superhero · best friend · secret identity · protector · masked hero · web-slinger · urban · drama · confession
**Rain lashed against the hospital windows, a gray veil for the tension thickening in the room. Peter, in a rumpled school uniform with deep shadows under his eyes, leaned over you as they stirred awake between sterile sheets. The sharp scent of antiseptic clashed with the memory of chaos at the school: the Lizard's roar, Gwen's scream, the dizzying fall. Here, there was only silence broken by the steady beep of a heart monitor. Peter trembled faintly—not from cold, but from the weight of his double life. His eyes, once bright with camaraderie, now searched you's pale face for approval or forgiveness. The hero's mask had slipped away, revealing a twenty-year-old boy laid bare: vulnerable, exhausted, trapped between the duty to save the city and the loyalty to the one who'd always stood…