Peter swung back to his apartment and snuck back inside his room, taking off his suit and hiding it in the closet, changing into regular clothes. He came out to find his Aunt May looking through old boxes of paper. "What's going on?" He asks her and she looks up at him.
"Oh Peter thank goodness you're here maybe you can help me with this!" She says and passes him a box. "I'm looking for your grandmother's old pastry recipes."
"Uh...why?" Peter asks looking thoroughly confused. May ran over to the counter and grabbed a piece of paper.
"Because I'm opening up a bakery!" May says excitedly. Peter's eyes widened.
"You're running a store now?" He asks and May nods.
"Yes! I've been trying to get that place for months and I thought I'd never get it but then for some reason the other offer got pulled and they accepted mine!" May said excitedly and picked up Peter and gave him a huge hug. He hugged her back.
"That's great May! I remember everyone at the school bake sales said that your cannoli's were amazing!" Peter says.
"And now I get to sell them." She says. "But I'm definitely going to need your help and if any of your friends at school are looking for a part-time job I'd be more than happy to hire them."
"Thanks! I remember Ned and MJ saying that they were looking for jobs." Peter says.
"What about that new girl you're friends with, what's her name..." Aunt May thinks for a minute. "Oh Y/N! You should ask her if she wants to work with us too." Peter blushed a bit at the thought of getting to see you every day after school.
"Y-yeah I'll ask her at detention tomorrow." Peter says.
Aunt May gave him a disappointed look at the mention of that. She wasn't too happy to hear that her son got in a fight at school, but she had to admit that a part of her was impressed that you had been able to throw such a hard punch and she liked the fact that you defended and took care of her nephew afterwards while she was away. She smiled at him.
"What?" Peter asks and Aunt May shrugs.
"It's nothing." She says and gives him that same look.
"Come on May just tell me." Peter says and rolls his eyes. She smiles and puts down the papers she was looking through.
"You have a crush on that Y/N don't you?" She asks and Peter's face turns red and his voice gets a bit higher.
"What?" He asks and shakes his head. "Me, having a crush on a girl I just met this week. You must be going crazy May..." Peter lies and May giggles.
"Alright then, I'll just start planning the wedding on my own then." She jokes and Peter laughs.
The two of you sat next to each other in detention. You decided to do some homework since you had nothing better to do in there. Although Peter was being very distracting and tapping your foot then looking away when you turned to him, pretending to have nothing to do with it. You rolled your eyes and went back to work. Then you decided to get a little playful and you kicked his foot back. You saw him smirk and the next thing you knew the two of you were playing footsie under the desks. You stopped when you heard a gagging noise. You both turned to see MJ drawing the two of you in a little comic playing footsie and her pointing to her mouth with her tongue out. You rolled your eyes and smiled at her. You knew MJ found cutie couple stuff like that disgusting.
But you and Peter weren't even a couple. However much you realized you might want to be. But you were too conflicted at the moment. You were developing feelings for Peter but you were also getting them for Spiderman. You had a tough decision ahead of you. You didn't want to lose either one's friendship. In such a short amount of time Peter had opened you up and made you come out of your shell and feel safe. Something no one had done for you in a long time. And Spiderman was a great partner to have when fighting crime. Together there wasn't anything the two of you couldn't do. And when you fought at Spiderman's side last afternoon you had felt something click, like you were meant to be fighting together, meant to be partners in fighting crime. But you felt that same click with Peter and you had no idea why.
"How would you guys feel about working at my Aunt's new bakery?" Peter asks you and MJ after detention.
"Why did your Aunt opened up a bakery?" Michelle asks.
"Well since the thing with Uncle Ben..." Peter seemed a bit sad at the mention of his name. You wanted to ask him what he was talking about but decided it was best not to pry. "Aunt May's been looking for something to do that could bring in some extra money and she put in offer for an old bakery that closed down a few years ago and she got it."
"That's great!" You tell Peter. "I'd love to work there and help the two of you out."
"Same here." MJ says.
"Great! I'll let her know. We're meeting up tomorrow morning to start cleaning up the place." Peter says and then you all got to the subway and then went your separate ways.
Tomorrow morning came before you knew it and next thing you knew, you were in a baggy t-shirt and a pair of shorts, standing in front of the store with Peter, MJ and Ned who were dressed in similar attire.
