There's no question they were waiting for me. Peter thought, Waiting for me there, right there. Where she was. Waiting for me the very day that a letter arrived from Gwen, the first page of a letter she wrote years ago, and meant to send, but which didn't show up until yesterday. No question that theres a connection. They only question is what? And why? Why are two people I don't think I've ever even met out to kill Peter Parker? MJ then walked into the room.
"Are you alright?" she said
"Yeah." said Peter, "no. It's a long story."
"Looks like someone got some licks in. Were you on patrol, or-"
"No, whoever it was, they were after Peter, not Spider-Man. So I couldn't cut loose. The most I could do was hold my own and run like hell. I don't think I gave anything away, but still-"
"And you think it has something to do with this?"
"Yeah. I'll be damned if I know what, though. It seems like every time I get over my guilt over what happened to Gwen, every time I've just about put it behind me, something happens to bring it all back up again... and I'm on that bridge again. Watching her die. It's-"
"Peter? Have you looked at the back of the page?"
"Yeah. It's empty though, so what's the-"
"No. I mean, have you really looked at it? Touched it? There are little indentations on the back. Maybe when she wrote the next page of the letter she put it on top of this one."
"Gwen always did that when she wrote multiple paged letters."
"I do the same thing. It helps keep the pages in order. Maybe if you ran a pencil over the indentations-"
"No. The paper's old, and the impressions are faint. If I did that, I could destroy whatever's there. It'd take a forensics lab to find out what it says. Or I could consult with Daredevil, but he's kind of hard to work with."
"I'm starting to get a little hungry."
"Yeah, let's go have breakfast."
"But first, I need to fix your face. You can't go out in public with visible wounds you'd expect Spider-Man to have."
"This is why we make a great couple. I look at the obvious page, you look at the apparently empty page. I have a high pain threshold and heal fast, but you make sure the bruises don't-"
"Peter, stop talking, I'm trying to get this foundation on."
"Okay." They kissed.
"You're smudging." said MJ.
"I know. Deal."
When Peter and MJ got downstairs, Peter noticed the mail had arrived. Today there was only one letter. It was addressed to Peter, but there was no return address. He opened it and saw two photographs and a note. the first photo was of a man (the face was edited out) helping Aunt May with her groceries. The other was of a woman (again with a blacked-out face) asking MJ for directions.
The note said "We can kill them whenever we want."