We have this now - Peter

[st_x5_494]

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.

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[st_arkintern]

And Peter, for once, doesn't argue.

"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.

[st_x5_494]

"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?"

[st_arkintern]

"If I'm going to be less reckless, you need to be less reckless, too."

Peter tosses the pin at Alec.

"It made me miss home," Peter says. "And I do. What about you?"

[st_x5_494]

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."

[st_arkintern]

"See, and that's why you're good," Peter says. He pauses, thinking of whether or not the aforementioned theft could be construed as good or not.

"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."

[st_arkintern]

"I'm gonna go to college, so the superhero thing isn't going to be my full-time thing," Peter informs him. That was a realization he had come to pretty recently. Well, right before he ended up here at the inn. "I'll probably try to get a part-time job, though."

To help out May.

[st_x5_494]

"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.

[st_arkintern]

"I don't think the superhero thing pays," Peter says. He didn't exactly ask Mr. Stark about money, and somehow it would feel weird getting paid to save people. Sure, doctors and nurses saved people, but... it just felt different. "So I'm going to need to make my own living."

[st_x5_494]

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."

[st_arkintern]

"I don't know," Peter admits. "I guess I just stopped thinking about what I wanted to do for a living after I became Spider-Man." There was a time where that was all he wanted to do was just that.

"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.

[st_x5_494]

He leaned against the wall and considered that. "You need something you can ditch easily or something you make your own hours. Something that gives you access to things would work too."

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.

[st_arkintern]

"Mr. Stark's secretary?"

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."

[st_x5_494]

He made a vague gesture toward Peter. "See? If you play your cards right, you too, could be engaged to Tony Stark."

[st_arkintern]

Peter shoots Alec a disturbed look.

"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."

[st_x5_494]

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.

[st_arkintern]

Peter shakes his head. "It's just that Ms. Potts is so good at her job that when he decided to retire, he made her CEO."

[st_x5_494]

"Your lack of faith in your normal life is astounding." He looked at Peter with a bit of a skeptical look.

[st_arkintern]

"No, I just know my limitations," Peter says. "It's impossible to follow up Ms. Potts."

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"Sounds to me more like you're scared you won't measure up" Alec looked at him challengingly.

[st_arkintern]

"Yeah, but I know I won't," Peter retorts. "Would you be Mr. Stark's secretary after knowing his last one was so good she was promoted to CEO?"

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"I wouldn't work for Stark because I think he's dangerous and an asshole." The truth came out before he could temper it.

Alec paused. "I'm the wrong person to ask."

[st_arkintern]

Peter's frown deepens at Alec's response.

"He's not dangerous and he's not an asshole. If you met him, you'd know that," Peter says.

[st_x5_494]

Alec was pretty sure him and Stark in the same room was a bad idea.

"You're on kitty litter duty." He pushed off the wall. "I'll look into making some toys or... Whatever."

[st_arkintern]

"I'll take care of it," Peter says, pushing himself off the chair. The web-slinger fluid could wait; as much as he wanted to beat Alec, their new pet was the priority now. "I'll be back later."