@jtodd, text

[mind_blown]

long shot but
anyone find a key recently?

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HAHAHAHHA

[equinoctials]

Maybe he should've left this to you.

he gon drag family drama out here.

[mind_blown]

wow.
i'll have you know i learned my people skills from the best.
sometimes the best is cagey.

[ bruce. ]

[webshoots]

[ somewhere (probably on a ceiling somewhere lbr), peter finds that

fucking hilarious. ]

I'm so sorry for you both.

[equinoctials]

Sometimes? Yikes.

[ Maybe the fact that Riku is completely ignorant of the implications here makes that funnier, who knows. ]

I didn't realize you two knew each other.

[mind_blown]

pete's my good buddy.
we're almost old pals at this point.

[equinoctials]

Forget anything I ever said about your taste.
He got me out of a bad situation back when we connected the lighthouse.

[mind_blown]

1) i wasn't aware of these comments
2) and this is still a questionable decision

but pete's good.

[equinoctials]

Too bad, that ship's sailed.

[webshoots]

Jason and I met the first month he arrived in Beacon.

But I can make a list of my friends if you want to approve them, Dad.

[equinoctials]

Alphabetically. And notarized at town hall.
Son.

[ Nerd. ]

[webshoots]

Surname first, don't worry.

I used to teach, remember?

[equinoctials]

[ He exhales a short laugh. Know what? He's felt like garbage since the ferry arrived, it seems inappropriate to laugh about anything.

Maybe Peter's just that funny. Maybe he just really needed a distraction. ]

Old hat at this, right.

[webshoots]

[ or maybe it's both. ]

Hat, tie, jacket, the whole works.

[equinoctials]

[ It's both. ]

Is that how the saying goes in your world?

[webshoots]

[ uh. ]




Not precisely.

1/2

[equinoctials]

[ Sigh. ]

[equinoctials]

That was a perfect chance to mess with me.
I'm disappointed, Peter.

[webshoots]

I didn't want to build up your expectations of me too much.

I've got a carefully cultivated image to look after here.

[equinoctials]

What's that, lame substitute teacher?

[webshoots]

Lame? Geez, and here I was, thinking that teaching chemistry made me cool.

Thanks for the reminder. I'll make sure it's printed beneath my TA credentials, just for extra posterity.

[equinoctials]

Was that the class where you set stuff on fire and saw what colors they turned into?
Arguably cool.

[webshoots]

[ there's a thought at this, something along the lines of and now I know how Doc Strange feels when I ask him questions about magic. ]

Yeah, I always thought so.

Turns out, kids find the why of that a whole less cool than the fact that it happens, Mr. "I remember the fire and the colors".

[equinoctials]

I don't. Only heard about it.
I missed all the good parts about school, go figure.

[webshoots]

For what it's worth, I preferred college.

What happened, by the way?

[equinoctials]

[ That's a whole can of worms. ]

Long story.
The short version is I screwed up. Cost me everything. My friends, my home. I lost control of myself.
My friends put me back on the right path. There was a war to win, and then we ended up here.