Chapter 21
Wade’s POV…
I woke up a few hours later, Peter was still sprawled out over my chest, snoring lightly. His hair was a floppy brown mess of waves, and every so often his cute little nose would twitch. I looked over at the clock it was a little after 5. He didn’t want to wake up his little spider, but he needed to get up.
{Don’t move or you’ll wake him up.}
[ But we need to get up, we have a few jobs to do.]
{What jobs?}
[ You know the one that wwe were working on when we found our lost little spider on the roof.]
{Oh yeah.}
Wade whispered to himself, “Guys we need to get up.”
Wade slowly started to lift himself up into a sitting position. Peter started to stir and Wade felt a little guilty about waking his Baby Boy.
“I’m sorry I needed to go to work Sweetums.”
Peter, still waking up just whined.
“I know I’m sorry but I need to go.” Wade said, now feeling a wave of guilt crash over him.
“Why.” Peter whined, dragging it out for dramatic effect.
{I hate seeing him like this.}
“I know, but I...gotta...go.” Wade said said as he jumped up twice, pulling his suit on. It was like Peter trying to get into his skinny jeans.
“Fine. Go do your job.” Peter said sitting up and pouting. “But when you get home we’re having a serious talk about the whole “un-aliving” people thing.”
“Okay, bye Bambi.” Wade said as he walked out the door, blowing Peter a kiss.
Peter sat up after Wade had shut the door, he dragged himself off the couch and over to were his suit was laying on the floor. He knew that he couldn’t hide forever, he also knew that everyday he stayed away from the outside, someone got hurt. And it was his fault. He hesitantly pulled the hoodie off and changed into his Spider-man suit. He gathered his web shooters and headed out the door. It was getting dark, the perfect time for patrol. He swung his way into the city and perched himself up on a rooftop. He waited for the sun to set, the people to rush home, the crime to pick up.
What if Dad or Pops find me? Why am I worried, they don’t want me anymore. I’m just some kid that they got stuck with. But I miss them, a lot. I’m not mad anymore, I know that they have to save the world and be superheroes, I’m just selfish. They only stay away to save people, and I just want them to stay and be with me.
I was snapped back to reality when I felt a small buzz start in the back of my head. I, without thinking, jump off the building and swung towards the city. A second later I heard a scream come from a nearby alley. I jumped onto the side of the wall and waited. There was a terrified woman and two other men, cornering her. I noticed that each of the guys had guns and knives. They started closing in on this woman and I jumped down to the pavement.
“Hey everyone.” I said cheerfully waving at them. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb turned around, knives at the ready.
“Look who decided to stop by. Bug boy.” Tweedle Dee said.
I stopped at put my hands on my hips, “Bug boy? Really? Is that the best you could come up with you dipshit.”
The guys lunged forward at me, I flipped over their heads. In the air I shot them in the leg, webbing them to the ground. They tripped and hit the pavement.
“Hey I think you tripped, maybe your shoes were untied.”
One of them reached for their gun in their waistband, I quickly shot a web and pulled the gun away from him. He flipped over and threw his knife at me. I caught it and threw it behind me, then webbed it to the wall. The other guy flipped over quickly and shot his gun at me. I ducked out of the way...barely. I dove at the guy at punched him in the face-he fell to the ground unconscious. I turned around to get the other piece of shit, but instead he got me. Real good too, a hard right hook to the side of the face.
“Ow.” I said statically. “That’s gonna leave a mark.”
I jumped up and roundhouse kicked him to the ground. It must have been a little hard because he fell unconscious too. The woman was huddled up in a corner shaking.
“Hey, hey. It’s okay, you’re safe now.” She looked at me then at her attackers then back to me. I turned around and webbed them down to the pavement for good measure, and to reassure her that they weren’t going anywhere soon. When I looked back she looked a little bit more relaxed. I told her to go to the nearest police station and tell them what happened. I shot a web and leaned back, then I slingshotted myself up into the dark night sky. I swung around, and out of the alley and moved to the next patrol area I usually stopped at was.
I had stopped a few more muggings and one bank robbery, so not much happened tonight. It was around two in the morning when I stumbled into Wade’s apartment. I pulled my mask off and threw it to the ground. I made my way into the kitchen and gulped down about seven glasses of water. I called out for Wade, but he wasn’t home. I sat down at the dining room table and rested my head on my arms. It was the first time I had been alone in a while. I hadn’t checked my phone since the fight. I moved my head down so it still rested on one of my arms, but I could look at my phone in my lap. I clicked it on. Several messages had been left since then. I clicked on my texts and went to Dads messages.
--Peter I’m so sorry, I was drunk and none of this should have happened.
--I never knew that when we would leave we would hurt you.
--Peter
--Please answer me.
--Where are you we’re all worried.
--I need to know your okay.
--Kid
I didn’t respond, I just went into Pops’s texts…
--Peter?
--We’re all worried, where are you?
--Look Tony didn’t know what he was saying he still loves you even if his ego won’t let him say it.
--I love you, come home soon
I continued to go through the seemingly endless texts from everyone. Then I listened to all the voicemails from the team. I really started to miss them, I needed to go and see them. I’m being so irresponsible just running from my problems, and hiding. I’m being a fucking coward. My stomach felt like I was gonna be sick and my head started to feel tight and heavy. I left Wade a note saying I needed to go back and fix things.
I changed into the clothes that I had on before, just throwing them over my suit. I tucked my mask away and my phone. I took the subway into the city and made my way to the tower. I walked up to the doors and made my way into the elevator.
“Hello Master Parker, You have been gone for 1 day, 21 hours and 43 minutes. Do you want me to alert everyone of your presence?”
“Thanks JARVIS, but no.”