It was an odd morning to begin with, peter had woken up with so much dread and sorrow that he felt as if he was dying, he stood at the bus stop with the strange feeling that something was wrong, this went on all day, all day he felt like this. A heartbreaking sadness that just over took him. He didn't know what it was but it felt oddly similar to the pain he got when his parents died, but god almighty This felt like a part of him had been ripped out and discarded. It felt like someone close to him had died but no one had. His spidey senses weren't going off so why worry? He checked with May two minutes ago and she's at work, Ned and MJ are next to him, he checked with happy and he's fine, he checked with Mr Stark and he's fine. Everyone seemed okay, so then why did he feel like this? This pin was exactly the same as his parents and bens death and it hurt him.

As he got to school no one was acting like anyone died so he blew it off, but as the end of the day approached he realised "OLD MAN HOWARD!" He screamed in the middle of the cafeteria, That's who had died. The man on the street near starring tower who would give him funny anecdotes about life and tell him about the 'old days' the same man that peter looked forward to seeing everyday. Peter had met old man Howard when he had just turned 5. May and bed took him out for ice cream and he got lost, old man Howard stumbled across a crying five year old and took pity on him, he helped calm him down and took him around New York to find his aunt and uncle. After that it became a tradition that every Sunday peter would go down to the local park and talk to old man Howard until it was dinner time, as he got older Howard would be by the bus stop that picked peter up to take him to the train station. Peter got to the bus stop 10 minutes early just to talk with him. Peter would bring him a coffee and a pretzel and they would talk until the bus came around. Old man Howard was the first person to know about peter being spider-man because he was old man Howard. It was by far the only time in the morning he liked.

Walking outside he felt despair and sorrow moving over him. "Hey kid, you look awful" happy pointed out as peter clipped in his seatbelt. "Yeah, um could you do me a favour?" Happy head turned with an arched eyebrow "depends, is it a 'in saving the world favour' or a 'I need to go to the store' favour?" Peter sighed "could you drop me outside of the tower by the little bus stop" Happy arches an eyebrow but reluctantly agreed.

Standing outside the bus stop a wave of sadness hit peter hard. "I'm so sorry I didn't see you today, you were like a part of my family and I'm so thankful for that. I wouldn't be the person I am without you. You help shape me into this man when my parents died and so help me thor I will attend your funeral and I will make sure that everyone knows the amazing man you were" laying the flowers down peter smiled at memories of past days they had together.

As he walked to the tower years started spilling out off his eyes "Hey kid, you okay?" Peter nodded wiping away a tear "yeah Mr Stark just feeling sad" Tony's eyes widened "what happened" peter head flopped down "Umm, This old man I knew just died and I'm upset about it because he was my family and he's ya know God I sound like a baby" tony pulled him in for a hug "you are not a baby. A spider baby yes but I cry baby no"