* SPIDER / WOMAN !

my dad died. there were no signs, no warnings, nothing. his heart just stopped. we found out about midnight the day of because he had been starting work that night and was found in his truck. my family is very close knit, and my father and i are (or were i guess) very very very close, like best friends. it was about a week ago and it still doesn’t feel real. i still think he’s gonna walk in the door with chicken strips for the dogs. this past week has been very hard for my family, especially my mom, so i’ve been very busy helping and trying to cope.

i do hope to come back to this blog soon, i really do, but real life needs me right now so i apologize to everyone. if you do want to get ahold of me, i am still on discord at bee #4144.

he’s slow to respond, instead he just watches as she makes her way to his bedroom. he thinks he should protest - he doesn’t want her to have to deal with whatever it is that’s going on outside. but, she’s right. of course. and this is probably going to be the easiest way for both of them to get out of this apartment relatively unscathed. “ are you sure you want to do this ?? it’s going to be tough out there, you don’t have to do this for me. ”

peter finally gets up, and quickly discards his own suit before changing into her suit. it’s a little tight in certain areas, but he doesn’t have time to dwell on this. his senses are at overdrive, and his spidey senses are warning him something bad is going to happen. “ i don’t know if i can do this, ” he says, as he begins pacing the floor. “ maybe the world doesn’t need spider-man anymore. i’ve shown i’m no avenger - i can’t live up to everyone’s expectations. and everyone thinks i’m the bad guy !! is there even a point in trying to fix things ?? ” he wishes he could be braver, like jessica, but he’s not sure he has it in him anymore. 

she knows he’s falling apart right now, crumbling along with the world around him, and it was that exact reason jessica was choosing to be as strong as possible right now. he was one of theebst friends she had, and he had done plenty for her before so it was about time she repaid the favor.   “ of course i want to do this, pete. you’ve said it so many times: we have to help each other. that’s exactly what i’m doing. ” 

         WORDS WERE IRONIC; believing that he was nothing more than cheep show tricks. to go under the assumption he was nothing more than a petty trickster - oh, how wrong she was. he was more, so much more. 

he had yet to show his true might, his true abilities.  

“ do i now? ” the question was asked with a tilt of the iconic helm. “ one could say looks could be deceiving - especially to someone so…. amusing like yourself. you don’t look like much - nothing at all. a scrap of paper, but… there are times that even the most innocent of looking ones can hold dark secrets. the only question is…. what exactly are you? the hunt or maybe… the hunted? ”

     MAYBE she should not have confronted him alone ; MAYBE she should have brought someone with her. but this had turned personal. peter was one of her best (and only) friends, and this man had hurt him. jessica may not show emotions on the outside but she was fiercely protective of her friends, and did not take kindly to those who hurt them.

SHE CAME OVER WITH HAPPY, having not gone on the school trip seeing as she finished high school while everyone was gone. jessica was watching the city for a certain spider-man when she was pulled over to europe to help with a crisis. now she was in london - her old birth city - and was scrambling to keep citizens safe.

landing upon the ground near the kids from her high school, the masked female moves in front of them.   “ get away from the water! ”   she demands, trying to force them towards some shelter.

       THE VIDEO WAS EVERYWHERE, and jessica needed to find peter as soon as she could to try and keep him safe. no doubt people were going to believe the video and think of him as someone evil. it was pretty well made and if she didn’t know peter personally, she might believe it.

but when she burst into his apartment, the woman greeting her was not aunt may but a stranger. hands lit green as she prepared herself for a fight.   “ who the hell are you? ”

     hands slam on the door, soon turning into fists that pound against the wood, causing minor cracks to form. jessica is in a bit of a rush and needs all the help she can get ; but peter is out of the question at this point, with his face now being plastered on every television screen, reddit post, and twitter thread. he was hiding and it was up to her to fix it.

     one last pound on the door causes it to buckle in but not quite break, leaving just a bit of a crack so she can yell inside,   “ ned! come on! open up or i will actually break this thing off the hinges! ”

   Peter bites back the sob that’s rising up in his throat, fingers twisting through the fabric of her clothing as he buries his head against her shoulder. It was TERRIBLE– the entire thing was horrifying. He can hardly even process all of it, but the images he’d witnessed keep on reappearing in his mind. Especially the skeleton crawling out of the gravestone– it makes him SHUDDER. Breathe, breathe, focus on her words. Don’t think about it, don’t think about how you messed up so, so bad. 

 “Okay– okay,” He mumbles, biting the inside of his cheek as he hobbles up the stairs to the plane, before shifting his weight against her, and letting her guide him to a seat, letting out a breath the moment he sits down. She asks the question, and his bottom lip starts trembling, sudden tears welling in his eyes. He can’t break, he has to explain. “Beck…um– Mysterio, he– did you see him? On the…on the news– I fought with him and I..I have him these– these glasses that Mr. Stark gave me, but he’s– he’s been faking the entire thing with…with illusion tech. I tried to warn Mr. Fury but he was there instead and he– he tricked me and I fell for it and-”

     She can tell something was very wrong purely on the fact that his lip moved. Immediately Jessica moves to kneel in front of him, both hands gripping onto his to offer comfort as he spoke. Already the girl can feel a rage forms inside of her at the thought of the Mysterio, and the fact that it was all fake. Leave it to the shittiest people to manipulate the kindest people. Peter had to be the nicest person Jess had ever met, especially after he chose to take her in as a close friend and confidant in their superhero lives. The fact that someone decided to use that kindness for their own gain...

   Admittedly, Peter isn’t exactly the best at changing into his suit, even after how LONG he’s been doing so, but he gets it on! He taps his chest, the fabric tightening, before he listens to her words. “Ooo, um– I can maybe have Karen analyze it? I dunno if it’ll give us much, ‘specially ‘cause there’s so much soot on it, but if I get enough data maybe she’ll be able to track some location.”