Yeah I noticed the last chapter had the Peters leave twice. That'll be staying for now. Really want to get through this and don't have the time or energy at the moment to change that and write a new chapter.

"Peter, are you ok?" Peter-2 asked as the two other Peter's entered behind Peter-3, seeing him at the far side of the room, curled up on the floor.

Peter-3 ignored them as the two approached him slowly, sitting down on the floor next to him, silently offering their support to their hurting brother.

"I thought I'd moved on from this, I thought I was doing better than this." Peter-3 said after a long moment.

"It's alright to grieve her still." Peter-2 told him with a sad smile. "You don't think I think of May and Mayday daily? You think I don't hate Chameleon for what he did?"

"I know I shouldn't ask, but what sort of name is Chameleon anyway?" Peter-1 questioned.

"He's a master of disguises, alot like Mysterio, except he doesn't use technology to achieve his deceptions." Peter-2 spat.

"I hope you made him suffer." Peter-3 spoke up, looking at Peter-2, seeing the rage in his eyes even as he gave his younger brother a soft smile.

"I really wish I had." Peter-2 said. "When I came in, found them on the floor, I knew what had happened. We had security footage in the house, I saw myself come in, and I knew it wasn't me. I knew who had done it. They didn't even suspect anything, right until the moment he pulled out a gun. I hunted him down, I found him on a pier, he knew I'd come for him. I beat him within an inch of his life, I knew one more hit and I'd end him...but I couldn't. All I could see was MJ telling me not too, I dropped him, called the police and never looked back at him. I just, I just spent the night after walking. I was found the next day over in Brooklyn. I'm not even sure even now how I got there."

"You did the right thing." Peter-1 spoke up quietly after a long pause. "You did what you had to do in the end, letting him live."

"Did I?" Peter-2 asked mirthfully. "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Peter-1 insisted. "You stopped me from making a mistake I'd never be able to come back from, and you stopped yourself. It takes a real bravery to do that, Peter. A bravery I'm not sure I have."

"You did." Peter-3 stated as well after a while. "Look, I won't deny, I was in a bad place, in some ways, I still am." Peter-3 admitted. "But you rose above all of that, you showed it can be possible to do better, to be better, to be something more than that darkness. It's a quality I'm not sure I have, even if Gwen thought I had it in me."

"You know I've met you, Peter, I know you have that ability to be more than you think you are, to be the man that Gwen knew you are, you just need a chance to see it in yourself and bring it out. I'm hoping that maybe that's what the Watcher is also hoping to achieve here, to bring you a chance to see the good in yourself." Peter-1 told his older alter.

"You really think so? That I can be better, move on from that darkness?" Peter-3 asked softly.

"You stopped me from descending into it." Peter-1 said firmly. "I know you can."

"I'll admit I struggled with it, I still do, every day." Peter-2 spoke. "I know we can all do it though, I've got hope, if nothing else." He trailed off. "Look, I didn't want to be the one to mention this, but it's clearly needed. Group hug?"

"Group hug." Peter-1 nodded.

Peter-3 gave a small smile in agreement as he felt his two brothers wrap their arms around him. After a long moment, Peter-1 broke off and looked back at the door towards the main group.

"We should probably look at getting back in there and finishing this." He let the words die in his throat, wondering what would happen if they got through all of this and caught everyone up. Would they have to go back?

"Yeah, we should. We'll catch you up in a moment, little Pete, can you give the two of us a moment?" Peter-2 asked before seeing Peter-1's face had dropped. "We'll talk again after all of this, no matter what this Watcher wants us to do, I promise."

Peter-1 nodded, giving his two alters a small smile before slipping away back into the other room, leaving the two older Peters alone.

"So, what did you want little Peter out of the room for?" Peter-3 asked, worried.

"I wanted us to talk, I wondered if I'd done anything wrong? At the start of all of this, we talked between us a fair bit, but now, we don't, I get its heavy for you, all of this, it has been for me too, I just wonder if I've said or done something in all of this to upset you?" Peter-2 questioned. Maybe he had upset Peter-3, if he had, he knew he had to fix it.

"No, not at all!" Peter-3 quickly tried to reassure his older alter, seeing the worried look in his eyes. "I've just been wrapped up in all of this, I've been thinking on all of this, getting worked up as I've worried about what will be shown, dealing with the thoughts about Gwen again. I thought I'd worked through all of this, especially after our multiversal vacation. I went to therapy, I got help, I've tried to be the symbol of hope that she knew I could be, but there's still that lingering doubt there, am I betraying her memory by trying to move on?"

"I get that." Peter-2 told him. "I ask myself every day, am I betraying MJ by seeking to move forward? Do I even deserve happiness? I'm a mess myself, I wake up hating myself for not being killed with them, and I go to sleep hating myself that I didn't kill Chameleon."

"You don't fail her at all, you did the thing that Spider-Man is meant to do, you stopped the bad guy without killing them." Peter-3 reassured him.

"Yeah, I know, but I still feel like I failed her, I always will do." Peter-2 quietly admitted.

"I can't say anything that will make you stop thinking like that, I mean, it's me you're talking with here, but I can honestly say, you never once failed her, Peter." Peter-3 reassured the older alter.

"Thanks, Pete." Peter-2 told him, eyes shining as Peter-3 wrapped his arms around him.

"Anytime." Peter-3 said before looking at Peter-2 for a moment, their eyes meeting, he leaned forward and grazed his lips against the older alter. For the longest moment, their lips pressed together, before Peter-2 stumbled backwards.

"Oh...I'm sorry, Peter, I didn't know you thought that about me...I..."

"No!" Peter-3 said, eyes shining as his cheeks flamed red. "I don't know what came over me. I know you don't like me like that, I don't like you like that, I don't know why I did that, I'm so sorry, can we just..."

"Forget all about it? I'd like that, I mean, I do love my brother, just not that way." Peter-2 gave him a sheepish grin. "Shall we get back to everyone else and finish this?"

"I'd like that." Peter-3 returned a smile, glad he hadn't made it too awkward between them, as they headed back to join the others.

Next time (I've no idea when before anyone asks, probably a few months) NWH Part 2.