The next morning I wake up to Gwen's face hovering over me. 

"Ferfucksake! What the hell are you doing?" I shriek, groaning as I hit my forehead with hers. 

Gwen rubs her forehead and punches my arm,  "You slept through your alarms," she glares. "I was just doing my sisterly duty by waking you up." 

I groan louder and shove my head back into my heaps of pillows. 

"So," Gwen continues. "Peter...." 

"That's why you woke me up at 6am?" I glare at her.

"It's quarter past seven, you drama queen." Gwen rolls her eyes. 

Peter dropped me off at home at 12 last night.  After giving Pete a memorable,  longing kiss as I stumbled into my room in a daze, I was shocked to find my sister sitting up and waiting for me a bowl of popcorn in her lap. 'Took you long enough.' she drawled. After that I sat next to her in her bed and gave her 101 on Spidey. Peter agreed that it would be a lot less complicated if we just told her everything and I was happy to comply, finally being given the chance to gush about it to my first best friend. 

"I promise I told you everything last night," I mumble to her, ignoring the jab about me being a drama queen. If anyone was a drama queen, it would be her. 

"You told me about Spiderman, not about Peter Parker, your boyfriend." He insists, throwing clothes at me, forcing my to get up.

"We haven't determined titles yet."

"Like you need to," she laughs and runs out of the room yelling at me to hurry up. 

I roll my eyes and giggle. I get up with a sigh, and being my morning routine. 

****

The bell rings signalling the end of the day.  I spot Gwen waving ecstatically for me to come over where she was standing by Pete's locker with Flash. Surprisingly Peter and Flash were speaking to one another quite civilly. I give Gwen a surprised look and she winks at me mouthing, 'all because of me.' I roll my eyes at her and shove my way past the slow couple that was walking in front of me. 

Peter spots me as soon as I come close enough and abruptly stops speaking to Flash and puts his arms around my shoulders. My senses are suddenly flooded with the minty musky scent that is Peter. I breath in deeply and melt into him, my arm snaking around his waist where his other that that was dangling intertwines our fingers so that we're mushed together. I look up to him and grin and he grins back. 

"So I-" Gwen says clapping her hands together but is cut off by screaming and the sound of metal bending.  I look at Gwen worriedly as Peter turns around, his arm falling from my shoulders.

 Students start yelling and running in all directions and Peter looks at me anxiously when a giant lizard comes into view. 

Peter glances back at me and yells, "Go." 

Gwen grabs my arm and pulls me towards the direction of the exit but I hesitate. "Someone should help him." I whisper to Gwen amidst the chaos. 

"You can't help him." Gwen says firmly without stopping and pulls me after her while Flash pulls her. 

Once we get outside Flash pulls Gwen in for a quick hug and assess to see if she got hurt anywhere. I pull my hand out of Gwen'a grip, making sure that Flash will keep her safe and dash back into the school. I could not leave Peter alone with that thing. I might not have superpowers but I'm sure I could help him out somehow. 

I dash down the now empty hall way when I come to a stop near the trophy case, no way was I going to help Pete unarmed. I look around and spot the fire extinguisher and jam it into the trophy case and take the largest one. Maybe I could stab the lizard with the tip of it.  I test the weight of the trophy in my hand when I hear a loud bang and I immediately dash towards the sound. 

I stop short when I see lizard man aka Dr Connors holding Peter against the glass. I run and hit him on the head with the trophy, realizing shortly after how much that didn't help. Dr. Connors turns to look at me and starts to make his way towards me when Peter immediately wrapped him in a web trap. Peter then pulls me closer, grabbing the trophy from me and throwing it out the window. 

"I thought I could help." I tell him breathlessly. He pulls me closer and leans his forehead against mine and whispers, "I'm going to throw you out the window now."

"Wait, what?" I ask confusedly, before I'm thrown out the window and the next thing I know I'm swinging a few feet from the ground. "Dammit Peter." I whisper, trying to catch my breath. 

A few minutes later I hear police sirens and I see Gwen and Flash running towards me. "MJ!" Gwen yells and runs towards me, grabbing my legs to stop me from swinging and Flash cuts the web helping me to my feet. "What the hell happened to you? You were right behind us."

"Hey you kids alright?" An officer runs towards us, before I could answer her. 

"Yeah we're okay." Flash answers for us. 

"We still need to do check ups."The officer ushers us towards a group of a few other kids that are waiting for their checkups so they can go home. 

Gwen and Flash cuddle on a bench, leaning into each other trying to calm down and come to terms with what happened. I smile softly looking down, glad that Gwen found someone that cares about her in the way that she deserves. I turned around looking away from them dialing Peters number, I look around for him, hoping he'd suddenly show up with that crooked smile and shrug like he didn't just save a whole lot of kids.

"Hey." He answered, thank goodness. 

I let out a small sigh of relief, "Where are you?"

"I'm fine, I'm okay. I'm in the sewer, tracking him. I got to stop him before anyone gets hurt. But we need an antidote. Do you know how to run a serum?"

"Mhm, Gwen and I do it all the time."

"okay great great great great. Okay I need you to go to Oscorp. I need you to access the cross-species file. It's a blue serum. File 12389."

"Yeah okay, on it." I walk towards Gwen and Flash. "Be careful Peter." I whisper and hang up before he could say anything back. 

"Hey Flash, I need a favor." I give him a sheepish smile.