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myresponsibility) wrote2014-09-14 02:42 pm
myresponsibility) wrote2014-09-14 02:42 pm
042 | VIDEO
[So, Peter's actually been back for a while by now. More than a month. And he never really got around to announcing... that... Publicly, anyway. And while most people have probably seen him wandering around, looking a little older and a hell of a lot sadder since the last time he was here, and even more glued to Gwen Stacy's side than usual, he still feels like maybe this is a necessary step.
Forgive her, and forgive yourself James had said. Maybe it's time to start trying that.
So he still looks a little weird and hollow eyed when he turns on the video feed, but he looks less so than he has. A little more actively engaged in what's going on around him.]
This is Peter. Parker. [He clears his throat, hoping now more than ever that no one tries to tell him he's Spider-Man, or that they'd read about him and looked up to him and thought he was a hero.]
I came back a couple weeks ago, I'm a warden. And I guess I kind of never got around to this, so. Hi.
[This is harder than he'd thought it would be.]
I've been here for almost two years? [He says it like he's not sure, because time can be hard to keep track of when you get booted home and come back a week later, even though it's been a long, long time for him.] I help out in maintenance, and I hang around the lab sometimes, so if you want to do something with that, let me - or one of the other guys, I guess - know.
[And that seems like the end of what he has to say. Except...]
And I guess I play lacrosse now?
Forgive her, and forgive yourself James had said. Maybe it's time to start trying that.
So he still looks a little weird and hollow eyed when he turns on the video feed, but he looks less so than he has. A little more actively engaged in what's going on around him.]
This is Peter. Parker. [He clears his throat, hoping now more than ever that no one tries to tell him he's Spider-Man, or that they'd read about him and looked up to him and thought he was a hero.]
I came back a couple weeks ago, I'm a warden. And I guess I kind of never got around to this, so. Hi.
[This is harder than he'd thought it would be.]
I've been here for almost two years? [He says it like he's not sure, because time can be hard to keep track of when you get booted home and come back a week later, even though it's been a long, long time for him.] I help out in maintenance, and I hang around the lab sometimes, so if you want to do something with that, let me - or one of the other guys, I guess - know.
[And that seems like the end of what he has to say. Except...]
And I guess I play lacrosse now?
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[He hesitates for a decent beat before asking.]
Is he doing okay?
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What happened to his cabin upset him more than he wants to say, I think. Not entirely sure why. [That's a fib, at best, but it's the kind he's very good at covering.] Overall however he's been much better this month. Why do you even ask?
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[And he'd been really, really fucked up, and so had Jack, but he'd tried to help him.
Peter shrugs, a little listlessly.] He thought, you know, the other guy got me killed.
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[He's smirking a bit as he says it, but his relief on Jack's part is genuine.]
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[It is good. He's just not quite sure what else to say, here.]
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Still...he finds he can't help himself.]
That flood. Where you found yourself...transformed into someone from my world. [He means Batman, of course. He just can't say it.] How much of being him do you remember?
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Why?
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Because. I wanted to ask someone who might actually have memory of me from my own world. From before the Barge.
Am I really so different now? As much as everyone here keeps trying to tell me.
[He's afraid to hear the answer.]