st_hotflashes: (About to Cry)
Liz Parker ([personal profile] st_hotflashes) wrote2018-05-07 03:53 pm

Be Careful What You Ask For (Closed to Peter)

Liz walked numbly through the Inn after having spoken with Emma. It was as if her body were on autopilot as her mind couldn't really focus or process anything directly. What it all meant, how she felt, if she was around to see it happen - these questions were like vague fog in her mind that she couldn't quite grasp.

She thought, ever so briefly, that she might find herself in front of Kitty or Piotr's door, but it was Peter's door she came to a stop at. Liz swayed a little as she stood there, staring blankly at the door. She did that for a good five minutes before she was able to will herself to lift her hand and knock. It was a quiet two rap knock.

When the door opened, when she lay eyes on Peter, the numbness seemed to ebb a little. She stared at him silently, then slowly her face began to twist and contort as anguish spread through her features. She didn't move an inch except for her face. Everything suddenly felt intense and Liz stood there, stiff, and started to cry unabashedly. Cried with every fiber of her being.
st_arkintern: (Smile.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Peter smiles up at Liz.

"I don't know if she really thinks of it like that, though." Peter reaches up for Liz's hand. "She's had it tough. A lot of people here have. I feel really lucky."
st_arkintern: (Smile.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Peter says. "Things haven't always been great for me, but I've always had someone in my life to support me. Usually multiple someones."

He squeezes Liz's hand. She was one of those people.

"Even that seems like more than what a lot of people here have had."

st_arkintern: (Ow.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, not really," Peter says, frowning. "I think he's been keeping to himself."

He thinks about the dance and how Piotr was absent then, too.

"Do you think he's okay?"
st_arkintern: (Looking down.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah."

Peter frowns.

"Has he ever told you about -- about where he came from?"
st_arkintern: (Looking down.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Peter says softly. "He told me that, too."

That was actually one of the people Peter'd been thinking of when he said that he felt lucky.

"Why'd you ask if I talked to him lately?"
st_arkintern: (Ow.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"It probably doesn't help that they're from different realities," he says. "Did you know that?"
st_arkintern: (Smile.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, me too. With Ned," he says. Not with Maria, obviously.

Peter lets out a yawn. "You feeling tired yet?"
st_arkintern: (Ow.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Peter says quickly, trying not to imagine Liz in his shower. "That'll give me time to get changed."
st_arkintern: (Ow.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh yeah, yeah, of course."

Peter hops off the bed and digs through his top drawer, pushing away Alec's not-so-secret booze cache. Peter tosses Liz a shirt.

"I have some shorts, too. Some comfy ones, so they're not going to be bad to sleep in."

Peter rummages through his drawer.
st_arkintern: (Ow.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter finds a pair of drawstring shorts and throws it to Liz. "That okay?" he asks.
st_arkintern: (Smile.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
When Liz emerges, Peter is sitting cross-legged on the bed, wearing a dressed in a t-shirt and another pair of drawstring shorts. Normally, he'd just sleep in a shirt and his boxers, but it felt weird to fall asleep with just that with Liz in his room.

The dirty clothes that were on the floor have been tossed into a hamper, along with the clothes he was wearing earlier in the day.

Peter smiles back, pushes himself off the bed and reaches for one of Liz's hands.

Then leads her to bed.
st_arkintern: (Ow.)

[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-11 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Peter pushed out of the bed as Liz climbed in. He was nervous, too, but he didn't really know why; it wasn't like they hadn't slept together before.

"You want me to adjust the thermostat?" he asks, though he's already headed there now.

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