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Tweak says, "Surrender to me"

Nebula (abluemeanie) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-12-01 15:52:00

Entry tags:

beverly marsh, eddie kaspbrak, harry osborn (msm), jim hopper, klaus hargreeves (netflix), nebula (mcu), nyx ulric, octavio silva, peter b parker (sv), remus lupin, sirius black, stanley uris, thor (mcu)

Who: The whole town. Yes, you too.
What: The Great Snowball War of 2k19
Where: The whole town
When: December 1

She had heard a great deal about this snow ball game that was going to be played and Nebula was ready for it, had been since it had first been explained to her by Sirius. But apparently they had needed to wait until there was enough snow for such a thing? Though how much snow was enough was not something she had understood, what made for enough? These were all questions she still had.

But the town had been covered in a blanket of snow over the last several weeks, with large piles of it build up along the edges of town as well as butted up against their houses where the snow had been blown during the days where it had been windier than others. And it seemed that they had finally reached that point of enough, though she saw no particular difference in the amount compared to some other days. This would be her first time though so she supposed that she could allow the others to decide when it was ready for their game.

And so there they were ready for the snowball game, teams dividing up, some playing individually, and others pairing up, as she and Remus planned to do - it was time for a great battle.

[Party rules my good dudes, title your comments to spare my inbox and have fun]

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Harry Osborn | Peter B Parker

goblinglider
2019-12-08 06:26 am UTC (link)

"He had a momentary change in personality." Harry said, frowning a little as he remembered. "It was..." He was going to feel like a bad person, a bad friend if he just told the other that he had hated it. "I liked that he had this newfound confidence." Because he did. Confidence was good. It was great. Peter should have more of it because he was good. He was great. Harry had always thought so. "But the rest of it was just... I don't know. He's been late to meet me or he shows up but doesn't stick around or completely forgets but it was never... he was apologetic. For awhile there it was a lot more like he didn't care." And that had hurt a little more than the other times had. They were past it though. Harry was past thinking about it too. It was better to focus on the stupid joke and just laugh where he could.

Part of him knew that he could talk to Peter but he also knew the reality of it was a little difficult back home. He'd tried, on a few different occasions, to actually sit down and talk to the other. To share news with him first or to talk about the stuff that was bothering him but Peter just hadn't been around. Harry had always told him it was fine but it was just a little disappointing. These days, of course, he knew there was a reason. Peter wasn't just blowing him off. He was handling a crisis that was bigger than whatever Harry was feeling. So, yes, he knew he could attempt to talk to his Peter back home but he also knew that he couldn't. Hearing it from this man-sized giant of a Peter was comforting. "It's just... a lot. You might prefer getting hit with snowballs to hearing about it."

He had been lucky. He'd run into exactly who he needed right when he needed her. Gwen had pointed him in the right direction. She'd been a lot more helpful than the phone and map would've been and a lot less painful than running into that other Peter had been. He didn't really want to examine that too closely. There was still something painful about a Peter Parker who had no idea who he was. "I had Gwen. If I hadn't..." He shrugged. "I would've thought the worst."

He found himself smiling when the older Peter did, something about it still managing to cheer him up. This wasn't his Peter, he even looked different, but Peter could always cheer him up. "I'll figure it out eventually, I'm sure. Until then you'll see me so much you'll be sick of me." Because he, too, had lived a life of luxury. He'd never really had to learn how to cook or clean. Laundry was going to be a mystery to him but one he was bound to figure out. "I managed to build a glider, I'm sure I'll get the hang of cooking and cleaning. Eventually. Maybe."

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Harry Osborn | Peter B Parker

pbandparker
2019-12-10 12:01 am UTC (link)

So it sounded like Harry's Peter was going through a similar phase that he had at the time, overly confident and downright rude to the people he cared about most, influenced by the symbiote that had made him feel so different and powerful before he'd realized what it had been doing to him. "Sounds like something I went through," He admitted, not sure again how much he ought to say to Harry about it, things would be easier if he could just tell him, but Peter was torn over the idea of sharing a secret that wasn't technically his to share. Some other Peter deserved the chance to come clean with his friend and tell him who and what he was and try and find some way to maintain that friendship. "We get over it eventually," He told Harry apologetically, "I mean if he hasn't yet, I dunno, but it's a temporary thing, that kind of attitude never did fit very well." And he couldn't really imagine a Peter it did work for to be perfectly honest.

Peter gave Harry's shoulder another squeeze before dropping his hand, "Nah, I'd be happy to listen to anything you want to say." He promised him, it had been a long time since he'd gotten to talk to his friend so having the chance again wasn't something he was going to take for granted, even if all he could be to this Harry was a little bit of support, it was more than he'd been to his friend when he'd needed him most.

"I'm not surprised, this place is a trip and a half." He agreed, showing up here with no explanation and at Harry's age? Yeah, the worst would have been the obvious thought to have. So he didn't blame Harry for that, luckily Gwen had come along and save the day, like the blessing that she was.

