Rue gets her powers five months before Peter. When the two spiders meet they team up and make a deal. She's supposed to teach Peter how to be a better Spiderman, meanwhile he helps her catch up with her math classes. A strong friendship is created b...
Mj showed up around ten minutes after, in clearly the first thing she had found to wear. Her hair was up in a bun, but I couldn't care less about how she looked. I got up from the booth as soon as I had spotted her and she had spotted me.
"What's this about?" she asked seeming worried already. I hadn't even prepared what I was gonna say.
Hey Mj, your best friend has just been abducted by our worst enemy.
I nervously looked down at my feet and then up at her, having transformed my eyes even redder. "Okay seriously you're kinda freaking me out," she chuckled nervously and leaned her head forward an inch, signaling for me to just spit it out.
"Rue got... taken. On a mission... and I don't know if we'll get her back," my cracking voice made her jaw drop only enough so her mouth was just parted.
"What! oh my god!" she exclaimed and quickly hugged me.
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"When?" she asked as she took a step back holding me by my shoulders. I wiped a tear away and sat down at the booth. As a reflex, she followed after me and sat down at the opposite side from mine.
"Earlier tonight," I sniffled and took a sip of the water I had ordered, just to keep the one lady in the diner satisfied. Mj swallowed a big lump in her throat and asked me if she could have some the water. I was of course already on my way to say yes, when she took the glass and then a sip. "I thought you deserved to know... that's why I called you," I in a careful tone said to her. She ran her fingers over her right cheek, wiping a tear herself and then nodded while looking down at the table.
"Thank you," she whispered, clearly still in shock. "Have you told Ned?" she asked and looked up.
"No... if he asks I'll tell him ,but the fewer people who know, the fewer people are in danger," I said as I fiddled with the cover of my phone down on the table. There was suddenly a buzzing but it didn't come from my phone. Mj looked at the screen and sighed.
"I'm so sorry I have to go already, but my mom is blowing up my phone," she got up from the seat and I did too. She hugged me again, very tightly while letting out sniffles. "Promise me you'll find her," she whispered in my ear and retracted from the hug. Her eyes were watery and red as she shot me a not so comforting smile.
"I will," I uttered as she headed out the door and the small ding from the door ringed. I sat back down in the booth and rubbed my hands over my face.
"RUE NO!" I sat up and screamed as loud as I could, out into the dark living room. I looked around the room panicked, before realizing it had just been a dream.
"Peter are you okay?!" I heard Rue ask frightened, as she appeared in the doorway. I noticed how rapid I was breathing, and put a hand to my chest, in order to calm myself down a little. She raced over to me, sat down on the sofa and gently put her hand to my forehead and brushed some of my hair back. I gotta be honest and say it helped a whole lot, with the calming me down process, but it was safe to say I was still in chock. "Nightmare?" she asked. I swallowed a big lump in my throat, and looked down.
"Yeah," I whispered, and noticed her hand down on my bedsheets. I felt the urge to take in and let our fingers intervene, just to make sure she really was there.
"Sir are you alright?" a lady's voice intervened with my flashback and I was pulled back into my reality. I looked up to my left where the lady was holding a can of water in one hand and a small yellow legal pad in the other.
"Sorry what'd you say?" I asked and rubbed my eyes to wake them up again. She sighed, obviously being annoyed at me. If only she knew what I was going through at that moment.
"Would you like a refill?" she asked and glanced down at my empty glass.
"Uhh no that's okay," I found a few dollars in my back pocket and handed them to her. "That should be enough," I nodded politely to her as I got up from the seat and exited the diner.
I rode the almost empty subway home, with my EarPods filling my ears with music. I voluntarily decided to torture myself and open up Rue's playlist on Spotify. I scrolled through her endless amounts of playlists and eventually reached the end. The playlist at the bottom caught my eye. Peter. It was named Peter... I looked to my left and right to make sure no one was there. "Damn it Rue," I uttered as I clicked into the playlist. The very first song on the playlist...
Yesterday
My finger glided over the screen and clicked upon where the song was. I was immediately met with the soothing guitar and the voice of Paul McCartney.
Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay Oh I believe in yesterday...
It was the first song we listened to together and now I was sitting on a train headed for the avengers facility crying over the fact that yesterday... I had everything I ever wanted and now... it was all gone. Rue was gone. They had told me that they of course would find her and that she would be okay, but this voice inside my head told me differently.
You'll be disappointed Peter.
In what, I couldn't exactly know yet. But I just hoped that it would be because we couldn't find her immediately but that we eventually would.
Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be There's a shadow hangin' over me Oh yesterday came suddenly
I kept thinking about how that mission could have gone so wrong. I needed the whole story from somebody and I needed it immediately, otherwise I would explode in my own mind.
Why she had to go I don't know She wouldn't stay I said something wrong Now I long for yesterday...
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I just want someone to love me as Peter loves Rue🤧
