[video] - from Kaine's suite

[nerdylilspidey]

[Someone is healing up and recovering quite nicely. Which now leaves that someone with a new, very serious problem.

Peter's… kind of bored. So he hops onto Kaine's console, since he's been staying with him while recovering, and opens up a video feed. Mask-less and in the Kedan clothes that Tony got him, he offers the network a sheepish sort of smile.]

Um… Hi everyone. I have a real quick question, while I'm still trying to get a feel for the layout of this place… Would there happen to be some kind of library around here? Just… I wanted to like, catch up on some reading that I've wanted to do for forever.

[ Wow, you're lame, Parker. ] Though if there isn't one, then… That's totally fine, too. Just curious, that's all.

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[nerdylilspidey]

And here I thought the Curse of the Parker Luck had at long last been broken.

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[unobtainableredemption]

And I already told you--the only you who could probably do it was Ben, and he's dead.

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[nerdylilspidey]

[Oops. Back in this territory.]

You never know. Maybe one day we'll just spontaneously cancel our bad luck out. And then we, too, can live happily ever after.

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[unobtainableredemption]

["Too"? What the hell do you think Ben died of, Parker, old age?]

You keep thinking that.

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[nerdylilspidey]

[Well, seeing as they're both dead here...]

I will if I get a pizza for it.

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[unobtainableredemption]

What?

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[nerdylilspidey]

For, y'know, thinking positively? [He smiles sheepishly.




And then it fades a little.]

... It- That was a joke.

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[unobtainableredemption]

An awful one.

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[nerdylilspidey]

I'm full of those, I hear.

That doesn't seem to stop me, though.

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[unobtainableredemption]

[Groans.] I moved to Texas to get away from you.

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[nerdylilspidey]

[Aaaaand the smile fades a little more.]

Oh... Oh.

But I'm all sunshine and rainbows. [The words are totally half-hearted. They only come tumbling out because now he's gotten nervous.]

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[unobtainableredemption]

[Notices Peter's smile fade. Right, this one has no idea...]

New York wasn't big enough for two Peter Parker's. [Not that he's ever considered himself Peter (well, maybe just a bit when he was fist created, before the Jackal tried to have him killed), but he didn't want Peter to think it was something against him... even if it kind of was.]

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[nerdylilspidey]

What, the baddies couldn't handle Double Banter?

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[unobtainableredemption]

I don't banter. [...Okay he sort of banters. Sometimes.]

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[nerdylilspidey]

... Really?

[Peter looks genuinely surprised. His banter has always been his defense mechanism-- that Kaine didn't get. It's really hard for Peter to see how Kaine is supposed to be a Peter-Clone when they're so different.]

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[unobtainableredemption]

Have you heard me banter?

[That's because he's the worst of you, Peter. He's the you raised away from any sort of love or any sort of guidance, and left alone to his own devices in a world he deemed cruel and unforgiving far too early.]

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[nerdylilspidey]

I like to consider this part of our relationship banter. Do we not banter?

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[unobtainableredemption]

I consider this trying not to kill you.

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[nerdylilspidey]

But I'm so cute.

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[unobtainableredemption]

[How the hell was he cloned from you?]

Fantastic. This is definitely hell.

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[nerdylilspidey]

Could be worse. I could be saying this stuff while trying to beat you up.

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[unobtainableredemption]

I'm stronger, faster, and more agile than you. You're more than willing to try.

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[nerdylilspidey]

[He tilts his head slightly to one side.]

… I'm smaller and funnier? I think that makes me a harder target to hit.

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[unobtainableredemption]

That's why I wouldn't bother hitting you directly. I'd throw a car or bring the wall down over your head. [He has experience in Parker hunting.]

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[nerdylilspidey]

Awww. Now that's just mean.