st_x5_494 | Coming Back Home (Closed to Peter)

His talk with Kitty and some more time alone caused Alec to return to the Inn. He smelled, but he was used to that, however he did miss showers. Despite the ability to live off the land for at least a month, there were some comforts that Alec missed. Plus he figured he needed to find out how badly he left things with Peter.

He was ready to be told to move out - however he could manage that, anyways.

Alec pushed through the door noticed the note on Peter's bed immediately. The kid wanted to talk - shocker. He dropped his pack and went to hit the shower.

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"I do worry," Peter insists, sulking. He's looking less sad now, and more like his normal self. "When you win, bad things can still happen."

It's almost as if Peter is determined to prove Alec wrong.

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"Of course. Sometimes you have to ruin someone's life to stop them from doing bad things." Or kill them, like Max had with his twin, Ben. Or like Alec had to with some of the lesser evolved transgenics. "Sometimes the best solutions the shittiest one."

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Peter thinks about Eddie and other-Liz and other-Liz's mom.

"I wish you could come back with me and see what everything is like," he says. Not just because he really believes that Alec would have a better time understanding if he could see the same things he did, but also because Peter was pretty convinced that his reality was better than Alec's.

And he just wanted to introduce him to everybody.

Alec's the only person than Liz that he's really wanted to take back home with him. Peter wonders if other people say this to one another or if it's just him and Liz.

Edited Date: 2018-05-20 03:58 am (UTC)

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"I don't think I'd fit in." Alec looked at him, being honest and not just self-deprecating. Still, he had a feeling that might upset Peter, so he added more in jest, "Plus your Aunt would probably kill me."

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"You fit in here," Peter points out.

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"Only a little, and people still want to kill me." Like that Raccoon, he's pretty sure. How he ever had to worry about a raccoon, he'd never know.

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"Why do you say only a little?" Peter looks at him expectantly, awaiting an answer.

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He paused to think about how he wanted to answer that. "Because I'm always pissing people off and generally getting stern faces at my direction."

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"You don't think people don't do that where I live?"

Some things were universal. That was one of them.

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He sighed. "What would I even do in your world?" Bike messenger was not exactly his dream job back home. He used it for the sector pass.

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Peter thinks about that, then asks: "What would you want to do if you could do anything?"

He quickly adds: "Drinking and sleeping with women doesn't count."

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He didn't know. Alec never had the answer to this question. He should prepare one for Peter some time.

"I don't know... be rich?"

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Peter wants to facepalm. Why hadn't he thought to put that in his list of exclusions?

"You have to do something to be rich," he says. "Or be born that way, but that isn't an option here."

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He did a palms-up. "I don't know. I just sort of, I don't know - survive - back home. It's not like I have any long term plans or anything."

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"You could join the Avengers?" Peter offers. He's not really sure if it's a paying gig, but he thinks it has to be. It's not like Thor and Hulk and Captain America had time to do anything else.

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Alec blinked. "... Do you really think I'm superhero material?" Said as if, of course he didn't, what a silly idea.

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Peter nods sagely. "You could be, yeah."

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Somehow Alec felt like maybe Peter was being a bit too optimistic. "I don't think I'd fit in. I don't even have a name."

Okay, so he had his boxing name, but that was different.

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"Thor's called Thor," Peter offers helpfully.

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He crossed his arms. "And I don't have a costume."

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"Hulk doesn't have a costume," Peter retorts.

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Alec was at a disadvantage for not really know most of the Avengers except for Peter's video and the terribly dorky impressions he sometimes did in the bathroom. His eyes narrowed a little. "Also, I don't generally like people."

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"Hulk doesn't like people, either. Hulk smash."

Peter says this all very seriously and with a straight face.

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"See, there you go. I wouldn't want to make the Hulk feel like he's being replaced, would I? I mean, the guy has feelings, right?" Alec tried a different approach.