With a bang, the door to the clinic was slammed open, and a figure stumbled in, shouting at the same time.

"Doctor, doctor, let me hide, Gwen's dad is chasing me behind, hurry up and find a place for me to hide!"

Schiller was walking down from the second floor, and was stunned when he saw Peter rushing in, but still pointed to the kitchen, Peter quickly walked through, and then hid behind the island, Schiller went to the door and looked outside, and found Sheriff George leading a team of police running through the door.

When George's figure disappeared from the other side of the street, Peter climbed out from behind the island and sat down on the couch with a long sigh.

Schiller walked over and poured him a glass of water, placed it in front of him and asked, "What's wrong?" How did you get chased by Sheriff George? ”

Peter gulped down all the water in the cup, reached out to wipe his mouth, and said with a long sigh: "Today is a rare free day, I will patrol in Spider-Man's uniform to earn credits, and when it is almost over, I plan to find a place to change clothes, and as soon as I finished changing and walked out of the alley, I found that someone was chasing the thief." ”

"I didn't think too much about it, I sprinted with all my strength to catch the thief, but I didn't expect that the person who was stolen had already called the police, and from a long distance, I saw Sheriff George running this way, so I started running."

"He probably thought I was a thief, so he started chasing me, I was afraid that he would see who I was, so I had to run quickly and keep a certain distance from him, no, I ran and ran here."

Schiller sat across from him, looked him in the eye and asked, "Why did you run when you saw Sheriff George coming?"

"Because I'm afraid he'll find out......," said Peter, with a sad expression, "I don't think I can explain to him how I ran so fast, and how I pinned a thief who was much stronger than me to the ground." ”

"You know it's all pretty easy to explain." Schiller took a sip of water and said, "You are doing good deeds, he will not doubt it too much." ”

"I always felt that he was already suspicious, so I didn't dare to face him at all." Peter grabbed his hair irritably, slumped on the sofa and said helplessly: "I acted like a nobilistic and taciturn nerd in front of him, he felt that Peter Parker was such a person, which made him feel very relieved, and Spider-Man was the other extreme." ”

"George disliked Spider-Man so much that he even thought that the parents who taught Spider-Man should be sentenced for letting a child who should be reading wander outside."

"You know, he's the most traditional kind of parent who thinks you should do whatever you want to do, and that young people should follow the rules and learn from their elders, rather than having their own fancy tights and swinging around in New York."

"Have you talked to Gwen about this?" Schiller asked.

"Of course Gwen can't tell me that her dad is bad, she's not that kind of person, and I can understand Sheriff George, so I can only hide from him because if he finds out who I really am now. The consequences would have been very serious, because I lied to him. ”

Peter covered his face a little broken and said, "I've never told such a big lie in my life, I'm really going crazy!" ”

Schiller could clearly see in Peter many of the physical manifestations of stressful situations, such as the tightness of the muscles in the upper arms, the arms always wrapped around the body, and the speed of speech that was much faster than usual, and it was clear that anxiety had overwhelmed him.

"Do you think you should confess to George?"

"Someday."

"So Gwen thinks you two should be confessing to George?"

Peter tilted his head to the side and said, "I don't know, and I can't ask her that question so bluntly, because it's putting pressure on her, and if we confess and her father speaks ill of me, Gwen will feel it's her responsibility." ”

"And if something worse happens, like one day the two of us really fight each other, or if one of us hurts the other, Gwen will take twice as much damage."

"But in the future I envisioned, once George knew my Spider-Man identity, he would definitely not give me a good look, and even if he knew that I had been hiding from Gwen for so long, he would definitely feel sad for his daughter's actions of helping outsiders, and then hate me even more."

"At that point, Gwen was like a pie in a pie." Peter stretched out his hand and gestured, and said, "George will be sad if I don't leave her, and I'll be sad if I leave her, but she doesn't want any of us to be sad." ”

Schiller thought for a moment and then asked, "Then do you regret hiding it from George with Gwen before?" ”

Peter was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect Schiller to ask such a question, he thought about it carefully, and then said: "Actually, I didn't think of any good time to speak, I think when he knew about it, the result was about the same." ”

"If he had known that his daughter was going to fall in love with Spider-Man at the beginning, then his anger would not have decreased much compared to now, and he might have added a layer of worry, worrying every day that his daughter would not be in danger because of Spider-Man."

"In that case, your and Gwen's deception is a white lie, and you don't have to blame yourself too much for it."

Peter nodded, but Schiller could see that he was just perfunctory, and there were still countless logical knots in his mind that kept circulating.

After a moment of silence, Peter looked at Schiller with a pleading gaze, Schiller smiled, he got up from the couch and walked up to the second floor, and during this time Peter's eyes followed him, and when Schiller went upstairs, he even wanted to get up and follow him, like a stray animal that was completely insecure.

Schiller motioned for him to be uneasy, and after a while he brought out a pot of flowers from the bedroom on the second floor, and it was not accurate to say that it was a flower, it was a cabbage.

Schiller put the cabbage on the table, and Peter stared at the cabbage and asked a little strangely, "Is this a new variety of potted plant?" But why does it look so much like a vegetable? ”

"That's right, it's cabbage."

