Chapter 22 - Harley Keener

                                    

                                          
1 or 2 more chapters after this! I'm sorry it took me so long to update. I'm procrastinating life right now. Also, I added a oneshot that is based off this book in my spider-woman oneshot book about Morgan meeting Tony and Pepper. It takes place right around the time of Chapter  21.
Ever since Piper went into a coma the world has kind of tumbled. I was mentioned in the video she recorded. She knew just what to say even if her calling me an idiot was- well honestly expected. I never wanted to replace her friend Ned. In fact I wanted to meet the guy in the chair who was a legend. But hearing her say I was loved just as much as that guy she spent her entire childhood with- I knew her for 3 years and somehow she became a little sister that I couldn't stand to lose.
I became Spider-Man. The suit she gave me copied her powers(except for the enhanced senses thank god and... unfortunately, she couldn't give me the healing). I put her gift to use though. That's what mattered to me. People learned of her death. I was there to help that.
But when I saw a little girl standing in front of a homeless man in a little spider woman costume defending him from a person trying to take money from him I was ready to break. 
I know how Piper survived all of the loss her past held. She worked. Constantly. 
The girl couldn't have been older than 8 and she said, "I'm Spider-Woman and I will beat you up if you hurt him!"
I stepped up beside her and said, "You hurt either of them, you won't be having any kids."
His eyes widened and he turned and sprinted away.
I watched in shock. No one had done that. Usually everyone would mock me.
'I know I'm not her! No one could be her!'
I remembered what that Happy guy told me.
"No one could live up to Piper Parker. Not even Piper Parker."
"But-"
"I know it doesn't make sense but it's true."
"Good job, kid," I told the little girl. I stood up and out of the corner of my eye I caught a white blob. I looked through the eye holes and saw a mask. Spider mask exactly like hers. The eyes showed through the holes and then I realized that that man hadn't been scared by me. He'd been scared of her.
"Who are you?" I shifted in front of the girl.
"Good job, protect the civilians. That's the primary thing. It's never about the bad guy but the people they're trying to hurt, honestly though his face when we locked eyes was probably the best reward I could've gotten in 8 years of being Spiderwoman," She pulled the sheet off her head and it was her. There was no one else that could've done this.
"You're alive!" The little girl squealed and ran up to her hugging Piper's legs.
"I guess I am, can I talk to my friend?"
"Yes, ma'am!" The little girl ran away.
Piper grabbed me and yanked me into an alley. The second we were out of eyesight our suits disappeared and she embraced me in a hug. It was a light hug. Mj told me she's only ever been hugged by Piper once due to the fact that she was scared of accidentally hurting anyone with her strength.
"How-"
"I was transported to wherever the hell Bruce was since he died for the soul stone and I told him how to save me. I woke up about an hour ago."
"Thank you."
"What for?"
"I'd already lost one sister for 5 years so when you died I just- Piper, I understand why you are a workaholic."