#spidermark au

“Are you okay?! Are you hurt?!” Mark’s words came out like a bullet train as he held your face in his hands. “I’m fine, Mark” You caressed the back of his head lovingly, a gesture he had always found comforting. “But your ribs, baby!” he whisper shouted knowing that your parents were already asleep as he roughly lifted up your shirt. You gasped and pushed his hand away as your face grew red like a tomato. “What’s wrong with you, Mark?!” you asked, confused by your boyfriend’s bizarre behaviour. He let out a loud sigh as he sat on your bed.

Your heart soften at his defeated state. You held his hand and sat next to him. “I had a dream” he broke the silence as he looked at the floor. You kept quiet, circling your thumb at the back of his hand to encourage him to continue. “I had a dream that you were hurt” he faced you this time, eyes filled with worry as he studied your features.

“There was this huge monster and you tried to help but I kept telling you to run away and then before I knew it the monster got to you and-”

“Shhh” you pulled Mark to your chest and rubbed his back gently. He was shaking in your arms and you could tell that the dream must’ve felt so surreal for him to react this way. You felt awful for him. He was the love of your life and you hated seeing him in this state. Ever since Mark became Spider-man, he had to not only give up a normal life but also suffer and sacrifice continuously just to save the world. You knew that some of the experiences he went through really did traumatize him because these nightmares were nothing new. They creep into his dreams from time to time and it was always about the people he loved the most. You never appeared in his nightmares fortunately, well, until tonight that is. Hence why he was really scared.