[closed] if you must die, sweetheart,

[eyething]

Who: Damon Salvatore, Peter Parker, and Clementine + others
Where: Real side and mirror side
When: Length of the event/aftermath of the event
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A bunch of closed starters for these characters throughout the Event. Let me know here if you want a specific shenanigan, and I'll set up something for you!
The Story: Starters below.

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[ordi_fide]

She flies back, landing against the wall. There's a faint grunt as she hits, but then all signs that she might be in pain are gone as she looks up at him and smiles.

Because he's breaking.

Which means she's winning.

"Shoving a lady? What would your uncle say?" She pauses, looks as if she's considering it for a moment. "Right. That's a moot point now. I forgot."

She sighs dramatically. "We should probably change the subject, right? We can't always talk about how you got your uncle killed. What about who you're going to fail next? A friend? Someone you barely know? Someone you care about?" Her grin returns; she can't suppress it any longer.

The message lies underneath the words - who is Peter going to get killed next?

[saved]

This time Peter thinks, because he gets what she's trying to do and he gets it's working. His hand shakes, but he closes the distance between them, firing a small web over her mouth and nose. It's not the first time he's done it. Before, he'd take his slow time to open holes where the webbing exists over the man's nose. He'd been searching for a certain tattoo, which would identify his uncle's killer (the one Peter let get away with it all, because he was angry and upset and irresponsible).

This time he's immediately taking off the top of the webbing so she can still breathe through her nose even if her mouth's now covered.

He hasn't had his mask on this entire time. Peter hasn't been able to hide behind the mask and the persona, to shrug it off like Spider-man would. To roll with it, to not be Peter.

Jemma died last Event, and Peter couldn't stop that.

And he'll find out Elena dies during this Event, and- and he didn't stop it either (and he wasn't with Bonnie when she died or able to stop it when Fitz did. He's losing track of people he's actually saved. There was one time he did and someone was pissed at him for it. He can't-). The words ring too true. They're worries he runs through his head over and over again. For all his trying, he can't do enough. He breathes out through his teeth, writes 'mirror' on a piece of paper and sticks it to the webbing, and then turns and leaves.

[ordi_fide]

That ought to be the end of it, but she isn't done with him, not yet.

As he leaves, she hums a taunting song.

In time, the webbing will fall away, and she'll renew her pursuits.

He should have killed her when he had the chance.