Crusader Returns

Chapter 3

You both started walking back to the tower, Peter staying behind you, it had really shocked you that Peter had acted that way towards someone being that he was Spider-Man and he himself was bullied back in high school by a dumb jock. You looked over at Peter and saw that he was still wearing the ring, you smiled to yourself and touched your ring to make his heat up. "Could you stop that?" he snapped "Stop what?" "Stop touching the damn ring" "Why? It's my ring, I can touch it whenever I want to touch it" you pointed out and he scoffed, "Funny how I've been touching this damn ring for almost two whole years and never got anything back just until the day you come back you decide to touch it again" "And what's the problem with that?" "What's the problem? Are you seriously asking me that? The problem is that I don't want to feel anything from you anymore Y/N-" "Then take the damn ring off Parker" you snapped as you looked at his eyes, they were filled with hurt and rage, "No" "Why not?" but he didn't say anything

You stopped walking and turned around and stood in front of him, "Why did you bully the kid Peter?" you asked as your gaze over him had softened, and he shrugged, "What's it to you, not like you care about anyone anyway" your blood boiled hearing those words, but you knew he was just hurting and you had to take the heat,  "I do care about people, that's why I had to leave-" "Bullshit!" he said looking up at the sky, "You left because you were too scared of commitment-" "No I wasn't scared of commitment! If I were scared of commitment then I wouldn't have given myself to you! I left because finding out you were Spider-Man meant that at any moment you wouldn't return back to me as Peter Parker. I left because I was scared that you would suffer the same consequences that Pietro suffered for saving me! I thought that me leaving would make you safer because that meant you wouldn't have to look after me like Pietro did. For the longest time I blamed myself for his death, all because..." you started tearing up and Peter's stare softened, he had never seen you so vulnerable "all because I felt it was my fault, but it wasn't, now I realize that, it wasn't his fault either, he was just doing his duties as the hero he was, and yea I loved him and it did break my heart watching him die in front of my own eyes, and for a fourteen year old that's a lot to handle, but you know what Peter, I loved you more, I gave my all to you, I could've never loved Pietro the way I loved you, but the worst part out of all of this is that I lost you too and you're not even dead" and with that you turned your back to him and walked faster back to the tower, hoping Peter had gone another way.

Today was supposed to be a good day, but it turned out to be pretty miserable, it was four o'clock now and you were in the training room punching one of the bags they had, you were focused until you heard someone clear their throat. You turned around and there was Peter. "What, here to push me around like the kid on the street?" you said as you turned back around and continued punching the bag, Peter rolled his eyes, "No, I just came to tell you that-" "I don't want to hear it Parker" you said, "Alright knock it off Y/N" he said he grabbed your wrists and pinned you against a wall, "I got to hear you talk and now you have to hear me talk", you got off of his grip and nodded for him to continue. "When you left, I didn't want to believe it, I thought that you would come back in a couple of days, weeks even. I wasn't sure what was going on, why you had acted the way you did, but when I asked your dad it all made sense to me, and so I thought that in a few days you would come back and realize that it wasn't that big of a deal for me to be Spider-Man and you to be Crusader and that we would still date. I slept outside of your room for days, then the days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months, I refused to let anyone go into your room because I wanted everything to stay exactly the same as you had left it so we could pick up from where we left off...but you didn't come back. I would touch this ring" he held up the hand his ring was on "everyday that you were gone and..." Peter started choking back his tears "and not once did I get a reaction back, kids at school started creating rumours about how I was abandoned at homecoming and how I was just a game to you. All of those factors made me become into the heartless person I am today" he finished with tears rolling down his face as tears also rolled down yours

"If you were a heartless person, then you wouldn't be wearing that ring" you said, he looked up at you, he wiped his tears from his eyes and walked out the door. You chased after him and almost caught up to him until the tower alarm went off, then gunshots were heard. You and Peter looked at each other and ran towards the noise, you touched the earpiece you always wore, "Nyx where's dad and Tony?" "Everyone at the tower has gone out, there is an unexpected visitor in the tower" you rolled your eyes at the obvious, "Get in contact with Tony and tell him Peter and I heard gunshots in the tower". You and Peter got to Tony's lab and saw a man with four metal like arms coming out of a machine on his back. "What is he looking for?" you asked Peter, "How am I supposed to know" he retorted and you rolled your eyes. You touched a ring that you were wearing on your index finger and it summoned out a holographic shield that worked just as well as your regular shield but could only take so much damage, Peter looked at your shield in amazement, "Stand behind me" you told Peter and he nodded getting ready to fight whoever was in Tony's lab.