He rolled his eyes but grinned all the same, "I promise you Harry, I'm not going to get sick of you, you come around as often as you like, even to the house, we make dinner there too, though the bar is always open." Someone was always manning it even when he wasn't in there. But if Harry wanted to see him in particular Peter was of course going to invite him over. He was only too eager to spend some time with him again, in whatever shape that might end up taking. "A glider?" Peter asked, surprise shooting through him when Harry told him what he'd done, and he wondered if Harry had already let Norman get to him, and twist his thoughts the way he'd done before. It was - well Peter hated to think that, maybe that was why Harry was here though? To keep that from happening to him a second time? He'd have to try and pull a little more out of Harry and see where they were at with everything.

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Harry Osborn | Peter B Parker

goblinglider
2019-12-10 11:53 pm UTC (link)

It felt a lot like this Peter was keeping things from him. Like there was something he wanted to say but either couldn't or wouldn't. He would've ignored the entire thing, the way he always had, but the feel of it was too familiar and the fallout from Peter's secret was too fresh in his mind for him to put it on a backburner. Harry gave the older man an unimpressed look before letting out a sigh. Maybe it was best to just come clean. To save this one from fumbling with what to say and what not to say. His own Peter had said that the choice not to tell him had boiled down to a desire to keep Harry and everyone he cared about safe. This older version was probably worried less about keeping him safe in this place and a little more concerned about the Peter that had been left behind. "He got over it." He said. "I'm just glad I didn't have to witness him dancing in the street."

He felt like he was throwing away an opportunity here. He wasn't trying to wait Peter out and see how long the older version of his best friend was going to keep dancing around the issue. That wasn't what he wanted. Not when Peter was encouraging him to talk and just trying to be his friend. This seemed harder than it had with Gwen for some reason. He'd just asked her if she had powers. He knew about Peters but couldn't bring himself to say anything. "Okay..." He said, letting out a sigh. "I want to say that I know you're hiding something from me and that I hate when you do that. I understand why but, Pete, you don't have to. I know. He told me."

And, maybe, that was a heavy conversation considering the laughter around them. Maybe he should've held onto that a little longer but, Harry was sure, it could only make things easier moving forward. Peter could actualy talk to him without worrying about how much he could and couldn't say. "That was easier with Gwen too. I just asked her. I don't know why it was harder to just say that to you."

There was probably a little more history behind that secret with this Peter. Even knowing it, however, it was obvious that this version of Harry wasn't angry or upset. Not anymore, anyway. He wasn't going to try and hurt this version of Peter or any other. He was happy to spend time with an older version of his best friend. Happy to be around him. He would be even happier to show off but he'd left the glider back at the house he was staying in along with the suit and the controls. He couldn't wear it all day everyday and the glider itself was a little too cumbersome to try and bring with him. Why would he use it when everything was in walking distance. "Yeah, I built it for the Stark Expo back home." He said with a shrug. "It needs a redesign."

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Harry Osborn | Peter B Parker

pbandparker
2019-12-11 12:19 am UTC (link)

That look Harry sent in his direction was a little too familiar for comfort, if Peter was being honest. It was the sort of look he'd have expected of his own Harry, and here it was being echoed at him from a boy who was about 20 years too young. Peter huffed just a little, at least Harry hadn't asked or pressed for more, he didn't know what he'd have done or how much he'd be able to tell him, but he nodded. "Yeah we don't talk about those dark days," He said playing up his own embarrassment over it all.

But he'd told Harry he'd listen if he wanted to talk, what he hadn't expected of course was for Harry to tell him that he knew he was hiding something from him - which yeah, Peter had never been much of a liar, even on his best days. And more than that he hadn't expected Harry to tell him that the other Peter had actually come clean, that was - well that Peter was a hell of a lot braver than he was.

He just stood there a little stunned for a moment while Harry continued telling him it had been easier with Gwen as well, to tell her it was something he'd known. "Wow - I - okay, well that's .... sounds like your Peter is braver than I was." He said after a moment, "You know it never was about keeping you in the dark, it was always about trying to keep you safe." Harry and MJ and Aunt May and everyone else. He wore the mask to protect them too, so that no one could hold them over his head if it ever came down to it.

"How did that -" He started and stopped, "How did that go for you guys? I mean was it- you're still friends?" He asked unable to help himself now that the gates had been opened, it was probably stupid to ask, to try and compare his life to some other version of it that he'd never have. But he couldn't help himself.

The glider however, that was something that still worried him, he couldn't help it, he'd seen Harry on the glider and he knew what terrifying potential he had for something like that. But that had been his own, he needed to stop trying to make this one exactly the same, there were already some very key differences. "Yeah? Maybe you want to show me sometime?" He tried, curious even as he worried.

