The Tragedy of Mary Jane Stark

Over it

                         After the Tragedy

It has been two weeks since Mary Jane was set to go home. The closure she had gotten with Tony really made her feel better, yes she was still grieving but it was never as painful to deal with like it was before. Morgan was such a sweet girl, unfortunately Mary didn't pay attention to her before her 'tragedy' as she called it. Poor aunt May was frantic, worried where Peter had been. So Peter and Mary spent a week with May to make her feel better, they refused to leave each other alone.

The wristlets didn't bother her as much, Bruce was right it felt like she was wearing nothing at all. After spending a week with May, they went back to stay in Peppers cabin, not wanting to leave her for too long. One morning Morgan, Pepper, Peter, and Mary Jane were all sat at the table, eating breakfast. Pepper had just sat down after getting off a phone call.

"Who was that?" Mary asked.

"Just a contractor- speaking of that Happy is coming over too watch Morgan. I have to go out this after noon for- well I'm just going out." She said beginning to eat.

"Wait where are you going? Contractor for what?" Mary asked. Peters eyes went wide. Mary wasn't supposed to know anything. Peter tried to distract her.

"Hey we can go watch the stars tonight, I can row us out on the lake, that could be cool right?" Peter said putting his head in-front of Mary's view from Pepper. Pepper herself trying to leave the table.

"Uh- what are you guys hiding from me." She said knowing exactly what Peter was doing.

"Nothing!" Both Peter and Pepper shouted in unison.

"I think they are hiding something." Morgan said without lifting her head from eating her eggs.

"Mj it's nothing, really just work stuff right Pep?" Peter said with a little shaky voice.

"Yeah! Just Stark industries stuff you know how it is." She smiled a very fake smile, Mary Jane now concerned.

"What are you guys hiding? Oh god was it something I did." She said. She was still horrified, knowing what the radiation influenced her to do.

"Well, oh I think we just need to tell her." Pepper said turning to Peter.

"Shhh." Peter said now whispering, "I- I just- I'm worried it will upset her." He said looking back at Mary.

"Pete? I've been doing better, I think I'll be okay to know, what would upset me?" She said now getting up towards Peter and Pepper.

"Mary Jane, the people of Maple Twine Park... aren't too happy with what happened. So I'm getting both of the statues cleaned off and moved to Central Park."

"Cleaned off? Last time I saw them they looked brand new." Of course the poor people of that city would be mad at her. She expected that for sure.

"Well that's the thing Mj, they kinda vandalized the statues. Just-." He took a breath. "Look what they did." He said pulling up an imagine on his phone.

Mary saw the statues covered in spray paint, the word witch spelled across her statues eyes. Cunt, bitch, whore. All the words you could think off where painted all along the statue along with death threats. The words terrorist and the like also on her statue and on the arc reactor core. Peters side of the statue was perfectly untouched.

"Wow." She said giving Peter is phone back. She shook her head.

"I'm sorry- we didn't say anything Mj. I was just worried it would upset you." Peter said grabbing her hands.

"No it's okay, that was very sweet of you two to look out for me, but I kind of figured something like that would happen. Guess I'm just exiled from there." She slightly smiled at her joke.