Matt, I'm -- I'm sorry you had to deal with all that. And I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, that I wasn't -- anything like a good friend.
[To say the least. Peter's taken one-two combos to the head that didn't send him reeling like this speech has. First, the knowledge that one of his best friends suffered through that kind of ordeal, that someone attacked his sick wife and desecrated his father just to play mind games -- the mere idea makes his gut churn in sympathy. He remembers when Uncle Ben's body was stolen, the plot used as a hiding place for Aunt May's imprisonment, but this makes Norman Osborn look halfway humane.
Then, to find out that he gave that same friend reason to believe that he would let him die -- a man who's stood by him since he was seventeen, who's had his back at times when it seemed the entire rest of the world was against him -- there's a moment there when Peter's not entirely sure he won't throw up. His voice is tight when he continues.]
What you said, and what Venom said -- you have to know that I'd never --
[He swallows.]
I never thought I'd actually want to be mind controlled. Or swapped with my evil alternate universe twin, or a clone, or anything that person you spoke to who seemed like me... wasn't me. But I don't know that I can just hide away from that responsibility and hope for the best.
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[To say the least. Peter's taken one-two combos to the head that didn't send him reeling like this speech has. First, the knowledge that one of his best friends suffered through that kind of ordeal, that someone attacked his sick wife and desecrated his father just to play mind games -- the mere idea makes his gut churn in sympathy. He remembers when Uncle Ben's body was stolen, the plot used as a hiding place for Aunt May's imprisonment, but this makes Norman Osborn look halfway humane.
Then, to find out that he gave that same friend reason to believe that he would let him die -- a man who's stood by him since he was seventeen, who's had his back at times when it seemed the entire rest of the world was against him -- there's a moment there when Peter's not entirely sure he won't throw up. His voice is tight when he continues.]
What you said, and what Venom said -- you have to know that I'd never --
[He swallows.]
I never thought I'd actually want to be mind controlled. Or swapped with my evil alternate universe twin, or a clone, or anything that person you spoke to who seemed like me... wasn't me. But I don't know that I can just hide away from that responsibility and hope for the best.