For hours, J. Jonah Jameson and his wife Joan had been sitting beside their unconscious son. Jonah was fully of guilt.
"It's all my fault, Joan."
"What do you mean?"
"The Sinister Six. They took Spider-Man. And it's all my fault. All this time I convinced myself that he was a menace. After hearing what Robertson told me, I started to believe that maybe I've been wrong this whole time. He was right. And he was a good friend. What is wrong with me?"
"There is nothing wrong with you."
"There is. I am partly responsible for making people think that Spider-Man is evil. But he is not evil. He is a hero. I was blinded by my stupid stubbornness. I honestly cannot understand why you ever wanted to marry me."
"I married you because I knew that you were ambitious and that you would be a great father."
"Am I a great father? Have I done all that our son would have wanted us to do? Even if Spider-Man is a hero, the man that he is is the same man who took our son's fiance' away from him. Can I forgive him for that? Is it what John would want."
"It is," John said, now awake from his coma after all this time.
"John!" his mother said as she hugged him. "How do you feel?"
"Like I can play football on the Moon again."
"Let's wait a while before you try anything like that. You should spend some time home with us."
"I admit that I was sad that day, Dad. But I've been thinking. Mary Jane loved Peter before she ever met me. Maybe I was the one who was wrong to get in the way of something special between those two. I have let go of her, Dad. I forgive both of them. They will go down their own path, and I will go down mine. I am not depressed anymore. I know that I will meet the woman of my dreams just as Peter met his. Just as you met yours."
John's parents gazed into each others eyes and then back at him.
"Then I forgive him, son. I just wish that I could undo all that I did. That alien thing is likely to kill him."
As J. Jonah Jameson looked out the window, he spotted a couple of things flying in the sky. He recognized one of them as the Sandman.
"The Sandman!" he said as he ran to the phone, dialing 9-1-1. "Hello. This is J. Jonah Jameson. I would like to report that I have spotted the Sandman. I have a hunch that if you follow him, you can help Spider-Man. I'll tell you exactly which way he's heading."