[ they’re going to talk - really, they are. penny just needs a bit of time first, because while ‘love’ might be a four letter word, it’s not exactly a bad one. it’s just that there’s a whole red-and-blue-and-wall-climby part of penny’s life that sansa doesn’t know about. and maybe, maybe she can handle not telling her, keep her safe and secure, but then the idea of getting caught twists her gut, because sansa’s one of the best things in her life, and penny really, really doesn’t want to fuck it up, and -
it all makes her head hurt, in a way that only going on patrol helps. being spider-girl is different from being penny parker: she gets to (metaphorically) stand a bit taller, sass off more often. good break from being herself, from stressing about papers and relationships and her girlfriend. it’s not avoidance if she’s doing something useful. like if the louis vuitton store on 5th ave gets some real shady characters with masks and guns stroll inside.
penny’s closer than the police are by a longshot, and she slips in through one of the third-floor window. she can hear the commotion downstairs: boots on the polished marble floors, registers opened, the leader explaining that nobody needs to get hurt, just toss your wallets and valuables in the bag.
she crawls, sticking to the ceiling of the main showroom, and looks down. ]
[ It's not the first time that Penny has just straight up stopped texting her for a day or two. Sansa's girlfriend can be really busy but she always turns up, complaining about her internship and apologizing for leaving her on read. It's fine. It's usually fine. But this time it feels different. Is it ever a good sign when you bring up the word love to your girlfriend, admit you had been planning a romantic evening, and then she says that you two should talk and then stops talking to you? Sure Penny had said they'd been "okay", but what did that even mean anyway?
Sansa has to get her mind off it. Normally she'd go shopping with Margaery, or Jeyne, or her mother, but she knows all of them will ask about her and Penny and she doesn't even know what to say at this point. Honestly, she's so down she hasn't even bought anything when the masked men come in. Sansa is a bit panicked - who wouldn't be? - but her parents taught all of them that in situations like this it was best to just give the bad guys what they want. Things could be replaced, their lives couldn't.
But she forgets about her bracelet. The one she wears almost every day, the diamond one that was her first "grown-up" gift from her father. It's far from the most expensive thing she owns, but the sentimental value is worth far more. When one of the men grabs her wrist and tells her to take it off, rich girl, her face goes hot and red. Even through a mask she can tell when a man's leering at her. ] I'm- I'm sorry-
[ She tries to pull her hand back in order to remove the bracelet but the man has a tight grip and seems to want to do it himself. Sansa prays he'll stop there. They already have her purse and her wallet, but will they also want to humiliate her? ]
[ penny’s doing another visual sweep - counting goons, planning her attack - when she hears the voice. it’s not loud, just a hurried, panicked apology, but it cuts through the uneasy din and straight to penny’s ears. ] Sansa? [ it’s said quietly, not nearly loud enough that anybody’ll hear her, but penny flinches the moment she says it. not good to give away her position, less good to give hints to her identity.
but somebody tormenting her girlfriend (even if it’s penny’s girlfriend, not spider-girl’s girlfriend) just stings. she lowers herself down on some webbing, ten feet above them in time for the asshole to take the bracelet off of sansa’s wrist. but sansa jerks her wrist back, so the necklace goes flying up into the air -
spider-girl catches it easily. ] Hey. [ she makes a show of looking over the bracelet, then down at sansa and the robber. ] Finder’s keepers, right? [ she falls like a thunderbolt, contorting herself she straddles the robber’s shoulders with her thighs - thanks for the lesson, nat - and slams him into the ground. ]
Catch!
[ jewelry tossed up to sansa and in a smooth motion, penny shoots two webs to the opposing wall and pulls, dragging herself - and the guy under her - across the floor. ]
[ It's a scary moment. Sansa just didn't want that man's hands on her for a second longer, but now her bracelet is going to fall and probably break considering her luck today- and then it doesn't. She's never really thought much about Spider-Girl. Arya and Rickon are fans, and Bran seems to be doing one of his weird projects about her, but superheroes in general? Just not her thing, except for Black Widow. What a style icon.
That being said, she is very grateful to Spider-Girl for saving her bracelet and... kind of amazed with the move with her legs and the robber's neck. Listen, there's no harm in looking. Penny had even said she enjoyed how thirsty Sansa got over girls.
The fight seems to last a while (and despite everyone allegedly handing over their valuables, there are a few people in the crowd who still have phones to film it all) but maybe it's just normal for an Avenger. Eventually, though, all the bad guys are webbed up and there's even a round of applause. Well, Sansa had gone shopping to distract herself... and it worked almost too well.
After she gets her purse and wallet back, Sansa waits for Spider-Girl to finish up taking selfies with some kids before approaching. ....Wow, she's shorter than she thought. Doesn't really stop her from blushing. ] Hi. Um, I just wanted to thank you for the bracelet. And for taking down that creep.
