"I don't know if we can be together." Peter choked up saying it. He loved Megan more than anything, but how could they be together when he was facing jail for something he didn't do?

Despite Peter trying to push Megan away, she wasn't having any of it. "Yeah, I'm gonna have to say no to that."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

"Come on, they're probably going to lock me up forever!" He exclaims.

"Don't say that!" She raises her voice. "I can't lose you again."

"There's nothing we can do." He looks down, as if he was ashamed. Well he was ashamed. Everyone knew who he was now and he wished they didn't.

"But there is! We can prove you innocent!" Megan says. She had every hope that there was a way, and she vowed to make Mysterio pay.

"Meg..."

"Peter, I did not go through months of not talking to you just to lose you again." She said sternly. There was no way she was going to let him go now. "Remember what I said? You're the one I choose."

"I wish I could say the same." Peter sighs. He loved her. He really did. But the stars weren't aligned right now.

"I'm gonna fix this, Peter." Megan assures him.

"How?"

"Come on, are you seriously doubting an aspiring lawyer like me?" She rolls her eyes jokingly.

"Should I doubt you?" He questioned.

The officer opened the door out of nowhere, telling them that their visit was over. "Time's up."

"I gotta go. But trust me, I know what to do. I love you." Megan then leaves the room, waving goodbye as she did.

"I love you too." He says, but he said it after she left. Peter wanted to have faith, but he couldn't help but think that he was doomed.

•••

"May, I'm telling you there's something up with that video." Megan said. She was currently in the front seat of May's car, and the whole situation was never getting off her mind.

"It seems pretty realistic to me." May shrugs. Was she doubting her nephew's innocence? She didn't want to believe it because she loved Peter like he was her son, but that video felt way too real to not believe it. "This lawyer Happy called clearly has no faith in Peter and we need everything we can get to prove it's fake."

"Maybe check Peter's room for clues?" She proposes. There had to be something in there, right? "I'm willing to do it."

"Isn't your mom wondering where you are?" May asks her.

"No." Megan replied.

"If you think there's something in his room, then I guess you can check it out." She says.

"Don't you think it's a little weird for me to be in my boyfriend's room alone?" Megan raised eyebrow.

"I walked in on him in his suit before, I think I can handle a little more weird." May laughs, referring to the time she discovered that Peter was Spider-Man.

"Makes sense."

•••

"Can you, like, text your mom and say that you're okay and with me?" May asks as she takes off her jacket. "I don't want her to freak out or anything."

"Yeah, yeah. No problem." Megan replied, kicking off her shoes.

"You're willing to stay for dinner if you'd like." She offered, then quickly got back to the subject of Peter. "Hopefully they'll release Peter tonight."

"Yeah, hopefully." She frowns. "I'm gonna check out his room, alright?"

"Don't steal anything!" May yells out. What would she even steal?

"I won't!"

Megan enters Peter's room, and then thinks to call Michelle for assistance. "Yo."

"Yo." Michelle answers almost immediately, mainly because she was curious to know how Megan was feeling and if she could do anything to help.

"Can you do some research for me?" Megan asks. "Like, specifically on Quentin Beck. We've got some Scooby Doo shit on our hands."

"Wannabe Velma is on the case, Daphne." She responds, opening up her laptop while doing so.

"Are we like the mystery gang now?" Megan questioned. Who would be Shaggy and the rest of the gang?

"We became the mystery gang the moment you brought up Scooby Doo." Michelle chuckled.

"I mean, it's pretty iconic." She laughed a little. "But look, I gotta go. I'm doing some searching."

"Are you in Peter's room?" Michelle asked.

"Maybe." Megan said slyly.

"You're a little whipped, aren't you?"

"And that's my queue to leave! Bye!" She quickly hangs up, then goes to start searching.

Megan rummages through Peter's room in hope to find something important. For example, the E.D.I.T.H. glasses. There had to be something on them, right? She knew that Tony Stark had to put all sorts of technology into it, hopefully technology that could prove Peter's innocent.

After a bit more searching, Megan notices what looked like two black bracelets. She was tempted, so she put them on, then instantly regretted it. The "bracelets" wrapped around her wrists to fit her, and she absolutely had no idea what just happened.

"What the hell is this?" Megan asks herself. She see's a big, white button right in the middle and decides to press it. It shoots out web fluid, surprising her. "Ew, ew, ew-"

Megan rushes to the wall where all the web fluid landed on, and she looked at it in disgust. For some reason she goes to touch it to see what it felt like, and fake gagged at the feel of it. "Oh god, what is that?"

