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betty (tfln)

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oh

that's like

way simpler than i expected it to be

that was grade-A adulting

[perfectible]

I'm pretty good with teachers, I guess.

rhodey (tfln)

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oh man oh man

thanks mr rhodey sir

you're the best

i guess it'd be a bad time to ask about his childhood wouldn't it?

tony | totallyasuperhero (tfln)

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huh

that's a good point

i guess it's kind of a 50/50 chance that i'll be guessing correct at any time

ava (tfln)

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3.14 like pi? i can get behind that number if only for the promise of pie

and maybe the promise of secrecy

that part's important too

like really important actually

mj (tfln)

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oh yeah?

you're on mj

[ Is it weird that he's looking forward to a next time? ]

y a s ty kind stranger

[monogrammed]

( um, yes. but mj is a weirdo who finds peter's brand of weirdness... aight, even if she'd rather die in a fiery fire before saying that out loud. #dramatic

mostly, she is determined to make sure peter is comfortable letting his freak flag fly. she's patriotic like that, you see. )

oooh okay all right i'm sensing some bluster

does that mean we're raising the stakes here

tony | voiceprint (tfln)

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with my aunt

[voiceprint]

what's wrong with that?

ned (tfln)

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okay yeah it was probably a bad joke

also?? it doesn't matter

just like

pretend you never saw this text

[thechairguy]

I NEED to know.

text; 1/?

[gwennie]

peter

[gwennie]

peter

[gwennie]

hey peter

[gwennie]

hello hello hellooooo i know you're getting theeeeeese

facetime;;

[gwennie]

[ guess whaaaat it's 3am and they were just patrolling but nothing happened and she can't sleep so.

facetime.

dooo eee dee dee dee dee dee dee ]

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[ And guess who hasn't actually gone to bed yet because he's still kinda pumped up from swinging around town, and is currently working on his web fluid v5.0?

The screen flicks on and jitters around a little when Peter sets his phone down, propping it up against some old books. ]

Hey. You're not asleep.

the thing with the hands and maybe a kiss

[gwennie]

[ let it be known that gwen stacy is fully aware that there is no legitimate reason why she should be taking the bus home from midtown school of science and tech

1) she doesn't even go to this school
2) she actually has to travel further away from home to get to said school
3) she also has to leave school about fifteen minutes early to get there before the last bell of the day rings
4) if the bus driver actually did his job he'd realize she didn't belong on that bus and she could get kicked off at any moment
5) it's a school bus. why ride the school bus at all when she could webswing and nobody would be the wiser?

well, she does all this because of peter parker.

because as much as she tries to play it Cool, there's a soft spot for him that goes way, way deeper than just a friendship. and she doesn't really get it yet, she can't pin point a name on it. because it's not really a crush, right, she's had those and she knows what it's like to go all gooey-brained over a boy or a girl. she's been there. done that. this isn't that. this is sprinting across rooftops to get from her shady school on the other side of town to make sure she can catch her breath before peter finds her outside of midtown tech. this is putting up with the loud, smelly bus because she knows peter likes to ride it instead of catching the train back to queens sometimes. this is feeling her heart rate bump up a tiny bit when he sits down next to her and their shoulders or their knees are touching and he looks at her with that smile that lets her know he has spider stuff to talk to her about but knows they need to wait until they're off the bus to get into it.

and today this is, for some insane reason she can't rationalize, the sudden, undeniable desire to hold his hand.

which isn't a thing they do, it's just not. sometimes he'll hug her and sometimes she'll push him but they're not the kind of friends that are all touchy-feely. they're both a little guarded even though they've known each other for years. like they're not used to that kind of affection being readily available, or someone might try and take it away if they do get it. so she's not sure why she suddenly wants to.

it's just a hand.

but normally she's fidgeting a bit, drumming on her knees or the back of the seat in front of her, and today she's not. today she's kind of just thumbing at a hole in her jeans, eyes out the window before they're looking at the space between them. rather, where they're kind of crunched close together in this little seat. because his hand's right there and she could, she could do that. she could just take his hand and see how that goes. they're both quiet today, and it's absolutely because again, spider stuff has to wait, but they're also sharing her headphones, listening to a new LP she discovered late last night. just a few tracks. nothing crazy loud, but it's enough to block out the rest of the bus, which is nice.

either way, he's right there. and so is his hand.

she does slide hers back from her knee to a little further up her thigh, so that it's next to where his is resting on his leg.

she drums her thumb to the music they're listening to, but only a bit. it's more of a fidget, really.

she sneaks a peek at him through her hair and maybe it's just good timing or the worst timing but he's kind of looking her way too and she ends up huffing and smiling down at her lap.

god.

okay! okay. they fight bad guys on the regular but she can't get up the nerve to try and hold his hand? really.

no. screw that.

she doesn't watch what she's doing because that's mortifying, but she does, finally, reach over to slip her hand under his where it's resting palm down on his thigh. it's a pretty smooth move, all things considered. she just goes for it. fingers lacing up between his and then curling up, just a little bit.

she doesn't look at him, doesn't acknowledge it, nothing. just. does it.

so that's a thing. it's happening. and now she waits for him to either laugh at her or maybe flip out because she gave him no warning. either one. rejection, sort of. she's prepared for it in whatever form he decides to show it. prepared and horrified, yes. oh, it's fine. at least she'll know for sure and won't ever do it again. that's good, right???? ]

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[ It's kind of a weird reason why Peter likes the end of the school day the best. Most of the other kids like it because it means the end of classes, and it means after-school sports, after-school hangouts at the coffee shop, or after-school parties. It means ditching homework and maybe a part-time job. It means freedom and no more responsibility, and yeah sure, Peter can kind of get on board with the whole 'end of classes' bit because it means he gets to spider-up and save some people in the neighbourhood.

