Lynx Book 3: A Callie Torres Story

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Callie woke up a few hours later. Jada was extremely worried about her wife, but seeing Callie wake up and appear to be better allowed her to relax.

"How do you feel?" Jada asked as Callie rolled onto her back.

"Better," she answered. "A lot better. I think I just needed to sleep it off."

Jada smiled. "You still feel a little hot so I'm going to get you something to drink. You stay here, I'll be back."

"Stay here," Callie pleaded. "I'm okay, I just want some cuddles."

"I'll be right back, baby," Jada said softly. "Then I'll give you plenty of cuddles."

"Babe!"

As Jada sat up and began to push herself out of bed, Callie reached for her wrist. She wasn't quick enough and began to fall on her side when she gasped in surprise when something shot out of her wrist and attached onto Jada's.

"What the fuck?" Callie and Jada asked together.

Jada pulled at her wrist and looked at the white stuff that was now attached to it. As she moved her wrist, her eyes trailed down the white stuff to Callie's wrist where it was still currently coming out.

"Is that a spider web?"

Jada looked more closely at it. "I think it is." Then she exclaimed, "you're Spider-Man!"

"That makes sense," she began to ramble. "You must've gotten bit by a spider and now you're Spider-Man! Shoot it again."

Callie extended her wrist forward and sort of jolted it upward and another web shot out and caught Jada's wrist.

"Holy shit! You're Spider-Man!"

"I'm Spider-Woman," Callie replied cooly. In all seriousness, she added, "I have no idea how this happened."

"Where did you say the fire was again?"

"In some old lab," Callie answered. "It had been abandoned for a while."

"Somebody had to have been in there doing some weird shit and messing with spiders. One of those spiders had to have bitten you. I bet that's what the mark on your neck is."

"I thought you would be more freaked out that I'm shooting webs out of my wrist. I think I'm more freaked out than you," Callie admitted.

"I am," Jada agreed. "But, this makes sense."

Sitting down on the bed beside Callie again, Jada examined her wife's wrist. "This is so cool. You're freaking Spider-Man!"

"Woman," Callie corrected.

"Spider-Girl."

"No."

"Why not?" Jada questioned.

"That sounds like it's for a kid."

"Can I become Lynx?" Jada asked. "I'm starting to get some of your powers. You said so yourself. You said it had something to do with the amount of times we had sex and that the powers are probably coming through-"

"Jaelynn."

Jada stopped cold in her tracks. "I want to be your crime fighting partner. I can do it. I have the suit to do it."

"I don't want you to get hurt," Callie said softly. "I need to talk to the team about this. I need to let Natasha know what happened and we can go from there."

"I really want to do it."

"I know," Callie said softly. "I just wouldn't be able to live with myself if you got hurt."

"Then don't let me get hurt."

"It doesn't work like that," Callie said before a long sigh. "I didn't choose to be bitten by a cat, or a spider. I didn't choose this life. This life chose me. I have been so lucky to have you in it and I am so grateful for our family. I can't drag you into this... if something happens to me, you have to be there for the girls."

"I knew the risks when I asked you to be my girlfriend," Jada replied. "I knew what I was signing up for. You fight like hell for what you love, and I love you for that."

Jada took a deep breath. "I can't step aside and worry about you when you're gone. I already have some of your powers, I know how to use the suit, you always talk about wanting to protect me and I want to protect you too."

"This shit can get personal," Callie added. "They will bring me into it, they will bring the girls into it, they'll bring your mom into it. These new powers put our family at risk."

"Calliope, you and I are more than capable of protecting our family and you know that."

"There are some bad people in this world, Jaelynn."

"I know," Jada said sternly. "Let me do this."

"I need to talk to Natasha first, okay?"

"Okay."