A couple days later, Peter recovered fully from the blood transfusion and went home. However he still couldn't get over how he just lost all he had left of Gwen and how Harry, whom he thought was his best friend, had turned them against him. After many nights of anger, hatred, fear, and grief, he finally snapped and went after Harry.

Osborn manor was somewhat creepy at night, especially if you, like Spider-Man, who was dressed in his black suit as he was truly mad, knew the truth about who the residents were. Despite this Peter landed on the balcony and found Harry pouring a drink.

"Hey, Pete." said Harry without even turning around.

"You turned all I had left of Gwen against me." said Spider-Man.

"I thought you'd be angry at her for what she did."

"I could never stay mad at her, I loved her. And besides, she regretted what she did, you did what you did without a shred of remorse." Spider-Man web slung a vase at Harry, who swiftly dodged, the vase shattering.

"That was worth $600,000!"

"Oh, no, I shattered your super expensive vase, I think you underpaid for your sins against your best friend."

"You're the one who's underpaid."

"What are you talking about?" Harry responded by throwing a pumpkin bomb at him, which exploded leaving numerous lacerations on his skin from the shrapnel. Spider-Man punched Harry in the gut, but felt the unmistakable texture of chainmail and the tough bulletproof Goblin chest piece.

"You weren't expecting to fight two Goblin's in one week, were you?" said Harry as he extended the diamond spikes from his forearm. He put them toward Spidey's face, but Spider-Man was able to hold them away from him, and eventually threw him across the room. Spider-Man walked in the direction Harry was thrown in, but he was gone.

Back home the following day, Peter was depressed. His best friend turned all he had of his first love against him and he doesn't even know why. His hopes were raised, however, when he received an envelope in the mail from someone called Joyce Delaney. He recognized it as the last page of the letter from Gwen sent by Gabriel and Sarah at the start of this fiasco.

It said "I am sorry for what I did, but I'm hoping you'll accept me, and them, nonetheless. I remember when you asked what my blood type was, and I quickly assumed that was because you wanted to marry me someday and wanted to be the father of my children, so I'm guessing you will accept them. But I still have some doubts that you will forgive me, but I'm still hoping you do.

Love, Gwen".

Peter also found in the envelope a slip of paper that says "P.S., they're not gone for good."

Later that day, Peter went to the cemetery to visit Gwen, the sunlight beaming down like the arc reactor at Avengers Tower combined with the arc reactors of every other Iron Man suit ever made.

"Hey, Gwen." he said, "I met your kids. Gabriel isn't quite all there, but Sarah is nice. She's a lot like you. And to answer your final question to me, the one with which you ended your letter, yes, I forgive you."

The movie ends with Spider-Man swinging through the city, and when he's swinging away from the screen, Gwen's face appears (as a visual metaphor) in the sky, the sunlight gleaming off of her beautiful blonde hair.

(Credits roll)

There's a darkened facility somewhere in the city, where machines are injecting some sort of substance into objects in petri dishes on a conveyor belt, which are then loaded into crates, which are then carried off by conveyor belts to another area in the facility.

"Soon, he will be mine." said a man's voice from off-screen, "Soon, I will have destroyed him. Soon, he will pay." The camera panned to show the man was wearing a green mask with large ears and a yellow eyes.

(Credits resume)

AUTHOR'S NOTE: In case you didn't pick up on it, this story explores a central theme. Specifically, forgiveness. Gwen committed a sin in betraying Peter's trust and having twins with Norman Osborn, which seemed unforgivable at first, but it seems even less forgivable than that years later when the twins are raised by Norman's proper son, Harry, to try and kill Peter. Even after all this, Peter still forgives her. The idea is that no matter how greatly you've sinned, you always deserve forgiveness. That being said I hope you enjoyed the story, it's been fun writing it, and I look forward to writing the stories to come.