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daretodo

[for Pepper]

Nov 20, 2011 15:26

It's been a long couple of days. I probably should've tried to sleep, but I couldn't. No surprises, there, I guess. Really, the biggest -- and only -- surprise is that I'm still invited to stay under this roof. After all the dumb things I've pulled in the last 48 hours, I thought Tony would've been glad to get rid of me ( Read more... )

pepper potts, plot: kübler-ross, peter parker

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wildlyconflictd December 4 2011, 21:40:20 UTC

They keep doing this to her.

Try as she might to find some selflessness to apply to the situation, Pepper can never quite help taking it all a little personally in that irrational and implacable way afforded to mothers and wives. They're all she has, and for all that she's proud of everything they accomplish being superheroes, she also doesn't know how to get used to it.

She definitely doesn't know how to swallow Peter putting himself in danger for nothingFortunately, a night's sleep inevitably helps with perspective, even if the sleep hasn't been that good. There's an unmistable pang in her heart when she spies Peter sitting there, alone, but she doesn't reply, not yet. Instead, she gently pries the cup from his fingers and carries it with her into the kitchen, where she begins making a fresh pot. It's better for both of them if she's got her feet under her and a cup of coffee in her hands before they begin this ( ... )

daretodo December 4 2011, 22:00:13 UTC

I don't look up. I barely acknowledge the new cup of coffee, too busy appreciating the full extent of just how damn uncomfortable this is, because I deserve that much.

"I'm sorry."

It's the only thing I can think to say and the words escape me with the immediacy of a reflex. I inadvertently put a lot of people in danger with my actions, and for all that Tony was surprisingly quick to place a lot of the blame on himself, it's clear to me that I'm the biggest person at fault, here. It might've been his device, but I'm the one who used it.

I just didn't expect anyone to follow. Not that that's an excuse.

wildlyconflictd December 8 2011, 04:27:27 UTC

She can understand the desire to be free of this place, has had moments when the helplessness of simply being on the island seemed to rage through her endlessly. She knows the pain of it, the loss, the perpetual turning of your gaze to a place you can no longer see nor be a part of. She knows about all of it, has felt it just as surely as Peter has, even if she's done a better job of keeping that part hidden.

But he's supposed to be smarter than this. He's supposed to know better.

"Why?" she asks, blue eyes fixed on his downturned face. "Why did you do it?"

daretodo December 8 2011, 04:57:23 UTC

Because it was there, I want to say, but I don't. The lie would be too easy, though she'd see through it for all the wrong reasons. When considering the men in her life, I'm meant the responsible one -- the one with Jiminy Cricket on his shoulder at all times. I've more or less managed to keep my reckless side under wraps. Oh, there've been hints of it, sure, but there was always some greater purpose behind it. Saving a life. Saving several...

But I used to throw myself off the highest buildings I could find just for the rush of it. Would jump at the chance to join Reed and the rest of the F.F. whenever I'd get an invite to go off world. It's not a side of me that folks get to see here, though, because I'm not really Spider-Man, here, am I? And Spidey could get away with that excuse. With great power comes great responsibility, but that's not a lesson I learned on my first try. I've made mistakes. Stupid, arrogant mistakes that I regret to this day; sometimes I lose track of what I've learned and have to go over the same thing again ( ... )

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