"Meg? Do you eat- oh." May walks into the room, then noticed the mess Megan made.

"I'm so sorry-"

"It'll dissolve in a couple hours." She shrugs it off. Clearly she was way too used to this. "Anyway, I'm making spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Are you vegetarian or anything?"

"I'm a vegetarian, yeah." Megan answered.

"Okay, so no meatballs. Got it." May then leaves the room, leaving Megan to her devices.

After taking a dinner break and looking around more, Megan eventually found what she wanted, and she almost jumped for joy when she did. "Finally!"

She looks at the glasses, curious to know how something so small could do so little. This possessed Megan to put them on, but nothing happened.

"Pft, lame." She threw the glasses on his desk, not giving them another moment of her time. Now she was a bit mad that she wasted her time looking for them just so they could do nothing.

But her bit of anger didn't last long, since she got some good news. "Meg! Peter's being released! I'm going to pick him up now! Wanna come with?"

May was clearly excited to have Peter coming back, but Megan was not. She didn't think Peter would want to see her, especially since he was beginning to push her away. "I think my mom wants me home, but I'll stop by tomorrow."

"Okay. I'll lock the door behind you." After that Megan left, then May got in her car and quickly made her way to the station.

Megan noticed that she still had the web shooters on, and wondered if she could get to the rooftop on her own.

"I just gotta, like, press the button and see what happens, right?" She asked herself. Megan didn't have super strength or the ability to stick to walls, but she had the guts to attempt to do what Peter does.

Megan pressed the button, aiming for the top of the apartment building. The string of web sticks to the top, and pulls her up without warning. "Oh god!"

Now she was hanging by the web, grasping onto it for dear life, literally. "I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die."

She hung there for what felt like hours, but she was there long enough for Peter to come back. May walks in the apartment building, not noticing Megan at all, but Peter was able to spot her thanks to his "Peter tingle."

"Uh, a little help here!" Megan yells out.

Peter says nothing, and enters his apartment building, leaving Megan there to hang by a thread. "Peter! Come on!"

A couple minutes later, Peter opens his window and begins crawling on the side of the building. "How did you get up here?"

"I, uh, stole your web shooting thingy." She says.

"I see." He laughs.

"So, you gonna help or what?" Megan asks with a huge amount of desperation to get out of this situation. "I hate to feel like a damsel in distress, you know."

"Right." Peter climbs to the top of the building, grabs the web that Megan shot, and pulls her up quickly thanks to his strength. "By the way, I don't think you're a damsel in distress."

"I sure know how to get into a damsel in distress situation though." She jokes, taking off the web shooters. "I'm never using these again."

"Well..."

"Well?"

"You stealing my web shooters and attempting to use them is all on you." He shrugs.

"Whatever." Megan rolls her eyes. "So, they let you go, like, permanently?"

"Only temporarily. I have to have this ankle bracelet on until the trial." Peter pulls up his pant leg to show her the black device wrapped around his ankle. "You know, to track me."

"And when is the trial?" She asks.

"This Friday." He replied. "They're even broadcasting it."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"We can't be together, huh?" Megan questioned him, looking at him with all the sadness in the world. She went through hell without him, and she didn't want to go through it again.

"Meg-"

"Don't you want a life with me?" She asked, which only made Peter feel worse than he already did.

"I do." Peter whispered. "But I can't just make you wait for me if they send me to jail."

"I would wait for you, ya know?" Megan had waited enough, but she was willing to wait a little longer if it meant he would be hers.

"I know you would," He looked down. "but you deserve better."

"But your love's too good to lose." She whispered, holding back tears. To this day she hated feeling this way, but emotions simply couldn't be controlled.

"Yours too." Peter whispered back.

"Hold me tighter." Megan sobs and goes to hug Peter, clinging onto him. He hugs her back, pulling her close. "Even closer."

"I'm staying no matter what you say." She sniffled.

"I know." He said quietly.

"We're gonna get through this, okay?"

"Okay."

The little emotional moment ended with Megan making a joke out of it. "Jeez, what is this, The Fault in Our Stars?"

Peter bursts into laughter, and the two let go since they were both laughing too much. "Of course not."

"Good, cause I hate being all sappy and shit." She giggled.

"I know you do."

"Oh, hush."

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