Elseworld: Spider-Man FanFic

Ch. 5-🥷🏼Eddie🥷🏼Brock🥷🏼

-2 years later-
Peter wakes up at around 5:45 AM next to Gwen."Good morning sweetheart" he whispers while kissing her forehead. She awakes. "Good morning Petey." Gwen sleepily says, smiling. Peter smiles back before getting outta bed and heading downstairs to make them something to eat for Breakfast but couldn't exactly find anything to eat. Plus at the time they both were actually kinda way too broke and poor to actually get any groceries. The only reason they can afford this place is because Aunt May was helping them out. Cpt. Stacy helped too but only because he was looking out for his daughter. "Ah fuck it!" Peter calls out but not too loud cause he didn't want Gwen to hear him. But of course she did. "What's wrong Pete?" She straight up asks him. Not wanting to lie to her, he just flat out told her. "Well baby, we're about outta food and we don't really have enough money to buy any groceries." She looks disappointed. "My dad and your Aunt May...." She starts but Peter interrupts her. "NO! If we ask them to help then Aunt May will think I need to come home & CPT. Stacy already doesn't trust me or think I can take care of you." He tells her quickly. "Well then Peter..... I don't know." Gwen says while throwing her hands up. Peter goes back to their room to change. Gwen follows him. "Where are you heading off to?" Peter continues to put on some pants and a long sleeved blue shirt with a dark gray sweater vest over it over his Spider-Man outfit before answering her. "Work babe, JJ wants me to come to work early." Peter gives Gwen a kiss on the cheek before getting to the front door. "Bye Petey" she says with a wave.

   Peter gets to the front desk. "Hey Betty" Peter says to Mrs. Brant who jerks up at the mention of her but realizes it's just Peter so she relaxes. "Hey Peter " she says before we hear JJ on the loudspeaker. "PERKER! GET BACK HERE AND MEET A REAL REPORTER!!! MR. BROCK HERE IS THE REAL DEAL!! HOPEFULLY HE'S GONNA BE THE MAN TO ACTUALLY GET A PHOTO OF SPIDER-MAN WITH HIS HAND IN A COOKIE JAR!!!" Peter smiles at Betty. "Duty calls I guess..." he says to Betty, who laughs.

   Peter gets to JJ's office and sees a very big and muscular man with blonde hair and blue eyes who he didn't recognizes as his old friend. Eddie Brock does however does recognizes Peter. "Come on Perkers! You're burning daylight!" JJ yells at Peter, who actually wasn't going that slow. "Aie Petey, remember me bud?" Eddie asks Peter who looks the same as JJ because they're both looking confused. "From ESU?" He asks Peter. When he mentioned his college, it automatically clicks. "Hey bro!" Peter enthusiastically says to Eddie. Eddie daps Peter up. "WAIT!! You two....know each other?" JJ asks them, looking dumbfounded. "KNOW EACHOTHER!? This man is the reason I even passed." He says as he claps Peter, who seems to grow in pride, on the back. "Heyo, Eaddie? I thought you were with what's her name, umm Anne Weying?" At the mention of one of Brock's exes, he looked angry for a split second but then he smiles so maybe he has something he's hiding or maybe Peter's just seeing things. "Ah Peter! I realized that bitch wasn't worth my time." Brock informed Peter. "Oh well....I'm sorry...." Peter starts. "NO! DON'T BE SORRY!! THAT BITCH DESERVED IT!" Eddie automatically yells. The rest of the office started slowly coming over to hear him & Peter, who's actually trying, but obviously failing to deescalate the situation. "Ok, ok, calm down bro" Peter says as Eddie  calms down and smiles again. 'Damn? Whatever happened to Anne Weying?' Peter thinks.

-three hours later-

"Hey bro? It's lunchtime, come find something with me!" Eddie says to Peter. Peter scoffs, "You've been here just as long as I have except for the military training you had but New York hasn't changed that much." He laughs at this. "I know, I know, I'm just trying to give you a reason to get outta here while still being paid." Eddie responds to which, while laughing, Peter just looks at him. "That won't work, I don't have a definite salary, JJ pays me based on how much work I have actually gotten done. So if I get nothing done then I will either A-get fired or, hopefully, B-just not get paid for the day." Peter tells Eddie who looks disappointed that his plan didn't work out the way he wanted it to.

