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The Decision

*At Peter's Apartment*

Peter didn't get a good night rest; he had nightmares of losing and hurting the people he cares about in his life. Honestly, for our hero this wasn't the first time he had this type of dream after he and M.J broke up Peter would sometimes have that thought of hurting her due to him not being able to cope with the pain he has dealt with. On top of that, he now needs to make huge a decision on if he should let Kitty live with him or not.

"This is tougher than I thought like I don't believe that it would be wrong since Kitty and I have dated in the past, but I broke up with her since I still wanted M.J. Despite that she still wanted me in her life as a close friend even though we kind of lost contact. Now after a reunion, she wants to move in with me which is sudden." Peter said to himself in a low mumble. "Though I hate living here without any company and would like to have someone to talk about my feelings I don't want to risk getting hurt by letting people in my life or the other way around, and then they walk out of my life after getting close to me. Would the same thing happen if I get close to Kitty as she stays here?" Peter continued to think out loud until his phone went off with Aunt May as the caller id.

Peter reluctantly answers the phone, "Hey Aunt May how's it going?"

"Hi dear I'm doing well, how are you holding up and where you surprised to see Katherine again?" Aunt May question him.

"I'm hanging in there, and yes I was slightly shocked. It was great catching up with Kitty but get this; she wants to be my roommate ha-ha-ha-ha crazy right?" Peter joke thinking his aunt wouldn't approve and agree with having Kitty live with him.

"Well now that you said that, I believe that it's an excellent idea," Aunt May responded.

"HAHA that's funny it sounded like you said it was an excellent idea that she should be," Peter joked again.

"I did actually, I think with what you been through it would be nice to have someone who you close with and be there with you. Besides you two are adults so you don't need my say so to whatever you can't or can do something." Aunt May said with a grave in her tone. Peter, though shock at her answer, knew she had a point, it's hard in his case being close to someone who you don't want to hurt or get hurt by.

Peter then told his aunt, "You have a point Aunt May, and I will consider it, I will talk to you later."

"Alright dear, just wanted to check on you and remember everyone needs help sometimes, even a hero like you. I love you." Aunt May said.

"I love you, Aunt May, bye-bye, " Peter said as he hung up the phone.

Peter, giving it more thought, went through his contacts and found Kitty's number and decided to call her.

"Hey, Pete!" Kitty said in her usual, happy voice after he waited for her to answer.

"Hey Kitty, how are you doing?" Peter asked enjoying her musical voice.

"I'm good, but then again I'm always happy hearing from you," Kitty said, flirting with him causing Peter to blush a little.

"Haha well that's always good, say I was wondering did you want to meet so I can talk to you about the offer?" Peter asked, hoping she wasn't busy.

"Sure why don't we meet up in Central Park? By your old favorite chili dog stand," Kitty answers back. Peter chuckled, remembering a very awkward first date.

"Cool, I will see you there in an hour!" Peter said with little excitement.

"All right Petey," Kitty said as they both hung up and got ready.

*One Hour Later*

Peter was in his new Spider-man (Ben Reilly with the substantial black spider-symbol) costume on top of a building near the park, since he wanted to have the moving in conversation with Kitty in private. Plus, if there's trouble while they talk, he could just quickly go and take care of it and not have to put on his costume.

He turns to see someone who looked like Kitty running on top of buildings towards him, but he notices some changes in her costume. Instead of the usual x-men costume, she was wearing an all-black costume: a mask like black cat's, short jacket, a tight shirt that showed her belly, tight pants that a reveal some of her legs to the side and boots). As she came closer to her with the beautiful smile she had, his mouth nearly hit the floor seeing her in her new costume.

"Pete if you keep looking at me like that you are going to make me blush," Kitty told him as they were admiring each other's new costume.

Peter finally stop staring and replied, "Oh I'm sorry but wow Kitty you just look so...wow."

"Hehe thanks, I figure Shadow-cat needed another suit for when she's not working with the team," Kitty explain as she posed for him then went to ask him, "But I feeling the new suit Petey."

Peter lowers his head to hide his blush and responds, "Thanks, just wanted a makeover with my suit."

Kitty notices his response was not a confident one, but she just went along with it. "Well now that we are here, you wanted to talk about the offer, or is there something else going on?"

Peter then smiled underneath his mask as he tells her, "Yeah I do, and I after actually thinking it over, I decided that if you want to you could live with me."

Kitty jumped for joy and hugged him tight yelling, "OF COURSE I WANT TO, IT WILL BE FUN AND COOL FOR BOTH OF US! I mean...okay, great." Peter laugh at her first response as he held her. He figures having Kitty move in it could help him get over this sad feeling that he has been in him, but as same time he wonders if this would badly backfire as they broke the hug.

Kitty then went on to say, "I will do my part around the house as promise... hey now that I think about since I still a hero in a way, maybe we can team up again like before."

Peter went into deep thought about possibly teaming up with Kitty. Sure they did work together very well and from what he could tell Kitty she has improved on her skills which would make her a great ally. At the same time, he remembered that they were a couple during that time and he honestly still had deep feelings for Kitty yet with his mindset focus on thinking people who get close to him get hurt, he doesn't want to see her get hurt because of him.

