Electric Heart (Pietro Maximoff)

Chapter 10: Homecoming

-Chapter Vibes-

True Blue - Billie Eilish

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Alyson's bedroom was dark, clothes and dishes were laying around disorderly but she didn't care. Her blonde hair had now mostly faded back to her natural brown color and she was lying in bed with the blanket pulled over her head, Pietro's hoodie covering her body, and her laptop in front of her playing a random rom-com that she wasn't even paying attention to.

She had been this way for weeks, and hardly left her room. Couldn't exactly go outside anyway; being a fugitive and all.

But she was starting to use that as an excuse to hide from the world.

There was a hard knock on the door, before it opened and Alyson groaned as light poured in from the hallway.

May strolled over and sat on the bed next to her pulling the blanket away from Aly's face. "Why don't you come sit in the living room?" her aunt asked but Alyson shook her head not taking her eyes off her computer.

May sighed then stood up turning on the lights as Alyson hissed, "come on, it's too dark in here I'm worried you're gonna turn nocturnal."

Alyson flickered her wrist and the lights turned back off "I can't go anywhere anyway so it wouldn't make a difference. Where's Peter?"

"He's running late, something about needing to go to the bank I don't know but Ned is coming over in a little while so... you know come out while you can, I know no ones supposed to see you Aly.. but you don't have to hide away in here."

Alyson's head turned towards the window, her attention steering away from her Aunt at "something about needing to go to the bank", she knew what that really meant.

After an unsure frown from May, she patted Aly on the shoulder and left the room, as soon as she was out of earshot Alyson rummaged through the blankets for her phone.

She waited impatiently for it to ring before hearing a series of grumbling followed by a breathy "Hey... what's up?"

"You're out spider-manning!" she grunted down the phone in an accusing tone, Peter scoffed "what? no" then she heard the motion of a web shooter and hummed questionably.

"Okay maybe? Look I know I said I would keep a low profile, just friendly neighborhood spider-man stuff but these guys had weird guns and then broke into the bank and I just had to.."

"Do you want me to come help?" she asked eagerly but Peter sighed "I've got it and you know you can't it's too risky and you just... one second."

There was silence for a moment whilst she heard a bunch of mumbling and muffled voices from the other side before Peter picked up the phone again "honestly I'm fine, I'll be home soon can you put on a frozen pizza for me? I'll be back before it's finished."

Aly sighed then agreed hanging up the phone, she felt useless. She wanted to help or do something, she hated that Peter was out there alone but she also knew that he'd become a lot stronger and could handle himself, however he was still her little brother after all and she wanted to be out there fighting beside him, even to just distract herself for a couple of hours.