Secret War

"Who told me not to carry the trouble by yourself?"

"Who told me that "you have to put on your life jacket before you help others"? "

"If I don't search online, how long will you hide this news from me?"

Spider-Man's voice sounds ruthless.

Bad, really bad.
Tom-Tingle told Tom himself so.
After Peter Parker got down from the ceiling, he put on his mask and approached him step by step, as if he would rush up and grab his collar in the next second.
"P, Peter."
Hey Tom Holland！You are not a criminal, why would you have the thought of running away? It just a mask!You know the dude behind it!!It just Peter Parker, with your face!Why you scared?!

"Are you an idiot, Tom Holland. Because what you did, all my future plans are in vain! Who knows what the world will be like on my side?"

Tom, who was already on the sofa, stretched his legs at this moment, and the next second, the man called an idiot had already jumped on Spider-Man and raises his fist, and the two of them twisting together.

"Fuck you Spider-Man! Now I know who is the real idiot It’s not me, it's you! It's you! Peter Parker! You!! Do you think I'm a fool! You have no idea what I gave up for you! !"

"Speak as if you know how I feel now!!"

"You think I don't know how sad you are?!" Like an enraged lion, Tom grabbed Peter's arm and pinned him to the ground. "Are you think I just recite lines dryly when I was acting?!"
"You thought I don't know about your PTSD symptoms? Didn't you know you'd become afraid of the dark when it was severe? Did you forget that every time you saw Tony Stark's portrait, you would get sick to your stomach? Do you know that you actually hurt too? You don’t know your hands were shaking when you were sleeping!"

Peter stared blankly at the face that was exactly the same as himself, his mind was so blank that he couldn't even understand the sound of spider sense.
The result was a punch in his face.

"……"

"You want to say you're okay now ? Huh? Seeing Tony Stark crawling out of the grave, Don’t you dare to say that you are all right. You know how much hurt what Mysterio said to you! Or got hit by a 320kph train? It doesn't matter? Ordinary people are afraid that they will turn into a mess of minced meat! You dare to say it's okay? You lost your aunt! Your only family member! Fuck,now you can't even go to school! How can you say you're okay?! You're only 17!! You shouldn't have to suffer like this at all!! You fucking live like a child born in a war zone now! How dare you say it's okay?! Or do you think you can be a good pretender in front of an actor——in front of me——"

Tom sobs.

Peter suddenly feels distraught for no apparent reason and ties Tom with a cobweb.
This makes the older man gets more angry. "Fuck you, Peter Parker! Let me go! The only thing you can do is tie people up with cobwebs? Web head?"

"I have a lot of skills and power! What else can you do besides somersaults?!"Peter cry out.

"Can you be resurrected by your fucking skills and power?! No you don’t! The route we set for you at the beginning is the ultimate Spider-Man! The Spider-Man in the ultimate universe! You haven’t read his comics! You don't know his ending! They will kill you!Fucking kill you ——！！！！ "

"I don't fucking care about the ultimate universe or the 616 universe! Don't try to change the topic! Answer me! Who is the bastard that preached to me like crazy before! Who is the person told me to thinking about myself!"

The weight on Tom’s hips increased in vain, and then a force far beyond expectations was exerted on the man's shoulders. After a while, Tom was pinned to the ground, unable to move.

"Yes it’s me ! It's me who told you to ask for help when you are in trouble, and it's also important to think about yourself before you become a superhero! Ah,By the way, if you didn't envisage to searching news on the Internet or miss my quarrel with my family, I will hide it from you for the rest of my life!"
Even though Tom noticed the faint trembling of the hands that held him, he still said that.

"When did you... No, you knew from the beginning, about my ending." The boy lowers his head and says softly. "I read some comics online, and I know a little bit about what happened to Spider-Man in different universes."

Tom felt the pain in his shoulders disappear, and the other person stands up from him, the eyes on the mask that had been shrunk for a while, but now they were back to normal. "If those things hurt you,Why are you doing this?" The voice full with sadness.

"Peter!"

Several wine bottles were knocked over with a crisp sound, and Tom Holland struggles to his feet, pounce on the boy. The boy whose name was called stopped the movement of his left hand.

"Peter! Peter!! Don't go back! Don't go back! Please! I beg you——"

"..." Spider-Man stares at the man on top of him for a while, Tom’s face full with Panic. then he turns his head to Tessa, who kept pulling at the glass and barking anxiously in the yard. After a while, he rips off his mask and threw it away, as if it is something blocking his breathing.

"Peter!"

The glass door open, and Tessa rushes into the room and run to the panting Tom, yelling at Spider-Man.
"Hey, hey, it's okay, I'm okay Tessa... see I'm not hurting, hey Peter——"
The next second Tom feels himself teleporting upwards a few meters - he was suspended in the air like a bag, and Tessa's cry comes from below him.

Both of them look at each other.
Silent and speechless full this room , Peter lowers his head and pulls the spider silk from his body.

"Don't go." Tom says softly with beg, try his best to look at his love rather than staring at the floor.

With this movement, Peter's hands pauses for a moment, and after making a vague promise, he continues to pull the remaining web.

The web had been ripped off by Peter, and Tom's body was tilted downward following the gravity of the earth, and his head was getting closer and closer to the floor. But all he noticed was how erratic Peter's strength was.
"Do not be afraid."

The boy's hand shack violently with these words, and the person in front of him quickly fall towards the floor following the earth's gravity.
Just as Tom was about to make a close contact with the ground, a hand grabs him firmly and help him stand safely.

"Wow, it was really dangerous just now."
Peter wants to say this, but feels it is out of place, so he could only stand awkwardly where he is.
However, the other one grabs his hand and let their eyes meet.

The older man said slowly and firmly:
"I tried to convince them to change the ending, but it didn't work. Now that I'm quitting, I'm not going to film your ending."
"I won't let you die."

"I won't let you die."
The man says it again.

Like rock breaking through the lake, like flowing water breaking through ice.
The first spark that erupted from human hands after countless dark nights.

Peter's eyes wild, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"There must be a lot of people...dissuade you." Peter sniffed, still hugging the man tightly and reluctant to let go.

"Yeah, that's right." Tom takes a long breath. "Everyone told me there was no need to get to this point, and I had a fight with my family. People told me that I had a thriving career, a bright future, and ruined myself for a comic book character, a virtual character. It's just crazy."

"You're crazy."

"Is it this far? Then I'm really helpless." Tom smiled and patted Peter's shoulder.
"I'm not the kind of person who would give up my career for a fictional character, Peter. Before you came into my universe, you were just a character in a movie to me. It is true, I care about you, but wouldn't say no to filming the plot where your identity was exposed."
"If you didn't show up in front of me, you would only be a superhero who has been with me for many years, a friend, an idol, a signpost."
"Even if I'm reluctant, I'll go and film your ending. I'll use my whole heart to play you, do what you can do, and think what you think."

I will be you again.
And the last time to be you.

But.

Tom Holland starts at the teenager in front of him with firm eyes.
"Swear to live together, that's what you said."

Peter nods lightly.
Another person’s chestnut eyes reflects his own face.

"So I quit."
Tom Holland says so.