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[meowminx]

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

Aretha Franklin.

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[meowminx]

Uh huh.

I assume this story's going somewhere, from what you said.

[phone call] 1/?

[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

_{[ You can hear him slap his forehead. ]}

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

It's going to sound like a stretch, but her song selection was something kind of...passionate, so, like a moron, I ended up asking her what made her pick the song she picked, and she told me, and I asked her what her admitting that meant, and --

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

You have to understand that I'm. Just. Very bad at interpersonal relationships, okay? I didn't know what to do when she hugged me and admitted that she still cared about me. I just. I froze, and she kept going on about how much Blackmask had ruined her life, and how none of her teammates understood what she was going through because they were all raised to be emotionless, and I just. I felt so bad for her.

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

She told me I was the only person she could relax around. That I was the only one she could connect with on a personal level, and that none of the Titans -- I told her not to worry about it. That everything would be alright. And. It. It just happened.

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what came over me. It just -- And you -- I know you're going to think less of me, and that I'm scum, and that I should've just. Been stronger, but I wasn't, and now -- _{Christ, Selina: what am I going to do? Nothing is going to make this right, and I don't have any excuse to make it better, and I betrayed everything that my marriage stood for by being weak, and --}

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

_{[ Have a low, frustrated scream. ]}

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[meowminx]

[Bit of a pause]

Wait, did you kiss her or sleep with her?

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

Former.

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[meowminx]

Plan to do it again?

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

I --

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

I don't -- I love Mary Jane, Selina. I--

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

--<sub>I miss my wife.

[ Have a rather small, pained groan ]</sub>

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[meowminx]

Peter, trust me. Everyone and their mother knows that.

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[meowminx]

And I do know what it's like to just... [a sigh] Find comfort or a constant or whatever you feel you need and just latch on. And it's so easy when it's a friend. A friend who...

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[meowminx]

But it's not worth it in the end. You're lucky if anything survives that.

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

_{I know.}

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[meowminx]

Then you know not to do that.

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

I'm not five, Selina. But -- what happens next?

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[meowminx]

Not so sure sometimes. And what do you mean by next?

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

I just can't -- she's my friend, Selina. What do I do the next time I see her?

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[meowminx]

Don't kiss her, for one thing.

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[bythreadalone.livejournal.com]

Har-de-har-har.

I'm being serious.

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[meowminx]

So was I.

It'll probably be horrible and awkward. And if you want to stay friends, you deal with it.