Hanging On By a Web

10

The group of five spent all night at Pavitr's, watching films, tossing popcorn at each other, playing with Hobie's guitar even when he begged them not to. Time felt too fast when 4 o clock came and Gwen Stacy found herself holding hands with Miles Morales who was soundly asleep. His arm was around her waist and his other hand was intertwined with hers, she didn't dare move, she didn't want to ruin this perfect moment with him. She looked around the room, Gayatri had come over at some point and was quite literally laying on top of Pav who somehow looked comfortable with his arms around her, even though her hair was in his face. Gwen snickered and kept eyeing around when she spotted something that didn't shock her in the slightest.

Hobie Brown was holding Gio close to his bare chest, the smaller of the two was curled up onto him, the hint of a smile on his face and a soft snore coming from him. Hobie's jacket was draped overtop of them and their foreheads were pressed together, Gwen could puke. She noticed though that Hobie's thumb was lightly brushing along Gio's arm which told her that she wasn't the only one awake. She kicked at Hobie who turned ever so slightly to look at her with his brows knit together.

"What?" He whispered loud enough for her to hear, she stuck out her tongue at him.

"Don't let Miles catch you." She teased back at him. He kicked his foot back at her and turned back around to face Gio. Gwen rolled over a bit as well so she could look at the older of the twins, Miles was not a beautiful sleeper at all with his mouth wide open and flinching arm every few minutes. She held in a laugh at him and instead admired all his features that she couldn't validly stare at if he was awake without it being pinned as weird or non-platonic(it wasn't, she wanted him bad). She attempted to keep the thoughts of Giovanni and the canon event out of her mind, but looking so thoughtfully at Miles it was all she could think about. This wouldn't be a problem if Miles hadn't jokingly called Gio Captain Spiderman, what started as a hilarious joke between the two brothers turned into a dark and fucked up reality that they would have to sprint from if they wanted to keep it from happening. Gio knew that it was him or his dad and so did Gwen and shit was that a tough choice to make, deciding fate, who lives and who dies, the most unfair thing Gwen could imagine and she couldn't tell the person it would affect the most. She poked Miles' face to make sure he was asleep still, it was around 4AM and both her and Hobie were still awake so she decided in that moment to spill to Miles, knowing he'd have no clue.

"Something bad is coming Miles. It's going to hurt bad. Someone is going to die and there isn't-" she choked back tears that were violently threatening to spill down her cheeks, "there isn't anything you can do, sunflower. I hope Gio makes the right choice, I hope he doesn't get a complex and decide that he deserves what's coming. I hope he doesn't chose himself. He can't chose himself. And even if he does, I'll be with you every step of the way after, always." She pressed a kiss to his temple and snuggled next to him, closing her eyes and trying to think happy thoughts.

Meanwhile, Hobie Brown was finding it incredibly agonizing to lay still next to Giovanni who was dead asleep. He liked to see Gio resting so peacefully when he had seen the worse of the boys head in the last week. It warmed his cold heart, he wanted nothing more than to protect Gio. To love him and hold him and be able to tell him everything will be alright when he knew it wouldn't be.

Someone always dies in the end, mate. No matter what you got'a keep on truckin'.

Hobie was perturbed by the stupid reasonable voice in his head which sounded a lot like Karl. He wasn't sure how he kept his cool ninety percent of the time, he'd lost three people he was close with, and yet, his inner soul was completely at peace. True bummer that things had to work the way they did, he thought, frustrated with the fact that everything in the universe had it's place and Hobie had to be okay with that. Maybe that was it. Things were just meant to be the way that they were and try as you might, run from it as far as you can, it always catches up, even if you think you've gone to your very last and you've given it all you've got. He held Gio a little tighter, this made him stir and he opened his eyes briefly.

"Hobie?" His voice was barely audible and incredibly groggy. Gio looked up at him and Hobie simply smiled and rubbed Giovanni's back.

"Go back to sleep, love, everything's okay." Hobie comforted, planting a kiss on his forehead. Gio nuzzled his head into Hobie's chest and held onto his arm, snuggling himself back into a comfortable spot. Hobie loved the feeling and held him tight.

"I'll always love you, Giovanni. Please, please make the right choice. Please." Hobie blabbered , saying whatever was sitting on the tip of his tongue, Gio sucked in a breath and groggily answered.

"I already made up my mind, Hobes. Don't worry about it, jus-just go to sleep." He mumbled.

"Then tell me? To ease my mind."

"It's my choice, don't worry about it."

"Giovanni."

Gio shifted and looked up at him, confused almost as to why they were talking about this at 4:30. His eyebrows were furrowed and he rubbed his green eyes with a yawn.

"Why are we talking about this? Can we just like-not think about it? Dad's ceremony is next week so you'll know sooner than later, go to bed."

"I can't rest not knowing what you have in store. You're more clever than you give yourself credit for, darling. I'm all bent out of shape making sure you don't do something mad."

"What if you don't like the answer, Hobes? And you try to stop me from whatever plan I have set?"

"Then so be it? What do you want me to say?"

"That you will not interfere with anything. If need be I'll Fred Jones a way to keep you out of my dimension."

"Just tell me mate."

"I chose myself. Miles won't lose dad."