Spider-Man: Duty and Loss Chapter 61: Date

"Peter? PETER!?" Peter snapped himself out of his thoughts as he looked at Felicia that was sitting across from him. "Yes, sorry what did you say?" Felicia gave him a funny look as she spoke for the 5th time.

"I said when did you become mister money bags?" Peter gave an awkward smile and wasn't sure if he should tell her, he could just imagine all the extra shopping she would drag him through if she knew that he had hundreds of millions in the bank. Looking down at the bags on the floor, he didn't want to imagine it.

After finding out that he was almost a billionaire Peter had been out of it for most of the day. His first thoughts had been one of all the dreams he could pull off with such money, after that it had gone into doubt and frustration as he thought for how long Crystal had been holding out on the money.

His Aunt had been busting her ass off working multiple jobs just so that he could go to school and make a living. Finding out that he could have helped ease her burden had been crushing. Talking to Crystal though, he understood the reason she didn't tell him about his inheritance.

Shaking off the doom and gloom that had taken him for a few minutes, in the end he truly didn't know what he wanted to do with his money. A billion or so dollars was too much for a life time, he could easily live with 1% of that amount.

Never being a big spender, most of it would probably go to charities and his own research. At least he could afford a building now for that kind of work.

Still dazed from the news he headed out to the bank the first chance he got and opened an account. With Crystals tech skills it was child's play to make the newly acquired money look legal, he didn't want the FBI, Shield or any other law agency looking into him.

Though he kept the amount relatively low for the time being, suddenly gaining 1 billion in a day would be too suspicious, so instead he only received 100,000, and it was enough to cover anything he could want.

Settling that matter, Peter had gone back to the apartment to figure out what he wanted to do from then on. He could quit his job at the Bugle, if he still had it that was, and do anything he wanted. He could even start a company, something he was leaning into.

He had been doing that until Felicia had come home and changed clothes. Once that was done they both left the apartment to go on their date. Peter was pretty sure it was a date, but he didn't say it out loud.

First stopping off to grab a new Stark Tech Touch Phone 15, the latest touch screen mobile, which had an inbuilt holographic display, he had quickly hooked up his bank info to his new account, while Crystal got rid of any hard and soft ware that could track, spy or record his inputs.

Basically he made himself a burner phone, with the amount of money he had, he could have afforded to use them as burner phones. Not that he would.

Having done that, he returned the money that Felicia spent paying for the phone, which was no small amount and proceeded to pay for everything else that had gone on to shock and delight her. Throughout the rest of the day she had been slowly testing the spending limits of his pockets.

Starting off with a few dresses before moving onto expensive perfumes and jewelry, some could say she was taking advantage of him, but she had truly just been seeing what he could afford, her mind being blow with every continued purchase.

Finally when they sat down at a fancy restaurant inside the mall and ordered some ridiculously overpriced food, she couldn't help but ask. Too bad for her, Peter's thoughts were in the clouds. Finally though she got through to him and she wasn't going to take any bullshit.

Her eyes peeled looking to see if he was going to lie. Looking at her suspicious face, Peter gave a sigh as a small smile came to his face, sure it would make her ask a million more questions, but her reaction would be priceless.

"Well you see…." He was about to give her the shock of her life when. *BANG* *Crash* A loud explosion sounded out as the mall shook. *Pound* *Pound* *Argh* Heavy footsteps sounded out as screams came from down stairs.

Felicia shot a look at Peter who stood up with a sigh. 'Couldn't I get one nice day off, without something happening?' Peter looked down once at the bags of shopping that surrounded their table, before pulling up his personal backpack. Never went anywhere without it.

He felt bad about leaving Felicia, but she sent him an understanding look. He smiled as he rushed out the door and ran right towards the bathroom. Just as he made it too the door he heard someone scream as they ran away. "Run it's the Rhino!"

Peter stopped for a second. 'How the hell did he get out? Actually I don't want to know.'

Chapter end