16 Works by thejourneys
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Callback by thejourneys
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
23 Apr 2026
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“Were you casing us out?”
Peter looks back at her, nonplussed. Swollen eye twitching. “Was I…what?”
“Casing. Us.” MJ annunciates the words clearly. “For your— organ smuggling ring, or whatever.”
“My organ smuggling ring.”
MJ shrugs, watching his confused expression carefully. “Illegal insulin?” she suggests, prodding further. “Street botox for the wealthy-but-not-plastic-surgery-wealthy tennis moms?”
She can see the moment it clicks for Peter that she’s messing with him, a strange familiarness to the way his jaw loosens and his shoulders relax. MJ’s spine prickles again.
“Yes,” he says flatly, craning his neck again towards the door the register attendant disappeared behind. “I was casing your apartment as a possible holding location for my mixed organ-insulin-botox smuggling ring. You failed.”
“Hm,” MJ hums, still not leaning back. “Well, that’s a relief, I guess.”
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OR: The guy in the checkout line looks familiar, and it's not like MJ's got anywhere else to be at this time of night.
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“Oh,” Ned snorts as he lugs the window open, then perches himself on his own desk and sets his drink to the side. “Yeah. MJ calls that our post-bacc. I guess it’s a…little serial-killer-esque, now that I’m really looking at it. Don’t worry, we’re normal.”
Transfixed, dreamlike, Peter takes an unsteady step closer to the Spider-Man board. “What are you guys looking for?” he thinks he asks.
For the first time all night, Ned doesn’t answer right away. Instead, he picks his drink back up and takes a long sip. “Why?” He looks at Peter curiously, voice even. “You know him?”
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OR: Brand New Day speculation
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the body electric by seekrest, thejourneys for abcd_em
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
02 Feb 2026
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“Charlie, I need you to listen to me.”
Because this is, all of the sudden, different. The combination of the guns and the super-strength-proof cables and the widely held knowledge that both Peter Parker and all his known associates are dirt poor that can add up to only one conclusion.
These men know he’s Spider-Man.
And that changes just about everything.
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OR: Peter Parker is taken on a Thursday in August. When he finally finds his way back home, it's with more than just a few new nicks and bruises in tow.
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until then, we'll have to muddle through somehow by thejourneys
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
16 Dec 2025
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Peter leans down to kiss Michelle once on the forehead, faltering slightly before he begins to, again, run a hand through her curls. It’s a little more urgent this time. Lingers against her skin. Michelle hazards a guess that the chill in her blood has broken into a full-blown fever.
“Don’t,” she murmurs half-heartedly, making no move to pull away from the soothing, rhythmic motions of his hand against her scalp. Her eyes feel heavy, itchy. “I don’t want to get you sick.”
“I don’t get sick.”
Michelle thinks of trembling hands. Blown pupils. The ribs she can feel through his shirt and the apartment he hasn’t left in two weeks.
Yes, she thinks, as his fingers continue to comb their way softly through her hair. You do.
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OR: In the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy, MJ and Peter attempt to have themselves a merry little Christmas.
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Clark kicks his feet the entire rest of his way back to the Planet, spinning gunshots and grandfathers and conversations between kids who don’t know any better through his mind until Lois’s coffee is practically cold.
Wrong place, wrong time.
Just got in the way.
He grits his teeth as the elevator doors to the Planet slide closed in front of him.
“Tell him nothing, Superman.”
That wasn’t how it happened.
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OR: In the aftermath of Luthor and a clone and a rift that nearly swallows Metropolis, there's only one hero's story Clark Kent wants to tell.
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killing time by thejourneys
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
20 Jul 2025
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“Hey,” Michelle calls, standing up straight and hands on her hips, “are you lost?”
The boy jumps, almost topples over from where he’s sitting with his arms wrapped around his knees, though how he hadn’t heard her mounting the fire escape steps is anyone’s mystery.
“I--what?” he asks after a fumbling moment, looks her up and down from behind a set of thick-rimmed glasses in a simultaneously subdued and bemused sort of way. “I don’t--no?”
“You gotta be,” Michelle crosses her arms. “Because this is my lookout, and that’s my spot.”
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OR: Michelle Jones-Watson will fall in love with Peter Parker three different times throughout the course of her life. In the meantime, they've got to figure out this thing called "growing up."
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“Peter?” MJ asks, breathes, chokes.
The eyes widen, then turn guarded, then, all at once, flicker with recognition. The guy slumps. Not just ‘a guy’, but the spitting image of her dead fucking husband.
“You’re Michelle,” he finally says, not a question.
Then, tiredly:
“Shit.”
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OR:
Life with Peter had never been normal. Why would life without him be any different?
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our legacy code by thejourneys for seekrest
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Daredevil (TV)
10 Apr 2025
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“There’s another option,” Matt says, with a slight grimace.
