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Embrace

After school, Mj and Peter met up in front of the school. Mj wanted to go on a walk, and Peter couldn't argue with her. She said they could just take the path to her house, so she could stop by her house real quick. As they got closer to her house, Mj pulled Peter into an alley, "Let's take this shortcut." She said. As they walked down the alley Peter realized just how familiar it was. He started to go into a panic attack, and he abruptly stopped walking. MJ turned around confused, "What's wrong?" Peter couldn't tell her that this was the alley she had been killed in. He couldn't get the image of her lifeless body all cut open. Then something set his Peter tingle off. He couldn't see any danger, but his tingle definitely sensed danger. He started looking around crazily. Mysterio and Toomes had to be here. He didn't stop them from escaping. "Peter!" He snapped out of his thoughts, and saw MJ staring at him worriedly. "I called your name like 5 times. What's wrong?" Peter still can't tell her. There's probably a rule about telling someone something that had happened in an alternate time. Then his eyes started playing tricks on him MJ kept on flashing between cut open and not cut open. Then she said something that punched Peter in the gut, "What's wrong? You can't handle coming to the place I died. What if I showed you who killed me. The thug men that sexually assaulted and then killed me." She then grinned bitterly. And Peter became paralyzed. He just stood in the same spot not able to open his mouth, lift his arms, or take a step forward or back. Then there was a flash and he was surrounded by darkness. He was surrounded yet nothing but darkness, and it made him feel lonely. None of his friends or family were there to hug him or talk him through this. In this single moment Peter felt the absolutely unbearable pain of loneliness that tugged at his heart. The pain made him sick to his stomach. There was nothing he could do as he stood there paralyzed with warm tears rolling down his cheeks.

Back at the compound, Strange and Tony tried to figure out where Mysterio and Toomes could've taken Peter. "Peter was right. They wanted to make it easy so they could mess with him." Tony said tears filling up his eyes.
"We'll find him."
"Will we? Even if we find him, what they're doing to him... we'll probably only find a scared, scarred for life kid. He won't be there mentally." Tony said slamming his hands on the table and going outside for fresh air. Strange followed him out.
"Tony I promise if all we find is a kid beyond repair, I'll go back and stop him from ever being that broken."
"And why would you do that?"
"Because a part of me believes Peter is on this earth for a reason. The universe wants him to be a hero, and I'll do anything to ensure that he is that hero." Strange said.
"Thank you." Tony said allowing himself to break down crying in the moment. Strange allowed himself to embrace Tony, and Tony allowed himself to embrace him back.
"Now lets go find that kid."

A/N: Congrats to the person who knew this was an illusion the whole time. I hoped y'all liked this part and I hope it was worth the wait! Comment and vote!