Spider Luck

Important decisions

It's been days since I met that girl, and after my research into her, I find out that she's a notorious thief, of whom the police have never been able to find concrete clues to help them catch her. As the girl mentioned, her hobby is stealing from families who got rich with shady business and, after robbing them, she anonymously sends all the information to incriminate them, leaving also a business card with the imprint of a paw of a cat and the name of her alter-ego "Black Cat".

'She must really like cats...'

In the same way as the other times she did things like this, this time, even though she left me the loot, she delivered to the police station a file with important evidence to incriminate the family she had robbed along with two other people.

The two thieves with whom, according to her, she pretended to cooperate, They certainly did not remain silent in front of the treatment of the girl, however, the identity she used with them was obviously fake, so she is still untraceable.

The only person who might know how to find her is me, and if she's telling the truth, I'll almost certainly meet her again on auction day, which was announced publicly yesterday and will be in six days. Following my meeting with Black Cat, in addition to searching for her and patrolling the city, I kept looking for new information about the serum or the missing kids but I found nothing important again.

Whoever's behind this is very thorough, they're not leaving any crumbs that can help me find them, so Kingpin's asset forfeiture auction is my only lead. Obviously I reported to that person the news about this matter, in the hope that S.H.I.E.L.D. may intervene but, contrary to what he had promised a long time ago, He has not yet contacted me.

'To think that the person in charge of the most important organization in the world is less reliable than a cat acting like some sort of Robin Hood is funny...'

A few days ago I talked to Johnny about these things and, in addition to his jokes about my meeting with Black Cat, he told me that neither Reed nor the others know anything about this serious matter but Reed, since the thing has aroused his attention, told Johnny to tell me that he would make sure he knew more about it and personally report this information to the appropriate person.

Johnny has also offered to come and help me personally in case it gets bigger than I can bear, however I replied that at the moment I do not seem necessary. After his umpteenth joke about me saying that just because I want to be alone with Black Cat, he reminds me to be careful and take care of myself.

Following that phone call, I decided to talk to Sue too and, after a lecture from her and a strange silence, that neither of us knew to say to fill it initially, in the end we chatted about various things for a while, as if nothing had happened.

'I have to admit that she seemed a bit more down than usual... maybe I should call her again today, and see if she was in a momentary mood or, as Johnny once told me, there's something really bothering her lately.'

"Peter, you okay? You've been staring at that glass case for a while, do you want to take a break?" Dr Connors says after he puts his hand on my shoulder.

"No, no, Dr Connors, I was just thinking, sorry, I keep checking how the test subject are reacting to the formula."

"Don't worry, Peter, it happens to everyone that they get lost in their own thoughts. What's bothering you? Maybe I can help you. Is it by any chance the biology test that I set up today? In that case know that I will not give you the answers." He says, to lighten things up.

"No, it's not about the test. As you know, there's the fall formal tomorrow night at school, and since I didn't ask any girls to go with me, I was thinking of going alone, since it's the last school party I can attend, If you don't count the prom that's gonna be at the end of the year for us finishing high school. Right now I'm more inclined to give up going there and stay home." I answer, by making up a plausible excuse.