đđâ Mask off PT II | Authors Note! hi!! this fic is a little chaotic, a little soft, and a lot of tension finally snapping so⌠enjoy the ride đ this is just for fun, donât take anything too seriously, and thank you for reading <3
pairing : mcu peter parker x blackcat! reader
genre : fluff, smut 18+ mdni
warnings : explicit smut, strong language, mild violence, identity reveal, suggestive themes, public intimacy, mild violence
summary : You and Peter canât ignore the tension between you at school, and when you meet again as Black Cat and Spider-Man, everything finally clicks into place.
The lab smelled like formaldehyde and cheap lemon disinfectant, the kind that never actually cleaned anything but convinced the school board the budget was being spent. A Bunsen burner hissed two tables over where Jason Ionello was trying to light a gummy bear on fire while Mr. Harrington's back was turned. Someone's phone buzzed against a textbook. The fluorescent tubes overhead gave everything a sickly, flat pallor, the color of gas station milk.
Peter Parker sat on the stool beside you and smelled like drugstore deodorant and pencil graphite, with something else underneath, something clean and warm, like dryer sheets left too long in the sun. His hair was a disaster, brown curls crushed flat on one side like he'd slept on his arm during fourth period, which, knowing him, he absolutely had. Dark circles sat under his eyes, purple as bruises against skin that hadn't seen proper sunlight in weeks.
She smells like, okay, focus. Stoichiometry. Moles. Avogadro's number. Not whatever that vanilla-and-something scent is. Not her.
"You're doing the conversion wrong," you said, pulling his notebook toward you without asking. Your handwriting was sharp, angular, nothing like the looping cursive you used in other contexts, other lives. You scratched the correction into the margin with his own pen, your knuckle brushing his thumb.
Peter yanked his hand back like you'd burned him. "I, yeah, no, I knew that. I was testing you."
"Mhm." You didn't look up. You could feel him staring at the side of your face, that fidgety, almost distressed attention he always gave, like you were a word problem he couldn't parse. Your hair fell forward, and the silver ring on your index finger caught the overhead light. Peter's gaze dropped to it. Stayed.
Two rows back, Ned Leeds leaned toward MJ without lowering his voice at all. "Dude, he's doing the thing again. The staring thing."
MJ didn't look up from her book. "He does it every Friday."
It's nothing, Peter told himself, dragging his eyes back to the beaker. She's just, she's in my class. She sits next to me. That's the whole thing. That is the entire thing.
But his fingers kept flexing under the table, and when you leaned close enough that your shoulder grazed his, something at the base of his skull hummed, a low, electric whisper that he'd learned years ago to never ignore. Spider-sense. Faint, not danger-faint. Recognition-faint.
The bell split the air at 2:15. You were gone before he'd even capped his pen, backpack slung over one shoulder, silver ring catching light as you pushed through the door and dissolved into the hallway current of three hundred bodies smelling like Axe and anxiety.
Peter watched you go. His pencil was broken clean in half inside his fist.
October in New York bit with teeth. The wind came off the Hudson carrying diesel, brine, and the grease-sweet rot of the Meatpacking District two blocks south. The skyline was a jaw of lit windows, and the rooftop under your boots was old tar paper gone soft and tacky from the day's weak sun, now cold and gritty beneath the balls of your feet.
You crouched on the ledge in a suit that fit like a second pulse, matte black Kevlar-weave, articulated at every joint, with a neckline that plunged to a silver zipper resting just below your sternum. The mask covered your eyes and cheekbones, leaving your mouth bare, your lips painted a shade of plum so dark it looked black in the sodium-vapor light. Your hair was loose, platinum-white, whipping across your jaw in the crosswind. The claws on your gloves were real, titanium-carbide tips that could open a Brink's safe or a man's throat with equal disinterest.
Below you, the Galerie Lefèvre had just closed its doors. Inside: a FabergÊ egg worth four-point-two million dollars, insured for six, guarded by a system you'd already mapped, memorized, and mentally dismantled during a gallery walk last Tuesday in a sundress and borrowed glasses.
You stretched your fingers. The claws caught moonlight.
"You know," said a voice from directly behind you, too close, too casual, "most people just buy stuff from the gift shop."
You didn't flinch. You never flinched. Instead you turned your head slowly, letting the motion pull your hair across your throat, and there he was.
Spider-Man. Perched on the water tower's rusted strut like a gargoyle who'd been redesigned by someone with a sense of humor. The suit was the red-and-blue Stark-tech number, nanofiber, lensed eyes that whirred and refocused like camera apertures, every line of it vacuum-sealed to a body that had no business being that well-built under spandex. Broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist, thighs like a sprinter's, the suit leaving exactly nothing to imagination and offering zero apologies about it. He was crouched with his forearms on his knees, head tilted, the mask's eyes squinted in what you'd learned to read as his version of a grin.
