"So, want to talk about what happened?" Peter-3 asked his alter, pulling him aside.

"There's nothing to talk about." Peter-2 simply tried to brush him off.

"No, come on man, don't do this to me." Peter-3 protested, laying a hand on Peter-2's shoulder. "Don't shut me out, please. Talk to me. I can see that watching all of this is affecting you, and I think you haven't really gotten the chance to talk about much of your Spider-Man life, outside of your MJ that is. Talk to me. Please."

"What is there to talk about? It all happened, a long time ago for me, can we just drop it?"

"You're clearly still not alright, not with all of it. The effect that Venom had on you, your relationship with Harry, sure, my relationship with my Harry isn't exactly stellar, but it wasn't this layered and wasn't this crippling on me."

"Didn't he kill Gwen?" Peter-2 asked.

"Yeah, he did, and I can't ever forgive him for that, but it wasn't like this, he was driven out of desperation, not hatred and revenge, not at first, and he wasn't trying to destroy me nearly as much as your own Harry did. You need to talk about it." Peter-3 argued.

"I'll talk about it when you talk about your own demons, how you've done better since we met Peter-1, how you've tried to honour Gwen once again." Peter-2 shot back, as Peter-3 slumped. He had tried, he was better than he had been, but he knew he still had a way to go, and he wasn't there yet, he wasn't ready to talk. He shook his head and stalked back to the others, as Peter-2 winced behind his back.

'That could have gone better.' Peter-2 thought to himself. He wanted to get through to Peter-3, to help him in a way he wished he had gotten help as well.

"Peter." May called out to Peter-2, as he looked over to her. "Can we talk?"

"What is it, May?" Peter-2 frowned. He had an idea of what she'd say, what his own May had said after she had learnt about all of this probably, and whilst he respected her, he didn't want to hear how it wasn't his fault but he could have done better by his friend right now.

"How are you holding up? I know these videos must be hard on you, having to relive all of these events." May softly said, giving him a small smile.

"I'm...I'm alright." Peter-2 sighed after a moment to think on it. "It's hard, seeing all of this, having to remember what had happened, what others did to me, what I did to them, but I'm handling it, I just don't like the idea of all of this being out there, I mean, it can't be changed, it happened, what am I supposed to do on this?"

"There's a reason we're seeing it. To get to know you. To help you. You may seem to have it all together, but clearly some of this stuff still haunts you. You need to forgive yourself. MJ and your kids, they weren't your fault. You have to learn to forgive yourself." May told him kindly, giving him a small smile as he looked sadly at her.

At the Bugle, Peter found out Eddie had a photo of Spider-Man being a thief as the people outside muttered they trusted Spider-Man but he was a bad apple. Realising Eddie had used an old photo of his and changed the colour, he called Eddie out.

"What's he done? Clearly it's a fake, but how?" MJ asked.

"You'll see, one of the few times I have to admit, I don't regret how I acted, even if it did push Eddie to do some unsavoury things." Peter-2 admitted.

"I kinda want to see my alter get a good punch, but as he's also me, I kinda feel for him, I guess?" Eddie stated as everyone nodded. That made some sense, you wouldn't want yourself getting shown up really.

"You're trash, Brock."

"Yeah he is, sorry Eddie." Ned said as Eddie waved it away.

Eddie pleaded that Peter let it go as Peter exposed him, getting a retraction for the first time in twenty years from JJJ and Brock fired from any paper in NYC.

"Yeah, them's the breaks, you messed up buddy and now you've got to reap what you sowed." Eddie grinned.

"I do feel bad for him." Cindy pouted.

"You shouldn't, he committed a crime really." Matt told her. "He should be grateful he was only fired."

Peter then began creeping around town, dancing weirdly as he came onto women, getting the staff job from JJJ for his shots as black suit Spider-Man and flirting with Betty Brant, as Doctor Connors examined the Symbiote more and asked Peter if he still had any, Peter lied and said he didn't as Connors said it amplified its hosts characteristics, especially aggression.

"What is that dancing?" Flash wheezed as they all began laughing at the antics on the screen, Peter-2 pouted and flushed as even his alter choked back some laughter.

"Are you seriously throwing your arms into the air?" Tony barked out.

"It looked cool..." Peter-2 murmured as everyone laughed harder.

"I mean, it's not the worst dancing I've ever seen, but it's pretty bad, man." Peter-3 smiled at his alter.

"It's really bad!" MJ grinned.

"I could dance better than that." Ned told him as Peter-2 scowled.

"I am a good dancer!"

"No, you're not." Ikaris smirked.

"Wait...are you flirting with my other self?" Betty wrinkled her nose at what she saw as Peter-2's face turned red and Ned glowered at him.

