Shattered - Book 2 (Gwen Stacy x Male Reader)

Reconnecting

Y/N POV
    I woke up on the couch, the tv sat in front of me. "Norman Osborn died this morning. No details have been released, but we do know this. Oscorp is to be handed down to his son, Lucas Osborn." I stood up. "Osborn? He never told me… His name is Osborn?" I asked myself. My door knocked and I answered it, seeing Luke there. "I heard about-" Man this is awkward. "I need your help." He told me. We sat at my table. 

"What do you need, Luke?"
"My dad had a disease. Genetic."
"Do you?"
"That's why I'm here. The only way to save me is your blood."
"I thought you wanted nothing to do with me."
"I want to live. As much as I hate you."
"Luke, I can't. I don't know what it'll do to you."
"So that's it. You're gonna let down your best friend again?"
"Luke, this is to protect you."

    He grabbed a glass from my table and through it at the wall, yelling. He collapsed in a violent wave of coughs. "Luke." I tried to help him up but he swatted my hand away. "It's okay. I didn't expect anything more from such a selfish person." Luke stormed out, leaving my door open.

Luke POV

    I went back to Octavius. "He won't help." I said. "Then we'll make him." He replied, turning around from his work station. Four tentacle arms stretched from his back, lifting him into the air. "Where's mine?" I asked with a smirk. "First, there's someone else we should recruit." Otto told me.

Y/N POV
    It's been a surprisingly quiet few weeks since Vulture. Nothing new is happening besides the usual petty crimes, stopped by yours truly. But if there's one thing I know, calm just means the storm is coming. My phone rang. I answered Gwen's call. "Hey…"

    I met her at some shop on the street. She smiled, which spread to me. "Hey, hi." I said. "Hi." "You look amazing." I complimented Gwen. "I'm sorry for the spontaneous out reaching." She told me. "No, I-spontaneous. It's alright, you know." I stuttered. "Well, I just figured it was time. Time, we try to be friends." Gwen offered.

    She smiled at me. "Friends, yeah. Okay. "I just don't want this to be complicated." She said. "I was just saying that to someone, I hate complicated." "Let's keep it simple." "Okay, great. But I mean," We started to walk. "If we're gonna be friends, we gotta establish some ground rules." "Some ground rules?" "Yeah. Ground rules."

    Gwen was laughing, "Like what?" "Well, that laugh. That's off the table." I joked. "My laugh is off th-" "That laugh is off-you gotta figure out a more annoying laugh." I joked as Gwen tested out a new one. "That's still adorable." I joked. "That was not adorable, that wasn't adorable." Gwen laughed. "Okay, I have a ground rule. Uh… don't tell me that I look amazing. With your big E/C eyes, okay?" Gwen asked, as I gave her puppy eyes as a joke.

    She mumbled, "I'm really serious about that one." "Oh, no." "What?" Gwen asked. "I just figured out the next ground rule." "What?" "No more of this." I brushed my nose with my finger, mimicking what Gwen does. "No more of this little nose rub thing you do." "This?" Gwen asked, demonstrating how cute she is. "What am I supposed to do? It's allergy season." Gwen said as she rubbed her nose. "This is killing me. You're just spitting in the face of my ground rules, I'm out." I joked, walking away.

    Gwen laughed as I walked away. "Come on." I returned to say, "First we get ice cream, and then I'm out."

    Me and Gwen started to walk in a random direction again. "I still need to do my graduation speech for you." Gwen remembered. "How could I have missed that?" I joked. "Well, you were busy building sand castles." Gwen joked as we kept talking. She launched into another story. "Um, yeah. So I did that. And I got completely addicted to this place that has korean meatballs. Have you been there?" "Yeah, I know." "It's mind blowing." "Yeah, that place on sixth. You love it there." I admitted, only realising what I said after I did so. "How do you know that?" Gwen asked me as I walked towards a tree. "Cause, um, you told me." I dodged.

    She had me cornered. "It just opened last month… Have you been following me?" She asked. "I knew it. How often?" She asked. "Just once a day." "Oh, boy. Why? Make sure I'm safe?" "Yeah, and because it's the closest I can get to still being with you." Silence overtook the noise. I got lost in Gwen's eyes, feeling myself drift closer to her, until our lips were just inches away. "I'm moving to England." Gwen blurted out.

    She pulled away. "I cured my powers and I'm moving to England." She explained. "What?" "Yeah, I reversed the mutation, and I'm up for a scholarship to Oxford. In molecular medicine. And it's between me and this other kid, and there's this oral exam we have to do and he's like a freshman in college, but he's fourteen. And it could be him but it might be me, I hope it's me. And I'm gonna go-and I'll be moving to England." Gwen ranted.

    What? "Wow." I said, still caught on 'reversed the mutation'. "Yeah, and I'm really excited." She smiled. "That's, uh, england. No powers." I stuttered as my spider sense went off. I looked down the street, where something was happening at Times Square.

    I left before Gwen even turned around.