A Fateful Meeting

"I'm late!" Peter repeated several times as he ran through the streets, making sure that he did not go too fast. Peter was running for the fact that he was late yet again for a date with Mary Jane.

It had been only a month since Peter had finally let Mary Jane in. It was a hectic month. Now Peter had to juggle college, a job at the Daily Bugle, Spiderman and now a relationship. It was difficult and tiring, not to mention a tight fit in his schedule. It was worth it for Mary Jane though. "I should have never stayed for that extra credit."

Peter quickly found himself bumping into a person, forcing him to drop his university books.

"Whoa!" the man yelled as he dropped something that Peter did not notice.

"Oh, I'm sorry; I didn't mean to do that!" Peter apologized as he reached for his college university books. He looked up to see who was the man that he had bumped into and saw that it was a brown haired man with sunglasses, searching for something as well. He noticed that his hand quickly approached a cane.

"That's okay," the man replied gently getting up as Peter got up as well. Peter noticed that as the man was talking, he was facing the wrong direction. He then realized that he was blind.

"I'm Peter Parker," Peter said as he took the man's hand, shaking it.

"I'm Matt Murdock."

"Hey, aren't you that lawyer that did the Winston case?" Peter inquired as he put his books in his book bag, which he neglected to do previously in his hurry.

"Sure am," Matt replied fixing his sunglasses.

"Oh, I'm running late, got to meet my girlfriend," Peter said as he ran off.

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"Again?" Louise asked Mary Jane as she twirled her straw in her smoothie. Louise and Mary Jane had been waiting for Peter for several minutes in a small café name "Lava moon," which Louise thought was a stupid name.

"Yup," Mary Jane answered as she wrapped a small lock of hair around her left index finger.

"Yup what?" Peter asked as he walked up to Mary Jane and Louise's table. Mary Jane turned around, her bored face quickly turning into a bright one. Mary Jane quickly got up from her window side seat and gave Peter a long, "missed you," kiss.

As Mary Jane broke the kiss, she spoke, "Where were you?"

"Just hanging back at the university," Peter answered with a small smile.

"You rather be at some college campus then be with me?" Mary Jane pouted playfully.

"Maybe…" Peter answered jokingly. Mary Jane playfully hit his arm and guided Peter to his seat.

"Peter, listen, our director at the Lyric has been invited to a ball hosted by the Natchios family," Louise said as she fixed her hair.

"THE Natchios family?" Peter asked in shock."

"Yeah and all the cast members and their guests can come," Mary Jane said as she grabbed Peter's hand. "It's tomorrow and I thought that we could get you a new tuxedo."

"What's wrong with the one I have now?" Peter asked as he looked up from the menu he was previously searching through. Mary Jane let out a barely audible giggle and reached over the table and softly poked Peter's rock hard chest.

"Everything," Mary Jane and Louise laughed together.

"You two are so mean to me," Peter said jokingly as he got up to fetch a drink. Peter returned several minutes later with a strawberry bubble tea to find that Mary Jane and Louise were having a laughing fit over who knows what. "Women."

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Mary Jane stood in front of a life size mirror in Peter's apartment, putting her hair into several styles, unable to decide. She fixed her hair in every style possible but could not see the right one for such an elegant party.

"Do you like it this way Peter?" Mary Jane asked as she placed her hair in a bun.

"I think you look beautiful," Peter answered distantly as he looked through a sports magazine.

"That's what you said the last fifteen times." Mary Jane said as she put her hair into a rather disturbing look.

"That's because you're beautiful no matter what," Peter said as he looked up for a second before turning back his gaze onto the magazine.

"How about this and this time actually look at me," Mary Jane said as she turned around to show Peter her look, which was a fat, short waft of her that was caught in between her left index and middle finger. Peter looked up and gave a fearful scream, which Mary Jane knew was to tease her. "Peter!" Mary Jane pounced on Peter and gave him a kiss that forced him on his back. They were kissing for several minutes before a knock came from the other side of Peter's apartment's door.

"Peter, Mary Jane?" Ursula asked as she came in rudely. She nearly dropped her two plates holding chocolate cake at the sight of Peter and Mary Jane making out. The two quickly broke off the session and got off the bed, blushing madly.

"Uh what is it Ursula?" Peter asked nervously as he rubbed his scalp.

"I…thought…that you would…like some chocolate um cake," Ursula stammered, her face blushing as red as Peter and Mary Jane's.

"Sure," I'll have some," Peter said as she walked toward Ursula, turning his face away in embarrassment. "MJ, do you want?"

