The gun in the mirror(a spider in the ground.). [OLD ]

Peter fights as Spider-Man, his body naturally going through the motions, guns shots ripple through the night like falling stars. The night young and full of violence. He was just supposed to bust a drug ring, but it turned into a full scale human trafficking and illegal gun smuggling operation.

The worst part? They weren't even smuggling regular guns, no they were smuggling alien tech.

Someone gets a hit in with a baseball bat(when did he even get that?) , he doubles over in pain, the man makes another attempt to hit him while he's down. He gets picked up and thrown like a doll. He raises his hands ready to hit his head he closes his eyes and waits for the blow expect it never comes, he opens his eyes

There's a girl, she looks almost sickly, dirt and blood covered her, she looks almost like -" Peter?" Her hands glow like Ironman's Repulsors did , a candle in the dark.

" How, how did you know my name?" 

He takes a step back. The voice sounds almost comforting, familiar almost- like, it's fake, honeyed to sound real,"Karen?" His eyes widen in surprise. Karen runs to him,she jumps into his arms and a sob breaks out of his throat " What happened,Peter?" He just sobs harder. (She sounds almost like May) and for a second the world just stops, just for him and him only,and it's selfish but he's glad that she remembers him.

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   Karen gets him into his apartment, they don't talk, not really, but she looks at him like he'll break at a single drop, He probably looks the like. The thousand mile stare, the disheveled look,the way he looks at her. At the kitchen he hears clutter being moved around and the stove being turned on. He falls asleep sometime between hearing Karen hum, a protocol Tony put as a joke, and cooking eggs. He gets woken up  by Karen. They still don't talk, not uncomfortably, just in comforting quietness. He gives her a blanket and pillow telling her to sleep in his bed, she argues, but eventually takes the bed, he sleeps on the couch and the first time in a long time, he has company.