showtime, a-holes

[danceoffs]

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you know what to do

(potential spoiler warning for vol 2, enter at your own risk i'm not ur mom)

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text; pretending they're in a game with their crushes

[inthespring]

Hey, Peter. So you love Gamora right?

i'm so glad for this

[danceoffs]

[dude. who's been going around talking about stuff like this without him knowing about it? mantis, is the automatic answer his brain supplies him, it's probably mantis, which... he can't be mad at her at all, because the fact that she's still learning boundaries about certain things isn't her fault.

but — they're gonna have a serious talk in the not too distant future.]

Well yeah I mean we're friends

You love your friends that's totally a thing you do unless you're a complete dick who doesn't love your friends

In which case why are you even friends you know??

[subtlety thy name is not peter quill.]

GOOD me too

[inthespring]

'You love your friends' 'We're just really good friends' 'Gamora's just part of my crew'. You're not great at lying, are you?

[Totally snickering. He sends another text after that one.]

Listen, it's okay. I'm in love with Katniss. I just don't mention it a lot because it's complicated. I was just wondering how you deal with it.

[:D]

[danceoffs]

[you know, he used to get that from yondu a lot, usually in the form of "can't lie for shit, can ya, boy?", followed by the ten-thousandth threat about eating him. a lot of that would happen in the process of "bailing [his] ungrateful ass out" after a night in jail, which he can admit resulted from getting cornered and some officer seeing right through him more often than not. he can also admit that his attempts to weave stories that people haven't quite bought have landed him in a hell of a lot of tough spots well past his teenage years.

yeah, he's never been that great at lying.

not that he's going to give up all his ground here. but:]

Look I'm not saying if you're right or not

Because you know what you could be so incredibly wrong you don't even know and you could just make yourself look so stupid

[sure.]

But hey say you actually are right and I do know a little something about this I could hypothetically tell you that even if it can feel like you're carrying around a lot of stuff all the time and you just wanna say something

Saying something she's not ready to hear is about the last way you should deal with it

Also if you're planning some big romantic gesture like the guy in the TV show always does you might wanna keep it to yourself for a while

[inthespring]

[He takes a bit to reply.]

Yes, thank you. I'd hate to look stupid.

[c: But he actually pays attention to what he says.]

Huh. That's good advice. Though I think that ship already sailed. Getting myself hit/cut/punched/almost killed for her probably tipped her off. And if not, I'm guessing me saying my crush was with me when there was only her around, on television during an interview, probably helped.

So do I back off?

[danceoffs]

[um.

...

dude.]

Ok so that actually wasn't what I had in mind like at all I mean literally AT ALL but I'm pretty sure all of that still counts as a "big romantic gesture"

So basically take everything you just said and do the opposite

[inthespring]

So I should punch her and force her to confess her feelings about me on television?

[Stifling his laughter right now.]