❝ c'mon Parker, can't I have one last dance? ❞
Two years after Kaelyn
and Peter started dating,
she finds herself forced into
the superhero world and
finding out just how much trouble
she can get into
PETER PARKER X FEMALE!OC
INFINITY WAR - EN...
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SOMETHING ABOUT KAELYN HAD CHANGED. Maybe she started to accept the truth she had been given, but truth was, she wasn't sure. The girl had fought so hard for so long she wasn't sure when to stop. All she had ever known was to fight. From the moment her parents disappeared, she was looking for them, then she fought crime with her boyfriend, then she defended the end of the world. Where was she meant to draw the line? What happened if she stopped?
"I can hear you thinking from here," Peter called her out from across the room as he read a book while sitting on her bed. Currently, they were on summer vacation before they had to literally redo their senior year which was a little infuriating. While Peter read, Kaelyn was on their school's website to sign them up for the summer trip for their class. It was a European tour that Kaelyn felt was fairly deserved after both of them literally carrying the world on their shoulders. Maybe the two of them needed a break from being superheroes. Even so, Peter still had to make quite a few appearances as Spider-Man. Meanwhile Red Riding Hood seemed to fade into the background... Kaelyn just might be okay with that.
"I think I want to retire," Kaelyn sighed as she shut her laptop and spun around in her desk chair to face her boyfriend. "What is there left for me to fight for? Tony's dead, the world is saved, I'm not needed anymore."
"New York has a pretty bad crime rate," Peter said with a shrug as he dog-eared the page he was on and placed the book next to him. "You could be my partner-in-crime, just like we were before all of this happened."
The girl shook her head gently as she avoided the boy's eyes she could feel boring into her soul with certain care and concern she still wasn't quite used to. "No, that's not it. That has always been your thing, first and foremost. I just... I think knowing I had powers gave me a sort of obligation to help, you know?"
"I do," the boy nodded as he motioned for her to come over to where he was sitting, moving to the side to give her room while she sat down next to him. Placing his arm around her shoulders and squeezing her gently, he continued, "I guess saving the world makes retiring sound really good, huh?"
"I don't wanna die like Tony," the truth slipped out before Kaelyn could stop herself. Before Peter could question her, she figured she might as well explain. "I mean, I know I'm some weird Super Soldier type of thing, but I'm not sure HYDRA took into account all the extraterrestrial beings out in the universe with things that could probably kill me. I don't want to build a life just to have it taken away from me on a battlefield I threw myself in. Watching him die like that... it's selfish, I know, but I'm not a hero. I was never supposed to be a hero. I mean, none of this would have happened if I had minded my business on that rooftop, huh?"
Peter laughed, pressing a kiss to the girl's forehead before he spoke, "Well, I'm glad you didn't. Mind your business, that is. Maybe you got more than you asked for, that's for sure, but we got each other out of it, didn't we? I still remember when you kissed me at that party, it was like my whole life changed."
