Spider Venom: Revenge (Part 4)
Two days had passed since Spider had been bested in a fight, though Trevor was told 'it was nothing' he couldn't help but clearly notice the strain it had put on his lover. He was sullen, disturbed, he even kept to himself more than usual, as though he was constantly thinking of something, it was obvious the fight had wounded his pride more than anything else. What Spider chose to do with his time was his business, but it still upset Trevor to be ignored in such a manner, Spider was a hard man to read by any standards, when you put a mask on top of that it made it even more difficult to truly know what he was thinking. Mid afternoon and Spider was in his little nest near the ceiling, a small window that he had permanently removed for ease of access in case of emergencies and whatnot. Trevor stood fifty feet or so below shouting up with his echoing voice, "Spider, would you come down already!? You need to eat something!" his voice not motherly, not concerned, though he was indeed feeling concerned, he sounded more dominant, demanding, it was the best way of snapping him out of his train of thought.
A moment passed and Spider landed without of a sound, walking over in his full black gear, "Thanks." his voice quiet, he seemed like he was on some sort of autopilot, his mind was somewhere else compared to his body. Trevor frowned at the sight of seeing him like this once more, two days he had been like this, no full sentences were said between them, simple things like 'thank you' or 'goodnight', nothing to keep Trevor from feeling lonely. It was a simple meal he had prepared, hotdogs, with ketchup and mustard of course, no other way to go, "I'm sorry I didn't have any onions or toppings to go with them." he spoke trying to start a conversation yet again, but it would fall upon deaf ears as Spider gave no response as his hand moved his mask up a little to begin eating his hotdog. "Very well, I'll just sit down here and enjoy my meal." his eyes lowered, maybe it was something he was not doing that was making Spider worse? Whatever the case Trevor began blaming himself for not being able to take his companion out of the rut he was in, clearly Spider was deeply troubled by recent events, yet there was nothing he seemed like he could do.
As the plates remained in one unclean pile Trevor sat down on one of the chairs before he was startled when Spider yelled out what sounded like a celebratory cheer. "Spider?" his voice laced with confusion as his brow lowered, seeing his masked friend walk over to him, forgetting to put his mask back down in his absentmindedness Trevor saw his smile, actually it was a grin, Spider was actually grinning, this made him smile widely in response. "What's got you so happy?" he asked wanting to know what was the sudden cause of his much needed mood change. "I've finally thought of a way to get my revenge on that bastard Spider Man." His grin seemed less about happiness now as it was a snarl, "How's that?" feeling the need to ask as this was something he had clearly been thinking about a lot, even before Trevor, that Spider Man was distracting him from a good time. "You." Those words snapped Trevor from his own thoughts of the hero as they stabbed at him, "What?!" he almost yelled, "What are you talking about?!" Trevor stood up, Spider then held up his hands, "I'll explain. See he knows all about me, he doesn't know about you. And being the so called hero that he is if he saw a 'civilian' in danger he'll try and rescue them." Suddenly it dawned on Trevor where Spider was going with this, "Oh I see. So you want me to be the damsel in distress and lure Spider Man out so you can get your revenge?" His brow raised in an unimpressed look, "Precisely" Spider said with a wide grin, "And what if I say no?" he replied with a serious expression, this caused Spider's to turn around, his jaw lowered in shock, "I hadn't considered the fact you'd say no." his voice hushed, as if thinking out loud. Suddenly, Spider straightened his back, looking Trevor in the eye, "Think about what you say carefully. I may have untied you, and even trusted you more, but don't think for a moment you can demand anything from me. You get what your given." his hand thrust against his throat holding Trevor in place, choking him, his hands gripped the mans arm tightly trying to pull him off to no avail, despite being larger physically, Trevor was unable to pull himself free. "Is that understood?" his voice filled with anger, which was fuelled by the defeat at the hands of the city's hero, and now the insubordination of his hostage. It seemed that he had let his hostage get too much free rein around the place, perhaps he should go back to having him tied up. As he let him go, the man gasped for air his hands cupping his sore throat, Spider knew the answer as Trevor's knees buckled under him, the lack of oxygen had made him disorientated. "Good, tomorrow you will follow my instructions." his head turned back to face him, he had by now gained much of his breath back, his look was dark, even behind the mask, which was easy to tell by the shape of his mouth, the tightness of it, "I don't think I need to tell you what you'll go through if you fail to do this." With that he lowered his mask and headed back up onto his nest, there was no escape, no chance that he could escape under the watchful eye of Spider.
