Peter "Bra Snatcher" Parker (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nomoneystillproblems) wrote2014-12-03 09:15 pm
nomoneystillproblems) wrote2014-12-03 09:15 pm
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call me maybe
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FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
Fine.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
yeah.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
I've only had to kill twice. And one of them was a mindless monstrosity. I barely like fighting in the first place
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
i have zero clue why they brought me on the crew honestly
Fine.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
yeah.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
I've only had to kill twice. And one of them was a mindless monstrosity. I barely like fighting in the first place
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
i have zero clue why they brought me on the crew honestly
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
in hell
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
or more specifically rover 001
in hell
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
or more specifically rover 001
FROM: yamanaka.ino@cdc.org
Hey, at least you get a rover.
[ She gets to his rover pretty creepily fast, since she uses ninja magic to cheat, and then knocks on his door. (Seriously, if there was any possible way to sneak into the rovers you don't live in, she'd never knock again.)
When he opens the door, the very first thing she does is pull him into a wordless hug, her arms wrapped tightly around his neck. ]
Hey, at least you get a rover.
[ She gets to his rover pretty creepily fast, since she uses ninja magic to cheat, and then knocks on his door. (Seriously, if there was any possible way to sneak into the rovers you don't live in, she'd never knock again.)
When he opens the door, the very first thing she does is pull him into a wordless hug, her arms wrapped tightly around his neck. ]
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
you aren't doling it out from a white van are you
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
also there's no pedro here wrong #
you aren't doling it out from a white van are you
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
also there's no pedro here wrong #
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
oh my god are we going through all the iterations of peter over the globe
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
what kind of chocolate is it
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
why are you texting me i haven't seen you in six years
oh my god are we going through all the iterations of peter over the globe
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
what kind of chocolate is it
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
why are you texting me i haven't seen you in six years
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
how did you even type that on this thing
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
Milk or white or dark? is it cadbury or nestle? details!!
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
you never called? are you thinking of the other peter
how did you even type that on this thing
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
Milk or white or dark? is it cadbury or nestle? details!!
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
you never called? are you thinking of the other peter
[So fast he doesn't even really get a chance to send out his reply. He'd realized too little too late that she'd been sent to Grey, for reasons unknown to the world. Now he feels like double the dillhole.
But when she knocks he's at the door in a heartbeat, and even if she'd told him to stop there's a sorry on his lips with her name on it.
He doesn't get a chance to let that out, either.
At first, he doesn't move. More than a little alarmed, because even if she had been there at some point (he couldn't even remember so it would have been at the bloodiest part, which only makes him more ashamed) he doesn't expect her to be phased. Sorry as he might be she is a ninja. She's hardened to this. And they barely know each other.
Peter barely knows anyone when it comes down to it out here. But here's Ino, wrapping her arms around him without a word.
Jack Benjamin's bile still rings in his ears. I'd give five of you to get someone like Fiona back, and I doubt I'm the only one on the crew who thinks that. And Peter had left the conversation dazed, in tears. Still waiting on Gliese to let him know if he could trade his life for one of the six that stayed in the grave, because he was worthless here and everyone knew it.
Maybe he was wrong.
Peter chokes in silence. His arms thread around her back too, and he bows his head. Can't bury his face in her hair, even if he desperately wishes he could.
What he wants most, more than anything, is to have his family. To be able to confess anything, hear confessions back, hug and kiss and touch and trust. The CDC has none of that intimacy to offer him.
But maybe he's not as friendless as he'd thought he was.
Peter says nothing. They just stand in the entrance, holding each other tight.]
But when she knocks he's at the door in a heartbeat, and even if she'd told him to stop there's a sorry on his lips with her name on it.
He doesn't get a chance to let that out, either.
At first, he doesn't move. More than a little alarmed, because even if she had been there at some point (he couldn't even remember so it would have been at the bloodiest part, which only makes him more ashamed) he doesn't expect her to be phased. Sorry as he might be she is a ninja. She's hardened to this. And they barely know each other.
Peter barely knows anyone when it comes down to it out here. But here's Ino, wrapping her arms around him without a word.
Jack Benjamin's bile still rings in his ears. I'd give five of you to get someone like Fiona back, and I doubt I'm the only one on the crew who thinks that. And Peter had left the conversation dazed, in tears. Still waiting on Gliese to let him know if he could trade his life for one of the six that stayed in the grave, because he was worthless here and everyone knew it.
