Ana liked being engaged to Peter and Felicia and Mary Jane, off shooting her movie in England, but many parts of it were new and confusing to her. They all lived together, that made sense. Even Mary Jane had a room set aside for when she came back. But that was the thing—although the rooms and beds were all big enough for all of them, there were many times when Peter and Felicia slept apart.
Or, sometimes, Peter couldn't sleep and would go out to be Spider-Man, or Felicia would not sleep and go out to steal something (which she would then put back). Sometimes they went to bed in their own rooms, but then one would get up in the middle of the night and go to the other's bed, sometimes for sex, sometimes just to sleep under the same sheets. Many times one didn't even wake the other up.
It was all very confusing to Ana. She knew how her parents had lived together. Every night, Sasha had slept with Sergei, sating his male needs as was proper. She did not understand how Peter and Felicia could be together, but need this space between them, but also sometimes not need it. She though it must be a ritual to account for the Spider's strength.
She knew she made them uncomfortable sometimes, the way she was in love with them before they were in love with her. It would be unwise to try to sleep with them now. Like approaching a deer while it might still spook. She slept outside their rooms, waking before they did, leaving before they realized she was at their door, hearing them sleep, hearing them fornicate. One night, she went to Felicia's room. She heard the steady, slightly pitched rate of breath inside and knew Felicia was awake, sedately reading a book. She knocked at the door.
"Come in, Ana."
Ana poked her head in. "You knew was me?"
"Peter wouldn't knock." Felicia set her book aside. "What's up?"
"I want to sleep in your bed. I'm not used to sleeping alone. Mother used to share my bed..."
"Parental trauma. Knew we had something in common besides great boobs." Felicia drew the sheets aside, patted the mattress. Ana undressed, down to the underwear she thought was appropriate for this stage in their relationship, and joined Felicia in her bed.
"It will be... like sleepover, yes?"
"Yeah. Wanna watch some TV?" Felicia reached for the remote on the nightstand, showing off her taped ribs. She and Peter had fought a malfunctioning Sentinel that day. Ana had been forbidden to help. Too dangerous. Alone in the apartment, she had gone into the shower and
screamed.
"No," Ana said. "Too... loud. Busy, you understand?"
"Even PBS?"
Ana shrugged.
"I'm too wiped out to do anything but lay here, and too wired to sleep," Felicia explained. "
Sucks
."
Ana nodded. She knew the feeling. Like the first night on a hunt that might last weeks. You wanted to work through the night, end it fast, not rely on patience.
"Hey, raised-by-wolves-girl. You know how to cuddle, right?"
Ana nodded.
"Show me."
Ana put herself against Felicia, letting the other woman embrace her, hold her tightly. The 'littler spoon,' she had heard it called. It befitted Peter's senior bride to be the 'bigger spoon'.
Felicia massaged her gently. Ana felt her body start to relax. Her mind start to loosen, feeling Felicia's acceptance being rubbed into her body. "So, Ana, you ever hunt lions, tigers, panthers, cats?"
"You think I hunt people if not hunt everything else?"
Felicia hummed; 'fair enough'. "So you've killed them?"
"Yes, but—not endangered. Not honorable hunt."
"And when you kill them, you do it quick, right? Like nature intends. You don't let them suffer or anything?"
"No." Ana shook her head. "No honor in... bad kill. Clean. Honorable. Knife. Arrow. Only steel, no poison. Bare hands, sometimes. You must respect the animal with your fight."
"That's okay, I guess." Felicia tightened her embrace of Ana. "I ask because, if you ever hurt Peter, betray him in any way, do anything to harm him or MJ or that sweet old lady that raised him to be the man I love—that's not how I'm going to kill you. I'm going to break every bone in your body, then I'm going to sell you to some very bad people I know, and they're going to run experiments on you that insects are too good for. So let's not go that way, 'kay?"
Ana smiled. "You defend him with honor. I'll enjoy learning from you to be in good standing among his harem."
Felicia shuffled to get comfortable. "Stop calling it a harem, too. Or at least start calling it
my
harem. My apartment, my harem..."
***
Peter was defensive of all his broodmares, but most especially of Mary Jane. Ana understood. She could not defend herself. She must make up for it by being able to bear strong children while Felicia kept up the hunt. So Peter was at first reluctant to allow Ana to speak to her sister in
harem,
but Felicia took her side after making her threat clear. And so Ana was allowed to Skype with Mary Jane.
