Chapter 1
“Okay, do you two understand the plan?”
Lori rolls her eyes. She had only heard it about 50 times since they got on the plane.
“Don’t roll your eyes at me, kid. Im serious.”
The boy with the curly brown hair sits up straight next to her. “I think we have it, sir.”
Tony stands up, giving the two teenagers a death stare. “Just making sure. I can’t have two children dying on my account.” He starts to walk away, but stops for a moment and turns back. “Can’t have that weighing on my conscience.”
Lori sinks in her chair a little. Talking to the actual Tony Stark is more stressful than she would have imagined. She doesn’t think it has really sunk in that he not only randomly showed up at her house, but also dragged her on a plane to Germany to fight the ACTUAL Captain America.
At least she's not alone, though.
The boy next to her turns in her direction. “Im Peter by the way. Peter Parker.”
“Lorelei. But you can call me Lori if you want.” She turns and meets his eyes.
“Lorelei, Huh. That’s interesting.”
Lori gives him a look. “Interesting, like bad interesting? Or..?”
Peter’s face twists into a panicked knot. “Nonononono that's not what I meant I-”
“I’m kidding.” She giggles. “I know it’s interesting. That's why people call me Lori. “
The boy laughs nervously. “Oh. Alright, Lori.” His voice calms her nerves a little.
“So, what kinda superpower or whatever do you have?” He asks, after a moment or so of silence. “Assuming you’re here for the same reason I am.”
Lori grins a little. “I was bit by some radioactive spider and it messed with dna and now I'm like.. strong, and sticky.”
Peter sticks up straight, freaking out a little. “No way. Really?!”
“No. But Tony told me you did.” She laughs, and Peter nudges her lightly on the shoulder.
“Oh.” He grins. “But really, what’d you got?”
“Well, I’m really fast. Like, run 100 miles in a second fast. And i’m also really strong.” Lori says, switching from the seat next to Peter to the seat across from him.
“That’s super cool! I wish the spider that bit me was fast.” The brown haired boy sinks back in his seat.
“No way dude, your powers are SO much cooler than mine!” Lori exclaims, leaning her elbows onto her knees. “Like you can climb on walls and stuff! Thats awesome!”
“Yeah, right.” He chuckles. “So, what else can you do?”
“Oh, and I can go invisible.”
Peter’s jaw drops to the floor. “And you didn’t start with that?!”
Lori chuckles lightly, watching Peter freak out. “What? I honestly forget that I can even do it sometimes.” Peter smiles widely. “Here, i’ll show you.”
Peter watches in amazement as Lori shuts her eyes and completely disappears from sight.
“Okay, yeah. You’re officially the coolest person I've ever met.”
“No you” She replies, showing herself again.
They spend the rest of the plane ride coming up with a plan to freak Happy out when they get to the hotel room they are staying at the night before meeting Team cap. They decided that Lori would go invisible and try to make Happy think there's a ghost in his room while Peter webs his door shut so he can’t get out.
Suddenly, Tony approaches them from the back of the plane and Lori hits Peter’s leg to get him to shut his mouth.
“Seems like you two have hit it off.”
Lori looks over at Peter, just to see his reaction. He seemed to have the same idea because their eyes met for a quick second before both turning back to the billionaire beside them.
“Well, Spider-man, Blue Jay, we’ve landed. Get your stuff and meet Happy at the car.” Tony says, looking back and forth between them. “He’ll be taking you to your rooms.”
Peter stands, holding his hand out to help Lori up. She takes his hand and stands to meet his eyes. Before he turns to grab his bag from overhead, he makes a funny face and mouths “Blue Jay? Really?”
Lori hits him playfully. “C’mon, Blue Jay is so much more creative than ‘Spider-man’.”
“Maybe, but that doesn’t change the fact that Spider-man is just an objectively better superhero name.”
She pushed her brown hair behind her shoulders and pulled her bag down. “Yeah, whatever.”