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Carol Danvers (cpt_marvel) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-04-03 18:30:00

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carol danvers (mcu), peter b parker (sv)

Who: Carol Danvers and Peter Parker
What: Showers, Beer, and Singing!
Where: A random convention somewhere
When: Wednesday evening
Rating:Lowish? Maybe swearing?

Carol had been itching to go exploring through the doors for days now, but there had definitely been some hesitancy since talking to Tony about what might be on the other side. From what she'd seen over the communicator, it looked like people were coming and going freely from the same strange place. Whatever this "convention" was, there was plenty to report back. And she had to admit it, curiosity was getting the better of her.

She was dressed down for this, electing to leave her uniform at home. Even if she ran into trouble, she figured she could handle it. Unless there was a sudden alien attack or something. What were the odds? Right?

Carol didn't hesitate much, opening the door and stepping into...well, what was this place? It was clearly a large overly lit and crowded convention hall, but Carol wasn't really ready for just how big it all was. She was used to the idea that comic "conventions" were just something very geeky people did in dingy and dark comic store basements. This was entirely different. All around her people were wearing costumes, t-shirts with the faces of superheroes on them, and...wait, was that Rogers? No. Just some 17-year-old acne-ridden kid in some serious cosplay.

It reminded her too much of Los Angeles.

"Okay, maybe this wasn't a great idea..." She was considering going back through the door when something caught her eye. A comic book stand with a familiar looking face drawn on a large vinyl banner. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me..." Tony was right. Carol was pretty sure that it was the older version of him drawn on the banner and as she came closer, she saw various comic books ranging from "Iron Man" to "Thor". Curiously, she reached for an Avengers comic to start flipping through it, smirking when she realized that whatever this place was, it was definitely nothing she'd seen before.

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-07 05:21 am UTC (link)

"Me and my best friend used to go to karaoke nights back when we were rookie pilots. Guns N' Roses was my favorite band, and so it's an easy go-to." She smiled at the memory and took a drink from the fresh beer the bartender had brought her. She knew she should probably slow down, but alcohol typically didn't affect her the same way it would affect a normal person and it took a little more to get her buzzed. Plus, it was kind of fun showing off, if she really had to admit it.

"What about you? You looked pretty comfortable on that stage." Okay, he really didn't. "You're not a bad singer, either, Parker. I could almost hear you hit that note."

She couldn't help herself. Carol was sarcastic enough without alcohol, but the beer seemed to bring it out in her. Another person snapped a picture of them and Carol turned and gave them a glare. The girl quickly waved and disappeared back to her table with her friends.

"Why do I feel like everyone here knows us? I mean, it's weird enough that there are books with us in them, but these people are obsessed."

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pbandparker
2019-04-07 07:21 am UTC (link)

"Aaaaand it all makes sense now." Peter declared when Carol admitted to having done the song with her friend in the past, so it was something she absolutely had down after practicing it with her friend before. "Guns N'Roses was your favorite band though? That's a shocker, really - of everything I know about you that seems like the craziest thing I've learned."

Peter laughed and took another drink of his beer and shrugged. "Look if I was going to do it I was going to give it my best shot, I'd never claim to be anything like good but you know trying counts for something, especially in karaoke." He paused for a moment and took another sip. "And I maybe had a bit of a dramatic phase in my early twenties that stuck with me a bit." He tacked on at the end muttering against the rim of his glass, not trying to be unheard completely, but you know some things were better left in the past, and his experimentation with emo bangs and dancing in the street was one of them. But it did lend him a certain amount of theatricality that stuck with him.

It was weird having his picture taken, well no that wasn't quite right, it was weird having his picture taken by someone who wasn't himself. Especially in the Spider suit, that's why Peter Parker had been able to land the job at the Daily Bugle, he'd been the only one to get a decent picture of Spider-Man, but here he was just sitting in a bar wearing the suit, sure the mask was up so he could drink, but he was in the suit and people were just snapping his picture like they knew who he was beyond just some guy wearing a costume.

"Maybe we're very popular in those books?" He suggested. "You know, like the favorite characters of all the fans, it's you and me."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-07 03:12 pm UTC (link)

"Really? Guns N' Roses is one of the best bands ever! At least where I come from. Definitely bad-ass." She laughed, leaning a little on the bar and going on. "One of my best memories is going to see them with Maria." Her memories had slowly started to come back over time, and she was pretty sure she had all of them now. Almost more vividly than before.

