Peter was nervous about seeing you in school today. He only realized after Dragonfly had left him on top of that building that he had totally flaked on you guys hanging out after work. You probably hated him now for ditching you. "What should I tell her?" Peter asks Ned as they make their way to their lockers.
"Just tell her the truth." Ned says and Peter furrows his eyebrows at his friend. "You were at the 'Stark Internship'." Peter rolled his eyes.
"I can't keep using that excuse Ned." Peter says.
"Why not? It's perfect." He tells him.
"Because eventually it'll wear off it's charm and she's going to think I care more about Tony Stark than I do her." Peter explains.
"Do you care about the 'internship' more than her?" Ned asks and Peter gets a thoughtful look on his face.
"That's a real hard question to answer Ned." Peter tells his friend. "At this point since I don't know her that well I'd say the 'internship' is but who knows if that could change in the future, especially since I've been feelings for Dragonfly too." He says.
He looks down the hall and notices you and Michelle talking. You seemed upset about something and Michelle looked like she was trying to give you advice.
"Do you think Peter will be mad that I flaked on hanging out with him last night?" You ask Michelle.
"I don't think so. I mean you do have a good excuse." She points out.
"Yeah but I can't tell him that." You remind her. "I mean I could say that I was just busy studying but I can't always use that excuse. And there's going to be times where I have to lie to him a lot to go and fight. I'm starting to realize that as much as I want to be with him, keeping a relationship with him might not really be practical. Especially since I feel the same way about Spiderman that I do for him."
"I guess you've got a point there." Michelle says and you gasp when you see him.
"Crap here he is what do I say?" You ask her and she shrugs.
"Crap it's her what do I say?" Peter asks Ned. You came up to him and he blushed and smiled nervously. "Hey Y/N."
"Hey Peter." You say, surprised by how nervous he looked. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine it's just that I thought you might be mad that I sort of flaked on hanging out last night..." He says. "I hope you didn't come over and expect me to be there or something or feel bad that-" He was rambling and as adorable as it was to watch you didn't want to make the poor boy suffer more. You grabbed his hand to stop him and he immediately shuts up and his cheeks turn a soft rose color.
"Peter it's fine. I got busy last night too. I get it you have an internship, and I have to study. It's fine if you're busy sometimes." You explain to him and Peter just stares at you in shock until Ned punches him in the back to unfreeze him and get the boy to speak.
"R-really?" He asks and smiles brightly. "You're okay with me having to cancel stuff last minute sometimes because of my internship?"
"Of course! Believe me I understand that you can't always control when people need you." You tell him and Ned arches an eyebrow.
"Oh my God you have no idea how relieved I am to hear you say that." Peter says and lets out a breath he didn't know he was holding. You giggled at how cute he was being. The bell rang. "Well I'll see you guys later." Peter says and leaves with Ned who waved goodbye to you and Michelle before following Peter.
"So what happened to telling him you're not interested?" Michelle asks you and you groan and bury your face in your hands.
"I couldn't say no to that cute little face! And he was so happy to hear that I wasn't upset with him, and if this internship does take a lot of time out of his schedule then that's ideal because then he won't get upset when I have to go...you know." You tell her and she nods.
"But if you do go for Peter then what will you do about Spiderman? I mean technically you could date them both. He doesn't know about your little 'side job'." Michelle decides to call it.
"I know but it would still be cheating. And I mean I'm going to tell him at some point once I know I can trust him." You tell her.
"You know...I have a little theory that might help you out." Michelle says and smirks.
"What is it?" You ask her eagerly. She motions for you to come closer then whisper in your ear.
"What if Peter is Spiderman?" She asks you. You roll your eyes.
"MJ I thought we already went over this. He can't be Spiderman." You tell her.
"Well how do you know?" She asks you. "I mean I've noticed that every time he gets called in to do his internship is the same time that Spiderman goes and fights crime. And I've never seen the two of them together in one place."
"It's probably just a coincidence." You tell Michelle. "I mean you know how Peter is. He's so shy. Spiderman is a more confident guy than him. As much evidence as there is that connects them, the odds of him being Spiderman are pretty small."
