VIOLET KNIGHT 》 PETER PARKER [1]

safe. [3.1]

"Sorry, momma."

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In front of Cora, was Peter, who was sat at a table and cuffed to it by his wrists. If that wasn't already enough, his eyes were screwed shut and his face was tightened, because Jaquie had an arm wrapped right around his neck, and a gun pressed to the side of his head.

"Hello, Cora." Jaquie seethed, pressing the gun harder against Peter's head. Peter let our s shaky breath, but slowly opened his eyes from the mention of her name. There she was, decked out in a brand new suit, her eyes glowing violet, and some sort of energy emitting from her hand.

"Jaquie.. put the gun down.." Cora said softly, trying to keep herself calm as she slowly took a step forward. "Come on now.."

"Don't take another step, or I'll blast his goddamn head in." She threatened, and Cora instantly froze.

Peter shut his eyes again, feeling the tears of fear coming through. This was worse than the building being dropped on him. With the building, he could get himself out. Here, he had to depend on someone else to save him, and that person was going against their mother. Tony wasn't with her, Peter had no idea where he had gone.

"Why are you doing this?" Cora asked, just as terrified as Peter. She watched and felt a pain in her chest as a single rear fell down Peter's cheek, and his jaw tensed. He was crying, he was so scared for his life.

"Why do you think, darling?" Jaquie asked, "I'm not gonna tell you it's for my family, or for some void I feel the need to fill. I just want the money. The power. When you decided to start following me around, the power was being taken away. My crew was losing faith in me, they were doubting me the closer and closer you got to this place. And now, you took all of that away from me." She told her, her tone malicious and cold. "I can easily take him away from you."

"No, no, you've gotta listen to me, okay? We.. we can compromise." Cora suggested, the ball of energy slowly growing in the palm of her hand. The tears were flowing down Peter's face now, he's breaths short and shaky.

"Compromise.." Jaquie said with a small laugh, shaking her head. "You think I'm up for a compromise, Coraline?"

"Just.. just hear me out, okay?" Cora asked, "if.. if you let Peter go, harm free, and stop the drugs.. then I'll let you walk out of here. I'll let you go, okay? Just let him go and I'll escort you out."

Jaquie looked the girl up and down, before staring directly into her bright violet eyes. "Swear on it."

"What?"

"Swear on it!"

"O-okay! I swear, on my own life-"

"I don't want you to swear on your own life." Jaquie cut her off, "I know it has no value to you. I want you to swear on someone else."