-Natasha POV-

The guy keeps on hinting at a date but I have to act oblivious about his advances. I didn't get a time limit on this whole mission but I had to complete the mission somehow "I would agree but I have work to do" he gave me a thin smile as he said "Aah so you will agree if the work is done" I roll my eyes as I tell him "Yeah sure" he claps his hand and says "Then tell me what I can do to help"

My eyebrows rise as I tell him "You don't have to, I have the patience to finish my work properly without involving outsiders" He sighs and says "You and your boring debt collection job are the worst." I glared at him as I yelled "Fine then help me however you want to" he grimaced and instantly apologized "I am sorry for pushing it, I just wanted a chance" I groaned and told him "Fine, you will get your date as long as you can distract that old man over there"

I point at the owner of the motel. The motel owner allows anyone who pays to stay except for law enforcement and people wearing proper clothing. He harbors way more criminals than he thinks he does, which is why Banner chose this place to lie low.

I don't know if the owner was a misogynist or if he was simply looking out for me but no matter how much I tried, he didn't let me in so I had to use this local guy 'oregawo' who wanted to get it on with the 'gaijin' in town as a distraction. I'll let him suffer whatever consequences there might be later on.

I walk through the side gates to the rickety wooden motel and jump in through a window. An old man high on weed is what greeted me in the corridor "The gaizin is here for me, the gaizin is here for me" He screamed and held his head down I shrugged and remarked as I left him be "Sorry Grandpa, not my type".

I looked for room number 18b as I walked through the corridor but the number felt like a suggestion as it seemed all the numbers had faded years ago and the owner didn't think anyone would need them as long as they counted each room. I count and count and count until I come upon a room with a board hanging in front of it, with the letter '18b' written on it.

I sigh and mutter to myself "You are making this too easy Banner" as I knock on the door. Most other agents are quick to break down doors but being an espionage agent has made Natasha know the importance of timing and with Banner not being cured, the Hulk would not be happy with someone knocking down his door.

As soon as the door opened Natasha put on her seductive smile as she told him "You aren't hiding properly Dr. Banner" The door closed on her face for her effort and she chuckled as she yelled out "You have been found by the ISTRA Dr. Banner, they will come for you no matter what you do? I am here to help you escape" after a few more seconds of silence Natasha's patience wore thin and she simply opened the door with a lockpick before walking in only to quickly close her nose at the smell.

She looked down at the hole which seemed to be leading into the smelly sewers of Sapporo city. There was a note sticking to a table beside her, she picked it up and it read 'Bugs everywhere, go down and walk south for 4 minutes to reach me. I sigh and rip the paper before removing my hair clip and putting it on my nose.

I jump down into the sewer and start walking. So far Banner has been making strange movements that don't make much sense. He came to Japan to hide and chose a relatively remote location but chose a job that would be easy to track for any competent agency. It feels like he wanted to be found....maybe that's it, he wants to be found for some reason whatever it might be, I don't like

-Billie POV-

I waited with bated breath in my room wearing the black garb that her guardians had given her, the room was lit by a single oil lamp making her fear the darkness around her. She didn't know if her mind was playing tricks on her or if she was really watching shadows dance around in the room.

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The cult of Demore worshipped no idol, they worshipped the darkness itself, the last few months of her life had been spent in a dark room to allow darkness to consume her and now it stood before her moving around in its corporeal form waiting to try once again. As if it was prowling around its prey *Knock*Knock* The knock interrupted her musings and she stood up as she told them "I am ready"

The door opened and her guardians wearing similar garbs entered the room before holding her in their arms and guiding her down the stairs to the basement "Do I have to do this?" I whispered to her but her grip tightened as she told me "Once the lord cleanses you, you will find yourself a part of our family and then it will all be over" I nodded and let her guide me to the basement not knowing what might happen to me.

I wish Peter could be here so that he can take me away but I can't burden him with this, this is my burden and I will bear it and come out stronger for it. I will resist the demon's attempts as much as I can and it will leave me alone once it understands that my body is not prepared for her, that it will break before it yields, that it is better to find someone else than try to possess her.

-Black cat POV-

She was sketching out the plan for the whole museum heist that Spidey had asked of her. She had to admit she was very reluctant to do it in the first place because working with a government agency, no matter how autonomous felt a lot like the corporate jobs she despised.

She was just on the verge of giving up on the heist altogether when she heard his footsteps. The pen she threw at his face was caught off handedly and she gave him a false smile "Father, you are here" he looked at her sadly as he said "I taught you that smile, I'll know when it is fake" I frown at his deduction and turn around to continue the sketching with another pencil.

"What are you doing?" She heard him ask her and she broke the pencil with the force she was using to hold it, her anger bubbled out as she yelled at him "NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS" but he still glared at her as he asked her "Felicia, you have a future ahead of you. Why do you have to ruin it by doing all this?" I grit my teeth as I tell him "Well you wanna know why? It's because of you. You and your goddamn ways have killed any chance of me having a normal life." I stand in front of him, 2 feet smaller as I put the grappling hook he gave me when I was a child back in his hands.

I mutter slowly to hurt him as much as I can "You have taught me everything you knew and now that I like it, you want to take it away from me. What kind of father are you?" He looked away ashamed and it hurt me to say it but I told him "After you went to jail and Mom died, I had to feed myself somehow. What you have taught me, fed me for 4 years on the street. I am not giving up on it just because you think it's dangerous"

He looks down to hide from my gaze but I don't waver and continue to look for any hint of his eyes looking at me, so that he could see the tears threatening to spring out of my eyes and hug me as he apologizes for everything that I have been through. But all of that was for naught as he turns around and leaves while giving her a parting shot "Just wanted to inform you that the CPS are coming for a checkup and you need to be presentable" the Fury once again burned within her as he left her behind to drink away his sorrow once again.

Felicia has been a tough woman for a long while now and being treated like a kid by an old drunkard forced her to change her opinion of a stable job with shield, she turned to the table and set aside her previous reluctance to work on a full fledged plan.