Now finding himself on top of the Empire State building, Peter looked into the city, Manhattan tended to light up at night, the way all the street lights would turn on and illuminate all the cars and people below, the way buildings lit up from the people inside enjoying their lives, and the way the all the windows in the city had managed to reflect the moon's rays of light everywhere, it was beautiful, but Peter realized that he would never be able to fully enjoy the city's beauty, not anymore at least. His powers allowed him to get any view of the city, but none of them will ever be the same without Uncle Ben being there to enjoy them with him, he then looked up, fully meeting the moon's gaze, remembering that this sight was the last thing Ben ever got to see.
A single tear around down his face, even though he had seen it before, Peter still couldn't handle the sight of his uncle's grave because each time he looked at it, he was only reminded of his selfish mistake. Pete did eventually catch the man who murdered his uncle, that didn't make the pain any easier, but it did help to know that the criminal couldn't make anyone else suffer like him and Aunt May. Spidey originally wanted to come out here and clear his head and not think about the fact that he had sex with Ava just an hour ago, not only that, but he had taken her virginity! The view of the city was no longer working and Pete knew that they were going to have to talk about this eventually and by eventually, that meant tomorrow because he had school in the morning.
Even though he wasn't a virgin prior to this, Peter still felt weird about it, although he had no idea why, it couldn't be because she was a friend because he's probably had sex with plenty of his friends, MJ and Kitty can attest to that, so if it wasn't for that reason then what was the real one? But whatever it was it'll have to wait, because Peter just noticed that ever since he came out here it hasn't been raining, meaning the storm had passed, which translates to Aunt May is on her way home!
Peter rushed as he swung through the city into the direction of The Brooklyn Bridge, he had to get home quickly because May hated it when he was out late, plus he would have to explain why he was out so late in the first place even though school ended hours ago and he had to come up with his excuse because Aunt May isn't someone who's easy to lie to, as that lady could compete with even the likes of Nick Fury in the "Knowing Everything About Everything" game and that feat alone is scary, so if you're going to lie to her, it will have to be a pretty damn good lie.
Unbeknownst to him, Peter was being watched from below but not by ordinary civilians like one would think, a hooded man was currently watching Spider-Man swing through the city at high speeds from the dark alley. "Hehe, If only Sis was here the family would be complete, but nonetheless, I await our bittersweet reunion,...Brothers."
Finally at home, Peter landed right outside his bedroom window and changed into civilian clothes for obvious reasons, slowly opening the window, Parker quietly slipped inside his room with little to no effort, but he was caught by surprise when the lights flipped on and he saw Ben sitting in the chair in the corner of his room, "Jesus Christ Ben, what are you trying to do, give me a heart attack?!"
"Clones being able to bypass my Spider Sense? yeah, totally not fun." He thought to himself while picking something up and threw at Ben's head to which he caught it, "Scare me like that again and Norman won't be the only one who is big green and ugly, got it?"
"Mhm, Pete I'm your perfect clone, all of our fights will end in a stalemate and before you ask, no, May's not home yet, so you're in the clear, but I suggest you take a shower, You smell like sex." Ben explained, but regardless of how Peter smelled, the blonde steel got up and gave him a hug, which his brunette twin reciprocated, before Ben got another whiff of him and pushed him off. "Shower! I mean it."
Peter laughed before grabbing some clothes out the closet and heading to the bathroom. In the meantime, Ben decided to go downstairs and sit on the couch to pass the time until Peter got out the bathroom, but the events earlier in the night were still plaguing his mind, the Scarlet Spider was quite literally saved by the bell because before Mj could get answers out of him, her mom called her to come back home as the rain finally stopped, but knowing Mary Jane, it was a 0% chance that she was just going to suddenly drop this and there was no way they could explain the whole "clones" thing without revealing their alter egos, not only that but they would also have to make her aware of their "siblings".
Of course, Jessica was relatively harmless unless you ate her food or pissed her off (one would leave to the other there), but the only real threat to her would be Kaine, who of which, Ben didn't exactly have the best relationship with, none of them did, but the reason Ben gets pointed out is because out of the three of them, Kaine hates Ben the most, simply because he was jealous that Ben got the title of the perfect clone and the only thing he got was a severe case of cellular deterioration, which he somehow managed to slow down as it was no longer killing him as fast as it should have been.
But Peter and Ben have theorized that the deterioration couldn't have been the complete reason as to why Kaine hated Ben the most because if it was, He would hate Jessica just as much as he did Ben, but he seemed to leave Jess alone for the most part, speaking of her, where was she? She usually doesn't miss Ben's anniversary, although her and Ben did share the same belief that if all three of them were to be in the same place at the same time then like the devil, Kaine would magically appear, which is something that's actually happened before, he's not one to miss family gatherings, but even though he hasn't seen her yet, Ben knew that Jess was in the city somewhere, likely just keeping the low profile, probably something he should have done but no biggie.
