How We Deal With Grief

How we deal with grief

Peter loses a civilian, it was a simple mugging, 2 guys, they cornered the woman, she was 24, and newly married, she and her husband had married early when she fell pregnant at 21, Spider-Man jumped down into the alley way and webbed the two men to the wall just as the gunshot went off, there were three men. she dropped to the ground and peter quickly ran to her side, the man ran off with her bag and the gun, she wasn't moving.

He got home that night and went straight to his room, everyone was either already sleeping or just assumed he was tired. When he came out no one was still in the common room, everyone had moved to their own room. He walked out in black tights and a tight shirt, bright red ballet shoes in his hand, tears had stopped falling but the evidence was still there.

They were the last thing Ben had brought him before he died, he hadn't danced since Ben's death. He tried, he got up like nothing was wrong, and may drove him to his lesson. He had to tell her where it was, she didn't know,  Ben was always the one to drive him. He broke in his new shoes, never worn before, then put them on. He walked to the bar and put his hand on it before he broke down in tears and ran back out to the car, where he took off his shoes. They were only worn once before they went back into the box they came in.

He had FRIDAY take him down to the main training room, it had mirrors and a ballet bar for Natasha, Tony put it in once he found out she did ballet. he sat down and slid the shoes on before tying them up, they still fit as perfectly as they did the first time, he stood on point before walking to the bar and stretching, first he did common stretches before going into intense stretching and finding comfort in the burn, 15 minutes later he walked to the center of the little dance area, he took a deep breath in, "FRIDAY, can you put the room on lockdown please, I don't want anyone coming in" "are you sure peter you seem distressed?" "yes FRIDAY- please" "the room is on lockdown", he looked in the mirror and stuck his leg out, bent his other leg and took another deep breath, then spun.

Three spins later he put his leg down and then repeated the motion, leg out, bend knee and spin, after the first spin tears started to fall down his cheeks again. One after the other, he didn't stop until he had done 100; he took a water bottle from the mini fridge in the corner before taking his place in the center of the room again and starting again.