So Peter said to her in a low tone, "Yeah... I don't know about the team up part just yet. I mean it's been a while and all you know."

Kitty had a concerned look on her face for her thought Peter would quickly be on board with that idea, "Well I ask you about that in the past, it didn't stop you before so why now?"

Before Peter could give her a response they both heard a woman scream from close by and they both charge to the direction, the screaming came from. They went to the alley to see a woman surrounded by a gang planning on stealing her money.

"Alright, Kitty I'm pretty sure I can handle them, just make sure you phrase the woman out of…." Peter was trying to make a plan that won't involve Kitty getting harm, but she cut him off saying "Now that's no fun," and went to attack the gang members.

"SHADOW-CAT!" he yelled, going after her, which in turn caused the gang members to see them attacking and started their counter-attack. Spider-man took out three of the members. As did Kitty, but one of them pulled a gun and almost shot the woman. Luckily Kitty was able to grab the lady's arm at the last second, turning them both intangible.

After webbing them up for the police, Spider-man followed Kitty home, so he can help get her stuff to move in, but he didn't have a lot to say to her after that gang incident. Peter is upset because Kitty didn't want to listen to him, but at the same time he worried about her safety even though he knew she could handle herself in that fight, but then it hit him. "I think I'm still in love with her, that might be the reason I feel overprotective about her," he thought to his self and continued, "but I can't, I shouldn't... today she could have got hurt. What if we did try again and it didn't work because of me, I don't think I can handle that much pain."

After getting the woman to safety, they both decide to go to the X-mansion to get Kitty's stuff and let the group know she was moving out.

*Sometime later at the X-mansion*

Kitty, along with some of the other X-men, managed to help her get the remaining stuff that she has for the move. She told her goodbye's but promised that she would visit as Wolverine had a talk with Peter about her moving in (Wasn't the most fun conversation that had to do with gutting). Night crawler was able to transport them back to Peter's place due to his training on being able to carry distant locations, once they made it back to Pete's place Night crawler said his goodbye and went back to the mansion. Peter and Kitty went and started getting her room ready, but there was still an awkward silence between them, and he knew he had to tell Kitty something to make things right, while Peter wants to address his feelings he still feels that it wasn't the best idea making kitty comfortable was more important than his issues.

"Hey, Kitty listens..." as we were about to speak her cut him off with a sad tone.

"Peter, what's going on? I mean you hadn't spoken to me since the gang incident and yes I went in without listening to you, but I feel like there's more to it, if we are going to live together we should be able to tell each other stuff especially how we feel."

Peter knew that he had to tell her at least about his feelings towards her, so he walked over to her, held her waist, and look into her eyes as he spoke to her, "You're right. There is something I need to tell you, the reason I acted different today was because I didn't want to see you get hurt. I'm aware that you could handle those guys, but I didn't understand why it affected me seeing you in action. So it hit me that I still have deep feelings for you. I know it has been a while since we talk but at times even when I was with Mary Jane, I ask myself what if when it came to us, but I figure you would move on eventually. Honestly speaking, I just don't want anything bad happening to you because of me."

Kitty wrapped her arms around his neck and went into her sweet tone confessing, "Peter, I never stopped loving you, I understood that you wanted M.J, so that's why I let you go so you could be happy. It was so hard to... because we were very close, and yes I was hurt but seeing you happy was important to me. I also know that it's hurting you that you are not with her no more, but honestly, I can't help how I feel about you, I want you back."

At that moment, Peter's heart started to beat fast as he was giving nervous after hearing confession as well as he leans closer to her as she did and then Peter kiss her as she kisses back. The kiss grew more passionate as they continue to enjoy this moment together with Peter not thinking about anything negative but kissing the girl who he still had deep feelings for and with Kitty, who missed tasting his lips, proving that she did still love him. Peter held her body very close to his as they continue to be at the moment until they had to let each other go to catch their breaths.

Once they caught their breaths, Peter sat down, look at Kitty and told her, "That felt amazing Kitty, I really want to be back with you too, but I think we should take it slow because there are still things I'm not ready to open up yet if you are okay with that."

Kitty, with her adorable smile, sits on his lap and tells him, "Don't worry Pete, as long as I have you back in my life we can take as much time as you need. I don't want to rush you."

"Thanks, I appreciate that a lot, until then…." He said as he reached for her face to relive the moment they just had before they went to sleep, tired from a long day.

TBC

Author Note: So sorry this took so long, but I will explain why it did.

I didn't think this story was going to get as many favs, reviews, and followers as it did which I am thanking Bloodboredom, Dablman2020, DiazH2xtrem for their feedback as well as everyone else who favorite and follow the story so far. I want to give a big shootout to Aspiringactor for being my beta reader for this story and helping me make sure it looks okay, check out his stories if you get a chance.

I'm not so sure what I want to do in the story, so I'm giving you all guys a chance to help me like would you want this as a series or just a straight up story as well what would you want to see in the story. Like I promise Dablman2020 that I will do a Kitty vs. M.j type thing in the story so let me know with reviews.