God, she's already here. She's always already here. How is she always already here? And why does she always sit like that, like she's posing for a painting no one commissioned?
"Gift shop's closed, Spider," you said. Your voice through the mask was lower than your daytime register, something you did on purpose, a contralto purr that you knew, from documented evidence, made his web-shooters misfire. "And I don't buy what I can take."
"See, that's the thing." He dropped from the strut, landing on the tar paper with a sound like a palm slapping a desk, thwap, and straightened to his full height. Five-eleven, maybe six feet in the suit. He rolled his shoulders, and the nanofiber rippled. "Every time you say something like that, I have to do the whole 'I can't let you do this' speech, and honestly? It's getting kind of,"
"I was gonna say repetitive, but sure."
The wind gusted. You caught the scent of him beneath the October cold, something mechanical and clean, like ozone and polymers, but under that, buried: warm skin, boy-sweat, and whatever bodywash he used that you could swear you'd smelled somewhere before. Somewhere with fluorescent lights and formaldehyde.
You shoved the thought away.
"Then don't do the speech." You rose from the crouch, unfolding to full height on the ledge. The suit creaked faintly, leather and Kevlar whispering against each other. You were close enough now that you could see his chest move with his breathing. Faster than it should've been. "Let me work. Go save a cat from a tree. We both go home happy."
"Can't do that either." He took a step closer. The lenses on his mask dilated. "You know I can't."
Her mouth. I'm staring at her mouth again. Stop staring at her mouth. She's a criminal. A literal criminal. Who steals things. With those hands. Those very specific hands that, STOP.
"Then what," you murmured, tilting your chin down so you were looking at him through your lashes, through the mask's cutout, the plum-dark lips parting just enough, "are you going to do with me?"
The air between you tasted like diesel and something electric, ozone from his suit, maybe, or just the static that always built when you got this close. Your clawed finger came up and traced the spider emblem on his chest, the titanium tip dragging a faint shhhhk across the nanofiber. Beneath it, you felt his heartbeat. Jackrabbiting.
Peter's hand caught your wrist. Fast, spider-fast, five fingers wrapping around the Kevlar with a grip that wasn't playing. His thumb settled over your pulse point, pressing hard enough that you knew he could feel yours racing right back.
"You do this every time," he said, and his voice had dropped too, gone rough at the edges, the quippy bravado bleeding out of it like air from a tire. "You get close and you, you make it."
"Impossible." He let out a breath that fogged between you. "You make it impossible to do my job."
"Maybe your job's overrated." You stepped off the ledge, toward him, not away, your body a blade's width from his. The height difference meant your mouth was level with his jaw, and you could see the tension in it, the clench and release. Your free hand landed flat on his chest, claws retracted, just your palm against the nano-suit's warmth. "Maybe you want something else tonight, Spider."
Yes. No. Absolutely not. She's, this is a trap. This is always a trap. A really, really well-designed trap that smells like vanilla and wears a catsuit.
No preamble. No warning. He yanked his mask up to his nose with one hand, you caught a flash of jaw, the faintest shadow of stubble, lips bitten red from the cold, and then his mouth was on yours, hard and graceless and tasting like cheap mint gum and desperation. His hand was still around your wrist, and his other arm locked around your waist, pulling you flush against him so that your breasts compressed against the spider emblem, your hips slotting against the V of his, and the sound you made, "mmnh", was swallowed right off your tongue.
He kissed like he fought: all instinct, no restraint. His teeth caught your lower lip, nnh, tugging, and when your lips parted he licked into your mouth with a groan that vibrated through his chest and into yours. The mint mixed with the plum of your lipstick, and beneath it the taste of him was warm, salt-sweet, human. His arm tightened. Your spine arched. The city noise, sirens, distant bass, a car alarm cycling through its tantrum,all of it dropped to static.
Your clawed hand slid up the back of his neck and found skin where the mask had ridden up, hot, damp at the nape, the short hairs there bristling under your fingertips. He shuddered so hard his whole frame jerked, and the sound he made against your mouth "fffuck"was barely a word.
You pulled back half an inch. Your lips were swollen. His were smeared plum.
"For someone who can't let me do this," you breathed, "you're doing a lot of this."
