The Date - Peter

by Blaney

It's been two years since endgame. Peter is a part-time avenger, but a full time friend to Carol... However he wants more... does she? He decides to ask her on a date. How I made my version of Captain Spider, and was not ashamed of it This is a second person view story. (You instead of I) it's a little different then what's usually on here. I recommend you read Peter's side first.

1. He asked her

You walk over to Carol, take a deep breathe and ask her "Hey, Carol would you like to have dinner with me?"

She looks at you, gives you a slight smile and says "Hey Peter, sure, where would you like to go?"

You look surprised, you didn't really expect her to agree this quickly. Trying to recover you say the first thing that comes to mind. "Uh, can I come over and make you dinner?"

You are pretty sure that nothing phases her, she doesn't even misstep when she agrees she reaches up to brush a strand of hair way from her face, and asks if tomorrow night would work for you."

"No, problem," but you are thinking red alert, red alert, you don't have anything planned.

You clearly are showing your panic on your face. Because she just leans back smirks and asks if you are sure that tomorrow is okay.

You knowing that if it gets put off, between her very busy schedule and your Parker luck, it won't happen, so you steel yourself, and tell her that you will be ready. Trying to give her your version of an easy smile, still feels like a grimace to yourself.

You know that she sees the grimace as well but she lets it go and smiles her bright beautiful smile, that made you want to get to know her better, to begin with.

She gets up from the chair, she puts her hand on your shoulder, its warm and so very nice, she leans over to your ear almost kissing it, and whispers "Well Peter Parker, I can't wait to see what you've got for me."

You want so badly to say something cool and funny as a comeback, but before you can even process what to say her smile widens farther if that's even possible and she walks way, she looks over her shoulder at you and you swear that she's swaying her hips more then normal... but you think nah that can't be right.

You sit down hard on one of plastic chairs that dot the cafeteria that you found her in. When your phone vibrates in your pocket. You pull it out and see that she's texted you, she's given you her address, and added a note that just in case she doesn't have any allergies but she lists her favorite foods. You study the list like its a finals test and you haven't gone to class all year. You find one dish that you know you can make, and you know you have half the ingredients already.

You need to do some research on what makes a good date for this kind of date. So you web home, clean up, you check the kitchen to make sure the ingredients are still there. You are happy to note that they are, and they are not expired.

So you go to your room and start googling what makes a good at home dinner date. You briefly thought about asking either MJ or Ned or even one of the Avengers but you don't want to explain why you want to make dinner for her. You can barely understand it yourself. You know that ever since you and she meet on the battlefield when she said that phrase that she likes to tease you with every time, you both see each other. She is on your mind, she haunts your dreams... at least the good ones you remember.

You even very briefly entertain the notion of going to Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum and asking him to use the time stone and see what the best possible outcome would be for tomorrow evening. You huff out a laugh at that notion both because that would be an incredibly misuse of the infinity stone, and because your not even sure what you think the best outcome could be. You have hopes, you have pipe dreams and you have expectations and then you have your infamous Parker luck. Given your history you are almost ready to bet on which outcome will happen.

You do enough research and do some additional research on how to please a woman... you figure it's very unlikely to happen but, you are a hopeful idiot. Well it's more of a brushing up, you researched it after sex-ed in school, knowing that it doesn't really cover anything and you are nothing if not diligent. You kinda wished you'd been able to put that knowledge to use, but between watching your 2nd father figure die, Spider-manning, and school then being dead for 5 years then coming back to watch your 3rd father figure die, things like sex hasn't been real high on the priority.

Now everything seems to be balanced, Spider-man is while not popular, you are not the menace that JJJ makes you out to be and the citizens of New York seem to be giving you the benefit of the doubt. You are on break from school, things with May are in a good spot... You are afraid it could change due to your Parker Luck, but you can't let that stop you from trying to get out there and see what happens.

Now you need to go back out and do some spider-manning, you don't have anything else to do at the moment. Plus you need to find out where she lives.

You put on the form fitting suit and always pleased to hear Karen speak to you. You let her know you just want to do some light patrolling and find where this address is.

Karen locates the address on your HUD but doesn't give you any more information. It's weird but not unusual, so you listen to your spider-senses to see if anyone is watching and when you don't feel anything you proceed out the window and climb up to the roof and jump shooting a web to the nearest taller building to get your momentum going.

