Re: Jurassic Park: Gwen & Peter
She was glad of his positivity, however much she teased him about it. She wasn't made for doldrums, and neither was he, and they'd always gotten along really well as a result. Compatibility wasn't a science, and she couldn't factor out why she liked being around him, but she always had. She'd noticed him in high school way before he noticed her; she wasn't sure if he knew that, because she'd never asked. And no way, nuh uh, not asking now. Nope, because her non-Mary-Jane-involved person rule was still very much in effect. And Peter Parker was like the most likely to eventually fall in love with the redhead.
He nudged, and he laughed, and it made her less worried about the potential bad things with very large feet. "Don't make me sit you down and read my Hope and Optimism Manifesto, Peter Parker. Don't do it," she teased, but she leaned a little against his side for a moment, in a show of a appreciation that was all touch and nothing logically verbal. But they'd always been good at that, at just kind of understanding.
She was almost sorry she'd brought up the stuff from earlier, because he answered really quick, and the toe of his sneaker scuffed the dirt the way it always used to when he was nervous. She looked at him out of the corner of his eye when he said he wasn't taking Mary Jane's side over hers. "It's not that. Flash got mad at me too. I understand that no one holds her responsible for any wrongdoing in this incident. But I still think it's crappy to tell me she wants to be my friend, and then sleep with the guy I'm dating the very night she meets him." She shrugged her shoulders a little bit, and she might've said more, when she felt something too. Rain? And she looked up in time to see fat raindrops fall. Which was strange, because there hadn't been any meteorological indicators that-
The movement from the corner of her eye was dense and quick, and it made the rain unimportant. There and gone, but the height and dimensions of what she'd just seen made her grip Peter's sleeve and tug him quicker. Not velociraptors. Nope all in her head. All in her head.