Okay, Peter looks immediately suspicious, if only because-- this is seriously out of the blue. Peter doesn't get gifts, not for no reason anyway. There's always a hitch. There's a quickly added, and by the way...
That, and he doesn't miss the way she looks -- how ragged and tired, worn around the edges she appears. He doesn't miss the way she awkwardly pulls the guitar off with one hand, when she could've easily used two.
Peter was raised to be a paranoid bastard, and he puts it to good use when it matters.
He takes the guitar if only so she doesn't have to keep holding it out to him, but he rests its base on the ground, holds it by its neck so it doesn't fall over. She provided him an explanation, sure, but rather than make him feel better? It just sets off a shitton more warning bells.
There are a lot of alarms going off, is what we're saying. A whole fucking lot. It's like all the banks in a tri-state area are being robbed in unison.
His eyes are still narrowed, his brows knitting together, and when he speaks, his voice is stern as fucking hell. His rarely used Star-Lord voice. ]
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Okay, Peter looks immediately suspicious, if only because-- this is seriously out of the blue. Peter doesn't get gifts, not for no reason anyway. There's always a hitch. There's a quickly added, and by the way...
That, and he doesn't miss the way she looks -- how ragged and tired, worn around the edges she appears. He doesn't miss the way she awkwardly pulls the guitar off with one hand, when she could've easily used two.
Peter was raised to be a paranoid bastard, and he puts it to good use when it matters.
He takes the guitar if only so she doesn't have to keep holding it out to him, but he rests its base on the ground, holds it by its neck so it doesn't fall over. She provided him an explanation, sure, but rather than make him feel better? It just sets off a shitton more warning bells.
There are a lot of alarms going off, is what we're saying. A whole fucking lot. It's like all the banks in a tri-state area are being robbed in unison.
His eyes are still narrowed, his brows knitting together, and when he speaks, his voice is stern as fucking hell. His rarely used Star-Lord voice. ]
Rosie. Tell me what's wrong.