[ it seems like a bad idea to add time travel on top of it.
the snort that earns isn't entirely involuntary — very few of peter's encounters with the multiverse were strictly voluntary, and the choice to add time travel was— well, it was a choice in the strictest of definitions, but given the who responsibility deal, given the prospective alternative—.
but yeah, bad idea, peter won't argue with that. ] Sure, you've got me there.
But no, I didn't mean tell him the future, your past, whatever. [ he half-amends, before conceding: ] That's opening a can of worms no-one wants to go near, believe me. [ a beat and the corners of his lips quirk into a crooked, fleeting smile that's less amusement and more acceptance. ] Ask me how I know, [ he adds, with a loose wave of hand. (it's punctuated by the thought of geez, using the one hand is going to get very tiring, very quickly.)
immovable object, though. that — explains a few things. ] You're holding on to something that exists for only one of you here and I know you don't need me to tell you that, so: what are you hoping for? Now he knows you know him, that a version of him knows you. Because this is going to suck a whole lot more you than it is for him. The cost is your peace of mind.
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the snort that earns isn't entirely involuntary — very few of peter's encounters with the multiverse were strictly voluntary, and the choice to add time travel was— well, it was a choice in the strictest of definitions, but given the who responsibility deal, given the prospective alternative—.
but yeah, bad idea, peter won't argue with that. ] Sure, you've got me there.
But no, I didn't mean tell him the future, your past, whatever. [ he half-amends, before conceding: ] That's opening a can of worms no-one wants to go near, believe me. [ a beat and the corners of his lips quirk into a crooked, fleeting smile that's less amusement and more acceptance. ] Ask me how I know, [ he adds, with a loose wave of hand. (it's punctuated by the thought of geez, using the one hand is going to get very tiring, very quickly.)
immovable object, though. that — explains a few things. ] You're holding on to something that exists for only one of you here and I know you don't need me to tell you that, so: what are you hoping for? Now he knows you know him, that a version of him knows you. Because this is going to suck a whole lot more you than it is for him. The cost is your peace of mind.