Not too bad. He wasn't too crazy about the gold, but besides that, he
seems like a real part of the X-Men now. Peter stood in front of a mirror
in his room looking at himself with his brand new X-Men
costume...er...uniform. He began striking several poses making sure it
looks at least decent, which includes hanging from the ceiling on a web.
Over looking the gold, Peter loved his new uniform. Now, all he needs is a
mask, and then it would really be great.
Peter then wondered what the reaction would be. He knew he would be ooed and awwed at, as well as hassled. Peter reluctantly left his room and proceeded downstairs where his fellow mutants await him. Peter felt his heart beating faster and faster with each step, waiting for someone to comment on his new look. "Whoa ho! Check out the Spider-Man!" Peter heard form a small crowed downstairs who were all wearing X-Men suits. It sounded like Kitty. And, as if on her mark, the whole team began ooing and awwing at Peter as predicted.
"Go, Spidey!"
"Lookin' good, Pete!"
"Whoa!"
"Oooo, nice tights!"
"Why does he get a custom uniform?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," said Peter trying to calm everyone down. "I know the drill,"
"That's more like," said Logan leaning against the wall also in uniform. "A lot better than red and blue, huh?"
Peter laughed. "Well, make me a mask, and then we'll talk,"
Logan smiled and let out a grunt...which might have been a laugh. "Not a bad idea. We'll talk 'bout that later. Now were do some drills."
"In the danger room?"
"Not right now. Now we goin' outside. X-Men! Lets go,"
All of the student began following Logan, as Peter was looking for Kurt and Kitty. He eventually found them. "There are other places than the danger room?" he asked.
"Just in zhe back yard," replied Kurt. "Ve spend most of the time there,"
Back yard? Peter wasn't told anything about a back yard. He noticed something was weird since they left the building from the front door. Logan took them to the side of the mansion, which stood huge HUGE field that Peter never noticed. "This is a backyard?? More like a back-mile! How wide is this space?"
"Wide enough," answered Logan. He then went to a remote control and a microphone, which was attached the a nearby wall. "Activate Projectile Training 1" he said into the mic. Just then, assorted guns and weapons appeared from the ground and trees. "Ok, Spider-Man," Peter looked up with eyes wide open. "You're up?"
"What? Me?"
"Yeah. Lets see what you got,"
Peter swallowed hard. "Ok, what do I have to do?"
"Use you powers to disable or dodge the oncoming objects with out leaving the box," Logan said with a half-evil smile pointing to the ground with a white square on it.
"Oh, that's it?" Asked Peter a little happier. Logan's smile disappeared. "Cool," Peter stood in square waiting, while Logan signaled the exercise to start. Suddenly, non lethal objects, where shot out of the guns towards Peter. Peter bent his knees as if preparing to jump, and thats what he did, dodging at least 5 objects in mid-air while spinning and flipping. As he landed, he spun a web from both of his arms onto a tree branch above him, and pulled himself up, still dodging every object. Eventually, the guns spotted shooting and Peter landed smiling. "Wow. I thought that would be a lot harder,"
Some of the other students that where watching stood there amazed, and others laughed a little. What's so funny? "Well," began Logan. "It seems like it's a little harder than you thought," Logan said pointing to Peter's feet. Peter looked down. He wasn't in the square.
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Peter woke up to a knock on his door. Before answering, he looked at his clock. 7:28 P.M. "What?" he asked still tired. Peter found out first hand that this mutant training the professor was talking about was a lot harder than he lead it to be. All the running, and jumping, and hand-to-hand fighting, and all of that good stuff was pretty fun to Peter when he would stop criminals, but what Logan was doing to them was just plain brutal.
"Peter?" came a female Scottish voice from the other side of the closed door. "Are you in there?"
"Yeah. What?"
"C'mon, Boy-o! Supper is waiting."
"Alright! Be right there!" Peter very slowly got out of bed, went downstairs, ate dinner and went back to bed, only to be awaken again by another knock. "Yeah?" replied Peter.
"Pete?" It was Kurt. "You ok?"
"Come in," Kurt walked in, followed by two other girls (guess who) and Scott.
"You ok, Peter?" asked Scott. "We didn't even see you leave the table,"
"Yeah, are you sick?" asked Kitty.
