Chapter Six: MEMORY I

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ThanosROCKS: Do you mind if a female X-Men character can be added in peter's harem let's say x-23\Laura Kinney?

Answer: I already have plans for X-23 in this story. Unfortunately she will not be added to Peter's harem, sorry about that.

AHMEDI986: Interesting, cant wait to see how it will develop. By the way do you have a schedule cause I am excited for more. What are your plans for Callum. I think if you pair him, you should pair him with Betty Brant. Will peter have 3 members for his harem. If more can you tell which characters do you want to include

Answer: I do not currently have a schedule, at least at this time of year. With Christmas coming up and work it's been hard finding time. I will give out an update on a schedule when the time comes. Callum is an interesting one, I can't say anything, but he is definitely important. Pairing wise, I also figured it out for him, never thought about Betty Brant though. I'll take it into consideration.

Finally yes, Peter will have more than three. Currently the harem consists of Mary Jane Watson/Red Sonja, Felicia Hardy, Gwen Stacy, Carol Danvers, Silver Sablinova, and Susan Storm. I may add more in the future.

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EXTRA: To those curious about Callum's love life, I will give you a character I plan on shipping him with! ITS! Another OC, hah! You didn't actually think I would tell you right?

7 Years Ago

This event that occurred seven years ago and it still lingers in the Parker family's memories. A year after Peter and Callum were taken in by May and Ben, the pair decided to celebrate their first-year anniversary. It was February 18th, 2010.

"So? How did you boys like that place?" May asked smiling at her two boys, holding both of their hands. Peter and Callum were happily humming after having their first meal at a nice Italian restaurant. Ben followed closely behind them taking in the sight in front of him.

"It was really good! Never had anything like that before!" Peter exclaimed happily.

"That was mind-blowing" Callum added.

"Haha, well that's great. Maybe next time we'll go to an even better place huh?" Ben suggested running up and lifted up Peter onto his shoulders. Peter at first was startled but started laughing as he comfortable sat on his fathers' shoulders.

"Can we?! That would be awesome!" Callum expressed his excitement before his eyes wandered off to a closed ice cream shop. "Hm…"

"Is there something wrong Callum?" May asked, noticing Callum staring intently at the ice cream shop. "Would like to get some?"

"Uh… No, we don't have to" Callum responded, not wanting to bother his mother and father any longer. May and Ben gave each other a smile as the two parents led their kids down the streets.

"Nonsense. Today is a special day, and what better way to end it with some ice cream?" Ben said with Peter cheering in happiness. May looked down to Callum, the young boy hid his excitement more than his brother, but had a wide smile on his face.

*Ding* The ice cream shops door bell rang as the four entered the shop, and was greeted politely by the employees.

"What would you two like?" May asked as Ben knelt down letting Peter down from his shoulders. The two brothers walked over to the counters, pressing their face and hands at the plastic case. There were at least eight different flavours, and there was a total of three counters, giving a grand total of 24 flavours to choose from.

"I don't even know half of these flavours…" Peter mumbled with Callum nodding in agreement.

"Whats beer?" Callum asked innocently.

"Something you ain't gonna get today buddy" Ben laughed placing his hand on the young boy's shoulder, whom pouted cutely.

"Would you two like some samples? It's free" The employee said kneeling over the two cute boys.

"Free?!" The two exclaimed before clearing their throats. May always told them to be respectful to others and not take advantage of the generosity of others. "Well… Maybe one should be fine… Right Pete?"

"Y-Yea, one is fine… Is that okay mom?" Peter asked somewhat nervous towards May. Callum popped his ahead beside his brothers' shoulder. The female employees tried to hold back from squealing as the two brother's shyness were too cute for them. Ben noticed this and nodded his head proudly.

"Yes, its fine you two. As long as you don't abuse it." May reassured and the two brothers happily turned around and pointed at the ones they wanted to try. Peter pointed at an oddly purple ice cream that said Ube. Callum pointed at a tin that was half white and half light blue, the label said it was Ramune flavoured.

"What made you choose those?" Ben asked.

