Quality Time

They arrived at the landing platform right as the plane was landing. MJ hugged his arm and Peter kissed her shoulder. As soon as the plane opened MJ let go and stepped back as Ned appeared in the opening. "Bro!"

"What's up man how was your trip?" Peter asked as they did the handshake.

"So good. But I was worried about you after I got back."

"I'm good!" Peter told him. Ned looked at MJ who shook her head rapidly.

"What have you guys been up to?" Ned asked.

"You know not much of anything."

"Have you guys..."

Then May and Happy exited arguing about who knows what. Peter smiled. May went to MJ after giving Peter a hug.

"MJ! I brought some people for girls day."

"Oh."

"Yes I know you aren't that big on people but they insisted and could not be deterred."

Pepper and Morgan emerged. Morgan tugged at her mom's, "Is that?"

Pepper looked at Peter talking to Ned. "Yes."

Peter turned at the moment he saw a little tornado coming towards him. He looked up and saw Pepper walking behind her. So he knelt down and picked her up and spun her around. MJ nudged May and pointed with her head. They watched as Peter held her hand and started to talk to her.

"My daddy told me all about you." Morgan told him with a big smile.

"That's cool! I wasn't around when you were." Peter looked down at her.

"You were snapped?" Morgan deduced as the started to walked.

"Yes."

"That's what mommy said at least."

"Are you ready to spend time with mommy and my favorite woman?"

"What about you?" She asked as she stopped walking and looked up at him,

"You're going to have girl time! Can I introduce you too my girlfriend?" Peter asked, trying not to act too shy since she was only 5.

Morgan's eyes went wide, "You have a girlfriend?"

"Yes!" Peter turned around, "Her right there."

"Wow, she's pretty!" Morgan said dropping Peter's hand

"I think so!"

"Yes yes I want to meet her." She jumped up and down next to Peter.

Morgan sprinted towards MJ in a beeline and stopped short of MJ who looked down at the little girl and smiled down.

"What's your name?" Morgan asked panting and brushing the hair out of her face. MJ knelt down, "My name is Michelle. And you must be Morgan!" MJ noted.

"Yes." Morgan giggled

"It's very nice to meet you Morgan."

Morgan looked at her then at Peter and then back at her and replied shyly, "You're really pretty."

"So are you!" MJ said poking Morgan in the stomach. Morgan giggled, "So am I going with you today?"

"Yes you are!" MJ affirmed.

"Yay!" Morgan clapped her hands repeatedly.

MJ smiled at Morgan and Peter smiled warmly at MJ and Morgan.

"What?" MJ asked.

"Nothing." Peter said thinking about how MJ's soft side had just shown to the little girl. It made Peter like her even more and he didn't think that that was possible.

"Ok! Let's do it!" May proclaimed and the girls walked away. MJ picked up Morgan at Morgan's suggestion. It made Peter's heart feel all warm and fuzzy.

"Dude I brought so many things for us to do! This is gonna be sick!" Ned squealed bringing Peter back to reality. He looked at his best friend, "What'd you bring?"

"Movies, games LEGO sets etcetera."

"Oh I wanted to make sure you knew that bro time is today and then MJ will be joining us for other events since we don't want her wandering around," Peter joked, "Even though I'm sure she'd be cool with it."

"Ok cool, that's fine I get it. What first?" Ned assured and then asked adjusting his stuff.

"Anything. I took a nap I'm set." Peter said taking Ned's bag on the ground.

"Let's build a set."

"Sounds good."

They walked back to Peter's room where they could build the set. When they got there Ned lay down his stuff. He looked around, "Pretty neat." There was a bed in a little alcove to the left. The carpet was red but the walls were blue. Ned saw a door and walked towards it with Peter right behind him, "What's this?"

"The bathroom."

They walked in "So many sections!" Ned exclaimed as they the walked in saw two sinks, walked through a door and found two other doors leading to the toilet and the shower.

"Yeah it's very sectioned off because through that other door out there is MJ's room."

"Oh! Pretty close." Ned observed then turned to Peter, "So have you?"

"Have we done it?"

"That's not the word I was thinking of but same meaning."

Peter shrugged, "It is more appropriate but I'm not a big fan of that word. MJ would have no problem though."

"Well have you?"

"No dude why?"

"Your bedrooms are close so I thought maybe."

