Chapter 124 - [BT] Mary Jane’s Gossip...

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It's been a couple of weeks since the revelation of the mental block in Ben's mind and all things considered he's been handling it like a champ as opposed to Reed who has been quite stressed out about it wanting to run tests and experiments as well as create a device to drain the excess power cosmic from Ben to weaken the mental block in his mind even if he wasn't going to get it removed by a telepath but Ben refused stating that the power cosmic didn't really matter in hindsight as it's just stopping outside interference and enforcing the mental block but as long as he solved his own issues than the block would disappear though he didn't put it as elegantly as that and I really respect the guy for trying to deal with his own problems and cut them off at the roots instead of just temporarily trimming them and one day allowing them to grow back so I'm happy to say that since then me and Ben have been getting along great and hanging out quite a lot watching Television and eating junk food together (I make sure to work it off when I go home, or if I find a female partner to help me with some other exercises) and I'm betting that's because he's glad to know what his problem is and now can go about solving it so he's grateful to me for helping him find out the issue even if he maybe didn't want to hear it, about a week after the professor Charles Xavier gave Ben his diagnosis we were visited by a certain lanky man as apparently Charles Xavier was too busy and troubled by mutant issues to personally help Ben with his issues though he did recommend someone and even helped Ben to contact him so i guess in the end he didn't help Ben out in order to gain some points and favours to cache in on in the future so maybe he's not as bad as he's been made out to be though that doesn't mean I'll be letting my guard down as I'll be keeping a close eye on him if he's around me but as long as he keeps his distance I won't really be bothered about him.

Anyway the man who showed up a week later was a fairly tall and lanky Caucasian man with long brown hair, brown eyes and quite a nerdy disposition dressed in a plain white shirt and slacks that were covered by a doctors coat and his name was Dr Leonard Samson though he told us all to calm him Doc Sam and he seemed to be a pretty good guy that had his doctorate in psychology and was here to assist Ben in resolving his issues by being his therapist and so he's been having sessions with Ben in the Baxter building for the last few weeks but I haven't really had many chances to interact with him as I've been busy with my own stuff and duties though from what I have seen from interacting with him he seems to be a really good guy who is here to genuinely help Ben with his mental health though he does seem to strike me as the opportunistic sort and I always see some envy in his eyes when he sees any member of the Fantastic Four use their powers in front of him especially The Thing though I don't think that's because he wants to be a rock person but because he would like to have that sort of strength and be buff because I'm guessing he was bullied in school or something and though that does make me a little wary of him I'm not overly bothered since any normal person would be envious of the powers of others so it's quite normal though I do think that envy will get him in trouble some day as he is quite opportunistic as I've often seen him looking over Reeds shoulder and inquiring about his work which annoys Reed but he complies anyway since the man is helping his friend.

I haven't really had time to interact with the guy and I'm not sure if I want to since it seems it'll be more hassle than it's worth and I'm busy enough as it is since I've been working quite a lot on my own research not to mention the fact that Reed has caught onto my interest to do with other dimensions and trailering to them so he has I listed my help to be his assistant occasionally alongside Susan to help him with his projects and I realised pretty much straight away that he was working on the portal to the Negative Zone and though I don't know much about the dimension I do know that it's quite dangerous but it's not like I'm the one that's gonna go exploring it and the information and knowledge I'll be able to derive while helping Reed to build the portal will go a long way helping me with my own research and so I've lately been putting my all into helping Reed build the Negative Zone portal only occasionally working on my own project when an epiphany strikes me while working on the portal and this is because I figured it would be better to finish working on the portal first than to work on both side by side and end up realising after I've finished the portal that I've made some mistakes in my own project or it's really inefficient so I'm just gonna finish working on the Negative Zone portal as fast as possible so I can get some more knowledge and get back to working on my own project as soon as possible.

