"Ultimate Chase"

Author's Note: Okay first off, I am now and forever a Spider-man/Shadowcat pairing fan. At least in the ultimate universe. I call it Spidercat, well the alternative was Petty or Kiter and I liked neither of those. Hope to see more Spideycat fanfics out there soon. Takes place after Ultimate Spider-man Annual 1.

The day seemed to drag for Peter, Jonah screaming in his ear to get the new "headline" ready for the webpage. Peter had come up with several. And they where all pro-spidey. Naturally Jonah hated them. Eventually Peter had managed to escape work. Well actually his shift had finished, The brown haired boy rushed home the fastest way he could. Websling.

Pete dropped down near his house, slipping his civies over the familiar red and blues. He shot round the corner and through the front door.

"HiAuntMayJustGettingChangedBecauseI'mGoingOutBeBackBeforeTen." Peter explained as he bolted up the stairs and into his room. Now the tricky task began. Getting dressed. This was his second date with Kitty Pryde. Or was it his first... he didn't actually know. Did the last one count?

Peter began going through his clothes.

Shirt? Definatly... which one though? The blue one.

Tie? No too formal...

Trousers or Jeans? Trousers.

and most important of all, costume or no costume?

Peter sighed, then felt the familiar tingly sensation which ment his Aunt was about to walk through the door. He quickly tossed the spider-man costume back in his closet and shut the door.

"So you and Mary are back together again huh?" May said in amusement, "I don't know what's going on with you kids."

Peter felt a knife wound in his heart. Mary? He shook his head.

"No... I'm uh... going out with a girl named Kitty," He explained nervously and May gave a dissaproving frown,

God please, don't ask to many questions.

"Kitty?" she asked, "She's not someone you've mentioned before. Where did you meet her?"

Jumping around in bright red and blue spandex whilest trying to talk to a mutant who made stuff explode.

"Uh, at the mall." he said "Flash and his friends were giving her a hard time. I went over to see if she was okay."

May looked skeptical and Peter silently begged for her not push it any further. In the end May sighed.

"Fine, go." she said looking irratated, "But you and Mary have been friends for such a long time I'd hate to see you loose that all together."

Peter frowned, he didn't want to think about Mary. He cared for her yes, but they would never work. Their lives were too different. But with Kitty... with Kitty he could be himself. With Kitty it could, and would work.

"Back before ten." Added May as a last warning.

Peter rushed downstairs and pratically jumped into his shoes, which he had left at the bottom of the stairs. Rushing out of the door he head towards his date at the cinema.

When Peter arrived, he wasn't entirely suprised to find Kitty wasn't there. He sighed, looking to his watch. Conviently, it had stopped running when he had finished work.

"You hate me, don't you?" Peter asked looking up, the sky was clear, only a few vagued whisps of cloud occupied the orange sky. Pete was suprised to find arms snake around from behind and rest on his stomach. He glanced to his left and saw Kitty resting her head on his shoulder.

"He might, but I think your adorable." She said, Pete grinned.

Pete turned around to face her, wrapping his own arms around her back.

"Well, really who cares what he thinks, when they can have your opinion?" teased Pete, "Sorry I'm late."

"Actually," she said blushing slighly, "You got here before I did. I just arrived. What we going to see?"

Peter put on a mock serious face and walked over to the movie poster-board, which showed the films the cinema was currently showing.

"Well," he said in very serious tone, "It really narrows down to three choices."

"Which are?" Said Kitty, smiling at the webslinger goofing around.

"Well we could go see a romantic comedy, a cheesy horror movie, or Star Wars Episode III."

"While the thought of watching Episode III for like, the 30th time is appealling I'd rather we go see a cheesy horror movie. So you can protect me from the big bad, special effects."

"Two tickets for some cheesy horror movie coming up!" He said and opened the door for Kitty, bowing slightly

"Thank you, Parker." She said in a mock english accent.

"Your welcome m'lady." Peter said, in a voice mimicing the butler from "Thunderbirds".

Peter payed for two tickets and then walked over to the "snack bar", Peter got a large tub of popcorn to share and two drinks. He insisted on paying. Kitty found that a rare thing... He was old fashioned, in a way. Probably the type of guy to pull out her chair for her to sit down. Not that she disliked that about him, infact it was something she loved about him.

Love? maybe, he wasn't like any guy she'd met before. She already had a crush on him before she met him. And when she saw his face for the first time... she felt almost light-headed from how giddy he made her. Then she found out what he was like as a person and was even more suprised to how alike they were. All in all, things were great.

Well, the movie stank,but that was okay.

It's not like we actually went because we wanted to see a movie anyway.

The evening was over all to quickly and the two relucently parted ways. Peter returned home. In an over all good mood, what was their to be down about? Life was actually going his way for once... his Spider-man popularity was actually up, he had a beautiful girlfriend whom he could be completely honest with and trust fully. What could actually go wrong?

"Peter." Said his Aunt May as he opened the door, she looked as if she had been crying. Her eyes were red and her face was twisted with fury. In her hand she held up a familiar red-and-blue costume. "What is this?"

Oh. Thought Peter miserably, That's what could go wrong.

To be continued...