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We have this now - Peter
Alec had gotten back to the room about an hour or so before the other world closed up. It felt a little weird to be going back to a place with far less freedom and far less things to do. It was almost like choosing to go back to prison.
He pushed any of those thoughts aside. There was no time to dwell.
He was currently taking a shower, but there was a peculiar addition to the room. On Peter's bed was a little kitten that was currently pouncing at the small hills made from the bedding and bounding up and down the bed itself as if chasing some imaginary assailant.
He pushed any of those thoughts aside. There was no time to dwell.
He was currently taking a shower, but there was a peculiar addition to the room. On Peter's bed was a little kitten that was currently pouncing at the small hills made from the bedding and bounding up and down the bed itself as if chasing some imaginary assailant.
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He nodded all seriously. "Uh huh. Uh huh. And I'm sure that asshole let you out of the kindness of his heart."
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The Avengers really would have to have been called in.
"Anyway!" Peter says, segueing this conversation away from the legality of technically carjacking Flash for the good of New York and back to the warehouse. "I ended up following him back to this warehouse to confront him, and he remotely activates his suit, and it's just... flying everywhere and I'm just dodging and trying to keep out of its way and I don't even notice that all the beams holding the building up were damaged and -- it just all comes crashing down."
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Alec's expression darkened a bit. No wonder the kid didn't like enclosed places. This was exactly why he needed to not do this stuff solo.
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Peter takes a breath.
"But I got out and I'm okay now," he says. "I know I told you about it that night already." In far less detail than now. "I just wanted you to know that even when I'm freaking out or when I'm scared, I'll still pull myself together and make it through."
Maybe not immediately, but.
"So... you really don't need to worry about all that stuff with Thanos. I have backup this time. I'm not doing it alone."
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He listened with a blank expression. Blank because that's what he always did when he was processing.
"If I didn't worry, I wouldn't be a friend." He didn't bring up how his girlfriend had apparently helped him out through those vents either.
"I know what your kind of life is like. Liz doesn't and she worries." As far as Alec knew, she had no reason first hand knowledge anyways. "It's called... Caring"
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"Yeah, I know," Peter says. "But I just figure everyone'd worry less if they thought I could just handle things, you know?"
Peter picks a pencil up off the table and taps it idly against the notebook. "It's part of why I'm trying to figure out things like... making my own suit or improving the web formula." There were other reasons too, but...
"If I can figure those things out here when I don't have a lot to work with, then I can probably figure out how to do this easy when I get back home." Even if he doesn't remember. "And then maybe people will worry less when I leave."
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He tried not to look at Peter like he was a child and for the most part, he was successful. "You know what would make worry less? If you knew sometimes that it was already too much and you went to people and said 'hey, I need your help' before you went." He put up a hand to stop Peter from arguing. "I'm not saying when people don't listen. Happy was an idiot for ignoring you. But showing you know your limits would help people to know you're not just going to jump off a damn bridge without a plan."
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"Yeah, I know," Peter says, simply. "And I'm trying. I promise I am. I really haven't done anything reckless in awhile."
Well, anything that he considered reckless.
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"Good. Leave that shit to me, okay? I'm better at reckless than you are anyways" it was meant to be a joke, but also true.
He paused. "How are you doing being back?"
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Peter tosses the pin at Alec.
"It made me miss home," Peter says. "And I do. What about you?"
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He caught the pen easily and gave him a 'yes mom' eyeroll. He didn't think it was the same thing.
"Me? I have a shit hole world so I don't miss it. I only want to go back so Max and the other has back up."
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"Or mostly good," he supplies. But it might not be possible for someone to be totally good 100% of the time, anyway.
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He rolled his eyes again, this time more pointedly. "Whatever you say. You know, you should look into being a PR person if the whole superhero thing doesn't work out."
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To help out May.
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"I thought the superhero thing was going to be your full time thing?" He was teasing, but was actually glad to hear that. Not that he thought college was important, but at least Peter wasn't entirely focused on one thing in life.
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He nodded. "Saves people by night, does... Science by day?" Alec understood the need for money, certainly. "It's why I work at Jam Pony. Apart from being able to get passed sector police, it pays."
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"But now I'm trying to figure it out. I just don't know if there's going to be a normal job flexible enough for me to work it and do the Spider-Man thing." At least not without divulging his identity, and even then, it might still be a problem.
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Alec didn't know if there were new types of jobs in Peter's world. "Could be a bike messenger, if they still have those. Can driver, but you'd probably be bored to tears. News reporter? If you're good at writing anyways. Couldn't you be like, Stark's secretary?" As much as Alec disliked the man.
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Peter thinks about this briefly. Does Mr. Stark have a secretary right now? He's not really sure. He might not even need one.
"I think Mrs. Potts started off as his secretary," he says. At least he read that online. He in elementary school when Pepper was bumped up from secretary/personal aide to Stark CEO. "They're engaged now."
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He made a vague gesture toward Peter. "See? If you play your cards right, you too, could be engaged to Tony Stark."
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"I'm not interested in Mr. Stark like that," Peter blurts out. "And he's in his late 40s or something."
He takes a breath.
"I'm not sure if he'd want me to work for him anyway. I think that maybe I'd be smart enough, but... I don't know."
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He rolled his eyes "you're always so quick to doubt yourself when it comes to that guy, but you'll jump into a fire or into enemy territory without thinking."
He just didn't get it.
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"Your lack of faith in your normal life is astounding." He looked at Peter with a bit of a skeptical look.
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