Soulmates are something to be cherished, something everyone has. Whether platonic or romantic everyone has at least one soulmate. Peter Parker in particular always thought that he was incredibly lucky and he wasn't really wrong considering he was born with seven soul marks. It's rather rare to have so many soulmates but Peter had always been happy with his soulmarks, no matter how often he'd been teased because of them. Whenever he's felt down about it all he'd had to do was remind himself of what his Dad, and later Ben had said, "Seven soulmates, So much to love."

It's around 10 'O clock and he's half asleep having been out until the early hours as Spider-Man. He stumbles out of his room clad in sweats and a baggy t-shirt he'd nicked from someone, he doesn't remember who, absently noticing that 5 heart beats echo from the direction he's going, the common room and kitchen. "You're gonna have to work on the project with Pete Harls, Peppers dragging me to a meeting." Tony sighs dramatically dropping into a stool at in the kitchen as Peter comes to a stop at the end of the hallway.

Still slightly drowsy but wanting to observe. He notices Steve, Bucky and Sam are also in the room but sat on the couches having their own conversation. He turns his attention back as Harley leans against the counter opposite Tony. "Do I have to?" Harley asks. He watches Harley, a frown on both of their faces, for different reasons. "What's wrong with working with Pete?" Tony enquiries, curious. Harley stands there, obviously thinking carefully, "Peter and I don't really get along." Peter winces at the blunt statement, it wasn't for lack of trying, at least on his part, but Harley seemed determined to dislike him.

He steps forwards, eyes watering slightly. Why does Harley hate him? Or at the very least dislike him. He's almost positive that he's never done anything. He cocked his head to the side as everyone in the room notices him. "Is there a reason you dislike me?" He asked, voice wobbling slightly. Harley stays silent and so he asks again, voice stronger this time. "Is there a reason you dislike me, Harley? I'd like to know, please?" His voice was quiet but everyone heard him fine. Harley avoided eye contact for a few minutes, the silence getting more tense. Harley sighed heavily and looked Peter straight in the eye. "I was, am, jealous." He admitted. Peter is confused, so confused. He tilted his head like a puppy. "About what?" What did he have that Harley could want?

Harley scoffs "You have a family, people always like you, you're too kind to ever be bullied and you have at least three mates, that's not even mentioning Spider-Man." Peter stood still for a second, taking in what Harley said before laughing. It wasn't a nice laugh, it was bitter. The laugh of someone who's breaking.

Tears slowly started rolling down his face, this was it. His final breakdown. "I don't even know where to start," Peter laughed "I'll tell you about those things then you can explain what part of it you want, I'll happily give it to you." Harley looked like he was about to interrupt but Peter just continues.

"Let's start with this, did you know I had a twin?" Surprise shows on 4 out of 5 faces in the room, Tony having done a background check long ago. "I only have one clear memory of him and my parents, I was seven. We were on a plane, it crashed. The only survivor is standing before you now, and even then, I spent a week in a plane full of dead bodies before they found me. I almost joined them. My twin, my Cosmo, my first soulmate's, dead body limp next to my mother's as I cried and begged for them to wake up. What a way to start my happily ever after with my soulmates." I laughed hysterically; horror crossed all faces in the room

"I was then taken to May and Uncle Ben. Everything was good, I got picked on because I was smarter but It was good. I turned ten and I found out I have 7 soulmates, 6 soulmates that were alive at that time." I sigh shakily "I knew two of them already, Ned and Harry. I was slowly getting over Cosmo, I still missed him but I wasn't stopping halfway through sentences expecting him to finish it." I stare at the ceiling debating whether to say it, he wasn't sure but he felt that he should tell someone other than May and Ben. "It was then I met Skip Wesscott, he was older than me and became my baby sitter. He started calling me Einstein one day," he took a deep shuttering breath "and then he raped me."

The three soldiers made themselves known with their deep inhales of shock. "No one ever found out and by the time I'd told someone he's already gone to jail, for murder and rape of a minor." I avoided looking at them turning to stare out the window. "It was a couple months later that I met my next soulmate, Eugene Thompson, better known as Flash. He's homophobic, rejected me the minute he knew who I was meant to be to him, he still bullies me now. He's dating our other soulmate MJ; she's no longer mine. I was too nerdy and she didn't want to share. What better way to show that I'm not worth it then to make me watch as two of my soulmates fall in love without me." My tears fall faster, it hurts every time I see them.

