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peter "line cook energy" maximoff ([personal profile] punctually) wrote2024-06-05 08:53 am

inbox. (abraxas)


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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-20 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
( the familiarity is easy enough, and comfortable, now.

wanda reaches to push him away a little more, because it doesn't seem like peter has a real sense of how much is dangerous and how much isn't. she doesn't mind, though, the company that his presence offers.

she does a raise a brow at the question. )


Feeling like you could brew a potion or two?

( she's teasing, and will continue to do so unless he brings it up. wanda is not about to admit to anything. )
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-21 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
( he wriggles his fingers, and wonders if he's taken that from the times he's seen her using her powers. she snorts, then hands him the wooden spoon she's been using. )

Keep stirring it at a normal speed for a minute. I think that'll make the cinnamon and caramel mix.

( and now she stands, a little at a loss of what happens next in the soda making process. )

We're making the Coke for Carmy. I've never done it before, but I think caramel and cinnamon are a place to start.

( maybe? )
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-21 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing happened.

( she was being an ass to peter in specific, but she wasn't just about to deny carmy of having coke if that's something that he really wants. besides— )

He's taking requests from everyone, and that's got to be tiring. Sure, he's a cook, but it's not like it makes it any easier.

( defensive, much?

anyway, she sits down on her haunches, hugging her knees, and watching as the concoction emulsifies as peter stirs it. )


Carbonated water isn't a problem.
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-21 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
( wanda stokes the fire with a branch, counting down the seconds before peter needs to stop stirring. except that countdown gets interrupted by, what feels to her, a really stupid question.

she looks up at him with a scrunch of her face. )


I'm not being touchy. ( she is ) He's a likable guy. He made you Twinkies.
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-21 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
( it's a crime, now, to have a friend? she knows them maximoffs don't have the best track record at being, well, friendly. but is this interrogation necessary? )

What?

( she snaps her head at the question.

it's such an annoying, brother thing to ask. )


I'm in a relationship. I don't care about Carmy that way. ( how dare peter— she sniffs, the caramel is burning. ) Look, the caramel's ruined now.

( it's both their faults. )
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-22 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
( a handle which is, thankfully, made of wood, so he won't be burning his palm. wanda huffs, standing up and following behind him and guiding him to place it down on a pile of stones.

the concoction is sticky, but smells horrible, burnt as it is. )


It's fine. We'll just have to start over.

( wanda moves to the side to grab a bucket of water to dump into the cauldron. )
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-23 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
( it takes wanda a moment to pick up what peter's putting down, more intent instead on getting the caramel syrup thing they're going for right, rather than having it get burnt again.

if they set their minds to it, surely they'll manage—

she looks up at peter after pouring the measured amounts of sugar into the cauldron. )


Why are you so interested in this?

( part of her thinks: this is none of his business. )

—it is Matt.
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-23 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
( with every new ounce of conversation they have, it feels like they step into some brand new territory with a million minefields they are both not adept enough to navigate.

and yet she hates hearing him apologize so much.

maybe this is one of those hurdles they are never meant to really push past.

wanda grabs at the wooden spoon, and starts circling it around in the sugar, initially, letting it all spread out in as thin a layer as possible. )


He's a lawyer from Hell's Kitchen in New York. I like him a lot. ( she's kind of listing things... ) You should talk to him some time. He said he'll look for a chance to get to know you.

( she hands him the spoon to hold. there. )
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-09-23 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
( it's strange, to feel like the older sister when she's always been the youngest of the two. wanda doesn't think she's the most intelligent nor the most emotionally stable, but it shows—to her—that she has allowed herself for more growth in ways that peter is still working on.

she moves to take a seat on the steps that lead up to the back door of her shop, watching over the cooking situation from here.

wanda doesn't know how exactly to move this conversation forward, but... )


I'd like it for you and him to be familiar with each other.

( if he were to look up at her, she'd shrug. all the things he needs to hear about who they both are to one another, she's said before. it would feel insulting to have to repeat it. )

He isn't the best influence, though, but if you're just yourself around him— ( well. she scrunches her nose. ) It wouldn't be so bad, would it?
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-10-03 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't be so cynical.

( she knows that that's how he deals with things, putting himself down when maybe he shouldn't, in trying to see where (if at all) he fits in. it must be strange, especially when he is a version of the brother she was born with, the brother everyone else knows and likely compares peter with.

wanda makes a face at him. )


You are a lot more alike to Pietro than you think. ( —peter had seen him, the ghost of her brother, in the horizon— ) I would have told him exactly the same thing about Matt if he was here.
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-10-06 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
( peter tends to catch her off-guard in so many ways, and wanda constantly finds herself uncertain about whether she is telling him the right things or just what the two of them want to hear, in order to 'keep the peace' with these very strange circumstances of being siblings, worlds apart, but found anew in abraxas.

but, especially now, wanda hates making comparisons between the two. pietro was pietro, and will always be his own person; peter is just different, the circumstances of his life dictating why he isn't as hardened in ways that pietro had to quickly become. and, truth be told, wanda wouldn't want peter to ever go through the things she and her brother went through, growing up.

she sits back against the steps, feeling the hard line press against the small of her back, thoughtful about his questions. )


...I'm actually not sure. ( and it feels like a disservice to pretend that she would know. ) I never dated anyone seriously when we were in Sokovia. He was the one with all the girlfriends, and he made a mess of that, sometimes, too.

( meaning, wanda was the one hassling her brother for his actions. he never had to worry about her wanting to be in a relationship. )

There were a few boys I hung out with in secret from him, but the only real relationship I had was when I was in America.

( after he had already died. quietly, she says, shrugging her shoulders, )

I don't know what he'd say, but— you should do what you want. You have sisters, don't you?
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-10-30 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
( it's strange to think that peter would have a sister he isn't a twin to. just how different are the maximoffs within the multiverse, and how come she is as close to a twin to him, when they're both so separate from each other? )

You've changed diapers?

( she almost sounds surprised, like it's hard to believe. )

Willingly?

( maybe wanda has an incorrect idea of him. )
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[personal profile] carmesi 2024-10-30 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not.

( (she is.)

called out, her brow cinches and she looks down, busying herself with the hem of her skirt that seems to be stitched all wrong from one of her attempts at sewing late at night when she couldn't sleep.

maybe this, too, is one way of broaching a difficult subject for her, )


I've changed diapers, too.