Chapter 7

Reconciliation



Mary Jane Watson had been in the darkness for what felt like an eternity. She could hear nothing, feel nothing, nor see anything. She had come to conclusion that she had to accept her fate. But something appeared that wasn't there before.

It appeared to be light coming from a place that looked as small as a pinhole. She went after the light thinking that Heaven was on the other side.

*Well I lived a good life.* Mary Jane thought as she came closer to the light. As she went closer to the light, the light appeared to be coming towards her. But unlike her experience with the creature in her dreams. There was a comfortable feeling in getting closer to the light and when she believed that she touched the light. Her vision became blinded by it. All she could see was now white.



They were in a windowless box. The two of them, laying next to each other. Neither was restrained because the room itself was reinforced with adimantium and no matter how much clawing was going be done by them. It would be impossible to break through.

Carnage was on one side and Spider-man was on the other. Spider-man was still unconscious and so was Carnage.

But suddenly, Carnage began to mover head. She was looking around and wondering what happened. She noticed the other person in the room and wondered who was it. But her suspicions were dwarfed when she looked at her hands. And saw crimson red claws. Carnage let out a piercing scream.

The sound was deafening but it brought Spider-man back and he was now awake.

"What the?" He muttered to himself

He saw Carnage was screaming but there was something very different about this scream. He then realized Mary Jane had come too.

"Mary Jane it's me, Peter." He allowed the symbiote to change into a simple t-shirt and cargo pants combination.

"Peter," She cried out "What am I?"

Tears began to well up in his eyes once again. He went to embrace Mary Jane like a parent who would hold their child if they scraped their knees.

"Shh" Peter said to him as he held Mary Jane. "It's okay, It's okay."

Mary Jane did her best to calm down except now she had about a trillion questions in her head. But one stuck in her head the most. "What happened?"

"You don't know?"

"I remember the car accident and when I was brought home. But that's it."

"Well it's complicated but I think I can explain it. Now just stand here and watch."

He stood in front of Mary Jane and quietly concentrated. She watched as his clothes shitfted and changed colors. In a manner of seconds he was now covered in the black symbiote.

"What is that?"

"Well after consulting 4 out of five doctors I've found that this thing is an alien symbiote."

"But from where?"

"Remember that school trip upstate."

Mary Jane stared at him.

"When I fell into that Indian booby trap."

"Oh right"

"And I was covered in some black slime."

She nodded.

"This is that slime."

"Well what does it do?"

"You know all the stuff I can do as Spider-man right?"

"Yeah"

"Well this augments my powers, and I don't have to mess around with web-shooters."

"How does this apply to me?"

Peter changed back into to the t-shirt/cargo pants combination. "That depends on how honest you want me to be."

"Well I want you to give me everything."

"Okay" Peter took a deep breath. "After your car accident I learned that you might not live and I decided that I couldn't stand to lose you. I mean all my life I've lost people I love. This time I wasn't going to allow that."

"Then how did I become like this." She held up her claws.

"I took a piece of my symbiote and then planted onto you. After a week you were fully healed."

"And you weren't ready for what might happen to me?"

"I took that into account but I was ready to deal with consequences."

"But you did it without any input me."

"Come on you were in a coma and you could've died. Besides it isn't all bad."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you could practically do all the stuff, I can do."

"You mean like Spider-man?"

"Most things I can do. Although I didn't see Carnage climb walls."

"Carnage?"

"Well that's what the symbiote was calling itself?"

"Does yours have a name?"

"Couldn't decide between Phil McCracken or Bill Clinton?"

Mary Jane chuckled. Although the expression was some strange on the symbiote's face. But the feeling was there.

"What about creating clothes?"

"Oh you mean what I did a second ago?"

She nodded

"To do that, you need to concentrate and I mean concentrate. Like if it were a concert or a test. Just concentrate and just thing of what you'd like the symtiobte to be."

"Okay"

Peter stood back and watched Mary Jane struggle with her symbiote. It almost looked like she was in pain. But after what seemed to be hours. The symbiote started to shift and change. It became a t-shirt and jeans. Something Mary Jane would where on any regular school day.

Peter began to cry as now he could Mary Jane's face for the first time since he accident. Although it wasn't obscured by tubes and tape. Her face was pretty and looked beautiful even in the bad flourescent lighting.

"It's good to see you again, Tiger." She said with tears in her eyes.

"Same here, MJ" Peter also had tears in his eyes.

They embraced each other deeply and kissed. While they didn't know where they were or how they got there. There was one thing they knew for sure. Both of them were in love and nothing was going to change that.



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