Maybe he was wrong.
Peter chokes in silence. His arms thread around her back too, and he bows his head. Can't bury his face in her hair, even if he desperately wishes he could.
What he wants most, more than anything, is to have his family. To be able to confess anything, hear confessions back, hug and kiss and touch and trust. The CDC has none of that intimacy to offer him.
But maybe he's not as friendless as he'd thought he was.
Peter says nothing. They just stand in the entrance, holding each other tight.]
Edited 2015-04-07 06:16 (UTC)
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
you know asking about 'fair trade' when we're working for a company that blows up planets seems kinda contradictory
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
Where are you I might take a piece
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
did you just call me fat
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
i can't believe you're offering me chocolate and yet you call me fat how dare you
you know asking about 'fair trade' when we're working for a company that blows up planets seems kinda contradictory
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
Where are you I might take a piece
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
did you just call me fat
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
i can't believe you're offering me chocolate and yet you call me fat how dare you
[ There's a long IC pause as the pieces fall into place for her . . . ]
FROM: amber@cdc.org
Oh.
FROM: amber@cdc.org
You're Peter, not the Pedro who was curious about the giant spider, aren't you?
FROM: amber@cdc.org
Don't worry, I have it on good authority that real boys have curves.
FROM: amber@cdc.org
Oh.
FROM: amber@cdc.org
You're Peter, not the Pedro who was curious about the giant spider, aren't you?
FROM: amber@cdc.org
Don't worry, I have it on good authority that real boys have curves.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
ed you've seen me you know i did not get fat
i just got sick a lot and cried into my pillow about the cruel cruel world
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
god what use are you. if they have movies again on the ship and that one's there, i'm taping you to the chair and you'll ENJOY IT
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
whoops on my way i guess
[And rather than use whatever apparatus there is to shimmy up to their fort, Peter ricochets between the trunks and branches, advancing like a pinball on a winning streak to the nearest abode.
He pauses then.]
It would help if you guys had door numbers.
[Does he start knocking or...?]
ed you've seen me you know i did not get fat
i just got sick a lot and cried into my pillow about the cruel cruel world
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
god what use are you. if they have movies again on the ship and that one's there, i'm taping you to the chair and you'll ENJOY IT
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
whoops on my way i guess
[And rather than use whatever apparatus there is to shimmy up to their fort, Peter ricochets between the trunks and branches, advancing like a pinball on a winning streak to the nearest abode.
He pauses then.]
It would help if you guys had door numbers.
[Does he start knocking or...?]
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
Sounds rough.
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
It's really that good, huh? [ Ed is pretty sure he heard something that sounds like Peter's voice but he's too busy reading a book to go check it out. Sorry bro.
Below Peter, Pop gives him a bark. ]
Sounds rough.
FROM: elric.edward@cdc.org
It's really that good, huh? [ Ed is pretty sure he heard something that sounds like Peter's voice but he's too busy reading a book to go check it out. Sorry bro.
Below Peter, Pop gives him a bark. ]
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
you cant just stop your explanation in the middle
what the hell parker
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
dont ask about pokemon history its a 2 hour sit down [ it really is ]
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
are you done
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
no
you cant just stop your explanation in the middle
what the hell parker
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
dont ask about pokemon history its a 2 hour sit down [ it really is ]
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
are you done
FROM: oak.green@cdc.org
no
[Pilot had loaned him the book some days ago, and while he'd had plenty of time to pore over it while he was resting in medical, it's a thick enough tome that he still hasn't reached the back cover. (The whole venture is slowed down by translation issues too - he has to wait for his cuff to spit up real-life subtitles for him as he goes down each page.)]
FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org
Peter this is insane. Did you know that not only is this planet spinning but it's orbiting around the sun too, not to mention this entire solar system is rotating around the center of the galalxy and the
[Woah, too much nerd excitement for one text.]
FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org
galaxy itself is moving? Well it says here that galaxies just look like they're moving but it's actually that the space between them is increasing because the univers is growing bigger.
FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org
So even if we're standing still we're constantly moving and we're never in the same exact spot twice. It's unbelievable!