But for Peter Parker, the reason he likes the end of the school day so much is for the bus ride home. He used to take the train a lot more often, just because it was faster and sometimes he'd luck out and get the newer trains with the air-conditioning. But then Gwen started to take the bus too, which didn't really make a whole lot of sense on account of the fact that she didn't go to Midtown and it was kind of out of the way. But he never questioned it and she didn't either, and it meant they could listen to music together and talk about dumb stuff like who the best dog was on Dogs With Jobs last night. It was kind of like their low-key, no-pressure time alone together; neither of them had to say all that much if they didn't want to, and they could go spidering right after.

A few times Peter would find Gwen already on board, saving him a seat. He'd settle in next to her and she'd pass him one of her earbuds and they'd just spend the ride back to Queens just listening to whatever playlist she had on her iPod.

Today they're doing exactly that and Peter is totally enjoying the music. It's the kind of sound that would be great in a movie soundtrack where the story was deep and introspective. When she glances over at him, he turns back to her too, offering her a smile like, yeah, this is awesome, I'm really enjoying this --

And then suddenly he feels Gwen's hand under his, weaving her fingers through his, and it's like - whoa, okay.

Um.

He doesn't really freak out or anything. More like ... he'd always kind of figured they were just friends (even if he might have had like, the biggest crush on her for a while, which is so embarrassing, but whatever, it's fine) so it was never a thing he wanted to act on in the event that it ruined their friendship. But then she's holding his hand - she's holding his hand - so.

So! The right thing to do, the obvious thing to do of course, is to let his fingers tighten around hers ever-so-slightly, curling around hers, making it known that whatever this is, yeah, he likes this a lot, but also what is happening right now. ]

[gwennie]

[ guess who just saw jameson's breaking news report??? it was hard to miss considering the whole.. broadcasted all over midtown thing ]

peter where are you
are you okay
holy shit??

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[ y e a h. ]

i'm okay

i mean i think i'm okay

can you like

meet me somewhere?

i'm around

but this is bad

this is really bad

[woker]

She was chasing the cat around the house hitting it with a cardboard sword yelling "there can be only one!"

So I hid the cat and now I'm at the park.

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phew!

good news for the cat

you know you're kind of a hero mj

[bohisms]

If you could blip any type of person off the planet and be able to bring them back, at will, who would you pick?

Insanely unethical, I know, but I'm curious.

I would blip school bullies, I think.

Or the current president, if we're getting deep.

But right now? School bullies.

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school bullies make sense

maybe adult bullies too

no definitely adult bullies

yolo

[wafflesduh]

hey do all the avengebros have a group chat and if so can you tell the green dude i know a lady from harlem and she says hi

[ brigit does not, this is a lie ]

tfln overflow — @coverts ;

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oh

oh yeah

but that stuff's easy, we can do it in like half an hour

which means the rest of our study time can be spent doing other much more fun stuff

[ Like the kissing she's threatening to cut off. ]

[coverts]

This is insanely out of character for me, I know. But I have been wanting to do more of the fun stuff.

[You know, without Ned around. Or him having to go do a superhero thing. It would be nice to actually get in some solid kissing after successful chemical equations.]

You're a terrible influence. Corrupting me with your weird spider seduction techniques.

tfln overflow — @aurad;

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[ To be honest, it does confirm what she'd meant, and that makes him a little bashful before he feels a pang in his chest. ]

no no no it's cool

sorry sorry

i mean i do have someone

or did

i just

she doesn't know who i am anymore

which is fine, it had to be done, but

[ He'd worked up the courage to get to know most of the Avengers again, but MJ? Ned? It's taken him a little longer to get around to. He isn't even sure why, maybe it's a little to do with that whole 'responsibility' thing ...

And yeah. It sucks. ]

right now i think it's a big enough thing to have friends

vague rp handwave that she never forgot ??

[aurad]

i'm sorry, peter.
you shouldn't have to handle it all on your own. it's a lot for anyone

( she's certainly put a damper on things, hasn't she? there's a beat before she continues, because her own chest wretches something unkind at the idea of vision still being here, of pietro still being alive, yet neither of them knowing who she was. wanda lives day in and day out with loss, with being alone, but having to witness another lose you was an entirely different pain.

she tries, for what it's worth, to steer them back towards something softer. )

but you know
i spoke with a friend of yours recently, i think
and she said she'd very much appreciate you having an acceptable blanket
she also mentioned that snacks and company are an incredible way to make even the worst nights a little better.

tfln overflow — @petertwo;

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yeah

i remember when i first learned space aliens from a totally different universe existed

and then i learned how many different universes there were

and now there are multiple peter parkers

it helped having other people to talk about it with though

so you know you can like always talk to me

if you want

[petertwo]

You've experienced a lot more already than I could have even imagined. It's one thing to fight an alien but also going to space??

It's pretty sweet we can still communicate like this. I won't jinx it and say it seems impossible, but I'm glad we can talk.

tfln overflow — @gwennie;

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ok uh whatever i did i'm sorry

but also?

i'm pretty sure this isn't on me gwen

😣

you wanna tell me what happened?

[gwennie]

it's not? you're sure?
so you're not the guy that said
"hey i bet this new dr. pepper would go really good with those dollar dog corn dogs you love so much"?
the new dr. pepper being the berries and cream flavor that we tried as a JOKE
( even though it was actually pretty good on it's own but that's not the point )
that's not an idea you planted in my head like a little dr. pepper marketing cherub?




i don't know why i said cherub, but i had this mental image of you being a little winged angel figure on my shoulder, just go with it.