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brekitten · 3 months ago

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The Therapist

There's a new therapist at school.

Normally this wouldn't really bother Peter at all, since he's never gone to see a shrink in his life and doesn't ever plan on it, but there's something... off about this woman.

She seems unassuming enough at first glance. Red hair, green eyes, bright red lipstick. But there is something in her eyes, something that Peter can only describe as a predator looking at its next prey, when she looks around the school at all of the teenagers milling about. Heck, even the way she walks makes her seem as if she is a predator stalking her prey.

It could always be some kind of power move, Peter reasons. He's met people like that before, who try to intimidate everyone around them into thinking that they are superior, that they are the apex predator and anyone who dares to cross them would pay for it dearly.

But his Spidey Sense went crazy around her.

He tries to brush it off as paranoia. He'd pulled an all-nighter last night in the lab with Tony because neither of them had been able to sleep, and he hadn't been sleeping well even before that. (Funny, how it had all started the night after he first bumped into the new therapist in the halls.) So his Spidey Sense is probably out of wack because he's tired. Simple as that.

But it seems like everyone in the school is depressed. Even Ned, who can't even muster up the energy and enthusiasm to talk about Legos or Star Wars or even the weather. It worries Peter.

Because it all started when that therapist came to the school.

He can't ignore it forever, he knows that. There is only so long his Spidey Sense can tell him that she is danger danger danger before he finally listens. He has to do something to help everyone.

So he researches.

And he falls into the rabbit hole of ghosts and ectoplasm and secret government organizations and the little, unassuming town of Amity Park, Illinois.

He doesn't sleep that night.

When he comes to school the next morning, Dr. Penelope Spectra looks him dead in the eyes, and smiles.

#dpxmarvel #peter parker #penelope spectra #peter's boutta get a crash course in ghosts and ghost fighting #he is definitely not prepared #idk why spectra is in new york #specifically midtown tech #but she is #peter starts digging into amity park #he just wanted to find out who spectra is #and he did find out that she's a dangerous “ecto-entity”#he does not know what that is until he does more research #he's very shocked to learn that ghosts are apparently real #meanwhile tucker and the rest of team phantom is freaking out #someone just hacked past the media blackout or whatever around amity park #(you can thank friday (or karen if you prefer) for that)#they're surprised to see that it's coming all the way from new york #and even more surprised to see that the hacker went for spectra's files first #almost as if the hacker was specifically looking for them >:3 #maybe danny goes to investigate and finds peter #btw peter can sense ghosts with his spidey sense even if they're invisible. especially if they're invisible #they team up to take spectra down #danny helps peter make some ecto-weapons and a specter deflector or something #then they catch spectra (and bernard because he's probably there too and i'm kinda just now realizing that)#peter gives danny his phone number as thanks and tells him to call him if he ever needs anything #peter doesn't know who phantom is btw. he just knows that his new friend is a ghost that luckily knows how to use technology like phones #maybe there's even a bad reveal a little further down the line and danny calls peter in a panic because sam and tucker have done everything #they can and he needs to get as far away from amity as possible #peter is very surprised to find that his ghost friend is only half ghost and is then very ticked that danny's parents tried to capture #and vivisect him

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