As promised the next day, she trains him extra hard; she's still privately amused at the fact that no matter how much she pushes him, how hard she makes it. He still gets up with a smile, and a 'let's do it again'.

His stamina is unreal sometimes. She's in peak physical condition, and had trouble keeping up, with him, when she first started training him, now that he's been her pupil for almost a year. His level has progressed way passed hers.

She sometimes asks Steve to come and help. His stamina is closest to Peter, but they are still not sure were his true limit is.

In fact, they already found that Peter is significantly stronger than Steve is, but Steve still has the advantage of years of tactics. Which doesn't help a lot when you have a spider-sense that will warn you of any danger, no matter how small.

They recently tested him, Natasha, Clint, Bucky, and Steve all attacked him, not to do permanent damage but to see how fast he could react to multiple threats. At first, he wasn't allowed his web shooters.

However, he could avoid or incapacitate any other way. He could not run and stay on the ceiling.

It did not go well, Peter refused to hit any of them, and he barely hit Steve all he did was avoid. When Natasha called the exercise to a halt. She was proud that he had still avoided most of their hits, but had not taken of the multiple open chances.

She should have known. She called the session over at that point. She went to talk to Tony, they wanted to implement a plan she had come up with to help both Peter and Wanda, since he refuses to hit any of them afraid of hurting them, in spite of every one saying otherwise.

Wanda needs a target that could take the punishment that she could dish out; she is the most powerful of them all. Not in terms of strength, but pure raw power.

Therefore, it isn't a good thing to have her fighting against people at first.

Tony worked with Shuri to create robots that had a Vibranium frame and controlled by FRIDAY that allows both Peter and Wanda to go full tilt at them.

Wanda can decimate them faster, but since she is a ranged fighter if they get close, they can still 'win'.

With Peter, he's primarily an up close fighter, but can still use his webs at a distance. He doesn't have the same disadvantage. Moreover, with his spider-sense they can't get around his defenses.

They can still overwhelm him to 'win' but it's getting hard each time.

Soon Natasha is going to have him start fighting against Steve, since he is the most durable of them all, then add Bucky now that Peter is getting a handle on his powers.

She's been working with him on how to subconsciously control how much strength he uses. If he doesn't have to think about it, then he's less likely to freeze up.

She's also thinking about the other spider people, not only can he train with them, but she can help to train them. She's already been planning to possibly do that with Pyotr in concert with his avengers.

In addition, with the number of spider people running around, she knows that most probably don't have any real training.

She mentioned it to Peter B once and he was all for it. He mentioned that he worked with his worlds Iron Fist to create a style of fighting that uses his spider-sense called the 'way of the spider' they are still working out the details.

Peter B said he'd talk to his Iron fist to see if he can come and help out.

That helps to alleviate her worries. She can still train him, but since she doesn't have the powers that he has, it's harder for her to be a truly effective teacher.

Even Steve who is as durable as Peter can't contend with his flexibility and his web shooters.

Also when you can bench press over 10 tons, if you don't control your strength you will literal destroy the person.

Every time any of them go against Peter, when he has his web shooters on, they're incapacitated within a minute.

She still has not told him about her upcoming mission by Monday morning. She decided that it would be better to put it off as long as possible so he has less time to worry about her.


On Wednesday, she had gotten the details from Romanoff this morning. So when Peter shows up in the training room, for his training, she's sitting in the middle of the mat.

She is honestly a little concerned about how he'll react. She tells him to join her, in the middle of the mat.

He having already changed, into his workout clothes, moves to the middle and sits cross-legged in front of her.

Which reminds her, she should see about having him do Yoga, obviously he could do any move with his flexibility, which would put any yoga master to shame.

Nevertheless, it helps with centering yourself.

She looks up to the ceiling "FRIDAY set a reminder to start doing yoga with Peter and another reminder to do some ballet as well."

"I have set the reminders, Agent Romanoff.," the AI said.

Natasha can see that he's confused about the Yoga, but loves the ballet, something that they both enjoy.

It was a pleasant surprise when she first started to train him, he ask her to teach him ballet.

He had all of the beneficial reasons written down on a list that he gave her. She kept the list and has it framed in her office. Clint teased her that it's her 'having a kids drawing on the fridge'.

She assumed that he would just want to learn the basics to help with his flexibility, but he still asks to do it.

He said once that he loves to watch her perform it's the one place she can get lost in the music and it shows.

So it is something only they do, and it's a treat for both of them.

She loves to watch him, get lost in the music as well, he doesn't have his nervousness. He knows he's not as graceful, as her, but he more the makes up for it in terms of flexibility.

It's one of the few things he can do that doesn't involve hitting, but still puts his body in motion.

When May and Natasha talked about his differences before and after the spider bite, one of the things May said is he has a constant need to move.

Natasha has seen him be absolutely still, when need be, but if he doesn't have to, he's moving something.

She is trying to convince him to let her bring in May and Pepper, she knows they would love to see him. The footage she has FRIDAY record does not do his moves justice.

However, that is for another day.

She looks Peter in the eyes. He's gotten very good at intuiting when something is wrong, she wonders if it's an offshoot of the spider-sense. Or just his own natural intuitive nature.

"What's wrong, мама паук?"

"Nothing, Мой Паучок however I do have something to tell you, that you might not like." She says. "On Saturday I am going on a mission with the Black Spider. I wanted to see how she incorporates the powers you have with the training I have."

She watches Peter to see how he'd react.

He unfortunately, has learned her poker face a little too well. She's having a hard time reading what he's thinking.

