Chapter Seven - The Truth and a Fatal Ending

Peter's POV: I stared at the face of Kiendra! 'What? How can she be Spider-Woman?' I thought back to the times that we've been together and it all just made sense! I reached down and ripped off a piece of her shirt then I lifted her head and put it into my lap. I started wiping the blood off of her blond hair. Once I could see that there was no more blood, I ripped off another piece off of her shirt and tied it around her head like a bandana.

Then I tenderly picked her up and webbed her unconscious body to my own. Once making sure that she was secured to me tightly, I took off towards her apartment.

I landed on Kiendra's apartment balcony and walked in the already open balcony doors. I gently laid her on her bed, and then I rushed to the bathroom to get cleaning supplies and a bandage. After sitting down on her bed I started dabbing her cut head with some medication. Kiendra started to stir.

'Here it comes, here comes the time when she knows I know!' After cleaning her head wound I wrapped her head with a bandage, Kiendra's eyes slowly started to open.

Her green eyes met mine; she reached up with her gloved hand and touched her face. Worry spread across her pale face. She sat up abruptly.

"Be careful! You don't want to make it bleed again!"

She peered at me confused, then she reached up again and felt the bandage on her head, after a moment of silence she asked quietly, "what happened?"

I took a deep breath, "well, the goblin person threw you against the building and you fell and went unconscious, once he went away I ran to you and saw you had a head wound so I…" I gulped nervously, "took off your mask to clean it, then I took you back here."

She looked down at the floor, "so, I, I guess you know who I am since you brought me to my own apartment."

I nodded, "yeah…"

She looked up slowly, "do I know who you are?"

I met her eyes, "y-yes."

"Do…do I love you?"

"I-I don't know, its up to you."

"Let me see."

"Let you see what?"

"Yourself, without your mask."

I looked up at the ceiling suddenly finding it interesting, "I-I can't do that Kiendra, and it'd put you in too much danger."

"You know I'm going to find out anyway…" she trailed off.

"Probably, knowing you." I grinned, trying to lighten the mood.

She smiled weakly, "um… I kind of want to get some sleep now, is, is that okay?"

"Of course," I stood up and walked to the balcony, I turned around once more and waved goodbye, then I jumped off the balcony and headed towards my apartment.

Kiendra's POV: Not caring that I didn't have my mask, I jumped off of my bed and jumped off of the balcony right after Spider-Man. Even though he was web swinging, I tried to stick to the rooftops to avoid the sound of when the webbing hits the target. Following closely behind him I jumped from rooftop to rooftop until he started to slow down. I didn't pay attention to what part of the city we were in; I was just focused on Spider-Man.

Spider-Man landed on a balcony on an apartment building, knowing he would look around before entering I lay down flat on the rooftop but still kept an eye on him. He stopped and looked around, and then entered.

I stood up slowly, and then jumped to the apartment building and climbed towards his balcony. I stationed myself over the balcony and hung upside-down and peered inside.

I saw Spider-Man still with his mask on, pacing his room; I strained my hearing to hear was he was saying, "…can't be. How can Spider-Woman be Kiendra? Why did I never notice it before?" Spider-Man sat heavily on his bed then put his head in his hands. "I'll, I'll have to break up with her, it's the only way to keep her safe."

My eyes widened, 'what? Break up with me, but… no, he can't be.' Just then I saw his finger edge around the bottom of his mask, pulling it up and over his head. I strained to see his face but it was still in his hands. With his back to me he stood up and walked out of the room.

I furrowed my brow in frustration, and silently, I landed on his balcony and slipped inside. I'd wait until he falls asleep; I then crawled under the bed and waited.

The creaking of the bed alerted me that he had just laid in his bed; the lights went out as he turned off his lamp. 'I'll wait about a half hour more.'

A half hour went by and I heard deep breathing coming from above, I slipped out from under his bed and slowly turned to look at his sleeping form. I gasped quietly and almost backed up into his nightstand, therefore knocking everything over.

"Peter?" I whispered softly.

A small grunt escaped Peter lips.

I walked over to him and looked down onto his calm, sleeping form. "I can't believe it's you," I whispered.

I kneeled down next to his bed and then softly leaned in and put my lips upon his own.

Peter's eyes shot open and he stared up at me as I lifted my head.

"K-Kiendra? W-what are you d-doing here?"

"I told you I'd find out, and find out I did."

Peter's face went pale, "th-then you k-know?"

I smiled warmly, "yes, and I'm so glad that I do." I leaned back in and set my lips softly upon his again. His lips were stationary against mine for a while but then he warmed up to my kiss and passionately kissed me back.

Peter wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me too him, further deepening the kiss. We stopped for a brief moment to catch our breaths but then dived back in for some more.

Finally we stopped, I leaned back and looked into his bright baby blue eyes. "Kiendra…"

I smiled, "yeah, that's my name, don't overuse it." I winked.

He laughed, and leaned back in to kiss me more, but sirens interrupted us.

I groaned, "not now."