Anyway right now I'm currently in the Coffee Bean in mine and Mary Jane's usual booth were we always sit while I tutor her on her subjects though that's only around two times a week where before I used to be everyday after School though that doesn't seem to have impeded just how much Mary Jane has been absorbing and studying and going by the report cards she's been showing me she's starting to get a few A's in her subjects and her grades never drop below a B so I've seen quite a lot of process although I'm not gonna stop there as I'm gonna make her a straight A student by the end of the year so that during her last year at high schools she'll be getting A's in all her classes and end up finishing her exams with A's as well but right now we've just finished our tutoring session and she's packing away her stuff into her backpack and we are now ordering some muffins and stuff as well as a refill for our drinks since now that the tutoring part is over it's time for the chit chat part and I bet you're wondering why in the hell would we have a chit chat part and that's because it's a way for me to influence Mary Jane in a social and goal oriented way though I do mix it in with some of her gossip and topics as well so as to not make it so obvious that I'm subtly influencing her according to what I want her to be (which is kind of f.u.c.k.e.d up now that I think about it but I harden my resolve when I tell myself that I'm making her a better version of herself and making her more successful in the future and this is for her own good since it's not like I'm doing this to manipulate her into sleeping with me since she's been trying to sleep with me for nearly an entire year and I've been putting it off).

It's during these gossip sessions that I subtly influence her by talking about some interesting topics, recent news and other such things and she responds am quite well since I'm playing on her emotions to get closer to me and I further play on her emotions by mentioning strong influential women and telling her how much I like them such as saying something along the lines of 'Pepper Potts is a real catch, I like strong business women like her' or 'Emma Frost is really hot, she's really ruthless and focused which I really like in a women' and my favourite which I've begun to use quite a lot more recently which is 'Susan Storm is so awesome, I've really been enjoying working alongside her since she's so beautiful, intelligent and clever and we can talk really easily over any new developments in the scientific world together' which hits differently since I'm actually in contact with this woman and since I've been lately showing little to no interest in Mary Jane she'll try to emulate and be like these women I'm talking her about since she knows I like them and will try to be more like them to gain my attention which I admit makes me kind of an arsehole but at the end of the day she'll have a really successful career in the future and I'm not really getting anything out of this so as far as I'm concerned no harm no fowl.

I don't think we'll be getting straight to those topics though since apparently Mary Jane has some really juicy gossip or big news that she's been dying to tell me all day though I stopped her and made her study first but it seemed like she really wanted to tell me the big news as she worked harder than ever and we finished our tutoring session a lot earlier than we usually would so I guess she must be dying to tell me and she's been waiting for this all day so I guess I'll let her have her moment before I start the subtle 'For The Greater Good' manipulation, Mary Jane sure does seem to be secretive about it though since she waits till the waitress brings us our snacks and refills our drinks before she looks around to make sure no one is listening or nearby and then she leans in closer to whisper to me so I'm guessing whatever news she has must be pretty secretive since she's taking a lot more precautions than she usually would when she's talking about the school rumour mill. 'Nick, you were right. You were right Nick." She whispers to me before starting to looks left and right to make sure that no one had heard her which I find mildly amusing though I am a bit confused about what she's on about so I c.o.c.k an eyebrow in question showing my puzzlement, seeing my confusion she looks around once more to make sure no one is listening before she leans in even closer than before and start to whisper more softly than before to me. "What you said before, about it being possible that Since you were given power by a genetically altered spider made by Oscorp then isn't it possible that someone else was also given powers by a different genetically altered spider at Oscorp. You were right, and I know who it is because there as someone else who was also there during our school trip to Oscorp and could've swallowed a spider th same as you and I know who it is!" She whispers out excitedly with some panick but I just find myself to stunned to respond since she accused me of being Spider-Man a while ago before I debunked her theory but to think that she was still caught up on it, she certainly is a red headed stubborn spitfire.

"It's Peter Parker, he also got some powers from the spiders at Oscorp! He's Spider-Man!" Well shit, sorry Peter but it looks like the cat is out of the bag...

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