“You just said there were no options,” Ned frowns. “Like, just barely.” His eyes find Foggy. “He said there were no options, right?”
“This idea is very bad,” Foggy says, helpfully. “So bad that it barely counts as an option.”
Ned sighs. "Right."
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OR: There are parts of Ned Leeds that are missing. As long as nobody pokes at them, he'll keep on running just fine.
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- Part 2 of dear tomorrow
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It’s eight twenty-eight when MJ’s phone finally buzzes. She checks the caller ID this time.
capitalism.
She raises the phone to her ear, eyes still fixed on a t-shirt in the corner of her living room.
It’s eight twenty-eight and before Tony says a word, MJ already knows. She’s known, she thinks, since Gwen’s first gasp into the receiver. Known since the word “fell,” because Peter falls all the time, often enough that there’s only one way to make it noteworthy.
“Hello?”
Iron Man’s voice is not iron. It’s barely flesh.
“We found him.”
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- Part 4 of girl in red.
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that leftover light by thejourneys for seekrest
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Daredevil (TV)
07 Jan 2025
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“You okay, Spidey?” one of the EMTs calls after him, as his first attempt to shoot a web at the nearest building falls limply through the air and onto the empty street.
“All good,” Peter returns dizzily, trying for a smile just in case the mask is shredded enough for his pearly whites to peek through.
“Come and get checked out,” she offers. “You can keep the mask on.”
And Peter does what any good citizen would do when given a clear order from a healthcare professional.
He promptly turns and legs it.
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OR: There is a boy from Queens who lives in the past. In the months that follow a spell that changes everything, Peter Parker does his goddamn best to bury him.
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- Part 1 of dear tomorrow
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to feel the lack by seekrest, thejourneys for abcd_em
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types
22 Sep 2024
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She doesn’t know if it’s been minutes or hours, by the time she hears it. Like muscle memory, MJ lifts her gaze to the rooftops.
He’s maskless, grinning down at her from the rooftop of that abandoned cafe like she’s the only thing in a ten-mile radius worth looking at and speaking in that voice that feels to MJ a little bit like coming home and a little bit like she never left at all.
“Now what on God’s green earth,” Peter Parker calls down to her from his perch, eyes sparkling with mirth, “is a pretty girl like you doing in a place like this?"
The way he asks— posture relaxed and mask forgotten, eyes crinkled like the whole thing is some big inside joke— it’s like he already knows the answer.
It’s like she does, too.
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- Part 41 of the highlight reel.
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Run This City by abcd_em, MissAmyShay, seekrest, thejourneys, weezly14
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types
23 Jun 2024
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“You can’t ignore the Spider?” Peter reads the headline with confusion. “A menace to health, home and industry? He lurks in sewers— That’s, I don’t…I don’t do that often!” he says defensively, before adding quietly, sheepishly, “not recently, anyway.”
“It’s just a little thing for fun,” MJ says, dabbing away the laughter induced tears from the corner of her eyes.
“Fun? I’m a little…rat man!” he exclaims, shoving the image towards her as if she hasn’t seen it before.
“Now, that’s not true.” MJ tuts, shaking her head. “You’re our little rat man."
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OR: Peter Parker's comprehensive guide to becoming political propaganda.
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the ghost you're dressed up as by thejourneys
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
02 Jun 2024
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"Spider-Man?"
The guy turns, eyes widening in alarm as he takes in Flash's face.
"Sorry?" he says, and it's smooth, but not quite smooth enough.
Flash's heart drops into his stomach.
"Dude," he asks, voice a bit hoarse, "what the hell are you doing here?"
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- Part 2 of retrograde
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“I wish it had been my fucking— my arm,” she murmurs, brain still foggy from the anesthesia and unsure of whether she’s addressing her mother or Art, both of whom have been in and out of her hospital room the whole morning. “They could just fucking— chop it off— and I’d still—“
“Hey,” comes her mom’s voice, so soft it makes Tashi’s chest ache, “let’s focus on something else, okay?”
There is nothing else, she wants to say— nineteen and a mouth full of cotton, nineteen and a has-been before she’d really been anything— nothing else that matters.
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OR: Tashi Duncan, and a now-impossible dream.
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the before. by thejourneys
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games Video Games), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
31 Oct 2023
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“Ma’am, this room is closed-questioning,” the officer apologizes as she attempts to stride past him toward the yelling. It is harsh through the walls, and MJ can hardly focus on what he’s saying until he’s physically stepping in front of her, blocking her path.
“I’m his lawyer,” she snaps— and he’s probably just trying to do his job but she doesn’t care much right now, not when—
She takes a deep breath. “Get out of my way.”
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This Love by thejourneys
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Spider-Man - All Media Types
19 Oct 2023
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Contrary to popular belief, Peter Parker was not Michelle Jones-Watson’s first kiss.
That honor belonged to the girl with the dark, soft hair, and even softer eyes.
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- Part 1 of retrograde