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Tweak says, "I CAN ONLY CURE CANCER"

Alpha Peter (pbandparker) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-08-21 23:24:00

Entry tags:

claire temple (mcu), peter b parker (sv)

Who: Claire and the Spider Creep
What: So uh a thing happened
Where: Around town
When: After Vegas

Vegas had been.... something all right. Peter wasn't certain he'd ever be able to go back to the city after everything when he did finally make it back to town again. Between the alien attack and the massive hang over he'd had to fight through, to say nothing at all about the marriage that had apparently felt like a good idea when he'd been far too drunk to consent to such a thing. It turned out that the Elvis that had married them had written Sonny and Cher on the paperwork and so in the end the marriage hadn't actually been as binding as Peter worried it might have been. The last thing he wanted was to have a second divorce on his hands.

Though that didn't mean that everything was fine and good now of course. Peter knew that much and he still had the drunk messages he'd sent Claire on his phone to prove it. So there was some work to be done and as much as Peter would have loved to just pretend like none of it never happened - favoring the old adage that what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas - he knew that sometimes things came back with you.

He'd been working on building them a couple of fans for the house, allowing Claire some space, and giving himself something to do that wasn't just sitting around internally screaming at what an idiot he'd been. He just finished up one, sitting on the porch of their little house, hoping for some breeze to help with the stifling heat, when he saw her.

"Hey," Smooth Parker, "I was kind of hoping we could talk." He told her, because they'd been headed toward something maybe, it had felt that way, just as much as it felt like he'd ruined it now, and Peter knew how important it could be to say things and not just expect someone to read your mind the way he had in the past. And Claire deserved at least a conversation, if she wanted to tell him that she wasn't interested now, well he wouldn't blame her or hold it against her, but he hoped they might still be able to talk.

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pbandparker
2019-08-26 10:11 pm UTC (link)

"No, no ring." He agreed, his hand held out looking at where there had been a ring for a few hours before he'd had to get rid of it. It was strange, having one on again, after MJ he wasn't sure he'd ever wear one again, and waking up married to Carol with one on was not the way he wanted to find he had one again. So he'd gotten rid of it. Needing it out of his sight almost as much as he'd needed to make sure the marriage wasn't a real one.

So yeah, that was no problem. Carol was a friend and nothing more than that. And Peter was more than happy with things remaining exactly like that between them. He wasn't sure how it would all shake out in the end but he hoped at least that they'd be fine.

Claire was a little bit of a tease, but it was warranted and he grinned as she told him she didn't kiss and tell. She was allowed. And as much as Peter might have liked to ask, he wasn't about to try and do that either to himself or her. "It's no air conditioning, but I think they'll be a big help." He told her, and he had a feeling at least one of the Starks would figure out something for heating and cooling, now that they'd spent some time in cooled air it was the sort of thing that Peter was quiet certain they could all use a bit more of.

He offered her one of the fans and grabbed the other two to go with the fan he'd already set up inside, and they could start to get this cooling thing under way as soon as possible. "I'm better at chemical engineering," He admitted, "But small mechanics I can handle fairly easily." And something like a fan was easy enough in theory, just a motor really.

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donewithnights
2019-08-27 06:12 am UTC (link)

There was no ring and it was a relief, Claire liked that naked hand, long fingers and spidertastic. All trace of it was gone and Claire wanted to move on, like Pyro had said. Claire needed to get past this or move on out and she didn't want to, she really didn't want to because even annoyed she was still into him.

This was no good reason to rush it, they'd been going along just at their own speed and she didn't want to jump the gun now because of this awkwardness. There would be a moment, a good moment and it would be theirs. Or there wouldn't and they'd move on together just as friends. But either way it needed to be about just them, not Carol or anyone else.

"Huh, I'm better at construction, like constructing ice cream sundaes," Claire said as she carried the fan inside. Maybe it would help cool them down, but when Claire looked at him she got the feeling they were just heating up.

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