"No. I'm just tired from the training crap,"
"Ok, we'll just leave you alone," said Rogue leaving the room. Scott Kitty, and Kurt followed her.
"Hey, Kurt," said Peter. "Could you hold on a second?"
Kurt stopped. "Yeah, vhats up?"
"I'm just wondering, how are you and Amanda doing...since the incident?"
Kurt didn't smile as expected. "Vell, during school ve're fine. But after, we never seem to be able to have a good time,"
"Why not?"
"Every time we go out. She's always nervous that her parents, or someone her parents knows will see us. She's always so nervous. It's really...."
"Not fun?"
"Ja! I think we might have to break up,"
"Well, why can't you hang out here?"
"Vas?"
"Yeah. What's wrong with hanging out here?"
"I don't think that's a good idea,"
"Why not? Why don't want her to meet us?"
"That's not..." Kurt trailed off, and Peter gave him a look. "Listen, it's not like that, I just don't want her to get involved, and I don't know how to ask her."
"But if she asked you, would you do it?"
"I guess. Why?"
"Just wondering...."
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Later that night....
"I don't know," said Amanda. She was in her room in her pajamas talking on the phone with one of her friends with a frown on her face. "I can't explain it," she continued. "Before my parents told me...I couldn't date....I've been so paranoid around him after school." Amanda felt tears crawling to the surface, but she did her best to conceal them. She was sick of crying, but she also felt it was her fault. All of this never would have happened if she didn't insist on Kurt coming over for dinner. She remembers that he constantly told her he shouldn't but she didn't listen. Amanda couldn't conceal the tickets anymore. "I tried that," she said still talking on the phone. "But I'm telling you, everywhere we go, everything we do...I just can't-"
Thump!
Amanda shook in fright. What was that? It sounded like it came from the roof. Amanda looked up. "Manda?" said her friend on the phone. "Manda!"
"Sorry," she replied. "I thought I heard something,"
Thump!
"Um...Cass? Can I call you back? Ok, bye," Amanda hung up the phone and proceeded towards her window. That sound was too loud, something was wrong. She opened her window and looked around outside, but as expecting, she couldn't find anything out of the norm. She began to walk away from her window, but then heard a sound behind her. She turned around to find someone...or something, on her window sill, and it didn't look human. Amanda screamed, but it was cut short via the creature's hand over her mouth.
"Amanda! Shhh shhh!" Said the creature. She was still screaming under his hand, but it was impossible to hear. "Amanda! It's me Peter! Kurt's friend!" Amanda stopped screaming, and then said something under Peter's hand, but he was unable to hear it. "Ok, I'm gonna let go of you now, just promise me you won't scream. You promise?" Amanda nodded, and Peter let go of her mouth.
Amanda rubbed her mouth where Peter's hands once was. She looked at him puzzled, still terrified. Now that he was in the light, he did look human, but he was in a blue and red costume, with black lines, and a pretty creepy mask. "Who are...what are..?
Peter pulled of his mask, revealing a face that Amanda partially remembers from school. "Now that I think ab out it," Peter said. "We were never properly introduced. My names Peter Parker, I'm a friends of Kurt's," Peter held out his hand.
Amanda stared at it for a second and reluctantly shook it. "Kurt's friend? Wait, you mean you're a mutant?"
"That I am,"
"Pardon my french, but what the hell are you doing here at," Amanda looked at the clock which read 10:23. "10:30 at night?"
"Well...see, Kurt wa-"
"Amanda!" said a voice from downstairs, who had to be Mr. Sefton.
"Shit! My dad!" She said looking at her door hearing her father's footsteps approaching. "Quick! You have to..." Amanda said looking behind her, realizing Peter is gone. Her door opened.
"Amanda?" said her father upon entering her room. "Are you alright? I heard a scream,"
"Oh, um," Amanda tried to think as fast as she could. "I just saw a spider and it scared me," Did that work?
"Ok," her father said. "Good night,"
"Night, dad," her door closed. She exhaled heavily, and began to look for Peter. "Hello?" she whispered. "Hello?"
