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[wolf_blood]

If you're calling me, you should already know whose phone this is. Leave a voicemail and I probably won't call you back. Text me and I might answer!

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[whateveraspidercan]

The dorm wouldn’t be home for me anyway. You’re home for me.

[Overly sappy and stupid? Yes probably. It did help explain why he didn’t want to try to live in the dorms though, it would just feel frustrated and alien. He was pretty sure he’d be much happier and healthier living with Arya.]

[wolf_blood]

[Overly sappy, sure. Stupid she would argue with. The important part, though, was that it was sincere, and she never doubted he was sincere when he was being sappy.]

I know what you mean.

[whateveraspidercan]

So yeah. Let's plan on living together.

[Peter knew he'd probably face a little resistance from Aunt May. Not that she didn't adore Arya but she'd be worried that Peter was missing out. She'd also know that she wouldn't be able to change his mind though.]

[wolf_blood]

Alright. We'll start looking after graduation?

[She hadn't expected this conversation this morning, but it was a nicer way of being fully woken up very quickly then she had expected. She sat up and leaned back against the headboard, smiling down at him and starting to comb her things through his sleep messy hair.]

[whateveraspidercan]

Sure. I guess. I don't know much about finding places to live. Or anything.

[But that was alright, they'd figure it out together. No doubt Aunt May would want to help them look at places and probably Arya's parents and at least one older sibling.]

Are we going to talk about last night though?

[wolf_blood]

We will be swimming in advice and other people's opinions, I promise. Part and parcel of the big family. Plus, the internet. We'll figure it out.

[She had assumed they would end up talking about it - whether or not she wanted to, she could not say - after that bit of good news, but that phrasing made her feel a little defensive. Like that 'though' implied she had been trying to stay away from the subject, even though she was sure that wasn't how he meant it.]

I wasn't trying to avoid it.

[whateveraspidercan]

I know. I just... wasn't sure if you wanted or needed to. But I wanted to say I was sorry again. In person. I should have just listened. I'm sorry and I'll try not to do it again.

[Because Peter knew that it was his fault. He was the one that went over to Jeyne's. He was the one that was oblivious. He was the one that had tried to tell her how to act with her sister. It was just him all the way down and he wanted her to know he was sorry and it wouldn't happen again.]

[wolf_blood]

[That made more sense, and she deflated some.]

I don't know if I want to or need to talk about it either. I know you didn't want or mean for any of this to happen like this. I know you're sorry. I don't like thinking I gave you something else to feel guilty about.

[whateveraspidercan]

Okay. And I'll just say... it was a good reminder and a good realization of what I need to do in the future. Like... I felt bad about the mistake but I knew you'd forgive me. So if you're good about it I'm good about it.

[It probably said something that the most recurring "argument" they had was over Arya and Sansa's relationship. It was a good reminder that he just did not get sibling dynamics at all.]

[wolf_blood]

I will be good about it? I don't know if I am yet but I think probably a better sleep would... finish it. It helps that you came over. A lot. And I'm glad you knew I'd forgive you.

[whateveraspidercan]

Is that your way of saying you want to go back to bed?

[Because Peter was all for letting Arya get back to sleep if that’s what she wanted.]

[wolf_blood]

I don't know, maybe? I definitely don't want to get OUT of bed. I know it's a good thing that both of us wanted to be in the same place while this was happening but fuck, it sucked while we weren't.

[She shifted, fidgeting with the blanket some, because she very much wanted to be done talking about this but there was still one... concern lingering. Fear might be a better word.]

Is it... Last time, this time, do you... do you really think that I'm being unreasonable or an asshole or - whatever?

[Because the awful thing, the fear, was that if Peter thought that - Peter, who definitely thought she was kinder than anybody else thought she was and all around a better person than anybody else thought she was - then, simply, it was true. And if it was true... then it had probably always been true and that greatly shifted her view of their childhood issues.]

[whateveraspidercan]

Okay we'll stay in bed then.

[Peter gave her a little squeeze to reassure her that he wasn't going anywhere either.]

No I don't think you are being an asshole or unreasonable. I think...

[He paused a moment to think it over. He knew she wasn't being an asshole or unreasonable, he wanted that 100% clear. What he did think though, without knowing everything, that was a bit trickier.]

I think that what's happened in the past has made it hard for you to think Sansa is being altruistic. I think she is but it's easy for me to think that because I don't have the same past with her as you do. Hopefully you two can work to rebuild that trust but I think it's understandable that it's not to that point yet.

[wolf_blood]

Okay. Okay.

[Arya nodded, and then, finally able to completely exhale, to really relax - that thought had weighed on her worse than any of the rest of it, because that she couldn't even try to talk herself out of - she snuggled back down in the bed.]

Then yes, I just want to stay in bed.

[whateveraspidercan]

[Peter could feel her relax and he hugged her a bit closer for that. He didn't like that she'd thought maybe that was true.]

Then that's the plan. I'm just going to cling on to you here.

[wolf_blood]

[She was very okay - relieved even - when he hugged her closer, and tightened her grip on him in response, closing her eyes.]

I like when you cling to me here.

[whateveraspidercan]

Just think someday soon we're going to be clinging in our own place.

[He was sure that he'd have a mild anxiety or panic attack over all the details when the time came but right now it was nice to imagine what it would be like.]

[wolf_blood]

I'm not wearing pants basically ever when we're in our place. You should know that ahead of time.

[That was alright. Arya was practiced enough now that even she herself was pretty sure she could talk him down when necessary, and even if she couldn't talk him down, she could do this exact clinging thing till it passed, and they'd be fine.]

[whateveraspidercan]

Duh, why do you think I’m so excited?

[Arya without pants was probably going to lead to a whole lot of sex. Actually just having their own place was probably going to lead to that.]

[wolf_blood]

Oh, please. I do not believe that's the only thing you're excited about. I don't even believe that's the TOP thing you're excited about.

['Probably' had no place in either of those sentences. Arya, for one, already had plans. They were generic, so far, since she had been expecting to have to wait considerably longer for them, but they existed.]

[whateveraspidercan]

I mean it’s definitely up there...

[And Arya not having pants would help facilitate some of the things that were on the top of his list.]

[wolf_blood]

Sure, I know that, but I don't think it's number one. Do you remember when I texted you saying the next time the family went away for vacation I was going to try and stay home so you could come over?

[whateveraspidercan]

Of course I remember that.

[wolf_blood]

You went all caps excited over getting to fall asleep next to me potentially for just a few nights, before we were a couple. There's no way that getting to do that basically every night - allowing for superhero overnight shifts - now that we are together is not at least in the top three.

[whateveraspidercan]

Okay yeah that is what I want so badly.

[Which was weird because he was only conscious for a short amount of it. Maybe it was just the idea of not having to leave her that he liked so much.]