(open) new york, i love you but you're bringing me down

[saved]

Who: Peter Parker (and open)
Where: Directly in front of the mansion or the Library
When: February 22nd, afternoon
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Peter Parker arrives and gets a bunch of eggs to the face. Then he makes a mess in the library with books because what is coordination when you have not slept?

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Option A: Arrival in front of mansion

Here's a thing Peter Parker has just discovered: eggs are painful when they slip into giant cuts on your face.

Also, it is really hard to see through the waves of egg on his face. The carton sticks to his hand. All the eggs have fallen out of the carton and landed on his face and around the ground underneath him. Yep. This is great.

Captain Stacy is dead. Dr. Connors is behind bars. Peter Parker gets to walk away from it all and go home like he didn't get into a huge battle with a giant lizard on top of a skyscraper, like he didn't get Gwen's dad killed in the process. All Peter wanted to do was get his Aunt May the eggs she kept asking for before heading back to her with more blood and scrapes and no answers. He bought the eggs and climbed a wall, and then all of a sudden, he's landed smack dab on his back with the entire egg carton shoved into his own face.

"This day... cannot get any worse."

He rubs at his face which also hurts and then sits up abruptly. The world spins because of it. He has a bullet wound in his leg. His face and chest are covered in scratches and bruises. The spandex is still on under his clothes. Peter blinks as his vision finally clears, and he abruptly realizes he is... not in New York City. It's too green for the area of New York City he had been in, and even if it was Central Park, he can't hear the cars. Where are all the cars? ...and why is there a... mansion? Kinda? Does he have a concussion? It's hard to focus.

It's with an abruptness he realizes he is not in New York City at all, but in... some place else with eggs on his bloody face.

He lets out a sudden huff of air, almost too exhausted to be as shocked as he could be.

"...just kidding."

This day just got so much worse.

Option B: Library

Once he has cleaned himself up but failed to like sleep so he's a little wired by lack of it after such a long battle, Peter Parker has decided the best place to go for information is always the library except he can't quite find what he needs here. His hair sticks up every which way. He has piled the books up so high that he has to narrowly dodge to avoid running into someone coming the other way.

Remarkably, only one book falls from the very top, and he manages to grab hold of it before it hits the floor... but then the rest of the books piled in his other arm topple over and land all around him.

He's not at his best spider-ness since arriving, still out of sorts. He presses his hand to his face. "...please tell me nobody saw that."

Comments

[saved]

...okay, I hope you know someday I am going to need to hear both of these two long stories. I mean, you time traveled. You had time travelling adventures. That's awesome. You had time traveling adventures with... someone else?

[Peter caught that 'we', which is good that there is one. He doesn't think it because of Dipper's age. He just knows how... difficult it has been being Spider-man alone. Peter has always been a loner, but he had no one to confide in about anything until he finally admitted the truth to Gwen and now he realizes he can't do that anymore. Because it will put her in danger, it sucks.]

Damn. Do you at least have a way of knowing you've forgotten something? I mean if you forget enough, you might... not even realize there's something missing. Guess it freaks me out.

[krmvgivv]

Oh, yeah, my twin sister. Mabel. [Right, there's no way... a total stranger would know that without him saying it.] We do pretty much everything together.

[He doesn't know what he'd do if she wasn't in Wonderland with her. Wait, yes he does. Go crazy like he did that one week she vanished.]

When there's an Event from your world you can guess there's a word gone. As for what it is... that's harder.

[He flips through his notebook to a page that he squints at for a few seconds, then shakes his head and turns it around. There are two names, a man's and a woman's, written in a blocky handwriting and the word tourist written in another hand. Neither of them match any of the other handwriting on the page.]

These are the words I've forgotten. I can't... I can't really read them. And any time someone says them, I just... sort of don't hear them. I don't know, it's weird.

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She's here too? That's good. [Peter smiles then because he imagines Dipper would sound much more sad about it otherwise. He has been here a long time, and it would be a really long time to go without his twin especially if they do everything together.]

An... Event? What's an Event?

[He leans over to look at the words there. Peter shakes his head.]

So it goes way deeper than just forgetting, it's like it's taken from you permanently. Normally, if someone forgets how to do something, they can relearn it unless something happened in their brain to prevent new memories from being able to be formed.

