Look, my parents were mad scientists who pumped me full of spider-juice just to see what would happen. I went to Hail Hydra high school and Nick Fury university. I've been extraordinary my entire life. After all these years of insanity... a little ordinary sounds pretty #$%^ great. You have your normal... and I have mine.
Cindy hadn’t known Jessica had been with HYDRA. To be fair,
Cindy didn’t know about most superheroes’ backgrounds, though. Like Jessica had
said, the job didn’t really come with a manual to read up on. ( Though
imagine the convenience. Maybe they should start that up. ) Knowing that deciding
what was good and fighting for it rested in her hands was a pretty scary
thought. Before everything, she hadn’t even been able to keep her powers under
control. And now even with them figured out, Cindy felt far from in control.
But if there was one thing she knew, it was that not using these powers would
be waste of the spider-bite and everything that had come after it. If she could
do good, she should at least try at
it. She didn’t need the big leagues, the victories for the little guys would do
too. She didn’t know what to say to Jessica after all that– -there wasn’t much
to Silk’s name just yet. But knowing that she wasn’t alone in this helped a
whole lot. “I guess it’s at least good to know we’re not at this alone.”
“Oh wow, I had no idea.” Cindy replies, eyes widened
slightly at the implications of that. She thought being attracted to one ( two
) dude(s) by
default was hard– -attracting and repelling?
No thank you. “That’s crazy. How did you learn to get it under control?”
The best thing about growing up was being able to look back on what you had done and being able to say that you were better. You had grown. Retrospect was something you had to earn but it made it all worth it in the end. The fifteen year old girl who had no clue what was happening to her had done her best to survive. She had worked at a bar and fended off would be rapists and nazi’s even when she didn’t know her own last name or what had happened to her. That’s what you had to do. That girl had made a lot of mistakes as well. She had fallen in with the wrong group and hurt people she shouldn’t have all under the assumption of protecting herself. Jessica didn’t abhor that girl. She was her. She could resent where she had been while being proud of where she had gone. “No, you’re not alone. And you guys won’t be with this network Stark’s set up.” That brought a small smile to her face. It was hope, as lame as that sounded. The first person to ever take a chance on her had been Nick Fury of all people and he had saved her life. He had changed the trajectory of where she was going. If more youth could have experiences like that it was all for the better.
“That’s because I don’t let it dictate me anymore. When I was your age it was a mess. I’d use it on missions and spend the entire time panicking. I eventually had to start focusing and stop relying on the perfume. I still use it from time to time, but it’s a lot of focus.”
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