Will you marry me?! Ack. Alright MJ, gotta keep playing this, have to keep him happy.
A part of her groaned, she didn't want to lie on something like a proposal but the sting of Kevin's punch across her face reappeared, convincing her to keep going.
"Yes, Kevin, I..." She closed her eyes for a moment, feeling the tears build up behind them before willing them to go away. "I'll marry you."
The grin that spread across Kevin's face was almost pathetic in it's happiness.
"Yes! Yes! I knew it, I KNEW you loved me! Ever since 10th grade, remember?! We worked on that project and I could just tell you loved me."
Mary Jane let out a small laugh and tried to keep the sob from escaping her throat.
"Yup."
He leaned forward to kiss her and she turned her head, so his lips found her cheek.
Hoping that would be enough she turned away, pretending to look out the window when she saw his head coming again and ducked away.
I... will... not... kiss... this... monster.
"Mary Jane, can I have a kiss?"
"You... you already kissed me."
"But that was on the cheek, let me kiss you for real."
"I'm... I was raised not to kiss... until... my wedding... night."
Her response sounded incredibly lame, even to her own ears.
She saw his features darken and she winced.
Wrong move MJ!
"That's a lie." He hissed, stepping closer to him.
Mary Jane stepped back, finding time despite her fear, to admire how fast he could change moods from being ecstatically happy to murderous.
"I saw you kiss Peter Parker and you ain't married to him."
She thought fast.
"Peter's like my brother Kevin, it was probably just a brotherly kiss you saw him give me."
He smirked and glared at her.
"That so?"
He stomped over to his bag and pulled out a thick photo album. Curious, MJ stepped a little closer and gasped when she saw what was inside.
Pictures. Of her. Doing everything.
She watched him flip through the pages, which were ordered by tabs, with increasing horror.
Her looking at herself in the mirror in her room, he walking home, her in class, her at lunch, her watching TV with Uncle Ben, her making dinner with Aunt May... She knew that if he had all of that then there was no question he had a picture of her and Peter kissing.
She shivered. This was sick. Really sick. If there was any semblance of sympathy for Kevin Hayes it had disappeared the moment he pulled out the stupid picture album.
He finally pulled out the page and she looked at it, already know what she would see.
Her and Peter kissing in Peter's car, Peter holding her hand walking back from school, her kissing him outside the Parker house.
"If you do that kind of stuff with your brother than you're one sick girl Mary Jane."
Kevin's voice broke her thoughts and she looked up nervously. There was something more chilling about him now. His eyes had turned hard and his voice was chillingly absent of any emotion.
He stepped towards her menacingly.
"You lied. You don't love me. How could you lie?"
Another step forward.
"I thought I would be nice and spare you the hardship of saying goodbye to your friends. I guess my thoughtfulness wasn't as appreciated as I had hoped."
Another step. He reached under his jacket on the table and with a sinking feeling in her stomach Mary Jane recognized the glint of the gun as it reflected in the dull light of the room.
He pulled out the gun, pulling out the safety and aiming it at her.
"I loved you Mary Jane." He took another step forward and MJ stepped back again, cursing as the back of her shoe hit the wall.
He pressed his mouth on hers in a hard kiss.
MJ struggled pushing on his chest, but he only managed to press his lips harder to hers.
Finally he pulled back and pulled out the gun.
"Alright now that's over with." He gave her a chilling smile and let out a ragged breath. "Been wanting to do that since the first second I saw you." He winked at her and looked at the gun in his hand.
She glared at him.
"Don't look at me like that. I'll be fair. I have exactly two shots here you hear me? And as soon as I kill you, I'll kill myself. Hopefully you'll be easier to handle in Heaven."
"You won't go to heaven you God damned son of a bitch." Kevin looked at her in surprise. "You know I don't really appreciate that Mary Jane..." He looked as if he were going to say more when a yell of fury came through the door and it fell over, clean off it's hinges Peter Parker staring with murder in his eyes in the doorway.
If Kevin was surprised or worried about the fact that Peter just ripped off the door with his bare hands he didn't show it, leaving a mask of calm on his features.
"Hiya Peter, as I was just telling MJ here I have two shots, which I was planning to use on myself and her, but I guess since you had to come and complicate things, I shall live another day. I can't say the same about you two."
He fired suddenly, with a precise aim, where Peter was standing. Mary Jane screamed, her heart breaking into a million pieces at the sound of the gun. Despite her better judgment she frantically scanned the room for Peter's body.
It... wasn't... there. She looked up and saw Peter crouched on the ceiling unharmed and perfectly at ease with the impossible position he was in.
"Wha..." Kevin looked at Peter in confusion, a glimmer of fear finally appearing in his eyes.
He roughly grabbed MJ and shoved the gun against her temple.
"You better leave now or I'll shoot her."
Kevin cautiously watched as Peter dropped to the floor and looked uncertain for a moment. Then with reflexes so fast Kevin didn't know what happened his hand was throbbing, Peter released a webline that latched onto the gun and yanked it away. Then he released another one that landed around Kevin's waist and yanked him roughly to the ground.
He stormed forward and picked Kevin up, his anger blazing in his eyes. He picked up Kevin and punched him in the face.
"I'm going to have you locked away for a long time you sicko. Doing this to MJ I should just kill you."
For a moment it looked like her would actually make do with his threat until Mary Jane laid a gentle hand on his muscled bicep.
"Mary Jane..." He breathed. He wanted nothing more than to kiss her. He grabbed Kevin and slammed him against the wall, webbing him there.
He sprayed some webbing into Kevin's mouth before he could say anything else and then, relieved that was over with, he drew a trembling Mary Jane into his arms.
For a long time they just held each other, MJ's shaking slowly subsiding as the fear of the night was being washed away. Peter made a strangled sound that sounded almost like a sob and buried his face in her warm neck.
"I'm so sorry I didn't get here sooner." He murmured, pulling away from her neck and speaking softly by her ear.
"That's okay. You came at exactly the right time."
They kissed softly for a moment and then he pulled back and ran gentle fingers over the bruise on her face.
"He did this too you?"
"I'm okay."
"I'm going to make sure he's locked up for a long, long time Mary Jane. He or anybody else will never do this to you again."
"That's nice to know." She grinned up at him. "You're like my guardian angel, you know that Pete?"
"If anything you're my angel, MJ."
He shot her a grin.
"But even us angels need to take a break once in a while right MJ?"
She broke into a smile too.
"That's definitely right." With that they kissed again, both thanking whatever greater power was up there for this moment in time.
"I love you." Neither was sure who said it, and they didn't need to dwell on it, they both knew it in their hearts.
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Blinks I'm... I'm... done??? No!!! Oh well, expect one more chapter guys, I think I'll write an epilogue and then respond to some reviewers who helped me get through this!
I just wanted to thank you guys for being INCREDIBLE reviewers (this is the most reviews I've ever gotten!) and urging me to continue this, (which is now the longest story I've ever written to date!) I know this is probably just another story to you guys, among the thousands of other ones on here by talented writers, but this story has really been... I don't know, a needed break for me. All of you reviewers make my day, my week! I swear. Anyways I've already taken up too much of this with this mushy author's note :P So I'll let you guys go read some more on and hopefully let you go review... please?
Anyways I hope this story wasn't too cliché!
-Lordlanceahlot