"No, no, you were great! Definitely a worthy partner up there." She nudged him again, this time, less aggressively. "Sounds like a story I need to hear. Tell me." She reached for her shot, saluting and taking it. "Not like we don't have the time. Or maybe after a couple more rounds, I'll get it out of you.

It was strange to her that so many people on Earth knew who she was. Stranger that they were "fans". "I think I saw more Captain Americas and Iron Men in there." She wondered if they'd found their way to this strange place, yet. Carol had a feeling Tony would love it.

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pbandparker
2019-04-07 08:37 pm UTC (link)

"I mean they're fun, I don't know about best band ever though." Peter scoffed lightly as Carol defended her favorite band adamantly. "I think maybe Queen is probably better. The Beatles for some people, The Bee Gees." He offered a few different options, but you know if Carol liked that kind of music she could run with it. "Sounds like you guys had fun with that."

This was fun, Carol was fun Peter decided, "Well thank you." He laughed when she asked for the story about his dramatic phase, shaking his head because well it was one of those better left in the past kind of stories. "I think I'll need several more of these before I'm willing to part with that sensitive information."

Peter shook his head when she mentioned the amount of merch they'd seen for Captain America and Iron Man. "Yeah but that's like you know there are the like main characters, the ones the studios want you to like best and they make all the merch for them, but the fans really know which ones are the best." He explained, he'd seen it often enough in actual movies eries back home. "You and I are like... the fan favorites."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-07 09:34 pm UTC (link)

Okay, now Carol was getting irritated. Sort of (not really). She glared at Peter, giving him her best don't f-with me look as he challenged her band. "The Bee Gees? You're going to say that Staying Alive is better than Welcome to the Jungle?" She scoffed, taking another drink of beer and shaking her head. "Okay, so I guess your taste really does suck that bad."

She nudged a shot towards him in encouragement. "Studio? You think this is all a studio thing? Like the movies?" Carol came from a time where the biggest movies she knew were Top Gun, Ghostbusters, and Jaws. Maybe Star Wars and Indiana Jones (okay, definitely those two). "So there's someone making films about us, too."

She considered that. It was definitely weird. "Whatever you say, but I'm pretty sure the photos were more of a tribute to your longjohns and my awesomeness."

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pbandparker
2019-04-07 11:46 pm UTC (link)

Peter held up his hands in surrender at the look Carol gave him, "I didn't say they were my favorite, but I don't know that it can be argued that Staying Alive is an easier song for most people to sing than Welcome to the Jungle." The matter of better was another story all together, but Karaoke wasn't necessarily about better, it was just about what you could mostly make it through without embarrassing yourself too much - or maybe embarrassing yourself just enough depending on how you looked at it. "I still maintain Queen would be my band of choice. It's hard to go wrong with Bohemian Rhapsody." Maybe that meant his taste sucked, but Peter could handle that.

Laughing he took the shot she pushed in his direction while giving her a look that said he knew exactly what she was up to. "I mean it seems likely, people love movies, and people seem to love us, why wouldn't they make movies about us?" He shrugged, they made movies out of everything these days, from board games to nursery rhymes. Why not comic books?

When she teased him about his costume Peter was unbothered. "Hey I designed this suit when I was a teenager, sure I've updated it a little since then but the idea is the same - it's a classic, people look at it and know who I am. It has great movement and I solved the chaffing issue years ago." Of course it had to be said that Carol was awesome, so there was that too. "I think they just like us best."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 12:04 am UTC (link)

"I don't know how it's easier. It's annoying. I hated the disco era." She would know, she was a teenager through it. "You don't remember how bad it was. Bellbottoms, that awful avocado green carpet." She laughed at the memory. "Yeah, no thanks."

Queen. Of course. She wasn't going to argue. Queen was good, but she wasn't about to try to pull Bohemian Rhapsody.

"It's weird to imagine an actress playing me, I guess. Or showing my life." It was like an invasion of privacy, but she stopped short of saying it.

"Chaffing, huh? And you kept wearing it? Well, more power to you, I guess." Carol was happy that at least her uniform was comfortable. As was what she was wearing at the moment. "I guess I can't say I blame them. I don't see Stark or Rogers in here blowing the roof off karaoke night."