"It looked funny" Peter answered.

"I like the colour" Callum answered.

The two brothers had relatively simple answers and gave a good laugh to the employees. Peter and Callum got a quick taste of it, and their eyes lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Whoooaaaaa" Was the sound the two made as they looked at each other. The two then immediately turned around and pointed at the ice cream they wanted, obviously being the one that they just tried.

"O-Okay… Haha!" The employee laughed, enjoying the look of happiness on the boys faces. "What can I get you two?"

"I'll take the Jasmine Green tea" May said, oddly fitting for her.

"I'll take the beer" Ben said shamelessly, getting a judgemental look from his wife. "What? I'm old enough!"

"Thank you very much!" The employees waved goodbye to the four, with the female workers giving little waves to Peter and Callum.

"You two sure are the lady's man huh?" Ben said after observing the workers.

"Whats a lady's man?" Peter asked.

"Is it a man's lady?" Callum continued innocently.

"No, don't worry about it you two. And Ben!" May exclaimed playfully slapping her husbands' arm. Although, Ben merely shrugged and took a huge bite of his beer ice cream. May sighed and went back to look at her sons, "Oh! They even gave you an extra scoop. How nice of them"

The four continued walking, and they had to walk under a bridge to get to the train station. Sadly, Ben's car was in the shop and May didn't have get a car until later years. Unbeknownst to them, four men were quietly stalking them from their car, waiting for the right opportunity.

"The station should be up ahead." Ben said pointed towards the bridge. As the four were about to go under, the two boys noticed an old car drive by beside them. Peter and Callum narrowed their eyes at the car, feeling uneasy about it. However, Ben and May didn't take notice, even when the car stopped and pulled over to the curb.

Four men wearing blacking clothing and beanies came out threateningly. That's when May and Ben noticed and felt scared. The two held onto their sons' shoulders, and turned them around.

"What wrong?" Peter asked slightly confused.

"Don't worry about it Petey, were just taking a shortcut" Ben said hurriedly speed walking back where they came from. However, a sound of a click caused them to stop.

"Where do you think you're going old timer? Get the fuck back here" One of the men said holding a 9mm at Ben. The others around him had weapons as well. One had a .44 Magnum, and the other two had a baseball bat and crowbar.

Ben and May slowly turned around with one of their hands up, and the other holding onto Peter and Callum whom did not look fazed at all.

"L-L-Look… We don't want any trouble…" Ben started.

"Shut the fuck up. You do what we say, and talk when we want you to talk, you understand shithead?" The 9mm thug ordered. Ben and May stood quiet as the thugs gestured them to come forward.

"Get over there" The .44 magnum thug ordered, directing the family to a nearby alley way. One of the men got impatient with their slow walking, and shoved May forward.

"Move it bitch!" The crowbar thug exclaimed pushing May roughly, making her drop her ice cream. Ben turned around infuriated that they would do such a thing.

"What the hell?!" Ben exclaimed only to get hit in the face by the baseball thugs' fist.

"Ben!" May screamed. Peter and Callum could feel anger rising up in their hearts, their eyes almost turning into a predator

"Who the fuck said you could speak? Not our fault this old lady can't move for shit!" The baseball thug yelled angrily, giving Ben a nice kick to the gut. Ben held his stomach in pain as a little spit came flying out as well.

"Now get in there!" The man holding the 9mm screamed, pushing the family to the dead end. The two men with the guns held their weapons at Ben and May. "Give us all you got, and maybe you'll come outta this with some bruises"

"Why are you doing this?" Peter asked calmly yet creepily. His eyes looked like they were devoid of any emotion, except anger.

"Why? Because we have a fucking gun, that's why kid. Now shut the fuck up!" Screamed the thug, flashing the weapon at the young boys face.

"You seem to be pretty loud though" Callum retorted, and that popped a vein in the thug's head. With his open hand he slapped the ice cream out of his hands, and pushed the 10-year-old down to the floor, pointing the pistol at Callum. "Agh!"