[ (punch to the head, run up a wall, blackflip, snatch a gun out of a guy’s hand.)
she’s not quite as talkative as she sometimes is, leaping and spinning around criminals. seeing sansa here’s knocked her off guard, a crossover between her two lives that penny really doesn’t know how to deal with.
(crouched to vertical jump to uppercut - they never see it coming from somebody as short as she is.)
even if the wisecracks and disses she’d come up with have all slipped from her mind, penny’s at least able to keep herself focused enough to take care of the robbers. she doesn’t glance back at sansa, she doesn’t showboat for her, barely even thinks about her, save for when she used a pair of stilettos to get a guy in the neck, singing a line of “boots were made for walking” in a pretty terrible nancy sinatra impression.
and then, before she realizes it, she’s done. webbing people has become so automatic that she has to pause once the fight’s over to do a headcount: two dangling from the stairs, one against the wall, two on the floor, one around a display case.
she’s straightening up from flashing a peace sign into a ten-year-old’s phone when she sees sansa standing in front of her. oh, bad bad bad. ]
Oh! All in a day’s work. [ that doesn’t sound too personal, does it? ] Uh, Ma’am. [ better???
spider-girl tilts her head. ] He didn’t hurt you, did he?
[ Ma'am? Is Spider-Girl.... younger than she looks? Is she weirdly polite? Does Sansa look old? There's confusion on her face, but she brushes it away. She shouldn't be rude to someone who's just rescued her. ] No, no, I'm fine. A little shaken up, but...
[ She shrugs. ] I should probably be asking you. Not that you look injured! Just, you know, since you were fighting. That was a really cool move, with the stilettos.
[ Sansa's just trying to give a nice compliment, but that, as so many things over the last two days have, reminds her of Penny and her jokes about how Sansa had too many shoes. She sneaks a look at her phone again. Nothing. Of course. Why would there be anything? She probably scared Penny off. ...Or she's busy doing Penny things. Both options seem possible right now.
Then she realizes that she's just been staring pensively at her phone and Spider-Girl is still standing right there. Bad manners, Sansa! ] Sorry. [ Well, while she has her phone out... ] Um, could I actually get a picture too? My siblings are fans.
[ As she fumbles with her phone, Spider-Girl should be able to see the lock screen. Nothing scandalous there, just a picture of a laughing brunette who clearly didn't know the photo was being taken, but gave Sansa permission to make it her lock screen anyway. ]
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Date: 2020-10-12 12:07 am (UTC)but thatd be cool? its not literally captain america but i thought itd be fun!!
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Date: 2020-10-12 12:45 am (UTC)by which i mean it's a little quirky and different but in a way that i love.
[ record scratch. love???? ]
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Date: 2020-10-12 12:59 am (UTC)back up there a sec
thats
thats a four letter word
[ even if it's one that makes her stomach flip upside-down, and something tighten inside of her. ]
get ready 1/???
Date: 2020-10-12 01:29 am (UTC)oh my god
penny
penny i'm so sorry
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Date: 2020-10-12 01:32 am (UTC)i was going to bribe everyone out of the apartment
and light candles
and get a nice dinner
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Date: 2020-10-12 01:33 am (UTC)okay she's done
Date: 2020-10-12 01:33 am (UTC)bc it is a four letter word
a really important one.
Re: okay she's done
Date: 2020-10-12 02:17 am (UTC)it is!!
and its a good one!!
but
[ oh god what is she going to do. ]
maybe one we should
talk about?
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Date: 2020-10-12 02:54 am (UTC)yeah uh you can call me
or come over
whatever! when you're free.
[ sansa will likely not be able to sleep or eat until that moment, but... that's just ehr. ]
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Date: 2020-10-12 03:13 am (UTC)yeah sure
[ there's a brief pause. ]
we're okay!!!
just so you know!!
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Date: 2020-10-12 12:34 pm (UTC)[ still kind of panicked, though. ]
again, so sorry
i didn't mean to freak you out
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Date: 2020-10-13 03:00 am (UTC)it all makes her head hurt, in a way that only going on patrol helps. being spider-girl is different from being penny parker: she gets to (metaphorically) stand a bit taller, sass off more often. good break from being herself, from stressing about papers and relationships and her girlfriend. it’s not avoidance if she’s doing something useful. like if the louis vuitton store on 5th ave gets some real shady characters with masks and guns stroll inside.
penny’s closer than the police are by a longshot, and she slips in through one of the third-floor window. she can hear the commotion downstairs: boots on the polished marble floors, registers opened, the leader explaining that nobody needs to get hurt, just toss your wallets and valuables in the bag.
she crawls, sticking to the ceiling of the main showroom, and looks down. ]
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Date: 2020-10-13 11:53 am (UTC)Sansa has to get her mind off it. Normally she'd go shopping with Margaery, or Jeyne, or her mother, but she knows all of them will ask about her and Penny and she doesn't even know what to say at this point. Honestly, she's so down she hasn't even bought anything when the masked men come in. Sansa is a bit panicked - who wouldn't be? - but her parents taught all of them that in situations like this it was best to just give the bad guys what they want. Things could be replaced, their lives couldn't.