She stared. Ana had studied her prey, back before she'd realized Peter was her soulmate, her one true master. Although others had attempted to capture his heart, Mary Jane had been the first to truly succeed. Peter had taken her to his marriage bed. Felicia may have been his first, but Mary Jane had very nearly tamed him. It was easy to see why. She was beautiful. The majesty of an animal even Ana would not hunt. Some creatures were so awe-inspiring, they had to be allowed to run free.
After about sixty seconds, Mary Jane got the idea that Ana wasn't going to stop staring. "So... guess that 'group marriage' slippery slope got slippery pretty fast, huh?"
Ana closed her eyes. Mary Jane's
voice...
a song! "Peter, of course, loves you very much."
"Yes. He does."
"This is a natural reaction. I look forward to learning from you. When you are too old to bear children, my fertile loins will provide you with many heirs to the Spider. I weep, thinking of them growing up alongside your beauty."
"...
kay.
"
"Am I being inappropriate? Peter warned me about this..."
"I'd just stay away from the subject of reproduction all together."
"Yes! Of course!" Ana nodded, eager to please. "I look forward to when you return, and we can service Peter together, sexually, for pleasure and not reproduction."
***
Peter was off with the Avengers. Felicia watched TV, flicking between channels. There were news stories about the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, but no updates on the Avengers. She slammed her thumb down on the remote, shrinking the sixty-inch image to a white dot that then wiped itself out of existence. Threw the remote to the other end of the couch. Ana didn't know which she was more upset about: worrying about Peter or
being
worried about Peter.
Felicia lifted up one of the couch cushions, unzipped it, reached inside, and came up with a bland prescription bottle. "You need help sleeping?" she asked Ana, noticing the huntress watching.
Ana nodded.
Felicia took out two lime-green pills, threw one to Ana. She clenched the other in her teeth as she sealed up the bottle, pushed it back inside the cushion, and restored the couch to its original appearance. Then she dry-swallowed.
"C'mon," Felicia said, "let's go to bed."
***
Sasha Kravinoff pulled hard against the webbing that held her hands and feet to the bed. She could see Mary Jane in the doorway, and would dearly love to break the little ginger's leg and stake her out to lure the Spider. Her rival wore a ragged pair of jeans and a holey white T-shirt. Cheap, shabby clothes, but Sasha would've paid dearly for them. After he'd webbed her down, the Spider had ripped away her clothing. She was bare as an animal.
"Drink?" Mary Jane asked, coming closer, a glass of ice water in her hand. Sasha snarled at her. Mary Jane set it down on the nightstand, just in case she changed her mind. "Don't think Peter and the others aren't interested in you. They are,
a lot.
But we decided, as a team, that I should go first. Find out what you taste like without... everything else."
She reached down and cupped the mound of Sasha's pussy.
"Whore! Slut!" Sasha screamed.
Mary Jane flicked her in the nose like she was a misbehaving dog. "Shh. I'm trying to make this feel good for you. If Peter heard you talking like that, he'd web your mouth shut. And Felicia has plans for
that..."
She worked a finger into Sasha's slit, watching the older woman squirm. "Not shaved, hmm? That's fine, just a little odd. Your daughter does. She's learned how important it is for a woman to do sweet little things like that for her man."
"My daughter will rip your throat out with your teeth!"
"No," Mary Jane smirked. "But she did
almost
rip my clit off with them. Though I came like crazy, so I can't complain." Her finger sunk deeper into Sasha, discovering the hidden wetness inside. "Wow, your cunt is just
seething.
Even Ana's didn't get so hot. Must be because Peter's fucking her so often, but you, you haven't had anyone since Kraven the Cosplayer rimmed a shotgun. How about I just lick and suck that pussy for you?"
"Don't you dare!" Sasha shouted. "I won't have your whore lips on me!"
"Objection noted," MJ said smugly. She took her finger out, dripping wet. "But I think it's been overruled." She sucked the last joint of her finger like she was snitching frosting off a birthday cake. "Mmm... Definitely overruled." She bent over Sasha, her famous lips now curled in a grin far too wolfish to sell lingerie.
"Ooooh!" Sasha couldn't help but respond, feeling Mary Jane's heated tongue burn into her cunt, plunging deep inside, then curling back to lick what had at first escaped. "You bitch! You're—you're making me do this!"
"Damn right I am," Mary Jane shot back, putting a hand on Sasha's ass. "Nice A, by the way. Inspiring to see in an older woman." She gave it another squeeze as her tongue whipped and licked back into Sasha's pussy.
Sasha screamed. "You're making me—making me!" She bucked her hips off the bed, into Mary Jane's burrowing head.
"Come!" Mary Jane ordered with lips glossed by Sasha's juices. "Come for me,