"Come on dude Y/N has to be Dragonfly!" Ned whisper shouts to Peter and he rolls his eyes. "They're so similar and you heard what she said about understanding when people need you-"
"Ned just stop!" Peter begs him. "I mean I get where you're coming from and yeah there are a lot of similarities between them but I don't want to get my hopes up and think that they could both be her because the odds of that are pretty small." He sighs. "Besides, eventually Y/N's probably going to learn how boring I am pretty soon and not want to hang out anymore." He says and walks away before Ned can say anything against what Peter had just said.
That afternoon Peter decided to go over to your house. He was going to tell you the truth. That there was someone else he was starting to have feelings for. And that he was just too busy with the Stark Internship to be with you. He knocked on the door, his heart pounding as it creaked open and then he surprisingly saw Happy.
"Happy?" Peter asks.
"Peter?" Happy asks him. "Oh crap did Tony tell you where I live, great now you're going to come bugging me at my house all the time-"
"No no no I didn't know that you lived here too, I guess you weren't here las time I-" Happy cuts him off.
"You've been here before!" He exclaims.
"Yeah I wanted to give Y/N and MJ some pastries from my Aunt's new bakery..." Peter starts then shuts up when he sees who else is there.
"Your Aunt has a new bakery?" Tony asks the shocked teen and Peter's mouth just opens and closes. "Wait oh yeah I helped her get that place. Paid the other guy that wanted it to drop their offer. Anyway how's the bakery business going? I'd love to stop by and get a sample of her cookies." He jokes and Peter's shoulders slump and he narrows his eyes at Tony.
"Aren't you engaged now?" Peter asks him. Tony checks his hand.
"Oh wait yeah I am. Thanks to you by the way actually. Forgot to thank you for that..." Tony says.
"Wait are you the guy that Y/N's been crushing on?" Happy asks.
"Crushing on?" Peter asks and slowly smiles. "She likes me?!"
"Oh shit it is you." Happy groans and face palms. "As if I didn't have enough things with you to annoy me-"
"Oh my God. That's amazing she likes me!" Peter says and bounces. Tony smiled, amused by Peter's reaction.
"Is she here?" Peter asks. "I need to go tell her I like her too!"
"No she's out with MJ." Happy says. His wife came running down the stairs.
"Oh my God there you two are have you guys seen the news!" She exclaims.
"News?" Tony asks.
"Those guys that escaped SHIELD and Spiderman that those dangerous weapons have now taken an entire ferry of people hostage." She says and Peter's eyes widen. "And Dragonfly is out there fighting them off but this might be her biggest challenge yet."
"Peter you probably know how powerful she is right?" Tony asks.
"Y-yeah but I don't know the full extent of her power. I want to believe she can but I'm not sure if she can handle this on her own." Peter says.
"Then what are you still doing here?" Happy asks him. Peter looks confused.
"Go thwip off and help your sword-fighting girlfriend!" Tony exclaims.
"Well I wouldn't say she's my girlfriend-" Peter laughs nervously and blushes.
"GO!" Both Tony and Happy shout at him and he runs off.
You flew around the ferry, trying to find a good way to get on it. Those bad guys kept shooting lasers at you and you couldn't find a good spot to get on board. Eventually you just gave up on finding an opening.
"Fuck it!" You say and use your speed to shoot down at one of the guys and take him out.
Another one shot at you and you got sent into a wall, leaving a dent in it. You groaned and stood up. Another one prepared to shoot at you and you held your sword in front of you and it hit it. It shielded you from the blast but still pushed you back a few feet. You flew up to him and took him out, as well as his partner, then flew around the top deck knocking all the others on that floor overboard. The hostages on that deck cheered for you.
"Yeah Dragonfly!" A guy in the corner clapped.
Then a few more bad guys came running up onto the deck with their guns. They all pointed their guns at you and were ready to fire. Just as they did a web shot out from your right and stuck to your back and you felt yourself get pulled out of the way just as the blast fired. You were face to face, or mask to mask with Spiderman and he had you pressed up against his chest and his arm wrapped around your waist.
"Yeah Spiderman!" The same guy cheers and claps.
