Silverware clinked against ceramic serving dishes as everyone served themselves from the steaming hot Thanksgiving traditions. Endless chatter and laughter filled the Parker home.
"Everything's really good Aunt May, Mrs. Morales. Thank you!" MJ said.
"Yeah!"
"It's great!"
"I'm glad you all like it. Peter and Ben helped too," she added looking at the afore mentioned boys.
Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound. "What is that?" Mrs. Morale's asked.
"A S.H.I.E.L.D communicator." Danny said.
Everyone looked around to see whose it was.
"It's mine," Amadeus said before clicking it off.
"Are you sure you should do that?" Aunt May asked. "It could be something important."
"It's fine. He probably just forgot we were-" Before Cho could finish, his communicator buzzed again. Cho sighed before looking to his host. Aunt May nodded her permission. Amadeus answered the call. "Hello? Doctor Connors? What's u-… wait, what?" Cho pushed his chair out from the table abruptly. "What!" He cried.
"What happened?" Miles asked.
"When did this happen?…An hour ago!? Was anything stolen?" As Amadeus listened, his face dropped as did he, back down into his chair.
"Uh-hu. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for letting me know. Looks like we're back to square one. Alright. Thanks. Bye." Cho looked completely defeated as he hung up his cellphone.
"That was Doctor Connors,"
"Yeah, we kinda gathered that." Luke said.
"There was a break in at SHIELD about an hour ago. Doctor Connors says that the lab was trashed, and" significant glance at Ben and Peter, "The test results of Ben's DNA were stolen."
"What!?" Everyone chorused.
"And all of the other Spider's DNA."
"WHAT!"
Everyone was very upset at this turn of events, but there was nothing they could do about it now. They decided to enjoy the rest of the holiday, and be thankful that no one was hurt.
It was after midnight now. Everyone except the Morales' had gone back to SHIELD. Aunt May had invited them all to spend the night, but no one wanted to impose on her anymore than they already had. Aunt May understood how they felt and let it be.
Ben sat on the roof of the house watching to stars, his knees pulled to his chest. He looked at the sparkling scene above him. The universe was so big. What was he in all of it? Did his past even matter? Would anything he did matter?
"You sure like it up here, don't you?" Peter said, coming to sit beside him.
Ben smiled to himself. "Maybe I'm part werewolf."
Peter looked into the night's sky. "No moon tonight; sorry, no howling for you!"
Ben chuckled.
"Are you okay?" Peter asked after a long span of silence had fallen between them.
Ben nodded weakly at first; then he said, "I don't really know. I'm not sure I want to know what I am… but I know I don't want anyone else to know that I don't know either!"
"I hear that... I think." Peter placed a hand on Ben's shoulder. "I know one thing for sure, you're a member of this family and a Webbed Warrior. Is that enough for now?"
Ben smiled. He didn't always make sense and he rarely told a funny joke, but when the moment came, when words were all you could put hope in, Peter always said the right thing; whether people listened or not was another thing. Ben was glad he had listened.
"Yeah. Thanks."
With that, a comfortable silence fell between the Spiders. They laid back onto the roof and watched the starlit sky.
A figure lowered binoculars from their face. They reached for their ear piece. "I have my eyes on the specimen right now sir… Yes, sir. He won't escape us this time."
The End?
I'm thinking about doing a Fan/Unofficial fifth season for this series; hence the tease in this chapter, but it would be a summer project.
I also want to start writing a Kuroko no Basuke/Kuroko's Basketball Unofficial Fourth Season, and I have several other stories to finish up before I start either of those.
Well, I guess that's it! Thanks so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed it, and I may see you again this summer :)
~ Q
