Secret War

"Hey,kid.I bring you some sleep aids……drinks."

"————，Wow thank you Mr Strange!Lots of thanks,sir!!!"

"One cup before going to bed every day, and the container cannot be changed, they must stay in those containers."

The wizard takes one of the cups, and the rest automatically landed on the desk.

"...Okay, I'll drink them."

But Strange's hand obviously does not mean to withdraw it, and Peter could only drink the golden liquid in the container under the mage's gaze. Unexpectedly, there’s no taste in his mouth.

"Tell me there's nothing weird in it, Doctor?"

"Uh,You wouldn't want to know... Now,answer my question. Have you encountered anything strange, um, more magical lately?"

"No!"

Well, it's obviously "Yes."

Just as Peter had time to be annoyed, Strange frowned and gave him a strange look, and Spider-Man's whole body stood up like a fried cat with all his hair on his body.

Did Strange already know about the small crystal in my hand? When? Will I have to hand it over to him? If I refuses, Will Strange spells me to a rabbit? Or a spider!!

No, no, no!!Spider is too bad, I don't want be a spider! Wait it is not the time to think about this...

Peter begins to planing his escape route in his mind.

"Peter," Spider-Man tensed up when he heard the man start talking, ready to flee at any moment.

"I know you are very close with Tony Stark..."

"I don't——Tony?" Peter interrupted, and stunned. "You say Tony——?"

The Wizard in the cloak nodded. "He cares about you, very much, there's no doubt about that."

"..."

"If it wasn't for that war, he would have always been by your side to support you."

Peter nodded.
"I know."

"So Peter, you have to tell me truthfully if there are any strangers around you recently, or things that contradict your memory?"

"What? Why do you ask that?"

"It's important, you have to think about it."

The older man takes Spider-Man's hand.If Wang saw it, he would be stunned, that Supreme Mage would actually be willing to make physical contact with others.

"Okay, let me think about it..."

Why does Strange ask that? Am I being targeted again? When? What are they for? I don't even have relatives anymore...

A figure flashed across his mind.
"There is indeed a guy..."

"Who?"

"...The Green Goblin."

"Who?"

"When we were attacked, the maniac who stepped on the drone and dropped the bomb. Neither S.H.I.E.L.D. nor the Avengers could find his identity, he just appeared out of nowhere."

"Have you noticed any other inconsistencies? Or things that have become different."

"I remember... I changed the decor at the convenience store I frequented in Queens? And the burgers, they changed the recipe for the burger I like to eat."

"Also, I noticed that my toys are starting to be sold." The boy's face seemed to be a little crimson.

"I'm not saying it's bad, I'm happy to have my own toys. But I haven't heard of this toy company, and they haven't come to me about a copyright contract? Uh, doc?"

Strange's face fallen.

A circle of sparks appeared beside them, opposite the Sanctum.

"Follow me."

"So Mr Strange , what’s happening ?"

"You're in a precarious state now, Peter. You're not at one point."

The boy obviously didn't understand.
"...Schrödinger's cat, you understand this."

Peter nodded vigorously. "I know that! I——" But he shut his mouth again after seeing Strange's gesture.

"You're like a cat in a box now."

"You mean I'm quantum? But I——"

"I mean you are in two universes at the same time." Doctor Strange raised his hand again to stop the science student's chatter. "do you understand?"

"You mean the multiverse." Peter's eyes widened. "But I'm still here."

"This is where the problem lies." The mage moved his fingers, and two huge light spheres appeared on the left and right sides of Peter.

"A person can only appear in one universe." The light ball on the left covered Peter.

"And now you've somehow appeared in another universe." The sphere of light on the right also covered him.

"Oh! Isn't that just math uuuuu————” The cloak flew over and covered Spider-Man's mouth.

"You're still in ours, your original universe, for now. But another universe seems to be gradually pushing this universe out of its place."
"Things you're noticing aren't dissonance and memory clutter, but evidence of another universe getting closer, Peter."

"What will happen if this continues?"

Strange didn't answer right away, but thought for a long time.
"If it goes on like this, one day you will disappear from this universe, and if you are lucky, you will appear in that universe."

"In case of bad luck?"

"You will not exist in any universe."

"————"

"Don’t worries Peter, I'm already looking through the scrolls to see if there's anything I can do to help you."

"…Thank you, thank you, sir, thank you. I don’t even think you would be willing to help me. Uh, sorry."

The wizard waves his hand, and the golden portal which connected to the Avengers base appears.

"I'll contact you as soon as I find out."

"Thank you again, Mr. Strange."

"Just call me Stephen."

"Ok.Thank you, Stephen, sir.”

The mage looked at the teenager who passed through the aperture, then make a sigh.
If it was before, I probably wouldn't help. He thought.

Only if he's still alive...

Tom Holland, lying on the bed, heard a "crack."

