"He says he's so in love, He's finally got it right,
I wonder if he knows he's all I think about at night."
~ Taylor Swift

3rd Person's POV

Mila climbs up the fire escape and stops at a window, then knocks lightly waiting for an answer. Peter frowns in confusion as he hears a knock on his window. He glances over and sees Mila waving on the other side of the glass.

Chuckling he gets up from his desk and walks over to the window. He opens it and helps Mila in the room.

"Thank you."

"Sure. What's up?"

"Nothing really. I can't come see my best friend?"

Peter smiles as Mila pushes him lightly, "You can. I just didn't- I just... I thought you'd rather hang out with uh Flash over me."

Mila rolls her eyes and ruffles Peter's hair, "Never Peter Parker. You're not getting rid of me easily."

Peter nods, "Good."

Mila smiles and lifts up on her tip toes, "Good."

Peter shakes his head, "You're something else Ror."

Mila shrugs and moves around Peter. She looks at all the papers on Peter's desk and frowns. She recognized the logo immediately.

"Pete you wouldn't happen to be going to Oscorp would you?"

Peter laughs nervously as he sees Mila looking at his desk, "No, why would you say that?"

Mila shrugs and slowly spins around, "Oh I don't know. Maybe it has to do with the fact that you ditched an entire day of school. And on your desk lays all the information about that company and a certain Doctor that we saw on the papers in your dad's briefcase."

Peter sighs, "Would you believe me if I said it was a coincidence that those happened to be there and I happened to not feel good today, which why I missed school?"

"Not a chance Peter. You do realize that place is heavily secured. Like you need ids and stuff to even get inside."

"I'll find a way in Ror."

"Yeah and if you get yourself arrested, I'm not helping you."

Mila pouts and sits on the edge of Peter's bed. Peter chuckles and sits beside her.

"I'm gonna be fine Mila. I won't get arrested. I promise. Look I know this is insane but this is just something that I need to do."

Mila sighs as she hears the desperation in his voice. She knew how important it was for him to find something, anything that could help him figure out what happened to his dad. To figure out why he left and what he was doing.

"I know... There's no stopping you, is there?"

"Not a chance Ror." Peter replies with a wide grin.

"Ugh fine. But I'm going with you. At least I know Gwen will be there, she can be our alibi."

Peter nods then freezes, "Wait you know Gwen"

Mila's eyes widen as she laughs nervously, "Oh yeah we go way back. We're real close. It doesn't seem like it at school but yeah we're like this."

Peter's eyebrows furrow as he watches Mila cross her fingers.

"Alright..."

...

After another hour, Mila and Peter make their way to OsCorp Tower. Peter holds Mila's hands as she rides on his skateboard. He walks beside the board making sure she doesn't fall.

"So what's the plan Casanova?"

"Um I haven't thought that far..."

Mila's head snaps up, "That far? You haven't even thought of step one?"

Peter smiles sheepishly, "You're the actresses. I figured since you were coming that improvisation would be your thing."

Mila groans rolling her eyes, "You are so lucky you're adorable."

It's now Peter's turn to groan in annoyance as Mila pinches his cheeks.

"Especially in those glasses. Real cute Parker."

Peter's cheeks redden as he playfully shoves her forgetting she was on the skateboard. She lets out a yelp as the board slips from underneath her. Peter quickly reaches out and catches her before she falls. Mila sighs as she feels Peter's arms around her waist. She looks up into his big brown eyes and feels her face heat up.

"Thanks Pete."

"Anytime Mila."

Finally the two make it to Oscorp Tower. They walk inside the main lobby and both gasp looking around at the incredible building.

"Excuse me?"

"What?" Peter turns to the receptionist at the front desk.

The receptionist smiles lightly, "Can I help you?"

Peter fixes his jacket, "Oh, uh...I don't know. I'm here... I'm here to see Dr. Connors-"

"For the internship!" Mila finishes as she gives an award winning smile.

