All Of Me (Peter Parker x Reader)

Chapter 55

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Adam ran through the halls, following the sound of (y/n) crying. The whole base was already evacuated as everything shook around him. His legs were tired, his lungs hurt, and his heart was beating like crazy, but he pushed on. He had to find her. She was somewhere, scared, alone, and didn't know what to do. Katherine was checking the upper floors, but it looks like he found her this time.

It was the fifth time this year it had happened. Well into her terrible twos, everyone on base knew what to do when (y/n) got too emotional, but it'd never gotten this bad. It was like an earthquake. As she got older, (y/n)'s emotions got worse as her powers grew. He and Kate always knew she'd become more in tune with her emotions. They could handle that. Albeit, little could be said for her powers. They wanted to help, they just didn't know how.

Everything began to shake again, causing the lights above him to flicker. He heard another fearful scream, but this time it was closer. Adam sprinted in its direction and quickly found himself in front of a supply closet. Opening it, he saw (y/n) in the position that kids learn to go in when there's a tornado. Instead of her hands covering her neck, they were covering her ears. She cried, not knowing he was there. Adam kneeled down slowly and placed his hand gently on her head.

"Ahh!" she screamed, causing a particularly fierce tremor.

Her eyes were glazed over in fear, but one look at him, and was replaced with relief. She gasped, taking her hands off her ears.

"Dad!" she cried, throwing herself at him.

Adam caught her, and pulled her into her chest.

"Shhh, it's ok, it's ok," he told her, trying his best to calm her down with everything going on around them.

"No, it's not! I couldn't calm down and now the Sergeant's going to be really mad! You and Mom are going to get in trouble!" she exclaimed.

"Mom and I will be ok... but what happened?" he asked her nervously.

"K-Katherine said that you guys didn't love me the same way you would if Mom had her own baby, and that I was just a plan B!" (y/n) said.

Adam's eyes widened, and his grip on her.

That little asshole, he thought bitterly.

Katherine has been a growing problem lately. He and Kate had discussed it a few times, out of concern for their daughter, but it never got farther than it would make (y/n) tougher. Guess that all backfired...

"Dad, I'm scared!" (y/n) cried.

Adam snapped out of his thoughts, his full attention once again on the little (h/c) haired girl in his arms.

"I... I know, baby,"

"I don't want to make things scary anymore! I want it to stop! I don't want to be like this anymore! Please!" she continued.

A gut-wrenching feeling grew within him. Sitting there, holding her as she cried trying to control a whole force inside her that no one even knew how it worked in the first place, was killing him. He wanted to help her, but he didn't know how. The only people who might know were dead, one of them by his hand. He hugged her tightly as if he had any hope of shielding her from everything. She needed help that he and Kate couldn't give her...

Adam took a deep breath as the structure around them rumbled, and (y/n) cried harder, a scream tearing through her. At that moment, Adam was her life line. He was keeping her grounded. He needed to help her the only way he could begin to try. He picked her up and sat in the closet with her, closing the door. Turning on the light, it flickered and shook from the ceiling as he sat down with (y/n) between his legs, his back to her chest as he held her much like a child would hold their stuffed animal. (Y/n) sniffled as a feeling of warmth enveloped her, and she felt his chin on her head.

"(Y/n), your Mom and I love you with everything we have, and nothing will change that. And I know it's a bit hard for you right now, but I need you to stop the earthquakes," he said in a calm voice.

"I tried! I tried controlling it, and tried calming down, but it wouldn't work!" she said, closing her eyes.

"Then stop trying, (y/n), and just feel it,"

...

... Feel it...

...

Those words echoed inside her head, and all of sudden, there was no noise, and it was just her and her dad. Something was different. All of a sudden, she wasn't a little girl anymore, and she couldn't feel her Dad's arms around her anymore. Her eyes shot open in a panic, no longer in the closet, but surrounded by white. (Y/n) whipped her head around. When she did, her Dad was still there, standing beside her. His eyes were sad as he tried his best to smile. Did she do that? Why was he sad? Was he sad because she was breaking everything on base? Was that it?

"Feel it? W-what do you mean?" (y/n) asked.

Adam pulled her into a bone-crushing hug, tears falling from his eyes.

"Dad?" she asked timidly, her eyes drying up as confusion took over.

"Stop trying to control it, and let yourself be scared," he told her.

"What?! But if I do that, I'll hurt everything-"

"Shhh... trying to control it is the reason it's getting worse. You need to let it go..." she said.

Pulling away from her, Adam teared up all over again. (Y/n) watched as he cupped her face in his hands, moving her hair from her face. He was looking her over intently, and he placed a kiss on her forehead.

"God, you've gotten so big," he said.

All at once, everything hit (y/n), her memories flooding back to her.

"Dad?" she said again, but he could feel the happy sadness behind the word.

Suddenly, something changed, like how someone noticed when the temperature dropped, or rain is coming based on something in the air. There was nothing visible, but you could feel it. Adam knew what it was.

"You... you can't follow me from here... You have a life down there," he told her.

"W-what?! Wait- NO! Dad, I just saw you again-"

"I know, but it's just not your time, sunshine," he said.

At his words, the whiteness started to crowd her like a thick fog, slowly making him disappear. A tear fell from (y/n)'s eye. He was leaving, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. (Y/n) shook her head and gripped him tightly, hugging him fiercely. Adam hugged her back just as tightly, smiling.

"I love you," he said.

"I love you too," she replied.

"Listen... Just let go, and feel it," he told her.

"I won't destroy everything?" she asked.

"You won't... just... feel,"