"I was wondering if you would come." He turned off the Pad and turns to look at the person beside the bed.

"Looks like you have an accurate estimate of my rhythm, old man."

"Of course, young man."

The boy smiled and set down on the edge of the bed, fingers skillfully inserted between Tom's fingers.

"I made a gift for you."

Peter passes a metal box in his other hand.

"All six sides can be opened with your biological information, and there is a physical key, don’t lose it. The box is equipped with a global positioning system and cannot be demolished violently. It should be fine if it is not thrown into the magma. Although it cannot hold any large objects , but it should be enough to put some privacy gadgets or gems."

"!!!!!! that’s ……great!!Th-Thanks, that's awesome!Cool bro!! Was this made with Stark Industries technology? I'm going to be awesome man!!"

Tom strokes the spider pattern on the surface of the box, and happily turned the box on and off.

He looks like a puppy.Peter can’t help with it.

After carefully putting away the box, Tom suddenly becomes quiet, and he looks at Peter seriously.

"By the way, how are you over there? Can you sleep well..." The last syllable was lengthened infinitely, and then the tone became serious.
"Come here."

Peter goes to bed obediently.
He think Tom would say something serious when he looking at his eye bags , but the older man just hugged him in the end.

"Please come here and with me every night."

"…Thanks."

"Are you hurt?" Pete feels the sticker on Tom's waist as he hugs back.

"I twisted my waist while filming, but it's a small matter."

"You told me to take care, but now? You got hurt too."

"You know what I mean when I ask you, You are a avenger, and I’m just an actor. “ Tom sighs.”But I will, thank you for your concern."

"What are you going for?” Peter asks.

"Turn on the lights."

"Turn on the lights? No, no, it's fine."

"But you're not..."

"I’m good! Really!"

"Are you sure? I can sleep with a blindfold on."

“Yes! I’m really good!just stay with me!”

“You better get some sleep now.” Tom gestures for the boy to lie down.

"Tom? Do you think you're actually me from another universe?"
Just when Tom thought the boy beside him is asleep, Peter suddenly speak up.

Everything is just a microcosm of a part, but at the same time, the possibility of being able to live like ordinary people has a different, and can be called an infinite future.

Tom realize the boy probably expecting and dreading the answer.

"Of course not."He says.
"You have your life, and your name is Peter Parker. It’s you who bitten by a mutant spider, not me. It’s you who chose to be Spider-Man. I just have the same face as you. We are totally different person."

Peter doesn’t say a word, just hold the other person's arm around him.

"Peter, you're not me. You're stronger than me, it doesn't matter if you get knocked down, and get back up, the real point is that you choose to help people ." Tom wrapped his arms around the younger.
"It was you who did all this, not me, and you need understand that, Peter."

So, you are yourself.

Peter turn around and hugging the older man. "Okay, okay, don't you rest tomorrow, take me around the street?" He closed his eyes with relax.

Tom stops talking and hold the boy quietly until his breathing calm down.

The body in his arms isn’t shaking anymore.

So Peter Parker fallen asleep.

When Tom wake up, he feels a soreness in his left hand, and when he opened his eyes, he finds that the head of Peter in his huge is resting on his arm at some point.

The boy's body rise and fall slightly with his breathing, and the skin on his arm is kind itchy.

"So you let me sleep like this until the night? Are your arms really okay?!"

"It's okay, I pulled out my arm at noon, and you totally didn't respond at all."

Spider-Man silently covered his face.
"Hungry? I ask Sam to get something to eat."
There is a smile in the man's voice.

"I'm really sorry that your rare rest day has been tossed by me like this."

"Humph, how are you going to compensate me then?"

"Uh……Anything you want?"

The next second Tom’s face gets so—— close!

The intruder first licked his teeth, then aggressively rushed over to brush his tongue coating, and finally got entangled with himself.

I…I was just pressed for a kiss! ——That’s the only thing Peter got.

The boy's competitive heart ignited, and his tongue took the initiative to probe into the older man's mouth.

A smile flashed in Tom's eyes, and he passed the initiative to the boy.

As the oxygen gradually decreased, and the carbon dioxide that the other party poured into his mouth, Peter's face was already flushed, and the fingers on Tom's shoulders began to exert force.

"Well……"

Why is this guy so good at kissing? !
Spider-Man, who was almost unable to slow down, thought secretly.

And next moment, Tom finished this kiss.

"You can't sleep anyway, let's watch Star Wars, shall we?"

The boy who was touched jumped up like an electric shock.

"What?"

"I-I--Spider-Sense! I have to go back and show up, or they'll notice I haven't shown up for a day!!"
Spider-Man grabbed his mask before disappearing for a second. "I'll come back tomorrow evening!"

Tom can’t stop but laughing after staring for a while where the boy had disappeared.
He would never forget how blushed Spider-Man's face is.