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Another wee Crowley sketch

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"Bad together"

Prologue: Benjamin Reilly

Peter Parker x Reader

General audiences

Warnings: none.

"And if I'm dead to you

Why are you at the wake?

Cursing my name, wishing I stayed"

My tears ricochet - Taylor Swift

"... It's a disaster! Look at her! It's like someone took a look at Black Cat, selected everything that made her sexy and then took it out!"

Black Cat. The name froze the young photographer on his tracks right outside his boss' office. He hadn't heard that name in a long time, the last sighting had been well over a year ago. He would know.  After all, it had been him, the very last person to have seen Felicia Hardy, alive or dead.

"What are you talking about? That looks hot af, not to mention badass!" Jade's persuasive voice reached his ears, making him smirk: It was no secret the chief editor had a soft spot for the young intern. And, on her part, the petite brunette was a firecracker. Poor old Jameson didn't stand a chance. "Come on, dad. Single handedly taking down three of the Kingpin's goons? That's impressive. It deserves to be one of the slides!" 

"Not if we don't get a higher quality picture. That blurry video is good enough for a thumbnail, but not for a slide" Slides were a big deal, they were the Dailybugle.net's equivalent of a front page, and if J. Jonah Jameson took something seriously, it was his web site. He prided himself in the quality of the "receipts" of his "tea", as if that validated the trashiness of the bullshit articles he posted, more fiction from hyper imaginative wannabe writers than serious work from real reporters. 

"Well, then let's get the pictures. Where is that star photographer of yours?" 

The photographer rolled his eyes, typical Jade. As if the queen of cool didn't know his name. As if she hadn't graced his bed a handful of times already. 

"That's a good question. Dolores, get me Reilly!"

"I'm here, Jonah" Ben finally stepped inside the office, throwing an envelope on Jameson's desk before throwing himself on a chair across it. He could feel Jade's eyes on him, almost like a physical caress, trailing from the long, slick back curls on the top of his head, to the muscles of his arms, threatening to rip open the seams at the sleeves of his white t-shirt, to his jean clad thighs. Still, he didn't turn to look at her, refusing to give her the satisfaction. 

"What do you have for me today, boy?"

Ben gesticulated vaguely with his head in the direction of Jade, and Jameson caught the hint. 

"Jade, out!" 

"But, dad, my story!" The petulant reply left her mouth before she could stop it, undoubtedly the product of years of habit. But she had the grace to look embarrassed and leave the office without another word, trying to save whatever professionalism she had left. 

Once she was gone, Jameson opened the envelope, flipping through the various pictures of a masked figure swinging around New York in a black and red suit. 

"Hmmm… these are good" the older man praised, staring at the images of a frustrated robbery at 5th avenue

Ben snifled nocomitically,

"There was a fire at 16th avenue happening at the same time" He offered, "we could use that. Spider-Man forgets his roots and leaves his old neighborhood to fend for itself, running off to save some pretty socialite…"

"Oh, that is excellent! See, this is why I like you, kid. You have initiative. Unlike these snowflakes out there. Oh, but Spider-Man is a hero. Hero, my ass"

"Well, when you watch your so called hero sit back and do nothing as your life gets destroyed" Ben shrugged, "the rose colored glasses tend to fall off…"

Jameson made a face at that,

"Yeah, about that… I'm sorry. For the role the Daily Bugle played on that…"

Ben shook his head, 

"You thought you were getting the truth out there. It's not your fault to have been played, along with half the world. Plus," he added, sounding genuinely enthusiastic, "you gave me this job. And now we can really tell the truth"

"Even when our idea of the truth is somehow different" The older man scoffed, flipping around a picture of Spider-Man sat on what appeared to be a hammock of his own webs, eating a hamburger and reading something that looked suspiciously like a comic book, "Still hung up on that high schooler theory of yours?"

"Well, if it talks like a brat and acts like a brat…" Ben took out another envelope, this time containing a few burger king wrappers and, effectively, a spider-man comic book. 

"Where did you even get these?"

