Spider King Harem

Chapter 79

So Daphne Blake's resistance to the growing temptation to Peter Parker was crumbling down fast and though she should've been relief when their date came to it end that night, Daphne instead felt sad and a strong wish to stay with the man who dropped her off at her parents, his telepath wives tricking her family into think that she was by herself as Peter lead her to the front door. "Uh… Thanks for the great time Peter." Daphne said feeling a giddiness in her stomach as she said his name, "You are welcome Daphne, I had a wonderful time as well. So… see you tomorrow? We do have to continue the ploy by going on a couple of more dates and have Fred notice them."

Daphne's frown turned upside down when Peter said that he wanted to spend more time with her, especially tomorrow made her giddiness grown and again without almost thinking before she acted Daphne said "A course I'll see you tomorrow Peter, you are my boyfriend after all." Peter smiled as he leaned down to kiss her cheek, "I'll come back in the morning to pick you up, sleep well Daphne." The redhead was practically in a daze from the kiss as she wandered into her home and watched through the living room window as Peter rode away, but not before looking back at her with a smile that made Daphne's head spin. 'What just happened?'

That night Daphne had a strange dream, she stood in a long hallway, to her left the hall got darker with the lamps getting dimmer and dimmer until they went out completely and plugged that part of the hall into darkness. While to the right the white light got brighter until it was almost blinding, Daphne was debating on which way to go when she heard a familiar voice speak her name, "Daphne." And from the dark hallway appeared Fred Jones looking handsome and smiling at her as he extended his hand towards her, "Come join me." Daphne's heart rate raced, her feelings for the man started to draw her to him. But as she got closer to Fred Daphne started to feel like she had before, cold, sad and depressed, "Come to me Daphne and you can be my friend." Fred said and Daphne stopped in her tracks because when he had said the word 'friend' she immediately remembered that Fred only saw her as, a friend, not a girlfriend or lover but simply a friend to a man who kept flirting and dating blonde women like himself and even then he didn't really stay committed to that woman for more than a week. Daphne knew that if she took Fred's still outstretched hand, then she would spend the rest of her life chasing after a guy who probably wouldn't stay faithful to her even if he accepted her feelings, Daphne didn't know what to do until a new yet also familiar voice spoke from behind her.

Looking around Daphne saw coming from the light side of the divided hallway a man with brown hair and eyes that melted Daphne's heart as he looked at her with a warm smile on his lip and like Fred had done Peter Parker held out his hand towards her yet only said. "It's your choice Daphne, I won't force you into choosing me, it's your decision and I'll be whatever you want me to be." Daphne sensed that Peter meant what he said and even the part of being what she wanted him to be, a friend, brother, lover and husband. Looking back at the cold darkness from which her old affects had appeared to offer her nothing but sadness, Daphne turned around and headed away from it while ignoring Fred's pleas of being good friends. As she approached Peter, Daphne felt the light around him warming her entire body up and even made her toes tingle, she felt warmth, happiness, hope and immediately knew that this was the right choice as she reached out to place her hand into Peter's as he smiled down at her and almost immediately Daphne awoke.

She opened her eyes to find herself laying on her bed with her hand stretched out to the ceiling to hold a hand that wasn't there, sighing sadly Daphne let her arm drop and closed her eyes again as she remembered the dream that surprisingly didn't start to fade away to leave bits and pieces. The dream felt so real and Daphne knew it was the representation of her heart with one side being that of Daphne's old self who was basically a full fledged fan girl that was chasing after the man who wouldn't see her as anything else, and this new self who was practically born yesterday that was now in a relationship which was not one side and health to be with a man who would accept her feelings and not trample them. Images of the Spider King filled Daphne's head and the pull to him that she felt yesterday was stronger than before, Daphne wanted to see Peter badly and she then remembered that she would tomorrow for their second date to try and get Fred Jones to notice her.