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 looked like he had found her this time.

It was the fifth time this year it had happened. Even though she was well past 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, her powers had started to grow alongside her emotions. He and Kate always knew she'd have to figure out her feelings as she aged. They could handle that. However, the same thing couldn't be said for her powers. They wanted to help, but how could they? He and Kate weren't like her in that regard, and it was their biggest fear for the future. The fear of not preparing your child.

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 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 they were 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.

"N-no, it's not! I couldn-n-n-n't calm down, and now the Sergeant's going to be r-r-re-eally m-mad! You and Mom are going to get in tro-ubble!" she sobbed.

"Hey, don't worry, Mom and I will be ok. 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 tightened.

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...

"D-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 don't want to be like this anymore! I want it to stop! 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 lifeline. He was keeping her grounded. He needed to help her the only way he could. Stepping inside, 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, and nothing will change that. You are our real daughter, blood or not... 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 to control it, and just feel it,"

...

Feel it...

...

Those words echoed inside her head, and all of a 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-"

Adam placed his hands on either side of her head, directing her eyes at him. "Shhh... trying to control it is the reason it's getting worse. (Y/n), take it from me, you can't control what you feel. You never will, and that's not a bad thing. What you feel isn't bad. But what you can learn to control is how you react to those feelings," he told her.

As he stared at her in return, he teared up all over again. (Y/n) watched as he studied her face, one of 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.

Those words seemed to be magic. All at once, everything hit (y/n), her memories flooding back to her. "Dad?" she said, and he could feel the happy sadness behind the word.

Suddenly, something changed, like how someone noticed when the temperature dropped, or rain was 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...let yourself feel,"