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  1. Rec 23

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    "How about I slip into something a little less comfortable and you can frisk me for old time’s sake?”

    Peter snorted. Then he thought about it.

    “On a rooftop?” he asked.

    “You just pick the skyscraper, baby,” Felicia said, dragging one finger down Peter’s chest. “I’ll be there with bells on. Literally.”

    She pulled away from him with a wink, a sway in her steps as she padded silent through the living room. Peter loved her.

    Her father was right about one thing. A woman like Felicia deserved something more special than a ring from Zales hidden away in a cake.

    She deserved a proposal as unique as she was.

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    Peter proposes to Felicia, robs a museum, and chaperones his son's science class. Not in that order.

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    09 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 16

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    Felicia Hardy is dreaming again.
     
    She knows because she’s hanging out with Flash and he’s standing tall next to her, six foot something of muscle and neon athleisure, not in his chair or levering himself around on his crutches. She knows because she’s standing in an apartment she recognizes but can’t place, the elevator doors closing behind her, facing two people; it’s a man and a woman, she thinks, has the vague, shifting impressing of red hair on her, but when she tries to focus on him—on either of them, but especially on him—her brain balks, running right up to the edge of looking and then veering away to stare at the art on the walls, the plant between them that they’re repotting.

    It isn’t right. She should be looking at them. She should be looking at him, and he should be looking at her, and he should be shocked and she should be—satisfied, vengefully satisfied, a painted veneer over hurt and anger.

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  3. Rec 26

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    “I’m a little disappointed.” The Spider says. “It’s never this easy to find you.”

    “Yet you manage.” Felicia replies. Her mouth, all red lips and white teeth stretched up into a taunting smile.

    Felicia isn’t sloppy. Precision, practice and patience had been forced into her skillset. Even at her worst, she was still a cut above the rest when it came to the art of the theft.

    If she’s caught, it’s because she wants to be.

    Tonight the Spider isn’t a nuisance. He isn’t a tool in her plan, not when she could so easily finish this job alone.

    No, tonight he’s her distraction.

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    People are people, but it’s like you’re made of angel dust.

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    09 Jan 2025

  4. Rec 32

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    Don’t ask me what the rush is, I don’t know. I just know—after everything, after learning what I learned, meeting who I met—I need to talk to someone real. Touch someone real, know someone and have them know me. And Felicia knows me. For better or worse, she sees me for who I am.

    “Peter,” she says, surprised, looking up from her desk. Her account sheets are laid out in front of her, logbook and piles of cash at her elbow. Her hair looks different—or maybe it’s just that here, everything is finally the right colors again, the waterfall of white tumbling over her shoulder and down to curl at her cleavage, her silver robe open nearly to her navel. Her scars, cross-hatching her nose and jaw, only her luminous eyes the same as when we first met.

    “Don't let me interrupt," I say, leaning against her door frame. The cat jumps down off me in favor of Fel's lap. Lucky bastard. "I could stand here and watch you do math all night."

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    My final (probably) ITSV tie-in, written for PeterFelicia Week 2020. Spider-Man Noir goes home.

    Title, like all my ITSV fics, from Ray Bradbury.

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    17 Jan 2025

  5. Rec 29

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    “He’s--”

    “Yours,” Felicia says, Peter bringing his hand down and searching her face.

    Felicia was many things - passionate, meticulous, methodical, strategic.

    Liar.

    Peter would like to believe that for as long as he’s known her, that he’s gotten better at this - better at understanding more of her tics and her whims, seeing beyond the shiny veneer that she gives off to people.

    Yet now, staring at her and then back down at the photograph she’s handed him, Peter wonders if Felicia would be so bold to lie about this.

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    27 Jan 2025