chapter four
a fractured wrist

peter carried the lucky list around with him everywhere now, the only time he didn't was when he was in his new, homemade spider-man suit. it was folded up neatly in his purple wallet, one he had found and boughten — it reminded him of nova.

peter wasn't sure why he carried it around with him. it didn't make him feel closer to may than the funky ring he wore. in all honesty the ring he wore made him feel just a bit more like his aunt.

maybe he carried it around with some hope he would do it. peter had been contemplating starting it days ago. but the brunette boy always ended up chickening out at the last minute. even though he had the list right in his hand, he still felt as if something was missing. something that was stopping him from continuing.

maybe it was because it was his aunt mays and not his. it didn't have his own drawings on it, or stick figure cartoons to show what some of the things listed meant. it weren't things he had come up, but things his aunt and possibly others came up with.

maybe it didn't feel right because he still needed someone else to do it with. he could do it with someone else, share his aunts list with someone else and have them do it too. possibly there was some hidden meaning? peter wasn't ready to do it alone though ( he had done so much lately with his friends and others, it was weird doing things like this without anyone ) and not when he had nova.

peter wondered if his aunt completed the list too. there was so much peter still wanted to know. the letter he had read and cried too just wants enough. he wanted more, to know anything else that he didn't.

peter wasn't watching where he was going. he was too focused on the list that weighed too much in his wallet. he should have been watching where he was going.

nova went tumbling to the ground, her hand reaching out behind her and skidding agains the pavement outside her work. the girl looked up at peter with doe and tearful eyes. she should have been paying better attention too, but to her dismay, she had just stepped out of the book store.

peter looked right ahead of him when he heard a small gasp that was then followed with a string of curse words. his brown eyes caught ahold of the girl he had been spending time with here and there, and oddly, the girl who had been in his mind even since the other day when they had sandwiches at delmars.

"nova?" peter got to his knees and moved closer to the girl. his hands helping her into a seating position. he should have known, he walked this street almost every day so he could go to the bookshop after work.

"nova?" he called out once more. the girl looked like she was desperately trying to hold her tears in. her wrist was cradled to her chest. he could see the blood dripping from her palm — it didn't look to be terribly bad but it was bad enough that it made peter wince in sympathy.

"huh?" novas small voice rang in peters ears and peter let out a sigh of relief. "are you okay?" nova then proceeded to asked, not even worrying about her own problems but someone else's. she was worried about peter.

"im fine. oh gosh, are you? your bleeding! and that looks swollen, does it feel swollen?" peter stood up in a panic. everything was hitting him now. he had knocked over the one person who remembered him. he was extremely strong now and his body when one might run into it could say was like running into a wall. he felt like he caused this and that caused him to panic even more.

"oh." nova winced as she moved her hand away from her chest, only to see blood in her palm. "i guess i am."

peter shook his head with a sigh and crouched down to gently help nova up. once she was standing on her one two feet and peter made sure she wouldn't fall over if she took a step, he wrapped her arm around his shoulder and started to walk with her. he would have driven or even swung, but he didn't have a car and didn't want to risk his identity.

"where are we going?" nova asked as she took a synced step forward with peter.

peter glanced towards her, "the hospital. where else?"

"i was thinking maybe delmars?" nova chuckled at her own answer.

the two friends walked up to the er receptionist. "hi." the woman didn't even look up from her computer.

"h-hi. my friend here." peter pointed to nova. "she fell — well after i crashed into her — and she's bleeding and i think she's broken. her wrist! not her!" poor little spider.

the receptionist looked up and her eyes glanced at nova and the hand she held to her chest. the woman nodded and seemed to do something neither peter of nova could catch.

"hi, im doctor mint. how can i help you?" a doctor who didn't look a day over thirty walked up to them.

"hi." peter stuck his hand out for the man to shake. just like his aunt and uncle had taught him. once the handshake was done peter motioned to nova. "we crashed into each other and i think she's hurt." the boy muttered sadly. he felt bad that he might had hurt nova.

"well. hi nova." the doctor waved.

"hey, doctor mint." nova smiled.

"how about we fix this up huh?" the doctor started to move away, motioning with his hand for the two to follow.

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bucky barnes wasted no time after he had received a phone call from nova, in rushing to the hospital. "hi. my daughters here. she said she hurt her wrist?"

"okay, just take a seat." the receptionist bucky had walked up to told him.

the barnes man only shook his head. he wasn't going to do that. "yknow. you tell me where she is, or ill get over this counter and find out myself. how's that sound?" he asked in an intimidating voice.

"first door on your left."

bucky moved fast and swung the door open to novas er room. "nova." he sighed.

peter was sitting on a chair, his head resting against his hand.

"bucky." nova wrapped her non injured hand around her adoptive fathers neck.

"you okay?" bucky checked nova over for scratches, the only damage he could see was her wrist that was now being bandaged. "what's that?" he pointed to her purple cast.

"oh." nova looked to the doctor for an explanation.

doctor mint looked up from wrapping novas wrist. "your daughter has a fractured wrist. it's not to severe but she will need the cast for a few weeks."

"oh nov. what happened?" nova sent peter a look.

"that's peter, okay." nova pointed to peter. "he's my friend and i ran into him and used my hand to stop my fall. it wasn't his fault."

bucky sighed. he was not going to over react. he looked between both peter and nova. "your both okay now?"

they both nodded.

"and it was an accident?"

they nodded once more.

"okay.. it's, uh, nice to meet you peter." bucky stuck his non metal hand out for the bug-boy to shake.

nova watched the two interact and watched as peter apologized to bucky for crashing into her.

"will you two sigh my cast?" nova smiled brightly and held up her bright purple cast.

"yes!" peter rushed forward and took sharpie from beside nova and wrote on her cast.

petey! ps. i like the purple. pss. im sorry.