"Shut up." His fingers dug into your waist. "Please, for once, just.. "
He kissed you again, and this time there was nothing graceless about it. Slow. Devastating. His tongue traced the seam of your lips like he was memorizing the shape, and when you opened for him the sound between you was wet, obscene, mmlh, slck, his hips pressing forward so you felt exactly what the suit couldn't hide. Hard. Thick enough that the pressure against your lower belly made your breath hitch, your thighs tighten. The nano-suit was thin. Cruelly thin. You could feel the heat of him through it, the rigid line of his cock straining against the material, pressed between your bodies with nowhere to go.
It slipped out of him like a secret he'd been choking on. His whole body went rigid. You felt his heartbeat spike under your palm, a wild, arrhythmic stutter.
I just, I told her. I told her my name. What the fuck. What the FUCK. Why did I, she was, and I just.
You didn't move. The wind howled. Somewhere below, a taxi laid on its horn, a long, bleating BWAAAHHHH that echoed off the brownstones.
"Peter," you repeated, and the name felt like a key turning in a lock you hadn't known was there. Your voice was barely audible. Your hand slid from his chest to the edge of his mask. "Can I"
"Yeah." He swallowed. You watched his throat work. "Yeah."
You peeled the mask up. Slowly. Past his chin, squared, a small mole beneath the left corner of his jaw. Past his mouth, red, wrecked, smeared dark with your lipstick. Past his nose.
Brown eyes. Enormous, wet, terrified, burning. Lashes so dark they looked lined. Curls matted flat from the mask, the same curls that had been crushed from sleep that afternoon in chemistry, the same face, the same boy who sat beside you and smelled like drugstore deodorant and graphite and your stomach dropped through the roof.
Peter Parker stared at you with every defense he'd ever built crumbling visibly behind his eyes, and his hand came up to the edge of your mask, trembling.
"Fair's fair," he whispered.
The recognition hit him like a truck. You watched it happen,the dilation of his pupils swallowing the brown, the parting of his lips, the way the air punched out of him in a single syllable: "You."
"Me," you said. And despite everything, you smiled.
His hands cupped your face, both of them, the mask dangling from his fingers, forgotten, and his thumbs traced your cheekbones, the real ones, unmistakable, the same ones he'd stared at over a graduated cylinder eight hours ago.
It was her. It was always her. The spider-sense, the ring, the way she moves, the, oh god, I've been jerking off thinking about my lab partner in a catsuit and she IS my lab partner in a catsuit.
"Every Friday," he said, his voice cracking. "You, every Friday you sit next to me and you knew?"
"I didn't." Your hands were on his wrists, holding him there. The wind was pulling your platinum hair across both your faces. "Not until right now. Not until you said your name and I." Your throat closed. You swallowed past it. "Peter. I had no idea."
"But the spider-sense, I felt it, around you, I always,"
"Maybe it was trying to tell you something that wasn't danger."
He stared at you. The city hummed below. His thumbs kept moving on your skin, a compulsive back-and-forth, like if he stopped touching you you'd disappear.
Then he laughed. A broken, gorgeous, completely unhinged laugh that echoed off the water tower and startled a pigeon from the ledge. His forehead dropped against yours, and you felt the laugh in his whole body, every vibration.
"I am," he managed, "so incredibly stupid."
"Yeah." You kissed the corner of his mouth. Tasted mint and plum. "But you're pretty, so it evens out."
His mouth found yours again, and this time there was no pretense. His hands slid from your face down the column of your neck, over your shoulders, down the zipper line of your suit with deliberate, mapping slowness, like he was reconciling the body he'd pressed against in the dark with the girl who corrected his stoichiometry. His fingers found the zipper pull between your breasts and stopped.
"Can I," he breathed into your mouth.
"Peter, if you don't, I'm going to claw this suit off you, and Stark tech is expensive."
He laughed again, shorter, darker, and pulled the zipper down.
The sound of it was obscene in the quiet: a long, metallic zzzzzzip that split the night air. The suit parted beneath it, and the October cold hit your sternum, the valley between your breasts, your stomach. You weren't wearing anything underneath. His eyes tracked the opening like a man reading scripture.
"Jesus," he said, barely voiced.
Your skin prickled, cold and want in equal measure. Your breasts were bare in the city light, nipples drawn tight from the wind, and when his hand came up and cupped the left one, his palm was furnace-hot from the suit's thermal lining. The contrast made you gasp,a sharp, bitten-off "ahâ" that you felt in your cunt, a sudden wet pulse.
She's, there's nothing under the, she's been sitting in class with nothing under, no. Focus. She's here. She's real. She's letting me.