"Well considering they're two of four that are still alive, one's legally insane and the other doesn't know they're meant to be mine; I suppose they were lucky to survive the Parker luck." I paused to breathe for a second, the others process what I said and look on in shock. How can you have so many soulmates and yet not one, all at the same time?

"I met Gwen next, through Harry, and she actually wanted me." Peter smiled faintly; he misses her daily. "And then Uncle Ben died and I became Spider-Man. I fought the lizard and Gwen's dad died. Harry found out that I'm Spider-Man and was convinced that my blood would save his father from a deadly illness. I refused to let him have my blood as my mutation is linked to the Parker bloodline and I didn't want to find out if it'd kill him. Harry tried to recreate the experiment and," he sobbed, loud and shaky

"he became the goblin; he'd experimented on himself. He pushed Gwen off the Clocktower and I tried to save her. The web snapped her neck." Tony took a sharp breath; he'd known that someone had died and that I'd known her, he hadn't known she was my soulmate or that I was close to her. "He tried to kill me, Harry that is, and almost succeeded." Peter slowly lowered himself to the ground, trembling in his grief. "What sort of a crap soulmate do you have to be for them to want you dead?"

I laughed again my nails digging into my palms, trying to relieve the pain. "Ned was the last of the 6 soulmates that I'd met that was still alive, still sane and still wanted me. We became clingier with each other." My left hand flew to my wrist, I scratched down my scars.

"We hadn't left each other for more than going to sleep and his mother forced him home. They were going to do some family thing, one of his cousins getting married or something…" I stuttered, voice braking as I met Harley's horrified eyes

"Their car caught fire. A technical mistake the police said. Ned was burned alive. Cooked inside out" I stood up; arms wrapped around myself. "But it gets worse." I laughed uncontrollably, tears burning down my face "One of my friends, if you can call her that, decided to ask me to homecoming so we wouldn't be alone. Her dad was the vulture." Bucky curses in Russian, he'd walked in on me having a panic attack one time. He knows that a guy named Vulture dropped a building on me.

"He dropped a building on me." The words hung in the air like the brick dust had then. "Not only that but once I had ripped my muscles and broken bones to lift the building off of me. I got up. Walked away. And still I was alone as I stopped him from stealing the plane." My tears slowly stopped, feeling numb.

I stared at the kitchen counter blankly. "The plane fell, I don't seem to have much luck with planes, do I?" I asked rhetorically, I tilted my head "It actually exploded now that I think about it, I hit my head on the way down so I don't really remember where the fire came from." I met Sam's alarmed eyes and looked at the other two solders before nodding surely.

"Yes, it exploded," I narrow my eyes at the kitchen table again. "I think I walked through it actually." I look up, feeling fidgety. "I walked through it to get to Liz's dad and pulled him out of the fire, I tied him up in web and left. It was a while later that Aunt May found out and kicked me out." I looked at Harley again, he had his head in his hands and was looking at me weirdly. "I moved up here, I was emotional, distraught. I was sure that my last soulmate wouldn't want me if even my aunt didn't, the person who had raised me for nine years. Tony distracted me telling me stories of you and your sister, how nice you were. How much you wanted to meet your soulmate," I paused to breathe and walked up to him.

I pulled him out of his chair, he looked at me surprised and I uncovered his soulmate mark, a red computer with a black spider on the back, sat there on his bicep. "then I met you and I saw this." I stroked his mark "I was so excited to get to know you but then you seemed to hate me. I was confused and hurt, what had I done to you to cause you to hate me," I took a step away from him, Harley's eyes widen and his face drops, I pulled up the corner of my shirt showing a mini potato gun on my left rib. "what had caused you to totally miss our soulmate bond?" I dropped my shirt back down, shoving the palms of my hands into my eyes, tipping my head back, trying to stop myself from crying.

I removed my hands and my eyes meet his heart broken face. "I'm sorry I'm not the soulmate you wanted." I whispered and left, speed walking to my room as quickly as I could. I'm not sure I could live through another rejection, a third soulmate that I'll have to see daily. A soulmate that probably doesn't want me. I collapse onto my bed breaking out into ugly sobs, SEVEN soulmates and I haven't got ONE to hold.

Peter Parker had Seven soulmates. Had Seven Soulmates. Peter Parker had no such love.