Keeping the Band Together

-Marvel-Earth-616-

"It's still so hard to process."

Gwen sighed but shrugged. "What is?"

Glory shook her head. "That you're "owned" by an old-"

"Hey," Gwen said.

Glory held her hands up. "Sorry. By an "older" man. Better?"

Betty shook her head. "You conveniently left out the part about him being a super fox!" She saw the looks the others gave her and she shrugged. "Well he is! Gwen knows it and so do you two and don't give me that "I'm a lesbian so I don't recognize men as a lifeform let alone find them visually pleasing" bull, Glory. A person can be handsome or beautiful regardless of if a person finds them attractive."

Glory nodded. "Ok, point. He is fucking handsome and actually attractive... what?" She said as now her friends stared at her. "Well... he is. Doesn't mean I'm going to sleep with him! I'm still a lesbian and the idea of any man owning Gwen, let alone any other woman is-"

"Kinda fucking hot!" Betty said ignoring the look that Glory gave her. "Well it is! I'll say it! We all saw those two and we ALL fucking got off on it! Hard! Fact!"

"Well... okay, yeah," Glory admitted as MJ squeezed her hand. "We all did... but that was because... well, because it was the two of you." She bit her lip. "Sorry Gwen."

Gwen was super red-faced. "Can we... I mean... that was kinda... intense. Even for me. Especially for me!" She double facepalmed. "I'm still so embaressed!"

MJ smiled. "It was super wild... daring... and I'll admit it, sexy as fuck!" She looked at Glory who nodded. "We uhh have been talking and... we might even be interested in doing that again... or something like that sometime if anyone's-"

"Fuck yeah!" Betty said excitedly wothout hesitation and she shrugged. "I know what I want and I want that again! And..." she suddenly lost a bit of her confident energy. "Maybe... more?"

Gwen's head jerked up. "You do! Uhh... *cough* I mean, you do?" She asked tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "Because uhm that's a funny coincidence... see... oh fuck it. I'm just gonna say it. I been thinking about that since that night. Like... A LOT! And the relationship we have with Walt is-"

"Yeah," Mary Jane said. "What is the exact relationship between you all? We're dying to know that!" Glory was nodding along with her.

Betty was too with her arms crossed. "I think it's fairly obvious what it is but we all want confirmation, Gwen. You did say "no more secrets" so spill." She grinned.

Gwen nodded reluctantly... but then smiled and shrugged. She'd wanted to tell them everything too and now- "Walter "owns" a bunch of ladies some of whom you met tonight... and a goodly portion of them love him and share him."

"A harem cliché," Betty said grinning. "Nice... I knew it!"

But Gwen shook her head. "It is and it isn't. I know what you're thinking of and yeah I suppose it is a harem... but it doesn't fit a lot of the clichés. And from my understanding of Prime that's a bit unusual. Walt seems to let the ladies call the majority of the shots. And not in a wishy-washy anime harem protag way. He is definitely anything BUT that. But like that's how he's comfortable. He's definitely the man in charge but he rarely feels the need to act like it and even rarer assert it. I think because he is so self-assured and very much "in charge" in so many other aspects of his life that he wants his home and love life to be equal and relaxed as can be. It's like..." she smiled. "It's like having a really devoted and thoughtfully sweet super husband!" She shook her head. "He finds away to be just what everyone needs. Supportive, romantic, caring, firm, tender... and then he puts his all into it, you know?"

Betty grinned leering. "Oh we know. We watched him put his "all" into pleasing you... over and over again!"

Gwen blushed but nodded. "Yeah... that's exactly it! He's like that about everything... not just sex. Like those martial arts flicks I love. He's like the old master who's devoted himself to perfection but like... with everything! Including pleasing and loving! He's... amazing! And... *Ahem* well let's just say he has no limits or none we've found just yet even... uhh..." she bit her lip. "Even during "group and team activities" the only limits we've hit upon are time as he runs out the clock and everyone else's endurance."

"Hold up," Glory said seizing on something Gwen had said. "As *cough* interesting as that is... shut it," she said seeing the others grinning and about to comment on her choice of words. "Something you just said needs clarification. He's not sleeping with all of the girls he owns?"

Gwen nodded. "Nope. Infact he doesn't really pursue them it's kinda," she blushed smiling. "The other way around."

Betty laughed and wrapped her arm around Gwen. "Awwww! You totally seduced him! You minx! You go girl! And you nabbed yourself a superfellah. What's that you always say, Em Jay?"

Mary Jane giggled. "Face it, Tiger... you hit the jackpot!"

Gwen laughed and nodded. "I really did!"

Glory was smiling. "And I was starting to worry but it turns out I was right. He doesn't give of "toxic" vibes at all. Nice to know my detector is working fine." She nodded and patted Gwens shoulder. "It's still pretty weird and kinda crazy but... I'm happy for you. We all are. You found someone who's awesome and you both fell in love with each other and that's special."

Gwen smiled seeing all her friends nodding their support. "Thanks you guys!"

Glory crossed her arms and looked at the contracts. "Still though... as reassuring as all this is, I dunno about being "owned". That's just a weird thing to voluntarily agree to and seriously gives me pause. That is the only way we can go to Prime?"

Gwen nodded. "Yes, unfortunately. And so you know Walt doesn't want that for you. Not for any of you. It was my ask and totally my idea, so please keep that in mind. Turns out in all that time he never "owned" persons personally. Just robots and A.I.s and stuff. Penny was his first in a lot of ways and changed his life when they fell in love."

Mary Jane smiled and squeezed her hand. "That's kind of sweet but... You're okay with that? Sharing his love with others?"

