Peter tripped as he stepped over a fallen tree, MJ spinning around to see him scrambling to get up. She chuckled softly. "You know, for a guy with fairly good reflexes, you sure as hell can give yourself a beating." She laughed, recalling their dinner date when the waitress dropped MJ's root beer bottle and Peter had caught it without looking.

"Yeah I Uh... never really been great with balance. Responsibility? Awful. But it's improving." He joked as she chuckled, pulling out her phone.

"So.. photographer for the Daily Bugle. What's that like?" MJ asked as she paused, finding an abandoned motorbike. "Hm..."

"Well, it's not as exciting as you'd think it would be. Jameson just wants me to always take snaps of Spider-Man since I'm always up close and personal with the poses and stuff..."

"You take those Spider-Man pictures?" MJ paused to turn and face Peter, whose eyes had widened, possibly because he believed she was learning too quickly who he actually was.

"Uh.. yeah. I mean... I'm not always taking them. Eddie takes some good photos, too." There you go, Peter. Lead her onto another guy.

"Huh. Y'know, that Eddie guy seems like he has it out for you. He sounded kind of jealous when I told him I knew you.." MJ turned around with a soft smirk and paused, staring ahead as a clearing appeared.

Well... clearing is a strong word.

More like an area with a bunch of fallen trees circled around a meteor.

"Holy shit." MJ looked down at her feet as she ran towards the meteor, Peter hissing in fear as he didn't know what that meteor could have. A single touch could possibly—

"Mary Jane I don't think that's safe!" Peter yelled as MJ paused and turned back to him.

"It's fine, Peter. Look, it's cooled down. Come take some pictures, maybe I could write a piece on this!"

"Are you— Are you sure? Maybe we can take some pictures from over here." Peter waved back towards him as MJ shook her head, pulling up her phones camera.

"There's no way I'm not getting a picture over there. And if you won't do it, then I will." MJ paused as she saw someone start leaking out of the meteor, quickly snapping a picture. The flash caused whatever it was to shriek, and MJ fell back with a yell.

"Jesus fuck! Oh my god!" Peter lifted MJ off of her feet and the two stared at the meteor, watching as the thing crawled it's way out of a hole. MJ felt like she was going to puke, covering her mouth as Peter held her arms protectively, leaning forward as he tried to see what that black goo was.

"You were right. I think we should go. We can snap that motorbike I saw." Peter nodded as the two of us started to walk slowly, looking back to see the black goo start chasing after them.

"MJ run!" Peter shoved her along and she gasped, sprinting as fast as she could to the motorbike, attempting to start up with no key.

She pulled apart the wires, flicking them together and praying ti hear it start up. And after a few short seconds of panic and the food getting closer, the motorbike revved up.

"Get on!" Peter yelled as MJ hopped on behind him, the two of them speeding off as they thought the goo had fallen behind.

Oh the pain of knowing what lied ahead.

So obviously I'm not just going to have Eddie/Venom and make Andrew have the symbiote suit. I'm gonna attempt to lengthen the book by adding (or maybe readding) an old character. I'm thinking of making it a NWH book eventually, but that's in the Without You sequel so it's not happening.

Also if it wasn't clear already, I'm mixing MJ's from the different multiverses. The Comics, the games, the MCU (if that's even possible)

I'm giving MJ the iconic red hair and comic book party girl style, giving her Tobey's MJ's job at the MoonDance Diner, and Sony's MJ's job as an investigative journalist for the Daily Bugle.

Obviously, I'm trying to make her as accurate as possible, while also giving her little flaws that may have not appeared in the comics, movies, shows or games that she has been in.

Also, apologies for the short chapter, I just really needed to introduce the symbiote to the book.

And, to top this off, I'm going to give MJ that "I know you're into me but I'm going to act oblivious because I really don't like you like that" trope to Eddie bc Tobey's Eddie can— well he's hot so I guess he can't die or I'd be a bit upset 🙄

Anyways, don't forget to comment and vote. If you need me I'll be strangling my 8 y/o sister.