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*Hope POV*

After the conversation that was spread across the room between Peter and I became sudden silence. Tiredness filled both of our eyes and sooner than later we fell into the darkness. If I had an option, I would stay in Peters warm arms all night as we lay there together, cuddling. I felt protected as we lay there together underneath his bed sheets as well as in his arms.

His heated breath hits my neck therefore sending tingles to spread across my whole body. My body was pressed against his during the whole nigh although because of the heavy load of clothing that I was wearing. The heat filled my body like a rocket fire therefore causing sweat to pour from my face. If anyone saw me now, they would of thought that I was in a middle of a nightmare, but it was the total opposite to that.

When I woke up Peter was laying there still against his soft pillows dreaming of some that made him warm inside. In the beginning I didn't want to leave his side but I needed to found out more about the guy that is willing to kill anything that ever steps in his way. I needed to get back to that tower and found out how that project relates to him.

Soft breaths whispered out as he sleeps quietly, I knew that I never felt anything like this before. Maybe I was developing a little crush on Peter Parker, but I mean who wouldn't. Have you seen the boy topless? And not just that his personality this most caring and loving boy I have ever met in mm my lifetime of being on earth.

Anyway, I was currently walking down the streets of New York in order to find Oscorp. Peter told me the directions of the building from his house therefore making it easier to find the tall building. He also told me about the time he gains a tour around Oscorp with his school, it was the same place he got bitten by a radioactive spider.

The air of city began to become thicker as the sun was starting to rise to its highest peak. It's currently eight in the morning therefore only a few people were out on the streets. Peter had message me earlier asking if I was okay and where I went since I disappeared from his arms around half seven. Because I messaged him back because I didn't want him to worry about me especially since I recently discovered that I had a crush on him.

My skin would tingle where he touches me and my heart beat erratically in my chest so hard that I thought it might fly out. There were butterflies - no, lions - in my chest, but it felt good.

I finally admitted to myself what I knew all along but was too afraid to admit it: I liked him. A lot. And I wanted to be with him.

After a long while of walking and trying to figure my way through the cite I final reach the destination that I wanted to be at; Oscorp Tower. One the biggest building and business that was spreading around New York.

Walking through the doors of the building allowed hot air to hit my face repeatedly. I felt refresh and calm when the warmth gutted against my face although it was getting warmer outside it was nice to have this feeling. My eyes stared at the whole room and the displays that was structured around the room in order to figure out my way through whole building.

I tried to remember what Peter said in order to get to a certain room that could possibly contain the information I need. I walked through the hall to see which room is mainly based on animal testing.

Although there was an issue that I didn't think would be an issue. The door is key card, this means that I need to get an ID card in order to get through the door that I need to get in . I saw that there was a lot of scientists surrounding the area therefore causing a plan to form in my head.

I walked slowly towards a man that looks like he belongs in the higher department. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and stared down at it. Acting like I wasn't knowing where I was going therefore causing both of us to collide with each other. I simple apologies to him quickly as I search around the area to find the key card and once I final saw it I quickly grad a hold of it and hide it. I offered my hand towards him feeling guilty on using him in order to discover what is happening within this building.

I finally got through the door of where they are experimenting on the animal that are within this area. There was different type of animal spreader across the whole area although the main creature that they use the most is spiders. 'No wonder peter got bitten' I thought to myself as I saw millions, possibly billions of spiders spread out in their own cages. 

My hazel eyes scanned the area and I saw someone coming out of a secret room, I decided to slowly make my way over to the area. There was a door within the wall but there was still a card reader on the side of the wall that allowed me to enter the room.

When the area was clear, and no one was watching me I quickly scraped the card against the reader hoping that it would work for this department. Luckily, it did, and I was able to gain access to the server room that was hidden within the wall on this facility.

In this dimly lit laboratory nothing but the machines meet my first gaze. There is no movement and no odour of any kind. There are lights, but like the stars in a night sky they do little to lift the blackness, showing only the activity of the hardware - plasma screens of gigantic proportions with text that's too far away to make sense of. Though I am inside, the feeling is more of being in a high-tech cave the size of a stadium, black metallic roof above, black metallic floor below.