"No thanks," Mary Jane said as she sat back down on the bed. "On a diet."

"Okay then. I'll see you around," Ursula said quickly before rushing out the door. Peter sat down on the bed and started to dig into the cake with the fork that was placed on the plate next to the cake.

"You sure you don't want some of this?" Peter asked with a mouthful of cake in his mouth. Mary Jane shook her head in refusal and looked away from the moist, delicious cake. "Aw come on," Peter encouraged as he moved the cake under Mary Jane's nose. MJ looked at the cake for an instant in hunger. Peter then pulled it back and took another piece with his fork and stuck it into his mouth. "Oh well."

Soon, her resolve broke and shouted, "Give me!" She reached for the cake but Peter quickly but gently pulled it away. Peter then leaped off the bed with his cake in hand as Mary Jane followed him. "Give me!"

"Too bad, you had your chance," Peter teased, running away from his girlfriend while putting more of the cake into his mouth. Peter then leaped onto the ceiling with his free hand and legs and ate more chunks of the cake with his mouth alone.

"No fair!" Mary Jane whined as she sat down on the bed. Peter then jumped down on the space behind Mary Jane and wrapped his legs around Mary Jane's waist. He then took the last and rather large piece of the cake, and put it into Mary Jane's mouth. Mary Jane smiled with her bulbous, chocolate inflated cheeks and leaned back to nuzzle Peter's neck.

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Peter and Mary Jane were surrounded by a crowd filled with diplomats and businessmen. Peter felt strangely out of place without his camera. However, Mary Jane felt perfectly content.

"Hey Pete, there's Louise!" Mary Jane squealed and grabbed Peter's hand, urging him to follow.

"Hey uh Mary Jane let me get some drinks okay?" Peter asked as he faced one of the waiters serving what appeared to be caviar. Peter had a strange craving for some of the expensive green food.

"Fine…" Mary Jane said disappointedly as she let go of Peter's strong hand and headed toward her friend.

As Peter approached the waiter, he bumped straight into none other than Matt Murdock.

"Oh Matt," Peter said as he fixed his bow.

"Hello Peter," Matt said as he tapped his thumb against his cane.

"Oh how'd you know?" Peter asked as he grabbed a small plate containing caviar.

Matt had found it smart over the years that it was better not to tell that he could tell who a person was by listening to their heart signature. It was impossible for even a blind man to do that without something like radioactively enhanced hearing which of course Matt had. He had even come up with several simple excuses. "Your voice is very distinct."

"Right, of course," Peter said simply as he finished his small snack. Suddenly his spider sense went off when a large black man had walked past, smoking a cigar that made him seem almost ominous. He recognized the man as Wilson Fisk, one of the most prestigious business men in New York City and was also rumored to be the infamous Kingpin, who was the ruler of a large crime world. However, no one could tag the name on him, not even Ben Urich, and he was the best in the business.

"Something wrong?" Matt asked, noticing his heartbeat was at an abnormal pace.

"Nothing…I uh better go," Peter answered as he walked off.

"Hey there buddy," Matt's friend and partner, Foggy Nelson, called, walking straight up to him. "Come on, let's go mingle." Foggy then guided Matt through the crowd.

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"Peter, something wrong?" Mary Jane asked as the couple walked along Central Park, her dress billowing in the night breeze.

"I don't know, it just felt like there was something wrong," Peter answered, setting his vision upon the clear dark sky.

"About what?" Mary Jane asked, venturing into Peter's mind.

"Well you know Wilson Fisk?" Peter asked as he took off his jacket and place it on Mary Jane's shoulders. "My spider sense activated when he was around."

"But isn't he one of the most wealthy business men out there?" Mary Jane asked as she pulled Peter's jacket closer to her body.

"Yeah but he might also be the Kingpin."

"Oh don't be silly. That's just a rumor."

"You never know." Then Peter noticed an ambulance driving by on the road to his left, which lead back to the party.

"I better check that out MJ," Peter said quickly. "Will you be okay?"

"I'll be fine. I'll take a cab." Peter cracked a smile and planted a fast kiss on Mary Jane's lips and was off before Mary Jane could even breathe. She smiled a proud smile before walking off.

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Spiderman had arrived to a scene of destruction where a limo lay in ruins and several men were lifting a dead man's body onto a stretcher. He also saw in his line of vision a blonde woman in a sliver dress, standing in the middle of the road, in a hunched position with, what Spiderman could tell, tears running down her cheeks. Spiderman then turned his attention to a man jumping across the roof of an apartment nearby for a few moments before disappearing.

"Weird," Spiderman murmured.