Brooklyn, Earth-1610.
━ chap 13. emma knows best !

Jefferson was walking out of the high-school Miles went to, on the phone to Rio who was ranting about the interview that Miles ended up ditching in the end. He rushes down the stairs, talking back to her and exclaims in surprise spotting Red Venom, Miles now as Spider-man, and Spot fallen through his police cop car.

"Hey! Spiders!" He calls in shock, placing his phone away and watched Red Venom fight with Spot, while looking up at him with an awkward smile in greeting.

"Officer Morales!" She laughs nervously, but gets caught off when Spot had her in a choke hold, and clears her throat to talk in a deeper voice, "This is not what it looks like."

The trio inside the car disppeared through one of Spots holes, along with the ATM now sitting ontop of Jeff's broken roofs car, and he runs after the group popping out in random spots in the air.

"My kid goes here, man!" Jeff shouted in alarm, while waving his arm up to the fighting Spider pair, and dodges something that fell from the building.

Red Venom groans annoyed, really sick of this bad guy already as all she wanted to do was go home, and sleep cuddled up to Elvis. She grabs onto Spots arm who tried to jump away, and flings him towards Miles, as he brought them down into another hole.

"I'm on the PTA!" Jeff was yelling out to them, while running in the middle of the road as he tried to watch them fight above him. A car almost runs into him, but he slides over the bonnet easily, "You know how many lemon bars I gotta bake for that?"

The siblings laugh a little amused hearing their father, and got grabbed ahold by Spot once more mid air. He went into a hole, to take them through Miles' school hallways, and through more of the building.

"Who laughs through a fight?" Spot complained with attitude, and just gripped on harder when they tried to push him off.

Red Venom narrowed her eyes down on him, mask following the movement, and shoved his head away from hers, "We did not!"

Miles kicked Spot away from him, and his sisters body mid air, which sent him into another black hole. They appeared out in the open again, just seeing Jeff running still along with them.

"It was inconsiderate and super rude!" Spot continued his judgement, as he tackled the pair onto a moving car on the rood, "...And I little cocky--oof!" He gets cut off when Red Venom now tackled now into a portal behind him, and they went stumbling through a lot more, till Spot ended up on the road.

"Yeah, you got me agreeing with a bad guy right now." Jeff inputted from behind them, the officer finally catching up with the fight, and stood a few meters away.

Red Venom scoffed playfully, and held her suited foot against Spot's wiggling around chest, as Mile was wrestling with his arms and legs, "Bad guy? He's barely a villain of the week!"

"What'd you call me?" Spot questioned in an offended tone, as he tried to shove off the Spider-lings trapping him on the ground, "You realize I'm right here."

Jeff goes to take hold of Spot's leg, and began to pull his body away from the incoming cars to the side, "C'mon, man!"

"Everything-" Miles was interrupted mid sentence, as another portal opened up underneath Spot, and pulled in the Spider duo with poor Jeff now inside as well.

They were dropped out of the hole into a water tank, and the group were being washed around inside in a circle. Red Venom was attached to Spot's back, and kept him trapped in them, "...is under control!" She finished Miles' words.

Once again a hole transported them to a construction site, and a bunch of water fired out of it at a fast rate. The group fell out inside the water as well, and all landed in a heap on the now slippery floor of the work site.

"Of course we'd end up back here." Spot voices in a knowing sigh, looking down at the Alchemax poster underneath his hands, and sent a small glance Red Venom's way.

"You know what? You two are just like my daughter and son!" Jeff exclaims once he stood up from the floor, watching as Miles helped up Red Venom, and he picked up his now drenched police hat.

The siblings share an awkward look to each other a little, and laughed nervously in sync, "We are? I- that's so silly!" Miles stuttered out on their behalf, and changed his voice to a deeper one, "Imagine that."

"Back..where it all.." Spot crushed the poster inside his hands with his power, and charged towards Red Venom. She sensed it coming, acting quickly and pushed Jeff with Miles away from her to avoid the hit, "started!'

Spot dived into her figure, and tackled her to the floor again, as they went rolling towards the edge of the railing, and fell off the ledge in a mess of limbs.

