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[myresponsibility]

[When Peter realized what was going on - seriously, he's been around for long enough to be able to tell when it's happening - he'd sort of been planning on saying something funny. Or witty. Or just something.

But then he saw who's been trolling the network, and he'd honestly debated not saying anything at all.

Thanks, Harry.

He still posts, maybe hoping to see James or Tim or someone, or Aunt May (maybe not Captain Stacy), and more or less bracing himself for the inevitable.]

This is Peter Parker. As in "does whatever a spider can", Parker.

Not that most of you new guys are going to remember me saying that, but.

What's up?

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[excussus]

[What are best friends for???]

I'll remember.

[lastrat]

I'd wipe it from my memory, if I could.

[peektuttut]

You're not getting shot at again, are you?

[myresponsibility]

[Well. He brought this on himself...]

Yeah.

[He knows.]

How- [How've you been is probably the stupidest fucking question he could ask right now, and he chokes on it. Why should he even care? How can he even care, now that he knows what it was like for Gwen, when she- when she-]

There's a guy here that looks like you.

[????]

[myresponsibility]

[!!!!!!!!!!]

I'll build you one of those mind wipers from Men in Black.

Did I mention Gwen wants to go to Oxford?

[myresponsibility]

[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Are you really doing the vigilante thing right if you're not?

[excussus]

Is that why everyone keeps calling me Detmer?

[Look, isn't this normal? Doesn't this seem normal? Don't get comfy, it won't last.]

[lastrat]

Oh, no. I've enough ridiculous gadgets in my life.

[GROAN]

Don't tell me. You're both planning to move here.

[peektuttut]

Okay, point. Let me fix that.

You haven't been shot again, have you?

Private

[voluntaryapnea]

[He hesitates, because he and Peter aren't as close as Peter and Scott, but.

But.]

You all right?

[ Warden!Dean ]

[surfaceshine]

Great, now I'm gonna have your goddamn theme song stuck in my head all day.

I mean, having a theme song? Still pretty awesome, but my point stands.

[myresponsibility]

Yeah.

He's telekinetic.

[Fun fact.]

Private

[myresponsibility]

[Pft his casa is your casa, or whatever.]

Man, I don't even know. At least he's not here, right?

[myresponsibility]

That's the plan.

[myresponsibility]

Not recently.

[ Warden!Dean ]

[myresponsibility]

Hey, it's a great theme song.

[Which he is now humming. Enjoy.]

[excussus]

Yeah? That's cool.

[He leans in a little, and do you recognize that slightly bugshit look in his eyes?]

Is he dying too?

[lastrat]

You're not allowed to live within ten square blocks of me.

[peektuttut]

Dude you better be joking or I'm coming back to shake you.

[myresponsibility]

[It is getting uncomfortably familiar, yeah, remember when you were sane??]

No.

A lot of the people here are already dead.

[And you killed one of them.]

[myresponsibility]

Cool, we'll start looking eleven blocks out and see where it goes.

Private

[excussus]

[Yep, he's been doing a pretty good imitation lately!! Except now here's Peter and he's just. Angry. All over again. Spider-Man's supposed to be gone for good. He's supposed to be hopeless now.

He laughs, somewhere between a giggle and the quietest cackle in the world. It fades, and he looks at his erstwhile best friend with something almost like a smile still on his face. Almost, but sicker.]

Gwen there?

[lastrat]

You little prick.

[He's missed Pete. B(]

[myresponsibility]

Help, I'm bleeding to death, you'd better come and meet some of the other guys who hang out here now?

[peektuttut]

I have the strangest sense I'm being conned.