Twins (Peter Parker)

You and Peter had really been put through shit together. First your parents die, then Uncle Ben dies, and then suddenly Peter got bit by a spider and has powers or something. You always made sure to tell him to be careful and not get hurt; after all, you were older by 9 minutes.

Then the Blip happened and you were suddenly left alone. Peter was gone, May was gone, and so were all of your friends (they were Peter's too). It left you in a depressed state and you became homeless for about five years. Homeless shelters were overrun; foster homes went up in kids but down in recipients; orphanages were closing down from lack of management which ended up shoving almost every lonely kid into one building. There was no way you'd be part of that. So, you chose the street.

Living on the street wasn't terrible. The only problems were random guys being assholes, the rain, and lack of food security. But it was fine. It had to be fine.

You were sleeping on a bench when people started coming back. It was strange, because suddenly you were sleeping on top of a young couple's lap. The three of you screamed, and other people started popping up around the park area. It was the weirdest moment you'd ever witnessed and that you ever wanted to witness. For days people went on, confused about the sudden passage of time. Other were confused about how the dusted had just... reappeared. It took until an official statement by the Avengers was given that we knew it was the Blip.

After you heard the news, you raced towards your old apartment knowing that Aunt May would be there. As you raced down the hallway to the familiar apartment, you could hear yelling and some screams of surprise. May was back.

You knocked on the door in a frenzy and begged the new people on the other side could forget about the random woman that appeared in their home and would let you in. Someone did, and you heard their footsteps approach the door and open it. You couldn't even wait until the door was completely open before rushing into the apartment and towards where the commotion was coming from. The person who had let you in was yelling at your back, and you ignored them.

There was a crowd of three people with Aunt May in the very center. She saw you, and relief flooded her face. "(Y/n)!" she yelled out and pushed through the people to get to you. You met her with a forceful hug and refused to let go. "(Y/n), you're back," she said into your hair. You nodded and kept a tight hold of your aunt.

"You're here, you're in front of me, you survived," you rambled on. It was the clearing of a throat that finally got you to remember the other people in the room with you two. You and May pulled apart and the two of you helped each other explain everything that happened and why Aunt May suddenly popped up in the apartment.

The family told you that they had put all of the stuff that was here when they bought it in a spare room just in case, and allowed you to go through and take anything you wanted. Aunt May knew that you guys would have to buy a new apartment, so she asked them if you two could come back after you bought a new apartment to collect the bigger things. The family graciously agreed and you left.

"What about Peter? Do we know what happened to him?" you asked Aunt May. She sighed and shook her head. You sighed back and looked at the ground as you made your way through the halls and down the stairs; those elevators never seem to work. "Well, we could go to the Avengers' compound to see if they know where Peter is?" you offered. May agreed and you two went into May's old car (somehow it wasn't towed or broken into) and you directed her to the compound.

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It was an absolute wreck when you got there. The two of you understood something epic just went down here, and hoped to God that Peter was okay. You got out of the car first and ran up to the giant hole in the ground.

"Peter!" you called out loudly. There was some movement here and there, but you couldn't recognize the Spiderman suit anywhere. "Peter Parker!" you called again. Nothing. Something very wise in your head said not to, but you decided to go into the hole of destruction anyways. May called after you, but you simply climbed and slid down the side.

At the bottom, you could see figures heading your way, and tried again. "Peter Parker!" Someone came sprinting forward and then stopped when they saw you. You couldn't make out who they were from the dust and debris in the air, but something told you in was Peter. "Peter?" you asked.

The figure calming running up and you could finally see who it was, and it was in fact your twin brother Peter Parker. Words couldn't come out of your mouth, but tears were pouring from your eyes. You ran fast and met Peter in the middle, and engulfed him in the biggest hug you could do.

He was shaking, dirty, and was sobbing into your shoulder. "(Y/n), you're here. You're alive. You're..." He stepped back for a moment and looked at you fully this time. "Older," he said, finishing the cut off sentence. You wanted to smile at him and tell him life was going to be okay now, but you knew something happened when you saw that he had dried tears on his face already.