"Red!" Miles yelled out in concern watching this, making sure their father was back behind him before scrambling up to stand, and rushed out to where she was fighting Spot with a web swing.

"The crucible of our connection!" Spot was exclaiming reminders to the hero, who had no idea what he was on about, and tried to escape his strong hold.

She went to send an elbow to his face, but he just dodged and flipped them to go head first into a hole, "Don't try to wow me with big words, man!"

Jeff was standing near the edge of the platform also, and watched her disappear into the black holes with Spot mid air, Miles hot on their tail each time. He was prepping himself to jump into it with deep breaths, but chickened out and took the stairs down instead.

"Is it all coming back to you?" Spot asked Red Venom in the air with him, one hand holding her face and the other grabbing her wrist to stop her hits.

She grunted uncomfortable in the hold, and turned her head the left of them, as she aims a kick at his long legs, "What are you talking about?"

"The creation event!" Spot voices just as they past where the massive hole in the wall was, and roughly tugs her towards him, tone now changing to a lower one, "Your creation event."

She blinks rapidly hearing his, turning away from the mess left from when her and Miles first saved the multi-verse, and stared confusedly at Spot, "What..?"

Before anymore conversation could continue, Miles comes in and knocks Spot off of her, him now dealing with Spot as they disappeared down into a black hole in the air.

Her Spider senses spiked up suddenly, making her turn and gasp seeing Jeff hanging off the edge with one hand. The ladder he was climbing down on ended up breaking because of Spot and Miles, so now he was dangling and about to slip.

As he did go to fall off, Red Venom quickly acted and web thwips at his chest, swinging him towards another lower platform, and gently places him onto it. She breathes in relief seeing him alright, but yelped when Spot and Milles ran into her, which sent them to the floor.

Red Venom growled under her breath at the constant hits, and went to kick her leg into his stomach, flipping him over them, so they could get a break for a second.

"Destiny brought us here!" Spot declares loudly and stood up from the stumble brough to him, as he makes more holes appear around him, "You see now, don't you?"

She shook her head, and scratched the back of her head with a huff, "I-I really don't see it." She admitted, getting into a defense stance seeing Spot grabbing some smaller holes out of his bigger ones.

"I am your nemesis." He announces proudly, while throwing a few black holes at the Spider duo, who just jumped sideways or flipped to avoid them.

"Eh, you're not our Nemesis, bud." She tells him through a weird face, and jumps into the air missing his second round of hits. She infused her webs again with venom, and quickly aimed a bunch at the hole behind Spot.

He turned his head to see where she hit, and outstretched his hands in a shrugging motion, "You missed! Can't contain the Spot-- augh!" He was cut off when she pulled on the web, and out came a bunch of scrap that fell on top of him.

"You really don't remember what you two did to me?" He questioned surprised, and looked up from the ground to them in front, "What I did for you?"

Red Venom fixed up her mask covering her eyes, and shared a glance with Miles who was just as lost, "Uh... no?"

He hummed lowly in understanding, already having a feeling he wouldn't remember, "I worked at Alchemax. I ran a test on this collider that brought a spider here from another dimension." He starts to explain making the girl's anxiety sky rocket for some reason, "Though, I didn't know which one it came from. And then there was you. You remember how bad your childhood was, right?"

Her stomach drops hearing this information, and takes a few steps back in a stumble away from Spot, causing Miles to catch her in his hold, "W-what? How-"

"Oh, I'm sure you do remember it very well, Red Venom." When he said her her name, it came out in a deadly sneer, his rage now spiking up each passing second, "I was the one who made you who you are today. I ran all those experiments, I put you through all that hell to create the perfect abomination! And you repay me by throwing a bagel at me!"

"We've hit a lot of different villains with a lot of different food!" Miles stressed in alarm on behalf of them, keeping his trembling sister behind him as Jeff now joined them below.

"You make your flippy, little sassy jokes," Spot had broken free from the rumble, using his holes to bring him out of it, and onto the solid ground, "and everyone loves them. But no one knows what it feels like..." He pushes himself up to stand up straight, "to be on the other side of them."