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 12:13 am UTC (link)

Peter laughed as Carol related the horrors of the disco era. "Well you're right, I don't remember it that was a little before my time, I grew up in the 80s and 90s." Though if he was being honest he had a little more nostalgia for the music of the early 90s than any other time. But you know everyone had their own favorites.

It was weird, Peter didn't know what he thought of people viewing his life as a form of entertainment, all the highs but especially the lows - he'd had a lot of lows and people would have seen that if his idea about things like movies was right, and in the comic books certainly there would have been those stories too. It didn't feel all that great thinking about that. "Yeah, it is weird - probably better don't think about it too much or else it'll just get even weirder." Better to just keep drinking and trading stories.

"Spandex isn't quite as comfortable as people would have you believe." He said sagely, "But I figured it out, a little baby powder is all you need." That and the changes he'd made to the suit as he'd gotten older and tired of going through more baby powder than he cared to admit.

"You're right, they only wish they could be as cool as us, this is why we're the favorites, we're the cool ones out here among the people singing and having a great time doing it." He raised his glass with a laugh, because what else could they do with this? It was either laugh or get caught up in the strangeness of it all.

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 12:24 am UTC (link)

She winced at the thought. She was pretty sure Peter was older than her (well, he'd actually aged older than she had),j and it reminded her that she was sort of held back in that way. She still wasn't sure how long she'd stay young like this. Or if her aging process was just slowed down. She finished her beer and nodded for the bartender to fill up their shots and her glass again. It was better not to think about it.

"Definitely not going to think about it anymore."

Spandex. Right. "It doesn't look like it offers much in the way of protection. Why not armor? Everyone else has armor. And where do you store your keys?" PRacticalities! Her suit had pockets. She couldn't live without pockets.

"We are definitely the cool ones." Okay, now she was starting to feel the alcohol a little. "We're singing again, right? I might even agree to Queen if you come up there."

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 01:09 am UTC (link)

Carol was definitely out drinking him, but he had a feeling she was a little more super powered than him when it came to things like this, so it was fine that she was ahead, he was absolutely going to be feeling this though that much he was fully aware of. His usual coping mechanisms were more cry in the shower than drink the pain away, but you know maybe this was an improvement on that.

"Probably a good idea." He agreed nodding. He didn't think it was something either one of them needed to spend too much time thinking about.

"It gets in the way, armor I mean. I've got to be able to move and bend and flip around and stuff and if I'm weighed down too much I can't move the way I need to." Everyone might have had armor but everyone else wasn't Spider-Man and that was the difference right? At least that's what Peter told himself. "Uh.... I don't keep keys with me. Sometimes I web my things up to the sides of buildings, but I tend not to get that stuff back, so usually I go without keys. Or other things."

Grinning Peter nodded, he absolutely was feeling the alcohol, but they were the cool ones whether he was on his way to drunk or not. "Uh yeah?" He supplied. "Especially if we're gonna do Queen," because that was an opportunity he wasn't about to pass up."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 01:20 am UTC (link)

Carol looked surprised at how he kept his stuff, smirking. "So you don't lock your door, either? I'm surprised you have stuff at all after that." She really did think it was amusing. "Can't you build lockets in there? What about money? Do you pay for things in your suit?"

So many questions. Shew as full of them.

"How many drinks till I get that story out of you?" She was staring at the shots, then at him with the same grin she had earlier. "Because we're not leaving this bar until you tell me. Or you pass out. In which case, I will wait with you until you wake up and tell me."

Yup. When Carol put her mind to something, she got things done. Poor Peter probably didn't realize that when he agreed to come with her tonight. She took the shot, passing him the next one. "Don't worry, I'll stay sober enough for the both of us."

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 01:43 am UTC (link)

"I tend to use windows when I'm leaving the house in the suit." He admitted, most of the time the windows were located in places only he could reach anyway so it wasn't a big deal and if he did need to use the door Aunt May had kept a key for him in the past, and the house was technically his now so it was still there when he needed it.

"Where do you think I'm gonna put a pocket in this thing?" Peter asked standing up and running his hands down his sides like he was showing off the lack of hiding places, "I mean I can keep a little cash on me, sometimes you need a pizza when you're on patrol, you know? But cash folds flat, keys are a little more difficult."

And then she was prodding at him about his past again, his dramatic years and he imagined she was right, she would get it out of him eventually. Carol was maybe a little evil - but like.... in a good way? If that made sense and right then it made sense to Peter.

