Who: Peter Parler
When: 10/08
Where: NYC library
What: trying to avoid going home
Warnings: Depression, alcohol abuse
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Peter was high off of some pot he'd managed to score by showing off his ability to get a hello from Spiderman for someone's kid. He was listening to this old country song his aunt May had liked, and it was making him think of his own father, who was truly in crisis right now, and it was making Peter have to be away. Anywhere that wasn't home. Right now, he was in the Manhattan building for the New York City public library. He was in the Young Adult fantasy section, he was trying to get something for Jessalyn for Christmas, so he was going to check what there was, he could stop by a bookstore or call up Amazon.
He couldn't be at home, watching his father waste away to nothing and drinking nonstop. He was already on a pacemaker, and Peter was afraid that he was going to die, and then Uncle Thor was going to have to take care of himself and Jessa. And he wondered if his sister would engage with her mother, who was there. And so was Steve, her other father, but Mr. Rogers was going to marry Uncle Thor here, so that was a bit of a bad thing for Tony. He just wanted Tony to be better, and he knew that he had done everything he could do, and it was just getting to be too much.
Peter couldn't watch his father drink himself to death. He was dealing with losing Steve after he'd gotten over waiting for Bruce to show, Tony had to learn that there were other men in the world, and Peter needed him to be around. He was still a kid, and he was still needing his father to help him through the rest of his teen years.</lj-cut>