A canon-compliant drabble on The Amazing Spider-Man #85.
Gwen apparently forgave Peter, even though we don't see their reconciliation or explanation for his absence, but that's mediocre writing.
Gwen and George were bundled up, they pressed the doorbell to Peter and Harry's apartment and Peter answered the door.
"Captain Stacy! Gwen! I- I didn't expect..." Peter began, looking tense.
"We were just passing by, son! I hope we're not intruding!" George explained, looking sternly.
"Dad has something he wants to ask you, Peter!" Gwen explained.
"You make it sound so dramatic, dear!"
Peter invited Gwen and George inside properly, and they took their winter clothing off, sitting down in the living room.
"I've always wondered how you managed to be a successful news photographer!" George began.
"Oh, I guess I've just been... Kinda lucky!" Peter dismissed.
"I feel it's more than luck! No one but you has ever managed to get such candid photos of Spider-Man in action! You've always seemed to be in the right place,... at the right time! Can you honestly say that it's just been... coincidence?" George pressed on.
Peter was silent a moment before he suddenly glanced at his not-watch on his wrist. "Holy smoke! I just remembered! I've got some pics developing in the darkroom!" Peter explained suddenly, bolting upright.
"Well, don't let us spoil the prints! We'll wait, m'boy!" George replied ugently.
"Just so long as they're not shots of any other chicks!" Gwen beamed, shrugging her shoulders and raising the palms of her hands upwards.
Peter ran to his darkroom, slamming the door shut behind him.
He was gone for a couple of moments by now, and George was lighting his pipe.
"Dad, I still think you're way off-base about Peter! I've known him for... Oh!" Gwen explained, breaking the silence. There was a scuffle behind her. Some blinds shifting, and Gwen glanced over her shoulder.
"What's that, honey? What did you say?" George asked.
"There's someone... at the window!" Gwen replied, watching the window sill until... Spider-Man climbed through it.
"Spider-Man!" George yelled, getting to his feet.
"Stay where you are, Mister! This isn't a social call! Parker's the one I want!" Spider-Man replied, crouching in the window.
Gwen stood up, and George put his arms around Gwen protectively. "Then I was right! There is some connection between you and Peter Parker!" George exclaimed.
"Dad! He... He seems so angry! As though he wants to hurt Pete! As though... He has some sort of grudge against him!"
Spider-Man stood up against the wall, raising his fist threateningly. "I've more than a grudge against him! I made a deal with him... He takes the pictures... We split the dough! But he still owes me plenty!"
"He'll pay you! Peter Parker would never welch on a debt!" The blonde exploded, barging closer towards Spider-Man, pointing a finger at him accusingly. "Anyway! He isn't here! He left hours ago!"
"You wouldn't lie to me, lady?" Spider-Man retorted.
Spider-Man seemed satisfied, slowly crawling out the window to leave.
George put Gwen's coat over her shoulders, ushering her from Peter and Harry's apartment.
"You did it, Gwen! And we'd better go, too... So that he doesn't doubt us! What you did took courage, dear! If Spider-Man hadn't believed you..." George began.
"But he did! That's all that matters!" Gwen replied, worried about Peter's well-being and his deal with the menace.
George and Gwen left Peter and Harry's apartment complex, but Gwen's worry began to gnaw at her.
"He's watching us... From that building above! We dare not return to Parker!" George lowered his voice, but Gwen couldn't bring herself to worry about that right now.
"Poor Peter! No wonder he sometimes seems so nervous- so fearful!" Gwen replied, thinking back to Peter's odd behavior.
Several hours had gone by, and Gwen's concern only got worse. She was outside Peter's apartment, opening the door to his place and despite George's protests Gwen had convinced him to check out Peter's place with her.
"Gwen! I still say we shouldn't have returned so soon!" George urged.
Gwen halted at the open doorway to Peter's place. "But why didn't Peter answer... When we phoned him? He may be in trouble! He may need us! What if Spider-Man came back... After we left?" Gwen asked.
"I still can't believe he's as dangerous as they say!" George shook his head in disappointment.
Gwen opened the rest of the door, checking inside. "Peter? Are you there?"
George and Gwen stepped inside, inspecting the empty apartment.
"The apartment seems to be deserted! But there's no sign of struggle!" George attempted.
"A struggle? Then... You also thought... Oh, dad! How could poor Peter... Or any normal person... Put up a struggle against Spider-Man?!" Gwen broke down, sobbing, letting the tears flow. "What... What chance would he have?"
George pattern Gwen's shoulder soothingly, trying to soothe her. "Easy, dear, easy..."
Gwen knelt at the window Spider-Man had crawled in through earlier, checking around out the front as George made a phone call.
"Peter might be his prisoner now! He might have taken him... any where!"
"I'll call the precinct! Perhaps they can check it out!" George explained, dialing the number.
"Of course... There is another possibility! Even if Peter did leave with Spider-Man... How do we know he didn't go... Willingly?" George pressed on, lowering the phone from his ear as he thought about Peter.
A/N: Look at that. Gwen has the keys to Peter and Harry's apartment. Seems like a serious relationship. #RetconSinsPast
