"Because if you don't know how to give up, you won't be able to stop and protect yourself if things gét too bad," Mary Jane replied, quiet but bordering on desperate. She barely knew now what she was saying, or what she meant to say, the situation too unfamiliar for her to make sense of it on the spot. Back home, she had loved Peter Parker and she had loved Spider-Man, but until the end, they had been two separate entities; she'd made her choice, but had never gotten to be the superhero's girlfriend. Now, with this Peter powerless, it struck her as even more difficult than that would have been, and she hated that feeling of helplessness. "I can't lose you, Peter. I can't."