Chapter 5
peter ran up the hotel stairs, making his way to where jack's room was, ned coming down the hallway as the brunette got to the floor and rounded the corner, a smile spreading across his face as he saw his friend and he hugged him tightly, "peter! oh my god! we almost died."
"it's fine, it's fine." peter cooed, pulling away from the hug, "guess what? i'm done with the mission!" he beamed and ned's face fell, "dude...the trip's over." he frowned and peter's heart dropped, "what?"
"there's monster coming out of the ground everywhere we go, of course our parents would want us home."
"oh! peter! you're not dead!" mister harrington cried as he entered the room, hugging peter with relief, "oh thank god! yes, good, stay here--put some clothes on. we're booking flights!" the teacher rushed out as he left just as soon as he came, mister dell entering as the other man left, "okay, for science, we're leaving because of witches. welcome to the new dark ages." he muttered before leaving as well, the two teachers making peter and ned's heads spin.
"what is going on?"
"we're going home in the morning."
"no, no! all the elementals are gone!"
"ned?!" betty called from her room, catching the teen's attention and he smiled at her, "coming sweetie!" he replied, giving peter a sympathetic look before walking off and the brunette sighed; well there goes his big plan.
"hey."
peter quickly turned around, seeing jack standing in the doorway of his hotel room, dressed in comfortable clothes that was practically pajamas and he looked fucking adorable in, "hey, how you feel?" peter smiled at his friend, "less tired after i took a power nap, feel like i could actually function now. how was it with beck?"
"good, that's good, and we just kinda talked over lemonade."
jack chuckled, smiling down at the ground and fidgeting with his feet a bit, "so much for paris, right?" he shrugged, "yeah, would've been fun." peter muttered back and just gave him a "whatever" smile, "goodnight."
"night, jack."
jack gave him another smile before shutting the door, leaving peter stabding awkwardly in the hall and the teenager looked around, scrunching his face up in frustration with himself before taking a deep breath and walking up to jack's door, going to knock but the door opened before he got the chance and both teens jumped in surprise, "oh, hi."
"hey, uh, listen......i'm not ready for this trip to be over yet and i kinda wanna do something fun, that isn't on the itinerary or plan or with harrington--"
"yes."
"......like, you wanna go?"
jack smiled, nodding, "yes." he clarified and peter stammered for a minute, heart in his throat as he scrambled for a reply, "okay, awesome, i-i'll see you outside in ten minutes?" peter muttered, "meet me outside in five minutes." the blonde suggested and, yet again, peter stammered, ".....five is good."
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"i'm glad we're doing this."
"me too." jack smiled as he walked beside peter on the bridge, fidgeting with his book bag's straps, "s'nice to see the city a little bit." peter added and the blonde nodded, "uh, did you know that they used to execute people on this bridge? th-they would like, put 'em in a basket and they would drown........sorry, saw it online and thought it was a pretty cool fact."
"no, no, its okay."
jack blushed, looking down at his feet and he felt his hand brush against peter's, quickly moving it away and he shoving his hands in his pockets, "uh, there's this.....thing that i've been wanting to talk to you about." peter muttered as he stopped walking, jack stopping a couple steps ahead and turning around, facing his friend, "really? i actually wanted to talk to you about something too."
"r-really?"
"yeah, i just didn't know when to mention it."
peter swallowed thickly, his hand in his hoodie pocket as he clutched onto the necklace case that he was carrying, his heart in his throat and fucking pounding like no tomorrow, "what is it?" the teenager asked, a small part of him hoping that jack was going to confess his interest in him, but the rest of him was saying that there was a beey low chance of that.
"i-it's about beck."
"beck? what about him?"
"ever since we met him, i just kept getting this really weird vibe from him, like he just made me feel.....uneasy." jack explained, trying to make what he's been feeling make sense but emotions were difficult as hell, "uneasy? how?" peter asked and the blonde stammered for a moment, "i-i don't really know, like not uneasy because he's creepy, but uneasy in a way that makes me think that we shouldn't trust him or even stay teamed up with him."
"what? why? he didn't do anything that would make him untrustworthy."
