The Tangled Web | Peter Parker

Emerson Jay has been best friends with Peter Parker for as long as she can remember. He moved into the house next door when they were six and the two quickly formed a bond. Sharing a love for music, movies, and the arts, Peter and Em helped each other cope with the absence of their parents and have been inseparable since. Peter's passion is photography, Em's is writing. They always shared this dream of becoming big time reporters, working together for one of New York's biggest papers, but this dream shifted when they started their Junior year of high school.

Em notices a significant change in Peter after his Uncle Ben tragically dies. The once happy-go-lucky boy next door suddenly becomes distant and closed off, leaving Em to care for Aunt May, who is grieving alone. On top of that, Peter sneaks out every night, thinking it's going unnoticed by the women in his life. Are these changes because Peter blames himself for his uncle's death? Or are they because he's preoccupied with his new girlfriend, Gwen Stacy?

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Author Notes:
This story follows The Amazing Spider-Man movies (it loosely fits the same timeline as the movies, set a few days before the beginning of the first movie).

The goal is for this story to lead up to the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home (maybe highlighting on Sad Peter and what he's been up to since that traumatic clock tower scene).

The big question is, will Peter finally find his MJ?

*originally posted on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40714830