Re: osborn estate: gwen & pete
I'm not sure your training in list making is comprehensive enough, bug boy. You were always a messy lab partner and lists require precision and attention to detail. You might just need to be kosher with my no-saving clause. [She knew he had a hard time with bad things. She was better at dealing with them, and she always had been. She still remembered when his uncle died, and how he'd dealt with that. She knew all about Peter Parker's humor. She'd lost some of her own without him around, but that didn't mean she'd forgotten. She hadn't forgotten a lot of stuff.
Maybe it was the ice or the nearness, but she laughed when he only managed two seconds of silence before that incredulous outburst.] Yeah. You broke up with me. [She could laugh when she said it now, but that had been so hard at the time. He let her finish, and she was waiting for him to turn around and bail after. It was a messed up story. She knew it didn't line up like at all with the girl he'd known in school. But he didn't bail, and that just made her want to explain more. It was another one of those illogical things in a litany of illogical things that were currently occupying space in her life.]
When we all got here, my dad had just died. [She didn't look up at him while she said that. Nope.] You'd broken it off, and you didn't want to get back together. Not like back home. Mary Jane went to live with you, and you two got close. We got back together a little, but we fought all the time. You just didn't like me much, and you spent a lot of time with her. I tried to be more like her, but I bombed. You liked Flash, but not Harry, and Harry and I kind of ended up alone all the time. Being weepy. [Again, it was easier to laugh about that now, and she managed to look up at him, but she shook her head when he said giving up the baby was her choice.] It wasn't what I wanted, but it was the best thing for her. I can't be anyone's mom, Pete, and Harry can't be anyone's dad, and this was three years ago. I wanted her to have a great life, great parents. Like mine. Like your aunt and uncle. We could never do that for her.
[She sniffled, and she reached for the discarded ice and put it in the sink.] Mary Jane said she loved all of you. She couldn't decide, which Flash said was cool. That's what dating was. I just wasn't like that. We- We weren't. [She motioned between them.] The next Peter thought we were sluts, and the last one was like a decade older than us. He'd been married to Mary Jane, and I was just a dead girl from high school that was inconvenient. Harry and I needed him a few times, but he was never around. One of those times I met Jason. [She lifted a hand, and it was supposed to result in some gesture, but she just let it fall again.] I've been just as bad to him as Mary Jane was to everyone. I'm not proud of it.
[She glanced toward the stairs.] We should get some blood before he wakes up.