You were pretty sure he just saved your life and you should thank him. But your heart was pounding because of the close position you were in. And you could feel that he was tense as well. You felt your love for him start to bubble up inside you. You should say thank you, or say something along the lines of how much you appreciate him. But instead you just said "It's about time you showed up."
His robotic eyes squinted a bit and you could tell that meant he was smiling. He pressed you a bit closer to him and used his free hand to web up the bad guys who had just tried to shoot at you, stick them to the deck before letting you go and you both make your way downstairs.
"You're late you know!" You tell him before you both reach the door.
"Really? Because I came right on time to save you." He says and winks and you playfully scoff at him.
The two of you bust down the door and he starts shooting webs at the bad guys and you use your sword, and strength to disarm them.
"I didn't need saving!" You yell at him as you blocked a blast with your sword and kicked a guy in the jaw to knock him out before ducking to the floor to dodge another blast and sweep your legs across the floor to knock him down. "I've got this under control!"
"Then why did I have to come save you!" Peter yells back, laughing.
He kicked two guys back and launched a web grenade at them, then a few more webs at the others that you took out to make sure they stayed down and he walked over to where you were with your hands on your hips.
"Just admit it you need my help for this one." He says and crosses his arms.
"I don't need your help, I just appreciate your effort." You say simply.
"Okay I see what's happening here." He says in a bit of a singing tone and you arch an eyebrow. "You're mask to mask with greatness and it's strange-"
"Oh my God you are not singing that song from Moana!" You exclaim and laugh as he continues his song.
"I know it's a lot the webs the bod!" He gestures to himself and his robotic eyes open and widen. "When you're staring at a Spider-God!" You laugh and he shoots some webs and starts fighting some guys that had come up from below. "What can I say except you're welcome!" He sings as you both fight. "For the webs I shoot from the sky! There's no need for praise it's okay you're welcome, I'm just an ordinary Spider-guy!"
"Your boyfriend's a dork." One of the bad guys says.
"Shut up!" You tell him and elbow him in the jaw to knock him out.
"You're welcome! You're welcome!" He sings to you as the rest of them were taken out and you fly over his shoulder and take out a guy who was getting up and about to shoot Spiderman.
"And thank you!" You yell back at him and his eyes widen and his heart pounds in his chest as you confidently swung your hips and walked up to stand by his side.
You could hear the footsteps thundering up the stairs and you knew more would be coming soon. You two both looked at each other and you held up your sword and he got his web shooter ready. Everything felt like slow motion as you both charged your attackers, taking down the front line swiftly and then finding yourselves surrounded as the others moved to circle around you. You pressed yourself up against Spiderman's back and gripped his shoulders for support as you kicked their guns out of their hands and then flipped over him as you two switched sides to disarm the others, which wasn't very easy considering your sword couldn't slice this alien tech stuff. Peter webbed them up and did flips and tried hand to hand combat a few times, then one of them trapped him in some sort of weird beam.
"Oh crap not this again!" He exclaims and you fly over and knock over the guy that had Peter and knocked him out, slamming Peter on the ground. "Ow." He groans into the floor and you pick him up back on his feet before grabbing a guy behind him and with a roar of anger you toss the man back into his friends and take them all down.
"It seems like she's angry that these men hurt you." Karen tells Peter and he just sighs dreamily and watches you fight.
"I know, she's great..." He says then gets slammed into a wall. "Aah! Eyes on the prize Spiderman!" He pep talks himself and fights the guy holding him against the wall.
"More like eyes off the prize." Karen comments to the teen.
You went over to one of the parked cars on the boat and ducked behind it. All of the remaining bad guys gathered around it, preparing to blow it up, but then you roared again and flipped it at them, making their blast bounce back into themselves and blow them off the boat. All the hostages stared at you with their jaws hanging. You turned behind you to look at Spiderman, who had his robotic eyes blown wide open, and then a small web shot on the ground from one of his wrists.
"I expected that." You giggled as he quickly went to cover his wrist in embarrassment. Everyone cheered for the two of you and rescue boats soon came to get everyone off the ship. "Come on Spider-boy our work here is done." You tell him and his breath hitches as you hug him and you blush, hearing it and you take off with him.
