud."
Instead of taking his hand Chris spit in front of him.
"Got to learn to be respectful, young man." Rick scolded.
"Don't worry I learned to respect people just fine, I just don't consider you people." Chris admitted.
There was no way Chris was gonna show him any gratitude, this was the man who nearly destroyed his friendship with the family because he was white. This was the man who tripped him that one time so he could race Aidan in that tract meet, this was the man who made Julius run down the street to his house everyday in tears. Not only that, but this was the man who was responsible for his father's death.
Rick just grunted. "Well, Aidan, my boy help me with my bag."
"Bag!?!" Niecy questioned half surprise half pissed off.
"Well my lawyer told me I get my boys this week. So I thought I would spend them with you!" He chided.
As the Aidan, Niecy, and Rick left to get his bag Julius walked over to Chris and shoved him playfully.
"Didn't think you had it in you!" He praised.
"Yeah well, it wasn't about me."
Julius sighed when he heard Niecy and Rick arguing and Aidan rushed into the house with a tortured look upon his face.
"Dude, we are so screwed."
Chris just patted his back and led him upstairs. "Only if we let him get to us."
Jesse was left alone in the living room and when she put down her camera, she smiled. "This is gonna be bigger than when Stan Lee made that one super-hero!"
"Super-man?" Niecy questioned coming back into the house in time to hear her last line.
"No, but he reminds me of someone though."
About 65 miles from Chris Parker was another intriguing young man who also had an interesting story to tell. Though his was not as action-packed it was stimulated by the same rigid high.
The paramedics solemnly carried the dead body away on a stretcher, back at the crime scene inspector Donald Banks was investigating the chalk outline carefully.
"We have our the dead body of 31 year old Emma Harrington, her house is about five miles from here. cause of death?" He asked the police officers.
"We think it was a fatal stab in the gut, sir."
"Okay! We've established the fact that she was killed around 5:30 P.M. She was staying here to meet an important deadline for a law firm. Her body was found by the bellhop who went to check up on her when she didn't respond to any calls he sent her, when he did he told me the door was closed and locked. Only three people could of had the opportunity to kill her, and that was the only three people who had a key to the room to break in. Carlos Alamo, the room service. Briana Manning the maid, and Weaver Jones, the owner." Donald explained.
Weaver spoke up to clear his name. "No wait! By 5:30 I had walked out for a cigarette. You can even ask the security guard. For safety measures workers need passes to come in and out. You have to log in every time you leave or enter. You'll find I was outside during the murder!"
"Yeah I went to take my break until 6:00! Beside I didn't have my key with me!" Briana spoke up.
The inspector looked closely at the new evidence in front of his face. "He's right! So that leaves Carlos Alamo."
"Inspector! Look!" One of the police officer pulled a knife from Carlos' backpack.
Donald quickly turned back to Carlos. "Things aren't looking good for you buddy. Cuff him and lets finish this down at the station!"
"Your making a mistake! I didn't do it!" Carlos yelled as they proceeding in hauling him away.
From within the shadows a boy stepped forward. "Wait. I'm afraid your looking at this all wrong, inspector."
"I know you!" Donald exclaimed when he got a good look at the boy's face. "Your Felicia Hardy's boy, aren't you? Johnny!"
"That's not important right now." He than walked towards the door. "Doesn't it seem weird inspector that when Carlos delivered the food he waited after Emma closed the door in his face before opening it with a key to commit the murder. If he wanted to leave a clear trail he would have killed her right away, as not to leave any suspicion that he had a key to get in."
"Where are you getting at, kid." He asked impatiently.
"Look at the lock very carefully. There's a big glop print near the lock. Somebody put in gum so the door wouldn't be closed all the way. Whoever did this was clearly trying to frame Carlos."
"But who?"
Johnny looked around the room suspiciously. "The least person we'd expect. Somebody who we wouldn't suspect because she didn't have the right tool with her at the time, isn't that right...Briana Manning!"
She gasped as everybody turned to face her. But she quickly tried to laugh it off. "That's ridiculous! Carlos is the one with the murder weapon, not me!"
"Funny you should ask that." Johnny smirked and took the knife. "This would have been the perfect evidence, if not for the fact its the wrong weapon!" He earned another collective gasp.
