WARNING This might have some triggering content regarding drug use. If addiction and it's implications skip to the second part of this chapter (the part after ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~).
I had a day to write but didn't 'cause I suck. Sorry
Enjoy!
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Michelle was actively trying to avoid Ned. She had the right to be angry. He lied to her. So she lied back. She said she just met up with Albert then had a relaxing weekend.
He didn't seem to mind, school was starting to get crazy. The workload getting unbearable.
But one day he walked up to her right before school ended.
"Michelle I'm worried about Albert."
She spun around, ready to blow him off.
"Why?" She said.
"He hasn't answered my calls and wasn't at the diner last night."
Michelle glanced out the window, a crazy snowstorm had blown through the night before. Lucky the snow was already turning to slush.
"He must have gotten caught up in the storm."
He grabbed Michelle's arm, "You saw him last, is there something you're not telling me?"
She pulled her arm back and rolled her eyes, "You're talking to me about lying." Before glancing around the room, making sure no one was listening.
"Why didn't you tell me Peter was Spider-man." Michelle finished.
"What- you know?" Ned said, "I mean no he isn't."
She turned back to her work in front of her.
"Listen we can talk about this later. But I think we should go and make sure he's okay." Ned said.
She looked down at her paper, she had finished it a while ago.
"Fine." She said stuffing it in her bag then walking out of the class, the sub to busy reading to notice.
Ned stumbled behind her.
Albert purposely moved his rout nearer the kids. So around 2 he would be at the corner just outside the school. But when they checked he wasn't there.
When they checked his noon spot, nothing.
Okay, there's no reason to worry yet.
Michelle just kept dragging Ned through the rout. Until they reached the park. His nightspot. Maybe it just was too hard to wake up this morning.
Michelle and Ned walked into the jogging path most people don't use. Scanning the benches for Albert. They hadn't been able to find him.
That was until Michelle saw a figure, all she had been able to see was the outline of a person sitting against a tree.
"Albert?" Michelle called, finally taking a deep breath that she had been able to find him. She dragged Ned towards the tree.
"You had us worried there Al-" Michelle started but stopped dead in her tracks when she finally got a good look at him.
Ned covered his mouth and turned away. But Michelle stood there shocked, staring at the lifeless blue body of there best buddy Albert.
"No, no, no, no!" She cried rushing toward the cold body.
She began to frantically wipe the snow off his body, tears flooding her vision.
"Albert you're okay, you're okay."
A needle falling from the man's arm along with more snow.
"No!" She screamed.
"W-we need to call the police," Ned said, tears streaming down his face.
"Get an ambulance." She said moving him down to be laying on his back and positioned her hands on his chest. She pushed down where the heart should be, starting compressions.
"Michelle stop!" Ned cried pushing her away, "He's dead Michelle."
Michelle sat back, wiping her tears. Looking at the man.
He looked so peaceful. His resting face always had a slight smile on it. His eyes were shut when they arrived.
Sirens were heard in the distance.
"He s-shouldn't have been in the cold. I should have gone looking for him." Ned said, looking down at Albert.
Michelle was curling up into a ball. Her face in her knees.
What do they do?
Two cops arrived. Michelle didn't care. Ned started talking to them.
What are they going to do?
They made Michelle move as more cops arrived.
What are they going to do to Alberts body?
They pulled a black bad and brought it to put Albert in.
Oh god, they need to tell Peter.
Michelle and Ned stood there. Watching the police and medics arrive. Then watched as they left. The police saying that an autopsy would be performed then if they choose to pay for it they could have a funeral.
Michelle pulled herself together enough say, "We should go." While they both stared at the divot in the snow were Albert used to be.
"We need to tell Peter." She stated. Wiping a tear that had escaped without her permission.
"He's probably still at Stark Tower," Ned said, his voice shaking slightly.
"Let's go." She said turning and walking towards the tower.
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The treatment was going well. Shuri stood over the pod the recording playing, and the brain was already reacting positively to some picture only after a day.
She had decided with all this good work she would take a break and go treat herself so some American junk food.
She left Peters floor and got into the elevator.
"Lobby please." She said looking down at a device, studying the patterns from Peters brain waves. Making sure he has gotten enough liquids.
The door opened with a ding and Shuri was greeted with the sound of a girl and boy arguing very loudly with a receptionist who seemed to be ignoring them.
"Please, we just want to see Peter." The boy Shuri recognized to be Ned.
The girl, Michelle standing not far behind him her face completely blank.
"Ned what is going on?" Shuri asked stepping out of the elevator.
"It's Albert." Ned said turning to Shuri, "Albert is dead."
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Review if ya feel like it.
Please don't hate me. I promise things will start looking up.
I had a hard time with this, I knew I was going to kill him off since the beginning, but he reminds me of someone close to me that I know IRL. It was a whole thing, anyway… Sorry.
-Andelynnn