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You're never alone

After what felt like a long rest, Peter slowly wakes up trying to figure out what happens to him. As his vision gets more clear, Peter notices that he is now in a familiar room and get his self-up quickly while at the same time feels someone holding him down.

"Peter take it easy! No need to rush into action." said the voice of Hank. Peter turns to see doctor Hank, who was sitting at his desk, now standing right beside him up to check on him. "How are you feeling? I heard it was a pretty rough battle for you guys?"

Peter rubs the back of his head before answering. "I dealt with worse before so it's nothing. The last thing I can remember from the fight is that I let the suit take ahold of me so it could officially let go of its hold on Logan. Then supposedly I battle the suit from within which I thought I won, but after that, it's pretty much a blur."

Hank sat and listened to everything that Peter said about his take on the fight to make sure there was no memory loss from being in the suit even though he doubts that would be the case with Peter since he was the first to bond with the symbiote. He picks up the lab results to explain what happens to Peter after fighting the suit.

"Well lucky for you Peter you don't have any significant damage from the battle. It just seems like you needed some extra rest for your body to get back 100%, you were out for a full day," Hank tells him which shocks Peter since he didn't realize that he slept that long but it does explain why it seems like a long time that he was asleep.

"As far as what happened after the fight from what I heard, the last bit of the suit came off of you and tried to escape but luckily Johnny was able to burn the rest of it, and no one found a trace of it since. Thanks to Logan healing abilities he recovers a lot quicker than you did and thankfully Bobby and Kitty didn't take too much damage during the fight as well."

Peter process everything that Hank just told him. He felt better about knowing nothing serious happen to his friends especially Kitty, who he wants to see right now. At that moment, in a way, it was like she read his mind because Kitty along with Bobby, Johnny, and even Logan came down to the lab to check on him. She runs to Peter and hugs him tightly with Peter hugging her back.

"Oh, Petey I was so worried about you," Kitty said still hugging her boyfriend real tight.

Peter hugs her back loving this feeling. "I'm alright Kitty; I'm just happy that you are here."

"A cough cough" Bobby is making cough sounds to get Peter's attention.

"Um, yea is you forgetting someone?" Johnny asks playing along with Bobby folding his arms.

Peter looks up and answers with a smile, "Oh yeah wolfman glad to see the suit is no longer on you."

"WHAAAAAAAAAT!?" Both Bobby and Johnny question Peter while Logan pops his claws out.

"What was that bub?" Logan asks not amused with being call wolf boy.

"Ha-ha I mean Mr. Best there is, and yes it's good seeing my brother Vanilla Ice and Brother Human Fire both okay as well." Peter cracks a joke, which earns him a playful push from Kitty.

Bobby and Johnny then look at Peter for a few seconds until they at the same time said looking at each other, "Close enough." right before tackling Peter messing with him. This action quickly stops after Kitty rolls her eyes at them and grab both of the young heroes by the ear.

"If you don't stop hurting my boyfriend there will be consequences understand?" Kitty asks them in a grave tone to where Logan found his self-impress by the way she handles the two.

"Yes, mam." The two answers her causing Peter to laugh at the two as she let's go of them so they can rub their ears.

"Now that you all here I think we should discuss serious business now," Hank suggest as the group comes together to go over recent events. Hank continues, " So first thing first can we officially confirm that the suit is destroyed for good?" Hearing the question made Peter ask his self the same thing. He remembers that it was partly his dad who helps make the suit, to begin with, and wonders could it ever officially literally destroy.

"Well considering that I burn it right off of Logan, with the help of his cool healing power, I sure there are no remaining signs plus only a little got on Peter, but we check to make sure there weren't extra parts of the suit on him before we got here," Johnny explains his story to the group. Peter realize at that moment that's how he had the battle from within against the suit. It was due to a small part of it trying to recover from the attack by bonding with him. Thanks to the strong influence of close people in his life, however, Peter was able to stop the suit and kick it out of his mindset.

"Well if it somehow escapes then I'm fully ready to take it down. It will think twice before it messes with the people I care about and me." Peter spoke up getting approval nods from everything one.

"I just glad that strange looking stuff is finally of me. I can't believe I had allowed something like that to influence me that easily without wearing it that long." Logan mutters out loud.

"I still don't understand how the suit took over you so easily Logan," Kitty said with concern in her tone.

"Considering that Logan has a bad attitude all the time the suit more than likely influence Logan by using his anger against him and took control," Peter explain based on his experience with the suit.

"Which means in the future you need to chill more often." Bobby jokes playfully elbowing Logan.

"SHUT UP!" Logan yells at him causing everyone else to chuckle over how easy it is to get under Logan's skin.

