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Most Definitely Gwen Stacy, and Not Carnage (seered) wrote in rooms,
@ 2015-06-10 18:27:00

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!marvel comics, *log, flash thompson, peter parker

log: carnage comes home
Who: Carnage, Peter Parker, Flash Thompson
What: "Gwen Stacy" goes back to Aunt May's house to recuperate.
Where: Aunt May's house
When: After the fight on the Turnpike.
Warnings/Rating: Creepiness.

It comes in through the bedroom window, slides through a gap the width of a needle as smoothly and easily as water pouring through a sieve. By the time it's completely reached the other side, it's Gwen Stacy.

It is Gwen Stacy.

Well, it's close, anyway. It's blonde, and the face is right, but the eyes are green. The hair is too long, hanging well past the shoulders. The hands are too small, just a little, and it's a few inches too tall. But it is Gwen Stacy.

It needs somewhere quiet, somewhere safe. This house will be safe for Gwen Stacy. The people here care about her, love her, and want her to be alive. It knew how to find the bedroom of the boy because it remembers, and here is the bed Gwen Stacy remembers also.

The room smells familiar. The bed smells familiar. InTO tHE BeD.

Gwen Stacy climbs in. Yes, familiar and safe. She'll be safe here, and the woman who owns the house, (Aunt May, a crackling static voice fills in) isn't at home. She pulls the blankets over her naked shoulders. She is bare, as if she were only just born, and she buries her face in the pillow.

She feels her face melt away. She waits, tense, for a moment, and it all comes back again. The eyes are brown now, probably.

She clings to the soft pillow and smells its smell, like Peter Parker. She presses her tongue to the pillowcase. It is human, soft and pink.

Yes. Safe.

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Re: log: carnage comes home

flashofvenom
2015-06-25 08:21 am UTC (link)

Flash didn't care if it walked like Gwen, talked like Gwen, quacked like Gwen, right now he was going to keep his gun on the blonde. And, if anyone in that torn up house didn't think he'd shoot the blue out of her eyes just for looking at him funny, they were in for a surprise. "You really shouldn't." He said and his voice was all soldier, all warning. He couldn't let himself believe this was his best friend, the girl he lost and everyone else was a lot better at mourning. The girl he said he loved, even if every other boy in her life was a lot better at showing it. Here, in the Parker residence, there was no love in his voice. "Carnage took your form and ended up in Peter's room. We just finished fighting it and I think Venom destroy what was left- but you're here and we need to figure out why the fuck that is."

Black slowly crawled across his face and as his own blue eyes vanished behind the goopy veil, she could see he wasn't fucking around. It was a look she might have witnessed him give other people, but never her. If she tried to run, he'd treat her like a criminal first and a friend second. And that was fucked up, he knew that, but he was trained by General Ross and that motherfucker would have done the same damned thing.

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Re: log: carnage comes home

ephemeras
2015-06-25 08:42 am UTC (link)

Gwen liked puzzle pieces that fit, curved into corners and edges and logical. She understood that the gun pointed at her meant she was a threat, even if she didn't have a strong comprehension of why until Flash continued speaking. She looked at him for a moment longer, and then she glanced over at Peter, and then she looked back at her best friend and the gun he was holding.

She didn't consider any other escape avenues. Her searching gaze abandoned the window and stairs.

"Okay. I'll go wherever you need me to go." Because she was young and emotional at times, but she understood the threat Carnage posed. If she wasn't herself somehow, then she needed to be dealt with. Destroyed was a strong word, but she understood, and if Flash was saying was right? Then it meant the real her was... where? But she didn't need much scientific deduction to come to the correct conclusion there. "He consumed me. That's the only way he can recreate a host." She said it with only a hint of waiver to her voice. Understanding darkened her blue eyes and dampened them. Tears spilled over blonde lashes, and she didn't look at Peter when she nodded at Flash. "Where do we go?" Obliviously. "Stark Tower?"

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Re: log: carnage comes home

flashofvenom
2015-06-25 08:55 am UTC (link)

Flash kept the gun on her a moment longer, the black over his face hiding any concern for her that he was feeling. The most she got was a squint of comic booky white eyes. When she realized she had been eaten, that was rough for everyone in the room, but Flash needed to be the strong one here. Pete could reassure her once they got her somewhere safe...for everyone. He slowly lowered the gun and holstered it. There wasn't anything he had that could restrain Carnage and Stark Tower was...shit. "HYDRA destroyed Stark Tower looking for you- for it." Flash looked at Peter and then back at Gwen.

"We need to run tests before we tell fucking anyone about this. I can keep guard. Pete, you need to supervise since I don't know any fucking science shit. Gwen, is the Chinatown Lab still ours?" Flash hooked his thumbs on his utility belt and sighed. "I figure once you start doing actual science we can surmise you're more Gwen than Carnage, or no Carnage if we're lucky." A blink of his white eyes. "Surmise. I don't think I used that word right."