"Harlem" was Ben's curt reply, and Jameson knew that was as exact a location as he was going to get. 

"So you still believe this is a copycat? Some kid playing dress up"

Ben simply shrugged again. 

"Well, there seems to be an epidemic of those lately" Jameson admitted, indicating Ben to come closer, passing a tablet to him, "Jade just handled me this, take a look"

Ben took a deep breath, steeling himself, already knowing what he was going to see in it. Yet, a part of him couldn't help but hope to be wrong. To hope the silver haired figure facing three much bigger, stronger looking ones as he pressed play, wasn't the same one he had spent weeks memorizing last summer. Wasn't the body he had found solace in, when everything fell apart, once again, for the hundredth time in his life. 

To hope it wasn't you. 

But when in his twenty-two or so years of existence, had things ever gone his way? 

Ben felt the screen crack under his fingertips.

"I've heard of her" he lied through his teeth, "didn't even think she was real, to be honest. Extremely elusive, and cunning." That much was true, "I don't understand how something as mundane as a security camera managed to catch her…" 

Unless you wanted to be caught, that was. 

"Well, I don't care if she's the fucking Loch Ness monster, I want an HD picture of her on my desk tomorrow to go with Jade's article. I already have a headline: New Catastrophe Jen wreaks havoc on Hell's Kitchen" Jameson's eyes lit up with glee as he weaved his hands up in the air, like writing on an invisible marquee. 

Ben snorted

"Don't you mean Calamity Jane?"

Jameson's face fell, the color rising to his cheeks, characteristic vein popping on his forehead. 

"I meant what I meant, boy! Now, what are you still doing here? You have 24 hours to get me that picture"

"I'm going to need 72," came Ben's unphased reply, "and I want twice what you pay me for the spidey pics"

Jameson's vein looked about ready to explode,

"48 hours. And deal."

Ben jumped from his seat and bolted out of the office before his boss could change his mind, not realizing until it was too late that he was on a collision course with a sweet looking short haired blonde girl. 

"Watch where you're going! Jeez!"

"Me? You're the one who crashed against me!" 

Ben rolled his eyes, but crouched next to the girl anyway, helping her gather the papers that had been sent flying on impact back together.

"Peter? Oh my god, is that you?"

Of course. What an idiot, he should had recognized that annoying, shrilly voice the second he heard it. It had caught him off guard, something he knew he couldn't afford. But how could he had ever imagine he could run into Betty fucking Brant, Yale cum laude, in the freaking dailybugle.net headquarters of all places?

"Sorry, sweetheart. You must confuse me with someone else…" He mumbled, lowering his head even more in a vain attempt to hide his face.

"Of course not!" She insisted, "You're Peter, Peter Parker, we went to Midtown together!"

"Miss, I have no idea what you're talking about…"

"Don't be silly, Peter!" She chuckled, completely deft to his tone or the way his whole demeanor had changed the second she had called him by the old name. "How have you been? Oh, just wait until I tell Ned, he's going to be so-"

CRACK.

At last, the tablet that had been in peril ever since Jameson had put it in Ben's hands, the one that contained his assignment, met its demise, both broken halves falling to the ground, along with all the papers he had picked up for Betty. It was several moments before he could get the shaking of his hands under control, before the tar black rage inside him subsided enough for him to be able to move without shifting. But it had.

"Peter Parker is dead." He deadpanned, dark brown eyes finally meeting Betty's stunned blue ones, "Tell Ned that, he'll probably be glad to hear it"

With that, he stood up and walked away, leaving a confused and agitated Betty behind. 

To be continued...

[winterskywrites]

Hi so a Brainy /Lyle fic where Brainy is reviewing the files from the indigo fiasco and accidentally opens the malware Winn had made and gets sick. So they need to find a solution.

“Hey, uh, Brainy, what are you doing?”

Brainy doesn’t open his eyes. He’s sitting on the floor of an empty conference room, one hand splayed out over a DEO-issue tablet. Alex can see his eyes flickering back and forth behind closed lids, so she assumes he’s doing something, but she has no idea what.

