a/n: as you can guess by the title this is the end of our story... but don't be sad... I might have a sequal... I just need to be told before I set one up, just to have one!
THE FINAL CHAPTER
I awake in the morning to a knock at my door.
"No, they couldn't know where I am!" I reassure myself before quickly changing and running to the door.
I peer through the small glass window on the door and see Mary Jane standing outside. I throw the door open and she stand there, not moving, staring at me.
"Mary Jane, what are you doing here, it's early in the morning?" I look out and see the sun is just peering up beyond the buildings in this sleepless city. In a bustling city like this, only the sun and moon ever rest, because only they are factors in peoples' lives around here.
"May I come in?" she shivers out.
"Of course," I step aside and she quickly comes and I and I shut the door behind her.
"What are you doing here? How did you find me?"
"In this order," she turns to me, "coming to see you, and I have my sources," she smirks.
"Who?" I smirk back.
"Peter," she answers, as if explaining it all.
"Peter Parker?" my amazement shows automatically.
"What other Peter would do a report on you and obsess over every one of your accomplishments. I simply brought you up in conversation and he told me about this lab of yours. I knew you wouldn't be stupid enough to go to your home again, so I found a free day and came to visit," surprisingly she speaks nothing of our kiss.
"Why?"
"Because I missed you Otto. I haven't been able to stop thinking of that night, when we kissed, do you remember?" she looks at me with a longing in her eyes.
"How could I forget?" she knows my answer before I speak, her longing is reflected in my eyes.
She laughs.
"What?" I look at her and my head cocks to one side.
"The brilliant Otto Octavius reduced to hiding in his lab, no one knows where he is except me..." she pauses, "sounds like a REALLY bad love movie."
I laugh and nod my head in complete agreement, "One of those movies that girls watch with a box of tissues and a tub of ice cream, right?"
"That's really biased, you know?" she scolds me for fun.
Sarah goes over and wraps around Mary Jane in an embrace. I laugh at her terrified look and she shoots me a glance that causes me to stop.
"She won't hurt you," I point out, "unless she already has."
"No," she tries to hide the shakiness of her voice, but to no avail, "it just... spooked me I guess."
"Sarah," I scold and Sarah turns to me, "cut it out."
"Sorry Otto," Sarah looks to Mary Jane and then comes to me in a defeated pose.
I walk over to Mary Jane and look down at her, and she looks away.
"Do you have anything to eat?" she asks, "I'm starving, I didn't get to eat breakfast because I wanted to get here before sunrise..." a beat, "my alarm didn't wake me up."
"Sure Mary Jane," I turn around and see Sarah and Kris already taking care of it.
"You can call me MJ," she adds.
"Alright... MJ."
We sit in awkward silence after she quietly eats. We both are at a loss. I know that this is an amazing privilege, and that I shouldn't take being able to see her for granted, but there is nothing to say, and our silence carries on.
But soon she can't take it, "Why do you run?! I don't get it! People loved you before, why can't they accept you anymore!? Joan of Arc, she claimed that she spoke to God, and for that she was killed, for simply believing in what she wanted, for simply being who she was, people killed her! They threw you out too! Why can't they be accepting! I just don't get people!" she yells in a blind rage.
"Either do I," I look down and she stops, looking softly toward me and I add, "but you aren't like them, and maybe that's a sign."
I regret my action, but she grabs my hand and holds on tight. Bethany pulls her toward me and she quickly acknowledges what's going on and wraps her arms around my neck.
I hold her to me and we stay like this, in silence, for a very long time. Eventually, though, all good things must end, and she leans back a little.
"I will always remember you Otto, for who you are now, not for what you will become, because this is how I love you."
It's been three years now and I haven't moved. MJ brings me all that I could ever want.
I don't go out into society, I stay isolated. The tentacles have always been there for me, but all I need to know is that MJ will always be there for me, no matter what. She loves me, and I love her, and nothing will ever change that.
a/n: tada! Well? For an end was that good? Please review!
