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_x5_494]

"Good." At least Alec felt a little better with that. "And also, that raccoon's not allowed in the room. I don't trust him."

[st_arkintern]

Peter frowns at that.

"Rocket's my friend," he says. "You can't arbitrarily ban him."

[st_x5_494]

"I can if I think he's going to kill me in my sleep." He'd seen that look before - maybe not in animal eyes, although Joshua's brother was close.

[st_arkintern]

"Is this because you punched Mr. Star-Lord in the face?"

Yeah, Alec. Peter knows.

[st_x5_494]

"Probably less to do with that and more to do with how I talked to him." Alec was not denying the face-punch. He stood by it thank you.

[st_arkintern]

Peter's frown deepens.

"What did you say?"

[st_x5_494]

He shrugged. "I don't remember the specifics." Which was a bold-face lie since he couldn't not forget.

[st_arkintern]

"You say something bad enough to tick someone off to the point of banning them from our room, and you don't remember what you said?"

[st_x5_494]

Alec sighed. "Alright, fine. He might of said some shit to me, totally failing to miss my point and hanging onto some bullshit line he thought I was talking about and I might have called him roadkill. And that he wasn't human and made fun of his height." Sort of, anyways. He implied Rocket wasn't a 'grown-up.' Also, the irony of Alec talking about human and not human wasn't lost on him.

[st_arkintern]

Peter's frown deepens even more.

"You need to apologize to him," Peter insists. "You can't say that sort of thing to him."

Peter Parker is a master of what you shouldn't say to people lately.

[st_x5_494]

"I'm not apologizing to him." Alec crossed his arms stubbornly.

As far as Alec was concerned, Rocket had basically said Peter was going to die, he might as well enjoy it.

[st_arkintern]

"You're going to apologize to him," Peter says, and he pushes himself off the bed to make a grab for Alec's arm.

[st_x5_494]

Alec didn't move his arm. He let Peter grab it, though his expression was challenging.

"What are you going to do? Make me?"

[st_arkintern]

Peter realizes that an apology is meaningless unless Alec actually means it. Even if he made Alec apologize, he gets the feeling that Rocket would see right through Alec's lack of genuineness.

Peter lets go of Alec's arm. "I'm not," he says. "Because you need to realize it's wrong before you apologize."

[st_x5_494]

He sighed. "People aren't always going to be friends with each other. It's just how life is. You're not friends with that douchebag at your school."

[st_arkintern]

"Yeah, but we don't live next door to each other, either. I'm not saying you have to be friends, but... don't you think you should be civil to one another?"

Peter doesn't antagonize Flash.

[st_x5_494]

"He's a bad influence. Besides, I'm being civil by not turning him into a hat." Stubborn man is stubborn.

[st_arkintern]

"How's he a bad influence?" Peter demands. "He hasn't even done anything yet."

[st_x5_494]

He crossed his arms again, but Alec didn't say anything. There were things he had to say about it. Things he saw in the damn Raccoon he saw in himself and some of the things Rocket said in general - Alec just knew - but Peter liked the damn thing so... for some reason Alec couldn't say.

[st_arkintern]

Peter's not taking nothing for an answer.

"Are you gonna answer me?"

[st_x5_494]

"You won't like my answer." Alec probably sounded exactly like Peter's age right now.

[st_arkintern]

"How do you know that?"

[st_x5_494]

"gee, I don't know, Peter. Because I know you? I know you'll either think I'm completely off base or you'll make that 'crushed soul' face and I'll feel like an asshole. Either way I don't win."

[st_arkintern]

"What do you know about me that makes you think that?"

Now it's Peter's turn to fold his arms over his chest.

[st_x5_494]

He made an exacerbated sound. "Because you're nice and see the good in every damn person," And you're naive, but he didn't say that part out loud. "And you make up these little things in your head about the way life is and don't like your bubbles to be burst."