(AN: this is an AU story. Takes place after Civil War)

Chapter 1

It's been months. No contact from any of them except Steve. She had gone to the farm house and they were all gone. Their things had been packed up and they were all gone.

Natasha had seen the empty house and fallen to her knees. Being alone made it easy for her to let her walls break as she cried. She had let Clint in. She had let his family in. She showed most of her emotions around them.

Now they were gone.

Peter Parker didn't dwell on the battle, much. Months after and he was still ecstatic he had met Tony Stark and he had fought for the Avengers. They were all so cool!

Tony still kept in contact with him, only a few emails here and there, but it was still something. Peter was really happy.

One night came with a lot of crime for Spider Man. He didn't get much rest at all. Swinging from one crime scene to another trying to save people.

Sure he was handling it, but he could always be better, if he just had another set of hands to help.

Peter swings into a hostage situation.

"Sir, let the woman go," Peter sighs getting ready for a fight.

The man holds close to the woman in front of him, the gun right at her temple. The woman had a hood that hid her hair and face. The woman takes a deep breath before making a quick movement to take the gun from the man.

Peter, startled, sends webs at both the man and woman and soon the two are on the ground, covered in webs.

"Excuse you Spider Man," Peter recognizes the voice and raises a brow.

"Black Widow? What are you doing here?" Peter goes over to her and begins to help her from the webs.

"Well, I heard over the police scanners that you were having trouble over here so I made Tony come and drop me off. That and you seem to need more training, especially after everything at the airport. We lost half of our team, we need someone else to try and make up that difference."

"Thanks!" Peter lights up. "Let's go save the city. Then you can come back to my pace for the night if you want. Aunt May shouldn't mind."

Natasha merely nods and runs off towards a ruckus down the road.

After fighting crime for half of the night the duo go back to Peter's place for the night. When morning comes around Natasha has made breakfast for everyone as they wake. Luckily Peter is the first to wake so when his aunt gets up he explains that Natasha was in the area and had asked Peter, via email, if she could crash there after her mission was over(exactly what the two had come up with the previous night).

A brief scolding is given to Peter for not letting her know sooner, but all is forgiven when Natasha has cooked and cleaned up, before Aunt May could protest, and they all were able to eat breakfast together.

"What was your mission?" Aunt May asks politely.

"Last night there was a lot of muggings, robberies and other things so I decided to come help out," Natasha shrugs, "it started about 6 yesterday, that's when I emailed Peter. Stark had told me Peter lived here and was a good kid."

"No offence or anything, but why didn't you stay at a hotel?"

"Stark also told me that Peter has one of his grants and that he's going to get somewhere with it, so I also offered to give Peter self-defense lessons."

"That's very nice of you."

Natasha is currently knocking Peter to the ground over and over. "You should tell your aunt who you really are."

"No! She'd make me stop!"

"What if you were offered to live in Stark tower with her? You'd all be safe as well. I mean the government knows about you. Anyone with half a brain for hacking can get the info. Why not just come out with it?"

"No. I can't. I had a girl once. She found out..." Peter shakes his head and gets up off the ground yet again, "she got killed trying to help me. I can't risk it."

"You'd be safe at Stark tower. I promise." Natasha knocks him over again, though he managed to block her first attempt this time.

"I-I don't know..." Peter shoots a web up and climbs it to a rafter.

Natasha, though a little slower, makes her way up to the rafters as well. "I can make sure nothing happens to her."

Peter sighs but he sees the logic in everything she's said. "Will you come with me...?" Peter looks up at her sideways.

Natasha nods, and though Peter can't see it, she smiles on the inside. "I'll text Tony and tell him to prepare an open floor for you two."

"Aunt May...?" Peter looks around. "Aunt May!"

"Peter, get behind me," Natasha hisses softly and he moves behind her. Natasha slowly makes her way towards the kitchen where she thinks she heard a noise. She pokes her head around the corner only to pull it right back as a gun goes off.

"Natasha! What's going on?" Peter demands, still behind her, but worried.

"Someone must've found out about you," Natasha shakes her head, "I only got a glance. Peter, I want you to go downstairs and call the police then Tony. I'll take care of this."

Peter nods and runs off, he's worried but he knows Natasha is better than him at fighting so he trust her to fix this.

Once he's gone Natasha calls out, "is the woman alive or dead? I saw her on the ground."

"She's alive, but not for long," A voice cackles.

"What do you want?"

"I hate Spider Man, the best way to hurt someone is to go for whoever they love."

Natasha has figured out by now exactly where the man is standing so she grabs her gun and round the corner quickly shooting the man. He falls and Natasha holsters her gun.

"Don't die on Peter," Natasha demands of May. Natasha notices a gunshot wound. She grabs a nearby towel and presses it to the gunshot.

"PETER!" Natasha yells knowing the paramedics won't get there in time. It's bleeding too much...

Peter races in and falls next to his aunt.

"Aunt May! Aunt May!" he screams and hugs his aunt.

"Peter," Natasha's voice is soft, "Peter, I'm so sorry. Peter... You need to say goodbye..."

"No!" Peter sobs hugging his aunt.

"P-Peter," Aunt May's voice is airy and quiet. "Peter, I love you. D-don't forget that."

"Aunt May, I'm spider man..." Peter says softly to her.

"I know..." May's eyes flutter closed as she takes her last breath.