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PETERย looked nervously at Lillian who was glaring at him.
"Can you stop glaring at the poor kid?" Tony asked.
"And why should I? He sold me to you" Lillian answered.
"I-I didn't mean too. It was an order" Peter tried to explain it to her but Lillian only rolled her eyes.
As the time passed, Lillian was still tied up from a chair, Tony was looking at some files, Peter was trying to think of many ways how to say sorry to a stubborn vigilante and Pepper, well, Pepper was staring at Lillian. Then suddenly Ned dashed to the room, making everyone looked at him with shock.
Peter walked in front of his best friend.
"Young uh... man, what are yo doing here? We're doing something important" Peter said to his panting friend.
"Actually, we're not doing something important. It's just them keeping me here" Lillian stated, but Peter ignored her.
"Why is he here?" Tony asked.
"S-Someone.." Ned said while panting.
"Someone what?" Peter asked and Ned looked at him with fright.
"Someone is in this building! I-I saw him!" Ned said.
"Maybe you just saw a janitor" Tony said and Ned shook his head.
"No, he wasn't. He was murmuring something, like finding someone" Ned said and this caught Lillian's attention.
"Tony, why don't you check all the security camera? Just to make sure" Pepper suggested.
"Not going to work. I shut off all your cameras" Lillian said and Tony raised one of his eyebrow.
"Are you sure about that? FRIDAY, show me all the secret cameras" Tony said.
"Right away, sir" FRIDAY said.
'Secret cameras? He didn't have that back home..' Lillian thought.
Then some holograms appeared right in front of them. But all of them were all empty halls and rooms.
"Maybe you were just imagining things, kid. I see no one roaming in the tower" Tony said.
"Can someone un-tie me now?" Lillian asked.
"We're busy here" Tony said to her.
"Listen, I'm not going to disappear or whatever, just let me go and let me see those holograms closer" Lillian said and Tony looked at her with a doubtful look.
"Why should I? And how can I be sure that you're not lying?" Tony asked.
"Do I look like I'm lying" Lillian said with a serious tone and looked Tony in the eyes. He stared at for seconds to see if she was lying, but he could sense that she wasn't. Tony sighed.
"Fine. Kid, let the other kid go" Tony ordered Peter who nodded and quickly untied Lillian.
"Thanks.." She muttered. She was still mad at him for fooling her.
"Look!" Ned semi-shouted and pointed at something.
"What in the world is that" Pepper said and they all looked at the one hologram that was in a room. Something was written on the wall.
YOU CAN'T ALWAYS RUN AWAY FROM ME.
Lillian gulped and looked at it with fear.
'He's been following me. He's getting closer and closer' She thought.
"Is this some kind of sick joke? Who in their right minds decided to vandalized my Tower!" Tony said.
"Tony, I don't think that, that is important right now." Pepper said.
"Is someome looking for you, Mr. Stark?" Peter asked and Tony shook his head.
"No. I've been busy with my company that I don't have time to beat some bad guys butt, so I don't really have any new enemies now" Tony answered.
"Maybe an old enemy?" Ned suggested.
"No. It's either I defeated them or sent them back where planet they came from" Tony said.
"Can you zoom it for a second?" Lillian asked.
"Well-"
"Zooming.." FRIDAYS answered and zoomed the "threat". Tony looked at her in shock. He thought she was talking to him. But what shocked him the most is that FRIDAY answered her. FRIDAY never answered anyone other than Tony or Pepper.
'Something is not really right with her...' Tony thought.
"Look at those.."
"Are those...?" Ned asked. The threat was written with spiderwebs.
"Did you do that, Kid?" Tony asked Peter who shook his head.
"N-No, mr. Stark! I would never do such thing! I-I didn't do it. I swear!" Peter said.
"He's right, Tony. Peter was here with us since before." Pepper defended Peter.
"Maybe he did it before going here" Tony insisted.
"Do you really think that someone like him, who admires you, basically treat and looks at you as if you're a God, would do this to your Tower?" Lillian questioned Tony.
"You've got a point there.." He muttered and Peter sighed in relief.
"I should check that room" Tony said and was about to leave, but Lillian stopped him.
"Wait!" She said and Tony looked at her.
"What?" He asked.
"Let me go with you" Lillian said.
"And why should I do that?" Tony asked.
"Look, you don't need to trust me, but that man out there, I think I know who he is.." She answered.
"Who is it then?"
"Someone that you should not mess with. Look, I need to go with you" Lillian said and stared at Tony who stared back at her.
"If I see you pulling any tricks on me, you'll be lock here in this Tower" Tony said.
"I'll go with you" Peter said.
"No. You stay here, Spidey" Lillian said to Peter.
"Why? I could always help if there's danger" Peter said.
"There will be if you leave her and him all alone. What if we go there and that person goes to them? Who will protect them?" Lillian questioned.
"I hate to say this, but that kid has a point. You stay here with them and watch the cameras. If we seriously need help -which I highly doubt it- we will call you" Tony stated to Peter who only nodded.
"Great, then let's go. Hold my hand" Lillian said and held her hand out so Tony could take it, but Tony only stared at her hand.
"Why?" He asked and Lillian rolled her eyes.
"So we can teleport there, it'll be easier if we do that. If we walk he could be doing something else" Lillian responded and Tony sighed.
"Fine" He said and took her hand.
Then seconds later, they were at the room. The place was a mess. Papers were all around the room, tables turned upside down, chairs broken and some other things but the words were still there.
"All I know that only Spider-Man can create spiderwebs like this..." Tony said as he examined the webs. Lillian went beside him.
"This man is different...he's more advance than us, than you." Lillian said as she looked at the words.
"Who is this guy?" Tony asked.
"Someone who doesn't leave me alone" She said.
"So he's after you?" Tony asked.
"In a way" Lillian simply said.
"Did you do something bad?" He asked and Lillian shook her head.
"I didn't. But I also didn't anything to stop him from.." Lillian said and stopped, she didn't want to remember what happened. It was a nightmare for her. A nightmare that she can never escape.
Thud!
They heard something fell.
"He's here..." Lillian whispered and looked everywhere with caution.
"I found you"
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