Swallowing The Spider

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So Peter came by and I pretty much got pushed to the wayside, he took my place and started helping the paramedics take Ben into the ambulance while I took the opportunity to sink back into the crowd. I listened to their conversation though, spider powers for the win but it wasn't much of a conversation since Ben was pretty much out of it and it was pretty much just Peter crying and saying 'Uncle Ben'. It started like this though.

With my enhanced senses I could pretty much tell when Peter first arrived on the scene and I started to pay attention to his actions, he first approached here when he saw the ambulance and started to get curious. "You gotta get back." A police officer said to him as Ben didn't need even more people crowding him and tried to get Peter to move on.

Peter refuses to leave though and tries to get more answers, I guess he's got a gut feeling that something bad happened in relation to him. "I can't see, what happened?" He asks but the police officer just gives him a stone face making it clear that they didn't need more layabouts crowding the injured man.

Fortunately one of the people in the crowd heard his question and took it upon themselves to inform Peter. "Old dude, man.." He says as if that explains the entire situation but it was clear from his words that an old man is involved in something that drew the crowd and most likely needs medical attention and an ambulance.

It's at this point that the police officers that are trying to stop the people crowding Ben start to try to disperse the crowd as the paramedics and me have already put Ben on the stretcher and are ready to move him to the inside of the ambulance. "Come on, folks. Keep moving, please." The police officers on the scene tell the crowd and it works as some of them are backing up and a few are leaving, except Peter is still standing there and he is blocking the other people from moving and slowing the process down.

A police officer takes notice of this and walks towards Peter to try to get him to move and leave the area. "Keep moving. Let's go!" The police officer tells him and motions Peter to leave but Peter is still standing there and refusing to move, Peters clever and he probably already has a bad inkling and has already put it together quite quickly in his mind but is trying to convince himself that it isn't true.

Peter decides to question the police officer in a last bid to deny the theory that he has thought up in his mind. "What happened?" He questions but I can sense the dread in his voice, as if he already knows the answer but is just hoping to God that it isn't even remotely true.

The police officer clearly wants Peter to move so he tells him some of the details or rather a singular detail just to get him to move on. "Someone got hurt." The police officer says and Peter can no longer deny the truth that he dreads, he knew that his Uncle would be waiting for him here and then his face hardens into resolve and he makes a decision.

He bursts past the police officer and clearly the officer didn't expect it and he doesn't mange to catch him in time. "Excuse me." Peter blurts out as he went past the police officer and proceeded to barge through the rest of the crowd trying to get to the paramedics in the middle. "Excuse me." Peter continues to blurt out as he barges past person after person but his barging finally comes to an end. "Excuse me." But this time they don't excuse him, two of the cops right before the paramedics manage to get their hands on Peter and try to hold him back from getting to his Uncle Ben.

The police officers are struggling to keep Peter back with his enhanced strength and Peter clearly doesn't want to hurt them so he doesn't use all his strength. "Stay back." The police officers say but it clearly doesn't work as Peter tries a bit more of his strength and the police officers start to sweat at the strain of keeping him back. "Stay back!" They shout this time as the struggle to contain Peter becomes that much harder, they will probably think it was adrenaline after this incident is over and not think much of it as the boy's Uncle had been shot.

Peter manages to see past the two police officers and catches a glimpse of His Uncle Ben as me and the paramedics are lifting up the stretcher, realising that he won't be able to get through with his current method he tries another way. "That's my uncle!" He shouts in a bid to get the police officers to let him go and let him go they do, the strain was obviously becoming too much for them and the words Peters shouted were all the excuse they needed to let him go and stop holding back the surprisingly strong teen.

Peter makes his way over to the stretcher and he spots me, he is clearly confused as to why I'm here but decides that it's not important and quickly asks me a question. "W- What happened?" He says to me and I don't want to get too into the conversation so I give him a short answer. "Carjacker. He's been shot." I say to him as I don't want to say too much, I don't want the Spider Man to not exist so I have to minimise my contact from here on. Every Marvel Universe needs a Spider Man, Peter needs to fulfill his destiny, he needs to complete his origin story and I am an unknown variable, I have already changed too much as it is.

The paramedics understand that Peter must be related to the victim and start to talk to him as they carry Ben to the back of the ambulance. "We are taking Ben here to the closest hospital which is the 'New York-Presbyterian Hospital' and it is close by so we should get him there In time to get him through to the ER(emergency room)." They tell Peter trying to reassure him and keep him calm.

Peter moves closer to his uncle and starts to try to talk to him, I take the opportunity to relinquish my place next to Ben to Peter and slink off to the side into the crowd. "Uncle Ben?" He questions and Ben opens his eyes but Ben is looking straight up into the sky and doesn't see Peter. "Uncle Ben." Peter says and this time Bens eyes move toward Peter and sees him, there is obviously recognition in his eyes but he doesn't manage to say anything but not for lack of trying. "Uncle Ben?" Peter questions again with some fear in his voice and this time Ben manages a response.

Peter is glad that his Uncle is responding and it adds a little hope to his heart. "Peter." Ben manages to hoarsely rasp out and it means the world to Peter that he does. "I'm here, Uncle Ben." Peter says firmly with some tears leaking from his eyes as he does so, Ben then lifts his hand and tremblingly puts it on the side of Peter's face c.a.r.e.s.sing it gently. "Peter." He repeats and that is the exact moment that the paramedics start to load Ben into the back of the ambulance making his hand lose contact with Peter's face.

The paramedics have loaded him in and then look at him questioningly, silently asking if Peter is going to come with his Uncle by keeping the door open for him and Peter is just about to enter when something stops him. "They got the shooter... He's headed south on Fifth... We got cars in pursuit." A police officers radio informs him and I hear it with my enhanced senses and I can only assume that Peter hears it too with his own enhanced senses on account of him stopping his action to get into the back of the ambulance.

Peter quickly takes a second to think over his options before he goes to reply to the paramedics. "I'm going to get my aunt first and then we'll go to the hospital." He informs the paramedics before he wh.i.p.s himself around and sprints down the street breaking through the crowd and then quickly turning into an alley and I can't help but notice the backpack on his back with some red and blue fabric sticking out of where it wasn't properly zipped. I then watch the ambulance shoot off down the opposite end of the road, no doubt trying to get Ben to the hospital as quickly as possible.

Sigh.. I guess the origin story is going to happen.. It's his destiny...

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