"Don't touch him you prick!" Ben screamed only to be hit again, this time by a baseball bat to the leg. "AGH!" Peter and Callum's eyes widened at their actions and started to clench their fists tightly.

"Shut up old man! Do you want your brittle legs to be broken?! I don't mind if you're a cripple the rest of your life!" The baseball bat thug threatened. The other men started to gang up on Ben as they continuously started to kick and beat him down.

"Petey, Callum… Just stay with me okay?" May whispered trying hard not look at Ben. She moved her head to where the boys where standing, but they disappeared. Only Peter's ice cream cup was standing. "Peter?! Callum!?"

"Now this bitch screaming too huh? How about I break your vocal… Huh?" The crowbar thug started, but noticed that the two boys were missing. "Where the fuck did those brats go?!"

The three thugs stopped beating on Ben, their attention was now focused on finding where Peter and Callum went.

"One of us should have kept an eye on them…" The 9mm thug complained holding his pistol at a bloodied Ben.

"They couldn't have gotten far. They're probably hiding here somewhere" The baseball thug said walking over to a large dumpster. As he lifted the cover something sprang out quickly and the lid hit him straight under the jaw, knocking him down to the ground.

"What the fuck?!" The .44 magnum thug exclaimed helping his buddy up from the ground.

The crowbar thug walked backwards, and went behind May clutching his crowbar close to his chest. As the three others were focused at the garbage bin, he didn't notice two shadowy figures sneaking up slowly behind him.

"HuAHH!" The crowbar thug screamed as two hands grabbed his shoulders and pulled him into the dark sky. The three thugs, and May turned startled to see that the man disappeared into thin air. After only a second, they heard a loud metallic bang. The three thugs and May looked to their right and saw the crowbar holding thug, hanging unconscious on the metal emergency stairs railing.

"What's going on?" The 9mm thug asked, a hint of fear in his voice. Next thing they knew a crow bar and metal trash can lid was thrown at the .44 magnum thug and baseball bat thug respectively. The crow bar thrown at the gun wielding thug immediately knocked him out, in fact a trail of blood left his head. "Holy shit!" The 9mm thug exclaimed.

The trash can lid smacked right into the baseball thugs head but didn't leave him unconscious but dazed. Callum landed in front of the dazed thug and looked at him like a predator ready to kill its prey. The remaining thug held his gun at Callum ready to shoot.

"Don't you move you fucking freak!" The mugger screamed, not noticing Peter right above him. His feet firmly planted on the building behind him. Similarly, to Callum, Peter looked like he was ready to kill. Peter grabbed the thugs head with both of his small but strong arms and slammed his head into a wall.

"Huh?!" The dazed thug snapped back to see Callum fists going towards his face. Most people would think a ten-year old's fist wouldn't hurt but the thug swore he just broke his nose, and knocked his teeth out. The thug tried to throw a hook, but it was wide and weak. Callum easily caught it and twisted his arm with no effort causing immense pain to the mugger. "AGGH! AHHH!"

Callum used a palm fist as he straightened out the thugs twisted arm and bent his elbow the opposite way, hearing clear sounds of bones breaking, and dislocation. The thug felt a shockwave of pain going through his arm, and the scary thing was Callum wasn't done. Swiftly after breaking his arm he grabbed his face and sent an upper cut to his ribs, breaking multiple bones, following up with a over head throwing whilst twisting his other arm.

"You picked the wrong family to fuck with" Callum cursed, sending a powerful side kick to the thugs remaining functional arm. The thug let out a blood curdling scream as his other arm was broke and bent to the point where his hand could touch the back of his shoulder.

May could only watch all of this unfold. The two sons they had cared for and loved. These nice kids who always had smiles on their faces. Now they were smiling as they completely decimated these men. They looked like as if they were having fun.

Peter on the other end just mounted the thug he had, and kept on punching his face with a malicious grin on his face. From what May could see Peter crushed the man's bones, she could see disfigurement in his body. She was too scared to say anything, but she had to… This wasn't who they are… Now.

