The Tragedy of Mary Jane Stark

The Deal

Harry just had a concussion, Michelle took him to her parents house that evening. Peter went out looking for venom again. Mj was dreading his return.

"Hey." Pete said gently. Mj was half asleep on their bed. She tried to pretend to be asleep. He could tell she was faking it. "Mj."

"No I'm sleeping." Mj whined.

"Very convincing."'Peter chuckled lightly.

"So what did you do tonight?" Mj rolled over to look up at him. He played with her hair.

"Well I helped this lady to her car, she was scared to leave the gas station by herself so late at night. Some man was eating scraps out of the dumpster so Miles gave him his snacks he always brings. We saved a cat that fell into the sewer. Stopped a couple of muggings. But it was relatively quiet tonight." Peter said sleepily.

"Well that's good." Mj said.

"Oh wait, don't distract me, how the hell did you know that 'venom' things name. Why did it listen to you, how does it know you?"

"It's eddie." Mj said sheepishly. "But he promised me venom wouldn't eat anyone else. So he lied."

"Oh my god Mj you did not have a face to face conversation with an alien man. He could have eaten you!" Peter groaned. "Sorry I didn't mean to yell."

"But he didn't. It listens to me, it likes me." Mj huffed. "And it was honestly more of an argument then a conversation." She mumbled.

"That doesn't make it any better. But was that why he was mad?" Peter sighed and kissed her cheek.

"I have no idea. He has anger issues. Well I stopped him from eating Harry so." Mj said "of course it had to find Harry." Mj morbidly laughed. Peter chuckled too.

"Sure glad Spider-Man was there huh." Peter smirked and Mj laughed.

"Peter do you think I'm cursed? Or like the Stark name." Mj said quietly.

"Why would you be cursed." Peter questioned

"Well just look Howard, he was a genius that got murdered because of his name and power. Dad was basically murdered by the gauntlet. I mean we bring destruction everywhere we go. Howard had a lot of enemies, Dad has even more. And look at me, look what my cursed pulled in. An alien creature, your best friends dad being a potential psychopath. You being bit by a radioactive spider, dad dying, me enslaving a town. It doesn't feel like a coincidence anymore." She said slowly.

"Aww come on Mj, curses aren't real. I promise." Peter didn't know how to comfort her. She had a point, but it wasn't logical to believe in curses. He was still shaken over his dream so he wasn't thinking straighten

"What was wrong tonight. You were on edge." Mj gently kissed his neck. The sun was slowly raising.

"Eh just nervous I guess." He played it off.

"Are you sure?" Mj asked sincerely.

"Yeah, Miles was just freaking me out. You know how good he is with that." Peter chuckled.

"Yeah, he really knows what to say to stress you out." Mj laughed too. "I'm planning on sleeping in just so you know, the sun may be shining but I'm not rising." Mj laughed and hid her head in his shoulder to block out the sun.

"Okay me neither." Peter laughed and laid on his back.

They woke up in the middle of the day, Peter didn't get much sleep, he spent most of the morning keeping the sun out of Mj's face. After his nightmare he was afraid to sleep. Now he knew what Mj went through in her dreams, living through his death.