CHAPTER SEVEN
↳ my mj

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As much as Maia was grateful she had this mini reunion with her six feet under brother who interpreted her as his six feet under sister, she also missed her world. She wondered just how much time had passed since she had arrived here. MJ would definitely have her six feet under for being late to their coffee date, although Maia hoped that her multidimensional excuse would be a bit forgivable.

She missed home. She missed her Aunt May, her MJ, her New York. She missed seeing little kids in the streets and finger gunning them as she webbed through the streets as Spiderman. She missed spending cold evenings down the Record Shop she had began working at. She missed being her world's Spider-man.

Maia always wondered how on earth her love life worked. She kissed MJ two years ago, confessing everything and they did hit off quite well. They were both rather private to the world about their relationship. It was hard being queer, lesbian in Maia's case, in a world not made for them. Sure, their families were more than accepting, but that didn't mean they had it easy. Maia didn't suffer, but she knew MJ did. MJ was MJ and Maia would always love her for that, but sometimes MJ wondered if being with a man would 'fix' her. She'd drown in the internalised homophobia, wishing for her sexuality to be changed. Now, though, MJ was glad she was in love with a girl. The softness, the tenderness, MJ knew that Maia had ruined her for any man.

MJ was Maia's soulmate.

Maia huffed out exasperatedly, helping Peter with the cure he was mainly creating. Most the time she was just passing him equipment, giving him thumbs up as if to say he was doing a great job. Amy was scurrying around the lab, purring around Peter 1's feet, though he looked disturbed at her, scooting her away while sighing. Maia was watching Amy contently when she saw Peter 1 and his MJ being uncomfortably cute. Too cute. Maia looked at Peter 3 to make a gag at him though, from the way he looked heartbroken seeing this world's MJ and Peter exchange their love, Maia knew he wasn't as alright as he wanted her to believe and she decided against making a joke so soon.

It seemed as though Youth Pastor Peter saw it as well in the way Peter 3 looked at this world's Spider-couple.

"You had someone?"

Peter turned to him and shook his head. "No." Maia could tell he wanted to scream so badly about how much he adored Gwen Stacy, but she wasn't his anymore. He didn't have anyone. He didn't have a girl or guy waiting back home for him, waiting to see him well. He just had himself. Maia felt almost guilty that she had someone. Peter 3 huffed. "I've got no time, Peter Parker stuff, y'know?" The other Peter gave a hum of understanding. Maia wondered if he actually got what he meant. "Do you?"

"Well, it's a little... complicated."

"No, I understand."

Maia intervened. "I don't." She eyed both of them. She was going to question it, but the regret began when she realised she'd have to listen to some extremely boring talk about middle age romance issues. She put both her palms in the air in surrender, eyes switching from one Peter to the other. "I don't even wanna understand."

The Youth-Pastor Peter Parker gave her a glance and decided to not question anything. This Maia was definitely strange. He decided to try and include her in the conversation. "You got anyone? A boyfriend?"

Maia pursed her lips in an effort to not laugh and Peter 3 saw this and nearly started laughing himself. The amount of times she had been asked if she had found a nice man was exceptionally high for someone her age. Last month she had some elderly lady say how she looks so pretty that a man must be lucky to have her. Maia didn't hesitate in saying 'yeah my girlfriend's really lucky'. She could've said worse, definitely.

In fact she has.

With a grin, Maia answered Peter 2, "No, girlfriend actually."

"Oh."

"Oh?" Maia squinted at him.

Her head tilted to the side as her eyes squinted down at him. Was he homophobic?

It seemed as though Peter 2 was not, in fact, homophobic. "I-I mean, 'oh that's great'!" He gave her a thumbs up. "What's she like?"

"Stubborn." Maia said immediately, it being the first word that came to mind when she thought about MJ. "Also passively violent."

"She sounds delightful." Peter 3 sarcastically commented, tilting his head to the side with a nose scrunch. "How you two working it all out?"

Maia shrugged. "Communication, I guess. I don't really think about it much on how we still are together because me being 'Spider-man' shouldn't stop me from feeling things I deserve to feel." Maia smiled to herself. "She wants to go on Broadway, that's her dream and I've always loved the idea of being the supportive girlfriend in the audience."

"That sounds nice."

Maia hummed, "it is." She brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. "She's just... amazing. I really love her. She's so pretty and stubborn and everything I love and more. She's got this hair that is so pretty and her smile is so nice and her cheeks are so puffy! I just wanna smoosh them up!" Maia blushed slightly. It felt weird how she finally got to let her brother know her feelings for the girl she dreamt of showing him. "You really shouldn't give up on the idea of being in love and finding someone, just because we Parkers are magnets for trouble doesn't mean we can't also be magnets for love. We just got to be able to communicate whenever necessary. Me and Maggie, we make it work and that's what matters."