“Reviewing old files,” Brainy says, sounding distracted. “I started with the earliest digitized files, and I’ve recently reached the files describing some of Supergirl’s early work with the DEO.”

“Oh. Uh, why?”

“So I can access the information more readily, if we need it in the future,” Brainy says. “For example, I have just reached the case file regarding the Black Mercy parasite, so if we ever face one again, I will know what to do.”

“Okay,” Alex says, although she still doesn’t understand why Brainy needs to review all of the information when he could probably find it with a flick of his fingers if they ever needed it. “Well, do you need anything, or are you good?”

“I-” Brainy’s voice abruptly dies in his throat. “Oh.”

“Brainy?”

“I have reached the files regarding Brainiac 8,” Brainy says. “Or Indigo, as I believe she called herself.”

“Oh,” Alex says, quickly making the obvious connection. “Uh, sorry about that.”

“There’s no need to apologize,” Brainy replies. “She needed to be stopped. It was Winn who beat her, was it not?”

“Yeah,” Alex says, grinning a little at the memory, “he did a great job.”

“Indeed,” Brainy agrees. “The files here-”

His voice cuts off again, but this time, it sounds more choked. Alex takes a cautious step forward, not quite sure what’s happening, and then Brainy starts to seize.

“Brainy!” Alex cries, running forward. She grabs him before he can fall over, trying her best to keep his head from slamming into either the table or the floor. His hand is still flat on the tablet, and for a moment, Alex stares at it, wondering if it’ll help or hurt to cut the connection. But Brainy is still convulsing in her arms, and she can’t imagine how things could get much worse, so she pulls his hand away.

Immediately, Brainy goes still. Alex’s free hand flies to his throat, checking his pulse. It’s a little erratic, but its very existence lets her relax a little. “Brainy?”

Brainy lets out a little groan, but doesn’t otherwise reply. Alex gently lowers him to the ground, propping his head up in her lap, then she reaches for the tablet. This was a cyber attack, and while she’s no Brainy, maybe she can figure out what’s happening if she looks at the tablet itself.

And then it turns on and shows her what exactly Brainy was looking at, and Alex’s chest goes tight.

“Brainy,” she says slowly, “you didn’t accidentally upload the malware that Winn used to defeat Indigo, did you?”

Brainy doesn’t reply, but Alex has the horrible feeling that the answer is yes.

And of course, with Brainy knocked out by the malware and Winn in the future, there’s no one who knows enough about both Coluans and Winn’s virus to safely figure this out. Alex supposes she could call Lena, but considering how quickly this virus took down Indigo, they might not have that kind of time.

And then, Alex remembers the communicator.

Imra gave it to them, before she brought Mon-El and Winn to the future. “Only use it in emergencies,” she told them. “It drains a great deal of energy, and the components don’t last very long.”

That may be so, but if there were ever a reason to contact the future, no matter how difficult, Alex thinks she’s got one now.

“Hold on, Brainy,” she whispers, checking his pulse again. “I’m gonna get you through this.”

When the communicator starts to beep, Winn promptly drops the omnicom he’s holding.

“Shit,” he mutters, scooping it up off the ground. Luckily, omnicoms tend to be pretty resilient, so it doesn’t seem damaged at all by its sudden drop.

“That’s the communicator that connects us to the DEO in the twenty-first century,” Lyle says, looking at the beeping device with concern. “Why would they be contacting us?”

“We should find out,” Winn replies, leaning over to accept the call as his heart starts to pound. What could be going so wrong in the past that they’re calling for help?

“Winn, is that you?” Alex asks as her image appears on the screen. The quality sucks, but Winn is just happy to see Alex again.

“Alex! What’s wrong?”

“It’s Brainy,” Alex says, and next to Winn, Lyle freezes in the process of sending a message to the rest of the Legion. “Winn, remember Indigo?”

“The bitch that almost choked me to death? Yeah, I remember her.”

“Remember the virus you made to take her down?”

