Film to Pen: An Experiment in Fan-fiction [Spider-Man AU BACKSTORY]
Backstory
My real name is actually Jadin May Parker. My parents were-are Mary Jane Parker and- "Like that new movie star?" Hey asks. Truly surprised I look down at him, "What?".
"Mary Jane something, the new star of that new movie about the talent show winner. Seriously you haven't heard about it?". I shake my head. "The Great Morning America channel has been promoting her interview and performance like nonstop all month. It'll be here at Times Square in a couple a weeks?". Shaking my head I decide to continue without further comment.
And my dad is Peter Parker. They were high school sweet hearts who got married in college. But Mom ended up dropping out after Beni and I came along. I can remember the night he was born, Dad was gone again. He always seemed to work extra hours.So Mom left to catch a taxi to the hospital telling me to stay at the apartment saying she'd call my Great Aunt May to get me. After a few hours I figured she must have been too busy, what with birthing a baby and all. Being only four I simply kept waiting. Eating a supper of soda crackers and grapes I stayed up in the kitchen coloring with my favorite sock monkey,Smelly.Dad named him that after I accidentally spilled almost an entire jar of pickle juice on him. Late in the night, like 2 in the morning, I had fallen asleep at the table I woke up to noise in my parent's bedroom. Scared I and disoriented from sleeping on the hard table hunkered down in my chair hugging Smelly hard and peering over the table only to see Dad limp into the kitchen. He took out some food and started eating. I just stared at him until he noticed me and we stared at each other. Mouth full he asked where Mom was I told him the hospital, he asked why, so I said to have the baby. Swallowing what was in his mouth he said, "Has it been nine months already?" Then he started to grab shoes and stuff. When I asked what he was doing he replied to head to the hospital and see them. It was probably one of the most exciting things I had ever done in my four years of living. Riding the subway with Dad in the middle of the night with everything so different from the daytime. It was also probably one of my favorite memories when I got to hold Beni for the first time. He was named after my Great Aunt May's husband who died long before either of us were born. For a few years things seemed okay. As Beni got older we were left at Aunt May's more often, I remember playing under the table of her poker group with Beni and one old lady's big dog. Aunt May told me to not mention the games to my parents though. When I asked Mom what she was always doing while we stayed with Aunt May, she'd say chasing a lost dream. Meanwhile Dad always seemed to be needed at work. I had a vague idea he worked for a research firm, but didn't know or understand the details. When he'd get home late or have to leave during a meal Mom would get mad. Sometimes she pretended not to care, but some nights I heard them fighting. Then one day she was gone. I think she left Dad a note to explain, and while I sometimes caught Dad wistfully reading a piece of paper, I never found anything when I looked through his room. Still I think her leaving had something to do with that dream she said she had lost. Mom's departure hit Dad hard, though he tried to show a strong front to us kids. We stayed after school at Aunt May's, even though he was four Beni was smart enough for kindergarten. Until one day about a year after Mom left. I was playing by myself in the backyard when I just knew something bad was happening to Aunt May I started crying and ran into the house to find her. I cried so loudly the neighbors came over we found her in the forey: heart attack. They called an ambulance but she was already gone. In her will she left the house to my Dad so we moved in. We didn't get to stay long though because this is where things got weird.
In the middle of one night I found myself awake, but not sure of what had woken me then the whole house shook, something was on the roof. Hearing Beni cry out I dodged pieces of the roof as the house kept shaking. Finding him in his bed I saw he had been hit by cracked plaster chunk, there was an awful gash bleeding on his scalp.I pulled him out of the bed, which was not easy as he was a chunky four-year old and hid us under the bed as more pieces of the roof and walls started to fall. It felt like forever but was probably not more then 10 minutes the house practically collapsed around us. We could hear fighting the whole time. Ready to jump out of our skin there was short silence. We could hear a desperate scraping, scrabbling and thudding coming nearer. I almost screamed when a bloody hand broke through the rubble that had become the doorway. The hand led to an arm then a whole body made its way inside. In my arms Beni was shaking, when I recognized the inhuman face. It was Spider-Man. Trying to reassure Beni it was alright now, because like everyone I had seen the articles and news stories of the amazing superhero. My efforts did not help, Beni cried harder, that's when Spider-Man took his mask off and it took me a moment to recognize my Dad.
"Wait up, you are trying to tell me you are Spider-Man's kid," Hey was giving me the-you-are-crazy look. Which is how the telling someone "why I'm in the system and my family is shattered like Aunt May's house" scenario in my head always ended. "Yup, that is exactly it. Although I probably shouldn't have told you," I say then continue
After I crawled out from under the bed dragging Beni with me it was the only time I saw my dad cry. He got us out of the wreckage holding Beni to his chest. He was really worried about Beni, I heard him mutter something like 'not another'. On the way to the hospital Dad explained to me some big villain had found out where we lived he said we weren't safe with him. He asked me to look after Beni and not to tell anyone our real names in case that was how the villain had found him. I almost messed that part up, but the lady at the hospital misunderstood me when I stopped myself before Parker and took May for our last name.
Hey was still giving me that look as he said, "If I wasn't staring at you upside down on the ceiling and you hadn't saved me from that truck I wouldn't believe you. Lots of kids come here with tall tales I don't give squat to. So what now?". Sighing, with a breath I had scarcely been aware I'd held, I suddenly fell onto the top bunk smiling. "Robot nerd, huh, think you can make a pair of web shooters?" I ask.
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