Just Kids | Peter Parker

30 | Letters

PETER

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I woke up to the sound of alarms.

Red lights blazing around the rooms, people yelling and running around. I sat up from my place on the couch, rubbing my eyes in the hopes that it was all a dream. I fell asleep to silence, and woke up to chaos.

"What the heck?" I mumbled under my breath, groggily standing onto my feet.

Just then, a quinjet took off from the rooftop, and flew past my window. I jumped back in surprise, and watched as it took off into the morning sky. It must have been Steve or Bucky.

The high-pitched alarms were so loud, my body felt like it was convulsing through a sensory-overload. Covering my ears, I tried to see the hallway in front of me.

"Hey!" I called out to a guard running past, "what's going on?"

He didn't answer me, but instead kept yelling things into his walkie-talkie. Wrinkling my nose, I kept stumbling towards the stairs, hoping to find someone who would talk to me.

I walked all the way up to Mr. Stark's conference room, sliding my hand along the glass to see where I was going. Gosh, those alarms were so loud.

I spotted Tony hurriedly typing things into his computer, wiping his sweat off in panic. I had never seen him look so disheveled. If that wasn't surprising enough, Steve and Bucky were sitting at the table next to him, yelling at each other.

"Uh....hey guys?" I stammered, slowly stumbling in, "what's going on?"

Once they saw me, they all went silent. Exchanging glances, they all had the same disappointed look on thier faces.

"Wait," I started, "I thought you two left on the plane."

They shook their heads.

"Then who did?" I began to ask, but then I stopped myself, "no... there's no way."

Setting down his glasses on the table, Tony walked over to me, pulling me into a hug. If this was any other day, I would have been freaking out that Mr. Stark was giving me a hug.

But that wasn't what I cared about.

"I'm sorry," the man whispered, "she tricked us all."

"What do you mean?" I whimpered, "how could she have tricked us?"

Pulling out of the hug, he sat me down in a chair, and went to join the two soldiers across from me. What the hell was happening?

"We tested her," Steve said, "to make sure she remembered."

"And you were right," Bucky joined in, "she did remember."

"But before we went to let her out, Tony got the call that Thor would be docking in to retrieve the Tesseract."

"While we were busy, she must have taken off."

"But why would she leave?" I said, almost unable to speak.

"We don't know, kid."

"Where did she go?"

"We don't know that either."

"But she left you this letter," Tony said, pulling a thin piece of paper out of his pocket, "it was on the floor of the box."

As I picked it up, I tried my best to read the words. I could barely even hear my own thoughts.

How could she leave me like that?

Did she care?

As much as I didn't want to admit it, I was scared that everything we had was a lie. I tried to trick her into remembering, but she was tricking me all along. That wasn't her, I knew it wasn't her.

All I had left was this letter.

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Dear Peter,

You were right, I do remember everything.

But that's why it's better if I leave. I almost hurt you, and if I did, I knew I'd never forgive myself. I want you, and everyone else to be safe.

Please don't think I hate you, and that you mean nothing to me, because that's wrong. I'm doing this for the benefit of you, May, Tony, Steve, Bucky, and whoever the heck else. Maybe everybody else.

I'll be back one day. I don't know when, or how, but I will.

I just need to find myself first.

Don't miss me too much, Spider-man,

[y/n].