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WHAT Last chance for timefuck except not really
WHERE Wherever
WHEN Day 127, whenever

[So, you've been messing around with time.]

[Okay, we've actually been doing that, yeah. Quiet Mounds is still a bit unpredictable, with the seasons and the clocks a little haywire. Today, there's another little pulse of magic. Maybe some of you find yourself back to normal? Or maybe more people are suddenly the wrong age or timeline. Maybe Deadpool shows up. I don't know.]

[Last post for deage/age-up/etc event, though obviously you can continue to backthread or play at your leisure after this.]

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[ Peter is skeptical of that statement. ]

... What was it? Are you sick? Is normal you sick too?

It's just a bad reaction to magic. It's not "sick" really. And this is normal me.

[ He just looks over at baby Loki. Then looks back. ]

Yeah, no. Until everyone's back to normal, I'm not believing anyone is their correct age. You're older.

[oh my god, just laughs]

I'm just wearing a suit, Peter. But fine.

[ PETER DISBELEIVES ]

I've never seen you in a suit before! It makes you look like a supervillain.

Thanks, yeah, I kind of am one.

No you're not.

[sighs]

Kind of. Anyway, it's a long story, which I'm not going to tell you, because you're just going to tell me I'm wrong?

No! No, I'll listen. Judge you a little, but listen yes.

. . . I'm too tired for this right now. I have to go talk to Steve.

Yeah, uh. I bet he's freaking out about you coughing up like a gallon of blood.

I also failed to tell him a lot of stuff that Fiero blabbed about, so wish me luck.

Uh oh. You're going to sleep on a couch for, like, a year.

[he looks down, brushing his suit off, and just doesn't say anything, mouth drawn unhappily. despite usually being motor-mouth joker 24/7, he is apparently not finding any single part of this possible to work up a joke or sense of flippancy for]

[ Ah. That. Peter flinches a bit, guiltily. He probably shouldn't have joked about it either. ]

If anyone can forgive you, though, it's Captain America.

It's Steve. And he deserves better because of that, not to be taken for granted.

Then why didn't you tell him ahead of time?

[. . . Peter please]

. . .

I was afraid. I was trying to forget. I . . . I don't know. A lot of excuses.

[ He's trying to help, he swears. ]

So it's heavy stuff. You didn't just hide it for no reason. He'll understand that too, right?

[he nods]

I'll tell him everything.

Right. So. That's the best you can do. And I think he's gonna understand that, yeah? Even if he's also pissed off right his second.

I don't even think he's mad. Maybe it'd be easier if he were.

Ohh man. Is he just disappointed? That's so much worse.

. . .

[hiccups a giggle, then starts to laugh]

What? It is! I had to watch a video of him being disappointed when I got detention, and that was bad enough.