Time wasn't in our favor - Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) x reader

Happy Ending

The girl ran through the portal without any hesitation, jumping slightly when she saw it closed straight away. Cautiously exiting the alley, the girl gulped as she realized how reckless she was being - entering another universe with no plan beforehand. How was she going to find Peter?

It has been seven days, three hours and thirty-two minutes since he left his soulmate's universe.

Right after returning to his own world, Peter checked his tattoo. When he did, staring back at him was no longer the faded gray spider web tattoo. In its place was now a red spider tattoo. It was as if the world hated him, and to show this evident hatred, it made his first soulmate die, and his second from another universe where he could not travel to. Ever since then, the boy could barely have a blink of sleep at night or even function properly in the morning. This meant that his performance at being Spiderman was plummeting, and people noticed.

Swinging along buildings in New York City, Peter sought for any commotion that indicated trouble. That was when he heard it:

"Spiderman," it was far away, but his heightened sense of hearing allowed him to catch it. He glanced in the general direction and saw a person standing atop his favorite building. "Peter Parker," that was when alarms rang in his head. Has somebody discovered his identity? He swung towards the building, approaching the person without revealing himself.

"I have like roughly 10 minutes." He almost could not believe it, hearing her voice. Never would he think of meeting the Y/N from his universe. He peered at her from the shadows and it almost made his mouth drop at how similar they looked. There was nothing different about her, which surprised him considering how different he looked in other universes.

"If I can't find you, Doctor Strange will come back and drag me back home and I need you to...somehow hear me. Spiderman, Peter Parker, Peter 3, or any other name you go by. I..." she stopped before sniffling.

"I can't give up now, but at the same time, how do I find you in a New York city that is actually so much different than mine? I don't want to leave, but I don't know what to do. Why are you so near but so far at the same time," she sobbed, feeling helpless. Indeed, time was almost up. Y/N wished she had bargained for more time. She went to many of the locations where she thought he would be. She even tuned into the news for criminal activities and recklessly ran to them hoping that Spiderman would be there. But because of his distracted state, Peter has barely made it to crime scenes, and instead slacked off.

Realizing that this was the Y/N that he met yesterday - his soulmate, Peter almost lurched forward from the shadow to wipe away her emerging tears. His heart was in disbelief, but he knew it was her.

"Y/N?" he softly spoke, hoping not to scare her with his presence. Nevertheless, she jumped slightly before realizing that it was him.

"Peter...it's me..."

At this, the boy couldn't help but pull her in for a hug, embracing her in his arms and inhaling as he buried his head in her neck. "I never thought I would see you again," he muttered against her skin, hoping he could remember her scent before she leaves.

Any thought of leaving left her as she felt herself melt into his arms. How could she? Especially when this was the most that she felt like she was home. How could she when she knew how empty it felt without him or the memories of their moments together? She bit her lip as her head and heart started battling each other. But at the end, her heart won, and it ignored any sensibility or logic that her mind was yelling - that Doctor Strange would come and drag her back to her original universe, or the fact that she might bump into herself in this world.

"...Take me around our New York, Peter," the girl blurted out while in his embrace, referring back to their conversation days ago. She watched as Peter pulled away from their hug and looked at her. There was slight confusion before a look of shock painted over his face instead.

"You're staying?" he almost yelled, his tone holding some doubt on whether he had read her implications correctly. She laughed at his exclamation before nodding eagerly to confirm. Peter chuckled in disbelief before lifting Y/N up and flung her around in his arms with pure joy. Their harmonious laughter echoed off the building as the two embraced each other.

"But what about...what about your universe? Don't you have to go back?" he asked, despite hating to imagine that happening.

"Peter...you're my soulmate. My universe is here with you," Y/N muttered, grinning up at Peter, who did not reply to this. Instead, he chose to take a moment of silence with her in his arms, and allow his mind to process the thought of having her forever.

"You know I won't say 'no', right?" Peter whispered as he peered down at Y/N. "I won't say 'no' if you say that you'll stay, and I would not give a damn about the universe as long as I have you" he added, gulping at what was probably the most selfish thing he has ever uttered.

"The world has taken so much away from me, and I just want to be selfish for once in my life, and do something for me...and I want you. I need you. So, if you say you'll stay, I would never say 'no'. Never," Peter rambled. He watched as Y/N's eyes started to water from his words.

"Y/N, I need you."

"Have me," Y/N responded with no hesitation. "Keep me...I would not say 'no' to that, Peter," she added.

He glanced down at her lips indiscreetly, causing the girl to grin.

"Our New York. I like the sound of that," he confessed. "By the way, you still owe me."

Y/N scrunched her eyebrows at this, trying to scour her memory for whatever she was in debt for. Her confusion only made Peter grin.

"I believe I did save your New York," Y/N's face immediately lightened as she remembered what this was about.

"Oh, my knight in shining armor, Peter Parker! I'm assuming you're here to collect your reward?" Y/N teased, her hand slowly wrapping around his neck. Peter, on the hand, only smirked at her question and did not answer. Instead, he pulled her in, connecting their lips together.

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Authors note:

YAYYY, thank you for reading this book. I hope you enjoyed it.

I also wrote this before across the spiderverse came out, so if there's anything that clashes with that, then whoops. Though now that I have seen the movie, Miguel would not be pleased with Y/N's decision of staying in another universe lol.