Re: osborn estate: gwen & pete
[She pretended to consider.] I think I'd need to list out pros and cons of making that line permanent, but at present my working theory is yeah, that's where I draw the line. [That cheeky grin of his reminded her of really bad hiding places in Oscorp, and of crushed flowers and him climbing through her window, and he'd always been able to joke when she had a hard time finding humor. She knew she was different than the her he'd known. It was like Helena said, and location changed them all with enough time, but that smile was still familiar, and she couldn't help teasing back.]
He's going to see it as a betrayal. Harry sees everything as a betrayal. When we were in zombies and he was unaffected by the old serum, he said he knew he was being a jerk, but it's just like him to be defensive. His dad- [But Peter knew all about Norman Osborn, and she let that go as he asked about the secret.
She considered avoiding it, but his subsequent question about Mary Jane made it harder, and she'd been lying and hiding things a lot in the past three years. She didn't want to start that with him, and there was that old feeling that she could tell him anything. She'd tried that with the previous Peters, given into that completely non-scientific memory sensation, but it hadn't gone well. She was wary now.] Two versions of you ago, you asked the same thing, and you hated me and Mary Jane after I told you. You were miserable here after that.
[She didn't move the ice when he tugged on her wrist, and it remained pressed against his jaw, but she did slacken her grip so he could take it from her.] Mary Jane was involved with you and Flash. You'd broken up with me, and Harry and I had fooled around. She was my confidant. Her and Flash, but mostly Mary Jane. She was giving me advice and stuff. Stupid stuff that was completely based on Mary Jane's superior ability to flirt. Harry asked me out, and then she slept with him and lied to me about it. Flash told me. He was in love with her.
[She moved away, leaned against the opposite counter.] There was this villain, and he pumped this drug into Midtown. Harry wasn't affected, but I was. This was senior year. We slept together. He said it was a huge mistake, and he never wanted to talk about it. I brought it up, told him we needed to talk, but he wouldn't. I could've pushed. I was pregnant. I went off to college in California and gave up the baby. I never told him. I came back here. We started sleeping together again, but I talked to Mary Jane first. She knew I'd gotten pregnant, and she knew how I felt. I didn't want to get hurt again, and she was seeing you again. I asked if she and Harry were seeing each other, if there was anything going on. She guaranteed me there wasn't. [Another shrug.] But there was. They were sleeping together, and he eventually told me. They never stopped.