December 21th - 2021

After an exhausting and troubled day at her work, Gwen wanted nothing but to lay down for awhile, hold her daughter and embrace her handsome husband. Peter had spent most of the day taking care of Elizabeth in their apartment while she was busy with her responsibilities, her husband was always willing to do anything for their daughter, even if that meant hanging the suit for an entire day.

Seeing the elevator's screen notifying her that it had arrived on her respective apartment floor made Gwen smile to herself. As the doors opened, she stepped inside of the illuminated hallway and walked towards the door. She picked her keys from her purse and finally opened the door just to get a hell of a surprise.

Gwen's mouth almost fell to the ground when she saw her whole apartment filled with webbing. Every single wall had webs attached to it and the ceiling wasn't any exception. It was like if a hurricane of spiders had just passed by. Peter and Elizabeth weren't anywhere to be seen. She closed the door and slowly walked inside, being careful to not step over any sticky webbing, she placed her purse over the counter and besides their Christmas tree box, before trying to figure what happened.

As usual, Ren was just chilling on the couch.

"Peter?" Gwen called, not getting any reply for a few couple of seconds before she started hearing what looked to be the sound of fast footsteps coming from the hallway.

"Mommy!" Elizabeth entered the living room, bursting into fits of giggles as she made her way towards Gwen by quickly crawling on the floor.

"Elizabeth! My webshooter!" Peter, who was covered with a little of webbing, tried to catch his daughter but she was already standing behind Gwen, supporting herself on her mother's legs. He stopped on his tracks after seeing Gwen with a confused expression. "Oh...hey, honey." He awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck, noticing the mess that was their apartment.

Gwen raised an eyebrow as she sofly stroked Elizabeth's golden hair. She was trying to hide herself from her father by standing behind Gwen. "What...just happened around here?"

"Hide mommy!" Elizabeth said, leaning inches from Gwen's legs to see if her father was close or not.

He eyed the entire room. "Yeah, erm..." Elizabeth giggled, getting Peter's attention who later gave her a disapproving look. "The girl who's behind you, found my web shooters and look how that turned out."

"Really? You're blaming a baby because you were reckless?" She sighed.

"Hey, she was running away from me during entire time and I didn't even recover the devices." Peter approached Gwen as she leaned down and brought Elizabeth into her arms, burying her head on Gwen's neck.

"You need to control your daughter, being agile the way you are, you miserably got defeated by a one year old baby."

"My daughter? I thought we made her together, she's also yours." He pointed out, before giving her a tiny peck on the lips.

Gwen smiled by his silliness. "Technicalities apart." She looked down to the baby on her arms who had fallen asleep without them noticing. "She's very tired, by the way." She kissed the top of her head. "I guess daddy tired you out, sweetie."

Peter moved his right hand to Elizabeth's pants and retrieved his 'kidnapped' web shooter from her pocket, noticing the device was now more lighter, meaning that his daughter leaved it empty after firing the device to every possible corner. "I don't know what do with this girl." He kissed the smooth skin of her cheek.

"Well, you lost a partner." Gwen slowly walked away from him and towards Elizabeth's room, leaving Peter wondering what she meant with that.

"What do you mean?" He asked. "Honey, partner - what?"

Gwen smiled to herself. "Who do you think that is going to clean this mess? Not me." She dissapeared from sight as she entered the hallway.

"Oh...fudge..." Peter scanned the whole living room. His eyes stopped at Ren who looked at him with an innocent 'expression'. "Little help, buddy?"

Like any normal couple, Peter and Gwen loved to spend their time together by simply snuggling, without any compromise to attend to. And since New York was getting more colder as the days passed, there isn't a better time to snuggle than now.

They were currently lying on the couch with a dark blue blanket covering their now warm bodies. Gwen lay her head over his arm underneath her head as he snaked his free arm around her waist, caressing her belly gently. She wasn't paying that much of attention to her husband, but more to her cell phone on her hands. Peter, on the other side, was slowly and constantly kissing her neck and cheeks, enjoying the moment they were sharing together.

Elizabeth was taking a nap, exhausted after the mess that she and her father had done. The apartment was now in order to Peter's relief.

"What are you doing?" He asked while he kissed her neck, with his eyes closed, feeling her intoxicating scent.

"Just reading an article." She replied as she turned and quickly kissed his forehead before returning her attention back to the phone.

"About what?" He muttered.

"A Spider-Man one." She answered.

