Disclaimer: I am still drunk and I still don't own Spider-man.

Webhead volume 18

Early in the morning following the mary janes musical debut Peter descends the staircase to his rented home only to find his aunt may very distraught in the kitchen "aunt may what's wrong" he asked with concern as he rushed to her side, the last time he saw her like this is when uncle Ben was killed. "Oh Peter good morning. Nothing you need to worry about, my business (but when Peter wouldn't let go she finally relented) apparently Cony island decided they didn't need me anymore, something about my age being too risky for them to allow anymore but I'll pick up some extra shifts at the dinner. We'll be alright, now hurry off to school mister." As she basically shoved him out the door.

When he reached Gwen's house as usual he was a bit surprised to see that she now has pink highlights at the ends of her hair, something he NEVER thought he'd see on gwen. "What? I gotta have a bigger stage presence now petey besides doesn't it look pretty cute on me" she both explained and teased, he really couldn't argue it so they proceeded to walk to school. When they got there they saw miles, ganke and even flash "fan boying" over Spider-Man and his recent battles. "Spidey is definitely awesome but he's always on his own, he could really use a guy in the chair" said ganke but from the looks the other two were giving him he was clearly alone with his opinion. "Ganke that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! Still it's good to see the cops finally help him out like with rhino and goblin, my dad says most of the cops now support him." Miles exclaimed when flash enthusiastically added on "bout time! How many times has he helped them out and all they ever did was shoot at him, Spidey deserves better than that!" But the discussion took a dramatic turn when junior and self proclaimed edge lord Michelle gonzalez walked in on the conversation "that is of course assuming your hero isn't just some maniac. My brothers a cop too, he's seen the chaos Spider-man causes and I'll tell you he agrees with the chief and so do I" spoken like a girl wearing a t shirt that says "it's rude to stare d-bag" but flash was just plain outraged "what about the green doctor guy at the market?! Spidey tried to get the guy help but it was too late and the bugle blamed it all on him! I'm telling you Spidey gets a bad rap but he IS a hero!" The jock yelled with such passion before quickly walking away.

Of course gwen heard all of it and knowing how much she doesn't like hearing people praise his alter ego Peter was doing anything he could to distract her when suddenly harry comes running up completely out of breath. "Pete! I gotta talk to you right now" he said between wheezes while pulling out his inhaler. "Ok har relax will you. What's up?" But Harry just kept tilting his head towards gwen so Peter would understand it was arachnid related, the signaling didn't escape Gwen's attention despite trying to just accept Peter for Peter this secret he has with harry is really starting to bother her. "I gotta go find MJ, see ya later pete" gwen says giving his cheek a kiss before walking off, once gwen was out of sight Peter focused his attention on harry. "You guys look like you're doing better… still not gonna tell her? (But by the look he was getting he knew he needed to get to the point) right. Anyway I was looking through my dad's office on the glider project and you'll never believe what I found…." But he was cut off "harry I told you to stop looking into anything, It's too dangerous. I will handle it." Deciding to back off for now anyway harry noticed his friend was even more distracted than usual. "Hey Pete uh are you ok? For someone who is finally getting along with his girlfriend again you look like gwen just spat up your aunt's cooking right in your face…" "eh the park let aunt may go, ageism at it's finest. We were barely scraping by before I don't know what we're gonna do now" he muttered with extreme angst and depression but Harry just looked amused "ha you say that to the rich guy! I'll help out." Shaking his head despite the desire to blindly agree "ah no no harry I can't ask you to do that." "Ok how about this then, I'll talk to my dad about a job for you… that sound better?" The rich red headed heir joked with his super powered best friend.

Over at oscorp a very unstable seeming norman osborn is yelling at two of his employees: spencer Smyth and Jonathan own about speeding up their work when his phone rang "harry what do you want? I'm in the middle of some very important work." Norman addressed his son with such distain, perhaps even more than usual…. "Hey dad, sorry it's just my buddy Pete is having some money trouble and could use a job so…." "Peter? The genius? Why of course! It would be an honor to have him work here!" Norman responded to the request with such passion and excitement, typical storman norman but right after he hung up there was a bright flash of black, white and blue light followed by screaming coming from doctor owns lab.

