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

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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

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"...wow, the whole world can just change so completely until it's different." Peter shakes his head, and he tries to remind himself. Magic. It's a whole new world, and he's trying to figure out what that means, but he wonders if that is even possible in a place that can change so abruptly.

He bites down thoughtfully on his lip and then shakes his head. "No. I'm... really new to all this-- y'know having powers and fighting bad guys, like a few months," Peter admits. So maybe they're in his world, he just hasn't heard about them yet.

[actualwizard]

"Yeah, its...well its kind of hard to wrap your head around until you see it." Hearing about it but then living through it were two very different things. He hoped Peter's first event was relatively harmless, like his. Billy's first event involved an infestation of puppies.

Billy nods, no HYDRA, that seems like a nicer world. "They are an evil organization started during World War 2, but yeah, we had an event with them." Brainwashing. Billy almost manages to suppress the shudder at thinking about that event, brainwashing Tommy and then what happened with Teddy... in hindsight not the event to bring up.

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Peter nods with a little worried expression which doesn't last very long on his face. He hopes his first event is relatively tame too but with the mention of zombies and Billy's talking about the event from his own world-- He doesn't think he believes there are tame events.

Some might just be easier than others.

He looks at Billy, and there's some concern clear in his expression as he shoves his hands into his pockets. "What happened?"

[actualwizard]

Billy frowns, thinking of a way to explain it without going into too much detail. "Some of us were brainwashed to believe that we were True Believers and that HYDRA was the answer, we thought we were their agents and we tried to brainwash the other residents of the mansion...by whatever means necessary. So some people tried to stop us." And that's all he's saying on the subject. Mostly because he's sure Peter doesn't want to hear his issues about being killed by his (ex?) boyfriend.

He shrugs it off. "But that was awhile ago, it's done now."

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Peter's mouth drops, and then he lets out a little hiss of a breath before he shakes his head, because it sounds- That sounds more than a little bit terrible. He glances down at his feet.

"That sounds terrifying honestly to not have any control over yourself to the extent you're hurting other people," he says quietly, catching sight of the way Billy shrugs. Peter's used to shrugging stuff off so he doesn't press more than that. He just sends him a lopsided smile. "I'm glad it's done, and you're free from that event at least."

[actualwizard]

"Yeah..." Billy trails off but then Peter is smiling and Billy is returning it. "I am too. Things have been better since then. Anyway. If you have any questions about anything I'll be happy to answer them, as best as I can anyway. There's still a lot here even I don't understand."

Moving on from the horrible and going to the not quiet as horrible seems like a good idea.