Re: AMNH: Gwen & Pete
There was a moment of delay when he asked about Sharon, as she tried to ascertain the location of his voice. She calculated distance based on carry, tone, echo, and she determined he was still over there, which made her relax from her very inauspicious hiding place behind the bear. "She's totally our age. She listens to lovey dovey music, and she thinks she can change the world and that the Avengers suck. She's kind of great." Fun. Sharon Carter, in her youth, was fun, and Gwen's tone said she thought that was entertaining. She was used to thinking of Ms. Carter as super responsible, not as boy crazy. "She's boy crazy too," she said, entertained that a significantly skilled agent could giggle over cute guys the way Sharon did.
But he was right; life was totally complicated, and this was escapism, and she was okay with that. Regardless of weird things with Mary Jane and confessions about webslinging. "Your arguments about fate are unfounded. You may present them to the committee when you have substantiating information," she said with all the pomp and circumstance of science review boards the world over. "I'm totally the committee in this example." And if she joked around with him enough, she could kind of forget about confessions and Mary Jane altogether for a few minutes. She definitely didn't want to think about Flash and Mary Jane, because that worried her a lot, and she didn't want Flash getting hurt again, especially not now.
She gasped, and the sound carried across the PA system with a hint of laugh at her fake outrage about needing to pay for theoretically expensive dino doctors. "You wouldn't make me pay! That's not fair. You're the one who slept through class and let your suit get snatched, so you're responsible for any potential dino trauma. They could be emotionally messed up for life after seeing your pjs." And she was so caught up in teasing him, that she didn't hear the webs. As for her spidey senses, she really only knew how to use them when she was trying to; she'd hadn't quite gotten the hang of just sensing stuff yet, and no one wrote dissertations or scientific papers on how to best optimize spider mutation abilities.
He dropped down behind her as she was trying to come up with a witty retort for that whole thing about swooning, and she gasped just a little bit, but she thought she did a good job of recovering. Totally not caught unawares. Nope! She turned at the waist and looked at him, like she'd been expecting him there all the time. "What took you so long?" Okay, so she was a little blushy, but that was just a result of the exertion required to get from the dinos to the bear. Yep. But his question made her stare, okay, close lips. Right. Better. "Um, um... You're the one with two left feet, Peter Parker. That spider that bit you didn't know how to dance." Smile. Witty comeback. Recovery!