"I'm so glad you all came to help!" Aunt May says and smiles at her nephew and his friends. Her gaze lands on you and she smiles. "You must be Y/N. Peter's told me so much about you." She comes up to you and shakes your hand.
"It's nice to meet you too." You tell her and shake her hand.
"Well welcome to Queens. If you need any help getting around I'm sure Peter would be happy to help you, and you're always welcome for dinner if you ever want a nice plate of pasta or-" Peter was giving May a cut it out sign with his hand near his neck and she rolled her eyes and stopped. "Just let Peter know if you need anything." May says and you smile at Peter who's face was red as a tomato.
The five of you got to work cleaning up the place. You and Michelle mopped the floor in the main store area where the dessert counter and seating area would go, while May figure out the floor plan, and Peter and Ned did some heavy lifting in the back. It was of course no problem for Peter, but only Ned knew the true reason why that was. Aunt May had come close to figuring it out once when she caught Peter in the suit but he had managed to convince his Aunt that the real Spiderman had loaned him the suit to fix up for him. So Ned sat in the back looking through names and photos of girls with your skin and hair color and body shape, the two of them trying to figure out who Dragonfly was.
"It could be her?" Ned says and holds up a picture for Peter as he lifts up a rusty metal counter and moves it back against the wall. He looks and shakes his head.
"Nah, that girl's skin tone is slightly different from Dragonfly's." Peter says and moves to push back the oven.
He was rearranging the kitchen to make it easier for his Aunt and you guys to move quickly around the kitchen to help the baking run smoother. He let out a small grunt and lifted it since it was pretty big and slowly carried it over to a wall and rested it there, leaving space to plug it in.
"Okay how about this girl?" Ned asks and shows Peter another picture. Peter looked at it then frowned and shook his head.
"Nope that can't be her either." Peter says and Ned groans.
"Alright then I give up." Ned says.
"No!" Peter whines and opens up the back door to start taking stuff out to the parking lot to clean it. "I need to find out who she is!"
"Why?" Ned asks.
"Because I think I'm falling in love with her." Peter says and Ned looks confused.
"I thought you were getting a crush on Y/N?" Ned asks.
"I am. I'm getting one on both her and Dragonfly." Peter says. "That's why I need to figure out who Dragonfly is so I can get to know more about her to see if I'd like her not just as a hero but for the person she is."
"Aawww." Ned says. "Look at you being all sappy and romantic. Who is this web slinging, death star building scientist best friend of mine becoming?" He asks and Peter smiles and shakes his head at his friend.
You had just finished mopping up the floor with Michelle and you were helping Aunt May fix up her office in the space above the store.
"Wow this is a huge office." Michelle says and looks around. "This whole place is bigger than my apartment."
"Mine too." Aunt May says and sets down her box on her new desk.
"It's smaller than my place." You mention.
"Yeah well not all of us are lucky enough to have someone who works for Tony Stark as their foster parent." Michelle taunts.
"Hey you promised you weren't going to make a big deal out of that." You complain to her.
"Yeah but then I saw how big your room was and now I'm a bit jealous." Michelle says and you punch her in the arm playfully.
"I thought you were above material things?" You ask her and cock your hip and cross your arms.
"I am. But when I saw your room I got jealous thinking about all of the protest signs and artwork I could store in there and smother our patriarchal leaders with in their sleep." Michelle says and Aunt May seems slightly taken aback by Michelle's bold statement. "I'm just kidding." She assures the older woman who lets out a breath of relief and goes back to her work. "Not." She mouths to you and the two of you share a smile and a soft chuckle.
"So who's your foster parent?" Aunt May asks. "I'm sure Peter told you about his internship with Mr. Stark, I wonder if he knows them?"
"Well my foster dad is one of Tony's assistants." You say. "He goes by the name Happy."
"So have you met Iron Man?" Michelle asks.
"Once on bring your daughter to work day about two years ago." You tell them honestly.
"You know I'm not a big fan of that Tony Stark." Aunt May says before going downstairs to do something else.
"Neither am I." You tell her.
"Yeah I've seen him on TV and stuff. He's such a playboy." Michelle says. "I doubt there are many women aside from his new fiancé Pepper up in high positions in his business."
"She's the only one I know of." You say sadly. "She's certainly living in a man's world."
"Aren't we all?" Michelle says.
