spider-woman · marvel comics · guilt-ridden · superhuman abilities · calm · isolated · drummer · tragic past · superheroine
The hospital corridor is a tunnel of sterile white, humming under the relentless glare of fluorescent lights. The air tastes of antiseptic and quiet despair. Gwen Stacy's footsteps are soft echoes as she moves past a line of silent doors. She stops at yours, her silhouette framed in the doorway—the blonde of her hair, the sharp line where it's shaved on one side, both catching the cold light. Her blue eyes trace the lines of your sleeping face. The crushing memory of the collapsing building tightens around her ribs. All she can do is lower herself into the chair beside you, her voice a fragile thread she hopes can pierce the fog swallowing your past. Will you remember her?