Nightshift 32: Main Hallway, 1-Center

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[From here.]He was close now

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It looked like he would be getting the opportunity to meet the mysterious Logan at some point. In spite of the fact it had been a long time since he and Peter lived together, Harry couldn't help thinking of this guy as his replacement. He hoped he could be civil when he met Logan long enough to find a legitimate reason to dislike the man. But, he forcefully reminded himself, if Peter thought of him as a friend, then Harry had better get along with him or learn to pretend to, as once Peter had made up his mind about a person it was almost impossible to change it. God knows he'd tried enough times where Spiderman was concerned, even if that was a special case.

Harry was honestly surprised to hear that Peter hadn't been outside yet. He'd expected that Peter would have been over every inch of this place if he seriously wanted to find a way out of here. "Why haven't you gone outside? Is it that difficult to get out there?" A sudden thought occurred to him, "Wait, how long have you been here?" If Peter hadn't been here much longer than him then it might make sense he hadn't been everywhere yet. It did seem like the institute was pretty big. A through search of the kind Peter would be most likely undertake would take a while to complete.

Either way, Peter hadn't been outside yet, didn't think it was a bad idea to go out there, and had told him which direction to go. When Peter felt the need to warn him about the sun room he almost asked him just which one of them had saved the others life not once, but twice. But, then he'd get that awful, wounded look of Peter's, the one that made Harry want to do anything to get rid of it, be it introducing him to a famous scientist he respected or buying him some new piece of technology he'd never be able to afford on his own.

He settled for calling back cockily "Sure thing, Spidey. Why don't you watch my back?" as he headed towards the oh-so-terrible sun room. He was determined to show Peter he was just as capable as the bug at this sort of thing. He might be half blind but he was far from being a liability. Even in a place like this, where the biggest threat seemed to be the lack of light.

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"About a week?" Peter guessed. It was long enough that he was starting to get more than a little antsy, but at least he had his bearings to an extent. This specific situation just proved that he needed to get his hands on some of the maps he had seen being passed around, but that could be a project left until the next day.

"I just haven't gotten around to it," he explained. He caught Harry's implication, of course, but the fact of the matter was that it wasn't easy to cover much ground each night when there were battles to be fought every step of the way. In any case, there was no better time than the present to see what there was out there, even though his hopes weren't too high.

Though when Harry started for the sun room without a sliver of hesitation, Peter fought the urge to call after him before ditching that idea and instead just making sure to follow closely. There was bound to be something in there, and they would just have to face it together.

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