#the day pass collar idea was courtesy of my pal sparks when i told them about this idea

[chiwithekiwi]

when rio and jeff find out that miles is spider-man, they worry about how much he's holding back from them. they both work in career fields that allow them to witness firsthand how being put in a situation like the one that miles is in can effect someone. after a few weeks of deliberating, they decide that giving him some extra support will ultimately be a good idea—they tell him that they want to get him an emotional support animal.

at first miles is unsure. he's not home unless it's a weekend, and it's not like he could house it in his dorm since it's not a service animal. being spider-man also steals away his evenings and nights. with all this in consideration they decide to get him a cat—void black with a single white marking around its nose and whiskers which he affectionately names milk—and somehow it works out. before long he's dropping by his parents' apartment at the end of his patrols to check in with her, and within a week milk begins to meet him at his bedroom window, same time every night. miles doesn't have the heart to leave after coming back, and so the routine sticks, with him falling asleep on his bed, still in his suit and milk curled up nearby. the following mornings will see him rushedly swinging across the skyline to make it to class on time, but it's worth it every time.

the rest of the gang adopt milk into their band as an honorary spider-person and insist that she is brought along to every get-together. milk puts up with all of the attention surprisingly well, and her favourite by far (besides miles) is pavitr—a fact that several of the group are extremely jealous of.

it's not long before miles realises that he can bring milk along with him to the spider society headquarters, which he immediately makes a habit of every weekend. miles asked to have a day pass collar made in advance of their first visit, which margo joyously got to work on and finished within a single hour. miles insists on taking photos of everyone petting milk, adding to an expanding collection in his phone gallery dedicated to milk that takes up at least half of his storage.

miguel takes one look at miles when he walks into his lab, sees milk curled up and sleeping away in the hood of his jacket, and realises that mayday now has competition in the department of 'cutest freeloader' around the hq. he resigns himself to the fact that the cat is now going to be yet another distraction, even as he ignores the flash of miles taking a photo when miguel scratches milk's chin.