Author's note: Hey guys sorry for the delay. I was flying back to London in a 14 hour flight and WAS NOT gonna risk the authors curse and post before the flight so here we are, enjoy!
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The whole night as she lay awake debating if to even ask him what was that about to confront him directly or to let a few days pass…
Next day she woke up with the anger marinated and spiced up as she stormed out of her apartment into his door knocking on it. Sure she had no reason to feel the anger she felt, well to be fair it wasn't really anger more like a type of petty jealousy but she wouldn't admit to herself.
“Parker open up, I brought coffee.” she used as an excuse to break in
No answer came.
She banged the door a bit harder
“Parker.” she said a bit more worried
“Uhhmm ah right now its not a good time Rose” Peters voice came from inside
She hesitated listening to the noise of things dropping, scattering, and Peters hisses and curses.
“Is it another migraine are you okay Peter?” she asked her concern overtaking whatever previous emotions she had felt.
“Not now Rose” Peter called out distracted in a way as if he was dealing with something
Something didn't sit right with her as she crouched taking the emergency key under his mat he had entrusted her with about opening the door to his flat.
Within the very second of doing so the panic dash of a very panicked Peter Parker crashed through the room holding the door from opening completely.
“Peter what the fuck?!” she exclaimed, taken mostly by surprise by the sudden jump.
She barely looked past him she couldn't see the apartment well but she could swear she saw something white and weird handing from the things flashed of something glistening on the backgr9ound/…like webs-
“I was ummm” Peter took a quick glance back then back at her face completely scattered in actions and words “Rose right now its not a good time please just not now.” He said a bit too harshly from the panic as he closed the door on her as she stood there in shock that he really just did that.
Son of a bitch. He closed the door on MY FACE.
She scoffed, leaving back to her own place to get ready for work.
The whole day at the coffee shop her body was there but it felt like her mind kept dragging her back to him, that interaction their previous mixed signals interactions. What the hell was the deal with this guy.
SHe knew it was wrong and she felt the guilt of feeling any jealousy towards how Peter reacted to MJ…Rose could tell just by seeing the way his eyes phantom with memories gleamed in the spark of his eyes that they had history at least for him.
As she left work sirens blared and screams and clanking hitting noises erupted from around the corner. She turned around to see the commotion. It was scorpion he was fighting Spiderman.
And he was winning. With his scorpion tail he smacked spiderman hard against the wall of a building shattering the bricks flying away. Rose screamed and flinched dropping down as chaos erupted around her she tried making a run for it out of there when a car flew in to the street she was running to blocking her way, the fright made her slip falling into the ground looking back at Spiderman who was against the wall with scorpion.
Nothing away from tearing at his face down that mask. Rose's eyes flickered not exactly fear but frozen in what she was about to witness and to happen to her. Suddenly under that mask she couldn't quite see but she could've sworn it felt like his eyes burned into hers even if she couldn't see them. She could feel the burn into her soul, something then in spiderman snapped as he turned back into his reality taking scorpions machine and like a savage animal tearing it apart , trashing scorpions left and right hitting a cop car in the process sending it flying away. That violent excessive side of spiderman was slipping into light again the same one she had seen that one night. She crawled away cornering herself against the car not knowing any other safe place to go as Spiderman was losing it before snapping back to normal. Then he flinched, he flinched so violently grabbing ahold of his head whimpering and crying from a migraine so intense it made him fold…a so familiar notion almost remind her of Pe- then he snapped his head at her looking at the scene then at the small girl terrified in the middle of it all.
She stood as he took one careful step at her which she seemed to flinch walking back and met with her back against the trashed car.
“Are you ok?” Spiderman asked with a trembling voice. He was scared, scared of himself, of what was happening to him, everyone he could've almost killed to night ... .including her.
She took a moment of silence not answering just observing as another migraine strictly making him fold again with a whine. She didn't like Spiderman not one bit which made her mad at the pity and concern growing in her gut.
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After the incident she went straight home leaving Spiderman standing there as the Police gathered. Something wasn't right, what the hell had that been, the way he stared at her, the way he had reacted with such violence…the migraines?
When she got home she had considered knocking one more time at Peters door but the exhaustion in her mind gave up that thought as she began unlocking her own door when suddenly the one across hers swung open revealing a Peter Parker with widden eyes looking her up and down with heavy breaths.
“Rose” he breathed out
“Peter?”
“Are you ok?” he asked with a crack in his voice. His eyes resembled the ones of a kicked puppy he seemed guilty and at the same time scared to death.
