Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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Dawn was hanging upside off one of the couches, reading. The television was showing reruns of CFD in the background, but Dawn wasn't really paying attention--the TMI-cam grossed her out.

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Dawn smiled. "Okay, so now you're thinking you need a good reason to get detention so your girlfriend feels more welcome? I have to meet her."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'm not planning on getting detention, but if it happens for some reason I want to make sure it's worth it," Peter said, smiling. "I think you two would get along really well for some reason."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"...you're not saying that because I got detention two weeks in a row, are you?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter thought about it and laughed. "You know, I actually didn't realize that you did. But that would be another reason for you to get along, I guess."

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Dawn grinned. "So, what's she like, other than familiar with detention?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"She's really creative. Her whole family is, actually, but her parents are musicians so that figures," Peter said. "Her family is punk, she changes hair color frequently, and she used to threaten people with overdue books from the library with a croquet mallet. None of that necessarily applies to you, but trust me, the personalities would mesh."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"...why a croquet mallet?" Dawn asked, because of course that was the most important part.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I honestly have no clue. It's from before I was even in Fandom. It's just a part of her recent past that I'm not going to question," Peter said, shrugging.

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"Okay." She'd ask Zero. It was always interesting to find out why people liked the weapons they did. "Wait, how long have you been in Fandom?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I just showed up for the spring semester. I wasn't here until January," Peter said. "Zero was here all the way back in the fall."

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"Was it weird, coming in halfway through the school year?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"'Weird' is such a relative term here," Peter said. "Nah, it was a pretty smooth transition. People here were friendly. Except I made the mistake of trying to hide my powers for a while. That didn't last long."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? What happened when you came clean?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much nothing, actually," Peter said. "People here didn't care. Well, okay, it did help with impressing certain girls. But other than that, nothing."

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"Huh." Dawn filed that away for future reference. "What made you decide to tell people?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, some people found out after an incident involving me being attacked by Crazy Hooker and the ninja in the park and I... didn't die," Peter said. "And then more people found out when I was fighting snow monsters with my bare hands. And it was mentioned on the radio. It was either come out or figure out a wildly bizarre and improbable lie that nobody would believe anyway."

"So, basically, I didn't decide to tell anyone. It just kind of happened."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"So...what can you do?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I'm a lot stronger, faster, and more agile than most people," Peter said. "Plus I can stick to walls. And I have a weapon thing that lets me shoot webbing. There's kind of an arachnid theme, you see."

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"Coooooool," Dawn breathed. "Were you born that way?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"No, there was an accident during a school field trip to a science lab," Peter said. "The powers surfaced a couple days later."

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"Okay, that's less cool," Dawn admitted. "Was it weird, getting used to them?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, the first couple days - before they kicked in - it looked like I was dying. Then one day, all of a sudden I can do anything and I don't need my glasses anymore," Peter said. "It was a radical adjustment that I really wish I had dealt with better at the time, but it was just such a change."

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"Sounds like my sister," Dawn remembered, although not really, "when she became a slayer, it was a split second thing. One minute she's a popular, air-headed cheerleader, the next she's a popular, air-headed cheerleader with an innate ability to sense vampires, prophetic dreams, and super strength. It...didn't go well."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"That sounds really familiar but from a slightly different direction. I went from an unpopular, smart geek to, well... I was a semi-popular jerk for a couple weeks, but... things changed back for the better after a little bit," Peter said. "And then I was an unpopular, smart geek who punched bank robbers regularly."

"It's weird how many similar people you can find around here."

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"Yeah," Dawn said, trying not to resent it. "Being normal's definitely not the thing to be here."