Personally I think that new recruits that come to Oscorps would describe their laboratory as clean, efficient and organised, what they wouldn't say was that it was ruthless, cruel and everyone for themselves. There was no team work and they would steal each other's results if they could take a little more glory for themselves. The research money went to the ones who published in the most prestigious journals, to the losers went nothing at all. They all had PhD's, otherwise anyone could be scientists if they wanted. Although not everyone is not smart enough, otherwise the cure for cancer would be discovered by now. I mean they were all brilliant. But here brilliance was the norm and even a genius didn't stand out.

I could hear machinery, a soft, rhythmic clattering. I came to a glass panel set in the wall and looked through it into a darkened room where a bizarre, complicated machine was located. It seemed to be sorting hundreds of test tubes, rotating them, counting them, labelling them, and finally delivering them into a test tube holder.

The desks and benches in the laboratory could only be described as archaic. They were like something out of the 1950's. But all of the modern equipment in it was state-of-the-art. There were stainless steel centrifuges and PCR machines. There was a huge walk-in refrigerator and several water baths. There was a double door autoclave and two enclosed areas with flow-hoods. There was a walk-in shower for chemical decontamination and several canisters of gases. My guess was that it was some kind of biological science laboratory.

There were animals like spiders and rats trapped in separate cages. These cages that contained the animal was showing that they were a test substance for something. The room with different machine shows the sign of electricity therefore meaning they was testing electricity and animals together. Therefore causing a memory to form in my head about a display of them testing this on a screen in the hobby as well as the mystery man. He held the power of electricity in his hands meaning he must have got caught within this experiment. 

My hazel eyes scanned the area as I slowly make my way through the laboratory.  Although I tried not to focus so much on the filing cabinet but unfortunately, I wasn't able to stare away from the cabinet therefore causing my steps to skip when I make my way over towards the cabinet.

But knowing my luck the cabinet was locked and the only way to get inside was a hand print recognition. Therefore, the ID Card that I was currently hiding inside my pocket was useless against this lock. I decided to search the room again to see if I can find any clue on what the room is used for and how it relates so much to the one that calls himself The Mute. 

I walked myself at the table of the laboratory and pressed my hand down on it in order to rest bust a sudden bright light appeared out of nowhere.  In rows there was different subjects or projects that was based inside each file. I decided to scrape my finger across the table therefore making more files to be displayed on the table.

I decided to click on one the file in hope for answer and luckily, I click on the right one. It was mainly about the experiment that they were currently setting with the animal at the moment. Spiders; successful. Rats; unsuccessful. How come the spiders was able to use the energy given to them without dying although the rodent isn't serving the project. It was like Peter once said that they are more compatible with different projects that they are running within the building, that's why they decide to mainly use that type of creature unlike rats. Another reason why Peter must of called his spider radioactive, they must have done some experiment on it before one of them escaped and bit him. Luckily, he survived and turned into his alter ego and not end up dead like those rats they test on.

I decided to close the file and open another one, but this file was the most shocking out of them all. It was able me.

It contained different information about my powers and in general like my age, birthday and description on me. There as only one image of me in this file but the image was so out dated therefore making it understandable on why The Mute wasn't interested in my until I started to fight him back.

But how?

How was they able to get all this information about me? Was there someone from the inside that was given them all this information? But Who?

I decided the only way to discover more about my powers and the person that is gaining all this information is by reading my file. As much as I was resisting on looking at the file and discover something that I might regret, I couldn't hold back the pressure.

There was simple information hidden within these files like my birthday, description of me and my family. Although the file didn't have an updated photo of me, they still had my birthday therefore they were able to guess that I didn't look like my 8 or something year old self anyone. Therefore, the information they currently have was an easy way on discovering who I am at the moment.

Although there was some key information about myself there was also a small area that was just based on my powers. But my question is how they knew I got powers a few months ago when they have an image of me of being eight. Something wasn't adding up.

My sister would always tell me that I was born the way am I because of a reason. When I first asked my sister about my power, she was shocked that someone like me could just gain them over night. Although her words say one thing, her face told another story. A story that I will soon discover but I didn't think that it would have been whole a weird file about myself.

