Author's Note: Alright moving forwards, we're gonna get Harry towards the end of this chapter. I own nothing.

19. Taken

Piper laughed as she and Glen walked back into the tower. After she'd returned from the bathroom he'd relaxed slightly and they'd slipped into comfortable conversation about science. According to Glen the lizard DNA idea was working well, so well they had scrapped the other combinations. He was telling her about his little brothers pranks he liked to pull as they entered the elevator. They reached the lab level and both pulled on lab coats as they entered the room.

"Seriously. He put your dads badge in Jell-O?" Glen nodded and Piper snorted a laugh. Glen grinned.

"I swear this is true. He put my dads badge in Jell-O along with my moms salad tongs and her favorite paintbrush. He was grounded for a month." Piper laughed.

"That's nothing, I've been grounded for three months before." Glen raised an eyebrow at her.

"Am I allowed to know what for?" Piper glanced around them. No one was paying them any attention.

"The Helicarier crash, when SHEILD fell. I was there." Glen nodded, he'd kind of figured, since she was Spidergirl she would have been front and center for that. She pushed an errant strand of brown hair out of her face. "It's sort of also how dad found out my… little secret." Glen nodded as he pulled up his latest set of notes on the models.

"Ah, yeah I could see how keeping that to yourself could get you in trouble." Piper laughed and sat on the table next to Glen. He smiled at her.

"It's nice to have someone I can talk to about this. Kind of a fresh perspective." Glen grinned.

"Glad I can help." Piper's pocket buzzed and she pulled out her phone. She excused herself and answered the call. She glanced back over her shoulder at Glen as she spoke into the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hey Piper!" It was Harry. She glanced away from Glen.

"Harry! It's so good to hear from you." Harry laughed.

"I hear you're in the doghouse with MJ again." Piper frowned.

"Only slightly. Dad had a lab emergency and needed my help, so I had to duck out." Harry nodded.

"I know. She told me. Eddie says he's going out of town with the Bugle for a few days, we were gonna go out for coffee, we were wondering if you'd like to join us." Piper grinned.

"I'd love to. When?"

"We're heading out now, meet you at the usual place in twenty?" Piper nodded and agreed before hanging up and heading back over to the station where Dr. Connors was talking with Glen in hushed tones. Piper stepped up to them in time to catch the last few seconds of their conversation.

"She means a lot to everyone in this building is all I'm saying." Piper smiled slightly.

"Dr. Connors, don't intimidate the interns. I can do that perfectly well on my own. Besides, we like Glen he's brilliant." Dr. Connors nodded and stepped away.

"I do have to run though. Meeting up with a friend for coffee. I'll see you tomorrow." She left and Glen glanced after her for a moment before he went back to work.

Piper took a taxi to their usually coffee shop. It was a little corner shop that looked out on a busy thoroughfare towards the edge of Midtown where it met up with Hells Kitchen. The coffee was fantastic and the small version of Spidergirl's mask painted in the top corner of the front window always made Piper smile. There was also a set of red horns glued onto the figurine of a chef that stood next to the sign that displayed the special coffee of the day. Matt Murdock, a friend of Piper's for about a year, had laughed his head off when she'd told him about it. About the coffee shop that supported local heroes. Piper had known the Devil of Hells Kitchen for about a year but they'd only discovered each other's identities about two months ago, a week before her sixteenth birthday. He was only five years older than her and was one of the few people who actually put up with her puns. They'd never hung out outside of their costumes though, it would be odd for the daughter of Tony Stark to know a brand-new lawyer from Hells Kitchen.

Piper grinned at Harry who waved her over to their booth. Eddie was sitting across from Harry, his camera bag on the seat next to him, so Piper squeezed in next to Harry. Harry grinned and waved down the waitress. Piper ordered her usual and the waitress, one of the regular ones Kendra smiled at them.

"You know for a second there I was afraid Mr. Osborn here had replaced you Piper." Piper laughed as Harry went bright red and Eddie stifled a laugh. Harry's glare had absolutely no heat behind it as Kendra walked off to get Piper's coffee.

"How come she calls you by your first name and not me?" Harry grouched into his coffee. He'd always been a bit touchy about people calling him Mr. Osborn, generally only people he paid called him that, or people he didn't like, not that the two were mutually exclusive. But lately he'd been even more sensitive about it. He was in temporary control of Oscorp after all since his father was still missing. Well officially he was just missing, there were very few people who actually knew what had happened to Norman Osborn. That he was currently out there somewhere, large, green and bat shit crazy. Of course everyone currently at the table knew that but Harry didn't know that Piper knew. Eddie had been there when Spidergirl had broken the news to Harry, in the middle of a fight with the Goblin. Piper laid a hand over Harry's, her smile soft and comforting.

"You're intimidating. I'm bouncy." Harry snorted a laugh as Eddie nodded slightly, sipping his espresso.

"She has a point Harry. You do kind of give off this, I could buy the world if I wanted to, vibe." Piper giggled as Harry rolled his eyes slightly.

"I mean she's just as rich as I am, if not more so." Eddie shrugged slightly.

"I know that but she doesn't carry herself the same way you do. You strut, she bounces." Piper nodded, holding back giggles as Harry rolled his eyes at them. Kendra returned with Piper's coffee and had barely set it down when Piper's spider sense went ballistic. The window to their left shattered with a boom and Piper pulled Harry out of the booth hoping Eddie was alright as she twisted, landing on top of Harry.

Something metallic bounced into the coffee shop through the broken window and Piper spotted a gas grenade before it burst open and the whole coffee shop flooded with orange smoke. She coughed as she pulled the collar of her shirt up over the nose and mouth. Harry hacked below her before his eyes fluttered shut. Piper felt her heart going a mile a minute. She felt for a pulse as she coughed through her shirt. It was there, and steady. She heard several thumps around her along with the screams of the people on the street. She gagged as her shirt slipped and the gas invaded her nose and mouth. Her vision blurred as several people in full tactical gear including gas masks rushed into the half destroyed shop. She did her damnedest to fight back as she was dragged to her feet, but the smoke was muddling her senses. She knew she would burn through the negative effects faster than anyone else in the vicinity but that didn't mean it didn't affect her at all.

"She's still awake." One of the men spoke from behind his gas mask as another dragged Harry up and tossed him over his shoulder.

"Fix it." Piper got a blip from her spidey sense before the butt of a gun was brought down on the back of her head and she blacked out.

The solder tossed the now limp girl over his shoulder and the small group raced out of the shop into the street. Cameras were flashing around them as the beat of helicopter blades forced pedestrians back. They tossed their captives into the chopper and hopped in themselves, both manning guns on either side while another man strapped the two teens into the seats. They were no good to them dead after all. The chopper took off as one of the onlookers snapped a photo of the symbol on the side, a skull surrounded by curling tentacles.