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Chapter 20- Offering

Monday- Midtown High School History class 8:05AM

Two days after the events that happened at the Hardy Foundation two students were having a difficult time wrapping their heads at what one of their friends said to them that night. Gwen and Mary Jane sat together half hearing what the teacher was lecturing.

The bell rang signaling it was time to switch classes, "Alright everyone I want you to read pages 105-135 about The White House scandals also do question 1-5, 13, and 20, remember there is a test coming in a week so study hard. You are dismissed."

While the rest of the class groaned, two students kept quite still processing the events that transpired two days ago. They walked towards Gwen's locker, as she opened her locker Mary Jane spoke, "I still can't believe that the explosion that killed a dozen people didn't kill Peter…"

"Hmm…"

"I mean just thinking about it makes my skin crawl, that spider saved his life. I always thought Spider-Man was cute but when you out it your best friend underneath the mask it just changes your perspective. What do you think Gwen?"

"I don't know what to think anymore MJ, too find that your crush is Spider-Man or that fact that he is facing superpowered beings to protect this city not to mention he told us that he has alien life form on him at the moment." Gwen shut her locker as she put her textbook in her backpack, "Peter now holds a scientific revolution at the palms of his fingertips, who know the potential we can unlock what we can discover."

"Gwen we are talking about our friend here not a lab rat!" MJ stated, "How you would feel if you were the one with Spider-powers on an operation table ready to be dissected?"

"Point taken but still…just think about MJ we could finally cure cancer if we could tap into that potential."

Mary Jane sighed putting an arm around her blonde friend, "You have been reading too much of Oscorp research on 'How to turn a cell into a supercell.'"

"Correction Miss Watson it's 'How to turn a cell into a supercell for the future of mankind.' You should consider in doing a bit of research if you want to pass my class." The two teens faced their teacher Miles Warren a high school science chemistry teacher by day and by night a professor of biochemistry at Empire State University, "I'm sorry but I couldn't help over hear that you said that something about curing cancer one day?"

"Ah yes Mary Jane and I were discussing on how Spider-Man could hold the key for a scientific revolution in the world one day." Gwen said quickly she was relieved that Mr. Warren's didn't hear the first part of the conversation.

"Ah the wall crawler a find specimen he is I would love nothing more to than to study him." Warren said he looked at the girls who were looking quite unnerved, "Well I do believe that you girls will be late for class allow me to escort you there."

And he was right no sooner did he say that the bell rung, "Walk with me ladies." He gave a look that made Mary Jane cringe, Gwen on the other hand wasn't paying attention or she didn't let it show but the way Mr. Warren was looking at Gwen really rubbed MJ the wrong way as if he was undressing her with his eyes.

"You know I've read your paper on cross genetics Miss Stacey, I must say I am fascinated with the idea of mixing animal DNA with humans that can produce these supercells that can help the human race, just thinking about it makes me want to leap with joy organs replacing themselves at a high level, restoring lost limbs…"

"It's only a theory Mr. Warren…"Gwen interjected, "I'm not even sure I believe it's possible that humans can replace organs like that."

An idea came to the older man but he had to get rid of the red head teenager the way she was looking at him unnerved him completely, they arrived at Mary Jane's Geometry class, "Miss I do believe this is your stop."

He knocked on the door to reveal the teacher who gave a curious look to the red head, "Don't worry about a thing Mr. Adam she was with me."

"Alright thanks Miles, I was shocked to see that she was running late she's never late." He chuckled, "Alright Mary Jane inside there a test so take seat anywhere."

"See ya Gwen."

"I'll see during lunch."

The red head disappeared inside the classroom as the door shut Miles Warren turned to the blonde, "Now shall we continue to my classroom Miss Stacey I do believe you are running late?"

They walked to the third floor where and they stopped half way there Miles turned to the young girl, "Miss Stacey…"

"Yes Mr. Warren?"

"Please call me Miles." Now the red flags were there, "I have a proposition for you, how would you like an internship with me? A young woman of your talents can taught only by the best of the best researcher the world can offer."

"I…I…I don't what to say…"

"Think about I will give until the end of the day to ponder this." He smiled at her sweetly but his look was perverse, Gwen had not notice that he was undressing her with his eyes, "Come I do believe it time I taught class."


Bayville High School the Principle office 8:10 AM

"And this will be your schedule for the semester, any questions Mr. Dukes?" Raven Darkhölme asked the newest student of Bayville High school

Mr. Dukes looked at the piece of paper in his hands with uncertainty, "I don't know if I can do school again, I didn't fit in my other school."

"I assure that will not happen here." Raven said, "As the principle of this school I can make sure of it."

