Come & Get Your Love

as requested by anon. Feel free to change pronouns or anything else !

“Who was that?”

“I don’t like the way he/she/they look/s at you.”

“How could I make you jealous? I melt whenever you say my name.”

“Hi! I’m ___’s girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/etc. Ever heard of me?”

“So what if I’m jealous?”

“You are spending WAY too much time with that guy/girl/person.”

“How come you never do that with me?”

“Hey. You’re mine.” / “Don’t worry. I’m yours.”

“I’m going to kick his/her/their ass! No one can touch you like that except for me.”

“I heard you and ___ had lunch.”

“Are you jealous?~”

“Can I just give you another hickey?” / “Did you really have to give me so many hickeys?”

“I can’t have these people all over you.”

“Oh, come on. Don’t worry about him/her/them, we’re just friends.”

“Don’t you trust me?” / “You’re not the one I don’t trust…”

“I know that you love me, but your jealousy is getting out of hand.”

“You don’t own me…except when you make that face.”

“I don’t remember our hello kiss being a hello makeout. Are you threatened by my friend?”

“Who are you texting? I thought I just saw a heart emoji.”

“Why is your ass so amazing? Everyone is staring at it and I hate it.”

“Hey, pal. His/her/their eyes are up there.”

“I don’t know what that was about, but I love seeing you all riled up.”

“This is outrageous. I demand more attention.”

“Oh you and ___ went there? That’s where we went on our first date.”

“You’re with ME now.”

here’s the thing– gamora knows what it’s like to be cut off from your home, to feel like no one else understands certain things or experiences, and she understands how important it is to hold onto what you have. peter, though, has a lot more from his home that he still carries with him than gamora does of hers, so, recognizing that his earth stuff is important to him because she’d feel the same if she had literally anything of zen-whoberi left, she makes a real effort to understand, and to even try to use some of his references back at him. she’s… she’s really trying.

it’s an incredibly sweet gesture, and it further highlights that deep level of kinship, courtesy of bizarrely similar backstories in a lot of ways, that they understand each other on.

which brings me to the concept of the “unspoken thing” in vol 2. it’s another one of peter’s earth things that’s foreign to gamora, and certainly the way in which he explains it to her isn’t any help; he uses cheers and tv ratings metaphors, and when he does, he just spirals down a hole of incoherence (as peter is wont to do when he’s trying to talk about a deep and honest feeling that’s scary) and makes the whole thing worse. gamora, understandably, becomes more and more frustrated as the conversation goes on, largely because peter won’t fucking explain himself in a way that actually makes sense, and is skirting around being real in any way, to the point that it culminates in her exploding, “I DON’T KNOW WHAT CHEERS IS!”