Bug Bites

BOOK TWO : Lidocaine

It has been a while! Hello! I know about a year ago I ended Bug Bites, but recently seeing the love it has been getting and due to personal things that have happened/experienced, I'm back with a sequel I always played around with the idea of writing. I, in honesty, have dropped of in the MLB fandom where I don't know the main plot anymore but I supposed that doesn't really matter here anymore. When I originally wrote Bug Bites I tried to set up different plot lines within the main plot. 

I want to explore that world some more, and I hope you're all interested in that adventure too. I'm not sure where this will go, I'm still revisiting and revising older chapters here to remind myself of what I already laid a foundation of. In that being said, the prologue of Lidocaine is already out and can be found under this series. Here is is the summary : 

"Did you heard the Daily Bugle? Spider-Man is apparently some teenager named Peter Parker."

Eight months since she left and Marinette had a lot on her plate in Westview, and seemingly she couldn't catch a break with her ex being ousted on the news as a superhero when he should've been in class. 

And with that here's a that Prologue, and I hope you all check it out on the main story link! :)

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They said that time heals, and Marinette wanted to believe that. The fight with Thanos had left a hole in humanity itself, broken families and bonds. Like her relationship with Peter, the age gap wasn't fair. It would never be fair, but nothing would change the age gap or the very real trauma she had to heal from with the acceptance that he may never come back. She had to move on with the flow of life. It was a hard truth that life just kept going after death, but that the harsh reality she had come to terms with.

Yet he did come back, and he deserved to finish high school the same way she had. To graduate and all the in between that she merely out aged now. Some days it was a hard pill to swallow, especially on days her and Luka traveled. She would get in her head and wonder how Peter was doing, what he was doing. Were classes going well? Did he miss her too? She supposed that was albeit a little selfish of her since she was the one who 'broke up' with him. In all fairness, it was what she believed to be fair to Peter overall.

She had too many responsibilities, and maybe that was a personal issue she needed to deal with but she never wanted to drag Peter into it. Luka on the other hand? He was a volunteer. He believed she was going to burn out and work herself to death. Maybe he had a right to be worried because grief- it's one hell of a thing. Some days she would feel fine, and on other days it would hit out of no where right in her chest, straight to her heart.

There was no turning back the clock to get Tony back, or to say goodbye to the kwamis. She would never talk to her own parents again, could never tell them anything again or ask them for guidance in this crazy world. She missed them terribly, but she was going to live a life that would make them proud of her. Her team no longer really existed either, but there was also the silver linings.

Marinette got to watch her teammates turned friends go on and grow into their own individuality as people in the world. Adrien was killing it in his science classes in college, even understanding the fundamentals in quantum physics. He got to be more than just a pretty face on tabloids, and was actually doing things of his own interest. It made her so proud of her blonde partner, and she knew Plagg would be proud of his kitten. Adrien was becoming more than the tainted legacy his father left behind.