She saw him, and again her heart took wings. Natasha, free-form aerialist, who was web-swinging forty floors up, practicing for her role as Spiderman's body double in the upcoming movie, "Spiderman III: The Body Double."

It had been a long time -- years and years -- but she still remember his cotton-candy-flavored kisses, so sweetly innocent in those long-days when they were young together and life stretched out before them, not like a patient etherized upon a table, but as a sunlit road leading to a starfilled future.

She stopped, positioning herself on the side of the building, watching him so far below.

If, she thought. Alwasy If. What could have been if only he hadn't liked licorice-flavored cotton candy so much?