#quipability

   Bender loathed many few things; Science, yep. He hated that. Nerds? Annoying, sure, easy to hate. Homework? Absolutely screw that shit. So what the ever-living Hell had he done to be saddled with the social pariah affectionately titled ‘Peter’, with a shared Science project as homework?

    BABY LIFTS HIS HEAD AT THE PROMPT, A GROAN FALLING FROM his lips. Metal shifts off of his back, remnants of the crushed car- a failure, one that never happens to him. This time, it’d been on PURPOSE. A sabotage, if anything- Baby wants OUT. Maybe he’d gone a little overboard. He feels his joints creak as he pushes himself up by his hands, ears ringing, glancing up at whoever had spoken: well, honestly, he doesn’t know if he’s HALLUCINATING, or what, but the guy’s dressed like a spider, & he’s a bit CONCERNED about it.        “ UGH, I- GET OUTTA HERE, MAN, EVERYTHIN’S FUCKED- JUST GO. ”

         THIS WASN’T WHAT EDEN WANTED , NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST . she just wanted to be a normal teenager who could hangout with her best friend . but that best friend had to turn into a half-ghost boy and she had to inherit powers of a powerful witch ( then again could you inherit something you’d always had ? ) . eden’s eyes flickered over to peter , softly watching him for a moment before whispers started to swarm her mind , the incoming headache being a warning sign that things would not end well . 

        ‘ PETER WE NEED TO TALK . ’ he already knew she was a witch , but eden thought for the friendship it be best to hide the fact that spirits often took a fancy to possessing her . ‘ it’s important- ’ she almost collapses there , head searing as something tries to take over her once more .

        HANDS SHAKE AS SHE KNOCKS ON THE DOOR . she never knocks . she practically lived with may and peter but here she is , panicked beyond belief . maybe it’s the dress . or maybe it’s the fact that peter went out of his way to organize a mini prom just for eden ( if her heart didn’t flutter at that she would be heartless ) . she nervously fixes her hair , done up in a way may had shown her how to do . simple and elegant , similar to the black dress she wore . 

        DOOR SWINGS OPEN EXCITEDLY , CAUSING EDEN TO JUMP , eyes looking over at peter before her whole face grows hot . ‘ am i t-too early ? ’ she might’ve rushed over accidentally . ‘ you look- ’ handsome , adorable , gorgeous , all of the above . eden felt her mouth dry up in embarrassment . ‘ you look really good . ’

It isn’t as though Eudora Patch isn’t used to the idea of mask-wearing, crime-fighting ‘heroes’. She grew up with the Umbrella Academy always in the news, and knows one of their number intimately now she’s an adult. 

But cynicism has coloured her opinion of vigilantism as she’s got older. Diego frequently makes her job all the more difficult by contaminating crime scenes and speaking to witnesses, and as more of these self-styled superheroes have emerged she’s found that the unhelpful habit of messing with police business seems to be one of the defining traits of the whole collective. Whether that happens to be intentional, as with Diego, or merely a byproduct of their other behaviours tends to depend on the individual.

What really isn’t helpful is that in situations such as the one she’s in currently - trying to find witnesses to an attempted armed robbery at a bodega - people tend to be more inclined to talk about the person in a mask who saved them than what actually happened. And unfortunately, the paperwork she has to fill out once she gets back to the station doesn’t have a neat little box in which she can attribute the criminal’s apprehension prior to her arrival on the scene to someone her only three witnesses thus far are referring to as ‘the spider-man’.

So let’s just say when she spots the teenager walk out of a side street nearby, her tone could be a little less sharp when she calls out to him.

“Well I -- I didn’t do anything. . .Just checking out a few things to make sure.”

Voice trails off into an awkward mumble, feeling rather childish. There was nothing WRONG with trying to see if he could hear this Peter’s thought’s. Gotta make sure, right ? Either way, Peter sighs heavily before removing his intense gaze from his doppelganger, instead focusing on finishing off his math homework. 

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