Jeff gives the Spider duo an unimpressed stare, already knowing the joke part was true, and no idea what was just said about his daughter before. Miles shrugs his shoulders with a cringe underneath his mask, "I'm just trying to lighten the mood, y'know...?"

"I created you from scratch, Red Venom." Spot uses both hands to motion to her, and then back to him in a more dark tone, "And you created me."

"Red, why did you create this guy?" Jeff asked in a scolding manner, but sounding like he was joking by the calm expression on his face.

She shook her head frantically, and swallowed the lump forming in her throat, "No! I-I didn't." She denied in a stutter, and turns back to Spot, "He's talking nonsense!"

"I was in this collider room when you two blew it up!" He argues back through a exclaim, and imagines of what happen suddenly flash in her mind, causing her to clutch her head in pain, "Because of you, I lost my job, my life... my face! My family won't even look at me!" His words were becoming more distorted, and glitchy along with the spots around him, "I made you into an undefeatable hero! You made me into this! Look at me!"

The metal around him started to float beside him, and the black ink from his spots were glitching, "You did this to me!" His voice was now full on distorted, and went to charge at the trio, who got ready to fight, "Look at me! I'll make you respect me for what I've give you!"

Before he could do any physical damage, an hole opened up in front of him, and he kicked himself into it, "I am your nemesis..!" The words faded away, along with his figure falling into the portal.

Red Venom released a shaky breath at this, gripping her suit where her fast beathing heart was, and leant into Miles' side who kindly supported her against him. She had so many questions now, ones that she never thought she would have about her past, as she left that behind her. Though... if she wanted them... Spot was the only who had answers.

"Well, where did he go?" Jeff asked in shock watching this, eyes wide as he places his hands on his hips, and glanced down into the abyss hole.

"He... kicked his own but." Miles answered with an unsure shrug, and pointed down at the disappearing hole now, one eyebrow raise when Jeff deadpanned at him.

He sighed, and went to turn away from them, "You know we're supposed to catch 'em, the bad guys. Right?" He stated obviously, as he walked up towards the way out.

Miles sent his sister a concern expression, that wasn't seen since his mask was on, but squeezed her forearm seeing as she's been quite ever since Spot's confession, "We always do!" He calls back, and leads Red Venom outside with him, Jeff in front already out of the lower ground, "..usually."

"Gutierrez, get the crane, man!" Jeff shouted the command to the officer on stand by, and hears the male call back in agreement. Jeff pinches the bride of his nose, groaning tiredly, "Ohh, this here is why nobody likes us, man."

"Us...?" Miles repeats surprised, his head popping up from the side of Jeff, who had his back turned to the Spider duo.

Their father runs a hand down on his face, and turns his face a little to them, sunglasses now over his eyes, "I am trying to do right out here."

"I mean.. we're trying too-!"

"And you two need to be better role models." Jeff snap over Miles' words, and now goes to fully face them walking behind.

"We're great role models!" The younger male defends with offence, just as police car fell out one of Spot's holes in the sky, and landed onto the ground, creating even more mess.

Jeff presses the button his walkie-talkie on his shirt, "Hey, Gutierrez. You can cancel the crane." He orders while giving the duo a scolding stare, and walks off to the railing of the site. They hear him mumbling to himself, and kicks a orange traffic cone over.

"Uhh..." Miles began unsurely with a deeper voice again, and shared a nervous glance with Red Venom who had her arms crossed over her chest, "Do you wanna talk about it...?"

"Are you crazy?!" Jeff shouted in bafflement from across the yard, palms leaning against the railing in a comfortable position.

Miles shrugged his shoulders, "Well, men of your generation ignore their mental health too much." He states confidently, causing his sister to wack her forehead and Jeff to chuckle bitterly.

"What am I-- what am I even doing?" Jeff asked himself in a rant, and takes off his police hat conflicted, "'Cuz no matter what I do, someone always thinks I'm blowing it."

Red Venom walks up slowly to her father, and presses her palm against the railing also, "I know the feeling." She admits quietly, smiling to herself sadly, and glanced at Jeff, "So... your kids? How they going? You think he's gonna figure it all out?" She wanted to say herself, but would rather not find out what her adopted father thought of her.