After saying his thanks the large young man exited the office with puzzlement, it has been years since he has been at a school the last time he was in school was when he was about 7 or 8 years old. The hallways were light with student bodies, he grabbed one out of the blue wearing a sports jacket, "Hey, hey you!"

"Whoa!"

He showed the paper to him, "Where am I suppose be?"

The man responded mocking, "I don't know how about a side show?"

Those were the wrong words to say, the young teen face turned from puzzlement to anger he threw the other boy across the floor, he then proceed by ripping the lockers off the hinges, "Don't make fun of ME!"

Lifting the lockers over his head he stormed over the frighten senior who was crawling backwards ready to splat him.

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa there big guy!" Mr. Dukes turned to face petite sophomore accompanied by two red heads, "I know Duncan can be jerk at times but that's no reason to end his life I even bet he hasn't lost his…"

"ANYWAY" Interjected the older red head, "You must be new here, I'm Jean Grey this Angelica Jones, and the clown over here is Peter Parker."

"Heh…heh…um…" He looked over his head at the locker, "Yeah I am…new I mean…"

"Hey jockey." Peter said, "I think this is your cue to get lost." Duncan didn't need to be told twice as he bolted out of there before anything else could be done, Peter turned to Angelica, "And we better get to class, we'll see you later Jean."

Peter put an arm around Angelica shoulders causing her to blush furiously, those two looked cute together though Peter could definitely use a change of an attitude, Jean thought. Right now she returned to the situation at hand.

The teen awkwardly put the locker back in its place, she decided to break the ice once again, "Welcome to Bayville, so um…what do your friends call you?"

Wiping his hands on his strap jean from carrying the locker he turned to the girl, "I don't have any nicks names, actually I never had any friends at all. I'm Fred, Fred Dukes."

They shook hands, Jean gave him a sympathetic look, "Well Fred I want to apologize for Duncan he can be a real idiot sometimes." She looked down at her feet noticing his schedule, "Say did you need help figuring out this out?"

Flustered Fred stuttered with his words, "Y-yes…uh…please…"

Jean nodded her head in acknowledgement, she read the large teen's paper, "Let's see now…your first class is right over there."

She gave him back his back his schedule, beginning to walk away, "Don't worry about the first day it's always the roughest, well I better get going, I'll see around."

She waved at him disappearing to another part of the hallway, Fred vowed that they will meet again.


Somewhere else in the school

"Alright…" The teacher said walking around the classroom handing out a book to each of the students, "For this drama exercise we'll each being doing a scene with a partner. Since a few of you students haven't chosen a partner I will be the one to do it for you." He called out a few student before handing the green book to the gothic Rogue, "Which leaves you and you…"

The other was none other Scott Summers who groaned out of displeasure.

"You two will be doing Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth, I'm marking it down and remember it Henry and Catherine daughter of the French King."

Paul jokingly jabbed Scott, "Lots of luck Scott, I don't think Miss small, dark and solemn has ever said two words. Looks like you're going to have to play the all parts yourself, man."

At this comment the class chuckled at this comment.

"Alright class settle down." The class went quiet, "Now I want you to get together with your scene partner and rehearse. You perform on Tuesday."

Scott turned his body half way asking Rogue if she was comfortable to do this scene with him, in response Rogue stated that she was not scared of him, Scott retaliated telling her that she was not supposed to be. However, Rogue continued on and told him to tell his other friends to keep their distance from her. As Scott sighed, his friend Paul quickly claimed that Rogue liked him and was just playing hard to get before Scott told him to shut up.

Lunch arrived sooner than anyone else could think, there was a lot of commotion going Peter was sitting next to his newest friends, and over the weekend he paid a visit to the Institute and was welcomed open arms by the professor and students.

Flashback Sunday Afternoon Xavier's Institute

In the office of Charles Xavier Peter and Ororo were talking about the mutant gene and where it comes, who has it, etc. The geeky science part of Peter was fascinated with the Professors saying, "You see Peter this gene leads to an exotic protein. This protein produces chemical signals inducing mutations on other genes, ending up with mutant organisms, variously empowered. The activated mutants, once went through a mutation or as I like to call it the X-Mutation, they are told to be "mutated", which is also told of mutants who suffers further mutations through experimentation."

"Okay but answer me this how is this activated?"

"Quite simple really, for most of the mutants except for the mutants expressing their mutation at birth, or Changelings, the mutation occurs during puberty "in a high proportion or recorded cases like stress, it could be speculated that the expression of the X-Gene is stimulated by stress adrenaline, cortisol, etc. or sexual hormones but I don't need to go into that." Xavier chuckled as he saw Peter turn bright red, "Which brings me to why you are here today Peter, and I thank you for coming to see me. I'm sure you have told your Aunt where you were going."

"Trust me she know that I am here for a quote unquote 'study session' I hate lying to her but what was I going to tell her? 'Hey Aunt May I'm going to a school full of mutants think I can go?'"

