“ look at me… i’m not gonna make it. it’s okay, i’m fine with that. but… you can’t stay here. you’ve got a good long life ahead of you. and you’re smart, too; too smart to wait around here and waste that long life. so you get out of here, and you go live that life. live it for both of us. will you promise me you’ll do that? “ / may :)
🕷 ⸻ all around them is fire , pillars of smoke , screams & sirens — F.E.A.S.T. , a sanctuary to this never - sleeping city , is burning — but peter can’t bring himself to care about any of it . he’s gone blind to flaming destruction around them . all that matters to him now is the one thing he prayed he’d never see . not like this . she should be so much older than this with silver hair & deeper etched wrinkles outlining her warm smile ; she should be in a hospital bed with him cradling her fragile hand as she slips off to sleep . not crushed beneath burning debris — ash & sparks settling around her hair like a dance between snow & stars .
peter’s carefully slotted an arm under her shoulders to prop up her head in his lap , smooths back frazzled hair while he hushes her through hot & salty tears . hushes her in a futile attempt to conserve her dying fumes . hushes her because he doesn’t want to hear this . no more last words . no more goodbyes . no more funerals . no more .
❝ no , aunt may , n - no , stop it — please ! ❞ his mask is long gone , forgotten . he doesn’t care who sees his face . his face , looking into the one that had begun to blend with that of his mother’s , damp with tears , contorted with the agony of a horrified child who can only watch as his worst nightmare unfolds . ❝ pl - please don’t leave me , aunt may — ❞ he sobs through thin breaths tainted by thick smoke . feels as though he , too , may collapse into rubble . ❝ i need you . . . ! ❞
poor peter parker . no mother . no father . no uncle . no aunt . all alone .