I am so so so incredibly sorry for not updating over the weekend but my power had been out from Saturday afternoon until today at like 11 because of a huge storm :P It was SOOOOOO BORING! and I also felt tortured because I couldn't type up any of my story :'( but I guess that was good because I have 3 summer reading books that I have to read in 2 weeks so I finished 1 and a 1/2 of those with a flash light. Well anywho here is chapter 13. Enjoy!

Chapter 13

Elizabeth's POV

The next day at school everything was different. Peter and Gwen weren't there, everything seemed so quiet, and everyone seemed so... sad. I went through the morning feeling kind of lonely without Peter by my side the whole time but at lunch the feeling was pushed to the side as I went to find Alice and Samantha so I could figure out why Gwen wasn't at school.

"Hey guys, where's Gwen?" I asked as I bit into the sandwich my mom packed for me.

"She's not here." Samantha continued to fork at her salad without looking up.

"Thank you Captain Obvious. Do you know why she's not here?" Samantha looked up in surprise with tears welling up in her eyes.

"You really don't know what happened last night do you." I raised my eyebrow in confusion.

"What happened?" I asked cautiously

"Lizzy, Spider-man died last night." Everything around me stopped. My heart felt like it had been ripped from my chest and that all air had been knocked out of me. A knot in my stomach began to form and tighten as I began to feel dizzy.

"How?" I was only able to choke out that one syllable as I felt tears begin to well up.

"He was trying to save some people from a building that had exploded but it was a trap. The bad guy was controlling a robot which picked him up and slammed him to the ground. Spider-man didn't move after that and then the robot slung him out into the middle of the ocean. " Tears had started streaming down Alice's cheeks while she told the story. "I guess search crews have been looking all through the night and the morning but haven't found anything according to the news."

"Excuse me." I shakily got up from the table and ran to the bathroom. I closed the stall door behind me and began to throw up everything I had in me from breakfast and the small part of lunch I had eaten. I then slowly slid down the wall into a sitting position with my knees tucked into my chest as I sobbed into my hands. I felt myself breaking. I felt myself crumbling to pieces and the strength I thought I had turned to weakness. I stayed in the bathroom crying for the rest of the day and then left without going to cross country practice. On my walk home I decided to call Gwen and see if she was ok.

"Hello?" Her voice sounded tired like she had also been crying.

"Gwen? Are you ok?" I continued to hold back the tears that wanted to pour from my eyes.

"Lizzy, I-I'm... I think you should come over."

"Why?"

"We need to talk about something really important." Gwen hung up before I could say anything else. I then changed the direction I was walking and made my way to her apartment.

Gwen's POV

I looked over at the bed where he lay unconscious still from the night before. Peter was barely hanging on but I couldn't take him to the hospital. I had stayed home from school to make sure he didn't slip away during the day. I stitched up the gash on his forehead and abdomen along with keeping ice on his burns from the explosion and bruises from being slammed against the ground. I knew his body was able to heal quicker than a normal human's but what if this was just too severe? What if this was beyond healing? No, I couldn't let myself think like that. Last night had been scary for both of us but he was out like a light for most of it so I had to suffer alone. I sat in my bed watching him get beat up by the man in the robot and then saw him flung through the air into the water. The second the anchor woman said Spider-man was dead I grabbed my phone, wallet, and keys and sprinted out of the apartment in my pajamas to the beach where, if he was alive, Peter would most likely emerge.

"Well, well, well, look who it is. Gwen Stacey." I heard the deep voice behind me say my name and my blood chilled. "Spider-man's old girlfriend." The man came closer and put his hand on my shoulder. "I need your help Gwen." Though the voice sounded unfamiliar I recognized the way he said my name.

"Tony?" I turned around and looked into my boyfriend's eyes that had an evil glint to them.

Tony cackled at the fear that I had mistakenly let flash across my eyes.

"What's going on?" I whispered.

"Gwen I have a friend in high places who needs your help with an important plan he's trying to carry out."

"What are you talking about?" He wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me close as he whispered into my ear.

"We're trying to get rich quick babe and maybe we can get rid of Spider-man in the process." I gasped at his words.

"I would never help anyone like you!" I spat at him.

"Oh you will when you see this." He pulled out a phone and started pushing some buttons but when I saw the screen my heart skipped a beat. My mom and brothers were all blind folded and bound to chairs in a dark room.

"No!" I screamed

"Shh shhh shhh." He wagged his finger and shook his head. "Gwen if you ever want to see your family again you will do exactly what we tell you to." I had already lost this fight and I hung my head in defeat.

"Wh-what do you need me t-to do?"

"I will give you the rest of the instructions from the boss later but right now when Spider-man washes up on shore I need you to take him back to your apartment and help him with his injuries. He won't die, not tonight at least because we still need him alive." I watched as an evil smile spread across his face. "Then I need you to spend some time with Miss Elizabeth Lewis."

"What does she have to do with any of this?"

"Oh, she has everything to do with this. She is the missing piece to our little puzzle. Well that's all you need to know for now because Peter Parker will be washing up soon."

"You know who he is?"

"Of course I know! Why do you think I started dating you after you two broke up?"

"We are so over!" I screamed at him as the sting of his words pierced my heart. I thought I had loved Tony but he just used me to get to Peter!

"I don't really care Gwen." He turned to walk away. "Oh! I almost forgot. If you mention one word of this to Peter the rest of your family will be dead in an instant." Tony then hopped into his daddy's red care and drove away. I turned back to the water in shock as Peter washed up weakly spitting up water. He had whispered my name and then fallen back into unconsciousness. I was pulled from my thoughts of last night as the door bell rang. It was Elizabeth. I put Peter's mask back on gently and went to let her in.

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