"Well, at least you didn't lie," Amanda heard Peter's voice coming from her bed. She then saw him crawl out from under her bed onto her bed like a bug. Now she was really freaked out. There was a few moments of silence. "Ok, I'll make this short and sweet. I'm hear because Kurt is worried about his relationship with you. He really wants it to work,"
"Wait, Kurt sent you?" Amanda said in disbelief. Partially she didn't believe that Kurt would send someone to her, and partially that she couldn't believe the way Peter was crouching on her bed. He looked like a sitting dog.
"Well, not exactly," he began with his mask still in his hand. "He doesn't know I'm here,"
"So, why are you here,"
"I know you're relationship is on the rocks, and I know why,"
"Oh, he told you what happened the other night?"
"Not really, I was kind of there,"
"What??"
"Never mind, I'll explain that later. Anyway, he tells me your really nervous about your parents catching you with him after school,"
"Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know what to do. I actually saw one of my dad's close friends while me and Kurt were hanging out once."
"I see. Well, why don't you guys just hang out at the mansion?"
"What? You mean where Kurt lives? With the mutants?" Peter raised an eyebrow. "No, no, I didn't man it like that. It's just well, Kurt never asked me, but when I brought it up, he said it might be awkward, so I didn't really push it."
"Well, maybe you should. I'm sure if you tell Kurt you really want to meet us, I'm sure he'll say yes, then you'll have a place to hang out. A big place, mind you. Trust me, it's not bad over there."
Amanda laughed. "Ok then, I'll think about it."
"You do that, but now, I have to go," Peter hopped of the bed onto the window sill.
"Wait!" called Amanda. Peter was about to spin a web, but stopped and gave his attention to her. "What are your...powers?"
Peter put on his mask. "They call me Spider-Man. I can do whatever a spider can. Any other questions?"
"Yes, actually. Why did we have to have this little talk now, rather than tomarrow at school. That would've saved you the trouble of getting here."
"Actually, that was my original plan, but impatience got the best of me," Peter spun a web onto a near by tree, and jumped off the sill.
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There was a time when they're dreams felt so real. Just out of reach but not too far to feel. Together they'd finally make them come true, because anything was possible when he was with her. But, they kept on saying they'd never amount to anything. All of the dreams we've built from the ground, they never believed them they just tore them down. We will rebuild them from the start. We will rebuild them from the heart.
(A/N: I think this is my longest chapter. I still got plenty more chapters for you. Oh, yeah, REVIEW!!! Later)
Peter then wondered what the reaction would be. He knew he would be ooed and awwed at, as well as hassled. Peter reluctantly left his room and proceeded downstairs where his fellow mutants await him. Peter felt his heart beating faster and faster with each step, waiting for someone to comment on his new look. "Whoa ho! Check out the Spider-Man!" Peter heard form a small crowed downstairs who were all wearing X-Men suits. It sounded like Kitty. And, as if on her mark, the whole team began ooing and awwing at Peter as predicted.
"Go, Spidey!"
"Lookin' good, Pete!"
"Whoa!"
"Oooo, nice tights!"
"Why does he get a custom uniform?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," said Peter trying to calm everyone down. "I know the drill,"
"That's more like," said Logan leaning against the wall also in uniform. "A lot better than red and blue, huh?"
Peter laughed. "Well, make me a mask, and then we'll talk,"
Logan smiled and let out a grunt...which might have been a laugh. "Not a bad idea. We'll talk 'bout that later. Now were do some drills."
"In the danger room?"
"Not right now. Now we goin' outside. X-Men! Lets go,"
All of the student began following Logan, as Peter was looking for Kurt and Kitty. He eventually found them. "There are other places than the danger room?" he asked.
"Just in zhe back yard," replied Kurt. "Ve spend most of the time there,"
Back yard? Peter wasn't told anything about a back yard. He noticed something was weird since they left the building from the front door. Logan took them to the side of the mansion, which stood huge HUGE field that Peter never noticed. "This is a backyard?? More like a back-mile! How wide is this space?"
"Wide enough," answered Logan. He then went to a remote control and a microphone, which was attached the a nearby wall. "Activate Projectile Training 1" he said into the mic. Just then, assorted guns and weapons appeared from the ground and trees. "Ok, Spider-Man," Peter looked up with eyes wide open. "You're up?"
"What? Me?"
"Yeah. Lets see what you got,"
Peter swallowed hard. "Ok, what do I have to do?"