"PETER! CALLUM! STOP!" May screamed as if she was about to rupture her vocal chords. Peter and Callum's arms stopped moving and paused as is. The two looked up and turned their heads slowly to their "mother" with little spots of blood dotting their faces. Their eyes devoid of all emotion suddenly reverted back when they looked at May.

"?!" Peter sprung up from the badly beaten thugs' body and stared at his hands in disbelief. Callum did the same, only tripping over his own feet looking completely horrified. "W-Wha? What happened?" Peter asked his voice trembling uncontrollably.

"D… Did I? Do that?" Callum asked, staring at the thugs broken body. The two boys looked over at May whom tried her best not to stare at them, she looked into their eyes and saw the same boys who were just talking about ice cream, not the ones who were mercilessly beating down the muggers.

May let out a small smile and slowly walked over to Callum who was closest to her. She gently wrapped her arm around Callum and she could feel him shaking, she swore she saw more fear in his eyes then the man he was nearly killing.

"Come… Come…" May whispered being him over to his brother. Just like Callum, Peter was trembling uncontrollably. She went over to Ben who was alive, thank god, and still breathing. He was unconscious… May was glad he didn't have to see that.

"Is he going to be okay?" Peter asked his eyes tearing up holding onto May's on arm tightly. Callum on the other hand already started crying on her shirt, but the sound was muffled.

"He's going to be fine… I know who to call" May said hugging the two boys tightly.

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A sound of a car pulled up in front of the alley way. A professional looking police officer got out, and wore the badge Captain Stacy. He hurriedly walked over to where May and the others were with his hand ready on his pistol.

"May, Ben are you-?" Captain Stacey started but was shocked to see four men lying barely alive. Captain Stacy had to cover his mouth as he saw a slightly mangled mugger lying on the floor, and another who was heavily bloodied. "What the hell happened?"

"George?" May called out. She was sitting right by Ben who was wiped clean of any blood with May's handkerchief. The police captain ran over to them with a highly worried expression, especially the boys, who cried themselves to sleep.

"Jesus… May? What the hell happened?" George asked.

"W-W-We were getting robbed, and they started to hit Ben… They had guns, and weapons… He tried to stop them, but they just continued" May started, but her explanation was all over the place. George had to stop her and held her shoulders gently.

"Calm down May. It's okay, I'm here now… Who did this?" George asked. There was no way May or Ben could have done this. They weren't those type of people, let alone the fact that they could cause this much damage.

May didn't know what to say. If she told them her sons did it, would he even believe her? He probably thinks she was just mental. However, May and Ben trusted George with their life, being Ben's old friend. She subtly moved her eyes towards the boys and George blinked at least ten times.

"No… No, no, no. Peter and Callum? T-They're just kids" George stuttered. However, as he looked closer, he could see blood marks on their faces. In fact, the two brothers literally hand blood on their hands…

"I know it sounds crazy… But believe me. Why would I lie about this?" May asked her eyes starting to tear up. "What should I do?"

George scratched his head, contemplating on what to do. Peter and Callum were sweet kids, they would always play with his daughter and Mary Jane. He couldn't believe they could do such a thing… But proof was standing right in front of him.

This was self-defence but seeing this might be excessive self-defence. Even though they're kids they wouldn't be let off that easy. George was stuck in between his duty and two kids he treated as his own sons, hell he even wished that one of them would marry his daughter.

George took a deep breath and gently picked up a barely conscious Ben and swung his body over his shoulder. "May, take the kids and bring them to the cruiser. I'll get you to the hospital"

"What about?" May started.

"I'll deal with that, right now we need to get you guys out of here… understand?" George ordered. May nodded her head and woke Peter and Callum up.

"Hm?"

"Whats going on?" Peter asked barely awake.

"We need to get going okay? Just follow Mr. Stacy" May said pushing the two forward. The two didn't answer any questions, as they were still stuck in a slumber state. The brothers blindly followed May's orders and walked towards the police car with George following quickly behind them.