He took the cover off the body and pointed at the wound. "The knife I'm holding is about six inch long knife, not capable of making a five centimeter puncture wound if it was a gutting. The diameter is a couple inches off too!"
Anger flared within the woman. "You don't even know me! I was out remember! There was no way I could have been in two places at once."
"How do you explain that?" Donald questioned.
"It's true you left. But around back is door leading into the hotel. To enter you need the code that only employees such as yourself was given in case of a emergency escape from a fire! That's how you were able to sneak back in!"
Briana snorted. "That's ridiculous! This boy is plain stupid!"
"Really? Than explain to me how you got into the building at 6:00 without logging back in?! Like Mr. Jones explained you need to log in when you leave and log back in when you re-enter. I check the list the guard gave me, there is no record of you re-entering. How is it your here now when the sheet says you never logged back in?!
Briana had a look of total shock on her face.
"So here's how it happened. Briana cleans Emma's room and than leaves, but not before leaving the gum behind. Than she calls for room service as Carlos delivers it. At that time she makes certain she logs out. She enters through the back and makes her way to Ms. Harrington's room to commit the murder, needing no key to enter thanks to the gum. Afterwards she comes back down to the lobby and makes it seem like she just came back five minutes ago. There you go, absence during the given time, and not in possession of the key. Two elements of a perfect alibi." Johnny explained.
"Okay fine it was me! That bitch Emma was a bad business partner. She and my sister worked together on a case. My sister told her it was a risky plan to sell, but she didn't listen so they ended up losing three millions dollars! She was gonna plan to pin it all her. But now...she knows what it's like. To pay a price you can't afford!" Briana confessed.
The police officers were taking Briana into custody and were currently loading her into the police car.
Johnny was just standing there until Inspector Donald slapped him on the back. "Good job, son! I knew it wasn't a mistake giving you a call! I have you to thank for another successful case!"
"Well lets not try to use the same MO next time. Wouldn't want the station to figure out that you call me every time you get stumped on a case. Your new promotion would be short-lived!" He came back cheerily.
"So your mother told me your quit the basketball team."
"Yeah, I loved to play and all but it was getting in the way. Plus my mom really needs my help nowadays. So I figured the timing was right." Johnny responded.
"Too bad. You were averaging more than 21 points a game." Donald said skeptically. He felt like Johnny wasn't letting on more than he need to.
His entire body locked up and he almost doubled over.
Donald noticed this and looked at him concern. "You okay, Johnny?"
Johnny stumbled away from him and into the woods. He dropped to his knees and clutched his stomach. No! This can't be happening now, I thought the serum's effect were suppose to last me a couple of more hours! He grabbed a hold of his neck and felt his canine teeth growing in. He than grabbed a vial from his back pocket and took it quickly. The results were soothing. His breaths steadied and his pulse went back to normal. I was afraid of this, just like Blade as I age the serum is being rejected.
The inspector ran back to him. "Are you okay?"
He smiled back. "Yeah I just got winded. Don't worry."
"Come on we've got another case to solve!" Donald told him.
Johnny wave him off. "Sorry, D. I'm visiting a family relative in Antelope Meadows."
"Who?"
He smiled. "Its my little brother."
At the park Chris and Riley were getting a hotdog and seem to be on a date.
"Here you go." Chris handed her a hotdog.
"Man I swear sometimes you cost me a fortune." Chris joked. "Let me see...Eight dollars!" He gasped when he looked at the receipt.
Riley pushed him playfully. "Your such a cheap-ass!"
"Look don't be throwing salt on my game, I'm not made of money!" Chris yelled.
"Okay." Riley laughed.
Chris looked down on her. "Your know this cheap-ass loves you, right?"
Riley looked up at him surprised. "What."
"I said I love you, and it's pretty obvious how you feel about me."
"Look I admit that I care about you, but-
Chris stopped her. "You don't have to say anything, I just want you to know that I love you, and I know how you feel about me."
Riley was feeling very uncomfortable right now. She didn't know what to say, he spoke with such passion, he always did.
"So, um. I heard from Julius that his dad is staying for a while." Riley said desperately wanting to change the subject.
