Dorm Courtyard, Tuesday evening

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter sat under a tree, reading a Ratguy & Sparrow, the Boy Marvel trade paperback. This was the classic storyline where the fans actually called an 800 number to vote for Sparrow's death. Comic fans were demented in the 80's.

Mainly he was just enjoying the evening. It was so peaceful out here...

[OOC: Here for someone in particular to ruin that peace, but open.]

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[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"PARKER!" Kawalsky yelled. It probably wasn't the best idea to announce his presence if he wanted to beat the hell out of his opponent, but he was more interested in a confrontation than anything else. He ran towards Peter when he saw him and was ready to grab him and slam him up against a wall if he could get close enough.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

As if the yelling wasn't indication enough, Peter could feel a familiar tingle in the back of his neck to alert him of Kawalsky's charge. He flipped up from his position on the ground so that he was clinging high up on the tree trunk, out of grabbing range.

"What's up, Chuck?" Peter asked.

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"What's up?" Kawalsky asked incredulously. "How's about your 'little' prank. You think that's *funny*?" He tried to find a way up the tree, too angry to just stand still.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter was confused and stayed where he was. One look at Kawalsky indicated that Greg hadn't jumped the gun on the prank they had discussed. "Settle down, Charlene. I have no clue what you're talking about."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I prank you, you prank me. That's how it goes. The Charlene thing? That was funny. I can go with that." He was failing miserably to get up the tree and it was only fuelling his anger. "But this time went too far, pal. If you're tough enough to pull that stunt, how's about you come down here and we settle this on equal ground."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter sighed and jumped to the ground. "I don't know what stunt you're talking about, but if you want to make yourself look silly, I can't stop you."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"You seriously think this is still nothing?" He went to grab Peter.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter stepped quickly to his left, dodging Kawalsky's grab. "Oh, it's obviously something. There was a prank that touched a nerve. That's not nothing."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"A nerve?" He was still a little pissed. "Yeah, I guess you could say that." Kawalsky tried to grab him again.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Peter said, ducking under Kawalsky's grab this time, "if you'd tell me what nerve was touched we could settle this in a more civil way."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Now K was getting somewhat embarassed that he kept missing. He needed to cool down, so he took a step back. "The nerve that went all tingly when you put those snakes in my room!" he barked. Maybe not so much with the cooling down.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Somebody put snakes in your room?" Peter asked. "Look, Charlie, that's not my style. I wouldn't even know where to find snakes."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky was ready to bite back, but that wasn't the response he was expecting. He stopped mid-way through saying something. "Well if it wasn't you, who was it?" A completely reasonable question in his mind even though he was asking it to the wrong person. "You know it was me that did your room last night. Who else would retaliate? Shorty?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Greg has revenge in mind but he's a chemist, not a biologist," Peter said. "If you want to take some swings at me to work off whatever, you know, feel free. But you should know that if you do you're going to look like a schmuck for a couple of reasons."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Darn reason. Darn it to heck! "What reasons?" he asked with a surly expression. Now he wasn't so much angry at Peter as confused, a little sulky and a tad hungry.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Reason one: You'll be attacking the wrong person and you're going to feel silly when that fully sinks in," Peter said, counting off on his fingers. "Reason two: superpowers."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I don't have-" Kawalsky started, then shut up. "Oh. You? I knew there was that weird sticky stuff when you stuck my bed to the ceiling, but I thought that was a geek thing."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Dude. I just flipped into that tree and stayed upside down without actually holding onto anything," Peter said. "Most people can't do that."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky paused. He had a point. "I thought maybe you were a really good gymnast and didn't want to give you a hard time about it, okay?" Sometimes Charles Kawalsky was not the most attentive person in the world.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Nope. Superpowers," Peter said. "Are we good? No more potential violence?"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"You sure you didn't put snakes in my room or tell anyone to or know who did it or have anything to do with it?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"When I get my revenge, it'll be nerdy and inconvenient. This is way past my line," Peter said. "I have no clue who would put snakes in somebody's room, though. If I find out anything, I'll let you know."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky was now calm. Sort of. He was as calm as he could be considering there were live snakes in his room.

"Okay." He believed Peter. "Then I'm sorry for attacking you."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem, you're freaked out, it's understandable," Peter said. "Just be glad I'm rational and tough to hit."

"Um, sorry if this is a stupid question, but did you get the snakes out?"

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky coughed. "I was going to ask the janitor to do it."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I could help get them out if you want. I can web them up and put them... well, somewhere pretty quickly," Peter said. "At the very least, it'll be easier for the janitor to transport them."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Kawalsky blinked, then nodded. "Yeah. Uh, please. The sooner they're gone, well...yeah."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem. I just have to grab my webs from my room and we're set," Peter said. "Let's go."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky nodded and followed Peter, but not before glancing around at the courtyard. If Peter hadn't put the snakes in his room, then someone else had. Someone with a pretty sick sense of humor. Someone who was going to get a mouthful when he found out.

Now if only he could figure out who that someone was.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter walked through purposefully, only stopping long enough to hail Peter and ask, "Have you seen Nadia?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Walter," Peter said. "Haven't seen her around today, no. Is everything okay?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shook his head. "No. There may be someone in town looking for her. If any strangers ask after her, could you call me?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Of course," Peter said. "I'll keep a look out for anything weird." Anything more weird than what he had already seen, that is.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Thank you." Walter gave him a tight smile and continued on into the dorms.