She nodded slowly as she walked to Peter.
“You okay Peter you dont seem go-”
“There was an attack by the bakery. I heard it on the news, are you okay? I got worried?” he spoke under his breath taking her in as if he would touch her she would disappear.
Her face softened at that as she walked closer putting a hand at his chest to calm him down looking up at him as his head lowered hanging above hers
“Hey I’m ok dont worry, dont worry” seh reassured coming in closer, her face inching from his but only to meet his eyes.
For a second it had helped as his eyes navigated hers tendering off the panic off them. But soon his eyes traveled across her face reaching a spot over her forehead as blood dried in small spots in her hairline. His face fell as he felt the guilt brutally tear him apart open from his gut to his throat align his chest. She had gotten hurt because of him in that stupid fight.
His hand snapped at her head checking the wound, she touched it herself
“Ey eyeyey no its fine Pete probably just something grazed me during the fight I'm fine dont worry just a scratch.”
A scratch that was his fault
“Hey look at me…” she cupped his jaw making his eyes meet hers again “lets go to mine for a bit ok?...Please Pete”
He swallowed not giving an answer btu still giving in as she slid her hands into his taking him across the hall into her apartment.
They sat in a silence that was the comforting silence she was use to having a more heavy dreading silence that echoed off Parker as he looked out the window as she made him coffee.
“You have history with her don't you?" Rose suddenly spoke up
Peter's head snapped back into the room finding her face.
He froze for a moment hesitating as a scrambled words escaped his mouth
“Wha- no- I dont even know-”
“Bullshit your eyes cannot lie Parker, and it's obvious the pain in them when that guy kissed her…you guys had something didn't you?”
He looked down swallowing pondering in thought
“Rose is more complicated than that I just…got a lot going on"
“You could've just told me” she breathed before trying to walk past him handing him his coffee.
“What if I told you I had history with you too” the words suddenly escaped him catching him by surprise too.
“What?”
Peter hesitated thinking it through if this was even a good idea…so much had happened sos much but he was slowly losing it.
“What if I told you, you hate me, like despise me as a person you just don't know it…”
He searched her face awaiting for any reaction or memory to resurface anything to break through her mind to remind her, but nothing came instead a softness appeared
“Do you think I’ll suddenly switch up on you? Is that what you're scared of, what you're trying to say? That's why you've been weird lately?” she asked fully missing the point
Peter could only stare at her before a soft sad smile broke in the corner of his lips…he couldn't bring himself to tell her. And he wouldn't.
“I guess…” he lied, well not fully he was truly scared. Scared one day she would remember and go back to hating him…he was scared of losing that side of her he finally found, but he couldn't bring himself to tell her the truth of things.
“But back to the MJ thing Parker I know it's none of my business and it's wrong for me to ask you to tell me but…i don't know if you can tell but, you're my only friend. I care about you and I want you to be ok. I want you to know you can talk to me…”
“There's just some stuff that died long ago…she doesn't remember.” again not truly a lie just the context of it not explained.
“Sometimes the only thing you can do is let go of things, mourn and grief them, and continue living because if you don't it'll kill you.”
“...youve also lost someone like that?”
“When you love someone best you can do is just treasure the good there was once and make more golden memories withthose new people you meet, is only way to keep on living on and to not dwell on the pain , especially if you cannot change a thing”
“You've been in love too?”
“Not exactly” she said side eying his face as he stared off the window, the sharp of his jaw and the longing sadness in his eyes she wish she could be the one to take away but she knew it was not her place to do.
“.. that guy Ned um mentioned something about your sister I think, what was that about?.” Peter tried digging around switching the conversation
Her face change almost crumbled as something in her shifted looking away
“Im sorry I shouldn't of-”
“…I lost…” her voice caught in her throat as she had to swallow down the dread that overtook her body “I lost my sister over 3 years ago.”
A beat of silence followed as Peter finally looked at her.
“Im sorry…”
“It was just us two well my dad is technically alive but he is a drunk I havent heard of him since i was 6.” she began opening up refusing to meet this eye; the vulnerability of speaking of it already too much for her looking at him would make it too real and she woudlnt be able to speak at all.
“She went missing one day after work. She worked in a lab that collaborated with Damage Control and dismantled technology and shit…”
“I had the hope she was still alive but police found her remains with her id, one of those freak hero accidents apparently…”
“Hero accidents?"