Chris grinned he knew that she really was uncomfortable. "Yeah, it's gonna be the best five days of my life." Chris stated sarcastically.
Riley sat down on the bench and dragged Chris with her. "What do you two hate him so much?"
"He wasn't exactly a nice person...So you want to go somewhere?"
Riley thought about it. "Well I do have to finish my paper . Maybe we could drive to the library?"
Chris nodded his head eagerly.
"This should be a fun week!" Rick chimed taking, unpacking his clothes.
Aidan leaned on the wall. "Dad, you've upset mom. This is not gonna be fun!"
"Look, I pay half for this house, half for you boys' tuition, half for the clothes and food. I should get the chance to see you once in a while." He stated.
"Dad, I know you. You wouldn't travel 50 miles from you law firm just to watch me and the team compete in the playoffs."
Rick sighed. "You've caught me, I actually wondered if it would be okay if you would move in with me back in Buffalo. Look it'll be perfect."
Aidan just looked appalled. "What about Julius?"
"He'll stay here, that way your mother still has some company."
"No way! I have a life here dad!" He argued.
"Look I can understand why you would want to stay for you brother and your mom, but you have to admit that being with the Parker kid, is gonna screw you up! I'm trying to protect you from him. You know what he's capable of!"
Aidan sighed and looked at him disappointedly. "I know his rep, but I also know the guy, okay, he's not like that anymore!"
"I'm not so sure, that's why I want you to move in with me!" His dad yelled.
"Dad, come on you can't just come in here and spring this on me!" Aidan consulted. There was no talking to man! He thought he always knew best but he often disagreed.
"Look I'm not asking you to give up a limb. I just want you to move back to Buffalo with me, that's all!" Rick debated.
"What about Julius? Oh you remember him? He's your other son!" Aidan squeaked.
Rick put his hand on his shoulder. "Look there's a reason why I want you to move back with me. There's this kid, Johnny Hardy your mother's gave him the extra room down stairs. He's suppose to be some 20 year old Sherlock Holmes. But he's also a big shot basketball player. I'm giving you an opportunity to start with a clean slate."
That was the last straw. Aidan snapped. "I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit pressure! I can't stand it no more! I hate basketball! I don't want it, I've never wanted it, and I'm not gonna move in with you just so you can tear me apart again! So fuck your dreams, fuck my future, fuck you and most of all fuck basketball! Now, I'm gonna go down the hall to talk with Julius, 'cause at least he's got something else to talk about besides basketball! God damn it!" Aidan left.
"He'll thank me one day." Rick told himself.
"Oh come on, aren't you done yet!" Whined Chris.
At first when they were climbing the steps he thought it was a really good idea, but than she took about two hours looking at books and now she was taking forever on the computers.
"Oh, Chill!" She responded. "Beside these Daily Bugle articles about Spider-man interest me."
Chris nearly choked on his gum. "Spider-man! Wh-what are doing reading about him?"
Riley eyed him suspiciously, her boyfriend was so weird! "Because he's interesting, he's the person I'm writing my bibliography about! He was gone for like sixteen years and now he pops back out of nowhere? Either he's immortal or this city is being run by a new Spider-man."
"Well he could have discovered the fountain of youth. Speaking of which why don't you write about that! Spider-man is so...boring!" Chris edged on.
He knew the truth. OF COURSE! His dad quit when he was two because he had a son and a daughter on the way, he just couldn't just risk his life whenever he was needed. That and he really wanted to spend more time with his family. You know, come home every night and watch him grow, teach him his lessons. But mostly he felt like it was because he just wanted to spend more time Mary Jane!
"I don't know he seems so...dreamy." Riley finished in a daze.
'Ladies and Gentlemen the downside of being a superhero.' Chris thought angrily. 'There was no way in hell I'm gonna let Spider-man have her! What the hell am I saying? I am Spider-man!'
A mysterious man walked across the street to the library, you could tell he was mysterious too. He was wearing a long coat and a handkerchief over his face. There would be no stopping him, he came back for one thing and one thing alone. To rekindle an old flame.
"There's gotta be way." A young girl was very panicky. For good reason too! There was somebody after her and it was gonna kill her if she didn't find away to reverse it.
