USC, New Residence Hall, Room 421, Sunday Late Evening

[swerval_zero]

Zero was sitting on her bed, glaring at her notebook as if this would make a page full of doodles and half-completed thoughts produce film-making genius for her essay.

...yeah, she had nothing. Good thing it wasn't due until Wednesday!

She was also starting to wonder when the frak they turned the air conditioning on in these dorms, because it was getting rather warm, and her little fan was not cutting it. Maybe she should open a window. Spring. Who needed it? Aside from the plants. And animals. And...she was getting off track again. "Focus, Hopeless-Savage," she muttered to herself. Like that was going to happen.

((Open for [coy]one who knows who he is[/coy].))

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[swerval_zero]

Yes, because Zero totally was going to have issues with her swerval boyfriend being a swerval superhero. As if. "You probably should learn to drive. We can get a place reasonably high up," she mused, "but it's not like New York, everythin's a lot more spread out here, an' we can just tell Janine our room's off-limits an' you can go in an' out through there an' there shouldn't really be any problem. Or," she waved one hand. "Props and things. Special effects. We're film majors, she'll just be hella jealous. Oh oh can I be your sidekick?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I can get around without driving," Peter said again. The thought of himself behind the wheel of a car scared him more than Otto Octavius cloning himself. "As for the sidekick thing, no. Not at first, at least. If you want to get in on the whole superhero thing, you're going to need to train for it. And in a way that's much less stupid than the way I did. Let me tell you, throwing yourself at guys with guns and hoping they don't hit isn't the best way of preparing yourself for the whole deal."

[swerval_zero]

"I have my doubts about whether you can get around without drivin', but you're welcome to try," Zero told him with a shrug. "An' I already did that bit. Before I met you."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"You trained to be a superhero, wandering the streets in the middle of the night, looking for bank robbers to beat up?" Peter asked.

[swerval_zero]

"No, I tracked down and beat up skinheads with guns who had my parents. And then I tangled with secret police and gangsters in Hong Kong." Granted, she'd had help and the second time had pretty much been Arsenal's show, but still. It totally counted!

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"And that's why it's not a flat-out no and an argument to follow," Peter said. "Look, I... I'm not so good with teams. So I'm going to need some adjustment time for actually working with someone."

No way in hell was Peter about to mention the fact that he did at least have some partnering experience with Kitty Pryde, who was at that point an experienced superhero and that's the only reason it worked as well as it did.

"And full-time superheroing's a different animal anyway. It's constant. You might have fought skinheads and the mafia for specific reasons, but this is seeking them out, looking to take them down because they're out there, somewhere, everyday. Between that and issues that might spring up with secret identities... It takes a toll on you physically, mentally, it can completely uproot your life and school. I just want to make sure you're completely game for it before we go the whole way and make it a duo. I want you to be better prepared than I was."