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Peter Parker
UN: ohnomorespiders

STATUS: Student (Sophomore-ish)

ACCOLADES: Are we seriously supposed to post our own? Isn't that kind of weird? I don't think anyone actually cares about getting an award in chemistry at a school like this.

BIO: Hey, um. I'm Peter Parker. Nice to meet you? Oh man I'm bad at profiles that don't involve, like, tumblr gifs or movie quotes. The coolest thing I've done recently is like. Smuggle in a Lego kit. (It's pretty awesome at least??)

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[ Oh, she knows that too well. Too damn well. She'd hoped - well, she'd hoped a lot of things, but clearly she'd been wrong. ]

God, it's only been a month. I knew that school was a bad idea.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that you know what he's going through.

[ Deep breaths on her end. Another pause. ]

You have to keep it that way. Please. I don't know the technicalities of it, but I know how it's supposed to work. What the rules are.

there isn't a chance we could send him home
is there?

[No, he's sure if that was an option it would've already been done.]

i know.
i know i saw it.
the way it affected him
it looked like mine does sometimes and i
i worried
i asked too many questions.
i just wanted to be sure he was okay.
im sorry.
im not going to tell anyone.

is he
will he ever find out?
can he age is he going to

sorry
im sorry
its been a hard night
you dont want these questions
im still reeling a bit
you would think being like him makes these things easier but it never does

Edited 2019-02-05 03:14 (UTC)

[ Jesus Héctor. She's glad he's talkative, at least, since she's been starved for information here, but. ]

Slow down. I don't have all the answers, but I'll try to answer what I can.

[ Let's start with the simplest one. The easiest question to answer. ]

He can't come home. There wasn't much, but what little they brought back was buried. There was a funeral. Over a year ago - you understand, right? If he came back, he'd undo himself in a week.

Edited 2019-02-05 03:28 (UTC)

he can't go home

[Peter can't go home. He can't ever... it's good he's typing on the desk. He'd have dropped his phone.

His remaining hand is up, covering his mouth, then tangling in his hair. He wants to scream. Not because he can feel himself jostling those far off and splintered bones either.

This shouldn't have happened. Peter was just a boy this should not have happened.

His fist crashes down hard on the desk before he continues to type again.]

ive got a home in santa cecilia. mexico. had one. my wife and daughter are there still. im working to get home. i can get my own place. the boy can stay with me. you can come down from new york. i was going to invite him to visit anyway if i ever got back.

[He shouldn't promise this bit hos head isn't entirely clear.]

Edited 2019-02-05 04:07 (UTC)

[ Easiest question to answer. Maybe not the easiest answer for Héctor to hear. May is a bit startled by the vehemence of his response, but also deeply touched. ]

That's very kind of you, Héctor. I may need to take you up on it. Peter ought to have somewhere to come back to.

[ She can sense he's upset though, if only because of everything he's promising so quickly. ]

He doesn't have to stay away forever. Just until his friends move on, then he can start over.

[ Because that is much better, clearly. ]

[It's not better. The whole point of home was the people there. Waiting to be forgotten is... horrific. But he keeps that silent at least in favor of asking another question again.]

i can't age. ive been twenty three for the past ten years. do you know yet if he can? it makes a big difference for how long he can be anywhere.

[ Yeah she knows that isn't any better but. She wants to see him someday, at least.

There's another of those long pauses that means she's thinking. Or horrified. Or both. ]

I don't know for sure. Probably not. You've seen him - he's not seventeen like he's supposed to be. But he's only been back for a month, and ... the spell he's under, they said it's unusual.

[ Enough to give her hope. Enough to make her doubt, too. ]

i told him that he should tell you one day about his conditions. i told him youd find out. so will he. terms or not youre going to have to hurt him one day. its going to be worse the more you wait.

[He heaves a breath.]

ive known others who stopped young. seventeen is workable, we can push a lot of time on that per place. call him an early bloomer, pass it off as a baby face when he should be getting older. he could keep a job like he is. we can keep an eye out for if he does age.

Edited 2019-02-05 04:48 (UTC)

You're a practical sort, aren't you. I'm so glad.

[ She's genuinely grateful - and sad for Héctor. Clearly the man speaks from painful first hand experience. ]

But I can't tell him - you have to understand that. You've talked to him for more than five minutes by now, so you know how terrible he is at secrets, right?

you might be one of the only ones in the world to think so. if my wife were speaking to me id show this to her for a laugh. but you dont have much a choice. if he doesnt age hes going to notice someday. babyface doesnt last past thirty. even if people forget him he wont forget them. thats not a pull ive resisted personally. in any case he might be better than he seems. he hasnt told anyone about me.

