Re: pete's house: gwen & peter
I think, psychologically speaking, you adapt to Harry's kind of behavior. You anticipate the explosions, and you work toward preemptively finding ways around them. But it never worked super great with me, and he always exploded. Now Hels exploded too, and I think I might just kind of suck at diffusing anger. Flash always said my social skills were terrible. The last version of you called me a robot, and he didn't mean it in a cutesy way. [Peter totally had a tendency to be cutesy. But he asked a heavy question, and her expression went somber for a few seconds as she gave it some legitimate thought.] I feel like I did when I died back home, kind of. I went home, and I died, and then there wasn't anything. You were there, I guess, with a grave and stuff, but I showed up back here. Unless my body like disappeared from that grave, then it's kind of the same thing? That's what Mr. Stark was trying to get me to see, but I was stubborn about it. Okay, so the Carnage thing adds a level of gross, but it's almost the same. [She sighed.] Which means I feel like me, and me doesn't feel any different than when I was in the library and Carnage came. [She followed it up with a small smile.] You're a much nicer Peter than the jerky ones were.
Don't sigh dramatically at me, Peter Parker! And there is ample proof that my death is a fixed point! Even in the universe where I got my powers - I was you. I got bitten by a spider, and I was late to school regularly, and my mom died instead of Uncle Ben, and you were a total science nerd who was valedictorian and interned at Oscorp before dying. See? [Smug.] Fixed point, even when things get flipped around a little. [Her insanely active curiosity won out a moment later.] I really don't die again?
[She poked his side when he rolled onto his stomach, and nope, totally cool, not blushing or anything at how close he was - it was just super hot in his room. Right. She looked up at him, and she stubbornly shook her head.] Nope. You're on your own bug boy.