Ladies aaaaaand gentlemen. I have a brief announcement. I have currently been awake for approximately 26 hours without sleeping (no school today), and when I do that, I usually get a little (lot) weirder than I usually am. So this chapter will most likely suck compared to the two others and be totally weird, but if you don't sleep for 24 hours, it will make a lot more sense. But HEY, maybe it won't suck after all, it might just be to you liking, how would I know? I haven't slept after all... I've decided to make this chapter a bit short, because I can then divide it in two pieces; physical and spiritual, and because I would very much like to get some sleep. This chapter is the physical part, the next one is spiritual.

Chapter 3 (with the ironic sub-title) takes place a couple of weeks after the last chapter ended. Mary Jane is still pregnant with a week or two to go. Shade still hasn't found out anything about his past, but has instead, with success, focused on controlling his powers with the help and support of Mary Jane and Peter. It starts of with Shade sitting alone on a statue of an angel in Central Park late at night.

Chapter 3: Sleepless

Shade hasn't slept for days. He has discovered that his body doesn't need rest. His mind however still needs to dream to prevent him from going insane. But he knows, that whenever he goes to sleep, it's the same dream he has over and over again. The horrible nightmare of two demonic beings and a third person from whose eyes he sees everything. They are too vivid to be imagination, but could they really be memories? Could he in fact be the third person? No, he refused the believe that to be true. But what if it was? What if he was a threat to MJ and Peter, the only two persons he truly cared for and who cared for him, without even knowing it? That was a chance he couldn't afford taking, then he would rather die.

Shade (talking to himself): I've made up my mind… If there's the slightest chance that I'm that demon from my dream, and that I might hurt Peter, MJ or little May in some way, then I'll have to remove it as quickly as possible.

Shade concentrates and a blue aura surrounds him, enabling him to fly. He flies high up in the sky and looks down. The entire city looks so busy, even though it's late. He looks at the small pendant he has had from the night he was found by Spider-Man. Somehow it looks different than it did that very night he was brought in by the Parkers.

Shade (thinking): This is it… Peter… MJ… May… please forgive me

The blue aura disappears and Shade starts falling. He feels the wind on his body as he falls increasingly faster. He closes his eyes and spreads his arms just as he passes the roof of the first skyscraper, just waiting to hit the ground. He can feel in his body that impact is not far away, but then he feels a presence closing in on him at a great speed.

Shade: OOOF!!!

Shade got the wind knocked out of him. Someone caught him in mid-air. He slowly opens his eyes.

Shade: Spider-Man…!

Spider-Man: Quiet! We have to have a serious talk, right now!!!

He swings his way to the top of a building without access to the roof, so they can talk without being disturbed.

Spider-Man: WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU THINKING?!?!?!

Shade: I'm sorry, but I had no choice.

Spider-Man: That's bull!! There is always a choice.

Shade: Not in this case.

Spider-Man: Sigh… Alright, tell me then, what made you try skydiving without a parachute?

Shade: I've been having this dream lately…

He tells Spider-Man about the dream, about him might being a demon and how he wouldn't take the risk of hurting Spider-Man, Mary Jane or May. Even about his changing pendant.

Spider-Man: Aw man… I still believe your choice was wrong, but I kind of understand you now.

Shade: If you have a better idea, then please share it. I don't want to die, at least not without seeing May being born, but I can't live knowing that I might hurt her.

Spider-Man: Listen kiddo… I knew you where having these nightmares, and I believe that knowing and remembering once past is important. He who forgets his past is doomed to repeat it. That's why I will never forget about when I let Uncle Ben's killer get away that day… But like I said, I knew you where having these nightmares and that you want to know about you past, so I made us an appointment with a doctor. He's a friend of mine.

Shade: A doctor? How can a doctor help?

Spider-Man: Well… he's not you're average type of doctor… He's a bit eccentric.

Shade: Eccentric? How is that?

Spider-Man: You'll find out in the morning when we visit him.

Shade: Hmm… Okay then.

Spider-Man: Oh, and by the way, his name is Stephen Strange…

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Well, that's it for this chapter. In the next chapter we'll find out a lot more about Shade's past and about the two demons in his dream. But I'm not sure when I am able to write that chapter, since I'm kind of busy at the moment. But anyway, I hope this chapter was to you satisfaction, and if I accidentally called Shade "Shadow", then it's partially because I'm tired, and partially because of something you'll find out in a later chapter. Please write an honest review. Thank you… and good night!