[ That is comforting, at least; she's a little surprised. Well, maybe Peter's better with other people's secrets. ]

I know. But the longer he can go without being told, the better off he is. That's how this works. The more people who know about him, the weaker the spell is going to get. Eventually it's going to break.

[To say he thinks this all is horrible would probably be redundant, but he's feeling it.]

well if theres one good thing here its knowing the rules for once. my kind would just try to wring what we could out of the time we got. hopefully we can get him a good life in before all that. as really bad as this is im glad you know too. i dont know how id do alone. at the very least i could use someone to brainstorm with. already run into more than a few things that repel our kind. or hunt it. been blaming his first condition so far. ive got to find a way to keep him off anything like that in the future.

Edited 2019-02-05 12:29 (UTC)

[ everything being horrifying is just kind of a given at this point okay. ]

Good. That’s... all I can hope for. That he gets as much of a life as he can.

[ She can argue that he needs more, deserves more - but anything is more than what he got. ]

You can talk to me, of course. I don’t know everything but I’ve learned more since all of this happened. And there’s his friend too. Gwen Stacy.

[Peter's words come right back, his defense of the girl, her upset. Things get a lot clearer.

Uncomfortably clear.]

ive met her. and seen what damage she can do. peter told me she did something for him. didn't say what. with how specific these terms are and everything else you wouldn't know if this is one of those pacts do you? the kind in this side of the world? effective and tempting as they may be that never ends fair.

[ Still not excusable, maybe, but a whole heck of a lot more understandable.

Also don’t remind May about Gwen’s pact too, god. Poor May and these dumb ensorcerelled children. ]

You’ll have to ask Gwen about her situation.

[ She won’t give up Gwen’s secrets okay. ]

But Peter’s is a pact. With some kind of - I don’t know what they called it. A fairy? Good or bad, I don’t know either. But unfair, yes.

i can do that.

[Even if that next part makes him curse aloud.]

there's no good in a fae pact. they've got no sense of proportionate scale. trust me if there was i would've taken one up and been been home alive years ago for even the small price of my soul. tell me youve gotten to chew out whoever is responsible because if you havent then i might and im not very intimidating.

Edited 2019-02-05 13:50 (UTC)

[ Well. This part is extremely vague but given it’s not impossible that May did it herself and is playing dumb here — ]

I know that now. It’s a mess but him being alive is worth a lot.

And - trust me, Peter isn’t the one paying for it. As hard as he has it, the person who made this decision for him is suffering worse. I made sure of that.

well

that i can agree with

[He did break bones twice this week for the sake of this kid, at least somewhat.]

thats probably the most ominous and intimidating thing you could've possibly said so ill take your word

[And now back to the bad news.]

theres been a monster of some kind.
its gone after peter and i.
i think hes safe for now but i wanted to let you know as his family.

i know that if something happened to my daughter
even if it worried me
i would want to know.
im going to keep looking after him
as will others.
thank you for talking this with me.

Good. I’m not a fighter, but I will hold the people responsible for him death accountable.

[ Maybe someday she can introduce him to the Avengers so Héctor can yell at them.

There’s another pause as she just. Takes that in. Goddamn that school!! ]

Oh god. Is he all right? Was he hurt? Are you all right?

he was injured pretty bad.
it dug into his shoulder and clawed his leg.
i think it tried to crush him a bit.
but hes healing.
i think he'll be okay.
my arm got shattered.
i dont know yet if i'll be able to get it back.
which is why im typing with my left.
but were not

well

were here.
were both still here.

[ She doesn’t want to hear any of that. Not really. The thought of Peter being badly hurt... ]

I’m glad, Héctor. Please keep telling me when things like that happen.
To either of you. Gwen too.

You know Peter - he doesn’t want me to worry, so he doesn’t tell me anything.

i know.
and i know it's only bound to make you worry more.
hopefully it's a habit that can be broken.

we probably have a lot to talk about but
im in a lot of pain right now
on top of everything else
so im going to let you go
but ill try and contact you soon
hopefully with better updates.

buenas noches may

I hope so too. Please, if there's a way to convince him ... it would do my old heart a lot of good.

Take care of yourself, Héctor.

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