"Ah, just leave it." He tried to remove Gwen's phone from her hands, wanting some attention, but she insisted. "Spider-Man is everywhere, Peter Parker is feeling kinda lonely." He kissed her cheek. "Give your husband some love, will ya?"

Gwen giggled by his jealously. "But this is an interesting article."

Peter groaned and looked up to her phone. "Shoot."

"Apparently, a Spider-Man movie is in Hollywood's plans since the Avengers refused one about them." She revealed. "You're quite valuable these days, eh?"

"Can they even do that?" He eyed the screen.

"Well, Spider-Man isn't a registered person, name or mark so they aren't infringing any laws, I think." She locked her phone and lowered it on the carpeted floor. She turned back to him and wrapped her own arms around his muscular back. "I wonder what type of story they could possibly come up with."

Peter sighed."I don't even want to imagine it." He looked to her deep green eyes. Every day that passes, he falls even more in love with his wife, if that was any possible.

"Imagine Spider-Man himself attending to a press conference."

He chuckled. "Well, if they find a way to contact me, we never know," He joked. "Though, I would want some side-kick, certainly you, my hot smoking wife."

Gwen giggled. "We are out of our minds."

"We sure are." Peter kissed the spot behind Gwen's ear.

Gwen smiled affectionately. "So, you wanted some attention?" She teased, moving her hand that was on his muscular back to his brown hair as she gently stroked it.

Peter went direct to the point and slowly connected his warm lips against hers, enjoying her taste while she wrapped both arms around his neck, bringing him closer to her body as they wrapped themselves in each other arms. He knew she was enjoying the treatment once she released a soft mean. He pulled the blanket up to fully cover them, making Gwen smile against his lips.

"What are you planning to?" She asked, leaning inches away from his lips.

Peter's left hand which was currently located at her waist slipped underneath her shirt and drew soft circles on the smooth skin of her back. "What about making out with my gorgeous wife?" He leaned on her throat, planting delicate kisses in the sensitive zone.

Gwen's head lolled back in pleasure, but she eventually recomposed herself and joked, "You're such a flatterer, but a very good one."

Peter smiled. "You know it's true, spider momma." He teased as they laughed together.

"What did you just called me?" She giggled.

Peter moved up to meet her green eyes again. "Your new nickname, you gave me one and now it's my turn."

"Oh, definitely not." She threatened to sat on the couch but Peter tightened his grip over her.

"Where do you think that you're going?" He adjusted himself over Gwen, trapping her on the couch with his chest.

"It's getting late, we should prepare dinner." She gave him a tiny peck on the lips and caressed his arms.

"Well, I was thinking that we could go out after Liz wakes, take her for a walk on the city and we could have dinner in some restaurant that pleads you."

"I would love that." She cupped his cheek and winked sensually. "Hum, I suppose we can have some little fun-"

"Mummy! Daddy!" Elizabeth energetically called her mother and father from her bedroom.

Gwen laughed as Peter's head carefully landed on her chest. "Speaking of Elizabeth, she wakes." She made him look up to her and softly kissed his lips. "I'm going to pick our cutie, we'll finish this later, in a more...private room.*

"Wow, sounds good, Gwendy." Peter moved away from Gwen, giving her free space to raise from the couch.

Gwen stood up just to receive a playful slap on her butt. "Oi?" She turned, almost smiling.

"A bug landed in your butt, as usual." " He teased with an innocent smile.

Gwen shook her head and grinned. "Whatever you say, honey." She walked away and headed towards the hallway, before finally entering Elizabeth's bedroom. She turned the lights on, seeing Elizabeth standing up and leaning against on the cot's rail. She was still a little sleepy.

"Hey darling." Gwen approached her daughter's comfortable resting place and slowly grabbed the baby into her arms. "Did you have a good nap?"

Elizabeth nodded with a huge smile and rested her head in Gwen's right shoulder.

"That's good to know, sweetie." She kissed the top of Elizabeth's blond hair and massaged her small back with her free hand. "Let's see daddy?"

She hugged her neck for a few couple of seconds before leaning backwards to meet her mother's eyes. "W-Where daddy?"

"He's on the couch." Gwen replied, walking towards the bedroom door with Elizabeth being hold on her arms as she turned the lights off. "Do you want to practice your walking with mommy?"

"Yes! Walk!"

Gwen laughed. "Okay, I'm gonna hold your hands." She carefully lowered Elizabeth on the floor. Her daughter assumed a standing position with Gwen's help. She hold both of her tiny hands on hers to give her enough confidence to proceed forward.