But she forgets about her bracelet. The one she wears almost every day, the diamond one that was her first "grown-up" gift from her father. It's far from the most expensive thing she owns, but the sentimental value is worth far more. When one of the men grabs her wrist and tells her to take it off, rich girl, her face goes hot and red. Even through a mask she can tell when a man's leering at her. ] I'm- I'm sorry-
[ She tries to pull her hand back in order to remove the bracelet but the man has a tight grip and seems to want to do it himself. Sansa prays he'll stop there. They already have her purse and her wallet, but will they also want to humiliate her? ]
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Date: 2020-10-13 05:30 pm (UTC)but somebody tormenting her girlfriend (even if it’s penny’s girlfriend, not spider-girl’s girlfriend) just stings. she lowers herself down on some webbing, ten feet above them in time for the asshole to take the bracelet off of sansa’s wrist. but sansa jerks her wrist back, so the necklace goes flying up into the air -
spider-girl catches it easily. ] Hey. [ she makes a show of looking over the bracelet, then down at sansa and the robber. ] Finder’s keepers, right? [ she falls like a thunderbolt, contorting herself she straddles the robber’s shoulders with her thighs - thanks for the lesson, nat - and slams him into the ground. ]
Catch!
[ jewelry tossed up to sansa and in a smooth motion, penny shoots two webs to the opposing wall and pulls, dragging herself - and the guy under her - across the floor. ]
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Date: 2020-10-13 08:45 pm (UTC)That being said, she is very grateful to Spider-Girl for saving her bracelet and... kind of amazed with the move with her legs and the robber's neck. Listen, there's no harm in looking. Penny had even said she enjoyed how thirsty Sansa got over girls.
The fight seems to last a while (and despite everyone allegedly handing over their valuables, there are a few people in the crowd who still have phones to film it all) but maybe it's just normal for an Avenger. Eventually, though, all the bad guys are webbed up and there's even a round of applause. Well, Sansa had gone shopping to distract herself... and it worked almost too well.
After she gets her purse and wallet back, Sansa waits for Spider-Girl to finish up taking selfies with some kids before approaching. ....Wow, she's shorter than she thought. Doesn't really stop her from blushing. ] Hi. Um, I just wanted to thank you for the bracelet. And for taking down that creep.
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Date: 2020-10-15 10:05 pm (UTC)she’s not quite as talkative as she sometimes is, leaping and spinning around criminals. seeing sansa here’s knocked her off guard, a crossover between her two lives that penny really doesn’t know how to deal with.
(crouched to vertical jump to uppercut - they never see it coming from somebody as short as she is.)
even if the wisecracks and disses she’d come up with have all slipped from her mind, penny’s at least able to keep herself focused enough to take care of the robbers. she doesn’t glance back at sansa, she doesn’t showboat for her, barely even thinks about her, save for when she used a pair of stilettos to get a guy in the neck, singing a line of “boots were made for walking” in a pretty terrible nancy sinatra impression.
and then, before she realizes it, she’s done. webbing people has become so automatic that she has to pause once the fight’s over to do a headcount: two dangling from the stairs, one against the wall, two on the floor, one around a display case.
she’s straightening up from flashing a peace sign into a ten-year-old’s phone when she sees sansa standing in front of her. oh, bad bad bad. ]
Oh! All in a day’s work. [ that doesn’t sound too personal, does it? ] Uh, Ma’am. [ better???
spider-girl tilts her head. ] He didn’t hurt you, did he?
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Date: 2020-10-16 02:53 am (UTC)[ She shrugs. ] I should probably be asking you. Not that you look injured! Just, you know, since you were fighting. That was a really cool move, with the stilettos.
[ Sansa's just trying to give a nice compliment, but that, as so many things over the last two days have, reminds her of Penny and her jokes about how Sansa had too many shoes. She sneaks a look at her phone again. Nothing. Of course. Why would there be anything? She probably scared Penny off. ...Or she's busy doing Penny things. Both options seem possible right now.
Then she realizes that she's just been staring pensively at her phone and Spider-Girl is still standing right there. Bad manners, Sansa! ] Sorry. [ Well, while she has her phone out... ] Um, could I actually get a picture too? My siblings are fans.
[ As she fumbles with her phone, Spider-Girl should be able to see the lock screen. Nothing scandalous there, just a picture of a laughing brunette who clearly didn't know the photo was being taken, but gave Sansa permission to make it her lock screen anyway. ]