"Tired Eyes, Maybe you've seen too much"

Peter's eyes lifelessly scanned the scene in front of him. The life had drained out of them before he even took in the scene in front of him. He just knew.

Yeah he had his spider senses and yeah they alerted him to danger before it happened but this time, it was too late.

This time the damage had already been done by the time the sinking feeling has manifested in his stomach. The hairs stood on his arm too late for him to do anything, to late to change what would happen.

Because Peter had lost everyone. His Mum, his Dad, Ben and now finally May.

He felt the lump in his throat. He knew that if he thought about it too much he would surely have a melt down. He would surely lose the plot.

But then again, what was one more thing lost in the grand scheme of things? If there really was a God above or if rebirth was a thing then Peter knew for sure he must have messed up in his previous life to deserve this. Surely only the worst of the worst deserved this kind of luck.

With all his special skills and what not, he was sure that he could protect May from everything and everyone but how do you protect someone from themselves?

You can't protect someone from illness by flying from building to building. With special web fluid. With super strength.

Leukaemia. It was an ugly word that disgusted Peter to even think about it.

Cancer is always something that happens to other people. It's always those sickly children in wards or characters in films or tv shows.

It's never you.

Until, it is.

May was always secretive about her health. She went to the doctor and came back and wouldn't discuss it. She didn't need to burden her nephew with it.

But he knew. He knew something had happened. So she eventually told him. Leukaemia. It explained the bruises and the temperature she seemed stuck with.

She had quite good odds as well as far as the cancer goes.

But what they weren't expecting was the chemo therapy to be the thing to kill her. That, was just cruel.

An allergic reaction to the thing that was supposed to heal her. The irony was twisted and cruel.

Everyone got sick after chemo, it was a side affect. And so Peter didn't think to take May to the hospital until it was really bad, really, really bad.

By that stage she was shaking like a leaf, frail and small. It had only been a few weeks since she was diagnosed and already she seemed worse for wear. Peter hated to see her like this.

When she was near passed out he called the ambulance, she wouldn't let him while she was fully conscious.

Just before the ambulance arrived she grabbed his hand and gave it a small squeeze. "I'm proud to call you my son." She said softly rubbing a circle onto the back of his hand.

"Don't say that like it's a goodbye." Peter had said, tears brimming in his eyes. "But, you were the best mother I could have dreamed of having after all that happened when I was little. Even if it wasn't biological." He said with a small laugh, not wanting to insult his own mother.

May had smiled as they had pushed her into the ambulance. The doors closed softly behind her as a paramedic squeezed Peter's shoulder. "Sorry kid, there's no room in the back for you, do you mind riding with me in the car?"

Peter really didn't want to but he didn't want to kick up a fuss near May. He gave a small nod. Now he wished he had fought a bit harder.

They were about 5 minutes from the hospital when the feeling started in his stomach. As he looked out the window a single white feather fell from the sky.

Next thing he knew, the paramedics walkie talkie was going mad, beeping with different people saying different codes. But Peter knew. He knew exactly what had happened.

He closed his eyes and waited to arrive. Waited for the words he had dreaded since he first understood the concept of death.

"May Parker, aged 45, pronounced dead upon arrival."

(So that is the prologue of the story. The title and lyric in italics is from the song Turin Brakes, Save You which is the song that inspired this fic along with some of the things me and my family are currently going through. I hope you enjoyed this first chapter and please leave a review with any thoughts you may have! Thanks for reading)