Author's Note: I know I'm evil, and I know this chapter is short but it's what I've got for yall right now. Yall love me for it though. I own nothing.

45. Consequences

Harry sat in the room the medical personnel had dropped him off in staring at his hands. Piper's blood had dried on his hand, he was beginning to wonder if he'd ever get rid of that feeling. There was a blanket wrapped around his shoulders and a bottle of water sat in front of him on the table. He hadn't moved since he'd been told to wait here. What had he done? He couldn't remember anything after Piper had used some of her dads tech to blast Venom, him he supposed, off his feet and brought the roof of the closet in on his head. He vaguely remembered hearing Piper say something, then pain and he was waking up next to her. He'd told the Agent who'd come in to question him that, she'd been nice. Agent Hill she'd called herself. She'd left him the water bottle. He sniffled and tears fell from his eyes. He heard something going on out in the hallway and a med tech slipped into the room and smiled at him slightly.

"Hello Mr. Osborn. My name is Penny and I need to take a blood sample. We want to make sure the parasite that took you over is completely gone." Harry nodded. So they were calling Venom a parasite, he couldn't think of a more appropriate name. The tech had him hold out his arm and gently drew some blood before smiling slightly and laying a hand on his shoulder.

"Are you feeling alright Mr. Osborn? Do you need anything?" Harry couldn't bring himself to shake his head. He wasn't ok. He wasn't sure he'd ever be ok. He'd hurt Piper. The parasite, they symbiote, Venom, whatever they wanted to call it, it had made him hurt her. He wanted to bury his head in his hands but he couldn't, he still had her blood on his hands. The med tech grabbed an antibacterial wipe from her kit and began to wipe his hand clean. She smiled at him when she was done her black hair falling into her eyes slightly. Harry didn't manage to smile back.

Bruce sighed and pulled off his rubber gloves. He tossed them into the biohazard trash can. You could never be too careful when it came to those with radioactive blood. They'd have to sanitize that whole lab or risk possible radiation poisoning. He made a note to himself to have JARVIS sanitize it as soon as possible. He looked back over at the bed in the room and sighed again. Steve laid a hand on his shoulder, he was wearing scrubs over his uniform, it made for an interesting sight. Bruce would have laughed if it hadn't been for the circumstances. The monitor beeped away slowly.

"We need to let the others know." Steve said pulling off the scrubs and depositing them in the same trash can Bruce had put his gloves in. He looked down at the blood on his uniform and frowned. Bruce cleared his throat.

"You're gonna want that sanitized, radioactive blood doesn't come out easily." Steve managed a small smile.

"Go let them in." Steve nodded at the doctor and left. Bruce adjusted the oxygen mask slightly.

Eddie frowned. He tried again. Again the phone rang through. He swore under his breath and tried again. This time he heard something. Piper's ringtone was obnoxious, he'd told her that the other day when she'd gotten a call while they were working on his computer. It was a loud slightly shrill pop song, her excuse had been that she never missed a call with a ringtone like that. He pulled his phone away from his ear and listened. He followed the song to Piper's locker. It was just in front of the currently roped off area where the fight had gone down. The whole school was going nuts. First a rumor was spread like wildfire that Spider-girl went here, now Tony Stark had a child and she went here too. Eddie was starting to wonder how much of that was coincidence. He spun in Piper's locker combination and stared at her backpack for a minute. It had to have been her flying off then, she never left her backpack anywhere. He snagged it and spotted something sticking out the corner. He frowned, why would Piper have a red shirt in her bag. He paused for a moment before curiosity got the better of him. He looked around for a minute, he was alone in the hallway. Then he tugged on the tiny corner of red fabric. He dropped her backpack in surprise as it finally came free for what he now realized was a secret compartment in Piper's backpack. He stared down at the mask in his hands the white eyes staring back up at him. Spider-girl's mask stared up at him. He suddenly found it very hard to breathe. He had to find her as fast as he could.

Mary Jane was panicking. She couldn't get ahold of anyone. Harry's phone was going straight to voice mail and Piper's was ringing through every time. She wrung her hands. They had been in the closet, the one that had been torn apart from the inside. They had to be ok though, they just had to be. She tried Piper again. This time she heard her obnoxious ringtone sounding around the corner. She raced around it and found Eddie with his back to her.

"Eddie!" He jumped nearly a foot into her air and stuffed something in his jacket pocket as he turned. He was holding Piper's bag. MJ frowned.

"No sign of them?" Eddie shook his head.

"No but I think we both know where they went. But I don't have a passcode to get in." MJ frowned.

"I do though but no ride." Eddie nodded.

"I have a spare helmet, think we could make it through the throngs of press that have likely gathered around the building." MJ grinned.

"I know one of Piper's private entrances it's about three blocks away from the tower itself. We should be able to make it." Eddie smiled and zipped up his pocket.

"Come on then, let's go make sure our idiot friends are ok." MJ nodded and grabbed his hand leading him out of the school.