While she was preoccupied with a computer the monster was creeping closer to her.
"Check that guy out!" Riley said to Chris. Actually she wanted to revert his attention. This guy wouldn't shut up about Spider-man. This was the first time she saw him jealous.
"Dang! Either he's up to no good...or he's about to flash somebody!" Chris exclaimed.
Riley grabbed her books and took his arm. "Lets get out of here!"
"So you thought you could escape me?" An eerie voice made itself present to the young girl.
"Trevor." She managed to choke out, turning around slowly.
"Yeah, its me!"
Chris and Riley were walking together out of the library when a loud explosion was heard throughout the area!
"What was that!" Riley exclaimed turning back to the library. But when she turned back to face Chris she discovered he was no longer there. "Chris? CHRIS!"
Spider-man jumped down from a building and entered the smoked documentation building through a window.
"Sorry, Riley. Maybe Spider-man is more boyfriend material than Chris Parker!" He said to himself, disappointed that he ditched her.
He slithered himself below a railing and takes off sprinting towards the third aisle before flipping forward to avoid the a large pile of fallen debris.
"Hello! Anybody here!" Chris yelled throughout the area. Most of the people took off yelling and screaming so there couldn't be that much people left. Right?
"Get away from me!" He heard around the corner. Chris quickly took off down the hall to be confronted with the most disturbing sight.
A young girl was backing away from a terrible beast. He had blood-shot eyes, long claws, and a shaggy face. His teeth were at least 10 times bigger than any vampire he'd ever seen!
"Now there's a face only a mother could love!" He kicked him away and thrashed him through a wall.
The young woman got up and hugged Chris. "Oh thank you, Spider-man!"
"Your welcome, but I have to tell you that I'm taken." He joked.
The creature popped back up and tackled Chris. "And so is she!"
"Lady you might want to run! Kujo's hunting!" Spider-man hollered.
Chris punched the monster and sent him flying to a wall.
"That's gonna hurt in the morning." He said clutching his head. The sounds of sirens went off.
"Oh boy the cops are a coming!" Chris shouted in a sing-song voice.
At the park Aidan threw a rock angrily at the pond. What the hell was he gonna do! His mom was having a hard time with him so he thought that if ever happened that he could always move in his dad. Now he realized how much of a bad idea that was. He can't live with his or his dad. He was screwed!
"It looks like you've had better days." When Aidan turned around he was confronted by his basketball coach.
"Save me the lecture okay old man!" He replied roughly.
Coach just looked at him disappointedly before patting the seat next to him. "I don't know what kind of senile senor you take me for, but when you call me an old man, you give me an explanation!"
"My dad came back to town. He wants me to move in with him."
"That doesn't sound like a problem to me."
"He's an ass!" Aidan hollered.
"Okay, now you've got a problem." Coach snickered silently.
Aidan sighed heavily before sitting next to him. "You know basketball started this. God, why did I have to be so damn good!"
"Okay now your getting a little too cocky." The Coach joked. "But seriously, I think your in it for than your father. I know that I see it on your face everyday."
"I am. I love the crowd, the challedge. The game. But its about whether or not to move in with my dad. My mother doesn't want me around, so my dad was like, my exit. But he isn't exactly roommate material." Aidan explained.
The coach thought about it for a minute. "You know, son. You might just have another option. There's this boy name Johnny looking for a new roommate. He just got here yesterday. You should look him up."
Time-lapses
The young woman Chris saved earlier was now in his house with Julius checking up on the gash on her neck.
"So your telling me your friends with Spider-man?" Tory asked. Chris switched back earlier.
"Yeah, see him and my father had a partnership going. He would take on the bad guys and my dad would handle the publicity." He explained.
Julius leaned into Chris. "Dude she's a major hottie!"
Chris nudged him. "Shut up!" He than turned to Tory. "So, what was that thing?"
"He was boyfriend."
"Wow you have a very weird taste in men! You go full bodied type, am I correct?" Chris joked trying to make her feel better.