[Any typos are due to some combination of a. his one-armed state of being and b. his academic euphoria.]
FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org
Peter this is insane. Did you know that not only is this planet spinning but it's orbiting around the sun too, not to mention this entire solar system is rotating around the center of the galalxy and the
[Woah, too much nerd excitement for one text.]
FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org
galaxy itself is moving? Well it says here that galaxies just look like they're moving but it's actually that the space between them is increasing because the univers is growing bigger.
FROM: bott.marco@cdc.org
So even if we're standing still we're constantly moving and we're never in the same exact spot twice. It's unbelievable!
[Any typos are due to some combination of a. his one-armed state of being and b. his academic euphoria.]
Edited 2015-04-10 00:58 (UTC)
[ In some ways, Ino is hardened to this kind of thing. It's inevitable at some point or another in her line of work, for a group of kids who were born in the shadow of war, raised to do violence. She was taught how to slit a throat so that it doesn't spray blood, all the ways to dispose of a body so that it's never found again, how to systematically turn someone's own mind and body against them. She learned it with the expectation that she would use it someday, because these are the things you do when you want to protect your home and the people you love.
But in other ways, she does everything too fiercely for her own good—she feels too strongly, cares too deeply, loves too openly. The bush clover, symbol of her clan, stands for candid, uncomplicated love—that's also how she was raised.
(If this is a contradiction, then it's not an impossible one: it wasn't his death that affected her—it was the loss of his life, and that is a very different thing.)
Ino doesn't know much about Peter, other than his terrible fashion sense, something about spiders, and the fact that this isn't his first death. She also knows that there's power in hugs, even among tentative friends, and his silence tells her as much.
In spite of herself, Ino finds herself relaxing a little into his hold, her arms tightening around his neck and head bowing so that her nose presses into his shoulder. With his death, Sakura's transfer, and her move to Grey—maybe she needs a hug too.
Finally, she steps back—and punches him in the arm, enough to make him feel it. ]
Are you going to stop being a baby now?
But in other ways, she does everything too fiercely for her own good—she feels too strongly, cares too deeply, loves too openly. The bush clover, symbol of her clan, stands for candid, uncomplicated love—that's also how she was raised.
(If this is a contradiction, then it's not an impossible one: it wasn't his death that affected her—it was the loss of his life, and that is a very different thing.)
Ino doesn't know much about Peter, other than his terrible fashion sense, something about spiders, and the fact that this isn't his first death. She also knows that there's power in hugs, even among tentative friends, and his silence tells her as much.
In spite of herself, Ino finds herself relaxing a little into his hold, her arms tightening around his neck and head bowing so that her nose presses into his shoulder. With his death, Sakura's transfer, and her move to Grey—maybe she needs a hug too.
Finally, she steps back—and punches him in the arm, enough to make him feel it. ]
Are you going to stop being a baby now?
[He doesn't know the half of what Ino's been through. She's a bigger mystery than he is. But he has inklings. Sees things around, gets hints and glimpses into other people's lives. Sasuke had mentioned that he had literally no time or life for girlfriends as a ninja, and the casual coolness with which Ino had said she worked with the dead and dying belied a host of lost lives that helped her reach that point. Nerves weren't born dead unless you were that unlucky.
When they draw apart she nails him in the arm, and she's not ginger about it either.] Ow.
[The remnants of almost tears still line the bottom of his eyes but Peter laughs, head ducking and his shaggy hair falling into his face.]
How can I, you just hit me. I'm entitled to at least twenty more minutes of baby-fits.
[Peter sniffs and holds the back of his hand to his nose. He doesn't crack, though, thank god. Making jokes is a hell of a lot better than talking through this again. He still can't shake the sight of Akame's tears from his mind.]
Did you wanna...we've got tea. Come sit inside for a bit. Tents have gotta suck out here.
When they draw apart she nails him in the arm, and she's not ginger about it either.] Ow.
[The remnants of almost tears still line the bottom of his eyes but Peter laughs, head ducking and his shaggy hair falling into his face.]
How can I, you just hit me. I'm entitled to at least twenty more minutes of baby-fits.
[Peter sniffs and holds the back of his hand to his nose. He doesn't crack, though, thank god. Making jokes is a hell of a lot better than talking through this again. He still can't shake the sight of Akame's tears from his mind.]
