Just Another Day

Chapter 1

"So, what is your answer, Mr. Parker?" The Prince of Lies almost as if bored. He had worked this deal from so many angles and it was crucial to his plans. Through the demise of Peter's marriage he would eventually completely destroy legacy of Spider-man forever. Not only that but so many other heroes and heroines would end up completely corrupted. It was a beautiful snowball effect that hinged on Peter accepting. Still it would not do for him to seem excited.

"I am going to have to…decline." Peter Parker changed his mind at the last moment. Some instinct told him he should just tell Mephisto to shove off. Hiding his family would be hard, but he had many friends who would help. As for Aunt May, she would beat him silly for throwing away his marriage for her. "So you can take that contract and shove it."

Mephisto blinked in shock. He hadn't thought the Wall crawler would refuse. He had worked too hard to engineer all of this just to make sure it happened. He'd wrapped so many schemes together into this one plan. He wanted to lash out at the Spider-man for foiling a plot with just a simple act. He was restrained from doing so. The rules of the contract negotiation would not allow it. With a snarl he disappeared in a cloud of brimstone.

"Tiger?" Mary Jane Watson-Parker looked at her husband in a mild amount of shock. She actually had thought Peter would accept the deal. It's why she made a different one that benefitted her greatly. Unfortunately for her, it was about to backfire. "Why did you refuse?"

"It's very simple, MJ. I love you too much to just throw it away." Peter Parker replied with a small smile. "I can call on friends, hell even some current enemies, to protect you. As for Aunt May, she's lived a long life and would knock me out for throwing away my vows."

"Oh." MJ's short response pretty much summed up all she could think to say. In a few moments her deal would come through, and she would have done something Peter would likely never forgive her for. While Mephisto had been bargaining with him, Satanna had slipped in to talk to MJ. The deal had been what MJ was praying for and the cost was going to be a marriage that Mary Jane had thought would no longer exist. "Then I am sorry."

"Why are you sorry?"

"Time to pay the Piper. Oooh, you are still married to the stud." Satanna, the Succubus daughter of Mephisto himself, appeared in a flash of brimstone. "That bites for you Miss Watson…Oh, don't pout…you knew the deal."

"Deal? What deal?" Peter was more than a little confused. He had no memory of a deal with Satanna. Then he turned to MJ and noticed her fear-filled eyes. "What did you do?"

"Oh, relax Webhead. She made a great bargain. You're going to be a Legend and Miss Watson here is going to have her own happy life." Satanna chuckled as she started floating in the air lotus style. "The fact it throws the mother of all monkey wrenches in Father's plans was almost payment enough, but nothing is free. MJ here offered all the love, happiness and joy that her husband would provide. My guess is she assumed that you would accept Father's deal. If you had you could have eventually reunited and been happy. Ah well, that is how the cookie crumbles."

"Wait…I changed my mind." Mary Jane asserted. These words gave Peter hope. "I'll take the original offer and penalties…You said I could any time before you took possession."

"That's true, I did." Satanna tapped her chin playfully. "It will be as you wish. Have fun, Peter, I know I would in your shoes." With a flick of her finger Peter Parker vanishes completely. "Now, Daughter, we start your training