Gwen finally found MJ, glory as well, hanging out in the music room. When she walked in all attention was drawn to her "hey girl! Killer hair! (Mj greeted but stopped when she saw the internal struggle she was having) ok that's it, spill girl." She outright demanded with no way around it "what happened to the bechdel test? (Mj just gave her a look that said: really, so she reluctantly relayed what was on her mind) I really want to be less… I don't know untrustworthy? demanding? But why can harry know whatever it is but I can't?" Glory was looking really uncomfortable since she doesn't really know either of her new band mates very well, she just joined for the hell of it. "Wow. Look girl pete just needs someone else to talk to, someone a little more on his level (gwen looks a bit lost here) he's a guy! I've seen this again and again, he's probably getting advice about you so just back off a little ok? He's not a crime scene to investigate gwen, he's a teenage boy." Mj advises to the blonde.

Over at the parker House Anna watson had come over after hearing about her neighbor and friends new financial pitfall. "But may I'm sure there's still something you can…." "I'm 60 years old and on my own, it's a miracle the dinner hasn't canned me too. I hate the idea of Peter having to work so hard to help out but I'm not sure what else we can do Anna." "Listen may if things ever get too bad you guys will have a home right next door." Her dear friend offered with complete sincerity.

When it was once again time for bio the students piled in only to find doctor curt connors passed out on his desk with a bottle of whiskey in front of him, a minute later his wife walked in. "I know you went through a lot but just take it easy one step at a time and you'll be…. curt!" She yelled out in shock when she noticed what he was doing, unfortunately it also drew the attention of dr. Miles warren. Curt and miles have never really gotten along but where as curt is mostly just very leary and distant to miles, miles downright despises curt and naturally reported his actions to the principal at once.

"I can't believe they just fired doctor connors like that!" Jessica announced rather loudly and flash was the one to respond "of course they fired him! He came into work completely shitfaced." Everyone around continued to gossip about it but Peter knew what really happened 'i'm sorry I couldn't help you doc' he thought sadly to himself but then Liz allen walked over to them all with a stranger following suit. "Hey babe (she said to flash as she nestled herself beside him) everyone this is my half brother mark, he was in town for our uncle's funeral but he and his dad decided to stay" "uncle?" Flash questioned with such eloquence but mark responded "yeah old uncle adrian lives in a toomb now" but this clearly upset Liz "marquito please enough with the jokes!" 'wait a minute adrian? Toomb? Adrian toombes? THE VULTURE!? Is Liz's UNCLE?!' realized with such genuine horror. "Well we gotta get going guys, give us a lift flash?" Liz announced and flash gave an agreeing nod before the three walked off.

At oscorp dr. Own was locked in an observation lab with norman outside talking with his CFO Donald menken about the situation "sir if anyone gets wind of this our stock will plummet. we have to cover this up, with your permission of course sir" menken relayed to his boss expecting some kind of resistance only to be surprised at the response he got "do I look like I'm shedding any tears here menken? Throw him out the window for all I care just do what needs to be done already!" Norman yelled with the upmost annoyance before a man that looked like a human Dalmatian appeared in front of him. "So you were just gonna put me out to pastor eh norman? Well then you're coming with me, maybe get you to think twice next time." The spotted man norman recognized to be doctor own said before they vanish through what looked like a black hole.

