Beautiful Ruins

Chapter 83

"The bomb's been disarmed" I inform Clover, before turning to face Milo. He looks roughly six-feet-tall and has blonde hair and blue-green eyes. "You wanted to meet us?"

"I want to kill some x-men" Milo replies, he grabs the spear from Hank's body and walks back over to us. "I'm not interested in joining the avengers though."

I have a million questions for Milo, but I want to make sure my friends are safe and alive. "I need to find Henry and Peter" I say, glancing at Clover.

"Come on" Clover says to Milo, and she begins to head out of the building. Milo frowns slightly but follows Clover, I follow him, and we walk into the courtyard.

Steve, Bruce, and Tony are chatting, they stop talking as they see the three of us. Steve frowns in confusion at Milo, Bruce looks stressed, and Tony looks anxious and concerned. Why are they stressed? Tony disabled the bomb.

I look past Tony and my eyes widen as I see Peter kneeling next to someone on the floor. I rush over and my heart sinks. No, this can't be happening. I glance back at Tony, and he gives me a small nod of his head.

"May, can you look at me please?" Peter says, shaking his aunt. "Open your eyes" Peter says, his voice getting louder and more desperate. My heart sinks even deeper into my stomach as I see a body next to May. A lump forms in my throat, I didn't mean for this happen, why did I get involve with him?

I grab Flash's wrist, checking for a pulse. There isn't one, I place my hand over his chest, I can't feel his chest moving. My attention moves from Flash as Peter lets out a blood-curling scream and his body starts shaking as tears fall down his face.

MJ and Ned rush towards us, their faces falling as they take in the scene. MJ doesn't say anything, just wraps her arms around Peter. Ned embraces Peter and Peter starts crying even more, his body shaking, and he falls to his knees.

Clover places her hand on my shoulder. I glance back at her; she has a sympathetic look on her face. I look forward and see Henry walking over to us, Henry frowns as he sees Peter crying and sees everyone's expressions. He gasps as he sees May and Flash's bodies on the ground, there's blood on both their tops and I can see a bruise on May's forehead, as well as a nasty cut on Flash's forehead. Henry doesn't say anything, standing next to me.

"Pete" Tony says, walking up to us with Steve. "C'mon, let's get you to Stark towers." Tony helps Peter up, MJ and Ned still embracing him. Peter doesn't say anything but starts walking with Tony, MJ and Ned are next to him with their arms around him.

"Come on" Steve says, walking up to me. I open my mouth to say something, but nothing comes out. How could this happen? We did everything, we stopped the bomb, we evacuated everyone. Flash and May can't be dead, this shouldn't have happened.

"We did everything" I say to Steve, glancing at him. "I don't understand, we did everything right." The bomb was disarmed, people were moved away from the school and nearby houses. I didn't think about May or Flash, none of us did. We just assumed if anyone was targeted it would be Ned or MJ, I didn't think Flash was in danger, not like this.

"I know, kid, this isn't your fault" Steve says sympathetically. He glances back at Milo. "You can either come willingly or I'll arrest you."

Milo rolls his eyes but begins to walk forward, walking past me. I glance at Clover who grabs my hand and starts walking forward. I let Clover lead me out of the school, despite everything I feel safe with Clover.

"Let's just go see Peter, we'll figure this out later" Clover says. I nod in agreement, we need to do whatever it takes to support Peter, he's already lost his parents and his uncle Ben, now his aunt is gone. I can't imagine how Peter is feeling, I don't think I want to.

"Clover's right, the avengers will figure out what happened" Henry says. "Peter's the main concern." How are we supposed to support Peter through this? He's lost almost everyone and everything, I guess we need to show him that we're here for him, make sure he keeps living his life as best as he can considering the circumstances.

I climb into the back of a S.H.I.E.L.D van and sit across from Peter, Ned, and MJ. Peter is in-between them, holding hands with MJ. Ned has his hand on Peter's shoulder.

MJ glances at me and gives me a small smile. "Are you ok?" she mouths, I know she's thinking about Flash and how the two of us went on a date. I nod and give her a small smile that probably doesn't fool anyone.

Milo sits next to Clover, his arms folded across his chest. MJ and Ned both glance at him and then at me, I shrug my shoulders. Peter hasn't noticed, he's just staring at the ground. I reach forward and place my hand on Peter's knee. Clover grabs my hand once again and I give her a grateful smile, she squeezes my hand slightly.

The van pulls up at Stark towers and we all get to our feet, heading in slowly. This doesn't feel real to any of us, we didn't expect today to end like this, I thought we had won, that no innocent people will die at the hands of the x-men today, but I was wrong. I follow MJ, Peter, and Ned into Peter's room here. Clover and Henry are close behind me; I think Milo has gone off with Steve and Bruce.

"Do you want some water?" I ask Peter who nods. I grab his water bottle from the table beside his bed and hand it to him. Peter sits down on the floor, his back resting against his bed. MJ sits next to him; Ned and Henry sit on Peter's blue couch. I sit down, my back resting against the white wall, Clover sits next to me, her hand still in mine.

*Author's Note* Marvel was so wrong for killing Aunt May, that was such a good but painful movie.