Author's Note: I don't own anything except Lindsey who is an oc.

Hours went by and the school day was ending finally. The bell rang and everyone cheered as they packed up their stuff and walked out of the classrooms. Peter took a few extra minutes to pack his stuff up and when he was ready he headed towards the door. When he walked outside he found Lindsey standing outside waiting for him.

"Peter," began Lindsey nervously, "What happened?"

Peter bowed his head not looking at her for a moment and then looked back up. "I have detention for a week."

"Peter, I am so sorry I didn't mean for you to get in trouble! You have no idea how horrible I feel," cringed Lindsey.

Peter smiled and touched Lindsey's upper arm. "It's not your fault, you didn't do anything. I was just trying to protect you from him."

Lindsey's eyebrows rose as she asked, "Why would you protect me from him?"

"He's a bully and a creep and I would hate for you to get hurt by him."

Suddenly Gwen came jogging up to them and smiled as she kissed Peter's cheek. "Ready to go Peter?" asked Gwen as she wrapped her arms around him.

"Yeah, let's go Gwen," Peter rubbed his head against Gwen's forehead.

Lindsey watched as the two of them walked away and sighed when she saw the two of them hold hands. She wished that one day she could be as lucky as Gwen and to have the perfect guy. Someone she could spend time with and laugh. She just wanted someone to love her, someone who understood her. Of course her father loved her, but something felt like it was missing. Lindsey sighed once more as the two love birds disappeared into the distance and she suddenly felt a tinge of sadness.

"Lindsey? Are you okay?"

Lindsey turned and saw Flash and she gasped. "Oh, Flash! You startled me."

He nervously shuffled and felt the back of his head where of course there was a huge bruise. "I should be asking if you are the one okay," Lindsey said as she walked towards Flash.

"Yeah, I'm fine…just a few bruises and a week of detention."

"You know you shouldn't have fought back. You should have walked away. Why did you fight him?"

"I guess I was just trying to impress you."

"Well fighting doesn't impress me."

"I'll take note of that," grinned Flash.

Lindsey started to walk away to go home, but not before Flash could catch up to her. "Lindsey, you never answered my question. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," she lied as she continued to walk.

"Will I see you tomorrow?"

"If there is school tomorrow, then yes you will."

Flash stopped to do a victory dance as Lindsey continued on her way home and tried not to cry. She didn't live to far away from the school so walking home was not a problem. She dropped her backpack to the doorstep, wiped away a few tears, and opened the compartment where her house key was. Lindsey found the key and went to open the door. She heard voices coming from the kitchen where she saw her dad and right next to him was Peter.

"Lindsey!" exclaimed Dr. Conners as he approached his daughter kissing her forehead.

"Hi Dad."

"How was school?" he asked concerned noticing her puffy red eyes from her tears.

"Fine," Lindsey replied as she placed her backpack on a chair.

"Lindsey, this is Peter Parker, and Peter this is my daughter Lindsey. Peter's father and I worked together many years ago," smiled Dr. Conners.

"Yes I know Peter! We go to the same school and he's Gwen's boyfriend. I just met him today," Lindsey said as she went to grab an apple.

"Are you sure you are okay?" asked her father as she washed her apple.

Lindsey smiled and nodded as she walked to her room and ate an apple. She began to aggressively crunch oh her apple as she plopped down on the ground and whipped out a text book and began to study.

After a while Lindsey began to dose and she lay down on the floor and place her head down. She closed her eyes and began to dream.

~~~~~~~~~~~~Dream Sequence~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lindsey was running through a dark forest in the middle of night where the bright moon shone down upon her. She was wearing a white dress and she was running and she was covered in scratches and there was a little blood. Her footsteps left a trail of rose petals which were colored red and white. The forest had ended and there was a cliff. At the end of the cliff there was a rock and on top of that rock was an old gray wolf. Lindsey nervously approached the wolf and bowed before it. The old wolf hobbled over to her and she loving stroked the muzzle of the wolf. The old wolf howled to the moon and Lindsey could feel the blood rushing through her veins as she joined in with the wolf. The wolf and Lindsey began to walk around the earth and journey all over. Time went by and the wolf began to tire.

The wolf and Lindsey sat down and a loud voice boomed, "You must make a choice."

Suddenly the world went cold and Lindsey and the wolf were thrown into a cold artic wonderland with strong winds. The old wolf fell over and stopped breathing. Lindsey gasped and ran over to the wolf to find that it's heart had stopped. Lindsey felt the tears spill as she mourned the fallen wolf.

Time went by and Lindsey wandered the earth for what seemed an eternity and then she saw a white wolf. Lindsey approached the second wolf and as she did, he began to howl. Lindsey knelt beside the wolf and the winds began to slow. As it cleared up another person sat beside the wolf and their back was to Lindsey. She crawled over to them and turned them to face them and it was Peter. He smiled at her and wrapped his arms around her. "I found you at last," he smiled as he kissed her.

~~~~~End Dream~~~~

"Lindsey! Wake up! Please wake up!"

Lindsey was jostled awake when she opened her eyes to see her father and Peter hovering over her. "Are you alright? We could hear you crying!" her father whispered.

Lindsey looked between her dad and Peter, not wanting to admit what she had just dreamt about. "I was dreaming about Mom again," Lindsey lied as she rubbed her eyes.

Dr. Conners looked concerned at his daughter and knelt beside her with Peter joining him at the other side. "Lindsey, I know it's only been three months and I know how hard this must be for you," Dr. Conners began, "I know what you must be feeling."

Something in Lindsey suddenly snapped. "You don't know how I am feeling," she snapped, "You weren't there when Mom died. You weren't there when I needed you the most. I needed a father, and you were never there."

"Peter, would you excuse my daughter and I for a moment?" Dr. Conners asked as Peter nodded and stepped outside.

"Now Lindsey," Peter heard Dr. Conners say.

"Don't "Now Lindsey" me," yelled Lindsey.

"You are being unfair to me," Dr. Conners raised his voice.

"Me? Unfair? How about the fact that all you ever did was write letters instead of finding other ways to contact me that you knew I wasn't getting?"

Dr. Conners was silent. "I think you are being very ungrateful right now. I took you in after your Mother died! You've been living with me for three months. I could have turned you away and sent you to live with someone else but I didn't."

Peter could feel his heart break as he heard Lindsey sobbing. "You don't love me," cried Lindsey.

"Of course I love you! You are my daughter," Dr. Conners argued, "You mean everything to me."

"Then why don't I feel that way?"

Peter heard shuffling as Dr. Conners comforted his daughter. "Lindsey, trust me, everything is going to be okay."

"I miss mom."

"I know."

There were several moments of silence and Dr. Conners came out and shut the door. "Sorry you had to hear all of that," he grimaced.

"Is she okay?" asked Peter.

Dr. Conners looked at Peter and said, "It will take some time, but one day her heart will heal."

"Will it ever?"

Dr. Conners paused for a moment and took off his glasses with his good arm. "When one loses one so close to the heart, one may never fully heal."

"I think I know what you mean," Peter paused as he thought of his parents.