“Oh, Brainy didn’t.”

“He’s completely unresponsive,” Alex says. “Winn, I have no idea what to do.”

“Winn,” Lyle says, looking very pale, “what are you two talking about?”

Winn bites his lip. “Okay, so in the past, we fought this Coluan a few years ago, right? And I made some malware that was specifically designed to defeat her. And I guess that was archived in the DEO files, in case we ever needed it again, and now Brainy’s gone and uploaded it to himself.”

Lyle has somehow managed to look even more sick. “And when you say defeat…”

“I mean, it didn’t technically kill her, cause Non was able to bring her back,” Winn says quickly. “But, uh, what it did wasn’t exactly great.”

“So I need you to come up with a way to fix it,” Alex says. “I wouldn’t have called you if I thought anyone else could do this, Winn.”

“I…” To be entirely honest, Winn isn’t entirely sure what to do. He made the malware, yes, but he did it in a rush. It’s undoubtedly sloppy, and that’ll make it a lot harder to counteract, assuming he can counteract it at all. He made it to take Indigo down, and he wasn’t really worried about the possibility of reversing it at the time.

But for Brainy, he has to at least try.

“I’ll do it,” Winn says. “I’ll make a fix.”

Even with the grainy picture, Winn can see Alex’s shoulders slump a little with relief. “Thank you, Winn.”

“I’ll call you back when I have it figured out,” Winn promises. “And I’ll be as quick as I can.”

Alex nods, then Winn disconnects the call. He takes a deep breath, then he turns to Lyle, who looks white as a sheet.

“Do you think you can make a fix?” Lyle asks, his voice thin.

“I have to,” Winn says. “This was my virus, I’m not letting it kill Brainy.”

Lyle swallows visibly. “Is there anything I can do to help?”

Not for the first time, Winn wonders if there might be a little more to Brainy and Lyle’s friendship than Lyle has admitted to him. “You probably know more about Coluans than I do,” Winn says. “Come here.”

Lyle nods, walking to Winn’s side and bending over his omnicom. Winn takes a deep breath, then he starts to work.

They’re gonna save Brainy, because they have no other choice. Like hell Winn is going to let him die, and he has the feeling that Lyle will do literally anything he can possibly do to save Brainy. Between the two of them, everything will be okay.

Maybe, if Winn thinks that hard enough, he’ll even start to believe it.

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snap shots Make stronger the house-to-college Connection Most mother and father love to look what their toddler is doing in magnificence. some dad and mom might take a seat inside the classroom all day if we’d permit them! But; for those who are not able to volunteer or do not have time to just pop in and spot what goes on, photographs permit them to connect to the college and infant.

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As an example, I was coaching on light and spectrum. To help illustrate this idea, I assigned a digicam mission. I requested students to take photos of diverse gadgets that suit into particular classes referring to our Science chapter (As an example, shadowing and reflection). the usage of what we talked about in class, college students have been asked the usage of cameras, to find or create situations that met the specified category and take a picture. For shadowing, of course, the scholars had to take an image for the duration of the day. no longer only did they need to take a photo, however, students needed to be aware of positioning, the attitude, and so much extra (brilliant extension to the Science lesson).

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This task took a few days to finish. I took photographs as students had been at every level of the task. (I.E. Making listing, deciding on gadgets, the usage of calculator or working out Problem by means of hand, filling in budget chart, including tax, and final calculations). I then advanced the photographs (or You could print out if you have photo paper and shade printer) numbered the images, and published on the bulletin board.

students have been then assigned a range of photo and asked to provide an explanation for the strategies to that specific step. This helped them understand the concept and techniques involved in calculating tax, multiplying chances, and additionally, ought to have served as a sequencing lesson. What did we do first, subsequent… and so on?

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students had been then assigned to journal seven days inside the life in their hamster. They were recommended to take pictures in their hamster in numerous settings and sports. They loved this! I obtained such superb adventures involving my students and their hamsters with pictures! by way of making this venture personal, college students had been more concerned than they could be writing a fashionable e-book record.