Araneae went first to the narrows thinking someone should go down there more often. By the time she had left the narrows it was nearly time to go home.

On her way home she saw a burning building and a woman screaming to get back in "My Baby!"

--- Araneae's POV ---

I swung down to the house not thinking for a split second that this could be the end of me, there was a kid in the house that had their whole life ahead of them while I had lived a life that if I died I could say 'I lived.'

Landing on the floor I walked carefully across the floor making sure I didn't step on a piece of floor that would give away, "If anyone is in here please help me find you?"

I heard a baby's cry coming from a room ahead, the problem was the corridor before the room was up in flames, not thinking I ran and jumped through the flames but nearly ended up falling through the floor on the other side due to it giving away when I landed on it. Getting up I put out the flames on me that had already burnt me.

Walking carefully into the room I was about to pick up the baby when I noticed my blood on my hands, if I touched a baby that small with my blood it may never wake up. Coughing I tried to find something to take the baby out of there when a plank of wood from the beaming above landed on my back.

--- Batman ---

Bruce was nearly ready to go home when he saw the burning building he approached to hear a woman say to a fireman "Araneae hasn't come out, you don't think she died in there trying to save my baby do you?"

Bruce landed on the ground and a policeman was about to arrest him when the fireman said "He can help the baby and Araneae, I mean the woman went in there even though she obviously knew the possibility of not getting out." The policemen nodded.

He would have just gone in without their permission but it was a nice feeling. He went though the house with more ease than Araneae but when he reached the same dilemma as her he found a weak point in a wall and knocked it down being careful the whole time as that could have done more damage than helping him.

He found the room and saw the beam before he saw Araneae under it her suit on flames slightly, he lifted it and moved it off her. He checked to see if she was breathing after putting out the flames, picking her up he turned to the baby picking it up as well, going to the window he had problems with both the baby and Araneae "Save the kid, don't worry about me."

He didn't bother looking at her when he answered her "I'm saving you both."

--- Araneae ---

She rolled off him using all her strength and kicked him out of the window giving him no options as to taking her with him, she got up with the help of the wall and looked out to see if he had made it safely. She coughed, gripping her ribs, she gasped in pain when she put pressure on her right leg "Shit." When she had landed on the floor before it had hurt but not this much, it was lucky she had kicked with her left leg otherwise she would have caused herself more damage.

She checked her arms to make sure they weren't hurt, thankfully they weren't so she aimed her arm letting her web go, gripping it with the other she swung out of the building just as the room she was in collapsed. Unbearable pain from her ribs caused her to smack into a wall causing her even more pain, she had to get home but the pain was too much so she let herself drop not thinking that she would be caught, she blacked out from the pain just as Batman caught her.

--- Batman ---

He landed safely, not quite believing that Araneae had just kicked him out of the building, he handed the child to the mother who thanked him but was also concerned for Araneae. When he saw the web he followed her already predicting that she would end up falling.

When she hit the wall he heard a slight crunch and saw her try to hold on with all her strength but then he saw something he hadn't expected from her, she gave up and just let go not worried in the slightest if she landed on the floor, which would ultimately kill her. He caught her easily and noticed that apart of her mask was burnt showing the skin below, a medic came forward but Bruce knew that she would not want her identity known so he was about to get his Tumbler when a man in blue and red landed in front of him.

--- Guest Appearance ---

It had been a long time since he had heard from her so he decided to go to her, it was night when he arrived and he decided to help Gotham for the day.

It wasn't until he saw a house on fire that he thought maybe she was there, he then saw her in the arms of the new guy Batman, he landed "I'll take her home."

"How do I know you're really Spiderman?"

Peter rolled his eyes "Look I know who she is and I know where she lives, I know someone who can give her the care she needs." Reluctantly Batman handed her over. Peter looked down at her "Araneae, you said you'd be careful for him." Then he was gone but not before he noticed the look in Batman's eyes.

--- Batman ---

He left just after Spiderman had not quite believing he had met the guy but his mind was trying to work out the new piece of information 'Araneae, you said you'd be careful for him.' Which meant she had promised someone she would take care of herself, meaning she had either left them or they had died and that was his dying wish.

He didn't know it but if he thought about it without thinking too much into it Ann's name would instantly enter his mind.

--- Peter ---

Peter arrived at her house to find two people waiting outside, MJ and Joan. Instantly Joan took her into her arms. Inside Joan got to work having been a medic in the jail, she treated her and both he and MJ helped where they could. Peter explained what he saw and MJ smiled "At least someone's looking out for her."

"I don't think Batman is the person who should be looking out for her."

MJ frowned "Why not Peter, he saved her?"

"You should have seen the look in his eyes when I took her from him."

MJ stood next to him and placed a hand on his shoulder "What look?"

"He likes her and is dare I say it slightly possessive of her." Peter looked down at his friend who he had dated at one point "Harry wouldn't…"

MJ forced him to look at her "Peter, Harry would be happy someone is looking out for her and that someone cares enough to help her. Also he wanted her to find love again."

"They are not in love."

MJ nodded "Maybe not but one day they could be, situations like they put themselves in can make people fall in love a lot quicker than normal." She smiled "I fell in love with you really quick, or don't you remember?"

"If she ends up with him, she'll have more trouble on her hands."

MJ watched Ann who Peter was watching also "She can handle herself."