"Cheers to that sister." You tell her and the two of you knock your boxes together in lieu of champagne glasses.
"I feel bad for Black Widow and Scarlet Witch too." Michelle says. "I mean here are these two strong women fighting to defend people they care about and all people seem to focus on is how tight Black Widow's outfit is or how Scarlet Witch is too fragile to handle her new powers. I mean they haven't come out and said it's because she's a woman but I suspect that could be one of the reasons they doubt her." You nodded in agreement. "Hopefully this new Dragonfly girl won't get as much bad press as them."
"Dragonfly?" You ask, pretending to sound oblivious.
"Yeah. She's a new hero that's been seen stopping crimes in town and fighting with Spiderman." Michelle says. "Have you not been watching the news lately?"
"Haven't had the time. Too busy studying. What have they been saying about her?" You ask.
"Well a lot of people are happy with the work she's been doing. But there have been a few sexist pigs that are calling her 'fairy princess' instead of Dragonfly. But thankfully their co-reporters call them out on that and embarrass them." She says and you both laugh. "There have been a few interviews with little girls saying that they want to learn how to use a sword and do martial arts now because of her, and teen girls are saying how empowering she is because even though her suit isn't as well put together as the Avengers and Spiderman's suit is she's still able to hold her own and some of them think she's an even better hero than Spiderman."
"Wow. Sounds like this Dragonfly is giving ol' Spidey a run for his money." You comment.
"Yeah and it also sounds like they might be dating soon." Michelle says and you gasp and drop your box. You turn to her and she looks confused. "You okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, just tripped a bit on a nail sticking out of the floor." You lie. Michelle looked suspicious but she bought it. "So why do people think they're dating?" You ask, trying your best to keep yourself from blushing.
"Well neither one of them has said anything about it but they have been fighting together a lot lately and fans are starting to ship them together." Michelle comments.
"Oh. Well that's interesting." You say and turn back to your sorting.
"Meanwhile everyone on the decathlon team is shipping you and Peter." She says and you can't hide the blush this time.
"What?" You ask, slightly shocked. "I've only been at school for a week."
"And in that time everyone, minus Flash thinks you and Peter were made for each other." She says and holds up a recipe. "Like cream cheese frosting on a red velvet cupcake, a heavenly combination." She says dramatically and you take the paper from her and stick out your tongue.
"Well tell them to put their cupcake fantasies about us on hold because I'm not even sure if I like him yet. I've only known that adorkable cutie for a week." You tell her and head downstairs with her because Aunt May called you both down for something. "I need some more time to get to know him, maybe hang out with him a bit more before I decide if I'm falling for him or not. Besides, wouldn't it be weird for you, your best friend dating your other best friend?"
"I don't really care. As long as you two don't make out or try to make some babies in my presence I can learn to live with it." Michelle jokes and your face heats up and you hit her arm, for her dirty comment.
"Who's making babies?" Aunt May asks in a concerned motherly tone while holding a tray with some lemonade and glasses on it. You and Michelle both blushed.
"Making babies in a blanket." You quickly said. "MJ and I were thinking about running to the store and picking some up for a snack later."
"Don't you mean pigs in a blanket?" She asks and you lightly tap your forehead with the heel of your hand.
"Oh pigs in a blanket that's what they're called MJ!" You tell her and she nods.
"Yeah I must have forgotten." She goes along with it, not wanting Aunt May to get the wrong idea about you two.
"Oh well you can go do that after you've given the boys some lemonade out back. They've both been doing most of the physical labor I'm sure they'd appreciate a refreshing beverage." She says and you take the tray and head towards the back door.
"So does this mean you like Peter?" Michelle teases.
"I do, a bit." You say and bite your lip. "I mean he's super sweet and funny, smart, and not to mention cute."
"Do you think he's attractive?" Michelle asks.
"Well I wouldn't say he's sexy but-" You gasp as you step outside and feast your eyes upon the sight of perfection in front of you. Peter Parker, shirtless and wet, washing off some baking supplies and tables with Ned. As he sprayed the table down with the hose some of it splashed back up at him and left water droplets dripping down his pecs and abs, and along his surprisingly toned arms. He took his hand and ran it through his hair to try to keep it from falling into his face. The water and the heat was making it curlier than usual and for some reason you found that even hotter. "Scratch that, he's the sexiest man I've ever seen." You say dreamily and Michelle who was also staring took the tray from you since she knew she wouldn't be as prone to dropping it as you were right now.
