Takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep truckin' on.

[notyourfathersosborn]

WHO: Normie Osborn (notyourfathersosborn) and Peter Parker (shutterbugged)
WHERE: Peter's house
WHEN: December 5th
WHAT: While talking to Peter, Normie mentions how hard it is to live in a place with constantly revolving roommates, so Peter suggests they move in together. Then Normie accidentally reveals he's been partners with the (formerly) Venom symbiote the entire time.
WARNINGS: None? Will update if needed.

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[shutterbugged]

Stop me if I'm being nosy, but is this from the Porter, or something you had before?

[ He is curious, but tries to give off the vibe that he won't push. Which he won't. ]

You are correct, that is a yes. Should be cleaned up in there but if you find something of Flash's that I forgot, just give me a yell.

[ Flash has been gone for, what, almost a year now? Hard to believe he's left that room empty so long. ]

[notyourfathersosborn]

I haven't taken the Goblin formula, if that's what you're implying. Even when I was crazy I knew better to mess with that stuff.

[After all, the only person he knows of that took it and walked away unscathed is Phil. He wasn't about to take that chance, ESPECIALLY given his family history.]

I can't believe I missed Flash. Man, there's someone I hadn't seen in years. May had, though. He was her basketball coach. Heard lots of stories about his daughter, too.

[He still feels bad for Felicity, even if he's glad she did finally stop.]

[shutterbugged]

I'm... profoundly relieved to hear it.

[ Really, does he need to say anything more? They both know the human toll that formula's taken, and not just on the Osborns themselves. ]

Coaching, huh? Good for him... mine works for the VA now, I think. I'm not really clear on the details, but it keeps him busy.

[ Lies lies lies lies lies. Still, what could he say? That Flash is a government-certified superhero, bonded to the Venom symbiote of all things? Even if it wouldn't be breaking confidences, it's pretty unbelievable even by their standards.

Peter pops out into the hallway to grab a box or three of Normie's things and carry them in. ]

But wait, hold the phone. Flash has a daughter? [ He laughs. ] You've gotta tell me about this. What's her name? What's she like? Who'd he delude into shacking up with him?

[notyourfathersosborn]

I wanted to avenge my family, not wind up like them. And now that I'm not that crazy? I want even less to do with it.

[He wonders if he should mention he technically did take a dip against his will in something that may or may not have been the goblin formula thanks to Elan, but it's been months since that day, and nothing's changed. No, no reason to worry him. It wasn't actually the goblin formula. It didn't work.]

The VA, huh? I could see that. He served in the army, right? Man, that was before I was born.

[Now that he's placed the desk haphazardly in his room, he takes one of the boxes from Peter and puts it on top.]

Two kids, actually, Eugene and Felicity. Those are really all questions from May, since that's who I've heard these stories from. She goes to Midtown with her, but she's a Freshman. I think his son goes there too, but she's never mentioned him so I'm not certain. Going back to Felicity, though, from what May's told me, she's got a lot of her mother in her, with her dad's stubborn streak.

Her mom's Felicia Hardy. She and Flash were married for years. Eugene's actually around May's age.

[shutterbugged]

After you were born, too. He signed up for another tour a few years ago. It, uh, didn't go as well. [ Which is to say that he was inspired to sign up again by Spider-Man's example, then paid worse for it than Spidey ever has, ans Peter's not going to forget no matter how many times Flash tells him -- either him -- that he shouldn't feel guilty about it. ] But he's back safe, and that's what matters.

[ Eager to dodge the obvious question, Peter hooks the desk chair next to the door with his ankle, deposits the last box on the seat, and slides it over next to the desk. ]

I can't believe he saddled another generation of Thompsons with a Eugene, though! He hates that name. Or that Felicia and Flash stuck it out long enough to have a couple of kids. They weren't together very long in my universe.

[notyourfathersosborn]

I don't think that was the case in my universe. Funny how things are so different in some ways yet completely the same in others...

[Goes to get another box.]

The younger Eugene goes by Gene, which admittedly is a much less awful name. And did Felicia and... oh whatshername... Crap, I can't remember it. Her partner get together sooner in your universe?

...Or is this another "completely different" thing?

[shutterbugged]

[ Peter blows out a breath. ]

Whew. Uh, I can't help you there. I've met a few of Felicia's boyfriends, but emphasis on the boy. We usually live pretty separate lives, though, so I couldn't tell you whether that's deliberate or coincidence or, like you said... "completely different."

[ Strange that something like that could be completely different, but even with all his vaunted imPort experience he's hardly a multiverse expert. ]

[notyourfathersosborn]

Yeah, well... That's kind of what ended Flash and Felicia's marriage. Hm... the more I think about it, when they came over to get legal advice from Franklin was the last time I really saw them.

You all kind of drifted apart as you got older and had kids.

[As he goes to pick up a box, he knocks over Peter's lamp with his butt. He quite nimbly puts the box down, spins, and grabs the lamp before it falls.]

That was almost bad.