[ He spots her near immediately. Which, he knows, was probably her intention – if she wanted to be out of sight, she could be. And she would be. And she has been, for the past few weeks.
(He tries not to begrudge her the time she needed to process all of that. But Peter has always had a selfish streak, so there's a part of him – an admittedly very silly and childish part of him – that wonders, Couldn't she have worked through all of that with me?)
There's no hiding the way the tension drops away from his frame when he approaches, and relief is the immediately identifiable quality in his expression. Everything else is a confused mishmash.
He's smiling, though, when he's within speaking distance, small though it may be. ]
Hey, yourself.
[ A pause, but before the silence can tread into awkward territory, ]
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(He tries not to begrudge her the time she needed to process all of that. But Peter has always had a selfish streak, so there's a part of him – an admittedly very silly and childish part of him – that wonders, Couldn't she have worked through all of that with me?)
There's no hiding the way the tension drops away from his frame when he approaches, and relief is the immediately identifiable quality in his expression. Everything else is a confused mishmash.
He's smiling, though, when he's within speaking distance, small though it may be. ]
Hey, yourself.
[ A pause, but before the silence can tread into awkward territory, ]
How've you been?