She giggled before turning serious again. "His name is Trevor Tracy. We met at a college orientation. Not your average love story. Anyway, I got a job offering in Mexico to do a tour for a environmental TV show! I was so excited. But he wasn't, he hated being alone. I came to tell him I wouldn't take the job four days later. It was too late, he had messed with a few science equipment in ESU. It completely turned him into a werewolf!" She started to sob.
"Dude I told you that school was hexed!" Julius exclaimed. "Ain't you glad that you took that basketball scholarship to U of A, now?"
"Your a very sensitive guy, Jay." Chris said sarcastically, pointing off to the sorrowing Tory.
When Julius go the point he walked towards Tory and gave her a hug. "Oh, baby girl, my bad!"
Tory sniffled. "I'm all sticky." She grumbled.
"The bathrooms down the hall, I'll get you some fresh clothes." As Tory walked towards the bathroom, Julius went into his bedroom to get some of his clothes for her to wear.
'I can't believe I ditched, Riley. God knows I love the woman. Wherever the hell she is!' Chris thought to himself.
Tory poked her head to the side. "Hey, Chris. Can you please help with the stopper. It's stuck!"
"Okay, just wait a few minutes."
The doorbell rang.
When he opened the door. Riley was standing there looking quite pissed. "How could you have abandoned me like that?!"
Chris put his hands up defensively. "Now, Riles please understand that I have a perfectly good reason as to why I did what I did."
"Than explained!" She yelled angrily.
"Look I was afraid somebody got hurt so I ran back in! Honest!" Chris than cupped her face. "Come on we've been going out for three weeks! There was never a time I didn't like to you."
Her face soften and she took his hand. "You promise me that there is nothing going on!"
"Yes!" He than hugged her.
It was perhaps the worst timing in Marvel history! Tory had walked down the in with nothing but a towel wrapped around her body.
"Chris! Are you gonna come to the bath or not?! I can't wait forever, I'm all sticky!" She shouted.
Riley quickly shoved Chris off of her and slapped him silly. "What the hell is this?!"
"Riley I can explain!" He shouted defensively as she waited for an answer.
He looked back at Tory and than to Riley. "She is...um...see...
Julius walked in. "Hey Chris is it okay if she wears your old tank top?" He than looked up and saw the three and got the point quickly. "Oh! Hi, Riley. Have you met Tory?"
"You are a liar and a cheater! I cannot believe I felt bad for not telling you I loved you in the Park!" She than stormed off, leaving a heart-broken Chris behind.
Julius than snickered. "Park. Parker. Get it?"
Chris glared at him as Julius stopped and lead Tory away.
I can smell her! She is near by, her scent is all over the place. Tory my love, you are the only person who really understood me for who I was. I cannot let you go. EVER!
Julius patted his buddy's back. "It could be worse. Tory could have walked in naked."
BOOM!
There was a loud explosion that blasted the door opened as Trevor walked in, angry as hell.
"Where is my woman!" He growled.
"Something tells me that he got out of the 'Tory dog house'!" Julius screeched.
Chris pushed him out of the way from a powerful blast that emitted from Trevor's mouth.
"Now that's what I call bad breath!" Julius joked once they hit the ground.
Chris pulled him up and practically shoved him into the hallway. "Get Tory and run!"
"WHERE IS SHE?!!"
Spider-man leapt up behind him. "Hey Duce Bigolo why don't you pick on somebody three inches smaller than you!"
"Ahh!" Trevor lunged out with uncanny forced and nearly sliced Chris in half with his claws!
Chris leaps in the air and takes down Trevor. They roll for a few rotations until they reach a puddle of mud and Chris gets under the evil werewolf thingy and kicks him off of his body.
Once Trevor falls back he quickly gets up and laughs. "How about I make you a trade. Tory for the girl that was here a couple of minutes ago."
"What'd you do with, Riley?" He asked angrily once he realized what he meant.
Trevor than noticed Julius trying to make a run for it with Tory. So like the evil villain that he was he pulled out a rope and swung her over to him.
"In fact, this seems more fun! You meet me in the city in an hour and decide which girl you want more. Tory or Riley." He said smugly before taking off.
"NO!"
Her head hurt. She could barely move. But she slowly regain consciousness, so slowly she stood up and looked around at her surroundings. She almost screamed. Riley Harris was hanging about a hundred feet from the air by a bungee rope.