"Yeah, not one of my better points. Betty is a good friend, as I'm sure you are to Peter-1, but that relationship thing that really went nowhere, not a good idea." Peter-2 admitted.

"Listen to proto-Lizard!" Kingo told Peter-2. "Get rid of it!"

"Well I mean, I wasn't exactly thinking straight at the time, I did get rid of it shortly after this." Peter-2 promised them.

In the sewers, Flint Marko began to reform, looking at his pendant of his daughter and promising to help her.

"Well I'm glad he wasn't dead." Bruce smiled.

"He couldn't have died if he met our Peter after this though." Abe reminded him.

"Point." Bruce nodded, giving the young man a smile.

"I'm just glad he seems to be focused on his daughter, even if going about it the wrong way." Clint stated.

Peter took Gwen on a date to Mary Jane's bar as they walked past Eddie looking defeated. Peter then began to sing and dance for Gwen, before she realised it was just to make Mary Jane jealous and she stormed out after apologising to Mary Jane. Mary Jane told Peter to get lost as Peter tried to win her back, the security tried to get Peter out as he beat them up and hit Mary Jane by accident.

"Why are you taking her to a date where my alter works?" MJ demanded to know.

"I was being a selfish idiot." Peter-2 winced, thinking of how angry they'd all be when they saw just how much of a dick he had been.

"I don't know if I can feel that sorry for my alter, he was a piece of work, and clearly obsessive over Gwen, but at the same time, I do feel bad for him, does that make sense?" Eddie asked the room.

"Jeez, you really were an asshole." Natasha glared at Peter-2, who shied away.

"Yeah, I was. I'd say Venom made me do this, but it just heightened what was inside, Connors even said so, there was always this douchebag inside of me. Venom just let it out."

"HEY, I RESENT THAT!" Venom shot back.

"You know full well your other self has caused this." Eddie reminded him as Venom shut up and nodded. That was a fair assessment of the situation, he guessed.

"YOU HIT HER?!" Happy yelled, stunned.

"I didn't mean too, I apologised for it, I was sorry!" Peter-2 tried to defend himself.

"I was going to say you're reminding me of a younger, idiotic me in this." Tony said. "But I never went as low as that. I know you had that thing influencing you, but still."

Peter went atop a church tower and went inside, as Eddie Brock prayed at the altar below, asking God to kill Peter Parker for him. Peter began ripping the Venom suit off of him as the church bells tolled, weakening it with sound, as he ripped it off, the pieces of it dropped to the floor below, where Eddie Brock watched in fascination, asking "Parker?" As he saw it happen. As the symbiote left Peter and he left, it bonded to Eddie.

"What are you doing in a church?" Peter-3 asked his alter.

"Getting rid of the Devil." Peter-2 smiled softly at him.

"You're there and my alter is praying for you to die, I get the feeling something bad is about to happen." Eddie frowned.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Ned grinned.

"What?" Eddie asked him.

"You don't have Star Wars?!" Ned asked, stunned as Eddie shook his head.

"We do, I just...wasn't expecting a Star Wars reference."

"He's getting the Venom Symbiote, he's going to go off the deep end, isn't he?" Abe worried.

"With great power, comes the absolute certainty, that you'll turn into a right cunt." Flash muttered, Peter-2 laughing as he heard it.

May visited Peter at his apartment as Peter told her that he wasn't ready to propose, he wasn't ready to put Mary Jane ahead of himself. May told him that she believed in Peter, that he was a good person and would find a way to make things right, leaving the ring for him.

"Well I'd say you weren't ready to propose, with how you were. I'm just glad you've gotten rid of the Venom symbiote." May told Peter-2, who smiled.

"I just wish I had been more careful with it." Peter-2 frowned.

"You are a good person, Pete. You just need to remember that sometimes it seems." Matt told him, Peter thanked him for that.

Flint attacked what he assumed was Spider-Man, until he revealed it was Eddie, who said he was looking for Flint as he knew Flint hated Spider-Man for stopping him seeing his daughter. He said they both wanted to kill the Spider, working together, he didn't have a chance and was Flint interested?

"Oh no, I get a bad feeling about the two of these being together." Kate cried.

"How did Peter stop him seeing his daughter? It was his choice to do the crime!" Cindy called out.

"He's just manipulating Flint to do what he wants." Eddie growled.

"They're not going to kill Peter!" Betty yelped.

"I'm right here." Peter-2 reminded her.

Yeah, not gotten nearly as far through all this as I had hoped to be, met David Harbour at the weekend, that was lovely, and now to begin work on a Stranger Thing watch the show fic instead of focusing on my current ones, yay!