"Right. You'll find yourself to the left. Don't forget to pick up your badge on the way as well."

Peter looks to the left and sees the name badges. The two walk over to the table and see two name tags. Mila quickly picks one up before Peter can see and puts the lanyard over her head.

Peter looks down at the name of the tag and frowns, "Oh!"

The receptionist looks over, "Are you having trouble finding yourself?"

Mila turns around, "Oh no thank you! We got it."

Mila quickly picks up a badge for Rodrigo Guevara and places it over Peter's head.

"Okay, Mr. Guevara?"

Peter smiles at Mila and grabs her hand, "Gracias."

He pulls her along leading her upstairs. Soon they find the group of interns gathered around Gwen introducing herself to them.

"Welcome to OsCorp. My name is Gwen Stacy, I'm a senior at Midtown Science and I'm also head intern to Dr. Connors, so I'll be with you for the duration of your visit. Where I go, you go. That's the basic rule. If you remember that, all will be fine. If you forget that, then..."

Just at that moment, the real Rodrigo Guevara shouts his name as he's being dragged away by security. Mila glances over at Peter and makes a face as he smiles nervously.

"Well, I guess I don't need to tell you what happens if you forget that. Shall we."

Mila quickly looks away seeing Gwen glances to the back of the group. Peter tries to hide his face and stay in the back as Gwen scans the interns. As Gwen takes the interns to a lab in OsCorp, Dr Curt Connors appears and addresses them.

"Welcome, my name is Dr. Curtis Connors. And yes, in case you're wondering, I'm a southpaw."

Mila frowns confused as the interns laugh. She glances at Peter in question but he just shrugs.

"I'm not a cripple, I'm a former scientist and I'm the world's foremost authority on herpetology. That's reptiles, for those of you who don't know. But like the Parkinson's patient who watches on in horror as her body slowly betrays her, or the man with macular degeneration who's eyes grow dimer each day, I long to fix myself. I want to create a world without weakness. Anyone care to venture a guess just how?"

One of the interns puts up their hand, "Yes?"

"Stem cells?"

"Promising, but the solution I'm thinking of is more radical."

All the interns all look at each other.

"No one?"

Mila grips onto Peter's arm and gives him a look as if saying don't you dare but it's too late.

"Cross-species genetics."

Everyone turns and looks at Peter at the back of the group, Gwen looks at her list of intern names then looks at Peter and Mila in disbelief.

"A person gets Parkinson's when the brain cells that produce dopamine start to disappear. But the zebrafish has the ability to regenerate cells on command. If you can somehow give this ability to the woman you're talking about, that's that. She's... she's curing herself."

OsCorp Intern chuckles, "Yeah, you just have to look past the gills on her neck."

Mila frowns as the other interns laugh.

"Oh shut your traps. You couldn't even answer the question."

With that all the interns are quiet. Dr Conners chuckles to himself and looks at the Mila and Peter.

"And you are?"

Gwen butts in quickly, "They're Midtown Science's best and brightest."

"Really?"

Gwen nods, "Hmm. He's second in his class and she's third."

Peter glances at Mila for a second. If she was third best in class then why did she always need help with her homework.

Dr Connors holds his chin looking at the two, "Oh."

Peter frowns, "Wait... second?"

"Yeah."

"You sure about that?" Peter questions with a smile.

"I'm pretty sure."

Mila gags, "Oh get a room."

Peter pinches Mila making her squeal, "Ow P-"

Peter quickly covers her mouth with his hand. At that moment Connors phone rings and he excuses himself and leaves the interns with Gwen. After Connors leaves, Peter tries to sneak away pulling Mila with him but Gwen stops him.

"Hi. How you doin', Rodrigo?"

Peter looks at his badge and realizes that she's referring to the name on his badge.

"Oh, yeah."

"What are you doing here?"

Peter shrugs while smiling sheepishly, "I work here."

Mila slaps his shoulder.

