Re: roxbury crossing [gwen/loki]
[She watched him take down the alien, wide cornflower blue eyes and something like acceptance.] This isn't you.
[But maybe everyone else had been right. Maybe she'd been wrong, just like she'd been wrong about Mr. Osborn. She backed up, and the water became ground again. It wasn't anything she thought about or planned. It happened just as she stepped onto the bottomless blue, and it trapped creatures beneath the there-again ground, limbs sticking out through concrete and grass, some of which were still flailing.
She looked at the limbs, and she looked at him, and then she turned and fled.]