In the long run, Jess was kind of lucky, thanks to her being of the opposite gender no one would really be able to tell that she was "related" to Peter unless they sat them both down and got a good look at the both of them and in complete honesty, she should have been the one introduced as Peter's long lost sibling, but Ben stupidly introduced himself to Mj prematurely and they didn't get a chance to, though May knew about Jess and explaining her was a lot easier than explaining him.
She decided to go by Jessica because that's the name Richard and Mary were going to give Peter if he turned out as a girl, to explain why she was showing up now after all these years was a pretty good one, Jess told May that she was Peter's twin sister and they were separated at birth, although while Peter went home with The Parkers, she went home with The Drews and that she was raised by them until they told her that she was adopted which caused her to run away from home and to distract herself, she decided to track down her real family and that she was devastated to find out that her real parents were dead, but seem to turn around once she found out May and Peter were still alive.
Unexpectedly, even though Jessica was lying through her teeth, May ate it right up (guess women are better liars), she also claimed that she was going to reconcile with her adopted parents to disguise her finally being ready to leave New York, but it sounded pretty believable so Ben guessed that it worked. After about five more minutes, Peter finally came downstairs, his hair still damp from the shower. "So, how long are you to stick it around? or are you guys just going to leave me again the second his anniversary is over?"
"You guys?"
"Look up."
Following his brother's advice, Ben looked up to see Jessica sitting on the ceiling, not even wondering why she was sitting on the ceiling, but rather he was wondering how he didn't see her until now, "Is this how Peter feels each time I sneak up on him, man! Clones not being able to be detected by Spider Sense is not fun."
"I know what you're thinking and so you're a hypocrite now."
"Oh shut up, Peter." Jessica said as she shot a web at his mouth, even though they were all genetically the same person, the three of them couldn't be anymore different from each other. In Jessica's case, even though she didn't make jokes and puns often and was prone to get annoyed faster at Peter's random ramblings, she had seemed to pick up Peter's natural habit of quipping during times of high stress, she also kind of hates Tony Stark, but it kinda doesn't count since they all hate Stark, that guy was just a jackass just for the sake of being one. "Hiya Ben! How have you been?"
"Oh you know, the usual. A little bit of Scarlet Spider there, a little bit of Scarlet Spider here and me not wanting to come back to New York there, the usual." Scarlet said nonchalantly, once he got the webbing off his mouth, Peter returned to favor to Jess and shot a web line at her face calling her to fall on top of Ben and brunette heard a very muffled "Fuck You!" come from her, right before she dropped.
"Oh whatever, you'll get over it. Also, civilian clothing, May could be home any minute." She sighed as soon as she got the wedding off of her face as she went upstairs to go change and that left Peter and Ben downstairs by themselves and Ben figured that now was the best time he's going to get to tell Peter about Mj.
"Okay Pete, so we might have a bit of a problem." Peter looked at him strangely, finally sitting down on the couch, he knew that whatever this was, it had to be serious if he waited until Jessica left to tell him. "So before May left with Coulson today, Mary Jane kinda came over and was sticked with the task of taking care of me, which is a job she didn't do very well, she should never become a nurse, but to make a long story short, Peter, she knows we're the same person."
This...was definitely news to him, she had never suspected anything before so why now, unless of course, she was hiding the fact that she was investigating them, but what tipped her off? In either case, this was bad. If Mj could figure it out, then what stops Aunt May or Harry from doing the same? Peter sigh in frustration, holding his clothes fist to his forehead, he thought about how they should move forward with this, with all those considered, while Mary Jane was a very smart girl, she was also way too ambitious and if either one of them just came out and confirmed their identities to her, like Aunt May she's going to start to worry, but unlike her Mj is going to want to help, which will cause her to willingly put herself in harm's way, which will lead her to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and it'll be like Gwen all over again.
Peter had already let one of his loved ones help out with his crusade once, and that got her killed, with great power come great responsibilities and when Gwen died, it became Peter's responsibility to make sure that Mj understands that unlike him she breaks easy and that one shot is all his enemies would need to put her in a early grave, so as much as he didn't like doing it, he decided that he was going to have to lie to Mj again, hopefully one day she would understand why he has to do this,but for now he was going to have to come up with a good cover up for Ben. "All right Ben, I need you to tell me every single piece of evidence she has that would point to us being clones."
"Alright." Ben, already knowing what he's thinking, begins to tell him everything, they both knew that she was going to be pissed when she finally found out, but they rather have her be pissed at them than have to bury her like their Uncle.