As Peter was leaving school, on his way to the bugle to beg jolly johna for a bigger paycheck he was stopped by jessica "parker! Wait up! Peter! (Finally just letting her catch up ready to get it over with) look you can be a flake and kinda a dick sometimes but then you can be really considerate and gwen really likes you so uh maybe I have been given you a harder time than you deserve…." He couldn't believe it "was that an apology?" She shoves him and tells him "don't be a dick about it parker" but as he really does have to go he does just that. Once he gets to the bugle he sees jameson in front of his computer and on the phone so he has to wait when suddenly he's grabbed from behind. He turns to find it's none other than eddie brock his childhood friend. their parents worked together before they died, eddie was quite a few years older than Peter and they haven't seen each other in years not since eddie went off to college across the country. "Hey squirt! I thought that was you! Ha ha what are you doing here?" The older man asked, eddie looked a lot more…. Disheveled since the last time they saw each other, his black hair now long and greasy, serious 5 o'clock shadow, bags under his eyes and dirty stained clothes. "I work here bro! What are you doing here? I thought you'd be a big time doctor in california by now…" eddie's eyes just stare at the ground in depression and shame "things didn't really work out so now I work here too. It's good to see you squirt! I'll stop by the house later to see you and the folks, it'd be nice to see your aunt and uncle again (but he noticed peter's face) what…? What's wrong?" "Eddie… uncle ben uhhh… uncle ben died last year. He was killed by a uh carjacker" eddie started to break down so he just covered his face in his hands and walked away, Peter was about to go after him when "PARKER! SOME FREAK HAS TAKEN NORMAN OSBORN HOSTAGE AND IS DEMANDING SPIDER-MAN SHOW UP, GET OVER THERE IN 62.8 SECONDS TO FILM IT OR I'LL TOSS YOU OUT MY OFFICE WINDOW!" 'well I guess asking for a raise will have to wait…'

When Spidey arrived at the scene, the top of oscorp tower, he saw the most ridiculous villain ever and that includes shocker. 'well he's not green but I guess I should still stop him.' "um shouldn't you be riding in a fire truck with your tongue hanging out the window right now…?" The webhead quipped. But a black hole open up behind our hero in seconds sucking him in and spitting him out on the ground right as the police arrived. "Freeze Spider-man! (The chief yelled out gun drawn before she holstered it) listen here I'm not very happy right now, I hate you but right now you're the only one who can rescue osborn so go ahead already." 'huh..? She's actually letting me help? Ha! I knew she was warming up to me!' he thought to himself before slingshotting back up the building. He launched himself right into this spot guy knocking him off the roof but when he opened up a portal to catch himself he just disappeared nowhere to be found. "Wow! What a lame villain….. you should be safe now mister osborn." But when he turned to look at the man he was noticeably struggling with…. something. As he there was something he couldn't control until finally it all just stopped. "Thank you Spider-man. You know if you were to work for me I'd guarantee the police would no longer be a problem for you…" 'is he actually trying to buy me off or something' "sorry norman but I'm not interested. I'll earn the cops trust on my own by doing the right thing." He told him before swinging off.

That night a meeting was set up between the kingpin and the green goblin. "Listen here I refuse to lose business because of some lunatic in a costume!" "Heeehhhaas oh please the only reason you have the business you got is because silvermaine is dead, an event I set into motion. Oh no fisk I'm here to stay unless you want me to start sharing your secrets. Heeehhhaas" as he flew off much to the kingpins frustration.

The next morning Peter stopped by Gwen's house early to see her and the others practicing in the garage. "Wow gwendy don't you ever take a break…?" He asked his girlfriend as she got her school stuff together "she's been at it since the sun came up. Hi Peter how are you?" Helen said from the doorway inside the garage "oh good morning Mrs. Stacy. I'm good thanks, how are you feeling…?" "Better thank you very much. I have an appointment with rio in a few days, just a follow-up no big deal. You guys should get going, have a good day gweny bear!" She called out as she returned inside the house. The first class was robotics today but when they entered doctor octavius wanted to talk with Peter alone. "Mister parker I hope you're aware of your dreadful grade in this class, if you can't succeed to get your semester project in on time then it's an F. You will fail this course and will be in danger of not graduating." Otto informed him with practically no emotion as usual but just as pete was about to respond his phone rang, to the doctors annoyance. "Hello? Mister osborn? Wow really!? Yes of course I'd like a job, seriously?! No way! That's great! Thank you!" "Eh osborn…. I really would think twice about working for him parker. Now sit down! Class has begun!"

A/N you know what I don't really have any authors notes…. Until next time true believers!