"Well said." Youth Pastor Peter agreed and Maia grinned at him. For once he wasn't acting ish with her. Maia wondered if he was possessed or something, or maybe just hated kids. He seemed like the type to just not want to be around children for the sake of his distaste for him.

"Peter!?"

All the Peters looked up immediately, answering in perfect unison, "yeah?" They all realised that Ned could have meant the other and apologised, once again, in perfect unison. It was sort of freaky and Maia's eyes darted at each of them with concern. This multiversal chaos was chaotic and, you know what, Maia was living for it. She couldn't wait to tell her MJ all of this later, if she survived being late for lunch.

Thinking more, the whole set up of the variants of Peter Parker pointing at each other seemed like a perfect meme. Maia grinned, wishing her phone worked so she could perfectly captivate this moment.

"Peter, Peter?"

"We're all called Peter, man."

"Peter Parker?"

"Same thing."

"We're all Peter Parker."

This world's Peter, Peter 1, dropped his arms in exhaustion, looking at his best friend with a face of disappointment.

Ned huffed, pointing at the computer. "The computer."

This world's Peter Parker rushed to the computer. "Okay, I'm ready."

"Yep, me too, Maia was no help."

Maia's mouth opened in protest as she gasped at him. "I was brilliant!" She reached down to the ground and picked Amy put, kissing her forehead. "Wasn't I, Amy?" The cat meowed.

"I still don't get why you have a cat."

"She has emotional attachment issues."

"Attachment issues." Maia looked at Peter 3. "That's the most complimenting thing I've heard all day."

"That you have attachment issues?"

"My therapist has said worse."

"Maia, shut up." Peter 3  decided on going back on topic again. "Okay, so the plan is we lure these guys somewhere so we can cure them while they kill us and then send them home?"

"Using a magic box."

Peter 1 gave a short grin. "Well, that's the plan."

Peter 3 turned to Peter 2 and asked, "so are you going to go into battle dressed as a cool Youth Pastor or have you got your suit?"

Maia grinned, "finally! I knew I wasn't the only one thinking he looked like some Youth Pastor!"

"You know you are really testing the theory of my life being better with you being alive in an alternate universe?"

"You know you are really testing the theory I have on why Youth Pastors cannot be cool?"

Peter 2 huffed and Maia grinned at him. He turned his attention onto Peter 3 and revealed the suit he was wearing underneath with a thin smile.

"Cool."

Maia had a criteria on how she viewed this Youth Pastor man.
1. Definitely the weird dad.
2. She also realised he one upped them with having web fluid come out of him, which freaked Maia out because you could easily misinterpret that stuff as something else coming out of him. In conclusion, she was disturbed.

And in other news, they were deciding on how they were exactly going to accomplish this and apparently the portal things Maia had came through were weirdly magical and came from Ned, which seemed bizarre and cool and everything like some disney movie.

"Dude, I got Doctor Strange magic!"

"No way."

"Doctor who?" Maia looked at Peter 3 who simply shook his head at her.

Ned grinned at his friend. "And I promise I won't turn into some villain and try and kill you."

Peter 2 looked like he was contemplating dark things, watching as Peter 3 patted Ned on the back and Maia gave him a thumbs up.

"Okay?" Peter glanced around nervously. "Thank you?"

Ned simply smiled and Maia decided she definitely was going to miss him when they used the magic box to go home. He seemed so sweet and huggable and definitely would say she helped even if she didn't (ahem Peter 3 ahem).

"Alright, lets go," Peter looked at his MJ. "What's that thing you say? 'Expect disappointment-"

MJ cut him off, "no, no." she shook her head at him. "We're gonna kick some ass."

"Okay." Peter 1 was definitely wrapped around this girl's fingers, Maia had decided.

"Cure." Peter 2 corrected, trying to option his holiness. "Cure some ass."

"Cure that ass." Ned nodded at them, grinning to himself and feeling proud.

"If this doesn't work and my baby Amy gets hurt I swear to god, I will kick all of your asses and get the bug repellent."

"Maia— please calm down-"

"Absolutely not!"

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MAIA AND PETER 2 BROTP IS A NECESSARY CONCEPT BECAUSE THEY'D AGGRESSIVELY BULLY EACH OTHER

if maia was alive in his world then the world would be deceased at their power.

that is the only reason she died (and he died) lol

meanwhile, peter 3 is being a sap and trying to control his uncontrollable sister variant.

spoilers !! he can't control her !!

meanwhile peter 1 insulting amy for existing.

yes noah i did that for u

UPDATE FROM 2023??????????
damn- sorry updates have been so bad

im rlly hyperfixating on thg rn ok my friends already hate me for my rants about it 
so

oopsies?????

but anyways? YA GIRL IS SEEING TAYLOR IN 2024???????? I GOT WEMBLEY TICKETS BITCHES

23RD JUNE <333