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Harry Osborn | Peter B Parker

goblinglider
2019-12-12 06:10 am UTC (link)

Maybe his Peter was brave. It hadn't felt much like bravery when he'd finally found out. Peter hadn't actually taken him aside and come clean with him. Not even after Harry had become suspicious, not even after Octavius had let it slip that Peter had some connection to Spider-Man. It had felt more like Peter was backed into a corner and had no other choice. If he could've gone on keeping this secret from Harry he probably would've. After all, Peter had let him believe he'd contracted the spider virus like Gwen and Anya had. He'd allowed Harry to worry about watching his friend mutate into a spider monster like Gwen had. Like his own father had. Peter had only revealed his secret because Harry had needed him to. Because Norman Osborn was dying and his blood was the only thing that could save him. Looking back, however, maybe it was a sort of bravery. He'd stepped up and did the right thing even knowing how Harry could react.

"Yeah... he mentioned that." Harry said, shrugging a little because he still didn't like it. "I understand. My father attracted enough trouble that always found its way to me. Things would get worst if I knew." He admitted. "That doesn't mean I liked it though. Any of it. All of a sudden Peter just... forgets me or pushes me to the side. He's late or he skips out almost immediately. I want to tell him things, big things, I want him to hear stuff from me first or to share these things I'm excited about with him and he just doesn't show up? He invited me to a party and I stood there, alone, because he didn't show." It was a horrible, lonely feeling. An isolated sort of feeling. If he'd still been enrolled at Horizon things may not have been so bad but his father had cut him off from everyone else. "It just felt lonely." He admitted, arms wrapping around himself. "Like I had no one."

That question caught him a little by surprise, however. It was fair though. Harry had been upset. "I was upset." He said. "We didn't talk for awhile but I was sort of getting used to the lies by then." And, really, he wasn't sure how much more he could be outraged by the things he found out. It had felt like a worst betrayal when he thought Peter was building Spider-Man's equipment. When he assumed Peter had lied to his face. "Spider-Man didn't make the best first impression with me. I held onto that for awhile but, by the time he told me, I'd already been lead to believe he was working with Spider-Man and then had my suspicions about whether or not he was Spider-Man after a display of his powers. Of course, there was an airborne virus that was giving everyone the same sort of powers so he kind of got off the hook there."

None of that had actually answered the question. "We're still friends. We worked things out." He reassured the other. Peter was his best friend. He loved the other boy. "I still thought the worst. He was running around as part of Ock's villain team for awhile there but it turned out he was under mind control. He broke out of it though." And the memory was something Harry cherished because the smile that came to his face was the same one he'd offered his father. It was small, soft, and a little vulnerable. It was like Harry was only just realizing how much he could actually mean to someone. How much he meant to Peter. "For me. I inspired him." Admitting that again scared him a little and it showed in the way he took a step back and away from the older Peter. As if he was afraid of the older man's reaction. His own father, after all, had proceeded to tell him how foolish he was for believing it.

Bringing up the glider managed to chase away that momentary uncertainty. Harry smiled brighter, clearly excited by the idea. By the potential to show off. "Sure. Whenever you want to see it just stop by. I'd be happy to finally show it off to someone. My dad didn't actually let me enter it into the Stark Expo."

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Harry Osborn | Peter B Parker

pbandparker
2019-12-13 05:16 am UTC (link)

Peter felt his heart ache while Harry told him how it had felt from his side of things, when he didn't know - when it just looked like his friend was abandoning him for something that he'd never quite been able to tell him about. And he wished he'd been smarter, braver, less focused on his own perspective at the very least and seen what it was doing to his friend. "It was hard in the beginning." He admitted after a moment, "Trying to figure out how to balance everything and feeling like I had to do it all on my own." Because after Ben? Well Peter knew he couldn't take the risk that anyone else that he cared about might get caught up in all of this.

"I don't know how much of our lives the other Peter and I share, but for me -" Peter began, feeling a little bit like he could explain in the way he never got the chance to explain to his Harry, "My uncle Ben was killed, and it was my fault." He told him, "I could have stopped the guy who did it before he ever got near Ben, but I was too stupid and too prideful and I didn't think about how anyone could get hurt by what I was doing and then Ben was just there - the wrong place at the wrong time and everything changed." Even now all these years later it still ached, he hadn't been surprised that the wound was still raw for the younger Peter when he'd mentioned Ben to him too. "I couldn't risk that happening to anyone else I cared about, so not telling you, not telling him - it was always just to keep him safe. I never thought about what he must have thought about it all." Not at the time, he was still young then, still trying to figure it all out, though that feeling never had quite managed to go away.

He winced a little when Harry told him how things had gone when Peter had finally owned up to it, nodding, well it wasn't as bad for him as it had been for himself, so that was something. "Sounds like there are a couple differences there. But I'm glad to hear you two worked it out." Harry had always been one of his very best friends, it was good to hear that one of the Peters managed to keep him. "That sounds about right, you always were an amazing friend, not at all what I expected you to be in the beginning." He grinned, pleased for both Harry and Peter hearing that they'd managed to inspire one another like that.

"I'll come by soon then, I want to see it." He promised Harry, who was obviously pretty pleased with himself and his work, and eager to show off. How could Peter turn that down? Even if he worried about what that might become, for now Harry was just Harry and away from the influence of his father, things could be different here.

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