Perenna stared up at the billboard near the university as she and her science partner walked to the diner for lunch. "Wow, I…I actually look good." She said in amazement as she saw her face set in a pleasant natural smile and her lengthening hair framing her face.

"Not bad for your first gig, huh?" Gwen asked as they sat down at a table. "See though, I told you that you'd be a great model."

Perenna flushed slightly. "Well, you were right." She admitted bashfully. "I'm trying to help my friend find work since her husband went up into space, think the agency could use another model?"

"I didn't know you were already trying to recruit people." Gwen joked as they ordered their food.

Perenna smiled as the waiter walked away. "I'm not; all I'm doing is trying to help a friend. Speaking of which, you need any more help with your homework?"

"Oh, no, I got it." Gwen replied lightly. "You're a real life saver though."

"It was nothing." Perenna said shyly and felt her cell vibrate in her pocket. She took and out and found it was a text from Harry asking her if she was still helping him move back into his old home. He'd never told her why he was going to move back into his old home, but she guessed it had to do with faking Spider-Woman out.

She had grown increasingly worried about his paranoia, but at least she could still try to keep him at ease as possible by hanging out with him or helping him, like with the moving thing to take his mind off the current 'Spider-Woman problem' as he had called it, even if it was only for a second.

Perenna texted back her affirmative reply and put her cell away, but not before seeing the time. "Hope our orders get here soon, I got class in half-an-hour."

"I don't think I've ever seen you so dedicated to school before." Gwen said lightly and Perenna looked over at her. "Uh, not that there's anything wrong with that." She added quickly.

Perenna nodded. "It's okay; I'm just trying to make up the slump I was going through last month." She replied, but didn't add that since other superheroes were starting to appear that she was taking whatever free time she could manage to work on school.

"Hey, how's it going with trying to figure out who your secret admirer?" Gwen asked coyly.

Perenna flushed slightly. "I do not have a secret admirer." She retorted. "Someone must have put the note in my locker by accident. Twice." She added. "And besides, I already have a boyfriend."

Gwen tilted her head at the sigh her friend let out. "How lovesick do you sound?" she asked teasingly and Perenna flush went a shade deeper. "I can only guess how your boyfriend sounds when he talks about you." She teased again.

"Ha-ha." Perenna said dryly, but she smiled slightly.

After their food arrived and Perenna had to hurry up with her meal and left the tip and money she owed. "Later, Gwen." She said before leaving the diner and headed back to the university.

Perenna had almost reconsidered taking photography as she practically did the thing for a living, well, that and now part-time modelling. She knew she still had a ways to go before her friendship with Harry was back to the way it used to be, and even then there would be that glaringly obvious thing she was keeping from him.

How was she supposed to say, 'Hey Harry, your dad was a supervillain and tried to kill me but ended up killing himself. I'm also Spider-Woman; you know the one who you blame for his death? The one you put a bounty on and talked about wanting to see dead right in front of me?'

Yeah, that would go over as well as anything her imagination could come up with. Perenna did though reason with herself that if she used more delicate wording and phrasing when she told Harry, it would not send him into a murderous rage.

Now if only she could actually get the guts to tell him, Perenna thought as she arrived to her class and sat down in the back row and saw someone sit down in the seat next to her. She briefly glanced over at him and the guy had sandy blond hair. She had seen him sitting somewhere else in the class, but didn't know his name; she thought it started with an 'M' or something.

The class started and when they had to take down notes, the blond looked at her. "Hey, you got a pen I could borrow? Mine ran out of ink."

Perenna dug into her pack and took out an extra pen and gave it to him. "Here you go…" she trailed off bashfully and gave a nervous smile as she snapped her mouth shut.

The blonde's face went impassive after a flash of something else came over his face before it was gone. "Thanks, and it's Max by the way."

Perenna nodded and went back to writing down her notes. The man though kept glancing over at her and at one point the brunette's spider sense even went off and made her uneasy as she looked around furtively before focusing back on her notes.

After her classes had ended, Perenna caught a cab and was driven to Harry's old home. She made her way up to the lavish apartment and found many boxes lying around on the floor. She walked to the sitting room where she heard Harry's voice coming from and had caught the tail end of a conversation.

"…don't care what you do, just get it done!" he hissed and shut his cellphone. He looked up at her, his angered expression shifting easily to pleasant. "Hi Perry, so glad you could make it."

"I did promise to help you unpack." Perenna replied softly. "Uh, was I interrupting something?"

Harry paused and his expression froze for a second before shaking his head. "No, it was just a…business call." He said smoothly and walked over to her. "Let's get unpacking then."

Perenna smiled and grabbed one box. "How's life treating you?"

Harry looked at her again. "Fine, all things considered." He muttered. "I've gone back to trying to get OsCorp back on track. And how are you and your…boyfriend?"

Perenna perked up at this as after she'd gotten over the awkwardness of dating a guy, and she started to enjoy the relationship to its fullest. "It's going great and I really enjoy spending time with Eddie. Though we can get a bit competitive with taking the photos of-" she caught herself and ended it with-"Uh, just photos."

"Right." Harry said with a tone of forced interest. "How's school going for you?"

Perenna smirked. "What are you, my-" she cut herself off again and decided to not even touch that subject, and decided to divulge the information she'd only shared with Gwen. "Gwen thinks I've got a secret admirer at school."

"Really?" Harry's interest sound less forced this time.

Perenna chuckled. "Yup, though I still think the notes were left in my locker by accident meant for someone else."

"What if it wasn't by accident? Won't your…boyfriend, get jealous?" Harry questioned.

Perenna shook her head. "Harry, Eddie just doesn't seem like the jealous type to me."

Harry stared at her again for a few moments before he looked away and rolled his eyes. At the chance of the pot calling the kettle black, Brock had definitely come off as the jealous type when he'd spoken to him.

A/N: And here's the 'companion' fic. And if you've read the end note at the end of 'Spider-Woman 2' you'll know that this takes place in the year between the second and third movies.