"Just know you might end up having to carry me back home." Peter warned and then took another shot before he settled in.

"So when I was younger there was this symbiote." He started, "I found myself bonded with it and initially I don't think I really was aware of it that much, at least not fully, because who thinks about things like that? You know? Anyway it started to change me a little, I started wearing a lot more black, I had terrible bangs." His hair was too short to show off what that had been like but he dangled his fingers up on his forehead like it would get the same impression across. "It was like I forgot how to be an awkward train wreck for a while, I could flirt with ease, I didn't mind showing off, I danced.... in public!" He added "On the street. I even went with a black suit. It was all very dramatic."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 02:20 am UTC (link)

"Good point." She stared down at his suit then back at him, clearly seeing he had no room for pockets. And no shame, apparently. Carol took her shot and laughed. "So climbing in and out of windows in a spider suit wasn't conspicuous to your neighbors." It was a statement at this point, not a question.

When he talked about carrying him home, she laughed. "Yeah, I figured I would definitely be carrying you home- just don't throw up on my jacket or I will hurt you." That part she wasn't kidding about.

She made a weirded out face when he talked about this episode of his life. A symbiote? Right. It wasn't the weirdest story she'd heard. "So you had a terrible haircut and flirted in a dark suit. Got it. Sounds like that's not too abnormal for your early 20s. I had a perm once." She couldn't believe she admitted it. She turned to stare ahead and took a drink of her beer. "It was bad. Very bad. I burned any picture I had of it."

She paused, not looking at him and adding. "And if you every tell anybody, I will destroy you. Slowly. It will hurt. Got it?" She smiled back at him, but it was clear she was serious about that one.

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 02:32 am UTC (link)

Peter shrugged. "I'm very sneaky?" He offered, to be honest it was probably just pure luck that people hadn't seen him crawling in to windows and things like that over the years. Either that or all of his neighbors knew who was under the mask and just kept his secret for him, either way it worked.

"I've got a strong constitution." He promised. Yes Carol would absolutely need to help him home, but he wouldn't throw up because Peter Parker never threw up, so they were safe. And he could tell Carol was dead serious about the sanctity of her jacket.

"I mean, there was an alien involved too, I feel like I'd have made very different clothing and hairstyle choices without the alien." Because sure everyone acted like an idiot in their 20s it was just part of life and growing up and becoming a real live adult but Peter's had been a little more influenced by a man eating monster.

His eyes went wide with delight when Carol admitted to having a perm once, "Oh my god, tell me all about it." He said leaning forward on his seat, he had an image in his mind but he needed to know more to see if that fit what he imagined. "I won't tell anyone, I promise." He held out his hand pinky extended to make sure she knew just how serious he was.

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 02:37 am UTC (link)

Sneaky. Right. She actually snorted at that, shaking her head and sipping. "You know, everyone always blames the alien." The comment came as he explained the phone 'phrase' he'd gone through. "I was kidnapped by aliens and not once did I blame them for my style choices- well, except the uniform. But I like the uniform, so..."

At least Carol could joke about it now, right?

She laughed, clearly loosening up more as she drank, making him pinky promise of course. "It was huge. Like...bigger than I even knew. Big hair was the thing then. I told you I liked Guns N' Roses and all those bands were into big hair- I almost cut it short, but Maria convinced me not to. I owe her for that one." She smirked.

"I think it even had a fade on the side. Like I said, I thought it was a good idea until I saw it.

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 02:47 am UTC (link)

"No one ever expects an alien to actually have an opinion about fashion. And when they do it's just bad." Peter insisted. It sounded like Carol had a long and interesting history with aliens too, "At least they didn't try and bust out of our chests?" He offered, because at the end of the day if you managed to get away from an alien without being ripped open from the inside that had to count as a win.

It was better when they could joke and laugh at one another, so that worked for them. "Oh my god," Peter said with thinly veiled awe as Carol described her perm, one of those huge 80s perms that he'd only ever seen in pictures and all because she liked Guns N' Roses, it was amazing. He was starting to see it his head now as she described it for him, sitting back a little to get the full effect as he looked at her.

"I can't believe I have to keep this to myself now, this is the most amazing thing I've ever heard." He lamented when she told him there had been a fade along one side as well. "God I bet you looked amazing. I can't believe you destroyed the evidence!"