"i don't know, peter! it's just been this feeling and maybe its my grace being all freaky, but it's something i've been feeling since the beginning and i found this after we fought the elemental." jack rambled, going into his book bag and pulling out what looked like a pipe but a bit more complicated, also coated in spiderman's webbing, and peter stared at the device in jack's hands, trying to figure out what it could possibly be, "how does beck have relation to this?"
"it didn't match any of the architecture around us, including the rides, and most of the metal was absorbed by the elemental and was turned to dust by beck anyways, so what did your webbing latch onto?"
"i don't--"
peter and jack jumped as the device let out a garbled hiss, making jack drop it and a bright blue light came from it, both teens looking up in shock as a huge smoke monsters was projected into the air, disappearing almost as soon as it came, "what the hell was that?!" peter yelped, eyes just as wide as jack's, "i-i don't know!"
the gadget fizzed again, blue light flashing from it and peter looked at jack, who honestly seemed terrified and the brunette slowly walked over to the device, carefully picking it up, "what is it? l-like a projector or something?" jack asked as he walked over and eyed the device in peter's hands, "yeah, but it's really advanced."
"i-it looked so real......wait, does that mean..."
"the elementals are fake." peter finished, eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "but that doesn't make any sense. we were there, right? there was fire and destruction." he continued, shaking his head disbelief because he saw them with his own eyes! he was covered in water but the first elemental and nearly burned by the second one! "wh-who would do something like that?"
as if on cue, the gadget buzzed to life and peter turned around as it shined a bright blue light, him and jack watching as the hologram before them showed the air elemental swinging at the air as if it were attacking things, only for none other than mysterio to fly in front of it and start attacking with his powers.
"that's......that's mysterio."
a cold feeling spread through peter's torso as the situation set in for him, having realized that he gave edith to the wrong person and he felt like he was going to be sick as he turned around to look at jack, "i-i really messed up."
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peter shut the curtains in his hotel room, him and jack having ran back to their rooms and peter pulled the teenager to his room, shutting the door behind them and making sure that they couldn't be seen, "i can't believe i gave beck those glasses, how could i be so fucking stupid? he's probably spying on us right now with a drone or sending a drone to kill me!"
"edith has access to killer drones?"
"yeah, she's pretty scary. look, i have to call fury and tell him about beck, but he can tap my phone." peter breathed out, full of panic-induced adrenaline, and before jack could open his mouth, the teen began speaking again, "i need my suit and i have to go to berlin and talk to him in person!" he rambled, grabbing his stealth suit that and throwing it onto the bed, pulling off his shirt quickly before stopping as he realized that jack was looking at him.
meanwhile, jack was frozen as he stared at peter without a shirt on and was doing his best not to visibly have a gay panic.
"jack....can you...."
"o-oh! yeah, of course." the blonde mumbled before turning around so that peter could change, his entire body going hot as his skin flushed with embarrassment and 'holy shit he's really hot' emotions, finding himself turning his head a little to try and sneak a peek but quickly looking forward again because that would be rude and inappropriate, turning his head to his right and freezing as he saw that ned was now standing in the doorway.
"oh, ned, perfect!" peter exclaimed as he turned, now in his suit, "what's going on? i thought you were off the mission." ned asked as he shut the door, stepping into the room, "mysterio is a fraud." peter replied and ned furrowed his eyebrows, "but, he saved me and betty's lives."
"no, he didn't, he's just been faking the whole thing with illusion technology."
"yeah, he's using these hologram projectors."
"woah, that's.....crazy."
"yeah, crazy." jack mumbled, turning to peter and trying not to seem like he was about to have a breakdown because he could tell that peter was freaking the hell out already and they didn't need two panicked teenagers. "ned, i need you to call may and get her to call harrington and tell him that she wants me to stay with family in berlin until this all blows over, okay?"
"got it, easy."
"gotta go!"
"wait, peter!" jack called as peter rushed to the window, the hero turning around and stopping, "the projector! and should i meet you there?" he asked as he handed peter the gadget, "no, stay here and go along with the trip. i've got this, you just stay safe, alright?" peter cooed and the blonde nodded, "but if anything happens--"
"you're there, i know."
peter gave jack a thumbs up before he leapt out the window and swung away, jack letting out a sigh as he watched him and tried to calm himself down before his heart exploded out of his chest, "should i go after him even though he said not to?" he asked ned as he turned around, the teenager shaking his head at jack, "no, peter's got this."
"i hope you're right."