I’m looking for a fic where Peter lost everyone and he gets help from someone to see the people he lost and they’re in a house, (in the afterlife) his parents, may, ben and Tony. He tries to go to them but theres like an invisible wall in the way so he can’t break through and he keeps telling them he wants to stay with them and trying to breaking through the barrier but they keep telling him no. I think he also calls Tony Dad during this and I’m pretty sure Tony comes back to life.
“Promise me, Peter Parker, that you’ll stay kind— that you’ll keep doing good things for this world, suited up or otherwise.”
It was an easy enough request. Stay kind. Do good. Of course, the underlying message was, don’t become Peter 3— a sentiment that the variant himself even expressed that night on top of the high school.
Then again, Peter 3 had still helped him, even after he’d been plopped into a reality that was not his own— that instead belonged to a version of himself who’d made a big, bloody mess of everything, and… And Peter 3 hadn’t even asked any questions. He didn’t cast any judgment, either. He just stepped in, right alongside Peter 2, and he got to work.
It’s what they do.
So maybe… Maybe being Peter Parker wasn’t about how much you lost, but about who you were able to help, afterwards— despite the grief and the bitterness.
And, like it or not, he was Peter Parker, so he was just going to have to find some way to help people again, in spite of the fact that one of the people he lost was himself.
Or, Peter gets fatally wounded on patrol, but his host of dead parental figures has something to say about him joining them on the other side just yet.