"Oh my god, somebody help me!" She screamed.
Trevor was conveniently two feet away with a can of peanut butter.
Strange." He started. "That rat above you isn't even half as terrified as you."
Riley looked up to see a small rat chewing at the ropes, it's true purpose was to chew up the peanut butter that coated the line.
"Ah!"
Trevor looked at his watch and than to Tory, who also was tied up like Riley. "He should have been here by now. Looks like your luck has run out."
The rat chewed through. And Riley fell.
But before she hit the ground and made a big yucky puddle of blood and guts who should show than her boyfriend. Oh wait a minute that might not be true anymore.
"You okay!" He asked.
"Spider-man your really great!" Riley said enthusiastically. "Nothing like my so-called boyfriend."
Chris knew where this was going and he wasn't gonna take it. So he dropped her.
"OW! What was that for!?!"
"For breaking the heart of an innocent man! Listen Mrs. Harris, Chris was taking care of Tory for me!" He debated. There was no way he was gonna let his alter-ego take him away from his girlfriend.
Riley sighed. "Oh, please. I saw the way she was looking at him."
"Riley, Chris does love you. More than you can ever know, and if you blow things with him now, you will regret it."
"Yeah, right." Riley grunted.
Chris knew he wasn't getting anywhere with her. He quite frankly wanted to bang his head into one of the many building in front of him.
But he didn't have time for it. As Trevor let Tory fall into a horrible death.
Riley pushed Chris. "Spider-man look!"
"AH! I can't get her from here!" He leapt into action but Trevor used his rope from a while ago to slam him away.
"No!" Riley screamed as tears streaked her cheek.
Chris met Trevor and grabbed him in frustration. Why did you do that, I thought you love her!"
"She was gonna abandon me the second she cashed in for her plane ticket, I knew it! She knew how much I loved her and she was gonna leave me for that job!" Trevor screamed at them. "I love her and she was gonna leave me!"
"Than you just let a horrible tragedy unfold, Trevor." Chris told him sadly.
With tear-stained eyes Trevor turned angrily towards him. "You have no idea what its like do you? To lose your beloved?"
"No, and I never will. 'cause I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to my relationship." Chris handed him Tory's note. "You killed her Trevor. Before she could ever tell you the same."
He eagerly read the letter.
Chris just sighed. He knew what was in that letter. His new found friend Tory had written it a two months ago. It was a letter of apology to the T.V. station stating that she wouldn't do the show because she was in love.
"Oh no, what have I done!" He howled. "Tory...Tory, no!"
Riley turned her head away in sadness. Chris just stands there, feeling guilty that he had let this happened. But also he was depressed that the monster who did this was still on the loose, poisoning the hearts of men and woman alike. A monster called...Pain.
What causes us to build walls around our hearts? Underneath the detached surface of their rouged masquerade, love was waiting like a silent lamb. Waiting--hoping to get a chance to speak out. But it never got its chance, and it never will. Unfortunately.
"So, you still working on the film?" Julius asked curiously. He was walking in when he spotted Jesse sitting on the floor, with her video camera next to her.
"Well, don't be mad. But I'm been filming everything that's been going on around the house." Jesse admitted.
"Even my brother's big blow up?" Julius' eyes widen. "Or even my dance?"
Jesse nodded guiltily. "Yes! All of it! I am so sorry!" She began to sob.
Julius sat down next to her. "It's okay. Don't worry about it."
"Good because I have no regrets." Jesse said, stopping her sobs. "I'm just bummed because I didn't get any music on it!"
"Oh well. I can help!" Julius alleged. He than went into his room to grab his guitar and came back twenty seconds later.
"Um, how do I put this lightly?" Jesse started. "Hell, no!"
Julius stopped her when she tried to leave. "Oh come on! Give me a chance!"
Jesse sighed and turned on her camera. "Ok I'm gonna start with a B-Flat!" Jesse than caves over onto the couch. "There is no B-flat on a guitar you moron!"
Julius just laughs sheepishly. "Right I was kidding!"
