#;;Swinging Through The Rootops [QUEUE]

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"Make sure you get a good one, not all springs are created equal even in bike bells." Peter's first thought with 'bike' tended to be 'bicycle' because he himself had only been on a motorcycle maybe 3 times in his life, and that was back in high school after the lie about him being a Stark Intern started so that him and his father would have an excuse if they were caught in public together. Steve had given him a ride to the tower a couple of times with the excuse of Happy being busy and Tony asking him to pick him up, all three times it happened he could practically see Flash fuming.

"Yeah, I figured that out I just... It made me think that maybe there was a chance that the reason you said that..." He was about to start rambling again, he could feel it. "I wanted to make sure that you knew without thinking I was kidding that I have feelings for you Nettie, and if you don't that's fine. I never pushed you knowing or realizing that's what I was trying to say because being your friend is more important to me, but after everything that happened I just...felt like I need to make sure you were at least aware."

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“You’d have to get a new wardrobe to fit the hipster aesthetic, maybe start riding a bike everywhere.” He couldn’t help laughing at the mental image of Nettie dressed as a hipster wheeling a bike behind the counter of a record shop. Peter took the mug when he held it out to him, talking a sip maybe to soon when he asked what it was he wanted to talk about. He wasn’t exactly worried though, he was sure his tongue would be fine within an hour if that.

“Just uh…” He was wishing now he’d thought more about what he was going to say on the way here. “Well first I didn’t…when you mentioned beshert when we were talking that one time I didn’t know then what it meant and I do now but I don’t know that it means what I…hope it does.”

He was fidgeting with his mug as he talked, stunning the handle from one hand to the other and back again. “I’ve tried talking to you about it a few times and you’ve always seemed to think I wasn’t serious or joking.”

“Sure, let me pull up to the record store and ring the bell on my handle bars to let people know I’m turning right,” Nettie said, flicking two fingers in the air as he mimed the idea of ringing a bicycle��s bell. Like heck would he ride a motorcycle - his poor mother would pull a Fruma Sarah on his backside.

He watched in slight amusement as Peter fussed with his drink, and dropped his hips back against the counter for his own beverage, mug in one hand, the other crossed over his chest as he held his flute. Since his arrest, it had been hard to let go of his only weapon, even now. “Beshert?”

He blinked a bit, not seeing the big deal of it. He even chuckled a bit over his mug, as he didn’t get the fuss of it all. “It means soulmates, that we were meant to meet each other.”

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"Yeah, that whole thing was..." Peter paused and trailed off for a second, flashes of the fight both before and after the blip going through his head making him quiet for maybe a few seconds to long before he snapped out of it. His usual smile came to his face and he said. "That whole thing was nuts, still weird thinking that I have a sister now who didn't exist just a few weeks ago." Even if he knew that it wasn't actually just a few weeks ago.

"Alright, I just figured it might be easier if your Dad decides he doesn't want me hanging around Oscorp." At the holiday suggestion he vaguely wondered what his family had even done the last few years during the holidays. "But that would be fine if it won't get you into trouble; Aunt May, Happy and Rhodey usually come over for holidays too... Or if they did before, I don't see why the blip would have changed that, and you don't have to worry about Dad. Mom usually make sure he behaves."

Honestly he wasn't sure how to deal with the attention that the media seemed to want to give him, Pepper was beating them off with the stark legal team for now but that wouldn't work forever. "Thanks, and yeah. It'll be nice to just do something...normal." He was kind of floating between the tower and his Aunt May's house because of Tony having moved cause the middle one nowhere while he was gone, it'd be nice to just hang out somewhere like he used to.

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Peter hadn’t thought that Harry would really mind so much about the fact that he was Tony’s son, he’d been willing to be friends with him when he’d thought he was no one important; but he’d been a little worried that he might be upset about him keeping something like that from him. “I know I just.. wanted to say sorry for keeping it from you. Ned found out by accident and then I was wanting to tell you and Mj and then everything happened with the Blip.” He was rambling now and he knew it.

