rough day
-09/17/25-
I sat in one of those incredibly uncomfortable blue plastic chairs, in group therapy, I thought maybe this would be a good idea? I was wrong, I don’t want to be here anymore, I want to go back to my terrible apartment. Actually, no, I want to go back home to the apartment with Aunt May back in queens. But I can’t. Why did I think this would be a good idea again? What did I think was going to happen? Telling an extremely watered down version of what happened today two years ago to a bunch of strangers would make me feel better?
“Who would like to start us off today?” The bland monotoned voice of the women who ran this group therapy program spoke, I’m pretty sure she said her name was Elizabeth
There was a long pause before i reluctantly raised my hand and answered “i will”
“Great! Why don’t you introduce yourself?” Elizabeth smiled
“I’m.. Peter Stark” I said starring at the ground, I immediately regretted saying ‘Stark’ instead of some made up last name or just ‘Parker’. A mix of “Hello Peter”s and “Hi Peter” came out of everyone’s mouths
“And what was your experience with the Snap, and or the Blimp?” She asked me, I’m a more softer tone then before, and suddenly it felt like I back on that planet again, god I should have just listened to Tony and not have gone to space.
-04/27/18-
Stark industries? You have got to be kidding me, this is the best day of my life! I get to go to Stark industries for a school field trip and prove to flash I actually have an internship there! This is great, i can’t wait, and when I tell Mr. Stark about Flash’s face when Karen and employees recognize me from our weekly lab meetings. As I was thinking, I felt my spider senses, as Mr. Stark calls it, go off. I quickly turn around to see a giant space ship hit the ground, the space ship crashing down on New York behind us. I thanked myself for bringing my suit with me on this field trip, I looked around the bus to see that no one else seemed to notice it. i quickly grabbed Ned’s attention.
“Hey, I need you to cause a distraction” I whispered to him
He looked back at me with wide eyes “holy shit- were all gonna die! There’s a space ship!” He yelled and everyone turned to the back of the bus to see what he was talking about.
I put on my web shooters and opened the bus widow, grabbing my back and slipping out the bus window, shoving on my spider mask and then jumped out and off the bus swinging on the bridge my bus was just on moments prior and headed to the space ship.
i figured i would have to deal with it by myself, which in hindsight is very dumb but here we are, Mr Stark and Dr Banner where already at the scene with a new face -Dr Strange-. apparently the hulk didnt want to co operate today.. which isnt great, thanks a lot green guy. This alien had tried to kidnap Dr Strange and Mr stark had ordered me to try and stop this mysterious alien villian, which resulted in me being beemed up into space on a alien ship (i did get a suit upgrade, so bonus points). Mr Stark had told me to go back to earth, which of course i didnt listen and stayed on the ship anyways, safe to say he wasn’t thrilled by this a all.
“what the fuck”
“i know what your gonna say”
“you should not be here”
“i was gonna go home-“
“i dont not wanna hear it”
“but it was such a long way down, and i just thought about you know-“
“and now i gotta hear it”
“i got up here just up to the side of the ship, and this suit is ridiculously intuitive by the way, so if anything its kinda you fault that im here”
“what did you just say?”
“i take that back and and now im here in space”
“yeah, right where i didnt want you be, this isnt coney island field trip, this is a one way ticket. you hear me? dont pretend you thought this though, i know you didnt you could not have possibly thought this through”
“you cant be a friendly neighborhood spider-man if theirs no neighborhood.. okay that didnt make sense but you know what im trying to say”
“come on we got a situation”
yeah, he wasn’t happy, though he did let me help him rescue Dr Strange from the alien, also dont tell Mr Stark i said this, but im pretty sure they where flirting
-Present day-
“i was with To-.. my Dad when the snap happened, he and my Mom stayed while i was, um, dusted. when i came back he passed away from a really bad accident when everyone was coming back. he and my Mom had another kid while i was gone..” i stated rather quickly, i danced around the actual facts, making it seem like a more normal story than what actually had happened. i dont know why i called Tony my Dad, he wasnt my Dad, but now i had to just roll with it. “my aunt passed away a few months ago too, though that didnt have anything to do with the snap or blip”
truth be told, i didnt give a shit what Elizabeth had to say, and i didnt listen to anything anyone else said the whole meeting i just kept my eyes trained on my feet. ive been wearing the same red converses for years and im genuinely surprised on how little amount of duck tape ive had to put on them, with all the walking i do around new york. the only reason i still wear them is because the avengers had signed them, well only a few, Tony, Steve, Natasha, Thor, T’Challa, Stephen, and last but not least Spiderman. MJ had drawn the spiderman mask on the left side and on rhe right Ned wrote “see you in Empire State!”. i couldnt bare to buy a new pair.
the moment Elizabeth announced that the meeting was coming to and end i have never left a room so incredibly fast before, rushing out into the streets of New York, and slowly walk to my apartment in Brooklyn. i see a giant billboard advertising the Avengers musical to my right and laugh to myself, thinking how much Tony would get a kick out of the miss characterization of his friends, and then complain when it happened to him. to my right i see something on the news, something about their being a “new” Hawkeye in training, Kate bishop, that name sound familiar.. i brush it off though. looking up at all the big screens and taking a deep breath, preparing myself for a long walk home..