Uh, no, not really... [ it's not quite awkward, but not not awkward either: he'd always been teased for his distinctly unpartying ways, but drugs had otherwise never entered the picture for any of them, not even quintessential party girl mary jane watson, until — harry. they'd all wondered what had set harry off on that path, which had been stupid of them, him most of all. he knew norman osborn, knew what he was capable of even then. it shouldn't have been a surprise that harry might have searched for a way to try and deal with all of that.
otherwise distracted then, the shift in weight is slow and incremental enough that peter doesn't notice, not at first. when he does his attention snaps back to bruce, expression a somewhat startled, questioning frown. jason has told him enough about bruce and it hadn't been that peter hadn't taken it on board — he had, only he'd filed it away as something to be dealt with later. peter doesn't know enough of what had happened there to make a judgement call, can't say that the way jason's dealing with it is entirely the way that peter would recommend, but with all of that said and done, peter's managed to gather the distinct impression that bruce doesn't make it easy.
any version of him, he supposes. ] —Look, if you're getting tired, all you had to do was say.
[ when they set the final pew down, peter wipes his hands on his trousers, attention shifting to the pattern in the meantime. villanelle had hissed something about sickness, and now— ]
Life, death, and rebirth. [ he comments, in response to bruce's half-question. peter doesn't think it's a question about what the ouroboros is or what it stands for; peter thinks it's likelier a statement, the question being what it means here and now, for them, for their situation. ] I think I read something about the transmigration of souls as well, but the ancient Greeks were never my favorite, I always had more of a thing for Egypt... [ he runs a hand through his hair, thinking. it's been a while since he's read anything on the subject matter — there'd been that incident with jennifer, but that... was hardly this. that had been cats. ] I want to say ... it was used to represent the beginning and end of time. [ beat. ] And periodic renewal. [ resets?
to bruce, then: ] Did you find anything else down here?
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otherwise distracted then, the shift in weight is slow and incremental enough that peter doesn't notice, not at first. when he does his attention snaps back to bruce, expression a somewhat startled, questioning frown. jason has told him enough about bruce and it hadn't been that peter hadn't taken it on board — he had, only he'd filed it away as something to be dealt with later. peter doesn't know enough of what had happened there to make a judgement call, can't say that the way jason's dealing with it is entirely the way that peter would recommend, but with all of that said and done, peter's managed to gather the distinct impression that bruce doesn't make it easy.
any version of him, he supposes. ] —Look, if you're getting tired, all you had to do was say.
[ when they set the final pew down, peter wipes his hands on his trousers, attention shifting to the pattern in the meantime. villanelle had hissed something about sickness, and now— ]
Life, death, and rebirth. [ he comments, in response to bruce's half-question. peter doesn't think it's a question about what the ouroboros is or what it stands for; peter thinks it's likelier a statement, the question being what it means here and now, for them, for their situation. ] I think I read something about the transmigration of souls as well, but the ancient Greeks were never my favorite, I always had more of a thing for Egypt... [ he runs a hand through his hair, thinking. it's been a while since he's read anything on the subject matter — there'd been that incident with jennifer, but that... was hardly this. that had been cats. ] I want to say ... it was used to represent the beginning and end of time. [ beat. ] And periodic renewal. [ resets?
to bruce, then: ] Did you find anything else down here?