Hopeless-Savage-Parker Apartment, New York, Saturday

[swerval_zero]

It was a lazy day in New York, and Zero was debating what to do with herself now that she'd finished all of her summer classes. She kind of wanted ice cream, but that would require working up the energy to actually leave the apartment, and right now lazing on the couch and messing around with, variously, her cell phone and her guitar seemed to be about her speed for the day.

Her life was so fascinating, really.

((Open to phone calls, texts, e-mails, and that dude that lives in the apartment.))

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Somewhere south of the Antibes, a phone was dialed.

*riiiing*

[swerval_zero]

"Hopeless-Savage-Parker House of No Ice Cream, make it cold and sweet," Zero said in greeting.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Mint chocolate chip or butter pecan?" Parker inquired, grinning and leaning against the mast of the boat. "I can even get you lavender sent special delivery, off the internet."

[swerval_zero]

"I could get whatever I wanted if I could be arsed to put on pants and leave the apartment," Zero said. "Sadly, I cannot. Maybe I'll make Peter go get me ice cream. What's the swoo?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Orange blossom ice cream from L.A. it is, then." Parker grinned, and leaned back. "We're somewhere in the Caribbean. Heading for Tortuga. Possibly burying treasure somewhere, if we can find a convenient atoll.... Jarod, of course, being the one to dig a hole for it."

Caaaaasually sliding that into the conversation. Yes.

[swerval_zero]

"Well, of course," Zero said, because she knew Parker so well by now. "You might ruin your nails."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker cackled at that commentary, and sipped her iced tea. "Exactly. Plus I don't want to get more sunburned. And he looks good with his shirt off." She hummed. "There was a thing in Fandom, a couple weeks ago, did you make it back for that, and I miss seeing you there?"

[swerval_zero]

"No," Zero said. "There was a thing? I totally missed it. What happened?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Welll..." On the one hand, yay for missing it? She hoped. "Uh. People came back from the dead. Relatives, and so on."

[swerval_zero]

"Oh," Zero said. "Awkward." She was fortunate enough to be free of a tragic past, but she knew that many of her classmates were not so lucky.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"For many people, yeah. I-- got to see Mom." She took another sip of her drink. "And it was actually... really nice. I brought her up to speed on the last eleven years."

[swerval_zero]

"Oh. Well, um..." Zero, she of many words, many of which were not real enough, really didn't know what to say here. "Um, good?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Good," Parker confirmed, slightly amused. "And I'm glad you didn't have a reason to be there... so how are things in your new, alternate universe? Any new disasters?"

[swerval_zero]

"Don't say these things, you'll jinx it," Zero said. "Mostly we've had a lot of heat. And, you know, ongoing disaster cleanup and the usual superheroics. And supervillainics." Zero didn't care if that wasn't a word. "Did I mention the heat? Because: the heat."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Don't you guys have air-conditioning?" asked she who had an air-conditioned catamaran headed for the equator.

[swerval_zero]

"We do," Zero said. "But sometimes we have to go outside."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Why would you do that?" Parker wondered, amazed. And grinned into the phone. "How's the boyfriend-thing?"

[swerval_zero]

"Because classes don't take themselves," Zero sighed. "I think he's tryin' to fix his costume right now, or sumfin."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"More villainating, you said." Look, if Zero could make up words entirely, Parker could just mangle them a bit. "How are the plans for establishing yourself as a filmmaker there going now?"

[swerval_zero]

"...we're not talking about that right now," Zero decreed. "Things have been...slow."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker winced, and said, "Music? Or is it all hot New York and classes, all the time right now?"

[swerval_zero]

Zero had a sneaking suspicion it was the 'not already quasi-famous' factor, but she wasn't sharing that. "I dunno. I blame the heat."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Enh. Could happen," Parker said, philosophically. "You up for shopping and getting kicked out of somewhere in the next month?"

[swerval_zero]

"Yeah, sure," Zero agreed. "Where d'you wanna go?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm. Somewhere decadent. Ridiculous. I have a new gold card to break in... Not Las Vegas. Too much heat. Not the Bahamas." They never had the shoes she liked. "...Rodeo Drive? God knows they're picky enough to try to throw us out."

[swerval_zero]

"Certainly me, at least," Zero said, sounding proud of this fact. "Rodeo Drive it is!"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter walked into the living room with his Spidey pants, some spare blue spandex, a needle and thread, and a resigned look on his face.

"Bad guys only rip up my mask or the backseat of my pants. I don't understand this," Peter mused randomly.

[swerval_zero]

"Mebbe you need stronger fabric," Zero suggested from her lounging position.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Have any suggestions?" Peter asked. "But nothing the might squeak. I've got to be stealthy sometimes."

[swerval_zero]

Zero wore mainly cotton and leather, but she said, "I could look into it."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"This is yet another reason why you're the best ever," Peter said. "I'm actually keeping a list of those reasons and will be making a tumblr listing them any day now."

[swerval_zero]

"And here I just write songs," Zero said with a grin. "Alternately, you could get me ice cream."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I'm dedicated to helping people, so I can't in good conscience say no to that," Peter said with a grin. "What kind do you want?"

[swerval_zero]

"The kind that is ice cream," Zero declared. "You could surprise me."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I can't help but think of that as a challenge," Peter said. "Are you sure you don't want to come with? I'll be going the speedy Spidey way. It always makes people in the shop happy to see a superhero standing in line."

"I will be wearing actual pants, though. I don't want to give everyone a show."

[swerval_zero]

"I appreciate your putting on actual pants," Zero said, grinning at him. "But I don't feel like putting on actual pants. That is the problem. And it is fully a challenge." She paused, then said, "Nothing with fish. That's just wrong."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Should I get anything for Fish," Peter asked, thinking himself to be oh so clever.

[swerval_zero]

"Iunno. I have no idea if birds can eat dairy," Zero admitted. "Am I a bad pet owner?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so," Peter said. "It's not really something that comes up usually."

"Okay, ice cream for the people, seed for the bird? Back in a few?"

[swerval_zero]

"You are the best boyfriend ever," Zero informed him. "Or, actually, maybe I should withhold judgment until you get back with the ice cream."