Gwen smiled. "Honestly? I had pangs of jealousy especially after Jubilee kind of beat me to the punch... but... it all seems so silly now! It doesn't diminish his love of me in anyway at all and..." she shyly blushed smiling even more. "And I get so much more love in exchange from the others! We support each other and kinda share him... and each other. Lots of three, four and more somes!"

"Okay now that... that is super fucking hot," Glory muttered then blushed and shrugged as the others stared. "Well it is!"

MJ elbowed her girlfriend. "You reconsidering now?"

Glory sighed... then nodded. "I am but I'm not committing to it... yet." Can we sign the one contract then think about the other? Maybe after... we get to know each other better?"

Gwen smiled nodding enthusiasticly. "Yes! I figured that might be the case so that's how they're set up! Sign the first or the first and second one if you want and we'll wait on the third!"

Betty jumped to her feet to grab the first two from the table and a pen... then grabbed the third one too. "I... can I sign the third one? Like... right now?"

Glory and MJ stared at her while Gwen swallowed and nodded. "Yes," she said reaching into her pocket and pulling out three collars and laying them on the coffee table infront of her. "Are you sure that's what you want, Betty?"

Betty brought the papers and pen over and set them down rejoining her friends and sat slowly nodding but then shaking her head. "I want to... very much if I'm honest. But am I sure?" She reached out and touched a collar. "No, I'm not. I-" she blinked. "Gwen! Your collar!"

Gwen looked at her then nodded and lightly touched her collar smiling. "Oh that's right you guys can't see it because it's designed that way! It must have sensed you physically touching a collar and revealed itself!" She toyed with it as much as the do not interfere compulsion on it would allow nervously. "Does it... look weird?"

Betty shook her head. "Actually no. May I?"

Gwen nodded and leaned closer so her friend could see. MJ looked at Glory who nodded and they both grabbed the other two collars. They wanted to see too!

Gwen's collar was black with pink accents and there was a heart-shaped charm on it with her name in a spiderweb motif. *Like a locket... or a dog tag,* the three all thought. *But cuter and definitely expensive. It looks like Platinum and pink diamonds!* There was writing on the back too. An inscription.

[You carry my heart with you always, my beloved Gwen - Walter]

"It's cute, right?" Gwen asked. "Walt gave it to me. I know, I know. It's a fancy dog tag thingy but it's got a chip in it that stores all my pertinent info incase of all kinds of emergency and it's actually more like a jewelry bangle charm thing. We all got one. Jubilee's is like her earrings she loves and Jens is like mine minus the spider web with an emerald kind of... what? What are you guys looking at?"

Betty wiped her eyes as Glory handed her a tissue and MJ shook her head smiling. Gwen had no clue obviously. That was so like her missing out on what was directly under her nose. "Nothing... Jackpot, indeed. Let's sign some contracts!"

Gwen couldn't believe her eyes as her friends very carefully helped each other with all three contracts. "What are you-"

"It's not official until we put the collars on, right?" Glory said carefully and clearly Initalizing and filling in the proper places.

"Or until Walt does," Betty added filling in her info. "Too bad he isn't here at the moment. That'd really awesime! And it's kind of a formality since he owns us and everything else in this- no, these worlds. Multiversal thinking, Betty. Better get used to it!" She told herself.

"Right," Mary Jane said finishing up signing her name then taking her collar and holding it like it was precious as she looked at the others. "Are we all in agreement then?" She watched Betty and Glory both nod. She did too. "We're not breaking up the band and we trust Gwen and Walt." They all nodded again and then put the collars on themselves. "Face it, Tiger," she said as they all smiled. "You're stuck with us!"

Gwen cried happy tears as she embraced her friends. "I love you guys so much!"

"We know," Mary Jane said for all of them as they hugged her back. "We love you too."

MJ looked at Glory who smiled and nodded. They were both thinking about their previous conversation. About them and Gwen and the possibility of more. "We really do," Glory said. Whatever the future held they were going to do it with love, friendship and respect... because that's what they wanted for Gwen and themselves.

"You bet we do!" Betty agreed. She was also thinking about everything Gwen said and shared. There was a possibility for her to experience that for herself... and as odd as the idea was the thought of sharing that with her friends was titillating and exciting as well... especially because it would be with her dear friends, she realized. Like Gwen had said earlier. It's all just more love!*I think I just got experience and made some kind of level! Yay me!*

Gwen held her precious friends close. Their trust made her and their friendship all the stronger and she knew... Walt was worth it. He would love them too. As a friend and more if they wanted someday! They'd see! And maybe she and her sexy friends would rock his world... after they rocked the world!

[Walter Stark Penny Polendina F.R.I.D.A.Y Neopolitan Pyrrha Nikos Nora Valkyrie Yang Xiao Long Blake Belladonna Kali Belladonna Sienna Khan Willow Schnee Glynda Goodwitch Zwei Ahnassi Lifts-Her-Tail Senko Sayoko Shinozaki Roberta Cisneros Haruna Sasha Blouse Ilulu Rachel "Raven" Roth Manami "La Brava" Aiba Tsuyu "Froppy" Asui Haruhime Sanjouno Anastasia "The Baroness" Cisarovna/DeCobray Demona Mystique Pirotess Lydia Aela the Huntress Serana Mission Vao Curie Ada PAM KL-E-O Merida Gwen "Gwenom" Stacy Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters Linda T Duck Shocket Raccoon Lady Loki Elizabeth "Betty" Brant Gloria "Glory" Grant and Mary Jane "MJ" Watson

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