[ It's been a weird couple of months for Harry. He's met sentient alien helicopters and Asgardian gods. He's met versions of his dad and his best friend from other worlds where things were so very, very different. And yet the one thing that should be the same, the version of his best friend that he knows, has been avoiding him entirely since that chance encounter in the lobby when he first arrived. It hurt, sure, but Harry steeled himself against that hurt and pressed on without Peter, doing his best to ignore the fact he was being ignored.
So when he sees the caller ID come up reading PETER PARKER, his first assumption is that it's the other one, the teenager. The one who actually gives him the time of day. But it's clear from just those two words that it's not. It's the other Peter. His Peter.
He doesn't know what to say. A part of him wants to yell and swear and call Peter out for blowing him off so spectacularly. He'd earned that, hadn't he? But a bigger part of him, the part that has learned to shove dangerous emotions deep down into that dark place where no one can find them, and no one can use them against Harry, decides not to give himself the satisfaction of yelling. That part of him doesn't want Peter to know how much he was hurt by the dismissal.
So, after what is probably too long of a pause, and the sound of Harry swallowing awkwardly, there comes a ] ...Hey.
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So when he sees the caller ID come up reading PETER PARKER, his first assumption is that it's the other one, the teenager. The one who actually gives him the time of day. But it's clear from just those two words that it's not. It's the other Peter. His Peter.
He doesn't know what to say. A part of him wants to yell and swear and call Peter out for blowing him off so spectacularly. He'd earned that, hadn't he? But a bigger part of him, the part that has learned to shove dangerous emotions deep down into that dark place where no one can find them, and no one can use them against Harry, decides not to give himself the satisfaction of yelling. That part of him doesn't want Peter to know how much he was hurt by the dismissal.
So, after what is probably too long of a pause, and the sound of Harry swallowing awkwardly, there comes a ] ...Hey.