...but this is different. It's magic. [God, the-] You forgot names too. [And a word. Peter won't say any of it out loud, because Peter believes him and he feels it'd just be disconcerting for him. To know there's something he is no longer able to know, to not even be allowed to hear it.]

[krmvgivv]

Not names I used much. [He just called them Mom and Dad. It's why it took him a while to even realize that's what had been taken.] And it's not usually names. That was a... special case.

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But important names. [It had to be important or what was the- the cost in losing them? Peter doesn't want to ask more than Dipper is comfortable with sharing, but at the same time, he can't help but ask-] Special how?

[krmvgivv]

We looked in the Core. [He snaps the notebook shut and stuffs it back into the inside pocket of his vest.] When you do that you get sick and lose a memory, but we had to try.

[saved]

...do you at least remember what you saw when you looked in the Core? [It'd be shit if they made that sacrifice only to have the memory stolen from them too]

[krmvgivv]

Sure, but it wasn't anything useful. Just a lot of bright light.

[saved]

...what the hell. [They lost something huge so they could just see some really bright light. That sucks.] Seriously?

[krmvgivv]

It's fine. I knew the risks. I still had to try.

[saved]

It's not fine. I mean, I appreciate you doing it even knowing it was such a big risk, but it's not okay that it happened. [It's not said out of pity. More just acknowledgement.] It's shit. This place is shitty for doing that.

[krmvgivv]

It's shit.

[The word bubbles out, almost surprising him. Dipper isn't a big swearer. Back home, he never said anything stronger than heck. Here, he's said ass a few times, and it was... weird.

It's the first time he's ever said shit out loud, and it... feels good. What the fuck does it matter if he swears? Nothing he does here matters. It'll all be wiped away when he goes home (it has to be when not if), and he's never gonna make it to old enough to swear. May as well start now. He lets out a strangled half laugh.]

Know what else is shit? Time doesn't move here. Which means you don't age at all. This place is all around shitty.

[saved]

[Peter doesn't know it's the first time he has said the word out loud. Maybe he would feel bad about being a bad influence otherwise, but it's just curse words. Peter doesn't use them a whole lot either in general, but if any place deserves it, it seems to be Wonderland.

He slides his hands into his pockets as he looks at Dipper carefully, hearing that strangled half laugh. It's concerning. All the shit that happens here could seriously affect anyone trapped in it.]

So even though you've been here almost a year, you're still physically the same age you were when you showed up. [Yeah, that's-- that's bad, concerning.] So how... do you deal with all the shit?

[krmvgivv]

I was only a few weeks away from 13 anyway. It's not that big a difference. [Yet.] Anyway, it's not like it's all bad. There are all kinds of mysteries for me to look into.

[saved]

Yet. [Peter comments on what is not said. It is not a big difference yet, but it will be the longer they're all here] Yeah? This place does seem seriously mysterious. Questions around every bend without any clear cut answers. It's good to throw yourself into something like that.

[krmvgivv]

Yeah, it's awesome! [Dipper brightens immediately. The age thing might suck a lot but for a kid who loves the paranormal and investigating, it's heaven. Again, besides the age thing. And the memory thing. And the occasional cases of death. It's fine.]

I've taken so many notes-- and so have other people, there's so much to sort through, and I haven't found any solid patterns yet but I'm sure I will. And then there's the whole Mirror side!

[saved]

[Peter grins when he sees the way Dipper brightens. It is always good to meet someone else who enjoys a good mystery, a good investigative search.]

I'm sure you will too. I mean, this universe has to have rules like any other so it's a matter of figuring those out. Magic even would need to have its own rules, right? Otherwise everything would descend into utter chaos.

[krmvgivv]

Yeah. It just... sometimes breaks its own rules. [Which is frustrating.] We've figured out some stuff that mostly holds true, though. Like how to tell if someone's gone for good or probably gonna come back.

[saved]

[Peter frowns at the particular thought of it breaking its own rules. It means the rules aren't something that can be relied on, which is annoying because that is the whole point of rules about How the World works.] How do you tell?

[krmvgivv]

Check their room. If their stuff's still there, they'll probably be back. If not... probably not.

And if it's been more than a month, they won't remember anything even if they do come back. If it's less than that they might.