WHO: May Parker and anyone involved in the Spider-baby sitting adventures.
WHERE: In and around her apartment in the MAC
WHEN: This week
WARNINGS: Corruption of the youth?
SUMMARY: Spider-babysitting is go! Jess, May, and Pat try to survive the hordes of the damned young. Start your own subthreads!
FORMAT: Para to start, then whatever.
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Like you imagined when you were young. )
How did her life come to this. It wasn't bad enough that she was getting weird deja vu adventures already regarding time traveling and having seen this before or something? (God, she wasn't even... whatever.) But now, this? Honestly, she wasn't even sure what to do except for watch the little kids and she definitely didn't like the idea that she was sitting in this apartment out of costume (those sunglasses sure did help though!) trying to finish her homework. (That, she was serious about.)
Oh, look, the movie was over. Well, it was probably too much to hope that Bambi would subside them forever. Maybe she can just stick in Donnie Darko and they'll stay put.
Or give them nightmares. Whichever. At least Patrick and May were around to make up for her incompetence.
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He turned to Jessica, pouting slightly at her. Whatever she was doing was leaps and bounds more interesting than the garbage on television. "Julia, you said we could play outside!"
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Oh, dammit. Her thoughts were interrupted by Matt and she chewed on the eraser of her pencil for a moment before replying, eyes still glued to the notebook in her lap. God, she still couldn't get over how different this kid was from his adult self, so needy. What was with that?
"We will, but not right now. Gotta wait until May gets back, okay?" She said after a moment, scribbling in some numbers and then turning the page.
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Now, however, he was being very quiet. Mostly because he'd been hiding in the bathroom ever since -- well. There was a reason Ben and May had never taped Bambi on their VCR, that was for sure.
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But that was kind of a wussy thing to think about, so he forced the thought down and hopped off the sofa to explore May's place.
"Who's in the bathroom?" He knocked loudly. "Open up!"
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However, she didn't even notice the credits were rolling until Matt started walking off and she was forced to glance up, gaze following where he was moving. And... of course, Peter was gone. But it didn't take a genius to figure out where he went, considering Matt was knocking on the closed bathroom door. She sighed and put down her notebook, getting to her feet and following after the kid.
"Is Peter in there? Peter, are you in there?"
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Then after Jessica called, much louder, "Go away!"
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He swung around to the hall and hung onto the doorway as he saw Matt pounding on the door. "What's going on?"
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Jessica jerked her head back (as per norm at this point) when Hank dropped into the area. That child was such a literal monkey. She chewed on her lower lip for a moment, staring at the closed door. This was a serious problem. Especially with his response to her and she was starting to get seriously worried. She must have said something or...
Oh, shit. Bambi.
She hadn't even been thinking when she put that movie in. And with Peter's age... Crap. Crap, crap, crap. "Matt, move over a little." She nudged the red-headed boy to the side, pressing her hand against the door.
"Peter, please come out. Don't you want to play?"
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"Peter, you should come view this toaster with me! It's particularly marvelous! You can assimilate me as I idealify the components!"
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"Uh..."
Did that kind of stuff actually work?
"Yeah, sure. I guess that's a good idea." She paused, straightening up and scooted around Hank again, leaning over him a little to keep her mouth close to the door so Peter could hear her clearly. "Well, if you're gonna stay in there, Peter. Matt and I are gonna play ninjas and Hank is gonna play with his toaster. So you have fun with the toilet, okay?"
Wow. She really hoped he wouldn't remember this when things got back to normal.
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That's okay. Ninjas are dumb.
[ Peter doesn't think ninjas are dumb. He thinks ninjas are awesome! But right now he doesn't want to play ninjas, he wants Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Or at least to know that they're coming back. ]
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Well, what do you think isn't dumb, Peter? We could put that concept into action instead!
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