“....Spiderman” she breathed out as if the name itself poisoned her lips
“Spiderman doesn't kil-”
“Yea i fuckign know he doesnt” she snapped
“It was his careless destructive fight all those freaks with powers and destruction who put innocent normal people on the way that killed her,Thast why…i…i despise that fucker of spiderman. For example today…today I would've repeated the same fate as my sister…I could've-" she stopped talking swallowing the venom of her words as she realized she was spiraling letting her emotions take over.
“That accident was the result of one of his fights at first it didn't seem there was anyone hurt till they actually looked well enough…he is careless. It's his fault my sister is dead.”
Peter's breath stopped for a second as he looked away thinking which of his fight could’ve cause it.
“She was all I had. She had been my guardian since I was 6. She herself was only 18 when she took me with her.” Tears burned behind her eyes threatening to come out but she looked up and refusing to cry but suddenly Parker grabbed her forearm with extreme gentleness almost scared to touch her as if she could burn him.
She looked back at him. He was already tearing a bit of a look of distraught and somehow guilt swallowed his face as tears swelled in his eyes already threatening to slip down his face.
“Im sorry Rose. Im so sorry Rosie” he began saying as his voice betrayed him cracking mid sentence. She snapped launching at him crashing against his chest hiding her head in his hoodie crying holding him tight
Truth is he could only hold her patting her head with guilt eating him alive. Another life another person's blood in his hands was all he could think of…it was wrong now it was truly wrong and deceiving for her to be held in his arms the arms of her sisters murderer he thought he couldn't he just couldnt…this had to be the line he had to draw with her for her own good, this would be the last tim he touched her, held her, talk to her…saw her…he decided in that moment he had to move away and it would kill her but she would get over it just like everyone else did in his life she deserves something honest something true and real not whatever bullshit game he had been playing at with her.
I want Ned to become the Hobgoblin so bad but I also had an idea of Mysterio becoming MCU Peter’s “Goblin.” The audience doesn’t know if Mysterio is still alive or not; the MCU public might not know either. If the wish removed Peter Parker from existence, then maybe the last anybody heard of Mysterio was him fighting against Spider-Man in London for some reason, only to shortly disappear afterwards. He goes into hiding. He realizes the multiverse is a real thing. Maybe the wish or the incursions or any of the alien tech that litters the Spider-Man movies gave him actual illusionary powers. Mysterio hides behind the illusion of the “Goblin,” who Peter is zeroed in on defeating. Beck returns undercover in a new tech company, working side by side unknowingly with fresh-faced Ned Leeds. Ned who just wants to thank his hero and idol Spider-Man. Beck has a soul-deep hatred for Spider-Man for a reason he might or might not be able to explain, but he works with Ned, develops greater tech, develops his own powers, and realizes the Goblin can be perfected by combining outside alien tech with innate magic—magic Ned proved in NWH to have. Mysterio, who groomed Peter into handing over EDITH in NWH, grooms and convinces Ned to hand over the “Goblin tech” to “help” Spider-Man. He returns as Mysterio to put an end to the web-head once and for all. The intersection of alien tech and innate magic causes Ned and Beck to remember Peter. Ned wants to help his old friend. Beck wants his revenge against Peter. Peter needs to figure out what’s real and what isn’t, while maybe also dealing not only with his arachnid mutation, but what he believes is another piece of alien tech, what is eventually revealed to be the Venom Symbiote. Spider-Man vs Mysterio and the Hobgoblin, until the duo realize they are way in over their heads. (Peter might lose Ned but he definitely puts a stop to Mysterio once and for all, losing Venom in the process. Until Venom is found by someone else—MJ.)
I'm nervous for if/whenever they cast the MCU Black Cat cause if they bring her in to be a love interest for Peter then her casting has the potential to cause an outrage. Cause MCU Pete.....definitely has a type
Personally I wouldn't be against it. But it'll definitely make a lot of noise if Marvel goes in that direction
Honestly I could see Jean being the one getting quickly attached in her new-found friendship(?) with Peter.
In BND, Jean is lonely. She wants a family that will accept her the way she is and of course she'll get this in the future with the X-Men... but right now? She is mourning the fact that she almost had that family of her dreams. She almost had a mother but she gave up on Jean so she never was family to begin with. She had a sister who was just like her and loved her a lot. But she was taken away from her. These wounds are fresh.
So, of course it would be Spidey she'd latch on to after the events of the movie. He is also different like she is and he can relate to her struggles! He even shared his maternal figure (Aunt May) with her who gave Jean comfort just like a real mother would have.
So yeah! In my mind Jean is definetly projecting some sibling/mentor role on to him (just a smidgeee)
She is 100% not happy about it tho and will cringe about it later.
