Hero
~ It isn't the love of a hero and that's why I fear it won't do ~
~ Prelude ~
She's doomed, do you hear me?
Gwen.
Doomed,
Falling. No…NO!
--And so are you!
~ End Prelude ~
His Pinnacle fell, blonde and beautiful, beautiful and falling like pilot ejected…
"NO!"
The Spider and The Hero were quick to the edge.
But every dream has to end.
Everything was gone, except the clarity of this moment, the sharpness of his mind.
But death pursued the Spider wherever he went, whoever he met.
He screamed again "NO!" and "NO!"
But his Pinnacle fell.
"I've got to catch her--" Save her "--Stop her fall before she hits the water!"
Aryan launched his web toward her -
"I've GOT to!"
- screaming between the seconds:
"I'VE GOT TO!"
Because he'd cheated death before, hung on by will alone. Because he was a hero, with great power and even greater responsibility. Because he loved her. It connected to her leg and he began pulling her up realising for the first time that he was also pulling Peter Parker from a fall that equally could have killed him. Without words he repeated:
Please
Just one more chance
One more moment,
One more kiss,
One more sound, day, chance.
But every dream has to end.
"Gwen?" I love you "Hey, kid--What's wrong? Don't you understand? I saved you--you can't be--" I need you! "NO! Oh, no, no, no, no -- Don't be dead Gwen -- I don't want you to be dead!" Why…Didn't I save you? I saved so many. Why do I live while she dies?! "I saved you, honey…Don't you see? I saved you…"
Gwen Stacy died.
Spider-man noticed for the first time, the words 'I love you' on her eyes, her hair, the treasure of her face, and though he hadn't deserved it, though he didn't deserve it…those words all over her body, that she put there for him, even for now…she was made for him. For the few moments they'd had. She was perfect.
And Peter Parker died.
"ROMANTIC IDIOT!" Goblin, monster, killer. "She was dead before your webbing reached her! A fall from that height would kill anyone--" Killer, sub-human, I can kill him if I want to! "--Before they struck the ground! But for you, my friend--Death will come more quickly and more surely than the shock of a sudden fall!"
Gwen was perfect. Loved. His, he thought.
Parker was strong, but not strong enough, dead in the end, killed as she was killed, by a fall - by her death. All that was left was Spider-man.
Power without responsibility, determination without control, will with no moderation.
Gw…Parker must be avenged. Therefore he would.
The Spider would do it, his end of a deal made with a devil.
"Wrong, Goblin!" Oh Gwen… "You're the creep who's going to pay! I'm going to get you, Goblin! I'm going to destroy you slowly--and when you start begging for me to end it--" …please, just one more chance, if I do this will you come back to me? Gwen, I need you! "--I'm going to remind you of one thing--" I loved you and will forever be empty without you "--You KILLED the woman I love--And for that, you're going to DIE!"