You still feel urge to whoop every time you swing, the rush of air and feeling of flying as you feel the weightlessness at first then you can feel the extra pull from gravity, as you up swing knowing instinctively when to release and shoot another web line. You find yourself forgetting about the cares of the world and just existing in the swing. You trust your spidery-sense to alert you to any danger, and your enhanced senses to alert you to anyone else's trouble.

You learned almost the hard way to vary your route, you discovered some criminals were try to track you down, it was only thanks to your spider-sense that you found them. You learned to keep small cache around the city in very hard to reach areas. They contain clothes, burner cell phones and some cash, nothing that would tie it to you if someone was able to get it.

You find yourself swinging towards Carol's place, might as well patrol that direction since it's as good a direction as any. You have not gone this direction in a while, thanks to Karen keeping track of your routes to avoid the aforementioned same pattern, you also try to go at different times for different lengths of time. It is harder when you are in school but you created your schedule to include breaks that gives you time to make your presents known so that the internet rumors about you being a student are dying down.

As you reach the building that Carol lives in you are pleasantly surprised to see her on the roof, still in her uniform looks like she just got home. You lightly land on the roof near by, but not to close to surprise her, after all, she packs a far meaner punch then you do.

She looks over and smiles to see you. She asks you what your doing here, teasingly asks if you forgot the day, because the date isn't until tomorrow night.

You smile, its always been easier to be more confident in the mask, you tell her that you are just out patrolling and wanted to know where she live for tomorrow.

She invites you in, she has a rooftop skylight that makes for easier access.

You will have to remember that for when you get your own place. You follow her in to the living room. It's pretty sparsely furnished. She apologizes for the lack of furnishings.

You immediately tell her not to worry you know she spends a lot of time in space, and in-fact you are kind of surprised she has a place.

For the first time today she has a slightly sad look when she says that Tony owns/owned the building and so she will always have a place of her own, when she's on earth. He did it to thank her both rescuing him and helping to kill Thanos the first time.

After so long, it's still painful, but not crippling, whenever anyone mentions him, yet still you can see she's watching you to see how you react. You take your mask off, and with a sad smile looking down you say that when you and your Aunt May came back you had found that Mr. Stark... Tony had done the same for you and your aunt May.

You look up as she moves towards you and cups your cheek rubbing her thumb along your cheekbone, she then pulls you into a hug. You relax in her embrace, you once asked her after the first time you both had hugged how she seems to be warmer then normal. She said it had to do with her powers.

You recall telling her at that point that since she was part star, that makes sense. You are not sure if that was a poor attempt at flirting or just being funny, or a combination of the two, but she just laughs a happy light laugh that warms you almost as much as she does. She touches your hand and says she's never heard her powers described that way but she likes it. You continue to push your luck by saying maybe her theme song should be 'twinkle twinkle little star'.

She laughs and says only if your theme song is 'itsy bitsy spider'. Ever since then that has been an in-joke something you have with her, you haven't even told Ned or MJ about it.

So as you and her are standing in her apartment living room hugging... you start to hum the first few lines of Twinkle, twinkle little star. She laughs out loud when she hears it. She kisses you on the check and hums the first few bars of the itsy bitsy spider.

It works you and Carol are no longer sad. She asks if you want anything to drink. You say yes and walk with her to the kitchen to get an idea of what she has for tomorrow. She gets you and her a glass of water, instead of going back into the living room you are both continue to stand near each other in the small kitchen and just enjoy being here.

You lean against the island angled towards her, and you are surprised when she does the same, you find she's very close to you. You feel your breathe hitch, and a strong urge to pull her close and kiss her, overcomes you.

She must have known because she smiles and lifts her head slightly as if to give you access. You feel yourself stutter. You set the glass down, and start to reach up, but stop yourself. You don't know why.

You pull back with slight panic, you can see the slight, very slight look of hurt in her eyes and that devastates you.

You reach out a hand and caress her cheek, she closes her eyes and leans in to it. You are torn, you want so badly, to continue this, but you are terrified of screwing it up...

Fortunately or unfortunately you hear sirens lots of them outside. She hears them to and softly tells you to go take care of it, and that you had better be here tomorrow.

You take the glass and place it in the sink then giving into the impulse that has marked your life to this point walk over to give her a close mouth kiss on the corner of her mouth, when you pull back you see she has a smile and tells you good boy and to go.

You put on your mask and jump up to the skylight, looking back at her, as she watches you, her expression is unreadable, at least to you. You climb out of the window and close it behind you.