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 02:52 am UTC (link)

She actually laughed at that. "Oh man, I almost forgot about that movie. I loved Alien. Saw it five times in theaters." She grinned. "I think Ripley was one of the reasons I wanted to eventually work for NASA." One of the reasons she joined Pegasus in the first place.

"Not the wanting to have an alien rip out of my chest, thing. The badass female hero thing."

When he sat back, she saw exactly what he was doing and probably what he was thinking. "Stop. Now. You're not allowed to picture it." She was smirking as she said it, but he was lucky she had alcohol and wasn't taking this as seriously.

"I looked like I should've been dancing on the hood of a car. Or like my neck should be broken from the strain of the hair. Never again." Carol laughed. "Besides, where are the pictures of you with the bangs?"

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 03:36 am UTC (link)

"That movie is a classic." Peter agreed, he wished he'd been able to see that in the theaters, that would have been awesome. But well it was a little before his time, but he could totally see why she'd been inspired by it. "Ripley is amazing, she's such a badass." Maybe he had a type, MJ could be a bit of a bad ass in her own way, a little less alien fighty super human but in a way that worked for her.

Peter laughed when she accused him of picturing it, "How can you expect me not to picture it!" He protested as he smirked at him, "You tell me you had this amazing perm and you won't let me try and imagine it on you." He shook his head like it was a grievous thing she was trying to deny him.

And then she just added to it by giving the idea of her dancing on the hood of a car. "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. What am I supposed to do with this information? Carol, oh my god." He was never going to recover from this. "The pictures are back home, I didn't destroy them because one day someone is going to have to make fun of me for it."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 03:41 am UTC (link)

"Think of something else. Like me photon blasting you through a wall. Or your grandma naked." She really had no idea how to stop him, but these were just suggestions off the top of her head.

"Maybe the alcohol is getting to me a little..." She laughed and shook her head, realizing she'd said way too much. "But seriously, I will kill you." Had she threatened him enough with bodily injury? Probably not. She really needed to come up with a better way of managing these things.

"Okay, so next stop is to find these pictures somehow. I can do that. This is my new mission." She finished off what she was going to say was her last beer (so she thought) and nodded. "You have guts, Parker, I'll tell you that. I obviously wouldn't hold onto any of mine. I'd have been laughed out of the military."

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 04:14 am UTC (link)

"You wouldn't photon blast me!" Peter laughed while Carol tried to distract him from the mental images that were running rampant through his mind now, he'd definitely had a little too much to drink but he was at that point where laughter was something he had very little control over.

"Me too, tiny bit" He agreed holding a hand up to indicate just how little that bit actually was. "I won't tell anyone!" He reminded her, "I never break a pinky promise, those are sacred." Because maybe it was silly and maybe he was going to laugh way too much at the idea of her in a huge amazing perm while dancing on the hood of a car, but he wouldn't share that information, he just really really really wanted to.

"If you figure out a way to do it you might just find us a way home." He decided when she declared her next mission, and even if that meant forever embarrassment over his past selfs fashion choices, if it meant getting everyone home Peter was willing to be subjected to that. "Thankfully no one can laugh you out of free lance work, so even if people found them I'd be pretty safe."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 04:21 am UTC (link)

"I wouldn't? Oh, I think I would. Just give me a good reason and I would." She was laughing, too. It was hard not to. She really wasn't serious about it, but she also never knew her temperament and as much as she hated her old mentor, he was right about her and controlling her emotions. Carol wasn't very good at that part.

"Yeah, yeah, more than a little bit." She smirked. "And good! Because those are definitely sacred. You lose your pinky if you break it." That's what she'd always been told, anyway. Of course, it wasn't true. Probably. Funny how alcohol messed with your logic, wasn't it?

"Well, getting home is a bonus." Carol agreed with a nod. "So, we will find this picture and I will be able to die happy to know my life meant something." She was still chuckling as she reached for the empty glass and sighed. Right. She was supposed to stop. She glanced at the bartender and smiled as he came back over to refill them. Yeah. This was going to end badly.

"That and you wear a mask now. No one knows it's you under there, right?"

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 04:32 am UTC (link)

"Look at this face," Peter said pointing to himself as she laughed, "You couldn't shoot this face, I'm too cute." He teased her laughing, it had been a while since he'd been this drunk and enjoyed himself quite this much and even if she was being a little more honest with him about that photon blast Peter couldn't find it in himself to be scared of her. Oh he knew she could kick his ass if she really wanted, but Carol definitely didn't ping the spidey-senses so he wasn't worried about her either.