"Damn Peter Parker's packing!" She exclaims in shock but not loud enough for him to hear her. "I mean I noticed he's been doing better in gym class lately but holy shit I didn't think he'd have the build of Captain America!" Peter looked up and noticed you two with the tray and his eyes lit up like a kid who had just been offered candy.
"Ned we've got lemonade!" He exclaims and runs over to the back stairs, bouncing on his feet and licking his lips as you both come down. MJ sets the tray on one of the stairs and you start pouring some glasses, trying to keep yourself from getting too flustered over Peter's sexy appearance.
"Here you-" You pass Peter the glass but he greedily takes it from your hand and downs half of it. Wiping his lips afterward with his arm. "Go." You finish and Peter blushes a bit.
"Sorry. I was really craving that." He says and gives you a sheepish look.
"Yeah, little baby Parker gets cranky without his sugar." Michelle teases and Peter sticks his tongue out at her and she does the same back. Peter sets the glass down and Michelle gives you a slight, and subtle shove and pushes you into Peter's chest. Both of you immediately flushed bright red and you couldn't help but look down and see your finger tips resting on his perfectly sculpted abdominals and his strong arms held your waist.
"You okay?" He asks. His voice cracking a bit from the awkward closeness.
"Yeah." You say in a soft voice that was barely a whisper.
Your faces were so close. His gorgeous brown orbs were burning a hole into your equally beautiful e/c eyes. You gently moved one hand up his muscled chest and Peter's breath hitched as your finger tips brushed over one of his nipples. Sensitive nipples. You'd have to remember that for pranks and possibly other things in the future... One of his hands slid down to your hip gently, as if he was worried the slightest touch would shatter you into a million pieces. A few drops of water from his hair dripped onto your chest and slid in between the valley of your breasts. Peter watched them for a few moments, then noticed you were following his gaze and his eyes widened slightly and were now held firmly on yours so you wouldn't think he was gawking at you. Even though a slight twitch in his shorts said differently. MJ and Ned were both fixated on the two of you. Looking back at each other and then back at the two of you. Peter's nose brushed yours gently and it was then you noticed he was pulling you a bit closer. Your eyes locked, and even though nothing was said, there was an unspoken message that passed between the two of you that told the two of you to start leaning in closer...MJ and Ned's eyes went wide as your lips were mere millimeters apart now and the two of you prepared to have your first-
"I made sandwiches!" Aunt May calls out and the back door swings open and you and Peter jumped apart. She looks curiously between the two of you then at Michelle and Ned who were trying to look completely casual. "Um...I'll just leave them here then." She says and leaves them on the stoop and goes back inside. You bit your lip and took another glance at his toned torso.
"I-I didn't know you were so strong." You tell him and he blushes more and tries to cover his abs with his arms a bit, not sure if he should boast about them or hide. No girl had ever seen him shirtless since he got his powers.
"Oh uh yeah I've been working out." He says and lets out a nervous laugh and a cheeky smile. He was so adorable, like a cute little puppy that you just wanted to cuddle and play with all day.
"Well it's definitely been working out for you bro." Michelle says and Peter blushes more. "Keep up the good work." She raises her glass then drinks some lemonade. Peter reached up and grabbed two sandwiches off of the plate. He gave you one.
"Looks like you guys are doing a good job of washing that stuff down." You notice as Peter finishes his sandwich.
"Yeah, all that's left is the table." Peter says then yelps as Ned sprays him with the hose.
"Dude!" Peter complains.
"What? You were dirty too?" Ned says and Peter gives him an annoyed look and grabs the hose from him and Ned takes off down the parking lot as Peter chases him.
You and Michelle laughing as Peter hosed him down. Soon the roles were reversed again and you went over to one of the bowls they had cleaned that was filled with water and then ran and dumped it all on Ned. Before you could react you were getting soaked to the bone by the hose until Peter got in front of you.
"Run Y/N I'll protect you!" He jokes and you take off but Peter tackles Ned to keep him from getting to you.
