#roseshot

@roseshot asked: "Why are you covered in blood?"

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Peter blinked from where he was laying on the ground, actually it was the roof but it was the ground for the moment, and turned his head slightly to spot who exactly had found him up there in the first place , "Oh…hey, Mr. Rose…Agent Rose?" he guessed both sounded right.

"No it's okay, it's all just mine. This guy showed up at a lab and started attacking people doing research with some crazy looking weapon, right? Like, never seen it before, but it kinda sparked up and then flashed and then it threw me through a wall and some poor guy's desk. That really sucked. Actually he did it twice, throwing me through a wall not the desk part, and then through some glass and out the window. Which is pretty dumb, like I have webbing and can totally just climb back through it again, it's not even hard.

"Anyway, I think it was something modified from one of the things Toombs and his guys made, because it's all glowy and weird and stuff. Extra and alien glowy though, not just like he taped glowsticks to it. I had a guy do that once, but it was a water gun and he started crying when I webbed him to a wall...felt really bad for him. This thing definitely has to be mixed tech again, which is bad. Really, really, super bad and dangerous.

"But Mr. Stark is in a meeting for another half an hour or so according to Karen, and I didn't really know who else to ask about it. I just took it away from the guy, and the police showed up to arrest him, and I waited to make sure he didn't have some other crazy weapon once they had him loaded up before I left. So now I'm just laying here resting until I can give this to someone who can actually get rid of it, and totally not because I was also really dizzy and web slinging was kind of hard to do…but I don't taste blood anymore. That's good, right?"

@roseshot asked: “I have a lot going for me, but humility is not one of them.”

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Ed snorted a laugh at that and grinned at him, “Really? I had no idea about that, you’ve always been so humble.” he teased. Two drinks were grabbed from the fridge before he went back over, setting the textbook aside to give his eyes a break and handing one of the drinks to Riley. A seat was taken on the back of the couch before Ed opened his own can of soda, “Might not be all bad though, I hear confidence is a very attractive thing to have. Kinda the same thing, don’t you think?”

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Riley is one of the few people outside of the Avengers team and Happy that Peter is comfortable with getting help patching up from. Not because he doesn’t trust anyone else but because Riley doesn’t freak out on him and worry the same way others have which makes it easier.

@roseshot

They walk into the bar partway through a song, but don’t give the live band much more than a passing glance as they make their way to the bar. Fuck today—they need a drink.

Frankly, they need something way stronger than some watered-down, on-tap beer, but that kind of shit is a lot harder to come by, and they don’t have a dealer they trust not to cut it with anything.

So. Beer it is.

Jordan is only half-listening to the band, drowning in their own thoughts. Are actually about to leave, having finished their pint, but one lyric in particular cuts through all the static in their brain and makes them pause. Has them finally turning on their barstool to actually listen.

Mum and Dad, they couldn't understand why she couldn't turn it off, become a better man.

It…they know it wasn’t written with someone like them in mind—there is no one truly like them—but it still hits home. Hard.

Well, fuck. They didn’t need to feel this shit today.

The tightness in their chest eases as the set continues. Eventually, the band starts wrapping up, and Jordan turns back around. It’s while they’re waiting for another drink, forearms braced against the bar, that they feel a presence appear beside them. They shoot a glance at him out of the corner of their eye, before smiling at the returning bartender and taking the fresh beer from her.

@roseshot gets a starter (Marvel AU)

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It wasn't really crowded in the hallway as Ed carried his two bags to the room he was told to take, but it was enough that he kept moving to the side to avoid other students. Uneasy and not exactly thrilled that he was there, but he promised he would at least try it there. It was just for the weekdays, he could find a way to go home on the weekends and still see Al and Winry and Granny. He just had to hold onto that, and Al had seemed to really think this was a good idea and insisted Ed did try so, there he was. Avoiding three more students racing down the hallway towards he guessed the stairs. No one had talked to him yet, unless the quick "sorry!" and "excuse me!" from two girls as he came up the stairs counted. It didn't seem like it did.

The room at the end of the hall was the one he'd been told to take and inside he found two beds, desks, and dressers. He'd been told that he'd be sharing the room, it looked like the other side was already filled and decorated, but currently empty. Maybe it was one of the students who ran past and he didn't even realize it. Ed moved to sit on the bed at the other side and looked around the space. It didn't feel cramped, the window did have a pretty cool view of the grounds too. He let out a breath and flopped backwards onto the mattress in favor of staring at the ceiling.

Maybe this would be better. Maybe if he stayed mostly at the school here Al could have a normal school experience, and both Winry and Granny wouldn't have to keep so many secrets for them. They could go to school, or walk through town, without having to worry about how people were going to react. That was better, Ed wanted them to be able to have that, and he could still visit on the weekends to see how they were doing. He just had not destroy anything on accident while he was there.