A/N:This does take place after Spiderman 3.Thank you for R&Ring.

The same day,New York...

Peter Parker lifted an old volume of dictionaries from the attic of his aunt's home,which wasn't hard even with one hand.A few days ago he had fractured his arm while lifting up a cherry picker off it's side.He had managed to webshoot himself up onto a building edge.

But from that point on,it was impossible for him to travel that way. The arm had been set and placed in a cast;signed by MJ of course.

It would mend fast,Peter didn't doubt that.But with a new job as a Nurse's Aid at the hospital too far and expensive for a cab and his disdain for all things buses,he had decided to get a drivers' licence.

To go about doing that he had to find a copy of his birth certificate and actually own a vehicle;made possible by his best friend willing him his.Now all he had to do was find just the right legal residence.

This is the hundredth box I've peered into,Peter thought with a frown creasing his brow.Please let this be the one I find it inside.

With that current mindscape,he set the thickly binded books aside and uncovered a manilla envelope amongst musty old pictures in tarnished frames.Peter picked it up in and examined it on his level.It was ordinary-looking and unmarked but he felt that it held papers.

Gently sliding it's contents to the floor,he was relieved to find that a birth certificate which was the first one on top of the stack.His last name popped up instantly,mainly because it was the first and only recoginzable aspect Peter saw.The first name on it read Andrew.

Andrew Benjamin Parker.It read that the man's parents had been named Benjamin and May Parker.Peter could just barely catch his breath,his aunt and uncle had a son whom they'd never mentioned.

San Diego,the next morning...

The men came downstairs to a gasp-worthy sight.Audrey stood in her pajamas staring out the open door,her fingers clasped around the silver bulb of the door knob and her body stiffened in intensity.

"Mom,"Drake immediately went to his mother's side,taking her arm and trying to move her a bit too fast."Why are you standing here?"

Walter ushered the two young men aside and tried to gently steer his wife if the direction of the coach."Come sit down,"he said in the most calmest of voice he could muster."Come sit down beside me."

Those words echoed around Audrey,swirled around within her just long enough to strike a vessel of harsh remembrance and she broke away from his gudiance,glaring at him.He dawned a confused look.

"Stay away from me,"she said in a low voice.Upon turning to see the reactions on her boy's faces,Audrey shook her head."Oh God, what's gotten into me.I've been up all night with the door opened."

"Honey,"Walter took her by the shoulders."What has happened?"

A few stray tears slid down her cheek and she placed her head into his chest,burying herself."Megan's been tricked.She's been tricked into thinking that monster of a man cares about her.Sh-she left us."

Drake and Josh exchanged grave,bewildered looks.

"Megan left me to stay with her father."

x.x.x

Gate 13 loomed ahead as she made her way through the terminal, her carry-on tote on one shoulder while her ebony hair drapped over the other.It was seven-thirty in the morning but she'd made it.

The night before had been a terrible,memorable one.She'd already packed all her belongings...just to pack them.Megan sat upon the edge of her bed staring at the open luggage and thinking very hard.

That was how she had managed all the pranks on her brother's for all those years,musing.By the end of three hours she had convinced herself that she had greatly upset her mother and wished to amend.

She had set out into the hall for their room to apologize when noise of someone moving downstairs aroused her curiosity and she had went down them to find the source.The source,to her immesne and utter disbelief,was her mother.Audrey had actually lit their fireplace.

Megan had assumed this part had been just an exaggeration.Not only was her mother not sorry for overracting,she did not possess enough faith in her daugther to trust that Megan wouldn't go off to see her father.Hurt,the girl had rounded back up the stairs swiftly.

Leaving behind the majoirty of her clothing,Megan carried her tote and loaded packback with her downstairs.Just as her mom was to chuck the ticket into the baby flames,she came up from behind her.

"Stop!You're suppose to be in bed."

Megan had had her mother by the wrists,driving the woman away from destroying the remainder of her father's letter to her.The two had fought back and forth,anger had been fueling Megan mostly as desperation to feed the ticket to the flames had been her mother's.

Finally and agonizingly for both of them,Megan had used her arm to thrust her back into the flagstone fireplace where only her back hit the top before Megan decisively fled the heart-sickening scene.

And would soon flee San Diego altogether.Upon glancing down at her ticket,Megan had discovered that her flight left that night.That was not right,the flight should've been scheduled for later summer!!

Thinking back on it now,Megan remembered she hadn't cared.She had just hailed a taxi cab and left for the airport.Now as she finally reached the end of the narrow section of deboarding,she hesitated.

What if he didn't come?She wasn't afraid or anything,what she felt was the beginning of what it was to be stood up.If her own family didn't care about her anymore,why would some stranger of a dad?

Megan felt like she had when she'd packed all that luggage;an idiot.

"Sweetheart?"

A slightly surprised voice spoke.She instantly looked to see a man leaning on a white pillar tillting his head in observation of Megan.He was relatively unkept,but his rugged good looks and ravenish hair made up for the now more noticably subtle lack of fashion sense.

His face was much like her brother Drake's only built to accustom a larger man.Despite his large,almost burly stature,he looked at her with soft eyes.Eyes that felt comforting and assuring all at one time.

"Mr. Parker?"She asked,assuming a polite tone nonetheless.

He gave her a smile of straight,nearly white teeth."Very formal."

"Why did you schedule this flight so early?"Megan pushed past the small talk."After eight years,this is kind of sudden and unexpected."

"It is."Andrew's smile lessened into a smaller one."But then,despite all those facts,you came anyways.That was something I expected."

At that moment she found herself smiling too,Megan liked this guy.

To be continued...