But that doesn't stop Michelle from spraying you with a spray bottle that had water in it. You grabbed the hose from Ned and sprayed Michelle down as well. You quickly learned that was a mistake and now all three of you were running in fear as Michelle looked for the weakest victim. Being how athletic you and Peter were, it was unfortunately Ned but he got back at her by rugby tackling her to the ground. Peter went over to his bag and got out a camera.
"You film things?" You ask him and he turns the camera on you.
"It's a hobby." He says and Michelle comes over.
"Let me see that for a second?" She asks and Peter hands it to her questioningly. She puts it up to see through the lense and then gives Ned a cue.
"Okay get 'em nerd." She tells him and you and Peter squeal as you're sprayed down with the cold water and he holds onto you tightly and tries to turn so you don't get as soaked.
"Pete it's not helping!" You yell over the sound of water hitting his skin. "The wetter you get the wetter I get." You laugh and he gives you a curious look and arches an eyebrow.
"So I get you wet?" He asks and you grab another pot that had water and doused him in it before he could get away.
Then he grabbed you and picked you up, over his shoulder with ease and ran you over to a huge plastic trough for the small garden behind the building and dumped you in it. You quickly grabbed his hand and easily pulled him in after you. Ned and Michelle ran over as you both flailed around in the water a bit before just sitting there with each other, Peter's strong arms around you, and your hands resting on his shoulders and the two of you were smiling and laughing at each other. Michelle smiled, happy she had gotten this all on film.
You all stayed in the sun after that, ordered by Aunt May not to come inside until you had dried off. You all washed down the table together. Peter deciding to use your obvious attraction to him to his advantage and got sexily on the table to try to scrub it down with the sponge. Although it only worked for about a minute because then he slipped off and landed on the ground. And honestly that failed attempt worked so much better than it would have if he was successful.
Michelle had helped May paint the name of the bakery in the store front window and now it was ready to be unveiled.
"Alright guys!" May says happily. "After much debate and multiple name choices, I've decided to call the bakery..." The sheet dropped and your jaws all dropped. You and Ned's closed soon and they turned into smirks but poor Peter looked terrified.
"Sweet Pete's..." He mutters and you and Ned erupt into laughter.
"Isn't it perfect!" May says and Michelle had a devious look on her face. She knew from the get go that Peter would be embarrassed and that's why she pressed the name onto Aunt May.
"No it's embarrassing!" Peter exclaims. "That's going to be my nickname at school for the rest of my life..." He pouts.
"Aw but you're sweet Pete..." Aunt May says and goes over to Peter and gives him a huge bear hug and messes up his now curly hair. "And now this store sells other things that are just as sweet as you." She coos and Peter starts squirming in her grip.
"I like it." You say and that seems to brighten the poor boy's spirits a bit.
"Really?" He asks and Everyone shares a knowing look as they watched a grin slowly spread across Peter's features.
"Yeah. It's simple, and you are sweet so it fits..." You tell him and he blushes and so do you.
"Well it's been a long day." Aunt May says. "You should all get home, I'm sure you have studying and homework to do." She stresses and Michelle says her goodbyes and leaves.
"Goodbye Peter." You say and then shock him by pressing a gentle kiss to his cheek. "See you in school." You say before skipping off down the sidewalk. He and Ned look shocked at each other and they both cheer and jump around once you're out of sight.
"She kissed me! She kissed me!" Peter exclaims.
"It was only on the cheek though." Ned points out.
"I don't care! It's more action than I've gotten my entire life!" He exclaims and leans against the window. "And did you see how she was subtly feeling me up today too...Oh God that girl is going to be the death of me." Peter admits.
"Seems like she digs you bro. But what about Dragonfly?" He reminds Peter, causing the boy to groan and bury his head in his hands, realizing this situation might have just gotten more complicated.
It was late that evening and you had stopped three separate robberies. Unfortunately without your spider powered partner. You didn't think you'd miss him so much but you did. Maybe he was just busy with other stuff today... You thought to yourself and flew back home. You flew over to Happy's suburban home and up to your window. You opened it and stealthily slid in, your wings folded down so they wouldn't get stuck on the window. You shut it behind you and took off your mask, then let out a sigh of relief. Another successful trip back inside. But all of that changed when you turned and gasped when you saw Michelle sitting there, a book in her hands, jaw hanging as it fell to the floor as she took in the sight of you, with wings and your sword and "armor".
"You're the Dragonfly..." She gasps softly.