"How are you feeling now?" Peter asked as Jess came down the stairs after half an hour.

He had prepared a short breakfast for her as May and Ben woke up later and this was too early for them.

"I feel great after that hot bath." Jess smiled as she looked at him, her body was feeling so comfortable after a hot bath that she just felt like relaxing.

It had been a long time since she had been with Peter this close or even with a male friend. She was busy with her studies, girlfriends and hero business that she never got into boys.

"That's good, here eat. It's not much but it will get you through the morning." Peter nodded as he passed her two sandwiches and some coffee.

"Don't mind if I do." Jess sat down without hesitation and looked at him.

"You know you are so different than what I imagined, like you are kinder and approachable."

"I just went through a life changing event so I learnt some new things. What about you? What happened?" Peter replied as he sat down and took a sip from his coffee as he had already finished eating.

"Why do you want to know? And you are not exactly sharing your experience either."

"We are friends so I thought we can work together from now on. I looked into your hero persona while you were out and didn't mind much so I can tell that you are still a normal girl."

"Hey, what's the supposed to mean?" Jess took offence to those words as he brought up a painful part of her life.

"You are afraid of taking risks. Everything you do is too small and safe. You don't even try to interact with the people so barely anyone knows you. Even heroes without powers are more known, Like Daredevil."

"And you can do better. I don't see your face on the news."

"I will never let people see my face as it will cause problems for my people so I am wearing a full suit and you should as well. I am Spiderman, Jess. I got my powers because an alien spider chose me." Peter said honestly as he was interested in recruiting Jess in his team, she had the powers and she was also not well known.

Heroes with a lot of experience will not follow him but make him follow them.

She was also an old friend and it was a chance to fix that mistake.

"Aren't you already better than me, why tell me about all this? I am useless and seriously I haven't really accomplished anything till now."

"It's not a problem. You are not useless. You were just taking it slowly like most good people would without any advice. Jumping directly is very risky since you never know when a super villain pops up so don't blame yourself. But all that can be fixed now, I can help you learn how to fight and use your powers.

We can fight together against big threats and build our reputation together." Peter stood up and walked to Jess, placing his hands on her shoulder he tried to encourage his old pal.

"Didn't you start yesterday? How would you know anything about these things?"

"Jess, I was trained for a month by a Universal entity beyond our comprehension. Do you think that's enough?"

"That's so unfair. Why do you always get the good things?" Jess whined as she had suffered with her powers for 4 years while Peter was just like that, boom superhero.

"Well I can't say anything about that but we can definitely make our lives better from now on. I can help you make better suit and even provide you with equipment. Think about it Jess, we can be great together. Fight alone when we need to and fight together when we need to."

"Man, you are really selling it. You must have really thought about making this team a lot, like the XMen or Fantastic Four or Avengers." Jess said with a happy tone, even she was starting to feel excited. This was her first time with another hero and it was her hero, and friend.

She had been enchanted by that hero who saved her in the time of darkness and it turned out to be her old crush.

'Man, I might have developed a crush on him again.' Jess thought with a huge grin as she brushed her hair.

"Okay, I am in. So, what's the plan?" Jess raised her hand and answered with a smile as she showed a curious expression.

She knew Peter was super smart so expected more from him.

"I am also new to the business but we won't hide from any threat and attack anyone that we come across. I am making my gadgets so you can also share what you would like and I would make those as well.

I have plans for the web shooter, tracers, visual aids, powerful suit for defence purposes, smoke bombs, web bombs, drones and some more for later.

From looking at you, you will need fighting training and learn how to use your flight effectively. I could design non-lethal guns for you or you could shoot the energy inside your body."

"Wait what energy?"

"I can see some purple energy inside your body. I think you can shoot it, like this." Peter held her hand and using his chakra he connected to the purple energy inside and caused it to shoot outside of her finger tip towards his other hand.

"That stung, stronger than a sniper shot."

"How do you that?"

"I got shot many times during training so I know how powerful a weapon is. Now you can use this energy to shoot from the air using the visual aids but you will still need some guns if you don't want to be out of gas." Peter said as he let go of her hand and took out his notebook where he started writing.

"Wow just wows you still working miracles Peter. You are making me looking like a snail in comparison. I got nothing to add, your plans great and covers it all up. I am terrible at close combat and I don't if I might end up hurting someone too bad by mistake. Just one thing, make my new costume black and white so we match also give me a utility belt with the bombs and such. Don't forget to make it look sexy."

"What?"

"Sexy, you know to attract the masses and distract the goons. Just look at Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Ms. Marvel and other girls for reference." Jess said with a large grin, she really enjoyed doing this and seeing that expression on his face.

'Damn, I can be so childish sometimes.'

"Okay is that all."

"Yes, I am looking forward to what you consider sexy." Jess said with a wink and turned to her food leaving a flustered Peter. He had never seen a female on the attack.

'Is she coming on to me? I remember that she had a crush on me when we were young but can it really be?'

Peter looked at the girl completely from head to toe while moving around the table. She was truly beautiful in a different manner to Gwen.

"I will make you look really sexy Jess and it won't be difficult, you got real good looks." Peter said as he finished up taking notes.

Just because he wasn't used to talking to girls like this didn't mean he couldn't share his honest opinions with them.

His confidence was completely up there now and he had gone through a lot.

Jess was definitely given a surprise but it was one she liked a lot, "Oh, really now."

"Yeah, you have always been cute but now you are beautiful."

"Are you coming on to me?"

"You started it."

"I fell for you again Peter. What are you going to do about it?" Jess placed her meal back down and stood up

Really going through such a shitty situation made her appreciate the small things and made her realize she was missing a lot in life.

She didn't want to hesitate anymore and enjoy what she wanted.

This was out of expectations for sure but he was really happy at hearing such a thing from a beautiful girl.

But at the same time Gwen's face also appeared.

He really wasn't in love with either of them but was interested in them.

"I don't really have any experience you know and we haven't seen each other for a long time. What I mean is, I like you but this will be just a casual relationship since my interest isn't that deep."

"Peter, mine is just a crush as well. I have no experience and I am just winging it so I won't mind if I can experience my first relationship with you."

"Okay but we are not going too far until we are clear about our relationship." Peter said as he held her shoulders

"No problem"

With that Peter got his first kiss that tasted like coffee.

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