fic: promise not to promise anymore

[professor_spork]

Title: promise not to promise anymore
Author: professor_spork
Beta: marlenanargle
Character/Pairing: Gwen Stacy/Peter Parker
Fandom: The Amazing Spider-Man
Rating: R
Summary: It's a lot easier to be mad at Peter than to miss her father. Gwen's grief, from the end of the movie on.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

Comments

[zombres]

LEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

I AM SOBBING.

I AM SITTING AT THE LOCAL COFFEE SHOP SOBBING IN A BOOTH AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT ME BUT FUCK THEIR CONFUSION BECAUSE YOU'VE BROKEN ME IN SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WAY WITH THIS.

THIS WAS EVERYTHING I WANTED AND NEEDED BUT NEVER KNEW.

IT'S JUST SO PERFECT AND THEM AND HEART-BREAKING AND WONDERFUL AND PETER IMAGINING PLAYING "WONDERWALL" FOR HER AND THAT MEMORY OF HER DAD COMING IN WHEN SHE'S PLAYING DOLLS WITH HER BROTHER AND ALL OF THE STUFF ABOUT CONNORS AND THE GRIEVING PROCESS AND

Peter Parker is like a foreign film in a language she doesn’t understand, but his touch subtitles all the things she can’t hear him saying. And maybe hers is the same for him.

BURY ME WHERE I FUCKING FELL AND LEAVE THIS FIC ON MY TOMBSTONE.

[professor_spork]

ANGIE ARE YOU OKAY MAYBE DRINK SOME WATER OR SOMETHING I DON'T WANT YOU TO DIE

[zombres]

NO, I SHAN'T.

THOUGH I MAY ATTEMPT BRIBERY IN ORDER TO GET MORE GWEN/PETER FIC FROM YOU.

[professor_spork]

I AM OPEN TO NEGOTIATION WHAT WOULD YOU BRIBE ME WITH?

[johnmayergirl23]

ugh LEAH why must you do this to me, get ready i'ma quote this whole thing back to you

He’s never going to walk her down the aisle. She keeps thinking of stupid things like that, like how he’ll never meet his grandchildren or see any of his kids graduate high school, let alone college
this is the point where i started getting wibbly omg leah

She woke up this morning to a world without her dad, and she’ll do that tomorrow, and she’ll do it the day after that and the next day and she’ll keep doing it until she dies herself, because there’s nothing left of him

an eternal bucket for my tears

They’ve got to do that, now-find little ways of keeping him alive. She’s starting to get that, she thinks.

stop with your words

Peter doesn’t have the capacity to not give his everything; she knows that the same way she knows that the blue sky isn’t really blue at all, but an illusion of refracted light.

STOP. LEAH. THIS IS IT. this is the most perfect of sentences, and it is so them, i cannot deal with it. any other character would say "the

[professor_spork]

STOP. LEAH. THIS IS IT. this is the most perfect of sentences, and it is so them, i cannot deal with it. any other character would say "the way she knows that the sky is blue" but of course gwen stacy wouldn't think that at all, and the fact that you've put this sciencey little bit in here ugh LEAH you just understand characters and i want to squish your face

YES THANK YOU NO ONE ELSE COMMENTED ON THIS AND I WAS SO PROUD OF IT I SQUISH YOUR FACE BACK ALL OF THE SQUISHES

This was almost ten thousand words, so I might need a breather before I attempt more Peter/Gwen, but I love themmmmm

[johnmayergirl23]

Well you are welcome to write anything. .... You should read a song of ice and fire and write lots of fic lol

[ladymercury_10]

Ahhh it's one in the morning but I saw Spider-Man fic and then I saw it was YOUR Spider-Man fic and then sleeping...didn't happen. I feel a little weird and creepy because I'm not sure if you know me, but I loved your Doctor Who fic and I am now going to gush about this. This is the fic that the fandom really needed! Like, it was great that they decided to not go the OH NO WE CANNOT DATE major angst route again, but they really rushed things at the end of the movie. And it makes sense that George Stacey would want to protect Gwen (esp. in the context of what happens to her in the comics), but it also is kind of an "oh poor damsel" moment. AND YOU FIXED IT WITHOUT CHANGING ANYTHING!

He just wasn’t sure if Spider-Man could be trusted to keep the monsters away, because he seemed kind of scary at first. Like all the other spiders. But he changed his mind, remember? Dad told all his men to stand down so Spider-Man could save us.

Awwww. This is great.

But never once did the thought cross her mind that he did anything less than his

[hermionerd]

lol I just realized I made this fancy new lj and never actually use it when I comment on things WHATEVER I'M USING IT NOW.

Here goes:

and why is it that she can only miss her father in the future tense?

I already said it, but it bears repeating: oh my GOD, Leah.

It’s a lot easier to be mad at Peter than to miss her father.

Oh, Gwen. Gwen Stacy, with your self-awareness and your logic and your analysis of your own grief and your choice not to deal with it anyway. Let me hold you.

Phil stares at the floor and says, all in one breath, “I couldn’t sleep because I was thirsty and Dad always got me a glass of water after he read to me and I thought maybe Howie would, only when I got to Howie’s room Simon was already there, and Howie said we could both stay as long as we were quiet and we didn’t tell Mom, and then he read the one about the bunny who makes chocolate sandwiches because Simon wanted it, but after I fell asleep Simon kicked me and he’s crying and Howie said to go get you so… so… I’m getting you.”

HEARTBROKEN.

“Daddy said

[bennet_7]

This was beautifully done. I particularly liked their confrontation. Thanks for sharing!