Peter lifted himself off of his bed, he took off his clothes revealing his Spider-Man suit, and he then reached under his bed and pulled out his mask and put it on. "Kiendra, I'll handle this, you don't have your mask so you can just stay here if you like." He said sternly but warmly.

I shook my head, "Your right to make me stay out of the fighting because of my head wound, but, I've really got to rest my head, so I'm, I'm just gonna go back to my apartment, okay?"

He nodded, slightly disappointed, but without another word he took off into the night.

I sighed and stepped onto the balcony railing and sat there watching him head towards the sirens until I couldn't see him anymore. I jumped off of the balcony and headed to my own apartment building.

The next morning I woke up to someone knocking at my door. I stood up, stretched, and yawned. Rubbing my eyes I walked over to the door and opened it. I screamed as Peter pretty much pounced on me and kissed me.

He released me and I stood there wide eyed. Peter shut the door and smiled, "I brought you roses!"

I smiled and accepted the roses gratefully. "Thanks!" Yawning again I turned towards the kitchen to get a vase.

"You must be tired, how's your head?"

"Fine, fine," I mumbled.

"You okay?" Now he seemed concerned.

I turned around grinning, "well you did wake me up so I'm a little drowsy."

"I see, do you think that this would help?" He pulled me towards him and placed his mouth firmly over mine. I giggled and warmed up to the kiss, this was definitely waking me up.

After a few minutes we both heard someone clearing their voice. We broke apart in shock and surprise and Peter actually dropped me. Thud!

"Ow!" I stood up rubbing my hiney.

"Oh, sorry Kiendra!"

"Its fine," I looked over Peter's shoulder, "Jane! What are you doing here?"

"Well, I hope I wasn't interrupting anything, but I recall you saying that we were to meet here to study." She said grinning.

"Oh!" I slapped my head, "yeah, sorry, I forgot, there's just been…" I glanced at Peter, "a lot of things happening lately."

She grinned even wider looking at Peter too, "like what?"

I blushed, "nothing like that Jane! You pervert!"

Jane laughed and said still grinning as big as ever, "yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, lets study, and mister lover boy can come too, maybe he'll be of some help." She walked over to the table and muttered, "or a distraction."

Peter and I sat down at the table with Jane, "so, how long have you two been together?"

"Jane, we're supposed to be studying."

"Just tell me."

"Since our senior year in high-school."

"I see, okay lets study now."

I rolled my eyes and opened my history book.

A few hours later Jane was sleeping with her head on the table and I was on Peter's lap with my head leaning against his chest also sleeping.

BOOM!

Glass flew everywhere, Peter and I sat up abruptly while Jane screamed and flew out of her seat.

"Muhahahahaha! Now I've got you two! I see that you are together now, how convenient!"

Peter and I stood up together and asked, "what do you want Goblin?"

"What I want, I can get, and that's you two!"

I heard Jane scream as he lunged forward at us on his glider. Peter and I both back flipped out of the way in different directions.

I saw Peter run around a corner to probably change. I grabbed Jane and ran into my bedroom.

"Kiendra, what's going on! What does he want?" Jane asked me frantically.

"Us," I said simply as I grabbed my Spider-Woman suit and mask from under my bed not caring if Jane saw it.

"What do you mean, oh my gosh! What's that!" She screamed pointing at my suit I was now putting on.

"Jane, promise me you won't say a word."

She just stood there gaping, but then nodded slightly.

"Good," I finished putting on the suit and pulled the mask over my head and at the moment Peter/Spider-Man burst through the door.

"Kiendra!" He exclaimed but then he saw Jane and he quickly tried to recover, "er, uh, we need to get her out of here quick!"

"What! You know who she is, and your Spider-Man and, here, so you must be… oh my gosh! This is just too weird. Are you the guy Kiendra was just with!"

Spider-Man looked over at me for some help.

I nodded, "yeah Jane, but lets not worry about that now, we need to go!"

Jane nodded but then glanced at Spider-Man again, "cute butt."

I could just feel the heat rise from Spider-Man's mask. I grinned, "Peter, admit it, you have a sexy butt!"

The goblin burst through the door cackling evilly, I pushed Jane through the open window and dived down after her. She was screaming like mad even when I caught her and started swinging to another building. I landed on top of the building and set her down. "Stay here." I ordered, and then I jumped off of the building again and back to my apartment.

I heard a scream and a crash, I dived through the window to see Peter slide down the wall. "Peter!"

The goblin turned to look at me and I soon realized my mistake but I didn't care. I charged at the goblin and knocked him off of his glider. He flew at the wall with such force that he crashed right through it and to the ground below.

I looked through the hole and didn't see Spider-Man standing next to me until he jumped through the hole to meet the goblin. I dived through after him. We landed on the ground on either side of the Goblin.

The Goblin stood up and faced us, "you will never defeat me!"

"Just give it up Goblin, there are two of us and one of you!" Spider-Man suggested.

"I will never surrender!" He yelled and then attacked Spider-Man .

We fought all the way over to Brooklyn Bridge and then the Goblin grabbed me by the throat and squeezed hard making it so I couldn't breath so I couldn't fight. He then lifted me up to the top of the bridge.

