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[getemtiger]

With so little to do most of the time, sitting around the hut waiting for Peter to get back from work was nothing too out of the ordinary, and nothing she particularly minded, either. Normally, though, that involved him coming home around sunset, and sunset had long since passed, leaving Mary Jane to do nothing but sit around, continuing to wait

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[daretodo]

It's a been a long day. An old newspaper tipped me off to the date when I was doing an extra bit of research before heading home for the night, which meant taking a prolonged detour on the beach to mull it all over. One year I've been stuck on this piece of rock, and while there've definitely been highlights, the fact that I have to wheel myself through the door is enough of a downside to put the experience as a whole in a negative light, and make me long for the days when forty-eight hours spent unconscious would be enough to get me back on my feet, if still a little sore

[getemtiger]

Instinct more than anything else prompted Mary Jane to ease closer once Peter was beside her, eyelids slowly fluttering open after his lips met her forehead. Getting any kind of deep sleep, she suspected, would have been an impossibility when she had drifted off so unintentionally, wanting only to make sure he got back, and still half-asleep or not, she was aware almost immediately of how relieved she was to have him there. Whatever else was going on, at least this wasn't such a big deal that it prevented him from returning to her.

"Pete," she murmured, her voice a little hoarse from having been asleep, lilting up into a question almost like she wasn't sure if it was actually him. She didn't wait for a response, though, before the corners of her mouth pulled up into a smile, small and tired but mostly just affectionate. It didn't matter that he'd been gone now that he was here with her again. In retrospect, she wasn't even sure why she'd worried so much. "You're home."

[daretodo]

"Shh, go back to sleep," I say, not having meant to wake her. Adorable's not a word that sees much use in my vocabulary, but there's no other way to describe the way she looks right now, warm and sweet and making me feel like a real heel for having kept her up in the first place. "I'm right here."

[getemtiger]

"No, no, no," Mary Jane was quick to protest, shaking her head, still visibly a little out of it, but growing more aware by the second. She had spent too long waiting for him to be able to just roll over and go right back to sleep now. Propping herself up a little more, she rested one hand on his arm, as if the contact would be enough to keep him from insisting that she not stay awake. "It's fine. I didn't mean to fall asleep, anyway."