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gwen (itsybitsyspidey) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-11-16 14:24:00

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gwen stacy, natasha romanoff (mcu)

WHO: Natasha Romanoff (MCU) & Gwen Stacy (Earth-65)
WHAT: Lady spiders being lady spiders
WHERE: Home
WHEN: Saturday lunch time
RATING: Low

One of the things about living in Starklandia that Gwen was still sort of figuring out was having free time. For her, it'd been a terribly unbalanced balancing act back home to figure out being a student, being a drummer in a band that had gone viral, spending time with her dad, and being Spider-Woman (which included a pretty intense array of duties in of itself including but not limited to running from the police). But here? She sort of had to make herself a routine. She didn't always stick to it. Some days she was just content to web up a hammock and laze about in it while reading a book. Other days she was bounding around the Spiderling jungle gym and skate boarding through town. Today, she'd spent most of the morning at Van Dyne's sorting cold weather clothes and getting Q-Tee to fold them. Now it was lunch time and though she often found herself at Pancho's so she could get a visit in with Alpha Peter, Gwen had gone home to make something for herself as well as anyone else if they were there.

It was kind of crazy and totally remarkable that they'd gone from a pretty bare bones sort of place without electricity to having functioning ovens and coffee shops and air conditioning and a lot of amenities that she hadn't expected would come to fruition given the way things had begun. Having a functioning kitchen was fantastic. Grilled cheeses sounded pretty great on a cooler day like that one was. So she was making some, fully intending on taking a couple over to Tony's workshop to drop them off for him if he was there, and maybe running them over to Mr. Roger's Gym if she found Steve there. And if she struck out with them, well, she'd find someone to give them to or maybe she'd just eat them because cheese was delicious and why not?

Having turned on the stove, Gwen waited for the butter to melt in the pan she was using while she got out the bread and sliced it, because Steve was so insistent that bead was better when it wasn't pre-sliced.

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itsybitsyspidey
2019-11-29 03:49 pm UTC (link)

"Some of the best ideas sound absolutely nutso before they come to fruition," she said, smiling. The idea of putting together a group like the Avengers definitely sounded crazy, but clearly the outcome had been something incredible. They'd saved so many lives, stopped so many end-of-the-world scenarios. Undoubtedly, this Nick Fury person was someone who was pretty fucking smart. She could tell by the way Natasha spoke of him that he was someone really special to her. Given what she knew of Natasha's past, he was probably someone who took a chance on her when not many others would, like the Clint in her world too.

Her eyes lit up a bit when Natasha agreed to help her learn to fight better. Gwen wasn't the worst but she could definitely use some actual teaching instead of watching actors fight and emulating it. She'd learned on her own along the way, used her instincts to know when to duck and when to hit back. But usually when she fought if it was hand-to-hand she was on the defense and hopefully she'd land some hits. "Really? Thank you," she said. While she wanted to spend time with her doing just casual things too, she thought training would be a good way to burn some energy and bring them closer together in a way that was non-conventional, and she liked that.

"Maybe sometime we can make Clint bake us a cake, eat it and talk more, too," she said.

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alwaysactive
2019-11-30 07:48 am UTC (link)

"I think that's probably that's exactly the way they teach some men how to go about creating plans." She admitted with a low laugh. The crazier the better, and sometimes it paid off in a big way, like the Avengers, like Tony had done with Iron Man, like their plan to beat Thanos for good, but for all the plans that worked out she knew there were plenty more that never did. "I just wish we'd been able to do more." Whether that had been stopping Thanos from the beginning or even solving more of the problems on their own planet before everything that had happened, they hadn't gotten the shot to truly make the difference she knew they might have been able to.

But all of that was over now - all there was for her was this place and she was going to figure out how to make her own kind of difference here. And maybe that stared with helping Gwen lay a more firm foundation, and if that was the case - well she could handle that. "Of course, it's been a while since I've done any real training, but I think I can remember how it's done." She smiled, this was what she'd wanted to do with the Avengers, their new recruits - she'd wanted to have real time with them for training, but they hadn't gotten quite enough of that either.

"Now that is a brilliant idea." She agreed, "I never knew him to be quite so eager to bake, but he seems to have embraced it here." She laughed a little. "It's only right that we give him the chance to do it a bit more."

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