You ask Karen where the emergency is. Then you jump off in the direction that Karen directs you. Its a building fire, those are the toughest to deal with, not only do you have to worry about the heat and smoke as well as possible chemicals, at least the suit has an filtration system installed, it was one of the last things that you and Tony worked on before Thanos.

As you reach the building you can see flames throughout the building, it is as they call almost fully involved. You ask Karen scan for lifesigns. She tells you that, thankfully most have already evacuated the building. However there are several lifesigns on the upper floors the firefighters are cut off from due to the fire.

You find the closest window that is not directly near the lifesigns and smash through the window. You feel the heat, and feel Karen activate your filtration system. You move to the nearest lifesign and find two small children huddling in a closet scared. When you open the door they look up scared a first then when they recognize you they don't hesitate when you tell them to come to you. You pick them both up and immediately head back to the window you have already opened.

You tell the kids to 'hold tight we're going for a ride'. You place the older one on your back and use the ability to grip to any surface to hold her on your back you then web a line around her for extra support as you carry the younger one in your arm you jump out of the window and twist to shot a line out and swing down, despite the scary situation both children are whooping with joy.

You land gently next to the ambulances and the EMTs who are used to you, and immediately come up to get the children. You snap the web line holding the older one on your back and when the EMTs have a hold of the child you release your 'grip'. You give your two finger salute and step back to go back up and get more.

It takes another 10 minutes to get the rest of the people and one dog, two cats, and a gold fish, out of the building. By then the whole building was in flames but it was contained. As you drop down with the last person you place them on the gurney that the EMTs had waiting Karen had told you that he had smoke inhalation and second degree burns over parts of his body. You relay that information to the EMTs who have learned to believe you thanks to the many times you have done this. You turn to the fire chief and tell him you did not find any one else. He nods having been told the same thing by his people.

You tiredly wave your salute again one last time, and jump towards another building you hear the cheers and the 'go spider-man' from the crowd below you, so you stop and wave one last time. Then you start swinging for home. You are sore, tired, smelly and covered in smoke and soot. As you pass by Carol's place, the urge to stop and see her again, maybe you can overcome your fears and see where it might take you. But you are not ready yet, you need to process everything.

You find yourself on her roof, you quietly pad over to the skylight and see she is watching the news, its covering the fire you just came from. You reach out a hand to knock on the window frame but stop pulling back... you stand up and walk back towards the edge near where you live. Its then that your spider-sense detects the camera, aimed at the skylight, you can see the Starktech logo and you assume its a security measure for Carol but you plan to ask her about it tomorrow.

However as you swing home Karen displays a text that Carol sent, it read, 'you could have come in if you wanted to.'

You tell Karen to send back 'I assumed that is your camera watching the skylight, and I wanted to, very much, but I also smell really bad and need to get cleaned up. I will see you tomorrow. Good night Starlight'

You don't know where the starlight thing came from, it just seems to fit because she glows when she is powered up. You don't feel ashamed to admit it is an incredible turn-on to see her glowing like an angel.

She texted back, 'I understand, but don't forget I've been to space and a lot of the stuff up there is far worse then a little smoke and soot. Yes, the camera is mine, not all of us have your spider-sense.' then she adds 'good night starlight? Huh I like it. Sleep tight bed bug. ;-)'

You smile, as you land on your roof, your spider-senses not detecting any one or thing watching so you climb down to your room and open your window. Crawling along the ceiling until the middle of the room where you quietly drop down and start to remove your suit. Its then you remembered you should have used your iron spider suit, it offered more protection and since it is nanites it doesn't need cleaning. Miracle of modern technology, as it stands you will need to go to the tower and have FRIDAY clean the suit. The multi-million dollar suit isn't exactly dry cleaning only.

You head to the bathroom to take a shower. Then you send a text to FRIDAY to let her know you plan on dropping off the suit at the tower tomorrow for cleaning. She responds that she will be waiting for it. You walk into the kitchen and see that May is not back yet, she was out on a date.

You make a light dinner, and then try to process every thing with Carol and yourself, you love her, you can admit that at least in the privacy of your own mind. However you don't know her feelings, you know she likes and cares for you as well, but she's so far out of your league, just being around her... is more then you could hope for, but far less then what you wish, dream for. You wonder why she doesn't want to spend time with someone closer to her age, not that she doesn't look only 10 year older then you.

Still its a mystery you are equally hopeful and fearful to figure out.

After an hour of you trying to answer questions you know you can't, and decide to get some sleep. You wonder what your dreams be about tonight, or will it be nightmares.