You both landed on top of a building somewhere far from the river so that no one could spot you or notice you. As soon as you set Spiderman down he immediately hugged you and spun you around.
"Spidey what are you doing!" You laugh as he spins you around.
"You were incredible! That was amazing! I couldn't have imagined any better way of taking those guys down!" He exclaims and then sets you down.
"Thanks. You weren't so bad yourself." You tell him and blush, gently resting your hand on his bicep. "Those webs are pretty neat."
"Your sword is pretty cool too!" He says. "All of you is honestly." Your breath hitched and you looked away from him. "You're so strong, powerful and...beautiful."
"You haven't even seen my face." You tell him.
"I don't need to see it." He says. "I've seen all I need to see to know your true beauty." There's a pause.
"Peter, now's your chance." Karen tells him. "Take off the mask, show her who you really are." Peter lets go of you and turns his back towards you.
"And I mean that's probably for the best. If one of us ever got captured or something and they tried to read our minds or torture us to figure out who each other is then they wouldn't be able to." Peter says.
"I guess you're right." You say and turn your back to him as well.
There's another uncomfortable silence. You didn't fly away, and Peter didn't swing off. You thought about what to do. And Peter did too. With his heart pounding, he slowly reached his hand up to his neck and started to slip off the mask. You had come to the same conclusion, and lifted your hand up to do the same. Peter peeled the mask off of his face and held it in his hand. You did the same to yours. Both of you stood there, backs facing each other. You heard Spiderman walking away from you. He had turned back to look at you, but only saw the back of your head that he had seen before. He turned away and held out his arm to shoot a web to swing off when suddenly he heard you turning around. His heart was pounding. He started to turn as well and then...
You took a sharp intake of breath and so did he. He couldn't believe it, and neither could you. All this time, the boy you had been falling for had been right in front of you. He smiled, his conflicted heart now resolved and soaring. But despite the smile on your face, you weren't speaking. Perhaps his worst fear had come true and you found him boring. He looked down at the ground, his heart once soaring with happiness now crashing to the ground and ready to break. He heard you running and tears started to fall down his face as you moved away, but then his eyes snapped wide open as you threw your arms around him and held him tight. You pulled back to look at him and had tears streaming down your face. But they were tears of happiness.
"I was hoping it was you." You choked out to him and let out a short laugh.
"I wanted it to be you too." He says and smiles, the tears in his eyes making them sparkle. "I felt so conflicted because I thought I was falling for two different people." You laughed.
"Me too. Isn't it funny?" You ask him. "Even though we didn't know who the other person was, we still ended up falling for each other anyway. That says something doesn't it?"
"I guess it does." Peter says and takes a deep breath, calming down after he's had time to process this.
"The whole time, it's been you. Only you." You say to him and he laughs.
"You sure there's not a third guy I should be worried about?" He asks and you laugh and hug him again, tightly and he hugs you back just as tightly.
"I guess those rumors on the news are true now then." You say and he turns to look at you.
"What rumors?" He asks.
"The ones about me being your girlfriend." You say and the adorable smile on his face is priceless.
"Y-you mean y-you want to... be... my... girlfriend?" He asks, that last word barely a whisper.
"Yeah." You tell him and his face lights up.
"Yay! Wow oh my God this might be the greatest day of my life!" He exclaims and you laugh. "I mean are you sure you want to date me? I'm a huge dork and I might be smart intellectually but I still do really stupid stuff and I've never dated a girl before and-" He rambles until you cut him off.
You grabbed him by his suit collar and crashed his lips against yours. His eyes were wide open and he didn't know what to do. Then his heart rate slowly slowed down, and he closed his eyes and melted into your lips, and started moving them against yours. You were both blushing and you lifted your foot off the ground a bit. When you both pulled apart he was smiling.
"That was my first kiss..." Peter says and you smile.
"Mine too." You say and he smiles at the ground.
"Can I get a second?" He asks shyly and you giggle and peck his lips.
"Of course you adorkable spider!" You tell him and plant one on him again, both of you kissing on that rooftop for God knows how long before the sun sets.
A/N: Whoo hoo! They're finally together! But the story doesn't end there...Stay tuned for more soon!