"At the end of the day, I'm just glad that no one was seriously hurt because of that suit which brings up the other issue we need to discuss, though this situation involves Peter mostly," Hank mentions. Peter at that moment knew precisely whom he was referring.

Hank goes on to say, "The other situation has to do with Mary Jane. Peter and Logan when you two were able to get the suit off of you didn't cause a long-term effect. However, I'm afraid she made have suffered memory loss because she was removed from the suit a different way. She will wake up soon but I would choose your conversation carefully when talking to her Peter for you might have a choice between wanting her to still know about your secret life as Spider-man or not knowing about that life at off."

Peter felt Kitty's hand on his tighten. He had a feeling that he might have to decide that for he knew the suit could sometimes cause one to not remember certain things after being separated from it. Of course with trying to save Logan Peter never really had the time to think about that but knew he wouldn't have much time to do so regardless since she will be waking up soon.

At that moment Johnny's watch starts beeping which means he needs to return to the Fantastic Four for a mission. As he gives Bobby a goodbye bro hug, Johnny says, "Well looks like the gang needs me of course since I'm captain of the team. Anyways hopefully we can hang out more now and Peter you know I got your back if you need it right." He walks over to Peter and hugs him as well.

Peter returns the hug and answers, "Definitely my human fire brotha." Bobby decides to walk him out after Johnny gives Logan and Hank nods as he walks out the room.

Before exiting, Johnny turns back to look at Peter to tell him, "If you want my advice though, I would tell her what happens if she doesn't have all of the memories intact. I don't exactly know what happened between you two, but I'm sure somewhere inside she knows she wouldn't reveal your secret, but that's just me." At that moment he and Bobby walk out of the room.

Logan decides to head out as well but not without telling Peter, "Flame head made mean well about his two-cent, but after all, that has happened the past few days you better off keeping your super-hero life to yourself for as you can see all the damage, it has caused. Call me a loner all you want, but there's a reason why I don't let a lot of people know certain things about me. Just something to think about kid and thanks again." After revealing how he felt Logan left alongside Hank, leaving Peter and Kitty alone in the same room as Mary Jane.

"So I guess you are next on the list to give me some inspirational advice right?" Peter smirk towards his girlfriend.

Kitty reveals a shy smile before responding. "Petey what can I say? Both Logan and Johnny have strong points, and the last thing I want to do is come across as the girlfriend who tells you how you should treat your former girlfriends. Besides ultimately this is your choice between you and M.J, so you have the last say so. Whatever you decide, I believe that you will make the right decision for the both of you and I will support you regardless." She gives him a soft kiss and makes her way out of the room to give Peter and M.j space. "I will leave you two alone." She said softly before exiting the room.

Author note: I don't remember if the suit does call memory loss to certain people in the ultimate universe but let's say it does for in this case.

*sometime Later*

Peter patiently sat right beside Mary Jane so he can talk to her when she wakes up. During the wait, Peter manages to figure out his decision on should M.J continue to know about his secret or no longer have her know about it. He snaps out of deep thoughts when he sees Mary Jane slowly wakes up.

"Peter?" She questions softly as her vision became more clear seeing Peter.

"Yeah, it's me M.J. How are you feeling?" He responds making her relax more.

"I feel like I took a long nap and somewhat sore. Oh, I had this very odd dream with you in it." She told him.

"Oh really, well do tell what happens," Peter asks in a surprised tone to make sure she doesn't suspect anything.

Mary Jane sat up a little before explaining what she had a dream about. "I dreamt that this weird freaky black stuff bonded with me and transform me into some freak that hated you and Kitty, and later I fought Spider-man and his friends. The craziest part was that you were Spider-man in the dream."

Peter knew that now is the moment of truth, for the way she describes the dream it's clear that she doesn't remember that he's Spider-man. He takes a deep breath and grabs her hand to explain what happens.

"Well M.J most of it wasn't a dream. You see the black freaky stuff is alive suit that my father and Eddie's dad created together and at one point I did wear the suit but later took it off because of its evil intentions. The suit used you to get payback for me since at the time me, and you haven't been on the best of terms, so I reach out to Spider-man and his amazing friends to help save you, and you ended up here while you recover. I called your aunt Anna and told her you were spending the night at a friend's house so she wouldn't be to worry."

As Peter explains what happens, Mary Jane just sat and listened with a surprised look on her face. She couldn't believe that all of what Peter said had happened and she couldn't remember all of it. "Oh, my... Peter I wouldn't think to hurt... wait you said we weren't on the best of terms and that's why the thing use me. Why aren't we on the best of terms?"

This brought Peter back to the day they broke up and how that break up changes the strong bond they had. "Because when you and I ended the relationship, you started acting differently towards me. A lot was said that I believe both of us regret, but I'm sorry for the hurt that I cause you because of it."