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Re: log: carnage comes home

likeaspider
2015-06-25 07:59 pm UTC (link)

It was a good thing Flash was there, because Peter? Was absolutely useless. He stared, and he stared, because he'd been so sure he'd lost Gwen again, so sure that he'd never see her again—maybe a different her, but not her—and now he was torn between throwing logic out the window and trying to rationalize what he was seeing. She looked like Gwen. Talked like Gwen. And Carnage was gone, Venom had— eaten it, or whatever, so it couldn't be the symbiote again. Could it? He started to shake his head when Gwen said she would go, because he didn't think that was a good idea; luckily, Flash had the words he didn't. Flash could keep a level head. Flash could explain.

His expression became something pained when she said he consumed me, and he'd had no idea that Carnage could recreate a host, no idea at all. He felt like he should say something, but he didn't know what. "Gwen—" Just that, a quiet sound, one word, when tears spilled over her lashes, but she didn't look at him, so he swallowed and said nothing else. There was goop in his hair, or something, and Peter focused on wiping that away instead.

He looked up when Flash said his name. Right. Supervise. He could do that. "Yeah. Okay." Tests were a good idea. He'd go wherever he was needed.

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Re: log: carnage comes home

ephemeras
2015-06-26 12:53 am UTC (link)

The girl was quiet for a few long minutes. She tried to imagine the destruction of Stark Tower, and she couldn't entirely wrap her head around her culpability, not with the blanks that still remained regarding the symbiote's escape. Why did HYDRA want Carnage, and why had they been looking for it at Stark Tower? She comprehended that there were a lot of pieces of this puzzle that she didn't have. Things were missing, and the image that was coalescing wasn't complete. But there was time to figure things out, she reasoned. If there needed to be testing (and there absolutely needed to be testing), then there would be time for all appropriate research before a decision was reached about what she was, and any subsequent action required.

She knew Peter would go easy on her, whatever she was, and so she was glad Flash was there, being inflexible with that blink of white eyes and his concern about misused words. "You used surmised right, brony," she said warmly, and then she took a long shaky breath. "I don't have Chinatown, and if I'm potentially still being controlled by or comprised of the symbiote, then we can't trust me to conduct testing."

She was quiet a moment longer, thinking, because if HYDRA was looking for Carnage, then it was safe to assume that S.H.I.E.L.D. remained compromised. "Mr. Stark has a lab under the Bay. I have biometric access. There are containment units there, and it's independent of the Stark Tower. There's no reason to assume it's not still standing. It should let me in, if there's enough of m- of Gwen in my genetic makeup." She stumbled on those final words. No, no, time for that later, and she blinked away tears. "How do you feel most comfortable conducting transport?"

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Re: log: carnage comes home

flashofvenom
2015-06-26 02:44 am UTC (link)

A smile hidden by black goop and Flash resisted the urge to hug Gwen or really say anything about how much he missed her. Instead, he focused on the next option, which seemed a lot better than the Chinatown Lab. "A containment unit would give me time to power down. I can't be in this fucking suit for much longer anyway." Flash would have and everyone knew that, but it was safer for him to take it off and maybe take a fucking nap while she was locked up safely. "It's important that the whole fucking team of Avengers don't know right away. They'll try to take control or have a fucking pow-wow about it, when we already know what needs to be done. It would help to have another scientist work with Peter, and Stark will likely find out since it's his lab, but we can worry about that later."

Flash went quiet for a moment, thinking through their plan and then deciding it really was the best course of action. He looked up at Pete, a long look that translated even with the mask on. Flash needed Pete on his team, he trusted Pete even if they hadn't really worked together before in this kind of high stakes mission. "I'll tell everyone we blew up Carnage and there's no trace of him. That much pretty fucking close to the truth." Then he turned to look at Gwen. "I'll carry you. If you try and hurt me, Venom can take it." A pause and he pushed the fond thoughts of he riding piggyback out of his mind.

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Re: log: carnage comes home

likeaspider
2015-06-26 04:33 am UTC (link)

The one person Peter trusted with this was in the room with him. He knew that Flash would keep Gwen safe, plain and simple, and he was completely okay with not involving the Avengers. It was a good plan, the best they had. "We can handle it," he piped up, giving his friend a nod. He got the look. He understood. "We will." And he went looking for his mask while transportation plans were made, pulling it back over his head once he found it. Being able to hide behind it, obscured eyes and no expression, was something of a relief. He'd explain the damage to Aunt May later... somehow. Whatever. He'd figure it out.

This was more important anyway. Flash would carry Gwen, he and his webs could keep up just fine—better to focus. He could get all stupid and emotional later.

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