Coming Back Home (Closed to Peter)

[st_x5_494]

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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[st_arkintern]

"You fit in here," Peter points out.

[st_x5_494]

"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.

[st_arkintern]

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

[st_x5_494]

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."

[st_arkintern]

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

Some things were universal. That was one of them.

[st_x5_494]

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.

[st_arkintern]

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."

[st_x5_494]

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?"

[st_arkintern]

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."

[st_x5_494]

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."

[st_arkintern]

"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.

[st_x5_494]

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

[st_arkintern]

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

[st_x5_494]

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.

[st_arkintern]

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

[st_x5_494]

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

[st_arkintern]

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

[st_x5_494]

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."

[st_arkintern]

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

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

[st_x5_494]

"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.

[st_arkintern]

"The Hulk's way stronger than you," Peter says. "You're not going to be able to replace him."

[st_x5_494]

Dammit.

"I don't have any special powers. Plus I'm not exactly marketable as save-the-day material."

[st_arkintern]

"You do have special powers," Peter insists. "Super-senses. Super-fighting. Super-snarking."

He's pretty sure he could get Alec to quip with him if the two of them ever got into combat together.

"All we need to do to market you is take a few photos of you holding an American flag," he says. "So that problem's solved, too."

[st_x5_494]

"Okay, see, and there's the problem." Alec did enjoy learning he had super-snark though. He was pretty proud of his attitude in that sense.

"I don't really like America. The people higher up pretty much suck the biggest balls ever."

[st_arkintern]

"There's no Canadian superhero," Peter says. "You have any objections to a Canadian flag?"

It probably wouldn't have the same affect as an American flag, but it would probably work. No one hated Canada. Maybe they could photograph him with the flag in front of a Tim Hortons for maximum impact.