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Serena (mooncrisis) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2013-08-08 14:21:00

Entry tags:

peter parker/spider-man, serena tsukino

WHO: Serena and Peter Parker
WHAT: Diffusing awkward with ice cream
WHEN: Wedesnday afternoon
WHERE: Sidewalk & ice cream parlor
RATING: Low

It had been about an hour since Serena had wound up in Kansas. So many questions swam through her head, but it all really seemed to boil down to this: there was evil in this podunk little place called Kansas. Big, apocalyptic evil, and people were brought here to fight it. Of course Sailor Moon would be here. Was she chosen because she wasn't doing anything with her life, and her friends were? Was this a test for her? These were the questions that the other people here wouldn't be able to answer. Time would tell, Serena supposed. She hated waiting.

At least people here seemed nice, Serena mused to herself as she sat down on the sidewalk. She had come to Kansas in a casual outfit, only missing relocation in her bathrobe by a few minutes. Thankfully, she wouldn't have to walk around the town being embarrassed by what she was wearing. Serena had her eyes on the ground, watching her feet tap out a casual rhythm as she waited for some guy named Peter to come find her. He said she had looked like someone he knew. A close friend named Gwen. That was odd. Serena hadn't really ever looked like anyone before. Well, except maybe that one time where Mina had pretended to be Sailor Moon. Thinking about it made Serena reach into her pocket and feel the reassuring weight of her Crisis Compact. It was the only strength she had here, all by herself. Even so, it was a strength that had never failed her yet.

After a while, Serena finally dragged her eyes off the cement to look around. She drew her knees up, hugging her arms around them while leaning her face into her legs. Once again, the questions came. How long was she going to be here? What kind of evil were they fighting? The idea that the bad guys were living her amongst them unsettled her. She was used to monsters being monsters and evil that existed out on the fringe, not mixed in with the rest of everyone. Would she have to adopt the idea that any new person she met could be a possible enemy? That thought unsettled her. She was used to being so jovial, so kind and trusting to everyone she met.

Shaking her head, Serena tried to banish those awful thoughts and questions from her mind. It was too much, and all too depressing to allow herself to be overwhelmed. She reached up and felt her locket danging around her neck like a talisman of comfort. The chain slipped around her head and Serena held the cool metal in her hands, gently opening it. As the music played, that familiar tune, her thoughts turned back to Darien and the girls. They would want her to be strong, to do whatever she could to help these people and defeat the enemy. She felt her lip quiver a little as a sniffle came out with her next exhalation. She missed them all so much.

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mooncrisis
2013-08-09 05:35 pm UTC (link)

Serena was silently thankful that Peter didn't make any kind of comment about her tears, whether he had noticed them or not. It wasn't something she was quite ready to launch into, and she wanted to focus on being positive. Her big, blue eyes blinked rapidly to try and clear out the remaining moisture and her red nose sniffed a few more times. For her part, Serena pretended everything was hunky dory.

"Right, Peter." Serena gave a stout nod in reply, her long blond pigtails bouncing around her head wildly. Her hands fussed with them out of reflex while she said, "I'm just, you know, Serena. Not a whole bunch you can do with that one, haha."

Folding her hands in front of her, Serena nervously squeezed her fingers. His question brought a little blush of embarrassment to her cheeks, and she looked shyly down at the ground. "Oh! Um, I think so? I guess I don't really notice it. Um, my friends sometimes call me airhead, so I guess? I just try and, well, be happy. What's the point of trying not to be happy, you know?"

Slowly, Serena lifted her gaze until she found Peter's face, still blushing a little as she gave him a little shrug. "So, um, what is there to do around here for fun?"

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itsallspandex
2013-08-11 11:20 am UTC (link)

"Serena's not a bad name either, ya know?" He smiled slightly. She was so bouncy, he wondered where she got all her energy. Then, she hadn't been in this place for a year and dealt with all the bad that came from it. "I've never been much of one for shortening people's names anyway." he shrugged slightly.

"I don't think being upbeat equals airhead, though." he said shaking his head. "But I can agree with that. Keeping positive is definitely better than going broody and angsty all the time."

When she asked about fun things to do, Peter shrugged a bit. "I guess it's like any other town, really. Movies, shopping, stuff like that. Depends on what you're into, you know? I'm sure you can find something." He said, motioning at her to follow him as he headed in the direction of the ice cream shop. "The last couple of weekends, there's been a group of people going for laser tag."

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mooncrisis
2013-08-11 09:35 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, you think so? Haha, thanks! I guess it's not too bad of a name." Serena shrugged lightly, dancing a little into the street as they started moving. "I do, sometimes. Maybe it's because I'm lazy, haha."

As she twirled into the street, Serena's long pigtails flew around her. Coming to a stand-still, she brushed them behind her shoulders and offered Peter a little shrug, "That's what I think, too. My friends sometimes call me Bunny because I'm so upbeat and hoppy, haha. Also, sometimes meatball-head." Well, that was Darien mostly.

She fell into an easy step beside Peter, skipping every once and a while. Her hands folded behind her back, eyes going back and forth from taking in the rather unexciting scenery and looking at Peter. "I heard there's going to be a dance. Are you going to go? I guess, a major plus is that this is still modern society. Not so much culture shock to get used to. Man, I don't know what I would do without ice cream or the movies!"

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itsallspandex
2013-08-12 01:52 pm UTC (link)

"I do," he nodded and chuckled softly as she danced into the street and twirled around. "Bunny seems like a pretty fitting nickname to me." he admitted with a smile.

Peter was already quickly realizing that her friends were right, she was rather bouncy and hoppy, even skipping as she walked every now and then. "Oh, uh, I dunno." He admitted with a shrug. "I'm not much of a dancer or anything." He nodded, "Right? There are some people here from, like, centuries ago, so all the modern stuff is a pretty huge shock to some of them."

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