His thumb dragged across your nipple. Slow. Deliberate. You arched into it and his other arm tightened around the small of your back, pulling your hips against his again, and this time with the suit half-open the sensation was sharper, his cock pressed against your lower belly through the nano-suit, twitching at the contact.
"How do I." He glanced down at himself, frustrated. "The suit doesn't exactly have aâ"
You pressed your palm flat against his chest and pushed. Not hard just enough. "Nanotech, right? Think it off."
He blinked. Then closed his eyes. The suit rippled, retracted from the waist down like liquid mercury pulling back into a vial, and then he was bare from the hips to mid-thighâ, he suit reconstituting as a kind of truncated top, red-and-blue ending at his navel. Beneath: skin. Pale, goosebumped, a thin trail of dark hair running from below his navel.
His cock stood hard against his stomach, flushed dark at the head, thick enough that the sight of it sent a visceral clench through your abdomen. Curved slightly left, a prominent vein running the underside, the tip wet and shining in the ambient city glow. His balls were drawn up tight, and he was trembling, not from cold.
"Don't," He was red to his ears. "Don't just look at it like"
You wrapped your hand around him. No preamble. Your bare fingers, claws retracted, just skin, closed around the shaft and his hips bucked involuntarily, a choked "nngh" punching out of his throat. He was hot in your grip, the skin silk-smooth over rigid hardness, and when you stroked once, base to tip, thumb sweeping the leaking slit, his hand shot out and grabbed the water tower strut behind you hard enough to dent the metal.
"Hah, fuck, your hands, your, you have no idea how many times I, " He bit his lip bloody. "In class. Your hands."
"I know." You stroked him again, slower, twisting at the head, and his cock jerked in your fist, a bead of pre-come spilling over your thumb, slick and warm. "I always know when you're staring, Peter."
You shoved the suit off your shoulders. It peeled down your arms, your waist, your hips, puddling around your heeled boots in a heap of black Kevlar. The wind hit every inch of you and you didn't care, because Peter's eyes were running down your body with an expression caught somewhere between reverence and ruin. Your waist, the flare of your hips, the trimmed strip of hair between your thighs, the muscle definition in your legs from years of acrobatic theft.
He pulled you against him and spun you so your back hit the water tower, the metal was freezing and you hissed, but then his mouth was on your neck, open and hot, sucking a bruise into the tendon while his hands ran down your sides with a desperation that made his fingers shake. His cock pressed against your inner thigh, smearing wet, and you wrapped one leg around his hip and pulled him closer.
"Tell me." His mouth moved to your collarbone, teeth scraping. His right hand slid between your thighs and his fingers found your cunt, slick, swollen, embarrassingly wet. The sound his fingers made parting your folds was a soft, slick schlck that made you both groan. He pressed two fingers in without hesitation and you clenched around them, your head falling back against the metal with a thunk.
"Aahhn, fuck, right there, right."
He curled his fingers. Spider-enhanced dexterity meant he found the spot on the first try, the textured patch of your front wall, and pressed with a precision that bordered on cruel. Your thighs shook. Your claw-tipped hand found his shoulder and gripped hard enough to leave marks through the remaining suit.
She's so wet. She's dripping on my hand. Is it always, has she been, when she sits next to me, does she, oh god I'm not going to survive this.
"Inside me," you managed, barely coherent, your hips rolling against his hand. "Peter, I swear to god, if you don'tâ"
He pulled his fingers out, shlkk, glistening, and brought them to his mouth. Tasted you. His eyes closed and the sound he made was guttural, animal, a bass "mmmnnh" that you felt in your bones.
Then he gripped your thighs, lifted you, effortlessly, stupidly, one-handed-stopping-a-bus effortlessly, and pinned you against the water tower with your legs around his waist. The head of his cock nudged your entrance, slick sliding against slick, and he paused there, forehead against yours, panting.
"You're sure." Not a question. A confirmation. His arms were trembling with restraint, every muscle in his abdomen taut.
"Peter Benjamin Parker, I have wanted this since the first time you webbed me to a fire escape in SoHo."
The stretch was immediate, thick, insistent, splitting you open around him inch by inch while the city screamed below. Your mouth fell open in a silent cry that found its voice halfway through, "aaahh, oh f-fuck", and your nails raked down the suit fabric on his back, leaving long white lines. He bottomed out with his hips flush against yours, his pubic bone grinding your clit, and the fullness was overwhelming, you could feel his cock twitch inside you, could feel every ridge and vein.