Time drifted by even slower than when he was being ignored by Spider, now it felt like he was being watched, by in one of the worst ways he could imagine and conceive. Trevor occasionally dared to look up towards the nest, though the shadows concealed him perfectly, his instinct told him his eyes were on him, so he looked away, thinking away as Spider had done not long before, though, it was much longer than he had realised, several hours had passed and the evening had almost turned to night. "You should get some sleep." he called down from his nest, his head raising to look up, though again to no avail, there was no sign of him even being there other than the sound of his voice. Trevor knew he wasn't going to get away, so he gave up on the notion he could think of a way to escape, so instead he did just what he thought was best, go to sleep, after all there wasn't any reason to stay awake. But when he tried sleeping, he found his mind was not allowing him to go to rest like he wanted so badly to do, perhaps it was the tension between him and his captor, or maybe it was the fact he was going to become an accessory to a crime, if the law found out he had helped Spider there was no way he could have any kind of similar life to the one he had. Whatever the case something had him restless, which was disturbing him, but there wasn't a chance he was going to start talking to Spider, not when he was being the he was, he was still a little shocked over his outburst, being choked by him was a frightening experience, one that when it happened left him dazed and confused, now that he began thinking back to it, the thought was very scary, it seemed that if Spider felt strongly enough about something that he disagreed with then he was going to get punished for it.
Suddenly before he knew it the sun was up, it was time to act soon, Spider walked out from the darkness of the walls, Trevor never hearing him come down, perhaps he had been down for hours. "Time to go." he said with a low threatening voice, he simply nodded in response, there was nothing he could do but go along with whatever he had in mind. "Right then, let's get moving." saying just as coldly, raising an arm to tell him to walk ahead, the captive as he was starting to feel again headed out of the building, the air was still a biting cold this early, even with the recent warm weather. "The plan is simple, you get tied up by me, pretend to be in distress and that I robbed you. He comes running to be the hero of the day. He'll think I'm long gone. That's when I ambush him." Spider said with a cruel glee, thinking of nothing more than his revenge at the moment, taking no regard of how Trevor would feel with his plan, this left the man feeling used at best. "Okay, sounds easy enough, how do you know he'll show up instead of the ordinary police?" Asked Trevor with a crease of his brow, "Simple, there will be a trail and it'll lead to you, he'll stop at the end of the breadcrumbs. Survey the area as he would normally, trying to see where I went to next, you'll beg for him to help you, being the good Samaritan he is he'll definitely help you." Trevor looked at him with a slight expression of horror, "You're going to include others in this?!" asking as he stopped beside Spider, "Yeah that's right. I need to make an impact, one person stuck up a tree isn't going to create enough ripples to attract him is it!" he replied with a anger, this caused Trevor's head to lower submissively, he remembered how desperate he felt when he was being suffocated, how he never wanted to feel that close to death again, standing here beside Spider it felt like that all the time since then.
Quietly both men made it to where Spider wanted to lay down his trap, a place near a park, nice and open, plenty of angles to retreat to and come from, no way could Spider Man cover all positions. Not to mention Spider was able to pick a spot, and lay in wait easy enough, no one would interfere with the fight, except the police, though they would hopefully be too busy helping the prior incidents, as well as assuming Spider Man would be fine. Trevor was told to stay at the corner bench, away from most of the trees, but close to one nice big one, perfect, so he went and sat on the bench as Spider made his way to collect his breadcrumbs.
No more than an hour had gone by and he was back, before he realised his body was lifted up and pinned to the tree in the blink of an eye, "Welcome back." was all he could say sarcastically, Spider said nothing in response, instead he simply took a vantage point and waited.