Xavier frowned at the fact that Peter had to lie to his aunt but then again he had to agree at his point yet that didn't mean that he had to like it.

"Peter the one thing that we teach here at the school is discipline and trust. Trusting your relatives with your secret might be the first step in letting them be comfortable with you. I should know my nephew living in New York has powers as well and my family is learning to deal with it."

"It's not that simple Miss Munroe, you see I've known I had these powers for a time if my aunt knows my secret my enemies will her to use her against me and I don't want that."

Charles and Ororo were taken aback, "What do you mean by enemies, Peter?"

"Stop me if you heard this before…" Peter cleared his throat; "'I didn't get my powers through this X-gene… I got bitten by radioactive spider during a science expedition after the place I was at exploded.'"

Charles and Ororo faces were as perfect ovals, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master as realization hit them, there standing in front of them was none other than Bayville's newest hero vigilantly Spider-Man.

A hand smacked his bald spot, "I can't believe this I should have put two and two together when I first saw your picture in the Daily Globe! You being at the same location as Spider-Man was no mere coincidence, Peter why didn't you say anything before?"

He shrugged, "I wanted to know if I could trust you first with you being a telepath I didn't want you reading my mind there is a lot going on in there that you really don't want to see."

"Peter Charles will never invade one privacy unless you give him permission to go deeper inside your head, he is not that type of man."

"Then I think I got my answer, please don't say anything to the others, I don't want unnecessary attention coming towards me. I'll tell them when the time is right."

"Don't worry your secret is safe with us, however I might add I did try several times to do a thin scan of you because I felt another presence with you."

"Ah don't worry about that's my partner Sym." He said nonchalantly, "Let me show you."

He changed into his black and white costume astonishing the two older mutants, he switched back to his other clothing in moment, "Pretty sweet to have a symbiote around to make life a little bit easier."

"Fascinating..." Then Charles asked for the last time, "I don't want to push you Peter but I need to know are you willing to stay here at the institute to help train even further with your powers, I'm sure you would love to find how strong you are?"

"Well if I do take your offer I would like to make a request that my Aunt May will be staying here as well. She's the only family I left and I don't want her to be alone."

"I think I can arrange it and beside it would also benefit the school to have another instructor to help look after the team. As well I'm sure Ororo wouldn't mind having another adult female company."

Ororo smiled nodding at the suggestion, Charles switched his attention back to Peter, "Well then Mr. Parker would you like a tour of the institute?"

"Well since you are offering, why not…"

The two men exited the office making their way past the bottom of the stairs case, Xavier started to explain to Peter the layout of the school, the girls hallway and boys hallway was separated for obvious reasons, Charles explained that he built the facilitate to help the growth and powers of mutants around the world. It also has multiple Security Systems in place incase unwanted intruders happened to be lurking about the mansion.

While he explained Jean was making her down the stairs with Kitty to go to the mall, they were chatting about girl stuff on how they would have their hairs done and what not, so focused in the conversation Jean misstep on second to last step thus sending her down face first to the ground while the professor was talking to the brown hair teenager.

On instincts Peter outstretched his arms grabbing the red head by the waist however because Jean was falling face first her lips managed to finds Peter's and soon those two were locking lips with wide eyes, yet something happened that they made them continue to hold that kiss just a little longer than expected it would have continued but the Professor cleared his throat.

The two broke the kiss looking at each other and back the man in the wheelchair, "If you two are done eating each other's faces off I would like to get on with the tour unless Jean you have other ideas in mind."

The two of blushed tomato red, they looked at each other Jean broke the ice as she was settled back on her feet, Kitty's giggles were heard thus Jean sent her a death glare which in turn made her laugh harder.

Jean knew that she was not going to let this one go not by a long shot.

"Well, umm…that was…"

"Awkward, rude, stiff?"

"Yeah…"

Flashback ends


After that the rest of the tour was uneventful, little did he know that kissing Jean did something that Sym noticed the symbiote decided to keep quiet about this as it investigated the odd occurrence. He met Kurt, Scott and yes Angelica was there to and he couldn't help but wink seductively at her causing her to blush, and finally he met Logan.

'Sheesh that guy needs to get laid or something…' Peter mused, he looked at Angelica, he smirked she was cute when she was flushed. Angelica looked in his direction, he winked at her thus causing to quickly look away he held his smirk.

Then new student that they met earlier came into the lunch room, Kitty was astonish at his size, "Is that humongous guy like you and Logan went to see Saturday night?"

Jean swallowed her sandwich responded, "Who Fred? Yeah he's okay when he not ripping lockers out of the walls."

