Swallowing The Spider

[After Transition]

So it's been a few years since the whole human meat freezer incident (not that it's majorly impacted me or every facet of my life, of course not) and I am currently fifteen years old, after the incident I was put with a foster family in New York though I still had weekly checkups with social workers, therapists, psychologists and pretty much any kind of professional that worked with children or the human mind. It's because they really want to know what could have happened to me that I'd end up covered in blood and run through the streets in the middle of the night with absolutely no recollection, apparently the government officials who deal with this stuff really want to know and maybe it's because all the newspapers were reporting about my midnight escapades, who knows.

Anyway it was pretty much weekly checkups till I was thirteen but I was still keeping my mouth shut so they eventually decided to just give up though I did still have to have checkups about once every month, I heard that they were worried that there're more kids like me wherever I came from and they want to help them and now that I think about it there probably are which just makes my burning need for vengeance that much more justified. The family that's currently fostering me and has been fostering me for the last five years are the Steins which consist of Nobel prize winning physicist Martin Stein and his wife Clarissa, because of Martin focusing too much on trying to build a new state of the art power plant or something Clarissa decided to try fostering as a means to help their marriage which was starting to fray though Martin didn't much like the idea of taking me in.

Though I've been living with them for five years I haven't really managed to warm up to them, I mean I tried but I still had this burning need for revenge within my hurt and it wouldn't rest till I saw the matron, the dealer and everyone at that mansion six feet under though that doesn't mean I don't like my foster family. Clarissa generally looked after me and took care of my every need, she was a very caring woman who with her husband working most the time decided to instead focus on me and my wellbeing though that changed when I hit 15. Martin wasn't as receptive to my living in his house and was quite cold to me though he did eventually tolerate me but he was quite the hard a.s.s and as I was living in his house he made me study all sorts of subjects and regularly questioned me on them every once in a while, because he was a Nobel prize winning physicist he said that he wouldn't be raising someone who couldn't amount to anything or work hard so he made me study a whole lot and that pretty much killed any good feeling I had for him though I don't hate him as the stuff he's making me learn turns out to be pretty useful in the future.

I've been going to school which is pretty mundane and because of Martin teaching me I was acing everything though he still manages to somehow find fault with me and my work while Clarissa is nothing but supporting which results in me and her having an affair, now I know what your thinking but it wasn't really anyone's fault. With Martin working all day everyday at the power plant his and Clarissa's marriage was holding on by a thread and that thread was me, the only reason they hadn't gotten divorced yet was because of Clarissa worrying about what would happen to me if they did divorce. When I was fifteen it was Clarissa's birthday and Martin didn't even notice as he spent all day at work and there was nothing special planned for her birthday which culminated in her crying and getting drunk that night, seeing her cry I comforted her as even though I didn't see her as family she was a nice woman who cared about me.

With her being depressed and drunk she even let me have some alcohol and as a teenager I wasn't going to refuse, one thing led to another and through a culmination of alcohol, her sadness and my teenage hormones we ended up having s.e.x. We knew it was wrong and a drunken mistake so we decided to forget about it and move past it but with Martin no longer paying attention of caring much about her she needed some comfort and eventually came back to get it from me and I wasn't going to refuse because she was a hot MILF plus my teenage hormones were out of control especially with my extreme regeneration. It happened more and more and we kept this affair going for quite a while with no one else none the wiser and I couldn't really bring myself to feel bad about it on account of how dismissive Martin was of his wife and how lonely Clarissa was with how much she needed to feel wanted which I resolved for her.

It was around the time when i was fifteen that I decided that I was never going to get my revenge if I didn't start to better myself and I didn't mean that in the academic respect, I realised that I had grown stagnant and I wasn't progressing so i decided to start making some money by fighting in some underground cage matches. New York wasn't as dark as Gotham but it wasn't as bright as metropolis so there were quite a lot of seedy spots if you knew exactly where to look and if Gotham taught me anything it was where to look. My time fighting in those underground matches gave me experience and skill, with my regeneration I could fight forever though I had to make sure to leave the appearance of the bruises and the gashes on the surface of my skin though my regeneration didn't mean I won all my matches. With time I got better and eventually became undefeated earning quite the amount of money by the time I was sixteen which also meant that my affair with Clarissa Stein had gone on for nearly a year.

I was sixteen and because of my excellent grades I decided to graduate early but first I had quite a lot of stuff to sort out, firstly I used my contacts that I made at the underground cage matches to dig up some information on some local government officials. Greasing a few hand here and their net me the information I wanted and putting that information to good use I managed to get myself emancipated though I didn't reveal that quite yet. I then went on to complete all my exams and graduate from high school with a scholarship to Metropolis University (I got offers from quite a lot of places even Gotham University but I wasn't quite ready to go back there yet) but before I headed of there I needed to deal with one more thing, Clarissa.

Talking to Clarissa was quite hard and ended in quite a few slaps for me and some goodbye s.e.x, the gist of it was me telling her that I had gotten myself legally emancipated, that I had graduated from high school and had gotten a scholarship to Metropolis University as well as me telling her that I needed to end our (our weird and quite sordid) relationship. I told her that I was leaving and that she should sue Martin for divorce and move on to another city with the money, start a brand new life and maybe even find love and raise a family (it really hurt me to get this soppy and emotional but I owed it to this woman). I told Martin that same evening that I had got emancipated, graduated and was heading for Metropolis University but he just gave me a 'that's great' and proceeded to continue his work, I think that maybe I would have maybe liked Martin if he wasn't so focused on his work that he neglects everything else.

With all that done and quite a hefty sum from all my underground cage matches (as well as blackmailing a few of those politicians) in my pocket I headed of for Metropolis University to continue my education, I was still planning to get my revenge but as they say 'For a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long' though I didn't plan to take quite as long as ten years for it but after my revenge I still planned to have a life and getting some degrees from Metropolis University would be part of it.

Off to metropolis where there have been reports of a blue blur appearing around the city...

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