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[licensetocrane]

 "Hi, this is April.  If you're calling at 3am, you better be someone I know REAL well."

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[licensetocrane]

[Donnie will absolutely murder him if he actually does break Leo's heart, she thinks, but she'll keep that to herself. She doubts it's gonna be an issue. You guys both have the same sappy faces when talking about each other, y'know?]

Well, it's probably not necessary. I mean, I absolutely will kick your ass if you mess up my fam, but I get the strongest impression that that's not really you.

[She even says that pretty warmly. She likes you, Peter, but she's not above vague threats. Oh, this cupcake has choc bits, hello. Nom.]

[heyunderoos]

Oh, I figured. I was- kinda guessing the whole family would kick my ass. [He answers back with an uncertain kind of shrug back.] I'll mentally add you to the top of the list, though.

[He is very aware the tiniest people are the ones to be afraid of when push comes to shove. He learned that from his aunt specifically.]

[licensetocrane]

[Tiny people are scary. April leans into this wholeheartedly.]

That all being said... it's clear you guys like each other a whole lot. I'm not worried. Kinda wish I'd been around for more of it, though.

[heyunderoos]

Well, you're here now. [Peter offers back with a start of a smile.] So, you have a lot more time to tease both of us. [He already can guess April is going to mostly give Leo a hard time. Once Peter and April are more comfortable, it's a strong, maybe.]

And, whenever we're all going to the same world after all of this too. So, you'll be seeing a lot of us being all 'couple-y'.

[licensetocrane]

[Yeah, that's pretty much how it will go. She needs to get to know Peter better before she can roast him properly! But for now her first impressions are pretty good.]

Oh, I can't wait. [Dryly. But. That is the second time she's heard that particular idea. She frowns a little.] Leo said you'd be comin' home with us. What about your own world?

[Like, she's not opposed in the slightest. But don't you have a family?]

[heyunderoos]

[Peter's expression edges into something a little uncomfortable. He feels bad dropping this on April, given the conversation has been fairly light.] I'm- sort of dead there, actually. I don't know if going back would make it stick or... what.

I'm not really inclined to die forever yet, so, this feels like a good option?

1/2

[licensetocrane]

[Funny, she can almost hear Leo calling her rude

...oh. That wasn't where she intended to go with that, he was talking about his Aunt May earlier-- aaannd that's why he seemed sad about it. Shit. Fuck. Other less than PG-13 words.

For a moment, April does kind of stare back at him with a stricken look, because she is sorry, Peter. That sucks, and she didn't mean to walk into that land mine.]

[licensetocrane]

[Fine. Shoving aside all kinds of questions like how and why and can we kick the ass of whoever did it (always a favourite), April just. Sighs heavily. And then smiles cheerily at him.]

A damn fine option. Okay, so our New York it is. Do we know how to get you back there? [This feels like a Donnie project. Does Donnie know? It's been a year, Donnie totally knows.]

[heyunderoos]

[Its almost like a gagtag was here.... almost.]

Uh, sorry, for dropping that on you. [an apology feels warranted, at least to some degree.]

Donnie and I are gathering information about hub worlds like this. I'm letting him take charge of it, since... he's pretty intense at times when he's wrapped up in a project. [That feels like a nice way to summarize things.]

[licensetocrane]

Boy, do not apologise for dying. [Finger point.] That's shitty as hell, I'm sorry for you havin' to bring it up.

And good. [She goes back to eating her cupcake.] If anyone can work it out, it's Donnie. Our New York is pretty cool. You can try the creepy pizza for yourself.

[heyunderoos]

It's still kind of a mood and conversation killer. [He is aware of that much.] Also, you know, heavy to drop on someone like this.

I look forward to trying the creepy pizza, or avoiding it maybe trying to eat me. Depends on what it's like anyway.

[licensetocrane]

Better that than having to dance around the subject with me for months on end. [She smiles.]

I wonder if there are any major differences between our New Yorks. Like... we've both had alien invasions from completely different aliens. Wonder if the Big Apple is just lucky like that.

[heyunderoos]

I guess that is true. It's- really not a topic that's great to dance around.

There are superheroes in my world, but, as far as I know, no mutants? [Damn it, MCU.] Or it could just be a New York thing for sure. New York just kind of attracts the weirdest stuff.

[licensetocrane]

New York do be like that, it's true.

[Superheroes, huh.]

...by any chance, does your New York have a spider guy and some older dude in a nanotech suit?

[lol]

[heyunderoos]

New York gotta New York.

[Play it cool, Peter.]

Yeah, Iron man and Spider-Man. There are a lot of other superheroes too.

[licensetocrane]

Man, that's gotta be chaotic. I've met both of them here, they seem pretty cool. Not what I expected superheroes to be, but that's growing up on cartoons for ya. [Grin.]

[heyunderoos]

[Peter huffs a little in amusement at that, loosening up a bit further.] Chaotic is, right honestly. Superheroes always kinda make stuff chaotic, but cool.

[The fact he's a bit of a superhero fanboy starts to become obvious as he continues.]

The first big alien invasion was stopped by the Avengers, which was Iron Man, Captain America, whose here too- and Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor and Hulk. I was like, maybe eleven when all of that happened.

[licensetocrane]

Hmm. [They coulda done with some superheroes for their own invasion. The guys were more than up to scratch, but maybe they wouldn't have got so hurt.] Why is he called Iron Man when that suit is absolutely not iron?

Oh, and who came first? Black Widow or Spider-Man? [Sounds like a copyright issue, man.

...did he mean Thor as in the Norse god? Nah, probably just someone riffing on the name.]

cw: terrorism mention (I guess??), captivity

[heyunderoos]

I think he made his original suit out of iron. He was like held captive in a cave by a terrorist cell since they wanted him to make them weaponry. [Perfectly normal thing to drop in a conversation.]

Technically Black Widow, but I think Spider-Man is pretty cool. Black Widow is like a super spy, and I'd rather not like offend her or anything.

[licensetocrane]

[Blink.]

Should I just stop asking questions about where you're from, or...

[YOUR HOME IS FULL OF MINEFIELDS]

[heyunderoos]

Oh- uh, no, sorry. [Immediately apologetic.] It's just kind of like that-? A lot of times, but not everything is bad. I mean. Norse gods are real, and kind of cute. At least Thor is?

[Very helpful save.]

[licensetocrane]

Oh, I heard about Thor. Something about people trying to lift his hammer?

[heyunderoos]

Were they-? [Unfortunately for April, Peter was not at the party this took place at.] ...Did Mr. Stark tell you that? He knows Thor. I really don't. I've seen him on TV before though.

[licensetocrane]

[That's okay, at this point in the timeline she didn't expect you to be.]

Apparently he tried lifting it with his power armour and everything. Cheating! But yeah, he told me Loki was here, so we talked about Thor a bit.

[heyunderoos]

Thor seems really cool, my only beef with him is how he changed physics classes with his hammer. [He feels like if anyone is going to get the pain of high school suffering, its April.]

The whole physics class I was in had to get rewritten like four times to account for his hammer, and how it works. I had to re-do assignments, it was terrible.