In the small but cozy bedroom.
Hawk and Gwen embraced.
Their eyes met.
Don't be a bad person. Try to be a good one.
Gwen's words echoed through Hawk's mind like an angel's temptation.
Hawk pressed his lips together.
"I never intended to be a bad person."
"I know."
Without the slightest hesitation, Gwen held Hawk as she continued looking into his eyes. "So please keep it that way. Keep being a good person, Hawk."
Perhaps the definitions of good and bad were based on most people's perceptions.
Take Spider-Man, for example. He was considered a good person because most people liked him.
Take Hydra, for example. It was considered standard evil because most people hated it.
But if good and evil were defined by others' perceptions, then just as people liked Spider-Man, there were naturally people who disliked him. The New York Police Department, for instance, hated the New York vigilante Spider-Man.
Likewise, some people hated Hydra, but there were also some who liked it.
But...
Being a kind person didn't require that.
As long as you could answer to your own heart, feel no shame or guilt, and not be jolted awake at night by dreams of things you had done, then you were a kind person.
Hawk met Gwen's gaze and nodded.
"Okay."
"Thank you."
Seeing Hawk nod, Gwen's smile bloomed like that of an angel. She hugged him tightly and buried herself in his chest...
Just then.
The half-closed bedroom door was pushed open from outside.
"Gwen, dinner..."
"Uh..."
Having pushed open the door, Helen looked at the two little ones practicing their hugging in the room and blinked. Seeing Gwen spring away from Hawk's arms like a startled deer, even the corners of her eyes crinkled with amusement. "Sorry, carry on. But Gwen, you should