blabbering | saltburnt

[a beat.]

a ward?? like robin??

[what.]

anyway yeah he made the peter spider-man connection instantly
so i guess other me's secret identity isn't actually a secret
which seems kind of stupid but hey what do i know??
maybe other me has his reasons

Oh. Do you think Iron Man is your Batman?

Okay. Okay. I mean, he did show me his suit when I already knew his real name, and then he told me his superhero name. So maybe in this other world no one keeps it a secret?

maybe
maybe he drives a really cool car

[it does make him wonder why he's someone's ward, in this other universe. what happened to aunt may? he's —

aggressively not going to think about that.]

so he's iron man
he told me about an ant man
listed a bunch of other guys' names too
i guess everyone knows who everyone is there

He did sort of give off a fancy car vibe when I met him.

Ant Man? Is he really small?

I'm still wrapping my head around all of this.

[guy who thinks when i met him just means on the app or walking around the house somewhere.]

yeah i could see that
i mean from his picture like
that's a fancy car guy

and that's apparently what ant man does
he gets really small
uses something called a pym particle that shrinks stuff?? would love to know how that works tbh

[ His picture. So they haven't actually met in person yet.

It's a little bit of niggling guilt in her stomach, now that they've gotten through the initial debrief--enough to distract from any interest in potential shrink rays. ]

Can I tell you something? Promise me you won't freak out.

[oh. yeah, if she's not immediately jumping on the shrinking stuff? this is serious.]

yeah
yeah, of course
and i promise i won't freak out
scout's honor

[not that she can see it, but he also, quite literally, salutes after typing that.]

Okay. You know that party with all the candies?

I met Mr. Stark there. I had no idea

I didn't know that he knew you. Other-you.

Is that completely weird? [ Probably not weirder than anything else they've discussed today. But the personal stakes feel high. ]

[there's a whole mental process that goes on here. the first part of it thinks: met? why would he freak out that gwen met a person? then the second part connects: the party with the candies. that met means met, and —

okay. okay.]

no

i mean, maybe it is a little
but this whole house is weird
and honestly what's a lot weirder is that there's someone who knows another me and we're all here in the same place

so you know scale of weirdness?
i think we gotta consider it relative to that

Yeah, scale of weirdness makes sense.

Normally I'd be a little worried about someone else knowing your secret? Someone else neither of us know, I mean. But it sounds like he cares about you.

[ A couple minutes later, because scale of weirdness hasn't totally soothed the knot in her stomach, ]

Would it also be weird to talk about the other people we've been with here? I wonder if we should.

But I guess before you answer that question, I just want to say that you're really important to me. Nothing changes that.

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