Tears begin to run down Mary Jane's face as she gets up to hug Peter and whispers, "Peter I'm so so sorry, I don't remember why I acted differently towards you and though I feel like we can't be the couple we once were right now. I hope you can forgive me and that we can still be close friends. You still mean a lot to me."

Having Mary Jane hug him like this made Peter feel heavy inside, filled with so many emotions. Peter couldn't deny that somewhere in him he still had feelings for M.J and if he could, he could ask to make things work between the two. Then again there are also dark emotions because M.J was also one of the reasons Peter fell to the deep depression that Pete had to suffer recently. Lastly, however, his feelings brought him back to Kitty, the light that brought him out of the darkness of depression and how he loved her and wanted to be with her. Peter then gently hug Mary Jane back to say, "I already forgave you, Mary Jane, simply, and I would like us to be still close to you, but of course, we can only be close friends since I'm now back with Kitty."

Mary Jane wipes her face and looks into Peter's eyes to ask him, "Peter... does she make you truly happy?"

Peter reveals a shy smile and answer, "Yes she does M.J more than I thought she would."

This leads to Mary Jane to smile back knowing that Peter has found someone who can make him happy like she once did. "That's all I need to hear, and I'm happy for you two since I know she found a great guy in you."

"Thanks, M.J I appreciate that. Now that we got all the mushy stuff out of the way, we better get you home. I ask Spider-man could he give you a lift back home if that's okay with you?" He asks her.

Mary Jane laughs at how Peter, despite them not being together, can be a sweetheart at times. "Haha, of course, I feel like I need to apologize to him as well."

Peter goes to leave the room to get ready to take Mary Jane home but not without saying with a smirk, "Oh I'm sure he doesn't blame you for what happens."

*Back at Peter's apartment*

Thanks to Night Crawler, Kitty had already returned home to wait on Peter. She went home after leaving Peter to have one on one time with Mary Jane but not without saying goodbye to the X-men family. Kitty couldn't help but think about what occurs and what was stated in the conversation between her boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend. She knew Peter already had a tough decision about whatever or not letting Mary Jane know about him being Spider-man but yet another question pop to her mind. Would Peter want to work things out with her? She knows Peter is faithful so for him to decide to take her back he will return to break up with her. She shook the thoughts out of her head until Peter comes back since at the end of the day she wants him happy, even if it meant feeling the hurt that she thought the last time they split up.

At that moment, Kitty heard the windows open up and see Peter, still in his Spider-man costume, coming in the room. Kitty quickly gets up and wraps her arm around his neck to hug him, leading to Peter wrapping his strong arms around her waist to hold her in comfort.

"How did it go?" She asks him, softy.

Peter takes his mask off and answers, "Well other than taking her home and hearing apologies to Spider-man multiple times; it went great actually. It turns out she did suffer memory loss of me being Spider-man. So my final decision was to go with not telling her my secret but eventually I will when the time is right."

Peter suddenly notices her heart was beating faster than usual. "What's wrong?" he asks which cause Kitty to lead him to the bed to talk about her concern.

"Peter are you back with her?" Kitty asks in a low tone catching Peter off guard.

"Wait, what!?"

Kitty tries to hold back tears as she explains herself. "I ask because with her memory now gone, there's the opportunity for you and Mary Jane to work things out. If that's the case, I understand as long as you are happy."

Peter now understood where she got the idea from and pulls her close to him.

"Kitty I am not going to lie the thought of me and M.J reconnecting on that level crept in my mind, but like I told M.J, we can only be close friends now because I am with you and I only want you. When you were missing, I found myself so worry for you and all I could think about was bringing you back to me. I love you so much my Kitty-cat." Peter confess to her bring tears of joy from Kitty knowing that she still has Peter's, heart.

"I love you too Petey." They lean in kiss each other softly until Peter cracks a joke saying, "Plus I love watching you in action in your new Shadow-cat costume."

Peter figure at this moment he was going to receive a playful punch in the shoulder. However, Kitty grew a flirty smile and made Peter lie down so she could get on top of him to take off her shirt."

"Well then again who needs a costume for this moment?" Peter asks as the couple share another night of making love to each other.

Authors note: Well guys I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that over the past year I lost the passion for going long-term with this story. Peter/Kitty are my one of my favorite Spider-man pairings, but I can't think of an excellent storyline to follow-up with this story. The good news is that one you finally got an official ending, and if I feel like it, I might do one shot that follows the story. (though I am not promising anything because of other future projects) I still am amazed by how many reviews this story got despite how in the beginning is supposed to be a one-shot so again thank you for all the support. BTW if anyone wants to do his or her own after story with this one, just let me know when you do and give credit to me on the story.