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[internship]

[ 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.

[blabbering]

[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.]

[internship]

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. ]

[blabbering]

[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

[internship]

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.