The next thing that came was almost unbelievable. I mean if somebody were to tell Jesse about it she would have probably punked them. Julius was kind of...good!(A/N: The song is called 'Every Heart' by BoA. Its the fourth ending theme of Inuyasha, you know the one that plays after the new episodes that are showing on Saturdays? You can probably tell which ones are the lyrics.)
If there were many tears falling down,
Every heart would become gentle.
If everybody expresses what they think,
Every heart can be satisfied.
In the house Aidan walks into his father's room and confronts old wounds that are about to be re-opened.
"So, did you make a decision yet, or are you here to tell say fuck' Aidan?" His dad murmured.
Aidan just stared at him incredulously. "Dad, you've been riding me since you got here, you've been riding me pretty much my whole life. Why should I believe in anything you say now?"
"Because I'm your father. I tried to do right by you Aidan, and I've tried to do right by Julius along with your mother. What I don't get is why you don't have faith in me."
"Dad, you need to check yourself. You hammered me, you overlooked Julius, and you chased mom
away. As far as I can tell, you never tried to do anything for us. You did it all for yourself!" With that Aidan left leaving a disappointed father behind.
When Chris walked out to his porch he quickly took in the breath of the night. He loved to do this often. There was always something about the air during this hour that made it seem pure, untainted. He needed that right now, especially since the whole Trevor and Tory ordeal made him question his relationship with Riley. He knew how he felt, but now he wasn't so sure about how she felt.
In endlessly repeating time,
We were searching for love,
Because we wanted to become stronger.
We look up to the faraway sky.
"You were right." Chris turned his head towards Riley who was sitting by the steps.
Chris sat down next to her. "First I spill my heart out to you, than you catch me with another woman, and now your on my porch actin' all lovey dovey? What kind of message are you trying to send?"
"I came here to tell you that you were right about everything. I do love you." Riley admitted.
"See, I told you I knew." He answered cockily.
Riley looked down at her hands. "I was just afraid if you ever found out you would know just how much you can hurt. I don't want to get here, Chris. But after tonight I think I'm more afraid of never getting the chance to tell you."
Chris held both her hands. "Don't stop yourself, I wouldn't do anything to hurt you, please Riley. Give me this chance. Give yourself a chance. You are already in here." Chris placed Riley's hand over his heart.
"Trust me."
Hazel eyes met emerald, once again, she felt loved, safe, at home. Riley wrapped her arms around Chris' neck, as his hands circled her waist. "Okay." she whispered. "But if you break my heart I swear I will break you!"
Chris laughed.
The two of us, smiling, meet here,
Every heart has a habit of receiving its dreams.
Sadness has no effect on us,
Every heart gains happiness when it flies.
Niecy was currently making a sandwich for the boys in the kitchen when Aidan walked in and gave her a big hug.
"Oh honey! What's the occasion?" She asked surprised.
"Mom, I'm sorry. For jumping on you when you first dropped the bomb on me about the divorce." Aidan uttered sincerely.
Niecy was touched he gently stroked his cheek. "Its okay, baby. I should apologize about what I said about you after the party."
Someday our souls will unite,
We will give peaceful approval.
"No mom." He stared. " I was mad at you for getting a divorce for so long, and I just realized now you didn't do it for you, you were trying to protect us from him. I will always be grateful for that. But when you divorcing him was for you. Now I have to do something for me."
Niecy looked at him curiously. "What do you mean?"
Aidan shows her his bags. "Coach. Hook me up with a roommate, I'm gonna stay with him for a while. I'm sorry."
Aidan sighed before leaving a stunned mother.
Memories of everything has settled,
This is a warm place to be.
The stars separate us from the future,
We are always so brilliant,
So shine.
Johnny is driving in a pickup truck out in the open road, he wearing a bandana on his head as he approaches the sign 'Antelope Meadows 6 miles'.
In endlessly repeating time,
We were searching for love,
Because we wanted to become stronger.
We look up to the faraway sky.
Back in Jesse's room Julius hit a high note and started to sing more falsetto.
"Both of us are mourning, yet we walk on." Julius ended with a nice strum.
"Wow." Jesse said amazed. "I didn't know you could do that!"
"Yeah well, I can sing a heck of good. Which is the reason why I think dad paid more attention to Aidan than me, basketball: Manly. Singing: Gay!"