Elizabeth slowly started to walk through the halllway, one step after the other, and with Gwen guiding her. They have been practicing for some days now, and Elizabeth was learning very quickly which was something not surprising at all for her parents. She's a child that didn't had that much of difficulty to learn what she was taught, unlike most normal babies. Probably because of Peter's advanced genes.

"You're doing good!" Gwen said as they approached the living room's entrance. "Who's sat on the couch?" She asked when they entered the area, seeing Peter sat on the couch and with arms crossed, waiting for Elizabeth.

"Daddy!" She replied after she saw Peter.

"Look who's here!" He smiled.

Without any warning, Elizabeth released Gwen's hands from hers and slowly made her way towards Peter who opened his arms to catch her in time if she falls.

"You're getting close." Peter affirmed, seeing her getting closer with a confident expression. When inches from his arms, she lost her balance and was about to fall on the floor if Peter hadn't grabbed her in time, raising her on the air to repeatedly kiss her stomach, gaining giggles from the baby. He lay her back in the couch and slipped a hand underneath her shirt to tingle the soft skin of her stomach. "You did it!" He leaned down and kissed her forehead as Elizabeth burst into fights of giggles.

Gwen approached the couch and took a seat besides her husband as he gently brought their daughter over his lap, filling her cheeks with kisses. "But I'm not forgetting that you stole my web shooter." He raised an eyebrow.

"Kidding, daddy!"

Peter smiled by her cuteness. No wonder why, she's like a mini Gwen replica. "I'm going to forgive only this time." He gently pinched her tiny nose with his thumb. "I love you, and you and your mother means the world to me."

Elizabeth smiled briefly and repeated his words, "Love y-you!

December 23th - 2021

Peter's Office - Empire State University

"Liz!" Peter grabbed the escaping child as she attempted to crawl off his lap and onto the table. "Sit still!"

Elizabeth was a nightmare to deal with now. Not because she was naughty, or even because she was careless, but because she was so curious. If she saw anything she wanted to investigate, then she would investigate most closely. She was incredibly quick when at peak crawling speeds and was rather skill full at climbing and even making the occasional leap. The problem came with how quick she was able to sneak off, he had taken his eye off her for literally a second earlier that morning and she had cleared half his office towards the fish tank before he got to her. All of this meant that he hadn't exactly done much work, it was rather tricky to type whilst trying to keep her still in his lap.

The buzzer on the side of his desk made a noise that startled both of them, Peter pressing one hand onto it. The voice of Kate, his assistant, sounded over the comms.

"Eddie Brock is here to speak with you."

"Eddie?" Peter was surprised, his friend hadn't mentioned of coming to see him. "Send him in."

A few seconds later and the door whooshed open, Eddie striding into the room.

"Pete."

"Eddie," Peter stood up and transferred Liz to one arm to walk over and shake Eddie's hand. "Nice to see you."

"You too," He looked down at Elizabeth in Peter's arms with a kind smile. "And it's nice to see Elizabeth, she looks like she's doing well."

"Oh yeah, she's great," Peter ruffled the mop of her blonde, as he called it, 'Gwen's hair' on her head. "Though she's at the crazy crawling and walking stage."

Eddie smirked. "So she's a handful then?"

"Sometimes, I don't usually have her here but Gwen's started to work on her new area today, got promoted." Peter grinned. "And my Aunt has gotten herself an encounter with her friends so she's now busy."

"Well, she acts a lot like you." He chuckled.

"I'm gonna take that as a compliment," Peter joked. "Now what can I help you with?"

Eddie took a heavy breath. "Not really help, but more like hear."

"Sure..." Peter stopped as Liz tried to escape from his grasp once more. This time she even actually tried to leap straight onto the desk, and he sighed as he regained control. "Do you mind if we sit on the sofas by the fish tank? That's where she's trying to get."

"Daddy!" She protested.

"Not at all," They walked to the other side of the room, settling on either side of the coffee table as Eddie chuckled. "She seems to have picked up your latest habit, with animals."

"Yeah, she's obsessed with them. I'm thinking of buying a fish task to place it in our apartment because of this girl." Peter placed her to his right so that she had a clear view of the tank, immediately her gaze was on the snapping eel that sauntered past them at the front of the glass. "So, you were saying?"

"Remember what I told you about my sister, right?"

"Yeah." He nodded. "What happened?"

"One of her Doctors said that there's a risk that the cancer might be coming back and she refuses to believe it," Eddie explained. "I'm pressing her to start doing the exams again but she don't want to, she wants to live her life in peace, she even said she hates me...for caring." He looked away to the transparent window.

