Meet Spidey
Finally, a quiet place to sleep Lilith thought as she lowered herself to the ground behind a dumpster in a dank, disgusting New York alley. Shadows danced across the alley floor as a street light at the entrance flickered. Sirens whined faintly, echoing around her, from some distant part of the city. She crinkled her nose when the stench of decay and piss assaulted her senses.
“Great” she moaned aloud as she hugged her knees to her chest, her ebony hair falling in her face as she rested it on her knees.
She was almost asleep when some thugs, wielding guns that looked like they should belong in a sci-fi movie, ran into the alley firing some sort of energy blasts at a teen in red and blue spandex. Jumping up she ran to the end of the alley to hide in the shadows and pray no one had seen her as she shifted into her shadow form and melted into the darkness. Her heart pounded in her chest as she watched the young vigilante, Spiderman if the costume was anything to go by, fight.
He was constantly moving, flipping and weaving away from the energy blasts of the thugs all while keeping up a near constant stream of snark and babble. Lilith couldn’t look away. He had finally managed to overcome the thugs, trapping them in his webs, when he turned to her hiding place.
“Hey. The thugs are all unconscious so…you feel like coming out now?” he called into the alley, moving slowly closer to where Lilith was hidden.
She moved further into her hiding place, heart hammering, as the spider hero moved steadily closer to her. Pulling in a shaking, shallow breath she called out hoping to buy herself more time to do something.
“I-I’m fine, you can go. I-it’s okay.” She stuttered, breathing a small sigh of relief as Spiderman stopped moving.
“You sure? Can I check for myself? You don’t have to…come out…that is.” He finished lamely as he shuffled from foot to foot. She knew that revealing herself would be a really bad idea but she hadn’t had any decent sleep for weeks and was exhausted. She could feel her grip on her form slipping as a result and knew that her only option was to step out of the shadows.
“Fine, but you have to promise not to freak out.” She watched the hero stop his shuffling and stare incredulously in her direction.
“You do realize that I have the abilities of a spider and run around in a red and blue suit fighting bad guys. I really don’t think that anything you do could shock me too much.” Lilith could practically feel the eye roll that he held back.
Slowly, she edged out of the darkness and slipped into her normal form, the shadows morphing into thick, black, ever-moving marks on her skin and her eyes fading from bright red to glittering black. Standing in front of Spiderman now, she waited for the inevitable screaming.
“Oh…My…God!” Lilith sighed and took a step back “That is so cool! You…you were just a shadow and now you have these cool black marks and your eyes are amazing! they actually look like they have a freaking galaxy in them, this is so cool!”
Lilith froze, thankful for the shitty lighting of the alley as she felt her cheeks heating. He’s not afraid She mused as she swayed slightly, feeling the exhaustion that had led her to the alley in the first-place seep through the night’s earlier panic and adrenaline now that the danger had passed.
“Whoa. You okay there? you know if you need to rest you could always come back to the tower.” Spiderman looked at her, eagerness written all over his mask (wow that thing was expressive). Taking a step back Lilith felt her chest tighten, she couldn’t go back with him the others would hate her and then they’d give her back to Him.
“NO! I-I can’t go they’ll hate me a-and…” Lilith squeezed her eyes closed as tremors shook through her and the shadows around her writhed in answer to her growing panic.
“No. T-they won’t hate you. They’re good people.” Spiderman interrupted, stepping toward her slowly, arms raised like he was trying to calm a frightened animal. Heaving a sigh, Lilith pushed her panic to the farthest corners of her mind and forced herself to think about it logically. She knew that wherever Spiderman was the cops weren’t far behind and without the energy to use her powers and hide from them they would most definitely find her. While she didn’t fully trust Spiderman, she trusted him more than the cops. So, there really was only one option.
“O-Okay if you promise that they won’t hurt me, then I’ll go.”
“Yes! Hop on I’ll swing us there.” He was bouncing around in excitement, only stopping so that Lilith could get on his back. As soon as she had gotten comfortable they were off flying through the city just as police sirens blared near the alley they had left. ‘Lucky we left when we did’ was her last conscious thought before her eyes drifted closed and Lilith succumbed to sleep.