“We could always hang out at The Tower instead now that you know… Dad has a whole hang out area on one of the upper levels for if any of the Avengers kids come over.” They’d never really talked much about it but he had a feeling that Norman wasn’t exactly…the best Dad, and avoiding home might be a better option for Harry anyway. “He’s not exactly to thrilled about the fact I’m friends with a competitors kid either to be honest, but he wouldn’t tell me I can’t hang out with you.” Even if part of that was the fact that Pepper would tell him he was being ridiculous, and that he knows it wouldn’t exactly work.

“Yeah it’s…I’m not gonna lie, it was easier when people didn’t know.” 

“i don’t remember much about around the blip anyway.” harry was sure that even if peter had told him, the fluffiness of his brain after what had happened wouldn’t have allowed him to remember it. harry shrugged his shoulders for a moment. sometimes, secrets were supposed to be kept. of course, he knew that better than anyone else. the secrets of oscorp tower and osborn manor weren’t something he ever wanted other people to find out, but the blonde shook his head, teeth pressing into his lip slightly 

 “ah, that’s not a good idea for me. um…. dad isn’t in at the moment anyway. so, we can still chill at mine or at oscorp tower! he’s barely there anyway.. menkin’s in control pretty much.” it was far enough away from any traces of the goblin. as far as harry knew. no creeping signs of something that would tear the both of them apart. all harry could do was laugh “grand. i’m not too fond of him having an opinion on me when he doesn’t know me.” conditioning, he supposed. norman did have a specific way of working his way into his head sometimes “maybe, i can come over on holidays and stuff like that. we don’t celebrate christmas anyway.”

 a friendly hand rested on peter’s shoulder “then allow me to be your guide. i can talk you through everything.” harry paused, brows raising “how about after school you come over to the tower? i’ve gotta do some internship stuff anyway.”

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"Yeah no, I get it. Honestly I feel like both groups kinda aren't great in their own way, I'm sure any group has its weak points though." The Avengers could definitely do to ask for help more often, but he didn't really know as much about the Justice League. "But Superman, thats-actually kind of awesome. Scott, I mean Antman, he would lose his mind if he found out I was considering being on a team with Superman's kid."

The ex-con turned hero had been popping in on him once a week since everything that went down, either through video call or actually being in New York because of Hero or Work related reasons. He'd taken to calling them 'The Bug Bros' and if Peter was honest it was kind of nice, the relationship was more older brother than uncle like it was with most of the Avengers. "In a good way I mean, I think he idolizes your Dad just as much as he does Uncle Steve."

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Peter could relate even if in a different way, he had a sister now who hadn’t existed before he’d disappeared. He couldn’t help but think if he had been able to just pull that glove off of Thanos hand those two things wouldn’t be the case. “Thats…gotta be kinda weird.” People could change a lot in 5 years, especially at their age.

“I’m not saying I’ll commit for sure to joining but…I’ll consider it, it’d probably be a little easier than working with The Avengers with the age difference. But I don’t want to give you a definite yes until I’ve met some more members.” No team was going to agree on everything all the time, but he’d rather know he meshed at least a bit with the people on the team before he gave a full yes.

“That’s fine.” He says more numb than anything, his mom said that maybe it would be a good idea for him to start a group. Especially since he began to work on his own more and more…becoming…different. His mom described it as him no longer seeing, how there was a darkness in his eyes. So he did. “I guess now I find some new heroes….because everyone I knew is older now. Just letting you know though, my dad is Superman he’s in charge of the Justice League and no offense to the Avengers or anything but…..” He stops himself not wanting to start a fight. 

Especially with a tentative alliance. 

He was going to say though, that at least the League had defeated Darkseid and his people. That if the Avengers had simply let his dad help, none of this would have happened. But because they didn’t think the League was necessary….well��he won’t say it. 

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"How about instead of playing with things in here, you let me finish up real quick and then we can go somewhere and see something you've been wanting to see. I'm sure there's got to be somewhere right?

|| CLOSED || Peter & Dum-E ||

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“No, don’t touch that!” The last thing he needed was the lab getting covered in web fluid because Dum-E accidently set off a web grenade, even if it likely wouldn’t hurt them and mostly dissolved after a few hours what was left was always a pain to clean up.