Meeting New Friends (open)

Lena was standing on a lone street corner, staring off into space. She was still getting used to the warmer climate and was a little put off by the summer breeze. Suddenly, she heard someone come up behind her and she turned to see a large man standing behind her. "Who are you?" he asked, leaning over to look into her face. She didn't say anything... for she couldn't. If she did, she'd do something awful.

"Who are you?" he repeated.

Lena gulped and realized that she was in trouble as the man reached for her arm. She pulled away from him but he followed her. Sighing deeply, she said, "Leave me alone!" All the lamps that hung from the buildings went dark and she heard the man yell. She could see him clearly in the dark, his black dirty hair and unshaven face. Punching up, she hit him square in the jaw, then kicked him in the crotch. Turning, she sprinted down the street, trying to get as far away from him as possible.

Spider-man landed between her and the man, wearing his red and blue costume. He punched him, sending him flying backwards.

She turned to see him and nodded a quick thanks. However, she wasn't sure if he could see her, but she pulled out her pad of paper and scribbled a thank you on it.

He took the piece of paper, he couldn't see, but he assumed it said thanks or something on it. "Are you okay?" he asked her.

She nodded, forcing her mouth to stay shut. She knew that if she talked, something worse would happen. Pulling out another paper, she wrote, 'I'm fine" on it and handed it to him.

He looked at it, trying to concentrate on it closely so he could read it. "Can you speak?" he asked her.

She shook her head and blushed a little in embarrassment. Gulping, she cocked her head and thought, He probably can't see it. Look what you did now, stupid.

He sighed, pulling out a match lighting up her face and his mask slightly.

She nodded another thanks and took one of the papers from him, writing, "If I talk, something bad happens. Thats why there is no light here."

Spider-man sighed, reading the paper. "I see..." he murmured, leaning against the wall. "Nod if your good, shake your head if your bad."

She nodded once and scribbled, "I've had to fight other people for a long time. Its really nothing new."

He was joyed to find another super hero. "Where are you from?"

"Alaska" she wrote, holding up the paper. "I was born and raised there, but I recently moved here after one of the X-men found me."

He nodded, looking around. "We should probably get out of here before we're gunned down."

She shrugged and wrote "Where should we go?"

He looked towards a sewer entrance, gesturing to it as he opened it.

She shrugged and sighing, pulled out her black wings, sliding them out through the tiny slits in the back of her shirt. Nodding to him, she leapt down into the sewer, gliding down on her silky black wings.

Spider-man jumped down, both of them landing onto a raft. "Here we go..." he sighed, untieing the raft as the stream pulled it.

She sat down, pulling her wings back in as she pulled out a clean sheet of paper and a new pen. She knew that this was her only way to be able to talk to him so she wanted to have a clean slate.

The raft soon stopped at the end, Spider-man tying it back up as stepped out of the raft.

She stepped out after him and wrote on the sheet, 'Whats your name?"

He read it, and thought about if he should tell her his real name. "Peter, but some call me Spider-man." he told her.

"Ah," she wrote. "I'm Lena Black."

Spider-man smiled. "Nice to meet you, Lena Black."

She nodded and held out her hand. "Nice to meet you too," she wrote.