Jeff exhales heavily hearing this, "Honestly?" He starts off, making them voice their agreement to go on, "They're good kids... Y'know, it's scary. They say these things that are so smart," The siblings perked up at this, until they grimace at his next comment, "...and they do these things that are so stupid. I just don't want him to mess it up."

"Maybe get off the kid's ass." Miles muttered in a low voice afterwards, causing Red Venom to elbow him in his side, and it made him wince with hands up in surrender.

"I'm sorry, what?" Jeff spoke incredulously, and snapped his head their way with wide eyes, hands crossed together on the railing.

"What? What- I-I... don't know!" Miles stuttered frantically to cover for himself, and almost slipped from his arm falling off the railing.

Jeff shakes his head at this, and turned his gaze back to the view of Brooklyn, fiddling with his police cap in his hands, "And I hate that they're not being honest with me!"

"Maybe they're scared to talk to you." Red Venom inputted with a nervous smile, and blinked at him rapidly, her masked eyes following the movement.

"Why would anyone be scared to talk to me!?" He shouted through a exclaim, startling the pair who flinched at the yell, and they shared a small grimace at her point being proven, "It's just... you're getting pretty good at being a parent, you think you got it lit. And then they go and grow up." His tone becomes sadder, and a small voice crack follow behind, "I just don't wanna lose him. Y'know? I've already lost my daughter, 'cuz she's all grown up now, and doesn't need me."

Red Venom feels her heart ache for her father, face softening from its tense one, and pursues her lips. She had no idea he felt like this, had no clue that her never being around effects him this much. She never felt so much guilt as she did right now, knowing Jeff was one of few people who saved her from the darkness of trauma, and gave her another shot at life, a better one at that.

"Well... as objective observer with no skin in the game," She began in a thick, deeper voice, clearing her throat to keep her emotions in check, "I say, you gotta let them spread their wings, officer." She moves up to him a little, and speaks on her behalf, but he didn't know that, "And I'm sure your daughter doesn't mean it. She still needs you, trust me."

More then you know... She wanted to add on, but knew it would be to risky, and goes to step back beside Miles, who grabbed her forearm tightly in reassurance.

"We should go.." Miles tells him awkwardly, and points a thumb over his shoulder, pulling his sister with him as they turn around to walk off.

Jeff faces his body to them also, and places his police hat on his head again, "Yeah, and-and catch that holes guy." He somewhat demands, while motioning to the duo.

"Don't worry," Red Venom began in a confident attitude, and smirks a little over her shoulder, "I don't think that guy's gonna show his face again." Yet, despite her saying this, she knew that wasn't true whatsoever.

......

Afterwards the sun was now slowly setting which created a glowing, yellowly hue over Brooklyn's city. Jeff's party celebration about him becoming captain was today, and the siblings were currently rushing around to gather stuff for it. Miles was getting the cake, while (Y/N) was getting the candles along with some silly party hats for their father.

Still in her Spider suit, she dropped down onto a roofs ledge near Emma's shop, that was soon closing for the day. She walked off the edge of the roof, and stuck to the wall, as she walked down it and jumped down into the alleyway fluently.

Pressing the now AI bracelet under her suit, it started to transform back inside it, and out appeared her normal clothes she wore underneath it. Despite what happened today, and the crazy amount of questions she had, she couldn't let that affect her father's celebration. Not when they always did everything for her, and now it was time to return the favor.

Sighing heavily to herself, (Y/N) slipped on the wristband that reminded her of him on her wrist, and walked down the alleyway into the busy streets still. She hated how she would always wear that thing now, but it brought her comfort and kept her grounded knowing who once had it on them.

The familiar doorbell of Emma's shop's rings when she walks through the doors, and doesn't see Ozzy this time outside, which confused her. A few civilians were inside still, and her lips lifted up spotting another child wearing a piece of her Red Venom merch, which was a shirt with her suit design on it.

Keeping her head low from peoples gazes, she shuffled her way through them, and towards the isel where the candles were hopefully store, along with the party hats. Among the shelves, a variety of candles were sat there, but majorly of them were scented ones, and not for cakes.

(Y/N) walks down the aisle a little more, using her enhanced eyesight to spot some candles she needed, and smiled with glee seeing parties one, that were behind some. Of course people hide them like that, she thought to herself with a scowl, and reached to grab two of the packets in her hands.

