A Different World

My Family

Peter Stared at those in the room with desperation, hoping that they would help him in his endeavour to get back to his own world.

"Of course we'll help you. You're our friend after all." Otto told him.

Peter was relieved to hear that from him, he wouldn't know where to begin if he had to act on his own. Not to mention that he doesn't know magic so just getting the tablet wasn't going to be enough.

He thanked Otto and Doom as they offered their assistance in helping him return home. However when he looked over to Felicia he could see that she was looking to the side with her head facing away from him, a look of sadness was seen on her features which worried Peter.

He knew that this worlds version of him had died and that by leaving they would never see 'him' again. They had a relationship back in his world so he assumed that they must have had one here as well.

"Hey. Everything alright Fel?" He asked her, using the nickname he used to call her by.

Felicia perked up at the sound of his voice, recognising the nickname her Peter used to call her.

"Yeah. Everything's fine. Just... thinking about how Lorenas taking this." Felicia depressingly said.

"Lorena? Why?" He asked confused.

"Well she... she and you were... together." She answered cryptically.

"Together!... like we dated or something?" He questioned.

"Cat... maybe we shouldn't..." Otto tried to interject.

"He should know." She weakly replied causing Otto to stop.

"Know what? What's going on?" Peter demanded.

"You two were married." Felicia finally told him.

"M-married? Really?" He asked in disbelief.

Felicia nodded in affirmation, looking to towards the others in the room Peter saw both Otto and Doom nod in agreement. He really was married to the White Rabbit, to Lorena.

"I... I can't believe it. I was actually married to one of my villains here." He said under his breath.

"Just a reminder that she's not a villain in this world. Alright." Felicia sternly told him.

"Yea yea... it's just. Wow. I never thought I would have gotten married." He clarified.

"Yea... there's one other thing to that you should know." Felicia continued.

"What?"

"The two of you have a child." She revealed.

Peter was taken aback by her revelation. Not only was he married to someone who in his world is a villain, but he also had a child with her too.

"You've already met her. Sort of." Otto spoke up next getting Peter to spin around to look at him.

"Really? Where?" He asked panicked.

"You met her earlier, when you fought us. She's in the other room. The one in the white spider suit." Otto replied.

"She's... she's my daughter." He realised.

"Yea. She took it hard as you could imagine. A child losing her father like that." Felicia spoke up with evident sadness in her voice.

"Can I... can I see her?" Peter asked hopefully.

"We can take you back into the other room but-" Otto began.

"She may not be ready to speak to you. Really it's up to her to come to you, so don't push it." Felicia answered.

"I understand. I... just want to see her." He requested.

The four went back to the main room were everyone looked towards them as they re-entered. Lorena and Alice were the only exceptions.

"So... what's the verdict." Asked Kraven.

"It would appear that Peter was sent here accidentally via magic cast by the Doctor Strange of his world. Our best guess is that the spell and the tablet used in the spell somehow sent him here, we will try to find the tablet of this world and go from there." Doom announced.

"So... he's trustworthy?" Asked Rhino.

"As far as we could tell, he's still a crime fighting hero... just as we knew him." Otto answered his comrade.

A few of them had smiles on their faces knowing for certain that the Peter in front of them was real and a bonafide hero. Lorena however was still saddened along with Alice who had yet to look at him or in his general direction.

Peter saw them and his eyes immediately fell upon the younger girl. His daughter. Or the other Peters daughter.

He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to face Felicia who had a sympathetic look on her face.

"You can go and talk to them if you like. Just know... that this is hard for her. For both of them." She suggested.

Peter wanted to talk with them but he couldn't bring himself to do so. They were hurting, and him going over there to talk to them would only make things worse for them.

He knew too well how it felt to see someone you once loved die, come back to life just to disappear from your life again. It felt like a cruel joke, like the world was mocking him.

"N-no... I don't think I should. Not yet anyway." He said to Felicia.

His eyes lingered on them both, just sitting there comforting each other through a very difficult and confusing time right now. However he soon found himself in direct eye contact with his daughter, who had just looked up and saw him staring them.

His eyes widened and he wanted to look away but his body froze, not allowing him to move even a single inch or to avert his gaze in the slightest.

Her eyes fell upon him and the longer she stared the sadder she grew, the man in front of her looked so much like her father... but he was gone. It didn't matter if he was a version of him from another world, her dad, her real dad was gone, he may as well be an imposter, some shape shifter or clone or robot. He wasn't him.

She could never accept him, her dad was gone forever and he wasn't going to replace him. 'I will never accept him. He won't replace him. He's not part of my family.'