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(𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊)
CHAPTER FOUR-----▹

Tess stayed pretty close to Peter's side as they watched the deal play out between the criminals, "Woah, this must be where the ATM robbers got their stuff," Tess rolled her eyes, "Wow. You think?" 

"Don't be mean," he frowned

Of course, not helping Peter's case at all, his phone starts yodeling, Tess gasped, "idiota, perché non hai spento il Telefono?" (You idiot, why didn't you turn your phone off?)

"Turn it off!" she whacked him in the shoulder, "I'm trying!" The men selling the weapons pulled guns on their buyer, "Did you set us up?" Tess noticed Peter starting to move into action, "What are you doing?"

Peter landed on the ground, with what Tess would consider fairly good form, she had taught him everything that she had learned by studying videos of people (mostly Natasha Romanoff) fighting over the years.

"If you're gonna shoot at something, shoot at me!" Peter exclaimed, and Tess looked down at her cousin wondering what the hell he was thinking, "Fine." the guy stated turning his gun to face Peter, who immediately webbed it, snatching it out of the man's grip. 

And just as Peter sprinted forward, Tess used this time to also reveal herself, jumping down from the concrete bridge, she twisted the second man's arm backward, but he still managed to punch Peter with the electric weapon. Sending him directly into one of the bridge's support beams, and before she could move out of the way the same weapon hit her directly in the ribs, knocking the wind right out of her.

"What was that?" Peter asked, still slightly dazed, he shot a web onto the back of the truck which made him get pulled forward through the dirt. "Aspettare! Wait...for me." (wait) Tess called out, pushing herself off the dirt, but still bending forward at her hips trying to catch her breath. 

The Parkers were quite literally being dragged through the streets connecting different neighborhoods, "Door!" Tess called out, just as the door was blasted off the truck in an attempt of hitting them. 

"This guy has really bad aim," Tess noted, "Not really the time." Peter quipped, just before they got flung off to the side, "Great." the brunette girl sighed, "Guess we have to take a shortcut," Peter added.

They jumped over the gate, jogging by two guys playing ping pong, "Good game guys." Peter said, "Hey Buddy!" he greeted the dog, "I know you love animals, but we don't really have time for this," Tess noted. Peter webbed the ball tossing it away, "Go fetch!"  

"Did you just knock a tree house out of the tree?" Tess exclaimed dodging the fallen boards, "What? No."

"Oh yeah, go ahead and just break through everything in the way," Tess noted, "Didn't Mama teach you any manners?" Peter sighed, "Tess, we don't have time!" he exclaimed, "I know, I know."

After several more encounters with civilians, Peter and Tess caught up with the truck, "There it is!" Tess breathed, and Just as they were about to get back to the truck Peter was swooped away, "Pe- Spiderman!" she yelled out, "Oh, hi." she stated, seemingly just remembering where she was, of course before she could do anything a blast sent her spiraling away.

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"There you are!" Tess exclaimed, she did in fact have to hack the suit to locate Peter, "You're ok, good." he stated, "Ready to go home?" she asked, "We should..." Peter started, "Look," he stepped forward picking up a piece of one of the weapons, "You want to bring that thing home?" She asked staring at the glowing object, "Yup."

Tess wasn't surprised by the answer but still sighed, "Whatever let's go." 

Teresa Parker was an overthinker. That was a well-known fact about the teenager, and she couldn't quite get over her feelings toward MJ. So here she was staring up at her ceiling, spiraling in her own thoughts, everything escalates. 

And when the girl got like this the only thing she could do to calm her mind was talk to Peter, but it was hard to talk to Peter about something he didn't know. 

She had barely accepted the fact that she liked girls, in that way herself, and although deep down she knew neither Peter nor May would ever judge her, she was still petrified. 

She quietly walked the few steps between her bedroom door, and Peter's before gently knocking on the door, "Tess? It's 3 am, what's wrong?" she stared at him for a minute trying to find the best wording, "Nothing," she shook her head already turning on her heel, "Teresa." 

"Fine." she whispered walking past him into the room, "My brain won't shut up." Tess stated, "What are you thinking about?" he asked flopping back down on his bead, "I...I have to tell you something, but you have to promise not to tell Mama." 

"Ok, I promise." he stated, worrying about his cousin, "I think...no, I know, I like...girls," she breathed, but Peter barely heard her voice, "Oh Tess, you know I'd love you no matter what," He stated, with a frown, "I know, I know, but after everything I've been feeling around MJ...and, yeah...I was spiraling."

"I know," he stated, gently squeezing her shoulder, "I know," he repeated, "So you really don't care?" Tess whispered, "Of course, not Tess. And when you do decide to tell Aunt May, she's not going to care either. We'll always both love you no matter what.

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The next day, Tess found herself hovering over Peter's shoulder, as he tried to pick apart the weapon...or what was left of it anyway. "Hey thanks for bailing on me." Ned greeted Peter sarcastically, "Yeah, Well something came up," 

Ned's eyes flickered down to the pinkish-purple glowing weapon, "Woah, what is that?"

"I know, some guy tried to vaporize me with it," Peter stated, "Seriously?" Ned asked eyes wide, "Yep,"

"Awesome," Ned said, and Tess looked at him slightly taken back, Peter's expression matching her own, Ned quickly took back his remark shaking his head, "I mean...not awesome, not awesome. Totally uncool that guy. Scary."   Tess rolled her eyes.

"I think it's uh..power source," Peter stated still messing with the object. "Yeah, but it's connected to all of these microprocessors. That's an inductive charging  plate, that's what I use to charge my toothbrush." Ned stated, "Interesting, so whoever is making these weapons," Tess started, "Is combining Ailen technology and ours." Peter finished.

"That is literally the coolest sentence anyone has ever said. I just wanna thank you  for letting me be a part of your journey into this amazing-" Ned was cut off when Peter slammed a hammer into the object, sending fragments flying, "Did you not see that coming?" Tess whisper yelled since the room had spiraled into silence. 

"Keep your fingers clear of the blades," the supervisor stated, not even looking up from his magazine. "We have to figure out what this thing is and how it works." Peter stated, "We'll go to the lab after class." Ned stated, "I shall leave the two of you to it." Tess stated, as without even looking at each other they started doing their long handshake, "Dorks." Tess muttered. 

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

WELL, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! A WTNY UPDATE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE LAST MONTH! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT!

-VIA❤️