Peter's POV: Scared for Kiendra's life I followed the Goblin up to the top of the Bridge, but he didn't stop there, he cut the cable on one of the carts pulling children along the line and pulled it back over to the bridge.

I stood below him and watched what he was going to do, I was terrified, I didn't want to attack because he might drop Kiendra and since she was so weak, I could even see her starting to faint from lack of oxygen, she wouldn't be able to get to safety, and he might also drop the children.

"Spider-Man! This is why only fools are heros! Because you never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice. Let die the woman you love!" Goblin looked over at Kiendra.

Kiendra was clutching desperately at his hands, trying to get some oxygen.

"Or, suffer the little children!"

I could hear the children inside the cart calling to me.

"Make your choice Spider-Man, and see how a hero is rewarded."

"Don't do it Goblin!" I shouted desperately.

"We are who we choose to be, now choose!" The Goblin dropped the cable and Kiendra.

I quickly did some calculations in my head and then I ran to the side of the bridge that he had dropped Kiendra on and dived down and grabbed her. I let out a strand of webbing and attached it to the bridge, then I swung over to the cable that was quickly falling, I let go of the web, dived, caught the cable and then shot more webbing up to the bridge, catching us.

I grunted as I held onto the webbing, the cable, and Kiendra. I heard someone call from a barge, "ahoy up there! We're going to bring the barge right under you!"

Just then the webbing started to snap and we went lower, Kiendra started to hold onto my neck more firmly.

"Peter?" I heard her say.

"Kiendra, do you have enough energy to climb down?"

She shook her head, "I-I don't think so."

"Could you try, I really need you to."

She nodded and started to climb down.

I heard the goblin's cackles come nearer, I looked down and yelled, "hurry!"

Then the goblin came way to close, "hold on Kiendra!"

The goblin came and hit me, I successfully held onto the webbing and the cable but it shook violently, thankfully Kiendra stayed on as well. But then the goblin came around again and hit me so hard that I let go of both the webbing and the cable. I started to fall, but then arms grabbed me stopping my fall.

I opened my eyes to see Kiendra holding on as hard as she could to the cable and to a web of her own.

Quickly, I took a hold of the webbing and the cable for her and she climbed down.

"It's time to die!" I looked over and gasped as I saw the Goblin fly at me with the blades from his glider sticking out. But thankfully someone threw an orange toolbox at him and it knocked him off course and he didn't hit me.

The people above started chucking stuff at the Goblin so I could safely drop the cart and Kiendra onto the barge that had just appeared below.

I had just heard Kiendra call to me, "Spider-Man watch out!" When another cable was thrown around my waist and I was pulled off of my web and through the air attached to the goblin's glider.

Kiendra's POV: "I have to go help him!" I screamed at the six police-men who were holding me down. I was in my Spider-Woman costume so I could do pretty much do anything I wanted without anybody knowing who I was.

"You need to get medical attention!" One of the officers yelled looking at all the cuts on my body from the former fight.

"No, I have to help!" Tears were coming to my eyes as I struggled, but then an idea popped into my head. I relaxed and just laid there for a few moments, and finally the police-men relaxed too. I kicked them all off me and jumped up. I attached webbing to the bridge and took off.

I swung towards where I had last seen the Goblin take Peter and when I got close I saw an old abandoned warehouse that had a large hole in the wall. I also heard shouts coming from it.

I landing inside and saw Peter holding the Goblin up to the wall and punching him. And just as Peter was about to deliver another blow, the goblin raised his hand screamed in not his usual voice, "Peter! Stop, stop! It's me!"

Peter immediately stopped, and backed away.

The Goblin took off his mask to reveal, I gasped, Mr. Osborn?

"Mr. Osborn!" Peter mimicked my thoughts.

"Peter, thank goodness for you."

"You killed those people on that balcony." Peter said in disbelief.

Mr. Osborn started to freak, "the Goblin killed them, I had nothing to do with it! D-don't let him take me again! I beg you, protect me!"

"You tried to kill Aunt May, you tried to kill Mary Jane," Peter said still listing off all of the things he had done.

"But not you," I thought that was an odd thing to say, but he continued, "I tried to stop it," I saw a slight movement that Peter didn't notice, he had pressed a button on his suit.

I furrowed my brow, what was he doing?

"I couldn't stop it, I would never hurt you, I knew that from the beginning, if anything ever happened to me, it was you who I could count on. You, Peter Parker would save me, and so you have."

I gasped, the glider was rising, I started running towards Peter to get him out of there!

"Thank goodness for you" Mr. Osborn stood up, "Give me your hand, believe in me, as I have believed in you. I've been like a father to you, be a son to me now."

I had to admit after what Peter said back, I was really proud of him, "I have a father, his name was Ben Parker."

"Whatever Spider-Man."

Peter's eyes lit up right as I screamed, "Peter! Move!"

The glider shot forward, Peter dodged and it hit Mr. Osborn. I landed where Peter landed and watched in horror as Mr. Osborn said his last words. "Peter, don't tell Harry." Then he collapsed and died.

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