Letting Go

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(Peter gasps. He wakes up and looks around, distraught. Wounds on his shoulder and waist are bandaged up. He turns to the left to find Johnny Storm and Bruce Banner looking at him. They are at the Avengers Tower.)

JOHNNY: (naively) "Hey, look at that! The Champ's back! Sup Pete!"

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JOHNNY: (naively) "Hey, look at that! The Champ's back! Sup Pete!"

PETER: (quickly sits up) "Hold up, I've gotta go-"

(Instantly, Johnny stops him by firmly putting his hand on Peter's shoulder.)

BRUCE: "Stand down, Spider-Man...I already took the vial to the hospital. They started the transfusion 30 minutes ago and they'll follow up on her in the morning. You can check up on her then, ok?"

PETER: (a wave of relief slowly calms him down.) "Wow, really?" (His eyes start to get drowsy.) "That's really great...thank you... guys..."

(He collapses from exhaustion and falls into a deep sleep, the best sleep he's gotten in weeks.

6 hours later, Peter wakes up oddly refreshed and rested to the smell of breakfast. He sits up to find Johnny Storm in the kitchen.)

PETER: "Hey...Johnny?"

JOHNNY: "Oh, hey man

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JOHNNY: "Oh, hey man. I was about to wake you up in 5 minutes." (He snaps his fingers and lights the stove with the flame on his finger. He slaps 6 slices of bacon onto the pan, which results in a comforting sizzle sound.) "Banner had to go teach his class and I just woke up, so I thought I'd make breakfast for the both of us. Not used to doing this for another guy, but..." (he shrugs. He picks up a juice bottle.) "Here's some weird vitamin juice that Bucky keeps demanding Sue to buy from the store, catch."

(Johnny throws the bottle at Peter, who tries to rely on his spider-senses to catch it, but he feels nothing but the crash of the bottle on his shoulder.)

PETER: "Ow..."

(Peter looks around and realizes his vision's getting blurry, back to how they were before the incident that made him Spider-Man. He starts to squint; Johnny sees this and reacts by gesturing Peter to follow him.)

JOHNNY: "Banner said this would probably happen. Tony got a copy of all your records when you joined the Avengers and you know that he has a plan B for everything. So we have spare prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses for you. They got all the cures to your allergies. Even your favorite cough drops. Oddly specific? I agree."

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