No Good Deed Goes Unpunished day 23
Christina was out patrolling later that night, and ended up swinging in the rain. She had stayed out a little longer to rescue a little girl who was trapped in a burning building. She got back to the Tower completely soaked, and she was unable to thermoregulate like most spiders. She was freezing, and her suit wasn't waterproof. She hadn't seen the need to add waterproofing because water was her element. Damian looked at her with a look of pure concern on his face when she got to their bedroom.
"Ari what happened to you?" He asked worriedly.
"I got stuck swinging in the rain because I stopped to rescue a little girl from a burning building, and my suit isn't waterproof. We also can't thermoregulate and I'm freezing." She said, trying not to stutter and succeeding.
"Oh Ari, come here, let's get you warmed up." Damian replied, pressing the spider on her chest which retracted the nanites that formed her suit. "Let me get your parents help, and make sure Peter and Leia are okay as well because they just got to the roof." Damian said.
"Yeah, I'm going to take a shower, but hurry up please." Christina replied, Damian nodded, and left the room to go talk to Pepper and Tony. When he found them, they were in the living room.
"Christina's back, but she got caught in the rain and I'm worried because we can't thermoregulate. Peter, MJ, and Leia were on the roof and are heading down now." Damian told them.
"Oh dear, Damian, do you want me to call Dr. Cho, or do you think you'll be okay handling it without other professional back up?" Pepper asked, knowing the struggles of being personally involved in a situation.
"Maybe, I don't know, I'm just worried. I haven't really had to deal with this yet." Damian said, glancing around the room and shifting his weight nervously.
"It's okay, we'll call her. Now come here, and just calm down a little. You can't help her when you're freaking out." Tony said, hugging Damian and calming him down. Once Damian was in a calmer state of mind, he went back to their room. Christina had finished her shower, and was wearing his military hoodie and a pair of army green sweatpants. She looked a little warmer than before, but not by much. They went out to the living room, and found the couch set up with a pile of blankets in which MJ, Peter, Leia, and Amethyst were already snuggled up. Damian led Christina over to them, sat in the armchair, and pulled her into his lap. Then, he settled the blankets around them. The inability to thermoregulate slowly faded from her mind and body, as they sat and watched a movie curled up in blankets. After a while, Christina was warm again.