"Okay, is it dangerous? How long are you going to be gone? Can I help?" Peter asked, he is nervous, but he reminds himself that she can take care of herself, that she's been doing dangerous missions since before he was born. Still he's worries.

If she has someone like her that has his powers then that's even better right?

"Мой Паучок, all missions are dangerous, but it's one I've done before. It should only take a day maybe two. I plan to be home by Sunday. No, you can't go." She answers all his questions as honest as she can.

She gets up and motions for him to get up as well. She doesn't want him to dwell on it too much. "I know you will have a hard time doing this, but I need you to not worry about it, or me. I'll be fine, I don't plan on doing this more than once. I just want to see how she operates."

"I'll try мама паук. When you get back, can we do ballet?"

"Depends, are you going to let me invite May and Pepper?"

Peter's eyes got wide, "No, I'm not good enough to have an audience." when he sees, Natasha raise her eyebrows at him. He adds, "You don't count, you're my teacher. Plus it's just easier when it's just you and me... when I think of other people watching."

"Fine, but I reserve the right to bring it up again before we have our next ballet session. When I get back from the mission." She smiles, she has at least temporarily gotten his mind off Saturday,

"Now let's try some yoga. FRIDAY, please give us the most basic pose and show it on the screen."

They worked on downward dogs and cow poses, and other moves with weird names that Peter has to keep from laughing aloud; even Natasha smiles when FRIDAY says some of the names.

Of course, that was the reason FRIDAY choose them. She is just as concerned for her family as Natasha is. FRIDAY scans the internet for the most ridiculous names and moves.

She knows that Natasha, who has some experience with Yoga, knows what she's doing. It's less than an hour before Peter and Natasha are spending more time laughing at the names and poses then seriously trying to do them.

Which is the point, Peter doesn't need to center himself or the flexibility, he needs to get out of his head. The flexibility benefits is moot for him anyway.

Before they know it, it's been 2 hours and they need to finish. Peter hugs her; she can tell he holds her extra tight and for longer than normal. She does the same to him.

She hears him softly say, "I love you мама паук."

Which causes her to kiss his forehead, whispering back "I love you, too ребенок паук."

He finally, let's go and goes to shower and change clothes to head home.

"Thank you FRIDAY." Natasha says wiping her eyes, after she knows Peter is out of his enhanced earshot.

"Of course, Agent Romanoff." FRIDAY said

"FRIDAY, I know you will, but will you and Karen keep a closer eye on him until I get back." Natasha asked.

"That goes without saying, however for you, we will. Please make sure you come back safe. You are as much our family as he is. We don't want anything to happen to you either. Since you will be out of my reach, I won't be able to help you." FRIDAY responded, it doesn't seem possible but her Irish lilt gets deeper when she shows emotions.

"Don't worry FRIDAY; I have too much to live for here. I have no plans on doing anything extra dangerous. I gotta ask, are all of those real moves and names?"

"Yes, agent Romanoff, they are all real moves, and some of the names... will may not be the most common version, but they have been called that... at some point."

Thursday came and went without any problems. In fact, in the last couple of months, nothing has required all of the Avengers. During that time, Clint, Steve, and Natasha, all have been sent on a few SHIELD side missions, either separately or together.

Therefore, like the rest of this week, everyone is lounging around not doing anything.

Natasha has been doing her usual pre-mission ritual, when she has time before a mission she takes her equipment and tests it.

She does several of the exercise she's designed over the years, to help center her mind. It's a mix of ballet, yoga, and some Tai chi that she learned from Melinda May, a few years back.

She has taught Peter, some of those Tai Chi movements; he uses it whenever he wakes up from a nightmare when he's at home.

If he's in the tower, then she sometimes will go and do the movements with him.

It helps to center him and usually he can go back to sleep.


Thursday night, Peter wakes up in a cold sweat, hyperventilating. He doesn't recall all the details. There was the warehouse that Toomes dropped on him.

Natasha or May was there just out of reach, dying. He can still see the pool of blood clearly.

He gets up and he can hear May's calm heartbeat, it helps to calm him down. He steps into the middle of the room and starts the Tai Chi that Natasha had shown him to help him calm down.

After he completes the movements. He's still a little worked up, he can hear that May's heartbeat is regular now, she must have awakened, but she's still in her room.

He opens his window and climbs up to the roof.

He pulls out the lounge chair and blanket that had 'mysteriously' found it's way there, after the first time he did this.

He lays down and looks at the stars. He can't see a lot of them because of the light pollution, but he can still make out the constellations, he does it just to feel closer to his uncle Ben, who first taught him to love the stars.

He knows why he had the nightmare, Natasha is leaving Saturday, on a mission.

While she has gone on missions before, she usually has one of the other Avengers with her, or if she is alone, he knows Fury is usually keeping an eye on her.

Now she doesn't have that backup, so he's worried. He knows he needs to stop worrying so much, it's not normal to be so worried about a full grown, extremely capable woman like Natasha Romanoff.

She has done so much to help him be a better hero, better man.

He needs to get over his fears, but when his mind dwells on something bad happening to any of his family especially, Natasha or May, or even Pepper, he almost pukes because of the anxiety.

He needs to talk to Sam; he'll help him to get things in perspective. He knows if he can't talk to Natasha for whatever reason. Sam always tells him he has the time to help him.

He makes a mental note to talk to Sam, maybe on Saturday.

Peter gets up, he's calm and getting tired, he puts the chair and blanket back in it's hiding spot.

Climbing back down to his room. He can tell from May's slowly relaxing heartbeat she's going back to sleep, she was probably staying up to make sure he came in.

Karen probably told her that he had put the stuff away. He gets back into bed and fall asleep quickly.