❝ it's 3am and the only
thing that's keeping
me awake is the
thought of you ❞
PETER PARKER x FEMALE!OC
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
PLOT BY @starfragment
COVER by @hexgirIs
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EIGHT NORMAL
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They sat on the fire escape that night. Lyra felt utterly defeated. She hugged her sweatshirt closer to herself as she leaned her head against the edge of the open window, not knowing what to say. Her and Peter didn't have to talk, sometimes a night called for silence. The mission they had ahead of themselves was impossible, just like the idea of breaking this curse. Lyra had been stupid to think she would survive.
"I can ask Mr. Stark about it, I'm sure he'd be happy to help," Peter suggested, his voice stupidly optimistic as it always was. "I'm sure he knows all kinds of stuff about missing alien artifacts — hey, no, don't look at me like that, I'm serious. He deals with this stuff all the time."
"Peter," she sighs, "You're my friend, right?"
He nods immediately, "Uh, I think so, yeah. I mean, we don't know each other super well, but yeah, I'd consider us friends considering the circumstances—"
Lyra chuckles, cutting him off as she asks, "A simple yes or no would suffice, dork."
"Then yes, we're friends," Peter smiled at her, his eyes crinkling up at the edges in a way she just wanted to reach out and touch. Still, she held back. "Why?"
She shrugged, "You'd tell me if this was a lost cause, right? I'm gonna die, Peter, the best thing I can do is go out now and avoid taking everyone down with me."
Peter's expression was suddenly serious as he shook his head, "No, we're not gonna think like that, I won't let you. You're sixteen, Lyra, you don't... you don't deserve this. We can break this curse, I promise you. I don't even care if you take me down with you as long as you get out of this alive and uncursed."
"I don't know, Peter." The conversation fades as the cool night air blows in through the open window. Moonlight casts a shadow upon Peter's face as he looks up at what few stars are visible in the city that never sleeps. Lyra's gaze sticks to the boy, but the calm doesn't last for long.
"Lyra! Your dad let us in!" a voice calls from inside the apartment and Lyra instantly knows it's Melanie and Archie. "We came to check in on your after your date with Peter because someone kept leaving us on delivered."
"I thought I was supposed to be the only white boy in your life!" Archie added on as she heard her bedroom door open. She contemplated having Peter leap up to the roof or something using his weird spider powers she still didn't quite understand, but it was too late because the two had already seen them. "Oh, it's still going."