"Honestly haven't even thought about it." Peter shrugged.

"How?"

"How what?"

"How have you not thought about it? That shower?! You're seriously telling me you haven't thought about hooking up in that shower? And also sex is a good stress reliever!"

"Hook up has the connotation that we just met and did it. And also how would you know about sex and pain relief?" Peter asked crossing his arms and knowing full well Ned was still a virgin.

"My family." Ned rolled his eyes. "All about safety." Ned put air quotes around safety. "And my grandpa has no filter whatsoever so you wouldn't believe what he's told me."

"Ned please stop. I haven't thought about it because what MJ and I have now is a pure emotional connection I love/like her for who she is as a person and she likes me for who I am as a person. She's sweet and kind and affectionate and caring and beautiful."

"Ok clearly I've not seen the sweet, kind and affectionate side because the only thing she talks about around me is history of prisons around her or murder. And you just said love right before like."Ned smirked.

"Shut up man. And don't worry she still talks about prison history and stuff. She rambled to me for about 30 minutes about medieval torture. It was weird. I think she went somewhere or read something that had to do with some of that because it was interesting but a little gross and inhumane how the torture went."

"Weird."

They dumped out the LEGO pieces and started building.

Michelle walked back to the little hang out room with the couches and tv. Living room, family room what say you. She looked down at perfectly painted nails. That's what Morgan wanted to do because May was apparently really good at it. May had said in another life maybe she would've worked at a nail salon. Morgan had been all smiles and giggles. MJ thought it was odd Morgan was such a cheerful girl despite the fact that her dad had died. Pepper seemed ok too. Holding it together and smiling, still being able to have a good time. When MJ's dad died it'd been hard on both MJ and her mom. She'd been al little older than Morgan, maybe it's harder when you're older because you don't have that childlike wonder anymore. Anyways that's what plunged MJ's mom into ruin. Her dad had provided a very nice life with his job because he was a hard worker. Life had been good but when her dad died it sent her mom into a tailspin not even able to comfort MJ, her own daughter. It had changed both her and her mom so much they weren't the same they were before. So MJ really liked being around Pepper and Morgan knowing that the little girl would probably be ok. They had a good support system and were still able to continue Tony's company in his legacy. It made MJ smile a little bit. When she opened the door she saw Ned mimicking something and Peter trying to guess it.

"It's clearly Obi Wan." MJ said. Peter and Ned both stopped and looked at her dumbfounded.

"What? He was pretending he had a lightsaber and motioned to the hood."

"But you say you're not interested to watch those movies with me?"Peter told her confused.

"You watched that one the other night. If you think I didn't pay attention cause I'm not interested you're wrong."

"Well she was right anyways." Ned said flopping on the couch. Peter sat down too. MJ was still standing arms crossed.

"Wanna watch a movie?" Peter suggested.

"Not Star Wars but sure." MJ said. Ned sulked and Peter hit his arm, "Come on bro you can rally for a different movie."

"I mean you do watch it all the time." MJ commented.

"HEY!" Ned retorted.

"I mean she's right you/we do." Peter agreed.

"Oh so you aren't on my side anymore?"

Peter raised an eyebrow at him.

"You're right, you're right." Ned sighed.

"Pick a different movie, run it by her. I'm good with anything." Peter told him settling into his seat.

"Um mission: impossible?" Ned asked.

"Only one of the two that has that female spy in it."

"Don't they all?" Peter asked.

"No there's that specific one."

"Uh we have all of them including the 7th one that came out 2 years ago. There's the whole collection."

"5?" MJ asked.

"Uh sure yeah that's here."

"Ok wanna do that?"

"Yeah sure." Ned put the movie in and sat back down by Peter. MJ got herself situated and snuggled up next to Peter who put his arm around her.

"What's this?" He asked holding up her hand.

"Oh you know just the nails. That's what they were doing, apparently your aunt has a kit."

"It looks good." Peter told her lacing his hand into hers. When the movie had like 30 minutes left MJ's head fell into Peter's lap and she fell fast asleep. Peter started to stroke her hair absentmindedly while still watching the movie. Ned turned to say something and noticed the sleeping girl. He nudged Peter who turned from the screen to look at him. Ned gestured to MJ and Peter said, "Oh yeah she does that a lot. I've done it a lot too."