"Wow.. .why would she even say that? You're just worried about her condition."

"I know...things always have been hard for us since we were kids, I thought that after meeting her again, even after she won her first cancer, things would be alright."

Peter friendly patted his shoulder. "Cheer up, I'm sure she will listen, she knows how much you care for her."

"If it only was that simple."

"Trust me, no matter how hard things could get, you have to hold on to hope, especially on this case," He advice. "My wife taught me that."

"You think so?"

Peter nodded. "Well, I believe, you must have faith."

Eddie kindly smiled. "I really hope that you're right," He said grateful. "Thanks for listening, needed to get this out of my throat."

"No problem, I'm always willing to help." Peter continued. " So, how are things at the Bugle."

"Eh, one day without you and Jameson goes crazy."

He laughed. "Eh, that's to be expected."

Gwen's office - Empire State University

Peter slowly pushed the door of Gwen's new office open, peeking around the corner with Elizabeth in her carry chair. She recently got promoted to new position at her specialization area and a new place came as a reward. Gwen was seated behind her desk, typing furiously on her laptop. She was clad in a lab coat, though it was a rather normal one – total white. Peter smiled, he liked that outfit.

"Can we come in?"

"Oh, hey you two!" Gwen jumped up from behind her desk, rushing around to grab Peter into a big hug. She kissed him on the lips before ducking down to kiss Elizabeth.

Peter grinned. "Wow, someone missed us."

"Yeah, you have no idea how strange it is," Gwen stood back up, straightening her hair carefully. She flashed him a smile. "But it's been a brilliant day. It's fantastic, the set-up here, I mean."

"How are the staff?"

"As their files said, they're very very intelligent. The best, at what they do."

"I mean how are they to work with, not just their records."

"Brilliant. They all seem to co-operate together, and they're all open to a variety of different ideas about how to get things done," Gwen walked back over to the desk. "And they listen to me very well, and not because they're scared of me. They respect me, I'm hoping that they perhaps even like me."

Peter sat down on one of the chairs, placing Elizabeth next to him. "That's great Gwendy. "

"However, turns out we have a new member of the team," Gwen turned around with a slightly anxious expression. "Ex Oscorp, he was transferred this morning."

"Oscorp?" Peter blinked in surprise. "Are you sure about this?"

"Yes."

"I see." Peter frowned, he had no liking for most people that worked at Oscorp. He remembered the unethical stuff that he had discovered with Harry's help. Peter thought there was always a right way and a wrong way to go about even the most noble of causes. Oscorp's way had been wrong, and Peter had exposed everything for proper justice.

Luckily, the scientist never had anything to do with such researches.

Gwen noticed his reverie. "Are you all right with that?"

"With what?"

Gwen rolled her eyes. "Earth to Pete, I mean the new guy."

"Well, if he's a good researcher, as you said he is, then I suppose it's good that he's working here," Peter paused. "And I'm guessing that you're going to keep him in check."

"Most definitely, I'm not having barbaric experiments in my department," Gwen grinned. "I like that – my department."

"Got anything nice and challenging to work on? I mean, you'll have to find something that stands up to patching me up."

"We're starting off with genetically diseases. "

Peter couldn't help but smile, he hoped that Harry would have been happy with that. He owed a lot to his friend.

"Thank you, Harry would have liked this."

Gwen nodded emphatically. "And how was your day?" She turned around with a grin. "Liz wasn't too much trouble, was she?"

"Tried to make several great escapes, but that was about it," Peter paused and kissed the top of her blond hair. "Eddie was kinda different when we meet."

"Oh?" Gwen raised an eyebrow. "What did he want?"

"Apparently, he's having some personal troubles with his sister. There's a risk of cancer and she refuses to continue the tests, and he's super worried."

"Cancer? My god...if we only had more time." Gwen paused her theorising. "If she delays the effects with treatment, maybe we could get some cure in a few years, unlikely but I need to try."

"You're great, but if his sister doesn't want to help herself, then there's nothing that you can do." Peter gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

"You're right. " Gwen moved around to her desk, pressing several buttons on the keyboard. "I'm just shutting it down, then I'm ready to go."

"Great, also – I've had an idea."

Gwen quipped back in return as she closed the draws of her desk. "Oh no."

"I think we should go on a holiday."

"A holiday? Again? " Gwen frowned. "I've only done one day at my new work so far!"

"I didn't mean right now, I meant in a bit. Maybe a few months?"

