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y/n’s pov
I wave at nat walking back to her apartment from the elevator after our workout with Steve and start towards my apartment for lunch with Peter.
Third person pov
The silent alarm goes off in the lab as the lights go dark and there are small warning lights flashing and the doors lock. Tony and Bruce look up from their work and make eye contact silently wondering whats going on.
Tony attempts to log onto the but all the screens are completely dark. Jarvis speaks up from his watch, filling the silence in the room informing Tony and Bruce “ Sir, there is a chemical weapon on the south side of the building that has been released through the vents.”
Tony gets up starting to walk towards the glass doors looking out into the complex and starts giving commands to Jarvis.
“Analyze the substance and let me know as soon as you can what it is implement a tower wide shut down and quarantine on the affected floors”
“The only floors affected by the weapon sir, are the upper resident apartments”
Tony and Bruce share a look “So whoever this is knew, what is this Tony” Bruce says as he starts walking towards him.
“Jarvis you got an answer for me yet” Tony asked. Jarvis replied stating “It is a gaseous agent called crimson-k which causes extreme agitation and aggression towards others unprovoked and against that person’s true intentions, it has most recently been used in a Hydra attack outside of Budapest.”
Tony pinches the bridge of his nose and Bruce starts to pace towards the opposite side of the lab. “Who’s infected already Jarvis?” asked Tony.
Jarvis responded “Mr. Rogers, Ms. Belova, Ms. Bishop, and Mr. Parker sir. Data found has stated there is currently no cure and the only way of stopping the agent is by rendering the person unconscious”
The silence in the room is nauseating to the two of them, Bruce looks up at the apartment floors through the glass wall massaging his temples.
Bruce turns to Tony in a silent conversation. Tony starts for the door “ Jarvis activate the coms speakers through the resident floors and connect it so I can talk to them.”
y/n’s pov
As I’m walking across the glass walkway into the apartment it smells kinda smoky, I wrinkle my nose and joking ask Peter “hey did burn our lunch again?” laughing softly I drop my workout bag and I turn to face Peter.
As I look at him, he just stares at me with a blank face, and I start to get a little worried cause I notice tears are streaming down his face. I start to step close and ask “Hey Pete whats wrong?”
As I got to reach my hand out he pushes it away, I try not to show my offense cause this isn’t like Peter at all and I walk more towards him, but now he suddenly shoves me backwards by my shoulders.
Completely taken aback “Peter what the hell is your problem, what going on?” I asked appalled by Peter’s behavior. I go to speak but this time I’m cutoff by Tony’s voice over the loud speaker.
“Hey y/n is Peter there?” he asks.
“Uh.. yeah.. Why?” I ask looking from the ceiling to my boyfriend who is glaring at me from where he standing but still has tears in his eyes looking almost confused.
“y/n, do me a favor and go to you room and lock the door I’m gonna come downstairs in five minutes, but Peter’s infected”
“What are you talking about? What going on Tony?” I look at Peter as he takes a small step forward and I take one step back utterly confused and now very, very worried”
“Listen Ace, all you’ve gotta know right now is that Peter is infected and we working on a cure but for right now, he could be really aggressive and violent and-”
“Is it contagious” I ask looking at Peter.
There's a beat before Tony responds “No.. but y/n”
“Ok, so what can I do, how can I help Tony” I ask now, determined to help because the more I stand staring at Peter the more he looks in pain staring right back at me.
“y/n the only way Peter will stop fighting and acting this way is if he’s unconscious, but I can’t ask you to do that its Peter, I’m not gonna risk him hurting you kid”
As Tony continues I get an idea, I look at the control pad for the apartment and it's dark but I look down and see the watch Tony got me for my birthday with my own version of Jarvis.
“Ace?” Tony calls out after not hearing a response.
I slip the watch onto my wrist and look up “I’ll deal with it Tony, I’m ok.”
“y/n no, you don’t have to do this” Tony pleads through the speaker. As Tony keeps speaking I chose to ignore him and turn on my watch.
