AN: Just something I came up with that fit the season.

Feb, 14

It's Tuesday night and let's be honest it's a slow night for crime. I'm swinging through the city and while there may be more people out and about for the time of year it's still a workday. It's still Tuesday, it's still cold, and if I'm honest with myself even villains have someone special to spend the day with.

29 and I'm alone for Valentine's Day.

13 years since MJ broke up with me because I didn't tell her I was spider man.

9 since Gwen died because I was spiderman.

7 since Felicia walked away from me because she only wanted the Spider, not Peter.

5 since I foolishly broke up with Kitty Pryde the Shadowcat just because MJ walked back into my life.

8 months since She walked back out of it because she wanted Peter but not the Spider.

I'm 29 and I can honestly say I might never ask someone to marry me. Kitty is engaged to Colossus now and I'm happy for her but it still hurts to think about what I did to her. I can't date civilians because they get hurt physically or emotionally. Capes won't date me because of my attachment to Peter.

Where does that leave me on this Valentines Day? Alone and cold on a roof looking at the rest of my life. Is that purring? I get up and look behind me and well I guess you could say it's a cat.

Eye level with me is a beautiful site. Five foot ten inches of silver haired goddess. She's wearing a skintight spandex body suit in black with a white fur trim and the zipper down just enough to show her creamy skin underneath. The domino mask does little to hide my ex Felicia Hardy's face. Granted she never cared much for our civilian sides.

She strings out her husky rolling voice for me. "Hey spider, did you miss me?" I can't even respond for a few moments and my face must be as red as my suit. "Oh, what's wrong Peter, did I steal your tongue?"

That hits me quick, "Peter? Not just Spider anymore."

For the first time maybe ever, I see her flush crimson, just from what I said. That shocks me even more, The Black Cat blushing at something I said, and I wasn't even trying.

Normally she's pushed me against a wall by now and flirted me into a compliant mess. Taunted me with jewels for a great chase, or even just stuck her tongue down my throat.

This bashfulness is new. It makes me happy though because I don't know that I want to restart the casual thing we had in the past.

"Spider no Peter, can you just let me talk for a minute?" She sounds so vulnerable but it's different than I remember, it's not the fake sounds she'd make for villains, or the sexy way she would always keep for me. It's genuine in a way I've never heard from her before.

I just silently nod, and she continues while looking down and grabbing her left arm with her right. "I was wrong Peter… when I said that I only wanted the Spider. Well maybe not wrong. I meant it back then, but I didn't get it."

"Why would this amazing hero want to go off and play as a college student? Rack up debt and try to hold down a job he'd never have time for? Pretend to be normal when you never would be?"

I barely hold my tongue as she looks back up at me and drops her right arm. She's looking me dead in the eye now with conviction.

"I get it now Peter, I get why you want that life to be a part of you. 3 weeks ago, I was in LA, and I was running from one of Stark's drones with some of his watches when I jumped through an open window."

I chuckle because we've had that play out many times before and only Felicia would steal something like watches from Tony Stark. My laugh gets a small smile from her.

"Yeah yeah, laugh it up, but that's not the important part. You see there was a family of 3 watching a movie on the other side of the window and I froze, but they didn't. The father threw himself over the girl and the mother jumped in front of me and tried to fight me."

I can still see a shadow of the shock and respect in her eyes as she continues. "Obviously I just weaved past her and continued running but I saw something. She was a blonde woman, and he was a brown-haired man and they had the cutest little girl."

I cock my head in confusion as Felicia Hardy starts gushing about a little girl. "I saw some pictures as I ran out and they looked so happy. When I got to my safe house after evading Stark's bot I started thinking about a family."

The smile on her face dies as she continues. "Peter, I looked around that beautiful house and I couldn't see it." She looks back at the ground hard.

I finally spoke up, "What didn't you see, Falicia?"

She looks back at me "A home Peter, no love, no care, no place for a child, no one I could have one with, and honestly Peter. How could the Black Cat raise a child and have a family? The only one who could do that is Felicia."

Her eyes pop up to mine and pure determination flows from her with her next statement. "There is only one person I have ever loved, and it was the Spider." Anger now crosses her face as she continues, "but, the Spider and the Cat can't have the family I want."

Finally, the sexy smirk she always wears for me is back. "So, right now we are going back to your apartment, you're going to shower and change into Peter Parker, and he's going to take Felicia Hardy on a date."

Black Cat's… no Felicia's words hit me straight through the heart. I haven't been so happy, scared and confused since the last time she was in my life, and just like that the Spider crawls into the Cat's web. "As you wish."

Her smirk widens into a full-blown grin, and I know I just messed up. "Did you just quote Princess Bride to me?" She walks up and presses her body to me as she moves around me from behind. "Oh love, I knew you wouldn't be able to say no to me."

She leans into my ear just before she leaves whispering "race you." Immediately she takes off towards my apartment running and jumping between buildings. Of course, as always I chase my Cat.

As I swing through the city after Felicia, I think about what has brought me to this point. Those I've lost, pushed away, or just couldn't hold onto.

I think about that little girl in LA I've never seen and her family that would stand between her and the world.

If I can have that life with Felicia, It would make me extremely happy. I'm just not sure I could take another heartbreak but looking at her ahead of me as she looks over her shoulder at me. I'd never be able to say no.