Author's Note: Hehehehehehheheh, there's a bit of harsher language in this one, I don't think I have to up the rating let me know if you guys think I should. Alright moving on. I own nothing.

34. That Falling Feeling

Piper would never say it out loud but there was a time she was afraid of heights. When she'd first moved into the family levels of Stark Tower she couldn't stand on the balcony outside or at the edge of the windows without feeling slightly nauseous. Then she'd been bitten by a radioactive spider and everything in her life had shifted. Now, normally, when she fell she did it on purpose throwing herself off ledges and buildings and racing through the city on a web line. But at the moment her web shooters were at the bottom of her backpack in the secret compartment with the rest of her costume. She closed her eyes as that feeling that she hadn't felt since she was bitten took over, wind rushing past her face. She wondered if her dad had seen her falling or if he would only realize she was gone when she was being scraped off of the sidewalk. Then something caught her around the waist and another familiar feeling took hold. The feeling of swinging through the air. She opened her eyes and a chest covered in what looked like black intricately webbed spandex filled her vision. On instinct, she wrapped her arms around the figure that had caught her. There was a chuckle.

"You alright Miss?" That voice sounded so familiar but Piper was too busy being happy that she wasn't dead to place the voice of her rescuer.

"How…?" She looked up and saw that there was a black web line connected to the far side of Stark Tower. They were currently hanging about sixteen feet above the sidewalk that was currently embroiled in chaos. The Avengers were fighting a group of AIM scientists that were throwing fireballs from their hands. More Extremis solders, set on avenging Aldrich Killian it looked like the Avengers had this well in hand so Piper looked back up into the face of her rescuer. The mask looked very similar to her own but the eyes blinked and moved like a regular face did only there was no mouth. Maybe it was the gaping white eyes that moved like normal ones or the lack of nose and mouth but it was kinda creepy though that could have something to do with them still just hanging in mid-air on a web line that was, now that she got a closer look, most definitely coming from this guy's wrist.

"You didn't answer my question, are you alright?" Piper nodded slightly dumbstruck.

"I'm ok. Thanks." Her spidey sense went crazy and she held on a touch tighter as he pulled them up on the web line narrowly avoiding a ball of fire.

"I need both my hands hold on tight ok?" Piper nodded, there was no way she was even going to slip, thanks to her powers, but he didn't know that. He was extra careful as he swung them up to the top of Stark Tower. He set her down carefully and the eyes of his mask seemed to smile as he perched on the railing.

"Stay safe Beautiful." He brushed her hair out of her face and seemed to smile again before he tipped back and freefell over the side of the building. Piper raced to the edge to try and see where he was going but he was already gone when she peered over the edge. She swore and raced to the entrance and down the stairs, the elevators were locked down. She made it in record time to the lobby where the rest of the students were milling about taking photos of the aftermath of the fight. Sam spotted her first and rushed over to her.

"Piper! Oh my god you're ok!" The others circled her rapidly asking questions before Pepper, bless her, intervened.

"Miss there's a medical crew here to make sure you're ok, standard procedure. Piper nodded and followed Pepper out of sight of her classmates. As soon as they were out of sight Pepper wrapped Piper in a bone crushing hug. Piper hugged her back and sighed as Pepper ran a hand through her hair.

"You gave us all a heart attack Piper." Piper glanced down at her feet as Pepper led her over to the medical personal.

"Everyone?" Pepper smiled slightly.

"Yeah everyone. Steve's wrangling your dad so he won't give you away, expect a lot of worried faces at dinner tonight." Piper grinned.

"I'm alright I promise." Piper smiled and hugged Pepper again before letting the resident doctor give her a quick once over. Soon she had joined back up with the group. Tony came back to the group when the fighting was done, this time being supported not so subtly by Captain America in a torn up T-shirt and jeans. He was still holding his shield and many more camera flashes went off from the group as Tony cleared his throat and spoke.

"Sorry kiddies, looks like our tour has been cut off for the day. Is everyone alright?" His eyes lingered on Piper and she nodded as someone stepped up next to her. He continued on a very rehearsed sounding speech about how being a supervillain bent on revenge was bad, Cap adding things here and there but Piper had heard similar speeches so many times she just tuned them out at this point. Instead she looked up and smiled relieved to see Harry standing next to her. As they began to trickle outside to get back on the bus Piper grabbed Harry's hand and pulled him aside.

"Where were you? Are you ok? I didn't see you anywhere when we were evacuating." Harry chuckled.

"Piper I'm not the one who fell out a window, I'm pretty sure I should be asking you if you're ok." He brushed her hair behind her ear and smiled at her. Miss Quinn called for them to follow the rest of the class and Harry turned to leave before he noticed Piper hadn't moved.

"You coming, Beautiful?" Piper's mouth dropped open as her brain, finally coming down off the adrenaline high that came from nearly falling to her death, finally put two and two together. The only thing she could think as Harry took her hand and led her to the bus was 'What the fuck?!'