I make eye contact with Peter as I say “SPAID override communications systems to the floor and initiate an apartment wide lockdown until my signal with override code 991”
After hearing the last of Tony shouting, the apartment goes silent and the doors lock as me and Peter continue stare at each other for another few seconds.
We’ve trained together a hundred times before, I think, trying to hype myself starting to walk towards Peter. My one goal I think as I approach him is to not have to use my powers and actually hurt him.
I use our training to my advantage and as we start to fight I get a couple of good shots in sending Peter backwards, but mostly unharmed and still agitated. I start to walk forward but Peter grabs runs towards the kitchen counter and grabs a knife. As I hesitate he throws it at me, thankful that he hasn’t trained that skill with Nat yet, so I’m able to easily dodge to try and get closer to him.
He plants himself between the counter and the stove throwing everything within hands reach and as soon as I get to him. I push him slightly backwards and before he can react I grab his wrist and whisper “I’m sorry” as we both stare at each other with tear eyes and I throw him into our wooden coffee table, but not before he cuts me in the arm with the small blade he’s holding.
As he crashes into the table, I take a deep breath and put my head in my hands assuming that he’s knocked out. I feel relieved as I start to bandage the cut on my arm, but look up when I hear something.
Not only do I see movement as Peter starts to shift from under the pieces of wood, but I hear a small beep telling my the systems are back online and the doors are being unlocked even though I never gave SPAID the signal.
“Shit, come on Tony” I mutter as I look and silently make my way towards the control pad by the doors to do a manual override. As I’m finishing the override and I can start to hear Peter get up, I’m hurrying to finish and as soon as I turn around I just barely dodge Peter’s fist that ends up going straight into the wall next to my head.
We make eye contact and Peter stares at me with tear stained cheeks , but quickly recovering from my trance I back away and try to figure how to knock Peter unconscious.
However, lost in my train of thought Peter has caught up to me and this time, the training doesn’t help. Even though Peter doesn’t have his webs with him, he over powers me and ends up shoving me backwards towards the couches.
I try to get my bearings as we start to trade blows again and just as I’m able to punch him in the jaw as hard as I can using the smallest amount of electricity in my hand as possible. His face hardens and before I can react he kicks me in the stomach and I go flying backwards through the glass doors, landing on the bridge between the conference rooms and apartments. I blink wiping the glass off of me and flinch when I notice my eyebrow is bleeding pretty badly and my leg’s been cut where I broke though the doors.
I stand up shakily and wipe the rest of the glass on shaking my hands slightly preparing for what I have to do. I look back to where Peter was standing and I come to the realization that the entire time he’s been fighting himself too. Despite the blank expression on his face, his hands are balled into fists so tightly that there is blood dripping from where his nails are digging into his palms and just like the entire time we’ve been fighting, there are tears streaming down his face as he’s looking at me.
Knowing that it will take Tony another 5-10 minutes to get to the doors I just broke through, I finally know what I have to do and start walking towards Peter.
Feeling the tears and blooding dripping down my face, I walk slowly towards Peter. I look at him and say “ I love you peter parker and when you wake up remember this wasn't your fault”.
Taking him by surprise I start running towards him sweeping his legs out from under him and he hits the floor hard. I grab him and pull him to stand by the collar of his shirt, sending smalls shocks to his hands as he grabs my wrists. As soon as he stand on his own, before he can react, I punch him in the jaw with a shock wave sending him across the room into the cupboards and finally see his eyes close as he’s knocked unconscious on the floor.
I take a couple steps towards him to check if he’s okay, but before I can fully reach him, my own pain settles in and the tears and blood start to blur my vision. Just as I reach the counter I collapse next to Peter. Using the little energy I have left, I speak into my watch “SPAID deactivate override code 991”.
Shifting to sit against the wall, I take Peter’s hand in mine and close my eyes. I hear my name being called in the distance, but I’m too tired to open my eyes so I give up and pass out myself.