Kitty was shocked, "Like he's the one who did that? Freaky…"

"Yeah, and almost made a pancake out of our dear jockey Duncan." Peter piped, the five teens looked in amazement as the cafeteria lady filled up his plate the teens were in utter shock as the large teen walked away happily.

"I thought Kurt was glutton…"

"Hey…zat is not true…"

"But this guy takes the cake." Peter remembered something, "So Mr. Summers I hear that you have a play to do with tall, dark and gothic over there."

"Vat you and Rogue that mein freund is a strange combination, ya?"

Scott still felt uneasy about the whole thing but before he could respond Kitty had a devious little smile, "Oh yeah but it's like not as strange as Jean and Peter locking lips together."

"WHAT!" The three shouted, Peter choked on his drink and Jean flushed red.

"When did this happen?" Scott stood up slamming his hands on his table

Peter wanted to crawl up in a shell and die, Jean had a very nervous smile on her face while in the back of her head thinking of a way to get back at Kitty for this."

"Look it was by accident that it had happened, I was taking a tour of the school Red was coming down the stair probably tripped on her own two feet I don't know." Peter then challenged, "Would you have preferred that I let her fall?"

"Yes…"

"Scott…"

"No…I mean…I don't know…"

"Apparently our friend over here is love stricken…" Peter commented the group let out a light laughter, Scott blushed muttering under his breath.

"Peter Parker please report to the Principle office, Peter Parker please report to the Principle office, thank you…"

The whole cafeteria sent an 'ooh' Peter ignored them, the others were concerned Angelica especially, "Why would you get called down to the Ms. Darkhölme office? What did you do this time?"

"Nothing that I can think of." Peter finished his sandwich, chugged his drink, "I'll see you later."

Peter disappeared out the double doors heading his way to the office of Principle Darkhölme, Angelica couldn't help but worry about him despite his boldness at times, Peter was an ok guy in her opinion after you get past the tough guy act he was quite the jokester.

Kitty saw the look in her other red head friends eyes, she smirked as she said, "I bet he has like the most gorgeous eyes."

"Yeah…"

Kitty, Jean, Kurt and Scott counted down until realization hit Angelica, "Wait what?!"

They burst out laughing at the flushed girl, no sooner did that happened someone yelled, "FOOD FIGHT!"


Principle Office

Peter was in front of the principle door, he was still going over the fact why Miss Darkhölme would call him for all he knew he completed his term of after school detention.

"All right let's get this over with." Knocking on the door he waited for a response.

"Come in Mr. Parker I have been expecting you."

"Yeah I'm sure..." he muttered under his breath walking into the spacious office, Raven heard him but chose to ignore it for now.

"Now I'm sure you are wondering why I called you here." She got up closing the shades to her office, then focused her attention to the young teenager, "Please have a seat."

Peter was alarmed yet remain stoic nothing portraying his emotion did as he was told, Sym was also on guard for any suspicious activity coming from the principle.

"Yes I mean I am clear of my debt I've been avoiding Matthews or should I say him me I don't know I lost count how times he tried to prank all day last week on Friday although…"

"No I did not call you here because of that I will see that Mr. Matthews is disciplined accordingly." She walked behind placing both her hands on his shoulder, "I did call you for more personal reason."

'Okay I do believe the whole teacher/student thing is clearly illegal!' Peter did his best not scram from his seat

"You and I are not so different Mr. Parker." She got real close into his ear, "We are different than most who would consider us outcast."

'This is scary I think I'll have to press charges anyone knows a good lawyer I can hire?' Peter spoke, "I don't think they would accept this kind of relationship between us, Miss Darkhölme you know the whole teacher loves student thing I really not into you like that."

"What! You idiotic boy that not why you are here!" She withdrew from him then came in front of him transforming into a familiar blue skinned mutant that offered 'Spider-Man' a place with them, "This is the reason why…I saw you that day when your powers started to develop at the cafeteria."

Peter really wanted to kick himself for that, he should have been more careful had it not been for a certain alien that was supposed to tell him that the clothing he wore stuck to any material!

'It's not my fault you didn't bother to ask.'

'Well a little side note could have been helpful! Besides I think I know what she is planning to say.'

"You may know me as Raven Darkhölme when I'm human Peter but I am also known as Mystique, and I am offering you a place in the Brotherhood of Mutants." She smiled darkly, "Shall we discuss the offer?"


LXD: End scene. It has been nearly been a month since I last updated this story and I know it been while but college work is never fun. Anyway Chapter 20 for you I have been working on this chapter for a couple of days and I wanted to write but for now I will leave it I don't think I can write anything more for this chapter. Also next chapter I will be taking a break on this story for a little while to work on other Spider-Men stories mainly What if, Cosmic Spider and When you cross a Black Cat or is it a spider so stayed tuned. Comment, rate, subscribe…I will see you next chapter.