"Peter...what happened?" you asked him softly. He looked broken and when he couldn't find the words, you just hugged him again. You looked over behind him and saw some of the Avengers standing there, including Pepper Potts, but no Iron Man. By the sadness and grief in others' faces, you knew that Peter had lost yet another father figure in his life. You sighed and held your twin even closer. "I'm so sorry Peter," you whispered.

~~

Aunt May drove you and Peter back to where the Stark family had been living for about 5 years by following Pepper; the others had gone out to grab their funeral attire. Your family didn't really have any at the moment, but Pepper assured you that she had a suit and a couple dresses that the three of you could borrow.

You and Peter sat in the back of the car and you simply held his hand for support. He had taken off the suit, revealing one of his funny t-shirts, but this time you didn't have it in you to laugh.

When you got to the house, Pepper brought you guys inside. She held Morgan as she walked over to her and Tony's room to pick out a suit and some dresses. No words were exchanged when she came back out and gave them to you. You went up to a bathroom and changed in there, Aunt May coming in after you. Peter had gone into a spare bedroom to change.

You knocked on the door and asked in a whisper, "May I come in?" There was a very faint 'yes', so you quietly opened the door and saw Peter sitting on the bed in his suit, the tie not done. He didn't make a sound or move a muscle as you walked over to him, and kneeled in front to start doing his tie. You remembered how to do it from all those years ago when May was trying to teach him for the homecoming dance that, well, didn't go as planned.

Once you were done, you sat next to Peter and the two of you sat there in silence for a bit. You wanted to say something, anything really, but you held back for Peter. This was his time, and you had to be there for him.

"I guess we're technically not twins anymore, huh?" Peter asked out of the blue. You looked at him, confused, and he looked at you with a very small smile on his face. "It's fine, you've always been the older one anyways."

Something in you just said to laugh, and so you did. It started as a small chuckle, but turned into some full on laughter. Peter joined in with laughing and the two of you fell back onto the bed with fits of laughter. This felt right, and was refreshing.

The laughing died down and you sat there staring at the ceiling. Peter stared too, and it was quiet again. "I'm always going to be here, Peter. I'm not going anywhere. Especially not after this happened." Peter grabbed your hand again and squeezed it. "Besides, you could always just put me in one of those ice tube things for 5 years so you can catch up."

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The funeral service and message from Tony left Peter in even more tears, and you sat there next to him in the house comforting him. You got to meet many Avengers, but they merely came and gave their condolences to the broken teen. To each and every one, you nodded and gave them a small smile. The raccoon was weird, and so was the tree thing, but they were from space so you just shrugged it off.

Pepper was so kind to you and your family and offered to let you stay until you got another apartment. You were left to explain to Peter what she meant while Aunt May talked with Pepper. "Someone moved into our apartment while the Blip happened. May and I met the couple though, and they're very nice people who, for some reason, kept all of our things.

"We are going to get a new apartment there though, and it will be the same. I promise Peter." He nodded and continued to lean on me as we sat on the couch. It was so weird now, being five years older than a boy you shared a birth day with. You both still had to finish high school, since you had to drop out once you became homeless. However, you were 21 and it'd be highly frowned upon if you were seen hanging out at a high school.

You were lost in thoughts, and Peter looked up at you. Sensing his eyes on you, you looked down at him and gave a small half smile. "What's going to happen, (Y/n)? We're going to get a new apartment, sure, but after that. Everything is so different now and I don't know what we're going to do..."

Peter let out a small sigh and another sob. You squeezed his hand and said, "Don't worry Peter. We will get through this. We just have to take baby steps."

~Fin~

A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it's been a while since I've posted on here. I expected to have more free time to write, but teachers think that since students are home all the time, we have all day to do all of the work they assign us. At this point, I'm bout ready to frisbee toss my chromebook out a fucking window.

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