Did you wanna...we've got tea. Come sit inside for a bit. Tents have gotta suck out here.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
it's iconic, you better like it
[He's startled, pausing midway through a message to Ed asking where he would find his most esteemed of tree tents, but then he hears it. Peter looks down.]
Oh hi. Demon dog.
[He stays perfectly still.]
So. Is this like Lassie, Pop? You gonna lead me to your master?
it's iconic, you better like it
[He's startled, pausing midway through a message to Ed asking where he would find his most esteemed of tree tents, but then he hears it. Peter looks down.]
Oh hi. Demon dog.
[He stays perfectly still.]
So. Is this like Lassie, Pop? You gonna lead me to your master?
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
it's not worth the effort just accept it for what it is green
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
wow
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
would you kill me if i asked for a summary anyway
it's not worth the effort just accept it for what it is green
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
wow
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
would you kill me if i asked for a summary anyway
Then it's still up in the air, huh?
[Peter presses a hand to his mouth. Thoughtful. Then it drifts, grips his side.
The only scar he still has. The hole where the bullet went through. It's fading now, like all his other marks had. Something to do with having a body juiced up by OZ serum, no doubt, but it's creeping him out that he had the scar at all. If they cloned did they carve it into him for realism's sake?
God.]
Look. I don't think we can say anything's for sure. Even with deaths and resurrections and whatnot, because it's just...when we're dealing with a scope that's this broad? Like I don't understand half the crap that's going on with other people's worlds. And magic is definitely a real thing, even back home. Who's to say we're not getting hocus-pocused back to life every time we bite it? There's so much we don't understand, I just don't know where to even start.
[Peter sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.] I feel like a cave man trying to solve a mystery in the twenty first century.
[Peter presses a hand to his mouth. Thoughtful. Then it drifts, grips his side.
The only scar he still has. The hole where the bullet went through. It's fading now, like all his other marks had. Something to do with having a body juiced up by OZ serum, no doubt, but it's creeping him out that he had the scar at all. If they cloned did they carve it into him for realism's sake?
God.]
Look. I don't think we can say anything's for sure. Even with deaths and resurrections and whatnot, because it's just...when we're dealing with a scope that's this broad? Like I don't understand half the crap that's going on with other people's worlds. And magic is definitely a real thing, even back home. Who's to say we're not getting hocus-pocused back to life every time we bite it? There's so much we don't understand, I just don't know where to even start.
[Peter sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.] I feel like a cave man trying to solve a mystery in the twenty first century.
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
you were trying to message my doppelganger?
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
i'm not fat?? i could slip through a crack in the floor honestly it's a little sad
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
so is the chocolate still on the table or....?
you were trying to message my doppelganger?
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
i'm not fat?? i could slip through a crack in the floor honestly it's a little sad
FROM: parker.peter@cdc.org
so is the chocolate still on the table or....?
[ (Please don't listen to Sasuke. Sasuke is weird and dumb, even for a ninja.)
Peter is a good guy. He's kinder than she would've expected, especially from their first meeting—but maybe neither of them came out of that looking that great. Even though his concern is misplaced (mostly), she can't help but feel touched anyway. (She's figured you out, Peter... you're a sensitive soul... but she's enough of a sensitive soul too to find it endearing.)
Sometimes, it is kinder to pretend you don't see tears—Ino doesn't know if that's true right now, but that’s what she does. If Peter is making jokes, then things are already looking up. ]
Please, I didn't hit you that hard. [ Sure, Ino... but her smile is kind when she adds: ] Yeah, sure.
And tell me about it. Though apparently we're getting treehouses now.
Peter is a good guy. He's kinder than she would've expected, especially from their first meeting—but maybe neither of them came out of that looking that great. Even though his concern is misplaced (mostly), she can't help but feel touched anyway. (She's figured you out, Peter... you're a sensitive soul... but she's enough of a sensitive soul too to find it endearing.)
Sometimes, it is kinder to pretend you don't see tears—Ino doesn't know if that's true right now, but that’s what she does. If Peter is making jokes, then things are already looking up. ]
Please, I didn't hit you that hard. [ Sure, Ino... but her smile is kind when she adds: ] Yeah, sure.
And tell me about it. Though apparently we're getting treehouses now.
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