Love From Another Universe

~16~

We exit through the portal to another version of New York City. This one seems to be more brighter than mine or Peter's. "Okay so the first thing we need to do is look for Peter 2." I say turning to my Peter. He's looking out onto the city, clearly not paying any attention to what I just said.

I walk towards him and place my hand on his shoulder, "Peter?". He turns to me with a brightness in his eyes that I have never seen before. "That was so cool! You just type it into your watch and it takes you there!" I nod my head, "Yeah, basically." He looks at me still amazed. He grabs my wrist with the watch in it to inspect it. He mutters to himself something I don't understand, he's like a kid in a candy store.

Then what I was afraid of happens, he glitches. He tumbles backwards. I rush over to him while he's groaning in pain. "What was that." He asks looking at me scared. "What I was afraid of, glitching." "Why am I the only one that's glitching? You aren't." I start to freak out a little bit, "My watch prevents me from glitching." I start to think about how we can fix this situation.

"Okay you might not like this idea," I started to say, " but we are going to find Peter 2 first before I do anything." He looks at me suspicious, "I'm gonna to go back to head quarters to get you a watch." "You can't do that y/n, what if he catches you?" "He won't, I'll make sure of it. But as I said, we need to find Peter first." I finish the conversation there and start thinking.

This can't be hard, he should be swinging around here somewhere. I can't have Peter swinging through the city because he could fall when he glitches. Wait, if Peter 3 is a photographer, maybe this one is as well. I look down at Peter, "We are going to the Bugle. Grab onto my hand, I can't have you swinging around and then you glitch." Angry at his condition, he grabs my hand.

He grabs onto me while I hold him with my free arm. I start swinging around. I look around for the Bugle offices. I image being a famous newspaper company, your building would have a giant sign with your name on it. I was correct because after a few minutes I see the big red neon lights that say The Bugle.

I land on the side of the building so that no one would see me. I start to crawl down the wall with Peter in my hand when he glitches, he starts to fall. I shoot a web at him, he senses it and catches it. I take a deep breathe. I lower him down and he lands on his feet. I jump off landing behind him.

"Okay, just need to find Peter and then get out." I repeat to myself. I try my best to keep my composure with Peter around to not freak him out. He doesn't know what happens if you are in another universe for too long and I don't want him to find out.

We round the corner of the building. I open the glass doors that have a cursive B as the door handle. Peter walks in and I rush behind him. We take quick glances around us to see if we could spot him. Nope.

I walk to the front desk. "Hello, I was wondering if Peter Parker had come in at all today?" The receptionist looks up from her computer, "I believe so." She continues to type away on her computer. Why do I have such bad luck with receptionist?

"Is he still here?" I ask, without looking up from her computer she responds, "I don't know." I sigh and roll my eyes. She seems too preoccupied to notice if I just walked passed her, so that's what I did. Peter followed me surprised. "Look at you, breaking the rules!" "You got me on a bad path, Parker." I chuckle.

We continue to look through the building. I turn to Peter, "We need to find him soon, does this look like your Bugle at all?" He shakes his head, "No, this look's completely different than mine." I sigh.

He can't be in here with glitches. "Peter, go to the bathroom and stay there. You can't have people here see you glitch. I will knock on the bathroom door three times when I find him. Got it?" He nods and starts walking over to the bathroom.

I walk through the building some more until I reach a room that looks like an office. It's made of glass but has a singular desk in it towards the back. This must be the bosses office. I start to walk over to the door and I see two younger men in there talking with an older gentleman who is sitting at the desk. I sense that I know one of the younger boy. It must be Peter!

I wait until their conversation was over, which felt like forever. The guy that I didn't know walks out first and starts arguing with Peter about how he will get the better picture of Spiderman and how he's going to get hired. I stand there with my arms cross waiting for Peter to either notice me or until their argument was over. Eventually, the bickering ended. Peter walked by not even noticing me.

I fast walk over to him and tap him on the shoulder, "Peter 2." When I said that, he immediately turned around surprised. "Y/n!" He hugs me. "What are you doing here!" "Well you said I could visit anytime right?" He nods, he's clearly excited to see me.

"We also have a situation." I say guiding him to the bathroom. I knock on the door three times, just like how I told Peter 3 I would. He opens the door, the two peters stand there looking at each other, shocked. After a few seconds, they hug each other laughing, expressing how much they missed each other. "I don't want to ruin your bro moment, but we need to go to a private place." 

Peter 2 looks at the both of us and nods, "Follow me, I'll take you to my apartment."

Peter 2 guided us through the building to the door. We turn left when we exited through the door. We walked in silence for a few until I had Peter 3 moan in pain. I look next to me and he's glitching again. I grab him and hold him in my arms. This hurts me so much to see him in pain like this. "It's okay Peter, I got you." I look up at Peter 2, "I'll explain on the way."

While I held up Peter 3, I explained to Peter 2 out situation. Disobeying Miguel, going into Peter 3's universe, Miguel finding me, and now this. We walk in silence after my long, and fast, explanation.

"So, you lovebirds are together." Peter 2 blatantly says. Shocked, I start to stutter, "Uh- I don't, I.. I don't know." I look over at the almost passed out Peter 3, "I really like him. I know it sounds weird because we barely know each other, but we just click you now." He nods, " I get it. I'm happy for you guys." He smiles at me and I return the smile.

Finally we reach his apartment. He puts in the code and leads us upstairs. "So, uh, there are no elevators." I look at him, "What." He laughs, "I'm not doing this, what floor?" "Fifth." I reposition Peter to be on my back with his hands around my neck. I web his hands together so he doesn't fall. I use my web to lift us up to the fifth flight of stairs. I see a flash by me, Peter 2 jumps in front of me on the railing.

He steps off the railing and takes Peter 3 off of me. I stretch my sore back. He takes us to his apartment and unlocks it. "Mj, I'm home!" He calls out. I hear someone run over to the door. I wave to her, "Do you remember that battle in another universe I told you about," She nods her head in shock. "Well this is y/n," he gestures to me, I wave saying hi, "and this is Peter 3, one of the other Peters." He points to a passed out Peter 3.

"Pleasure to meet you guys." Mj says, offering her hand. She definitely doesn't look like Peter 1's Mj. She has bright red hair that stand out compared to their mostly modern looking apartment. "Pleasure to meet you too." I say shaking her hand.

Peter 2 sets Peter 3 on the couch. I tell Peter my plan of going back to head quarters to get him a watch. "This is crazy y/n. I wouldn't be surprise if you're one of the most wanted people there!" He exclaims, "I know but it's the risk I'm willing to take." I say looking at Peter 3 snoring on the couch. Peter 2 looks at his Mj who is grabbing him a glass of water.

"I promise I'll be careful." I say standing up. "Thank you guys for the hospitality, and for babysitting." I say laughing while looking at Peter 3. "I'll be back in a few." I turn around and set my watch destination to HQ.

The portal opens, I take a deep breathe and step through.