"But why do you want to plant a cabbage in a pot?"

"Let's not talk about this yet, you poke it."

Peter didn't know why, he blinked suspiciously, but instinctively leaned forward as Schiller said, stretched out his finger and gently poked the cabbage leaves.

The living room of the clinic is not big, so the sofa is not far from the coffee table, Peter leaned forward, the tip of his nose was just above the cabbage, only to hear a "bang", followed by a scream of "whoosh", Peter was punched on the sofa.

Spider-Man's nose is not impregnable, and after a close hit, Peter immediately covered his nose and collapsed on the sofa screaming, and asked in disbelief.

"How can it hit people?!!"

"Are you still curious why I grow cabbage?"

Peter rubbed his nose for a while, with tears in his eyes, and said in an aggrieved voice: "This is amazing, where does a cabbage come from so much power?" ”

"You see, when you find out that this cabbage will hit someone, you won't care why there is a cabbage in the pot, because a cabbage will hit people more than a cabbage in a clinic pot."

"Humans have a limited brain capacity and memory, and when a more alarming problem comes to them, they have no time to deal with other problems...... Has Gwen been okay lately? ”

Schiller's topic changed so abruptly that Peter didn't react at all, he covered his nose and asked suspiciously, "Huh? ”

"I've heard that Spider-Man Gwen has been pulling her to brush up on her credits, and Nick has complained to me several times."

Peter nodded and said, "That's right, when she's not busy, she's helping Gwen Spider-Man on missions, either running errands or patrolling." ”

"So she also wears the same uniform as Gwen Spider-Man and does the same thing as her?"

Peter nodded, then he was stunned, he opened his mouth to look at Schiller and said, "Doctor, do you want to ......?"

"You said that Gwen and Spider-Man are dating, George definitely doesn't agree, but if you want to say that Gwen wants to be Spider-Man, then George definitely doesn't have time to care who she is dating with."

"If George finds out that his daughter is in a relationship with Spider-Man, then he will be angry, but if he finds out that his daughter is in a relationship with Spider-Man, then he will probably be scared, because Spider-Man has a precedent of sacrifice."

"But, but this ......," Peter wondered if it would be a bad thing to provoke Sheriff George in this way, Schiller continued, "when such authoritarian parents find that their children's growth path is different from what they imagined, they instinctively think that someone has deceived their children, and not that they have failed to educate them." ”

"If he finds out that Gwen is in a relationship with Spider-Man, then he will definitely think that Spider-Man has confused her, but if Gwen firmly wants to be Spider-Man, he has no room to shirk responsibility, and can only admit that there is a problem with his education."

"But he must be very worried." Peter hung his head and said, "It will be very sad too, because Gwen has always been very obedient, and she is his pride." ”

"Peter." Schiller called Peter's name and made Peter look at him, "Do you think Gwen is safe when she's not Spider-Man?" ”

"Of course." Peter instinctively replied, "What's not safe in the lab?" ”

"What is she working on in the lab?"

"She's been working with Dr. Otto lately, experimenting with artificial solar energy, and occasionally going to Dr. Connors to help, but I don't know exactly what the subject is, maybe animal experiments or something."

"Peter, do you think she's safe now because you have the expertise, do you think he'd think he'd be safe if you went to George with words like 'artificial sun' or 'animal experimentation' to talk about his daughter's work?"

"But that's just a misunderstanding on the part of some ordinary people." Peter explained with some anxiety: "The experiment is manageable, and we are not building a big bomb or some evil monster. ”

"Of course, of course." Schiller reassured, "But you can't expect every ordinary person to have the same expertise as you and Gwen, it's normal for them not to understand what you're doing in the lab. ”

"George doesn't know professional knowledge, he can only listen to Gwen's words that she is all right in the lab, but he understands how Spider-Man works as a vigilante, or he thinks he knows, so when judging whether Gwen is safe, he will ignore Gwen's own opinion and judge by his own understanding."

"Many parents are like this, when they think they know something, they ignore their children's feelings and make choices for them, or they worry about imagining dangerous scenarios that seem ridiculous to professionals."

Peter was silent for a few minutes, as if thinking about how to express it, before he lowered his eyes lightly.

"George has to do this, he's a single father, he's a sensitive person, there are too many people who want to beat his daughter, and his rejection of me is just an instinct to protect his daughter that he has cultivated over the years."

"Therefore, I can't stand on a high place and reprimand him for being too authoritarian and unreasonable because I know more than him, because it is his authoritarianism that has prevented all disasters for Gwen on the way to growth, so that she can grow up safely all the way and become an excellent person."

Peter looked up at Schiller, who always had a childlike innocence in his eyes, with gentleness as the overture and firmness as the finale.

"He's a good guy, and good guys always understand good guys, so he knows Spider-Man is a hero."

Because of this, he understands how difficult this road is, so he hopes that his daughter will be as far away from the identity of a hero as possible and live a stable and peaceful life.

"I didn't confess my identity to Uncle Ben and Aunt May to make them sad, so how could I ask Gwen to provoke her father and worry George?"

Schiller looked at Peter and exclaimed again, "You've really grown up, Peter." ”

(End of chapter)