I was dead... I died and my sister never told me about it happening because I was living today. The was a power source that hit me therefore causing me to die by an unknown man. Although there some big bold letters that was circled around the information. The words Infinity Stones was covered in bold, as it showed some kind of meaning of me gaining my power or something this is coming.

The next word that caught my eye the most was the word GAIA, I felt at home when I think of the word. It was like it belonged to me like it was superhero name that someone might have. Although the meaning of the word was beyond me therefore, I decided to write the word down on my phone and placed a reminder on to check the word later.

GAIA was a name of a river that my sister once told me about, a river that gave people another chance to live. It allowed those that didn't deserve to die to see another day again by allowing them to live. Although if you have done wrong in your life and the death that was given to you was cruel and reasonable. Like if a man killed an innocent person and then an officer shot him for having hold of a weapon that river will not save, he lives. This is because he has done nothing in order to gain his life back. No goodness, no life.

Although I was able to discover some information about my power a feeling of hurt and pain filled my body. My sister lied to me about me gaining my power, is there a possibly chance that she could have lied about something else.

As I continued to read onwards about the information about me and my powers, I was soon going to discover what happened to me when I was in the river. Unfortunately, I never got to that part of the file because something was shining in one of the drawers of the desk.

Slowly I turned my focus towards the drawer and reach my hand out towards it, looks like not everything was locked after all. My hand reached outwards and finally wrapped around the handle. A cold sensation was sent throughout my body as I grabbed a hold of the freezing iced handle.

I pulled the drawer out therefore displaying the shining object clearly before me. I reach out and grad a hold of the second part of the badge that I soon discovered yesterday. The first part of the badge was rusty and dirty and though this second piece was cleaned and shinning meaning he must have cleaned it after our battle.

Although there was some word that was written on the second part like a name. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a full name because on the first badge it looks a bit melted of which was most likely my fault.

I placed both pieced together and then it turned out to make a star shape the I have seen before. Then shock filled me as well as the emotional feeling of pain and fear.

The shock was towards the image that the badge made, it was the exactly the same design as my sisters that was located on her suit. Although this then created the feeling of pain and fear to come together at once. Fear of no knowing who to trust anymore as well as not knowing what my sister is planning on doing to me once she finds me again. The pain of her betraying me, her own sister, was the most shocking part towards this whole situation. She speaks about protecting me and insuring me that everything will turn out okay in the end. Which now that I think about it has two different meanings towards it now.

"Hey!" a voice echoed outwards throughout the great halls of the lab therefore causing my emotional wreak to stop and turn quickly towards the door. My eyes stopped on a man that was standing there with multiple files in his hands. When he saw my face sudden emotion of shock and cunningness came off him therefore making me shiver under my skin.

He slowly started to walk towards me as he placed the files on the side table that I was located beside him. Then he started to pick up his pace of his walk therefore causing myself to walk backwards on myself. "What do you think your doing in here little girl?" he questioned me in a giddy voice as lust filled his mind. Not the sexual lust you get through the idea of romance but the sudden lust of loving pain and possibly the idea of killing.

"I know who you are?" I told him as I recognized his voice from anywhere, he was The Mute and I was shaking in my boots. I wanted to escape as soon as possibly but I couldn't think straight. This could be the end.

When my mind has ceased its unproductive buzz, I am able to start thinking my way out this mess. My heart thuds more loudly that I wish it would, but I remind myself that this drum is only beating in my own ears.

I ran as my feet kissing the land. Perhaps a little while ago I would have balked at idea of running so far and fast, now I relish the prospect. These feet were made to travel at speed and as light as the paws of a lioness. She wheezes as her burning lungs gasp for air. Her legs feel numb and unsteady, painfully sore. Her throat feels dry, so uncomfortably dry. Clothes long blonde-brown hair clings to her form, no different that if she run through a rainstorm.

I was able to escape him although not for long because my feet soon crash ed to the ground as I stared upwards towards the loving one, I call sister. I rolled my eyes towards her present and decided to try and walk around her unfortunately my sister wasn't going to let that pass.