As she goes to pull back, suddenly out of know where her Spider senses kick in, which caused her to glance around frantically in the shop to spot what was happening. She'd be damned if she let anything happen to Emma, Ozzy, and their shop.

Placing the candles in her pockets pants to pay for later hopefully, she goes to the end of the aisle and comes to a stumbling halt. Her stomach dropped drastically, eyes going wide spotting a male's broad figure with brown hair, who was just passing her with his back turned, in almost slow motion.

No way- she thought with a tremble, and went to reach with her hand to grab his jacket. However, she soon stopped mid way when the male turned, exposing his face and smiled lovingly at his family waiting for him near the exit.

Her heart clenched painfully realising that it wasn't Miguel, and it was someone who resembled, who had a family and everything she wanted with him. She hitting rock bottom big time... she could feel it if she was seeing traces of him in random males.

If she was being honest right now... his disappearance, him not being in her everyday life, and how he's been treating her every since the one sided departure... this all hurt more then her childhood could ever.

"(Y/N)? Are you alright, darling?" Emma's kind, and motherly tone sounded beside her. She reached out her rough, but soft skinned her to the girls face, "Why the tears?"

She made a noise of surprise at this, and placed her fingers up to her cheeks, feeling the wave of tears falling from her eyes, "Oh, these? It's nothing." She assured with a weak chuckle, and quickly wiped away the tears she didn't even know were dropping.

Emma didn't by her excuse, and brushed some of (Y/N)'s messy locks out of her face in comfort, "If something is happening, you can tell me, honey." Emma's eyes land on the candles in her pocket, "You here to shop?"

(Y/N) cleared her throat with a fist up to her mouth, and nodded her head, "Yeah, just these candles and party hats for Dad." She answered, and passed over the object to Emma.

"Yes. I do remember you saying something about that." Emma remarks with a sweet smile, and motions the younger girl to follow, "I have the party hats already for you behind the counter."

The (H/C) haired girl beams hearing this, and returns Emma smile with a grateful one, as she walked up to the counter, "You're too kind, Mrs. K."

Emma makes a playful scoffing noise, and looks at the girl through her glasses more seriously now, "Was it that attractive man who made you cry?" She questioned suspiciously, and placed the party hats with the candles in a bag, "Because if so, I'll glad give him a mouth full, darling."

(Y/N) made a shocked stutter at her choice of words, and her eyes went double their size knowing who exactly Emma was talking about, "N-no! It wasn't, really!" She lies with a nervous laugh, and looks off to the side, voice growing quieter, "He's just... working I guess."

"Well, I'm not to sure what that means," The older lady began in a motherly tone, and handed over the paper bag full of the supplies she wanted, "but that man really did seem like he cared about you, a lot. Which is a good tick in my books."

She felt her chest ache in agony again, and closed her (E/C) eyes for a few seconds to calm her emotions, "Yeah, I thought that as well..." She whispered bitterly, and opened her gaze up as she took the bag from Emma, "Anyways, thank you for this."

"Of course, anything for my favourite customer." Emma warmly smiles at (Y/N), and tried to hide her concern as she didn't want to push the other to talk, guessing someone or rather he had hurt her, "Oh! Also one last thing, dear."

The Spider-ling turned back around at Emma's call, and placed a hand on the doors's henges as she waited for what was going to be said, bag in hand tightly.

"Be careful who you trust, (Y/N). People you know can hurt you the most."

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i know there wasn't any scenes between miguel and her in this chapter... but TRUST ME yall gonna loveee the next one fr.. may or may not be some smutty stuff going on.... MAYBE 😵‍💫😵‍💫

this chapter was just once again about y/n's bond with her family, and someee idea about her backstory with the spot... i think its pretty obvious now but not everything has been shown yet 😏there's still stuff you guys don't know yet EHEHEHE

anywayyyss don't be ghost readers baes, i love reading your comments plsss and thank you for reading mwha imma sleep now its 4am <333

also coughs i'm making a gojo fic for the new season thats just come out so... yeah.. 🏃🏻‍♀️

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