"Use you powers to disable or dodge the oncoming objects with out leaving the box," Logan said with a half-evil smile pointing to the ground with a white square on it.
"Oh, that's it?" Asked Peter a little happier. Logan's smile disappeared. "Cool," Peter stood in square waiting, while Logan signaled the exercise to start. Suddenly, non lethal objects, where shot out of the guns towards Peter. Peter bent his knees as if preparing to jump, and thats what he did, dodging at least 5 objects in mid-air while spinning and flipping. As he landed, he spun a web from both of his arms onto a tree branch above him, and pulled himself up, still dodging every object. Eventually, the guns spotted shooting and Peter landed smiling. "Wow. I thought that would be a lot harder,"
Some of the other students that where watching stood there amazed, and others laughed a little. What's so funny? "Well," began Logan. "It seems like it's a little harder than you thought," Logan said pointing to Peter's feet. Peter looked down. He wasn't in the square.
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Peter woke up to a knock on his door. Before answering, he looked at his clock. 7:28 P.M. "What?" he asked still tired. Peter found out first hand that this mutant training the professor was talking about was a lot harder than he lead it to be. All the running, and jumping, and hand-to-hand fighting, and all of that good stuff was pretty fun to Peter when he would stop criminals, but what Logan was doing to them was just plain brutal.
"Peter?" came a female Scottish voice from the other side of the closed door. "Are you in there?"
"Yeah. What?"
"C'mon, Boy-o! Supper is waiting."
"Alright! Be right there!" Peter very slowly got out of bed, went downstairs, ate dinner and went back to bed, only to be awaken again by another knock. "Yeah?" replied Peter.
"Pete?" It was Kurt. "You ok?"
"Come in," Kurt walked in, followed by two other girls (guess who) and Scott.
"You ok, Peter?" asked Scott. "We didn't even see you leave the table,"
"Yeah, are you sick?" asked Kitty.
"No. I'm just tired from the training crap,"
"Ok, we'll just leave you alone," said Rogue leaving the room. Scott Kitty, and Kurt followed her.
"Hey, Kurt," said Peter. "Could you hold on a second?"
Kurt stopped. "Yeah, vhats up?"
"I'm just wondering, how are you and Amanda doing...since the incident?"
Kurt didn't smile as expected. "Vell, during school ve're fine. But after, we never seem to be able to have a good time,"
"Why not?"
"Every time we go out. She's always nervous that her parents, or someone her parents knows will see us. She's always so nervous. It's really...."
"Not fun?"
"Ja! I think we might have to break up,"
"Well, why can't you hang out here?"
"Vas?"
"Yeah. What's wrong with hanging out here?"
"I don't think that's a good idea,"
"Why not? Why don't want her to meet us?"
"That's not..." Kurt trailed off, and Peter gave him a look. "Listen, it's not like that, I just don't want her to get involved, and I don't know how to ask her."
"But if she asked you, would you do it?"
"I guess. Why?"
"Just wondering...."
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Later that night....
"I don't know," said Amanda. She was in her room in her pajamas talking on the phone with one of her friends with a frown on her face. "I can't explain it," she continued. "Before my parents told me...I couldn't date....I've been so paranoid around him after school." Amanda felt tears crawling to the surface, but she did her best to conceal them. She was sick of crying, but she also felt it was her fault. All of this never would have happened if she didn't insist on Kurt coming over for dinner. She remembers that he constantly told her he shouldn't but she didn't listen. Amanda couldn't conceal the tickets anymore. "I tried that," she said still talking on the phone. "But I'm telling you, everywhere we go, everything we do...I just can't-"
Thump!
Amanda shook in fright. What was that? It sounded like it came from the roof. Amanda looked up. "Manda?" said her friend on the phone. "Manda!"
"Sorry," she replied. "I thought I heard something,"
Thump!
"Um...Cass? Can I call you back? Ok, bye," Amanda hung up the phone and proceeded towards her window. That sound was too loud, something was wrong. She opened her window and looked around outside, but as expecting, she couldn't find anything out of the norm. She began to walk away from her window, but then heard a sound behind her. She turned around to find someone...or something, on her window sill, and it didn't look human. Amanda screamed, but it was cut short via the creature's hand over her mouth.