"Hhh, you're so, you feel," Peter's jaw was clenched, tendons standing out in his neck, his eyes screwed shut. He was shaking with the effort of not moving. "Tight. You're so fucking tight, I can't,"
He pulled back and slammed in. Your spine scraped the water tower and you didn't care, the thrust punched a sound out of you that wasn't a moan, wasn't a word, was something between, a raw "UNH" that echoed off the adjacent building. His hands gripped the backs of your thighs, fingers sinking into the muscle, and his hips set a rhythm that was devastating, deep, grinding, each stroke bottoming out with a wet slap of skin on skin that cut through the ambient noise of the city.
"Ah, ah, Peter, oh my gah, ah, ah"
His mouth found the junction of your neck and shoulder and he bit down, not gently, and the pain-pleasure of it arced through you like current, your cunt clenching around him so hard he groaned against your skin, a vibrating "fffuck, do that again"
You clenched on purpose. He whimpered. The sound was devastating, this boy who stopped trains and caught falling cranes, whimpering into your throat because you squeezed around his cock.
The position shifted, he adjusted his grip, lifted you higher, changed the angle so the next thrust hit something deep and electric and your vision whited at the edges. Your mouth was open against his temple, breathing ragged, tasting salt-sweat on his skin, and every exhale was a sound,"mmnhh, nnhh, ah, ah, ah" a rhythm matching his.
"Wanted this" he panted between thrusts, each word punctuated by the slap of his hips, "every time, ugh, on the rooftops, haa, when you'd,nnhget close and I could smell you and I"
"Me too." You pulled his face up and kissed him, all tongue and teeth, tasting yourself on his lips. "Mmmlh, every time, Peter, I'd go home and touch myself thinking about"
"Don't, if you say that I'm going to," His rhythm stuttered, hips jerking, and you felt his cock swell inside you, the throb of it, the urgency. His hand slid between your bodies, thumb finding your clit with that same terrifying precision, and he rubbed in tight, fast circles while he fucked up into you, and the dual sensation was..
"Aah, AAH, I'm, ngaa, Peter, I'm gonna"
"Yeah, yeah, come on, let me feel it, I want to,"
You came with a sound like breaking, a full-throated "AAHHN" that you bit down on his shoulder, your entire body seizing, cunt spasming around him in waves that pulled him deeper. Your thighs locked around his waist, heels digging into the small of his back, and you could feel yourself gushing around him, wet and obscene, dripping down his cock and his thighs and onto the tar paper below.
Peter lasted exactly three more thrusts. His hips stuttered, slammed deep, and held, and the sound he made as he came was wrecked, a shattered "*nnNHH, ah, oh god, oh fuck" his cock pulsing inside you, spilling hot and thick, each throb accompanied by a full-body shudder that rattled the water tower strut his hand was braced against.
The city was loud below. The wind was cold. Neither of you moved.
His face was buried in the crook of your neck, breathing like he'd run a marathon, his heart hammering against your bare chest. Your fingers were in his hair, the curls damp, impossibly soft, and you were shaking too, aftershocks clenching around him in diminishing waves that made him twitch and hiss through his teeth each time.
"Peter," you murmured into his hair.
"You're still inside me."
He lifted his head. His face was flushed, lips swollen and stained plum, eyes glassy and half-lidded with a dopamine-drunk softness that made your chest ache. A strand of your platinum hair was stuck to his cheek. He peeled it off with clumsy fingers.
I just had sex with Black Cat on a rooftop in Chelsea and she's my chemistry partner and I think I'm in love with her and my legs are shaking and I can't feel my feet. This is either the best or worst night of my life. Both. Definitely both.
"So," he said. His voice was hoarse. "Monday. Chemistry. Are we gonna"
"You're going to sit next to me," you said, tracing the line of his jaw with your thumb, "and you're going to stop breaking your pencils every time I lean over."
"No promises." He turned his head and kissed your palm, lips warm against the center of it. "I broke a lot of pencils over you."
His laugh was quiet this time, just breath, pressed into your skin. He pulled out carefully, you both winced at the loss, the slick slide of it, the mess of it, and eased you down until your boots hit the tar paper. His hands stayed on your waist. Your forehead rested against his collarbone.
Below, a siren wound through the streets and faded. The Hudson lapped somewhere unseen, tidal and constant. The rooftop smelled like sex and city air and the ghost of cheap mint gum, and Peter Parker pressed his mouth to the crown of your head and held it there, breathing you in, his hands pulling you tighter against the warmth of his ridiculous half-suit while October carved its cold teeth along every inch of exposed skin between you.
You reached down and laced your fingers through his, his knuckles still faintly trembling, and squeezed once, a promise shaped like a fist.
| Authors Note! and thatâs it!! hope you had as much fun reading as i did writing this because they are actually insane đ feel free to scream about it, i will be right there with you <3