After the work day's done, Eddie tries again. "So....now can we go somewhere?" Peter had to shut him down again. "Can't bro" he replies to him. "And why not this time?" Eddie asks, getting frustrated. "Well first off it's boring when you've been here your whole life and second because my girlfriend is waiting for me" he says to Eddie. "Oh so you're girlfriend is more important than your BEST friend?" Eddie asks, putting emphasis on 'best'. "What about when you shut me out while dating that Anne Weying chick?" Peter retorts to which Eddie gets red in the face. 'Probably from embarrassment' Peter thinks before Eddie explodes. "THAT WASN'T MY FAULT!!! I DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL HER!!!" Peter just looks surprised. "Woah woah wait, KILL her? Like K I double hockey sticks KILL her? Like she's 6 feet under ground physically but spiritually she's up there?" Peter points towards the sky but Eddie just holds his head and mutters "I didn't mean to, I didn't mean to, God I swear I didn't mean to" Peter just awkwardly pats Eddie on his back. "It's.....it's ok Eddie" he stutters to Eddie, not sure if it's what he should be hearing right now because Eddie automatically stands up with anger in his eyes. "NO! IT'S NOT OK!! DON'T YOU GET IT!? SHE'S NO LONGER BREATHING!! BECAUSE OF ME!? SHE CAN'T WATCH HER SON GROW UP!!! BECAUSE OF ME!" After that he just runs out the door, leaving Peter not knowing what to do so he just stands there in silence.

I mean, obviously, Peter did report the situation to the police. "Wait! Are you sure he told you that he killed her?" Yuri asked Peter. "Well I'm sure he didn't say he killed her with his cooking because as long as I've known Eddie, he CAN'T cook. Like AT ALL so he he doesn't even try. Though that could be HOW he killed her..." Peter replies while laughing. "PETER!" Yuri exclaims "now isn't the time to make jokes." He stands up in Yuri's office. "I'm sorry Yuri, I make jokes in tense situations, it's......how I cope..." Peter slowly tells Yuri.

Later when Peter gets home and his doorbell goes off. Peter goes to check it and sees it's just Mr. Modell. Peter hasn't talked to Max since he had left Horizon Labs except for a few times that Peter just wanted to checked up on him. "Hey Mr. Modell, how are you?"  Peter asks Max. "I'm good Peter and please, just Max will be fine. What Spider-Man stuff's going on with you since the Goblin War?" Max replies to Peter, who had completely forgot that Max actually knew he was Spider-Man. "What? What Spider-Man stuff? I'm not Spide...." Peter starts to him. "Peter!?" Max interrupts him, laughing. "I've  long known you're Spider-Man since after you became my lab assistant and took the V-252." Peter is silent for a moment. "Oh...." Max speaks up again. "So again how's the spider stuff going?" Peter thinks for a moment. "It's going alright" he tells Max. "Oh you know how Horizon Labs got bought by Alchemax?" Peter asks Max. He hears Max give a deep sigh. ".....yes I know" Max says with a deep sense of sadness in his voice. "Come on Max, don't be sad. Come work for me at Parker Institute For Technologies and I'll pay double." Peter practically begs Max. "Double? You must need ALOTTA help" Max replied to Peter who answers. "Parker Industries needs you Max"

-3 hours later-

   After Max finally gives in as a *ring* sounds and a blue eyed blonde muscular guy comes in. "Hello Mr. Parker, I'm Eddie Brock." he holds his hand out but not at Peter, he holds it out to Max. "I'm not Peter mister Brock" Max laughs while telling him. "Well....if you're not Mr. Parker then who is? It's not this kid right?" He says pointing behind him at Peter who pipes up. "Fuck off Eddie! You know who I am. Also this IS MY company and the man you were just talking to is Mr. Max Moddell." Peter says as he laughs at Eddie, who just looks at Peter like he's a snake, waiting for the kill. Peter puts his hand down. "Hello Mr. Brock, how did you hear about our job opening?" He asks Eddie instead. "Well I read about your job opening in the Daily Prophet." Eddie tells Peter who's eyes widen in surprise. "Really? Wow! I thought JJ hated me." Eddie laughs at this. "What? When I was a reporter there he really only liked my pictures of Spider-Man but...nothing else really." Peter tells Eddie, who again laughs at. "Also because you like to talk in your sleep and you have fallen asleep at work before." Peter gets embarrassed.