His eyes went wide when she suggested that he might lose his pinky if he broke his promise. "Are you gonna take it?" He asked the logic jump and teasing going over his head for just a minute. "I always heard you got a wet willy if you broke it." He admitted.

"You can't die just by looking at those pictures, how are you doing to spend time making fun of me if you do get the chance to see them?" He scoffed. And then they were getting more drinks and yeah, yeah this was just going to be it, their night was going to be drinking and Peter embarrassing himself and Carol carrying him back home again. Not that the knowledge of any of that stopped him from taking another drink.

"Well my... there's a few people who know." He told her shrugging, sobering just slightly for a moment. "But most people have no idea who is under the mask, that's the point though you know. Anyone can be under it."

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 04:40 am UTC (link)

"I could definitely shoot that face if you give me the reason. You're not that cute." She rolled her eyes. Okay, he was right. She had no plans on shooting him as of yet, but taunting him about it was fun.

Carol scrunched her nose at the wet willy comment and shook her head. "I think I rather loose the finger than get that." She had a brother and she'd experienced the horrors of having one. Yeah, she would pass on that. "And I don't take it. It falls off. That's what I've been told, anyway."

"No, I mean if I see them then no matter what else happens after that, I will die happily. Unless I'm failing to save others...then I might not die so happily. Okay, let's say it this way- if I die old and in bed and I know I've seen those pictures, that will be in my top...um...30 achievements?" Thirty seemed like a good enough number to the alcohol influenced Carol.

"So it won't matter if your friends see the pictures because you can technically wear the mask for the rest of your life and be fine." She smiled at the logic and took a drink of the new beer that had been offered. "So who was the red-head on the comic book cover?" Yup. Cutting straight to that. Carol was more observant than she let on, and one thing she'd noticed going through the convention was that the images of Peter seemed very close to a red-headed woman. She had assumed it was his girlfriend back home, but it was strange he hadn't mentioned her. And Carol had a bad habit of asking the wrong questions when tipsy.

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pbandparker
2019-04-08 05:17 am UTC (link)

"You think a face like this would give you a reason to shoot him?" He scoffed waving a hand over his face like that was all the illustration she should need as to why that idea was a complete impossibility.

The whole pinky promise thing was a little more than he could handle and he looked at his own pinky once more reminding himself that was a promise not to be broken whether or not it meant wet willies or the loss of a finger, he didn't like either option.

"Oh oh oh, okay okay okay, that's better. I mean I know the pictures are bad but they're not like that bad." He said shaking his head glad he'd caught up to the realization that he wouldn't kill her with his photos or trying to see them for herself. "Top 30?" His tone pitched up in shock and surprise. "Come on, that's gotta be like top 25 at least." He insisted.

And then she did it, she asked about MJ and Peter didn't quite know what to do but really there was no escaping it, it was true whether he said it or not. "Uh that is MJ, Mary Jane." He said clearing his throat and taking a moment for himself by drinking too long from his glass. "We went to school together, I ah - I married her." He admitted, with a small smile because yeah that was still a little unbelievable, that Peter Parker got to marry Mary Jane Watson. "And then we split up a little while back." He added after a beat. Might as well say it all in one go, like a band-aid right? Just rip it off. It was fine, he was fine. He just needed another shot.

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cpt_marvel
2019-04-08 05:28 am UTC (link)

"You've given me several reasons to shoot you today. You're very lucky I haven't yet." She was joking, of course (kind of). But it as in jest. Especially when he looked down at his finger and she realized what he was probably thinking.

"Psssh, no. I have a lot of good memories and accomplishments, thanks! Your pictures are lucky to break top 50. And that's me assuming they are really worth it." She was having too much fun, drinking and talking in between and laughing as she shook her head at the very notion.

And then it became very somber as talked about his wife. Er, ex-wife. Right. Carol regretted bringing it up as he watched it kill Peter's mood. She nudged her shot towards him and again waved the now suspicious bartender over. These two should be under the table by now, but they only looked like they were starting to feel it. He poured and stared between them. Weird.

"That's hard." She said quietly. "I'm sorry...I didn't realize." With a sigh, Carol put a hand on his arm. "So what happened...I mean, I'm already being intrusive, might as well go all the way, right?" A half-ass attempt at humor.

"Did she know?"

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