( Matt quickly considers something. Should he mention Elektra? He doesn't want to take away from what Peter has, but maybe sharing something like that would help. Their circumstances are certainly different, but they do both have a dead girlfriend. )

You can't stop some things, Peter. You have to let them happen. They tell me things happen for a reason, but I know that's a shitty thing to say in reference to someone dying. I loved a woman named Elektra. She was killed in my arms by ... ninjas, of all things.

( He kisses him again, as if trying to shut himself up. Matt threads his fingers through Peter's ridiculous hair and smiles to himself. It's a secret smile. )