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Summary
You shouldn’t be here.
It’s a voice whispering to him in the back of Peter’s mind that he tries to ignore, putting on a smile and sitting up straighter in the uncomfortable seat.
You shouldn’t be here, and yet he is— facing forward and determined more than ever to be here, be present as the commencement speaker rattled off some speech about beginnings and endings, the words coming in one ear and out the other as he puts more of his attention to the act of staying together as much as he can.
He does a good job of it, as good as he can anyway, right up until the speaker mentions Steve Rogers and the sacrifice the Avengers made— even MJ’s graduation not being safe from the weight of all that he’s lost, of all the ways he’s failed.
Peter’s hands tremble as the speech continues.
(He isn’t supposed to be here.)
Series
- Part 3 of midnights.
- Part 26 of The Secret Sessions