To keep you- Miguel O'Hara/Peter B Parker

So, how about tonight?

IVE HAD SO MUCH MOTIVATION. ENJOY.

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Everyone was at a stand still before Gabriella finally spoke up.

"Papa? Who's that?"

Peter waved at Gabriella shyly.

"That's Peter. He's," Miguel paused to look at Peter, "staying the night. Now, let's get you to bed." Miguel got up to tend to his daughter who still stood in the doorway, a quizzical look plastered on her face.

The two walked down the hall, Miguel's hand resting lightly on his daughters back as a sign of reassurance.

"Papa?" Gabriella looked to her father with sleepy eyes.

"Yes?" Miguel looked down at her.

"Will I get to talk to Peter?" She seemed genuinely curious about Peter.

"I suppose in the morning you may."

"Where did he come from? Why is he with you? Are you finally getting married?"

Miguel coughed at Gabriella's last question.

"First of all, no we are not getting married, I met him a few weeks back, and he's with me because, well, because I like him." Miguel confessed.

"Do you like like him?" Gabriella pried.

"Yes, I suppose you could say that. Now, let's get you off to sleep. Do you want me in the room next to you?" Miguel asked, rubbing her back.

"Nope, I want you to be with your Peter in your room! But, can you stay with me for a little while please?" Gabriella asked quietly.

"Of course I can."

And with that, Miguel opened Gabriella's door and helped her into bed. He knelt down on the ground next to her, resting his arm on the edge of her bed. Warm moonlight filtered in through the tall windows on either side of her bed. He lifted his lower arm and began to stroke her nose lightly.

"You're safe, there's no danger here." Miguel whispered to his daughter.

Gabriella hummed into Miguel's soft touch. Miguel continued to comfort his daughter, enjoying the peace he had managed to find. Miguel began to reflect on how far he had come. After his younger brother died, he wasn't sure how he was to go on. He had felt so alone with no loving mother to tend to him and certainly no loving father, he felt so desperately alone. That's when he had made his groundbreaking discovery on the multiverse. He found Gabriella and then Peter found him. It was perfect. Her name being Gabriella was a coincidence but he was glad that it was like his brothers, Gabriel.

Peter had gotten up from Miguel's bed, curious after he didn't return for a while. He figured he had just ended up in the room next to Gabriella's but when he went to check, the room was empty. Peter then decided to check the room next to it.

There lay Gabriella fast asleep with a sleepy looking Miguel on the floor next to her. Peter watched as Miguel's gentle finger stroked Gabriella's nose. There was something so tender about the scene. A father who's loving gaze lay softly over his sleeping daughter. Peter smiled to himself, enjoying the comfort that was draped over the two of them. All at once, Miguel began to stir. He kissed Gabriella on the head and stood up. Miguel and Peter locked eyes and for a moment Miguel seemed embarrassed to see Peter standing in the doorway.

"Sorry." Peter mouthed as Miguel made his way over to him.

Peter was surprised when Miguel's large arms suddenly enveloped his smaller frame. Miguel rested his chin on Peter's shoulder and let out a long sigh. Peter brought his hands to Miguel's hair and kissed him on the ear, something soft. Miguel hummed, enjoying Peter's calm presence.

"Now let's get you to bed." Peter chuckled.

Miguel grumbled and Peter led the sleepy boy back to his room. A perfect parallel to him and Gabriella moments earlier. They slid into bed and Miguel curled himself around Peter. Perfectly balanced peace bestowed upon them.

A month later, the table set for two was now set for three. Miguel, Gabriella, and Peter all shared in frequent laughter over the most peculiar of things. Peter and Miguel had managed to put together a Spider-Man HQ with the help of two other spider people they had come in contact with using Miguel's Gizmo, Jess and surprisingly, another Peter. Although, this Peter was a few years older than Miguel's Peter. They called him Peter B.

"Oh, gotta get Gaby to school!" Peter quickly stood up looking at his watch before dumping his dish in the sink and beckoning for Gabriella to do the same with hers and fetch her bag.

"Good point! And I've gotta get to work!" Miguel said, scrambling away from the table and rushing off to the room that him and Peter now shared.

"See you later sweetie! Have a great day at school!" Miguel called after her.

"Thanks papa!" Gabriella yelled in the direction of Miguel's hurried voice.

"And what about me?" Peter whined.

"You too I suppose, but I'll see you later anyways!" Miguel hollered from down the hall, now rushing to get geared up for a long day at HQ.

He was glad to be out of the coffee shop and finally be able to help benefit people like him. And as an added plus, he got to share his office space with Peter. Because they had designed all of HQ, they were able to design their space together. It was dimly lit because of how sensitive Miguel's eyes were to light, but comfy for Peters own lounging purposes.

Miguel speedily power on his suit and slipped on his Gizmo before opening the portal to HQ. It was a calm day. He watched people converse with each other, he was glad to see how well the place was opporating. It was such a relief to see others similar to him. Of course, he had noticed that they were more similar to Peter than they were to him, but he disregarded that seeing that they all had the same purpose, to protect their cities. As a part of growing their space Peter B had suggested adding a sort of housing unit for spider people who needed a home or simply just a place to briefly rest. Miguel had liked the idea and so the work had began. He walked by where the appartments were being put, happy to see the progress they had made.

Once he had made it to his office, he began to go through files on different spider people. There were two in particular he was looking at. They were younger, but he figured that it may be nice to have some young faces around HQ. One was a boy by the name of Pavitr and the other, Hobie. In a way, his job was to spy on them, but he did enjoy calling it that. How it worked was he looked for candidates, and Peter went to their worlds and set up some spider bots that would track their activity. The activity would then be directly sent to Miguel where he would log it into their filing system with the help of Lyla. At points, as much as he hated to admit it, he really appreciated having Lyla around. She made his life ten times easier in the work space.

Miguel went to look at the progress they had made on Hobie, and unfortunately there wasn't much of anything on the boy. For some reason, the spiders were having a hard time picking up on him. Miguel decided he'd just have Peter go back and check on the bots again.

Just then Miguel felt two warm, soft hands cover his eyes. Hot breath enveloped his ear.

"Boo." The voice whispered, " guess who?" It sang.

"Peter it better be you or else I'd be concerned." Miguel chuckled, prying the hands from his face, turning around to see a smiling Peter.

"Thank goodness." Miguel huffed, kissing Peter lightly on the lips.

He turned back around but Peter remained right behind him.

"So," Peter said, starting to massage Miguel's shoulders, "I was thinking, how about tonight we have a little fun?" Peter bit down on Miguel's ear, making the taller man shiver.

"Sounds like a plan." Miguel turned back around and brought Peter close to his chest before kissing him more aggressively than before.

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The next chapter is gonna be scrumdidly so get excited 😏

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