"I suppose so, but I still think Liz is too young to be in a completely foreign place," Gwen stopped to correct herself. "I mean, I know she's been in other cities loads but not in other countries. If we went to a completely different place, there's all sorts of bacteria that her system won't be very used to. If we wait till after Christmas, when she's one year and a few months old.."

Peter rolled his eyes this time, picking up Elizabeth and opening the door. "C'mon Miss fussy."

"That's not fair," Gwen chided him playfully. "I'm just being cautious."

"Yeah yeah," Petef winked as they left the office. "You're just too much of a workaholic!"

"Not funny."

"Though I prefer you wearing the old suit." He teased.

"You mean your first vigilante one?" Gwen leaned in closer, whispering alluringly. "I'm sure we can dig it out the draw every now and then."

Hours later..

"So I said to him – 'Peter, you've got a bird on your head' – and he just looked at me with an expression as if to say – you've finally gone crazy," Gwen fought to stop from bursting out into fits of laughter as she retold the story that happened during the time that they lived in England. "And he turned and walked from the kitchen into the living room with the thing on his head!"

"How the hell did he have a bird on his head?" Flash had a completely confused expression on his face, mirrored on the faces of MJ, Howard, Helen and May. Elizabeth was currently sleeping on her bedroom.

"Well, we went for this park in our dating anniversary, Peter found the friendly bird and played with him for a few couple of minutes before the lost hamster finally leaved us, at least it's what we thought."

The others all burst out into laughter at the image, Gwen joining them. As she poured herself a glass of water to wash down the wine she had a rather sobering thought. She couldn't believe how much she changed since then. She had a daughter, an apartment, a normal job, and of course, Peter. Yet new Gwen still had some old Gwen in her, the looks of course, but the drive and intelligence was still there. She had never been quite so happy.

"Gwen?" She spun around to her name being called by MJ. "Are you all right? You went rather quiet there."

"Oh," She had completely lost track of time in her thoughts. "No, I'm fine."

MJ gave her a knowing grin. "Missing him already?"

"Ha," Gwen gave her a dry grin in return. "Though I do wonder if he's done taking pictures." Peter had to leave earlier because of some confusion that was happening and the cops weren't succeeding at handling it. As usual, the excuse for those who didn't knew about his secret identity is because he had to take pictures for the Bugle.

Flash interrupted. "Can we turn the TV on? They are broadcasting the fight that happened, Spider-Man and freaking Captain America against this new guy called molten man! Peter is having quite the experience. " He sighed.

"Not all. " Gwen turned around at the triumphant like claim as Peter entered the living room. "Crazy stuff."

Flash grabbed a beer that was on the floor and handed it to Peter. "How did Spider-Man defeated the guy?"

"Water and some punches, I wonder where these guys are coming from. " He sat down on the couch and next to Gwen as he handed her the bottle with a kiss. "Can you open this please darling, I think that I hurt my precious mouth somewhere. " He explained on the way that only his family would understand.

"Ugh, fine," Gwen rolled her eyes as she took the bottle from him. She placed the top on her bottom row of teeth and yanked upwards, tearing off the bottle cap in on quick fluid motion. Howard had his eyes open wide with amazement, most men did at that old trick. "What? It's not that difficult to do."

May tutted at her. "It's awful for your teeth though Gwen."

"It's fine for me, you would not believe how strong my teeth are," She smiled.

"Thank you Gwendy," Peter gave a grin to Howard. "You should see this other trick she can do, she put the bottle between her..."

"Stop right there!" Gwen gave him a playful slap, she knew exactly where he was going with it.

"What? The one with your leg, that was quite funny." He laughed. "So, I heard that you were talking about the time when that hamster was on my head?"

Gwen breathed relieved. "At least you aren't fully stubborn anymore."

A/N: Finally got it done! I was having a conflict of ideas so I wasn't sure about what to write. So, this is the last chapter for this year. I really need to thank you guys for continuing reading story since April. I've never imagined the story would last, so far, almost an entire year. Your support is amazing, really. Some months ago, I thought that I couldn't continue writing this story because of how much complex it got for me, I read some old reviews and that boosted my confidence. Thanks a lot ! I'm gonna revise the past chapters during my break, but the new one will come probably at the end of January.

I mentioned before that I would start a new storyline, but I'm not sure anymore, maybe I'm just going to continue telling the many moments of Peter and Gwen's life without anything major happening. Anyways, I hope that everyone have an amazing Christmas, enjoy your family and friends. And if this year wasn't one of the best ones, maybe the next one can be, fight for better times :)

See you guys in 2015!

- Andrew