Re: Marvel hospital: Gwen & Peter
It was likely indicative of Gwen's belated realization about her situation with Peter Parker, but she didn't expect him to go looking for her. She knew he'd stay with Mary Jane, and it was a little like the night at the Osborn Estate, when Harry had been locked in the panic room, and Peter had gone with Mary Jane then, too. Gwen noticed it then, even if she'd tried not to, and now it was just a confirmed fact in her mind. What she expected, and she didn't think she'd see him before he and Mary Jane took off; she knew they wouldn't stay forever, and there wasn't much point in all of them sitting there in vigil.
She'd been in the door with Flash when this happened; she should be the one staying.
She saw Peter a few seconds before he saw her, after he left the vendeteria, and she assumed he was taking food back to Mary Jane and that he wouldn't make the detour to the couch. She had a polite little handwave ready, because that was smooth, Stacy. But he hesitated, and she knew him well enough to know he was trying to decide whether it would be rude of him not to stop by. It made her sad, and she didn't think anything could add to her sadness after talking to the surgeon that had conducted Flash's operation - but it did.
Still, she managed something that resembled a smile when he stopped next to the couch. He didn't sit; of course he didn't. He asked if she wanted anything, and she shook her head. "No. I tried to get something for myself, but I wasn't hungry," she explained, and that probably had as much to do with having spent the previous day and night with monsters as it had anything else. Even with minimal mental manipulation by the door, it had still shaken her at the end, and she missed having people to talk to about things. But Peter hadn't been talking to her much since Valentine's Day, and Jason just wanted to have sex whenever she saw him, and Harry's empathy had gone out the window with his greenness. There was Helena, but talking to Helena about Silent Hill seemed cruel, plus she knew the other girl would be really pissed.
"You don't have to stay," she offered, and she motioned at the stuff he carried, which she assumed he needed to get back to Mary Jane. "You should take Mary Jane home," she added, in case he required the words spoken aloud. "They said Flash won't be awake tonight."