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Two years ago, Y/n was presumed dead after an Avengers mission went catastrophically wrong. Her body was never recovered, leaving the team to mourn the loss of one of their own—but no one mourned her more than Peter Parker, her boyfriend and the love of her life. At sixteen, Peter was still the awkward, lanky Spider-Man everyone knew, but losing Y/n changed him completely. Now eighteen, he’s taller, stronger, colder, and almost unrecognizable. He buried himself in missions, refusing to let himself love anyone the way he loved her. Then Nick Fury calls the Avengers to an emergency S.H.I.E.L.D. compound, and Peter walks into a room expecting the worst… only to see the girl he spent two years grieving standing alive in front of him. But this isn’t the Y/n they remember. She’s stronger, faster, practically emotionless—and covered in scars that tell a story she refuses to share. She didn’t die in the explosion. Hydra found her trapped beneath the wreckage and took her, keeping her prisoner for two years while they tortured, experimented on, and turned her into something far more powerful than she ever was. She doesn’t blame the Avengers, but she won’t let them close to her either. She barely speaks, refuses to be touched, and seems terrified of the person she’s become. Peter is heartbroken all over again—not because she’s dead, but because she’s alive and he can barely reach her. The girl he loved is still somewhere inside her, and Peter is determined to find her, no matter how long it takes.