004 | fourth web | action to Raven Darkholme
[Peter has wandered, up to the roof of the Sanctuary. It's cool out, the air is nice against his skin, and he wonders how a world this pretty can be so full of destruction. It's like home, only worse in a way, because it takes them and forces them to forge new bonds that are broken sooner than they need to be, and will be broken one day regardless of what happens. When they eventually go home. He's afraid of so much, and he's only seventeen, he's not really a man, not even when he pretends to be one, he's just a frightened kid, especially today, when he lost one of his best friends and he can't bring himself to keep lying to Raven now.
It's a short message he sends her -- "Meet me on the roof? Sorry. I just need to be up here." -- and he knows he should be more sensitive but he can't. He wants to be up here where the air is cool and he can actually breathe and he doesn't feel like the weight of the sorrow is crushing his lungs.
He misses Gwen so much but more than that he misses his Aunt May. Everything is horrible, but here he has Raven and he has Helen, here he has different people to care about and new people to protect as Spider-Man. Sat on a lawn lounger he brought up, with a blanket in case it gets too cold, he just waits for her.]
It's a short message he sends her -- "Meet me on the roof? Sorry. I just need to be up here." -- and he knows he should be more sensitive but he can't. He wants to be up here where the air is cool and he can actually breathe and he doesn't feel like the weight of the sorrow is crushing his lungs.
He misses Gwen so much but more than that he misses his Aunt May. Everything is horrible, but here he has Raven and he has Helen, here he has different people to care about and new people to protect as Spider-Man. Sat on a lawn lounger he brought up, with a blanket in case it gets too cold, he just waits for her.]