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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 14:19:03 GMT -5
Dan stared down at the spot where just a few weeks earlier Ben Parker had been murdered. He never had Rorschach's eyes for these kinds of things and so much time had passed that the street cleaners and the business owners had cleaned up 99% of what had been there; but he was there, nonetheless.
The truth was he was meeting Peter there, it had been his decision, and Dan was worried for his young friend. He'd gone by their place to talk to May and to give his condolences and she'd mentioned not seeing Peter except for dinner since Ben's death. Dan had managed to get a hold of him after a couple days of calling, but their conversation was short and without their usual banter. He'd seen enough death and enough friends being killed that he understood what it meant to be traumatized.
He leaned against a parking meter and looked down at his watch.
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 14:21:26 GMT -5
"People who habitually watch the clock are usually known to exhibit paranoid or anxious behaviors" Peter hitched up his back pack as he saw Mr. Dreiberg looking at his watch.
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 14:22:09 GMT -5
"Thankfully I'm all of those" he smiled "how ya holdin up?" Let's just get that out of the way.
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 14:48:31 GMT -5
"Best as I can I suppose? I did watch my uncle get murdered by a psychopath" He shrugged, looking more than a little nonchalant.
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 14:48:51 GMT -5
"Hey kid I didn't mean it like-"
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 15:03:50 GMT -5
"No I know, I know, sorry just had a rough day at school" he'd taken a week off of school after the murder to try and grieve properly but instead he distracted himself with inventing wrist mounted devices that expelled super sticky material; it was taking everything he had not to call them webslingers. He rolled his neck and sighed "It's been a hard, I mean you saw Aunt May right?"
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 16:06:32 GMT -5
"Yea" the woman he'd seen was not the May he'd known, she was frail and pale, with hands that shook like she was sitting above her own personal earthquake; Ben's death had taken the life from her and Dan didn't know how to help other than to listen. "She uh, she need you Peter, you know that right? She doesn't have any one else but you."
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 16:20:12 GMT -5
"I know" he slumped "I know it's just, I'm-" working on becoming a costumed super hero "-just really busy and I guess I haven't made time for her."
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 16:23:25 GMT -5
"Make time" he smiled "family is more important than whatever you've got going on right now."
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 16:24:52 GMT -5
"Yea" he looked up at Mr. Dreiberg and smiled "I'll try."
It was odd being back here, it all felt so surreal. He thought maybe being back there might stir up some more memories, more details, but all it did was make him angry.
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 16:25:45 GMT -5
"Why did you want to meet here?"
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 16:26:46 GMT -5
Damn read minds much? Wait what if he does and he's reading my mind right now while I'm thinking about reading my mind? "I just thought, maybe being here would stir something up you know? Like maybe I'll remember something else."
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 16:47:45 GMT -5
"Emotions can cloud memories the harder you focus the worse off you'll be, you're more likely to remember things laying in bed at night relaxing than forcing your brain to remember something it doesn't want to." This was something he knew all too well "So let's do something better, let's get some caffeine and load up on sugar."
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Post by Peter Parker on Dec 7, 2015 16:48:47 GMT -5
"That's pretty smart" he replied as they started walking "must be why you have all those PhD's."
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Post by Daniel Dreiberg on Dec 7, 2015 16:53:45 GMT -5
"Sure" he laughed "they just hand em out don't you know? All I did was come in read from the thesaurus, bow and boom, doctor."
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