#c:conner

“Ya te dije que no es nada. No necesito tu ayuda, ¿que no ves que puedo solo?”

Gwen finally broke down and texted Kon about the breakup, knowing that she shouldn't be outside at the moment, but she knew that she didn’t want to have the risk of the entire apartment building talking about how she had someone over. She blinked away the tears as she kept the bottle of vodka close to her, ran a hand over her face and bit down on her bottom lip. She should’ve seen it coming, the breakup. Him saying that someone else could’ve swooped her up. 

Who says that? She shook her head as she tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear and chewed on her bottom lip before she glanced over at Conner then she looked back out.

“Pain like that doesn’t make you stronger. it just makes you different, and not in a good way.” 

She let out a shaky breath, moved the bottle and laid down on the roof. “Im so stupid.” She let out a laugh as she shook her head and ran her hands through her hair. “I knew that things were leading up to this. His short replies, him saying that someone would come up and swoop me up if he didn't. Him not talking in the groupchat we had. It was right there and I was being so stupid, Kon. I, thought that I was being paranoid. The entire time. I shouldn’t have been working long hours. I should’ve made more time for him.” She stood up and started to pace on the roof. 

“On top of seeing the images of my father’s expression when he found out that I was Ghost-Spider, to seeing my Earth’s peter dead in my arms,” She held out her hands like she did that night. “The one person I decided to get close to me in, leave this morning with his things in his hand and him breaking up with me. God, Im so fucking stupid.” She let out a bitter chuckle and shook her head. “I knew there was a reason why I didn’t let anyone in or close to me, because they end up leaving o-or dead.” She let a quiet sob out as she kneeled down and buried her face into her hands. It was the price that they always had to pay, it was always the situation. 

They couldn’t be happy. If they were happy, then it was a ticking time bomb when the happiness ended and for Gwen, it ended the minute her ex left.

Gwen was excited to see Conner. Not only she got their favorite coffee cake with sprinkles, which was a funetti coffee cake, to go and some coffees, but she had made him an appointment with his Aunt. She was glad that she finally got some sleep when she got home from staying up all night. Once she spotted him, she waved at him and carefully sped walk towards him. “Hey you, so I got us the goods, Funfetti coffee cake and some coffees, which I didn’t know if you wanted one, but if not then I have no problem drinking two.” She replied as she carefully placed the cake down onto the concrete wall and then she handed over the coffee to him before she shrugged off her backpack to sit down next to him. “Don’t worry, I got us two forks, that way, you won’t be eating with your hands and claiming the cake all of yours.”

“I also got you that appointment with Lena, which is kind of easy now that Im working for her fulltime. Which is great because benefits and health insurance, that’s kind of important. So, what have you been up to?” She asked as she carefully pulled out the coffee cake after she handed him his fork.

Twenty-five text messages, about fifty missed calls, twenty voicemails That’s what she came back to once she was able to get cell phone service. About ten voicemail messages were from Conner, five of those texts were also from him and about five voicemails were from him and knew that she was in hot water with him.

Gwen knew that she had done wrong by not telling Kon that she was leaving for her Earth and she felt bad. She gave him a small smile, knowing that she had a long way to make it up to him.

She was wearing her spider suit, her mask was in her pocket and her hood down while she stood in front of him. The wind was blowing her hair in the wind, making it a bit chilly but she was fine. “Look, I-” She started to say but then she closed her mouth and then her eyes, taking a minute to gather her thoughts. She reopened them, to notice him staring at her, waiting for her to speak and she let out a breath. “Im, sorry that I didn’t tell you that I was going back home for a moment.” She bit down on her bottom lip nervously and started to pick at her suit before she let out another breath. “Its just, with everything going on right now, I just figured you would’ve been too busy to notice that I was gone?” She offered him an explanation, hoped that he was buying it. She paused a bit before she stood on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek. She brushed past him, placed her mask back on, pulled up her hoodie before she jumped off a building, having the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. Which, she prayed that she could push aside and focused on swinging. Once she was on another rooftop, she noticed him, still standing there and watching her. “Im sorry, Kon.” She said softly before she started to swing again and ignored the feeling her heartbreaking. She hated the fact that she didn’t tell him, but she figured the more people she told about going back home,  the more people tried to stop her and she already had Miles worried sick, she didn’t want Kon to worry even more.