George started to drive down the street with his sirens on, weaving through traffic in the major intersections. May held onto Peter and Callum tightly while the two brothers laid their hands-on Bens. George had to get to the hospital quick. The faster he goes the better he can deal with the situation.

George's cruiser came into the hospital drop off and slammed his breaks, scaring everyone in the current vicinity. At this point he didn't care, he jumped out of his car and helped the three lift Ben out of the car.

"Come on, careful now!" George said grabbing Ben's legs with both of his arms, while Peter and Callum surprisingly held Ben's body with one arm each. As the two were lifting him out, a couple of doctors came running out to see what the commotion was about.

"What happened officer?" The doctor asked, immediately checking for Ben's pulse which was gladly still there.

"This family was being mugged by a bunch of thieves. Roughed him up pretty bad. We need to get him treated right away" George ordered. The doctor didn't say anything more, with the help of other doctors, and residents, they whisked Ben onto a gurney. "He's going to be okay, just stay with them okay?"

"Alright…" May answered rubbing her sons' shoulders. "I can't thank you enough"

"We're friends May, no need for thanks" George smiled.

"Thank you, Mr. Stacey" Peter and Callum said. George replied back with a big warm smile, kneeling down in front of the boys. He ruffled their hair and gave them a nice big hug.

"No problem. Anything for my daughters' best friends, right?" George said, ruffling the brother's hair one more time before getting back into his car.

"Come on now. We should get inside." May said herding the two brothers inside the hospital.

30 minutes later

The doctors came by and dropped off some good news. Ben was going to be fine, some minor gashes and cuts. The doctors said he was stitched up and should be able to go home in a couple of days. May sighed in relief with the two brothers sitting on her right. They were fast asleep, holding each others hand.

"Ma'am? Do you mind if we could… Wash off some of that blood on your boys? It might be weird going home like that. Plus, others have announced their worries for them" The doctor said. May looked around and saw other visitors looking at Callum, Peter, and her. They looked deadly worried.

"I-If that's fine with you doctor" May accepted. The doctor flashed a smile and he helped her carry the boys to a nearby shower room.

"Just place them here… Okay, that should be good." The doctor laid Callum down near the bench next to Peter. "It's all your ma'am" Said the doctor, leaving May with the two young brothers.

"Peter? Callum? Wake up, I need to get you cleaned up" May said shaking the two. However, this time the boys were in a deep sleep. She figured what happened today took a huge toll on them mentally. She decided not to bother them and instead just wipe them down like she did for Ben. May found some cleans towels stacked up nicely by then showers and soaked them with hot water. She walked back to take off their shirts…

Dream state: Peter

"How is he doing?" An unfamiliar voice rang out in Peter's head. He opened his eyes, but everything was hazy. Whoever was standing in front of him… He was whited out.

"Fine, he should be ready in a couple of days. Along with ?s?, Phoen? ?a?, ?3, and ?g?." Peter couldn't make out what or who they were talking about.

"Oh? He's awake…" One of them said.

"Put him back to sleep then" As the other said that, Peter felt his consciousness fading…

Dream State: Callum

"Wake up… Wake up" A female voice spoke. She sounded nice… and gentle. Callum slowly opened his eyes but it was greeted by a blinding light. He couldn't see what was in front of him, but whoever she was… She felt warm.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"You don't remember me? That hurts…" The woman said, and she did indeed sound hurt by his words. He felt guilty, but he truly doesn't know who this was. "It's okay, I will always wait for you, I am always beside you. My Warden"

"Warden?" Callum asked before his consciousness started to fade.

Present

"Oh my god…!" May exclaimed but trying to keep her voice down. She dropped the soaked towel onto the ground as she needed her hands to cover her mouth and probably her eyes.

When she took the boys shirts off, she was greeted with a myriad of scars on the boy's backs.

A trip down memory lane for this chapter. I called this chapter Memory I because as the story goes on, you will get to see more of their memories and see how their character develops. Also, if you ever need a refresher on their past, boom! You got it.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, things definitely got dark but life isn't always about sunshine and lollipops. Thanks for reading and I will update as fast as I can before the holidays.