The Angel
Peter Parker was an Angel. He was kind, compassionate, always happy, and always pure.
No matter what life took from him, he'd always be okay. But on the first day of planning his suicide, MJ was realizing something. Peter had been too happy as of recently. As if he's trying to cover something up. And the hoodies and weakness were getting really weird. So when she saw him at school, she'd try to talk, and get him to open up- removing her cold demeanor.
"Hey, loser."
Peter jerked as if something had scared him. But, that's not possible, right? His spider-sense would've realized MJ was there.
"Hey, Emmie."
"Is everything alright? You've been really jumpy and tired. You don't seem okay."
"I'm fine!" No, he wasn't. That overly peppy voice was a dead give away.
In Peter's head, he too, realized something was suspicious. MJ was piecing things together, but she wasn't all the way there yet. Usually, she'd observe, then confront, but this time, she didn't observe long enough.
The bell rung.
Saved by the bell.
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"NED!!" MJ ran through the halls to get to him. They both had a free period during this time- Peter was in AP Chem.
"What's up, MJ? You don't usually come to me??" Ned clearly noticed too, that something was really wrong with Peter. He'd notice the hoodie paws and the quite clear bloodstains on the thighs of his jeans. He was worried. But, he knew that if it became too much- Peter would go to him.
He always did. He's gone through depression before, and they would always go to each other. But this time was different. He was starting to avoid them more.
"Is something wrong with Peter? You've been noticing he's been acting... well, weird right? Weirder than usual?"
"Now that you say it..."
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MEANWHILE
Peter skipped class. He ran and he jumped over the back fence of the school. He didn't care, he just needed relief, and cutting in the school bathroom was not going to cut it.
The voices of every one were just berating his skull, telling him awful things.
"You were never good enough."
"I told you to have a responsibility, to do what others can't, and this is what you do?!"
"I'm dead because of you."
"You're a horrible nephew."
"You're a horrible friend."
"You're just an orphan, Penis."
"I wanted you to be better."
And they kept going and going and they just wouldn't stop!! They wouldn't stop and it was driving him crazy. So yes, he went home, to the apartment, took a knife, went to the roof, and relieved himself. And he cut over and over again until you couldn't tell what was skin and what wasn't.
And the best part- He loved every second of it.
And if this set his plan in motion a bit too early,
Then so be it.
He pulled out the letters from his closet and put them on his desk. He went downstairs and took four bottles of sleeping pills he bought a while back. He grabbed a bottle of whiskey that May hid when Tony died, and he went back to his room.
Blood kept falling and it was falling fast, so he needed to hurry.
He downed 5 pills at a time, with the whiskey because, it would be a lot harder without it.
He laid himself down. Look at the clock.
4:58 PM.
And he slept.
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May loved her job. She loved her nephew, and she loved her husband. But then her husband died, and all she had was her nephew. So when she heard he was being bullied by some rich prat, she reached out to Tony.
Tony has been there for him since he turned 14. Not because of Spider-Man. Well, maybe a little. But also because he wanted to be there. Saw him as a son.
And then he died too.
She mourned for her husband, and then she mourned for a father figure of her nephew.
So when she hears Peter cry at night, she thinks it's because he's still not over Tony's death- not that he will be any time soon, but it's good to start somewhere.
She doesn't think he hates himself.
So she gets home from work, after a long day. Peter went to school, she fed him before she left. Everything was good.
Until she went and called Peter's name. He would've answered.
She checked his room
And dropped everything.
She called Pepper for help because "I don't know how to help my own damn Spider-baby, and Tony did."
And when a private ambulance shows up, and their neighbors watch and gasp as they see that absolute Angel of a child pale being rolled away and May crying while walking behind them, they don't know what to do.
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6:00 PM.
Ned and Michelle walk to Peter's house because they didn't see him after their free period.
And they see him.
Michelle runs, and Ned clutches his chest. Everythings closing in.
MJ grabs his hand and brings him back to Earth.
They go with May to the Avengers Compound.