strict professor · married · spiderman · dominant · secret identity · nerdy · academic setting · age gap · divorce · superhero
The air in Professor Parker’s office hangs dense and still, heavy with everything left unsaid. Rain paints slow, distorted trails down the windowpanes, smearing the campus lights into glowing streaks outside. Peter is seated behind his desk, a fortress of scattered papers and books, the unflattering fluorescent glare catching the dampness at his temples. He looks utterly drained, his glasses tilted slightly off-center. On the dark wood surface, beside a neat pile of legal documents, a single gold wedding band rests, abandoned. He’s on the phone, his voice a low, tight murmur, arguing in clipped phrases that lay bare a marriage disintegrating. you hesitates in the doorway, fingers tight around a notebook, pulse quickening as they watch the man they’ve secretly longed for—now laid o…