Spiderman hasn't been out since the accident, a lot of people say it's because he killed a girl, but the truth is Peter's been at the hospital every minute he's not in school. He stays there constantly, and feels responsible for Gwen. His webbing is what caused her whiplash, his webbing could cost her her life. Peter tries to not think about her not waking up. Instead he focus on what he'll say when she wakes up. He doesn't want to overwhelm her, but he knows now he needs to make it very clear how much he loves her. He even buys a ring, but knows it will be awhile before he could give it to her.

When Peter does leave the hospital he stays at his Aunt Mays, usually in her bed like he did when he was a little boy. It's different now he's too big to let Aunt May take him in her arms and keep the monsters out. It's different without Uncle Ben coming back and saying he told the thing under his bed to leave, and Aunt May saying he can stay there anyway. He's pretty sure it's different for Aunt May too. He wonders if she feels as empty not sleeping next to Uncle Ben as he does not sleeping next to Gwen.

Peter has a hard time returning to their apartment. He usually come's when he's at school to grab books or a project, then leave immediately. There's a ghost of Gwen Stacy there and he can't bear the weight of it. One rainy day, when ESU's library is closed Peter has to finish a project at the apartment. The project takes longer than he planned, and Peter decides that maybe he could stay at their apartment for the night. He's sure he'll be fine. Everything's almost okay, that is until he goes to bed and turns to kiss Gwen goodnight. He tosses and turns for hours and finally makes it asleed, curled into the side of Gwen's pillow.

When he wakes up there's barely any sunlight out. He makes breakfast for two, watches the cartoons that Gwen secretly likes to watch in the morning, pulls the sports from the newspaper for her. He misses Gwen in everything he does, but being at their home makes doing things almost impossible. He misses her when he's doing the dishes and she's not their to dry them, he misses her when he pulls the blanket from the back of the couch and she doesn't slide her feet under it, he misses her when he get's in the shower and her hand doesn't sneak in to turn it on cold when he's not looking.

As time moves forward the Stacy's spend less and less time at the hospital, returning to school and work. Peter does the same. He spends time working on school, and taking picture's. Aunt May starts making dinner again, instead of frozen food. On a particularly sunny day she tells Peter she's been seeing someone. He chokes a little on his cereal and asks if she's serious. It's not that he doesn't believe her, he know's she's absolutely beautiful on the inside and out, it's just hard to hear. He wonders if Gwen doesn't wake up would he ever be able to love anyone else? He quickly scolds himself for even thinking that. Gwen's going to wake up.

After that he starts spending more time with her again. He'll sit in a chair next to her, sometime's he'll tell her how his day went. Sometime's he reads, always out loud. Sometime's he'll just put on their favorite movies and watch them. After a month and a half of Gwen being gone Peter starts to get picky. It's over weird things too. Like if a nurse doesn't use the vanilla shampoo he brought from their apartment, or if he felt like they weren't flipping her enough and that she'd get bed sores. Aunt May comes to the hospital to retrieve Peter on a Tuesday, because even though he can't see that he's slipping away from reality, she can.

Aunt May wakes Peter up early on a Saturday morning and asks for him to go with her to Ben's grave. Peter visits the graveyard often with Gwen to see her dad, but Aunt May's never asked him to go with her. They stop on the way to eat at a diner that reminds Peter of the times he ate there with Uncle Ben before going to baseball games. Aunt May doesn't talk much, but she does ask how Gwen is. "She's doing better," Peter says calmly. "Her neck is realigning well. That's what the say anyway. It's just her spinal cord now."

"I'll have to come by and see her sometime."

"You don't have to. It's not very hopeful looking." Peter says thinking of Gwen's pasty face, and how noticeable her bones are.

"I want to. For you, and for her."

After Peter forces Aunt May to let him pay for breakfast, the get a cab. She tells the cab driver the address of the cemetery and stays quiet for the rest of the ride. She leads the way to Ben Parker's grave. The two remaining members of the Parker family stand in silence. Peter places his arm around Aunt May and she steps away from him. "I want you to meet the man I've been seeing." She says. Peter can't help but wonder why she chose her of all places to talk about this. It's been years since Uncle Ben was killed, but it still felt like a fresh wound.

"Okay." He says softly.

"He has a son about your age. We should all have dinner one night."

"Yeah." He says stopping to think about it. "We should. We defiantly should."


Hi everyone! Thank you for the positive feedback! I know in reality it's not that much but for one short chapter I'm pretty happy with the outcome! Just so everyone knows, once the story picks up the chapters will be longer:)