Not long passed before sirens were heard in the distance, but it wasn't close enough nor was it getting loud enough for it to be coming for him, but then he saw Spider Man swinging in from one of the corners, "Hey Spider Man! Over here!" His voice called out, part of him wanted to warn the hero, but another part was afraid if he lost then he would have to deal with Spider. Spider Man heard Trevor and came instantly to his aid, clinging to a branch beside him "Are you alright sir?" he asked with concern, "Yes I'm fine, I'm not hurt, he just robbed me, please you have to help me!" Saying with a panicked tone, his own heart was beating like a drum, the hero could sense his nervousness, but of course assumed it was merely because he had just been robbed, he suspected no trap from this civilian. "I will, just relax I'll get you out of here, let me just-" he cut off as his head turn sideways, his Spider sense was acting up, he knew something wasn't right, then he was hurled to the ground as Spider's legs came into contact with his side. The hero rolled a few times before getting into his fighting stance, Spider clenched his jaw tightly, "One beating not enough for you eh?" Spider Man taunted, this infuriated the blacked out Spider. "You little bastard!" he charged at him, their fists flying by their heads, blows missing, blows blocked, only a few occasionally blows landed, they were moving so fast it was hard to keep track of who was winning.
Spider gripped some of his earlier laid webs and pulled down, tree branches came crashing down from multiple places, Spider Man blocked one or two, stopped another few by webbing, but he left himself open for too long and Spider seized the chance by elbowing his kidney, punching his neck, getting him into a head lock and began trying to suffocate the hero. Trevor could only watch in horror at what he was witnessing, Spider wanted the hero dead, not just beaten. Spider was succeeding too when he was stabbed in the back, literally with claws, he screamed in pain, swung his fist round, letting go of Spider Man, the person who had stabbed him dodged the blow as they expected it. Spider saw said person, it was a woman with white hair, black leather gear with white fur near her boots and gloves, and a body that would make any persons jaw drop. "Now is that any way to treat a hero?" she said with a pout, not nervous of being in such a deadly mans presence, Spider could hear how steady her heart beat was, she was dangerous, so calm even when she herself was in danger. Spider turned to see Spider Man ready for another bout, there wasn't a chance he could take on two people of this fighting calibre, it seemed like he was going to have to retreat again. "Fuck it!" Spider was left with no choice, he darted over to Trevor, took a tight grip on him, broke him free, and took him hostage (again) "Come near me and I break his neck!" his voice was cold, murderous, crazed, Trevor actually thought he was going to do it. "Well aren't you simply wonderful to play with?" her grin was able to be seen. "Not now Felicia!" Spider Man said with venom, not finding this funny at all, Felicia turned her head away from Spidey unhappy "This is the thanks I get for saving you?" her voice wasn't as angry as it should have sounded, Spider picked up on this, as he found it slightly odd. However he had to make his escape, "Turn your backs for thirty seconds, do it or he dies!" Spidey and the Black Cat as she was known as turned their backs, Spider simply retreated as he had planned, police were going to be there soon, he didn't have time to take on both, nor was he able to actually take on both so effectively as one.
Getting in his hideout he dropped Trevor down and let out a scream of frustration, "How can this happen to fucking times in a row?!" he punched the wall, breaking a few bricks in the process. Trevor just sat there and said nothing, simply watched Spider have his outbreak of anger, "Maybe you should seek help then?" he said quietly, thinking of himself, hoping that Spider would see that he could help him if he wished, he already agreed, though reluctantly, despite how terrified he was, he didn't forget how he felt towards Spider the past few days. He supposed if he cared so much about being strong and he had been defeated that he'd react similar, hurt those close to him, though Spider seemed to have no one close to him, so perhaps that was another problem and cause of his anger. "That's brilliant!" Spider quickly made his way over to Trevor, slapped him on the back and then began pacing to think of ideas, "It is?" he was slightly dumbfounded that his idea was being considered. "Yes, there has to be plenty of people who hate Spider Man just as much as me!? I just need to find them!" he said with anticipation as his mind was already trying to come up with ideas to track down people willing to help him, Trevor simply frowned a little at hearing this, maybe he was going to have to get used to not being his priority, maybe he was going to have to do more in order to get noticed again. Perhaps helping him get revenge on Spidey would accomplish that? After all, if Spidey was gone, Spider would focus on him again.