"It's going to be perfect, don't you worry." Aunt May assure after giving her nephew a quick good buy kiss. He gave her a shy, worried smile as they pulled apart. He walked out the door, closing it behind him to go enjoy his party, finally giving May the opportunity to let out the mental breath she had been holding most of the visit.
She felt terribly guilty for all the worry and upset Peter was feeling. She didn't mean for it to happen, of course not! It's just that things started to fall out of order and she wasn't sure how to put the pieces back together.
When her dear sweet nephew had come to visit that night a couple months back, a nervous, jittery aura surrounding him, she hadn't expected all this to happen. He was there for advice, to admit that he was interested in going the next step with his boyfriend. May had almost burst into tears as the little boy she and Ben had raised explained how much he loved Wade and that he wanted to put a stop to all the mercenary's doubting and show that he was serious about him. Her little man was getting married!
Of course he hadn't actually purposed yet, he wanted to ask if she thought it was to soon to be tied down. She assured him it wasn't, that him and Wade would he happy together, that his family, god rest all there souls, would be ecstatic that he found someone he truly loved.
Then the hopeless romantic in her, the one that sometimes stayed up late to read novels, thought it would be simply adorable for Peter to pop the question during one of his most important moments of his life, his college graduation. He was a tad terrified at the thought of doing it in front of all those people, but then he thought about how Deadpool had done some extremely outlandish and embarrassing things for him, maybe he deserved to have some of that reciprocated.
So about a week later, Peter, Mary Jane, and Aunt May went out to look at various rings which the brunette was planing on buying with money he had been saving up with no real purpose aside from, 'it might come in handy'. It was a fun trip and May had to admit that she cried once or twice.
Then things started going south when Wade had called to check up on her a few days after the ring was ordered. He did that sometimes, came to visit or called to see if his Aunty needed anything, what a sweet heart. But she couldn't help her giddyness and a mention of marriage slipped past her lips. She tried to cover it up as a question, asking if Wade thought Peter was the one he wanted to spend his life with, if one day he might consider marrying him. He assured her yes in a heart beat and proceeded to rally off a rather impressive list of reasons why Peter was perfect. It was all very touching and a bit chuckle worthy at times, cementing May's support in their to-be union, as if she wasn't already 100% ecstatic for the lovers.
Then the metaphorical bomb blew when Wad called up a few day later asking for her blessing to wed Peter. Shoot! What was she supposed to do, say no? She knew she would brake his heart if she did such a thing so she consented but quickly tried to veer off of doing it to soon. Maybe in a few months when- but nope. Being the kind of man he was, he was set straight on doing it as soon as the ring was ready which he admitted that he had already ordered one to be made. What now?
She knew Deadpool, she knew when he got an idea he couldn't be persuaded off it, especially when it came to his baby boy, but she didn't want plans to be ruined. Peter had already spoken to his schools dean and the ring would arrive any day now. And she couldn't tell her elated nephew that she had sort of blown the surprise in a way. There was no point in trying to get the brunette to change his plans, and she wasn't about to try and convince him to give up on the idea of purposing, so she did the only thing she could think of in that panicked moment. She convinced Wade to postpone the proposal till Peter's graduation ceremony. She explained that just after the ceremony when congrats where being given he could do it. But then he got the bright idea to do it in the middle of the ceremony. So May sat there in a stunned, paralyzed, panicked silence as Wade raved about how pumped he was for this.
What had she done? She had messed everything up. She prayed to god, to Ben, to Peter's parents, apologizing, asking what she could do. But in the end she found no answer. She just sat back and waited for the train wreck to happen. But then she realized that it wasn't as bad as she was making it out to be. Both these men loved each other, they both want to get marred, so maybe it will work out. Sure there will be some confusion but maybe they can laugh it off, maybe be like on of those romantic comedies, that will be good.
But as the days went by, trouble started to brew again. Peter came to her a few times, telling her that Wade had stood him up on a date or had disappeared one day while he was at school to go do a job. At first he shrugged it off, saying that he understood how Deadpool was supporting them at the moment until he could finish college and get a proper job. But May could see how it slowly began to eat away at him, how it was becoming more and more upsetting each time his boyfriend decided a job was more important then him at the moment. The worst part for May though was as she sat there, trying to convince her nephew that everything would work out, she knew why Wade was doing this.
He hadn't had time to save up for a ring like Peter, and according to her and his chats, he was going all out on this thing. So Deadpool had to take on as many jobs as he could to rack up the money fast, even if that meant dropping everything and run off at any moment. Even if that moment was the morning of Peter's graduation ceremony.
He assured everyone he would be there, that it was a quick little job, but the ceremony started, May sat in her seat, right beside his empty one. Her heart broke at the shocked, sad, discouraged expression on her nephews face as he looked to her, the empty chair next to her. Wade later explained to May in private that the people that intended to pay him that last chunk of cash for the ring where dissatisfied with his work and ran off without paying. But for that ceremony, for the night, May had to watch her nephew, the one family she had left, stew in heartbreak, and it was all her fault.
After raising his sprites as best she could, she convinced him to do it at the little birthday party slash graduation party she and Mary Jane had planed for him. But again Wade didn't show, to busy trying to tracking down those cheap skates.
Finally Peter was going off to the party his friend Mr. Stark had planed for him, ready to give it a third attempt. But even May was getting frustrated at this point, but it wasn't Wade's fault per say, if anything it was her own. Again she found herself praying to her family and the forces above to please forgiver her and let this whole mess work out. She didn't mean for all this to happen, she really didn't, she just wanted Peter to be happy.
Luckily her prayers where answered as the next day, around noon, she received a call from her now engaged nephew and his fiancé, asking her what exactly had been going on, though they didn't get an answer as they had to sit and listen to her joyful, relieved sobs.
I hadn't intended to write this but while going through this with my editor, she was quite confused with what Aunt May's role in this was, so hopefully this clears some things up. ^^
I feel kind of bad for May, I didn't mean for it to have her beat herself up so much.
At first this was going to be May thinking to herself as she watched Peter and Wade be all giddy and happy with each other after just telling her they where engaged. Then my editor thought it would be cute to have her think these things at there wedding while the priest was going through all the bla bla bla. I tried going with that cuz I thought it would be really sweet and I could put some funny in it but for some reason I started typing then an hour later I was done and the wedding was no where in it, I have no idea what happened... I blame aliens and my lack of energy/brain power to write something else.
I usually listen to music but when I'm engrossed in my writing, I need silence, weird...
Anyway, hope you enjoyed and thanks for reading! Super thanks if you read all the parts!
I don't own Anyone mentioned in this story.
