Re: Jurassic Park: Gwen & Peter
Snow was cool and all, but he'd take clear skies and green for as long as he could get it. Stretched out on the car hood, just a tiny dot in the huge landscape, Peter could almost pretend everything was okay. Almost. He could tell Gwen was hurt, which was a given, but she sounded kind of tired too. Like patterns and all that stuff she talked about, everyone eventually falling in love with MJ. He just didn't know how to convince her that she was wrong; it was even harder now.
"I'm not--" He paused. Okay, maybe he was caught in the middle. Kind of. He liked MJ and he liked Gwen, and he just couldn't side with either of them against the other. But he didn't want someone either, or both, of them avoided talking to either. In the end, he just let it go. Unfinished. "It's not okay, what they did. I just, I don't know, there's no way to make it better. And that sucks." He gave her a long look. "You sure it'll be fine?" Or, more specifically, was she sure that she'd be fine. Both she and MJ were upset and Peter didn't know how to make it better for either of them. But other things, other things could be good. And that made him think; he could've smacked himself for forgetting. "Speaking of other things. How's Emily? Did all that go okay?"
It was in his nature to be stubborn. And that meant persistence, but he'd persisted a lot and it didn't seem to be getting him anywhere. Yeah, they'd kissed, but Gwen was set on being platonic and staying friends; maybe it'd be smart to just back off for a while. Let her breathe. Persistence was one thing, being an overbearing jerk was territory he didn't want to cross into. "Okay," he relented. "Let's go find dinosaurs." He grinned when she said that was what friends did, hunted extinct creatures for the DNA, and slid off the hood after her.
She pointed, and he held his hand up to his eyes to block the sun as he looked. "Bet I can find one first," he said, giving her a teasing look before climbing back into his vehicle.