Chapter 7
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"Oh shit.."
Peter is nowhere near awake or aware enough to process the presence of another individual let alone the individual that looks like a literal demon just chilling in a dark corner close to where he has his feet..
Paralysis Demon, much?
Peter tucks his feet into the blanket and brings the blanket over his head and closes his eyes.
Maybe it's just shadows playing tricks on his tired achy brain.
Yeah..
Yeah...
That's it ...
That has to be it...
There's no way a literal real demon shaped entity is formed in shadow is just chilling in his apartment near his feet and not setting off his spider-senses...
Yeah..
Just a trick of shadows..
"You don't have to worry, I can't see your face."
Holy shitballs..
It talked!...
The freaking thing talked!
As he was processing this he was also up and falling over himself with a "Aw shit! What the hell?!"
"Your face.. I didn't see it." The shadow demon replied "Spider-Man.... Are you alright?.. I just wanted to check in on you.. Wade and Frank were worried..."
"So they made a deal with a literal demon?!" Peter shrieked as he felt around trying to find the edges of the sheet and blanket to free himself but remembered he was without his mask..
He managed to free his eyes from the nose up to peak up over the mess of fabric..
"Uhhh?"
"Oh.. Shit.. You scared the absolute literal hell out of me man.. maybe rethink the horns.." Peter was coming down from his panic as he realized it was fucking Daredevil just chilling in the dark with freaking devil horns just sitting in the dark by some unsuspecting unconscious person's feet.. "waking up to that in the dark is not pleasant."
"Oh right. Yeah. Sorry." Daredevil replied sheepishly.
"Dude, I thought a freaking Sleep Paralysis Demon was talking to me!" Peter said but huffed out a sigh of relief as his pulse finally came down a few dozen lightspeeds.
"Did you get your mask back on yet? I heard fabric but don't know if you're still unmasked or.."
"Oh yeah.. it's fine mask is in place.. you promise you didn't see my face sans mask?"
"Cross my heart, I didn't see even a hint of your face without the mask."
"Oh thank gosh man.. I was worried you might have peeked.." Peter said relieved "It's a good thing I can tell you're telling the truth or else I'd be freaking out about it for a really long time."
"You can tell I'm telling the truth?"
"Oh yeah.. I have super enhanced senses so I can like hear.. well.. everything within a five mile radius.. it's annoying.. but useful when someone's close enough to hear how their heart beats.. other than that.. knowing when people are fighting and/or having sex is like the literal worst.. so there's not a lot of bonuses with the enhanced senses.."
Daredevil was silent for a while at that revelation.
"Sorry." Now Peter was the sheepish one "I know it can weird some people out and make them feel weirdly violated but it's not exactly like I can dial my own enhanced senses down all the time and when I just wake up is when I have the least amount of control over what I hear."
"No.. no.. I don't think it's weird at all... I get it... I have enhanced senses too, it's how I can navigate without having to see."
"Makes sense." Peter replied "I had to do that when I fought this one bad guy that used illusions.. had to fight him with my eyes closed.. I have this sense it like tells me when danger is about to happen before it even happens.. like I can dodge bullets before they're even being fired.. anyway had to rely only on that one sense to fight the guy because the illusions were so real I couldn't tell whey was real and what wasn't.."
"That's ... A lot..."
"Yeah... Anyways... I guess you can tell Frank and Wade that I'm okay and that they can stop worrying so much."
"Or... You can come out and hang out with us all..." Daredevil replied "I get not wanting to unmask, I'm the same way... And I can get the whole just wanting to be alone thing too... But.. we're a community here and it would just be nice if we all had a way of knowing you were okay every day so we don't have to worry you might come home injured one day and die alone in here or somewhere in an alley and no one knows because no one ever knows whether or not you're even coming or going from your apartment.. It'd be nice if you at least checked in with one of us every day so at least we all know you aren't dead... We all follow it.. it's like an unspoken rule.. as much as Frank can't stand me, he will break into my apartment to check if I'm still alive if he has gone more than twenty-four hours without having seen me and checks with everyone else and finds out they also haven't seen me in more than twenty-four hours, Wade too.. We're not like trying to impose or anything but what we all do is dangerous and we all need to touch base with at least one person in the apartment building at least once a day to affirm we are in fact alive or else we go breaking in on each other to make sure no one is dying or already dead.."
"Okay... Yeah.. I guess I should be a better neighbor and not make everyone worry about whether or not I'm alive in here ..."
"That's all we ask.."