"Amanda! Shhh shhh!" Said the creature. She was still screaming under his hand, but it was impossible to hear. "Amanda! It's me Peter! Kurt's friend!" Amanda stopped screaming, and then said something under Peter's hand, but he was unable to hear it. "Ok, I'm gonna let go of you now, just promise me you won't scream. You promise?" Amanda nodded, and Peter let go of her mouth.
Amanda rubbed her mouth where Peter's hands once was. She looked at him puzzled, still terrified. Now that he was in the light, he did look human, but he was in a blue and red costume, with black lines, and a pretty creepy mask. "Who are...what are..?
Peter pulled of his mask, revealing a face that Amanda partially remembers from school. "Now that I think ab out it," Peter said. "We were never properly introduced. My names Peter Parker, I'm a friends of Kurt's," Peter held out his hand.
Amanda stared at it for a second and reluctantly shook it. "Kurt's friend? Wait, you mean you're a mutant?"
"That I am,"
"Pardon my french, but what the hell are you doing here at," Amanda looked at the clock which read 10:23. "10:30 at night?"
"Well...see, Kurt wa-"
"Amanda!" said a voice from downstairs, who had to be Mr. Sefton.
"Shit! My dad!" She said looking at her door hearing her father's footsteps approaching. "Quick! You have to..." Amanda said looking behind her, realizing Peter is gone. Her door opened.
"Amanda?" said her father upon entering her room. "Are you alright? I heard a scream,"
"Oh, um," Amanda tried to think as fast as she could. "I just saw a spider and it scared me," Did that work?
"Ok," her father said. "Good night,"
"Night, dad," her door closed. She exhaled heavily, and began to look for Peter. "Hello?" she whispered. "Hello?"
"Well, at least you didn't lie," Amanda heard Peter's voice coming from her bed. She then saw him crawl out from under her bed onto her bed like a bug. Now she was really freaked out. There was a few moments of silence. "Ok, I'll make this short and sweet. I'm hear because Kurt is worried about his relationship with you. He really wants it to work,"
"Wait, Kurt sent you?" Amanda said in disbelief. Partially she didn't believe that Kurt would send someone to her, and partially that she couldn't believe the way Peter was crouching on her bed. He looked like a sitting dog.
"Well, not exactly," he began with his mask still in his hand. "He doesn't know I'm here,"
"So, why are you here,"
"I know you're relationship is on the rocks, and I know why,"
"Oh, he told you what happened the other night?"
"Not really, I was kind of there,"
"What??"
"Never mind, I'll explain that later. Anyway, he tells me your really nervous about your parents catching you with him after school,"
"Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know what to do. I actually saw one of my dad's close friends while me and Kurt were hanging out once."
"I see. Well, why don't you guys just hang out at the mansion?"
"What? You mean where Kurt lives? With the mutants?" Peter raised an eyebrow. "No, no, I didn't man it like that. It's just well, Kurt never asked me, but when I brought it up, he said it might be awkward, so I didn't really push it."
"Well, maybe you should. I'm sure if you tell Kurt you really want to meet us, I'm sure he'll say yes, then you'll have a place to hang out. A big place, mind you. Trust me, it's not bad over there."
Amanda laughed. "Ok then, I'll think about it."
"You do that, but now, I have to go," Peter hopped of the bed onto the window sill.
"Wait!" called Amanda. Peter was about to spin a web, but stopped and gave his attention to her. "What are your...powers?"
Peter put on his mask. "They call me Spider-Man. I can do whatever a spider can. Any other questions?"
"Yes, actually. Why did we have to have this little talk now, rather than tomarrow at school. That would've saved you the trouble of getting here."
"Actually, that was my original plan, but impatience got the best of me," Peter spun a web onto a near by tree, and jumped off the sill.
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There was a time when they're dreams felt so real. Just out of reach but not too far to feel. Together they'd finally make them come true, because anything was possible when he was with her. But, they kept on saying they'd never amount to anything. All of the dreams we've built from the ground, they never believed them they just tore them down. We will rebuild them from the start. We will rebuild them from the heart.
(A/N: I think this is my longest chapter. I still got plenty more chapters for you. Oh, yeah, REVIEW!!! Later)
