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"The Web Wing"
By; J.T. Magnus, 'Turbo'

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"All rise," former New York attorney and current White House Chief of Staff Sam Wilson joked as he walked into the conference room.

"Sorry, Sam," Peter Parker, Press Secretary retorted, "That's only for judges, not lawyers... and I'm suddenly glad Jen's neither here nor a telepath."

"That was more than the rest of us needed to know, Spidey," Sam groaned as he dropped a stack of folders on the table, "Take one and pass them around."

"Something normally heard at rock concerts," Peter added as he left one of the folders laying in front of him and handed the rest to Jamie Maddox.

"Peter," the web-slinger-turned-Press Secretary's old friend and nominal superior as she was the Communications Director, Katherine Pryde, rolled her eyes.

"Come on," Peter snorted, "Like we don't all know it's the truth."

Jack Munroe groaned, "Somebody's in a good mood - what happened, Peter? Somebody declare their candidacy for Mayor of New York against Jameson?"

"Not yet," Peter admitted, tapping his knuckles on the table, "But don't count out seeing Matt Murdock as Mayor Murdock just yet - I think I'm wearing him down."

"In other words," Jamie countered, "He's tempted to do it just to shut you up whether he wins or loses the election."

"Hey, that's wearing him down, right?" Peter shrugged.

Jamie smirked, "What makes you think that he won't find some way to take revenge on you if he does end up getting elected?"

"That..." Peter's face dropped, "is a thought that's gonna fester..."

"Moving on," Sam sighed, "We have the reception for the Samkarian Queen tomorrow night... Peter, I assume you'll be arriving at the reception with Silver's entourage?"

Snickers passed through the room as Peter tried to surpress a blush at the Chief-of-Staff bringing up his occasional on-again-off-again relationship with Silver Sablinova, the Queen of Samkaria, in a senior staff meeting.

"I'll take that as a 'yes'," Sam smirked, "Just remember the rest of us when you end up becoming 'Royal Consort' or whatever, okay?"

Peter snorted, "Forget it, I learned my lesson about serious relationships back when I was web-swinging - they just don't work out. I plan to stick to 'friends with benefits' from now on."

"When they're not given a choice between SHIELD and a vacation at 'Club Fed', like your last 'friend with benefits' was, anyway," Jack snarked.

"Okay, okay, so Felicia was probably not the best girl I've ever known, so shoot me," Peter replied.

"Believe me," Katherine muttered, "The idea does have some merit..."

"Back to running the country," Sam interjected, "How are we for support on S.R.-616?"

"We've definitely got the Senator from New York on our side," Jamie informed him, "Fortunately for us, he's always been a friend to superheroes... even when we're no longer dressing in colorful costumes and fighting supervillains."

"Come to think of it, I miss the colorful costumes and fighting supervillians," Peter quipped, "It was easier."

"Yeah," Sam sighed, "Well, the universe doesn't give points for easy."