Mentally (Un)Stable • Peter Parker/Marvel

One - How it all began

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I do not own Marvel or any of the Marvel characters mentioned in this book.

This book will contain spoilers of a lot of Marvel movies, but lets be honest here, you've watched them all multiple times. It will also contain a few spoilers of the series Marvel's agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

I've created my own storyline, using the storylines of The Avenger movies, Captain America movies and of course Spider-man: Homecoming as base.

DON'T YOU DARE COPY MY STORY OR MY CHARACTERS, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND I-- probably not actually. I am not capable of investigating and finding out where you live and actually travelling to your house (I'm broke), but me and others can still report you if you copy my story or characters.

I had the concept for this story for a while now and I just recently found this song called 'For Ruby' By Halsey and the lyrics fits the story almost perfectly.

Now that that's out of the way, I'll let you read the actual story. I hope you'll like it.

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Ruby sat in her room, waiting for her dinner to arrive. That was one of the only things she seemed to be doing since she arrived at the mental hospital. Waiting for food, drawing with sharpies (because they said she couldn't hurt herself or others with those) and talking to her psychologist. If she knew her parents would send her there, she would've never told them about her... ability. It was never quiet in that place-- kids screamed, doctors yelled and the clock in her room drove her insane. Not that people thought she already was insane, of course. They all thought she had something with a very long name, which causes people to hallucinate without them realizing.

But she knew what she could do. Ruby knew she wasn't insane. Well, she might go insane because of the constant ticking of the clock in her room. It reminded her of how long she had already spent in New York's Mental Hospital For Children. Two months ago she told her parents about what she found out about herself. She had even proven it to them but they completely ignored it, telling themselves they had imagined it. Ruby felt betrayed thinking back at the disappointed faces they wore as they sent her away. Ever since then she told her psychologist she realized how stupid it was what she 'saw' and that she was perfectly fine now. But that made her psychologist, Mr. Harolds, doubt her sanity even more. He said he had seen that technique before, other patients tried it too. After that session, Ruby decided not to tell him she hadn't changed but kept telling him she didn't 'see' anything anymore.

She heard a knock on her door, before a buzzing sound was heard as the door opened. "Hello, Ruby," The sickenly sweet voice of doctor White said. Ruby stood up from the ground and grabbed the plate of food from him. She heard him sigh and close the door behind him. As she was sitting at the table in her room eating, she thought the doctor had left. But to her disappointment he was still there and took a seat next to her at the table. "How are you feeling today?" Even though White wasn't her psychologist, he always asked that question. She always responded with the same thing. "Still in prison." And on que, White sighed. "How often do I have to remind you this is not a prison? We are all trying to help you overcome your illness." Ruby scoffed.

"Oh, crap. Then that prison feeling must be another hallucination." She said sarcastically as she took another bite of the prison food. White clenched his jaw but didn't respond. "I'll get you in a bit for visiting hour. Your uncle is coming to visit." Ruby didn't have the time to respond as the doctor had already stood up and closed the door behind him. I don't have an uncle. Ruby quietly wondered if she had heard it wrong or if someone was playing a prank on her, which seemed quite unlikely.