Chapter Nineteen

Steve saw her sitting on his window seal watching the moonlight, "Dō shimashita ka? (What's wrong?)"

She looked at him with a smirk, his Japanese was really good, "I have to go see who's trying to poking around in the shadows."

He wrapped his arms around her, "be safe..."

She smiled as he held her tight, "of course...I have a comfy bed here."

"Is that all?"

"And a wonderful man to snuggle with," she smiled.

She felt him let go and reach into his pocket, and he held out a silver key, "so you don't have to come through the window every time."

She hugged him as she took the key, "Blaze is about. You need to stop feeding him junk food, he's going to get fat."

He kissed her, "be safe."

"If I'm not back by the time you leave for work...you too," she said slipping out on the fire escape. She couldn't help but keep his smile in her mind as she reached the roof. It was particularly dark with fog that hung low in the sky. She felt him before she saw him, and she looked over, "I was wondering when you would get back."

Dais smiled at her, "you've been busy."

She crossed her arms, "busy trying to keep us alive. Tell Kale and Sekh, no armors in New York."

"Are things that dangerous?"

"No, just that...tricky," she said.

"Where are you heading?"

"Nowhere."

"You know I can tail you without you knowing."

She sighed, "fine. You can come along, but this is my mission, you listen to what I say."

"Still don't trust me then?"

"No," she answered as she started off across the buildings.

Dais kept in the shadows, and she would see glimpses of his silver hair in the night. It seemed like a short time before they came to a stop at a high rise in the financial district, and he dropped by her side. "I hear there's another spider in the night here."

"He's flamboyant compared to you and Natasha," she said as she looked over the building. "What do you know about Wilson Fisk?"

"Other than you shouldn't have worked for him."

She scowled at him, "how did you know about that?"

"A Rauschenberg, Kay?"

She sighed, "fine, there's not much you don't know."

"He's in jail though, Ryker's, why are we here?"

"Because his substantial 'findings' are still here," she said as they headed to the building. "He might have the staff."

"So we're breaking and entering?"

"You have a problem with that?"

"Never."

She smiled as they scaled the building and they broke into the roof access. She looked at him and whispered, "what have you been up to with the warlords?"

"Trying to keep things quiet," he said. "We've made a lot of noise, especially you."

"Have I now," she asked.

"Don't you know you're the big thing in all the tabloids?"

"Hm?"

"The mystery woman in red," he teased. "Good thing Lady Hoshi didn't invite any publicity to that fiasco of a party she threw. Good thing no one remembers it. Rumors alone have the net spinning since they saw you leave his apartment."

She looked at him as they pressed against a wall while a guard past. She asked, "what rumors are those?"

"That he's fallen in love with a super spy."

She glared at him, "what?"

"You're the mystery woman," he insisted. "Everyone has seen you, but you have yet to make a public appearance. So they assume...spy."

She blushed, "I am woman of very little interest in public notoriety."

"That's why you're marrying this country's biggest hero," he asked.

"Shhh," she hissed as they walked down a hall.

"You have to realize that you staying in the shadows is going to be more suspicious than if you had a public identity," he suggested.

She stopped and looked at him, "what would that be?"

"You could be an international model."

She nearly choked, "can we talk about this later?"

"Sooner is better, but yes, we should focus," he said as he followed her. They came down the hallway that formed a large skylight where they could see a bunch of glass cases. Kayura leaned over and didn't see what she was looking for. He asked, "not here?"

"I didn't think he was that stupid."

"Then?"

"I need to go see him at Ryker's."

"You know that place is a lock down that even we can't penetrate."

She smiled, "I guess I'm back to listening to your lame brain ideas. What was this about an identity?"

He grinned, she hated when she fed his ego as he motioned for her to follow her into the dark. She felt like she was tempting fate again by following the spider into his web. She was getting nowhere on her own though, and she needed to find out who was in the shadows with them before they were cornered into a box with a light on.