SLAM!! Lexi’s back hit the wall and yelled out in pain as her body slowly dropped to the ground like a rain drop on a window before her body fell limp on the ground. Aside from the pain in her back, her body twitched as she attempted to move. Something had poked into her stomach, three holes. As she adjusted to her back which was throbbing with pain and she pulled up her tank top. The three holes were black, vain like things expanded out of the holes and she began to scream in pain. 

Her vision blurred as a brave crowd ran to her asking questions. Head spinning, body pulsating but she still had the ability to hear. People were commenting about the black holes and how bad it looked, an expression on people’s faces said that the whole thing wasn’t good. A shiver moved through her as she looked up at the people, opening her mouth, she attempted to say something but her words were cut off by a scream of pain. The feeling was intense, like she was burning from the inside out but freezing at the same time. One final scream left her before her body went limp, she had fainted and her heartbeat began to slow down.

Regaining some consciousness, she found herself feeling slightly familiar feeling. A warm sensation of body heat against her, a pounding heart and a worried voice, the word sorry ringing in her ears; her mouth opened in his arms, she needed to tell him she was okay, she needed to communicate in some way shape or form. With all the strength she had gained from her sudden passing out she got out a single phrase. “I love you Peter…” Bam, she was gone again.

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Her parents arrived shortly after Lexi was rushed into emergency care. Her father passed back and forth running his hands through his thick black hair. It was the first time in his life that he was ever crying but could you honestly blame the man? He could lose his only daughter. Her mother was unable to move, sitting and staring blankly at the nearby wall. Tears streaming down her face but she didn’t make a single noise as she cried. The disbelief of what was happening to her daughter was so overwhelmed she could barely speak. 

A nurse soon came to greet them, waving the two to follow her as she turned and started back into the hospital. Angela stopped at the reception desk. “If a young man named Peter Parker comes looking for Lexi Rogers and her family please let him in.” Her voice was stern in the way that she would talk to a disobedient child and it scared the receptionist enough into nodding and agreeing with the woman’s request, even though Peter obviously wasn’t immediate family; an angry mom is the last thing someone wants to deal with.

Lexi’s small body lied in a bed, hooked up to many machines that were monitoring her pulse and vital signs. She looked as though she was sleeping but that still wasn’t a happy thought when the Rogers entered the room. Angela instantly took the seat next to her daughter and wrapped a hand around her daughter’s careful not to touch the IV that was inserted into her wrist. Mark, however, did not take the seat on the other side of bed, for he knew all too well that that’s where Peter would want to be if/when he showed up. So Mark stayed standing, a gentle hand on his wife’s shaking shoulder as tears ran down the parents’ eyes.

Shortly after Peter arrived, a Doctor came in and he did not look good. “I… uh…” He began, stammering over his words as three stared up at him. “I have never seen this before…” He finally got out as he flipped through the clipboard of information. “There’s something in her bloodstream. Almost injected, and it’s attacking her white blood cells and killing them.” The Doctor let out a long sigh, “If we can’t figure out what’s causing the attack and how to stop it, she’ll be dead in three days.” Lexi’s parents were at the Doctor demanding he give more answers then that and proceeded to follow the man out the door wanting to know more.