𝐘𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 • Peter Parker

Prologue

Lanie Peterson spent her 10th birthday doing what she loved most; spending time with her mom.

Unfortunately, her double-digit birthday fell on a weekday, which meant spending time with her mom had to be at work, but Katherine Peterson made sure to promise her daughter they'd get ice cream for lunch to make up for it.

Lanie sat patiently in the extra chair in her mom's cubicle, spinning around to pass the time when she wasn't crafting origami swans and frogs which was her latest habit. Her classmates, Mary Jane Watson and Harry Osborn, taught her last week at school and she was obsessed ever since.

Lanie found herself getting bored after crafting her 27th swan, so she began to wander the floor of her mom's office building. She'd wave at whoever made eye contact with her, flashing them her toothy grin as they smiled back. She liked her mom's coworkers, especially the ones who remembered it was her birthday; it made the young girl feel special.

She found herself at a large window facing out into the city, her favorite view from the office. She grabbed her favorite stuffed bear, Lavender, from the small purse she carried and had her look out the window with her, watching the small people hurry on by that looked like ants from the 23rd floor.

She smiled down at the ice cream cart sitting at the street corner, the friendly man her and her mom always bought from handing out cones to his customers. Unfortunately, her moment was interrupted when out of nowhere came a mechanical tail, sweeping the ice cream cart and several cars parked on the street out in the blink of an eye.

Lanie couldn't help but let out a scream, her gaze trailing up the tail to see it was attached to a long mechanical figure, several flying out from a giant black hole in the sky into the city.

"Lanie? What's the matter—?" Katherine could barely finish her sentence when she followed her daughter's gaze, her eyes widening in fear. Before she knew what she was doing, she grabbed her daughter and screamed to her coworkers to get the hell out of the building.

The quiet working environment quickly erupted into a mass of chaos as everyone pushed and shoved towards the doorways. Katherine wanted to make sure everyone was leaving as she waited by the doorway. While doing so, one of the alien's tails swept its way through half of the floor, the building shaking as debris from the upper destroyed floors began to crumble through.

"Mommy, we have to go!" Lanie screamed, grabbing her mom's arm and dragging her towards the stairway. They ran down together, the building shaking and groaning with every step they took. They finally reached the main lobby on the first floor, debris breaking through the ceiling as if it wasn't even there. Katherine ran faster once she noticed the doors were being covered by debris, hoping to make it out with her daughter before they were trapped, leaping towards the doorway.

Unfortunately, only one made it out. Katherine sighed in relief once she realized she was out, but her heart raced when Lanie was nowhere in sight.

Lanie shrieked as a large piece of the ceiling fell onto her right arm, the sound of her bones cracking sending a shiver down her spine. She tried to pry it off with her free hand as she heard her mother's screams from the other side of the rubble, but she was too weak to do it alone.

She sat there and cried, praying that she would make it out alive and that she wouldn't die all by herself surrounded by debris.

Fortunately for Lanie, her prayers came true; but what she feared for herself occurred to someone else dear to her.

Katherine was too focused on attempting to move the rubble that blocked the doorway to her youngest daughter to notice one of the aliens flying closer and closer each second. A man riding on its back held a scepter with a blue stone near its top, and he aimed his scepter directly at the entrance where Katherine cried for her daughter.

The blast was quick and painless, shooting through her heart and taking out all the life from Katherine Peterson's body as she fell to the concrete ground.

The energy from the blast broke through the debris, sending pieces flying out to the sides as the blue stream of energy struck Lanie in the heart just like her mother.

But unlike her mother, Lanie woke up a few hours later in the hospital surrounded by her father, older sister and younger brother, who gave her a soft smile and told her Captain America saved her life. But judging by the looks on all of their faces, she knew why her mother wasn't in the room, her heart sinking.

On the day of Lanie Peterson's 10th birthday, her life had forever changed, including in ways she didn't yet know of, until she'd meet a certain boy from school many years later.

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A/N: wattpad really said: let's not update the last part of this lol so yeah sorry if this isn't the best it's almost 2am and wattpad is on crack

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