The Tragedy of Mary Jane Stark

Anger

After the Tragedy

"I remember hurting someone. While I was in there." In Mary's mind she saw flashing of purple. Flashes of a woman with glasses and dark brown hair. "I lost focus and Peter saw me throwing her out of town, as himself. Not under my control."

"Yeah! That's when I saw you all purple and glowy. I knew you could do it, I knew you could remember!" Peter said triumphantly, pecking her lips. But she didn't feel the same excitement. Barely acknowledging the kiss she continued to stare blankly.

"I was mad at her. She mentioned my mother, I made sure no one in the town knew anything about her." Mary said looking at Officer Woo and Agent Rambo.

"You... made sure they didn't know? How?" Woo asked.

"I don't know, I don't remember starting this, I don't remember starting that little world. I just remember waking up, being in this bed, going down to see dad." She sniffed. "The woman I throw out, I sent her out of the Maple Twine Park city limits and dropped her from there. Is she okay? Did I-,"

"No you didn't kill her. She's okay. Darcy's with us don't worry. She's perfectly fine." Agent Rambo interrupted, not wanting to upset her again.

"How did she get in? I don't remember her being in the town in the first place, neither was Peter." Mary was remembering, feeling all the people. Being in their mind, setting them up as if they were puppets. As if they were her dolls, making them say and do what she wanted,  dressing them up. Making them look the part.

"Same way as I did. Apparently Darcy is friends with Thor and when she found out that you were stuck in this purple bubble, she came to help." Peter said calming his excitement down a notch.

"Stuck?" Mary questioned

"Yeah our first hypothesis was that someone had kidnapped you, put in you the bubble, and just forcing you to film the little tv episodes." Officer Woo informed her.

"Episodes? I remember living as if I were in a tv show, like different sit-coms for each decade, but you guys could... watch it?" Mary was still trying to put the pieces together.

"Yeah Darcy had seen that the bubble was giving of Uhh I don't know how she explained it. Like the bubble was giving off the same frequencies as television stations do. She plugged in an old the tv then sound and picture showed up." Woo explained to the best of his ability.

"So Darcy got in... how?" Mary questioned.

"She stuck her hand in the bubble, and it pulled her it." Agent Rambo said recounting the day.

"Peter, how did you get sucked in then." Mary turned to Peter.

"Well after you ran away, I paid attention to anything weird or unexplainable to come on the news or social media. I spend the last 2 weeks looking for you. Anything suspicious, anything out of the ordinary, I would go investigate myself. Just incase it somehow involved you. I mean your letter really wasn't helpful." Peter said. Letter? Had Mary written him a letter before she left. "Then I saw that a whole town had pretty much disappeared so I had to check it out. The FBI agents were all around the bubble. I uh- took off my suit so no one knew I was spider-man and just walked up to it. And you took me." Peter said rubbing his neck.

"Do you remember what happened after the bubble pulled you in?" Mary asked. God she hoped she didn't hurt him.

"Yeah, I remember this feeling, of just utter and complete nothingness. This endless pain, I wanted to die it was horrible. Then bliss. I was combing my hair with a bouquet of daisies next to me. Planning on taking you out to a diner. I of course had no control over what I said or did, it was almost like I was on auto-pilot. But the bliss was nice, the denial that anything was wrong. It didn't even phase me to see Mr Stark." He recounted, looking at her. Seeing the regret in her face. "You never hurt me. I was okay. You could never hurt me."