He gestured to Ann who lay in bandages and had a cast around her leg and Joan decided to say then before Peter could "This was bound to happen one day lad." Smiling motherly at the girl she stroked her hair out of her face "She's just lucky she didn't brake a rib and only broke her leg, it could have been much worse."

"We going to phone her work tomorrow?"

MJ and Joan looked at Peter but it was Ann who answered "I am going to work tomorrow." Sitting up slowly she winced, apart from the wince she didn't show on her face the pain she was going through.

"You are not going to work young lady." Ann looked at her leg, glaring at it "You need to have a days rest before going back and maybe then we will have a logical reason as to why you are hurt."

Ann rolled her eyes and MJ seeing this instantly said "Hey she is only trying to help."

Ann locked her eyes with MJ's and said in a voice none of them had heard her use "I didn't ask for any help." Joan passed her some crutches "You just decided to help me."

Using the clutches she made her way to her downstairs computer only wincing now and then "At least let us come with you tomorrow to explain your injury."

Ann pivoted around with the help of her crutches "If you want, do come, you know why I haven't talked to any of you since I left?" They didn't say anything so she took this as a no "No, well its because I did not want any reminders of New York and I wanted to move on with my life." Gesturing to Peter she said "I didn't want to remember our little thing that we had." MJ glared at her, she gestured to Joan "I did not want to remember my time in the jail more than I do." She then gestured to MJ "I most definitely don't want to remember the day Harry died."

"So moving on is getting close to Batman?"

Ann glared "Harry told me to find love, and who cares if it ends up being with the Bat."

She was about to return to her computer when she went to the bathroom instead, inside she took off the bandages having not bothered to close the door Joan watched her, Peter and MJ also saw her doing this. She left the ones on her ribs knowing that they needed them.

Where the burns once lay now lay scarred skin but healed completely "Seems like you heal fast."

She gently traced the scars that would forever scar her once unblemished body, a tear trailed down her face but luckily it was on the side of her face that they could not see "Maybe I will never find love." She looked in the mirror at her now blemished body looking at each scar, the one that scarred her upper arm, the one on her back that went over her ribs, she could tell this due to it not ending before it reached the bandages.

When she looked at her face she saw a small burn that went over her eyebrow that also could be mistaken as a cut it was that small. It went over her eyebrow and ended just under her right eye. Thankfully it didn't get into her eye otherwise she could have ended up blind in her right eye.

MJ spoke clearly trying to tell Ann that she did still have a chance at love "Scars don't make you what you are, it's the person you are."

Ann looked at MJ "The news will read Araneae was injured in a fire when she tried to save a kid, she was then saved by Batman who also saved the kid." Gesturing to her scars which she was not happy about "If they are clever they will know when I got the scars and broken leg and add all the pieces together." Walking to the stairs with her crutches she sincerely thanked them even if she didn't really want it "Thank you."

Upstairs she sat on her bed looking out the window at the full moon the tears now freely falling and memories entered her mind when her life wasn't like it was now…

--- Flashback ---

She ignored the shouts of her boss and quickly made her way to the hospital where they said she would have to wait to see him. Hours passed and she was finally able to see him when she entered the room he hid one side of his face "Harry look at me."

When he didn't she went up to him and turned his face so he would look at her a gasp broke past her lips "I look hideous right." He laughed "Pete finally found a way to make sure you would be repulsed by me and by the looks of it… it worked."

She shook her head and kissed his lips shocking him, then her fingers traced his scarred face with only love and care "You're still my handsome Harry and no matter what, I love you and always will." She laughed lightly "How many times do I have to tell you this?"

A true smile appeared on his face and he brought her lips to his in a passionate kiss "I love you, you know that right. Oh and you're the best girl a man could wish for."

--- End of Flashback ---

"I only hope someone will show me the same amount of love I showed you Harry." The tears kept coming and when she finally fell asleep her pillow was soaked with her tears.

--- Bruce ---

He arrived home worrying about Araneae, Alfred noticed this and asked him "Master Wayne is everything okay?"

"Araneae nearly died tonight Alfred." He looked at his friend "She went into a burning building trying to save a baby, a beam fell on her, it was lucky that I arrived otherwise she and the baby would have died." His voice was thick with emotions that he was trying so hard to ignore "I got the beam off her and was going to jump out of the window with her and the baby, she knocked herself off me then kicked me out to safety, probably knowing that the chances of me saving them both holding her and the baby where low." He paused the images flashing in front of his eyes "Alfred, she managed to swing out but her injuries where too much, she just gave up letting go… I caught her."

"Where is she now Master Wayne?" Alfred was also concerned about Araneae as with her out there, it helped both Bruce and Gotham and he knew that Bruce wasn't alone.

"Spiderman came along and took her home to someone who could attend to her wounds."

Alfred could hear the frustration in Bruce's voice so he tried to calm him "It was to save her identity Master Wayne surely you can appreciate that?" Bruce nodded a small smile entering his features "If he said he had someone who could take care of her then it will be correct."

Bruce stood placing a hand on Alfred's shoulder "You always know what to say Alfred, what would I do without you?"

Alfred smiled "Probably hire a new butler."

Bruce laughed slightly "No one could replace you Alfred." He went to go upstairs but turned at the last second "I really do appreciate your wisdom Alfred." He then went to his room showering to get the smoke smell off him that just kept bringing the memory to the forefront of his mind. Lying in bed he looked outside at the full moon not knowing at the exact same moment Ann was too looking at its beauty. Soon he fell into a restless sleep his dreams plagued with things that could have happened if he had not made it in time.