"I don't work here. I was gonna say... I was gonna say I work here, but I seems like in fact you work here. So you know that I don't in fact work here."

"Are you following me?"

Mila frowns looking between the two. Internally she wants to vomit and cry at the same time.

"No, I'm not following... I'm not following you. No, I'm not. I had no idea you worked here."

"Then why would you be here?"

"I just snuck in because, I love science."

Gwen glances at Mila who shrugs, "You love science?"

"I am passionate about it." Peter replies with a nod.

"So you snuck in... I have to lead this tour group."

"I know."

"So I'm gonna ask you more about this later. Do not get me in trouble."

"I promise you, I won't. Plus that's why I brought Mila!"

Gwen looks over at Mila as she smiles nervously, "Yes I'm here to keep Petey boy out of trouble. I mean Rodrigo."

Gwen groans and slaps her forehead, "Just stay with the group please."

As Gwen heads back to take the interns round the building, Peter tries to sneak off but bumps into Rajit Ratha, who drops a file that has the same double zero symbol that Peter saw in his father's file. Peter goes to pick up the file and sees the symbols then freezes.

Rajit quickly yanks the file out of Peter's hands and gives him a weird stare before hurrying out the room. Peter glances at Mila.

"No Peter."

Peter grabs Mila's hand pulling her as he follows behind Rajit.

"Peter no... we're gonna be in so much trouble." Mila whispers.

"We'll be find just hold on."

The two come up to a door with a high tech lock on the wall. Peter glances at it then takes his finger and messes with a few buttons. It gleams green making him open the door and turn back to see Mila shaking her head.

"No! I refuse." She whisper yells.

Peter sighs, "Ror please... for me."

Mila pouts and stomps her foot making Peter grin. He holds out his hand and she quickly grabs it, then the two make their way inside.

The two look around in awe at the machines. Peter looks inside a blue room and slowly opens the door. Mila groans and follows him. Holding onto the back of Peter's jacket, Mila hides behind him.

"We're in a freaking room of spiders right now."

"Calm down Mila. It's okay."

"Tell me to calm down one more time Peter. I swear I'm gonna flip."

As Peter leans closer to one of the machines, it stops spinning. Peter gasps and frowns slightly. The machine lets go of the nest of spiders making them fall onto Peter and Mila.

Mila's eyes widen. Just as she's about to scream, Peter quickly pulls her into his chest and holds his hand over her mouth.

"Get them off! Get them off!"

Peter hurries and wipes all the spiders off Mila and himself.

Mila runs out the room shivering. Peter catches up with her and pulls her making her halt.

"Hey you okay?"

"No I'm not okay Peter! I was just covered in spiders! I need therapy now."

Peter chuckles watching her stomp away. His eyes slowly draw down to her butt until he shakes his head, clearing his throat.

She's your best friend, not a piece of meat.

Mila and Peter walk through the hall trying to hurry and rejoin the intern group, Gwen notices that they'd snuck off again. She quickly speed walks over to them and frowns.

Peter smiles, "I... We..."

"Give me the badge. Give it to me."

Peter reluctantly takes the badge off, as he does this we one of the spider from the lab crawling on the back of Peter's coat collar, Peter gives the badge back to Gwen.

"Sorry."

Gwen nods and turns to leave. Peter frowns glancing at Mila and her name tag which he couldn't see the name on.

"Wait why didn't she take yours?"

Mila shrugs, "I don't know. You're the genius."

Mila quickly spins around and makes her way to the elevator. Suddenly, Peter is bit on the back of his neck by a spider.

"Ow!"

Mila freezes, "You okay Pete?"

Peter holds the back of his neck, "Um yeah I'm fine."

"Okay. Well can you hurry so we can go. I need to take like five showers."

"Is that an invita-"

Mila spins on her toes and holds a finger to Peter's lips, "Don't finish that sentence if you want to live."

Peter smiles and follows her.

𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑂𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝?

𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑤𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟?

𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑚𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠? 𝐼𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔?