Peter wakes up within the hour. He opens his eyes to see Silk resting her head on his arm, asleep. He smiles down at her, her hand is holding his and she's breathing peacefully. He looks up and glances around the room to see his dad grinning at him. He flinches back.

"What you smiling at?" his father asks, still grinning.

"Shut up," Peter says turning red and looking away.

"She fell asleep about half an hour ago, she wouldn't leave until you woke up," Tony says smiling. "she's just as stubborn as you are,"

"I know," Peter says laughing slightly looking at Silk. "Should I wake her up?"

"I can move her if want, but she was nearly knocked out when she brought you here, so we should let her sleep,"

"What?! she was nearly unconscious? is she okay?!" Peter asks frantically, sitting up, groaning and then grabbing his side. Silk stirs slightly.

"Woah there Pete. Don't move, you've got 2 fractured ribs that are still healing. and don't worry your little friend is fine, I just meant she was tired. she did have to carry you all the way here,"

"Man, she carried me here?"

"Sure did," his dad says.

He looks at Silk in awe. She's so amazing.

"Dad, what the hell happened?! I remember we were on patrol and then I felt a jab in my leg and I was falling," Pete says, and Tony winces looking at him worriedly.

"Silk gave me this," Tony says holding up the dart, "you were shot with it, she managed to get you out before they got to the both of you," he continues his voice getting more worried throughout the sentence.

"shit," Pete says, his dad sends him a disapproving look, "sorry" he squeaks, "I owe her a massive thank you,"

"you sure do, kid. anyway I'm going to head down to the workshop, I need to research some stuff, see where these guys are from, just don't leave the tower as spider-man okay and make sure she doesn't either," he says sternly.

"Okay I won't, for today," Peter says and his father gives him a look of, you-know-what-i-mean, and Peter laughs.

Silk wakes up to see Spider-man looking at her. His mask is still pulled halfway up his face and he's smiling slightly.

"Hey," he says,

"What you staring at creep?" she says laughing slightly, Spidey cheeks turn red. She laughs more and sits up,

"Ow what the hell," she says grabbing her side in pain.

"ohmygosh areyouokay?" Peter says quickly. "my da...Tony said you were fine,"

Silk doesn't seem to notice his mistake, focusing more on her side.

"Oh yeh I'm fine, just some bruising and other stuff," she says huffing a bit.

"other stuff?"

"yeh you know the usual," she grins at him

"are you sure you're okay?"

"I swear I'm fine, stop worrying," she grins "but what about you? you were the one who got shot."

"with a dart."Peter adds, "and I'm fine, I'm pretty sure it's worn off,"

"what about your ribs?" she questions

"they're fine, stop worrying" they both laugh. She squeezes his hand and looks away.

"Well, I better get going," Silk stands up and pats up her hair down.

"you can't leave,"

"I'm sorry what?"

"I mean you can leave, just not dressed like that," he gestures to her costume. "my...um Tony said that we have to keep a low profile just while he figures out who was shooting at us,"

"Since when do we let someone else find the bad guys for us?" Silk looks kinda offended.

"Sil, just trust me on this okay, he knows what he's doing,"

"Why do you trust him so much? we can do this ourselves!" silk says defensively. " I'm sorry for yelling, I just, this is our problem and we don't need Tony Stark to fix it for us!" she half yells, then lowers her voice "I'm going to find them webs, i can't just sit back while I let someone do my work for me,"

Peter tries to sit up, groaning and grabs her hand and squeezes it. He looks her in the eye and she looks back at his white lenses, "please Sil, I don't want you to get hurt,"

She grins sadly "stop worrying," she pulls her hand away and runs over to the window,

"Sil stop!" he pulls out the iv in his arm and throws his legs over the edge of the bed. He jumps to the floor, stumbling a bit. Silk has opened the window and is looking at spidey.

"I'm sorry webs, I have to find them," she shoots a web and jumps out. Quickly falling and slipping from peters view. "SILK!" he screams and runs over to the open window, he pulls his mask down and throws his hand out to shoot a web. his web shooters are gone, dammit! He looks out the window, Silk's already gone.

"FRIDAY where the hell are my web shooters?!" he shouts and starts to frantically look through everything on the desks, throwing up papers and cursing.

"They're on the desk to your right Peter, but I would advise you not to leave the tower in your state," FRIDAY replies

"I'm fine FRIDAY!" he finds his web shooters and puts them on. He starts to run over to the window.

"FRIDAY! Shut that window!" Tony yells

The window starts to close and peter runs, he jumps and the window closes, he smacks into the glass and falls to the ground, groaning.

"DAD! What the hell! I have to go after her!" Peter yells and rips off his mask, looking furiously at his dad.

"No, you don't! Stop being stupid peter, she left and I'm not going to let you get yourself killed trying to find her,"

Peter stamps his foot angrily and screams, "DAMMIT!"

"Open the window," he commands, his dad just looks at him, "OPEN THE WINDOW!" he points at him furiously.

Tony just stands there looking at him, with an unreadable expression on his face.

Peter stares at him, "please" he says his voice lower.

"I'm sorry Peter, I can't let you go,"

Peter looks down in defeat and slumps against the window letting his back slide against it until he's sitting on the floor. Tears welling in his eyes.

He has to find her, shes saved him so many times, it's his turn to do the saving. She's going to do something stupid, he just knows it. She's always so reckless and completely disregards her personal safety to complete whatever task shes set for herself. Which now that he thinks about is exactly what he does so he can't really blame her.

Tony comes and sits down next to him. " I put a tracker in her suit,"

"What?" Peter looks up at him, on the verge of tears.

"I put a tracker in her suit when she fell asleep, she was too much like you, I knew she would try to leave,"

Peter chuckles while tears start rolling down his face, he quickly wipes them away. " I can't believe you," he says still laughing.

"Cmon Pete lets go find your friend," he stands up and offers his hand to Peter, who grabs it and Tony pulls him up.

"FRI, can you trace the tracker in Silks suit?"

They're silent for a moment as they wait.

"I'm sorry sir, but I'm not getting a signal from that tracker," FRIDAY says solemnly. Peter looks at Tony in alarm.

"What? I just put it on her, how can there be no signal,"

"The last signal intercepted placed her on the roof of the City National Bank Branch at 400 Park Avenue."

"Dad what the hell does that mean? She's gone?"

"No, no Pete, the trackers probably just faulty, I'll fly over there now and I'm sure she's fine, you stay here and don't do anything stupid,"

"I'm coming with you and you can't stop me," he says sternly.

"yes I can, don't test me, Peter," Tony says back in the same tone. "FRIDAY, don't let peter out of this tower, lock everything down,"

"Dad I just want to help," Peter pleads.

"Sorry Pete," he says and the suit he called engulfs him, he flies out the window FRIDAY opened for him and the window shuts immediately after him.

Peter runs over to the elevator and gets in.

"FRI, take me to my room!"

Silk heard spidey call after her as she jumped out the window, he has to understand. The people who were shooting at them must have left something behind and she has to find it.

People have been after them before and her and Spidey always dealt with them themselves, how come now Spidey is so set on Tony Stark doing it for them! Up until today, she didn't even know spidey knew Stark. He mentioned him a couple of times, but he didn't mention they actually knew each other.

She swings along park avenue and gets back to the roof of the building she had stopped at when she rescued spidey.

She's about 10 minutes away from the alley they race too. She goes to jump off the building and her silk-sense screams at her. She turns around and a dart passes over her head.

"Shit!" she curses and flips towards her assailant. They're dressed all in black, obviously wearing protective gear and there doesn't seem to be any identifying insignias.

she shoots a web at the gun and tugs them forward, the gun falls out of their hands and they stumble forward quickly regaining their footing. They hold up their hands in fight stance and charge towards her.

Silk grabs their gun and shoots a dart at their neck and they fall forward and collapse on the ground unmoving. Jesus the stuff in these darts is strong.

she inwardly celebrates for a moment and breaks the gun over her knee before she notices the 15 or so other people behind her. there's still a few more coming out of the rooftop entrance.

They quickly surround her and shes trapped like a fly in a spider-web, how ironic.

"GET DOWN!" someone in front of her yells. she doesn't know what to do, there's nowhere she can go, but she's not going to give up that easily.

She puts her hand on her head and bends her knees, starting to kneel down. Then she jumps as high as she can and does a backflip over the assailants behind her. Shots start to go off immediately. She lands near the edge of the building and flips backwards onto the edge.

Then she feels the dart, it's hit her shoulder blade. She feels the effect immediately. the whole world starts to sway. She steps forward instinctively to stop herself falling off the edge.

She stumbles off the edge and falls on her hands and knees. She tries to fight the black spots appearing in her eyes, but it's hopeless. Blackness clouds her vision and she falls to the ground, defeated.