[ She knows the first song (she remembers him telling her to look for it, the very first time she listened to his Zune). The others sound... romantic, sweet in a way she has no concept of. She wonders if his Gamora liked those songs so much because she connected to them. She wonders if his Gamora knew the love and warmth carried in those lyrics personally.
She must have.
It's so wildly disconcerting to think that Gamora – in some universe, in some way – had all of these experiences. The Gamora of this world had found such a loyal family, had fallen in love, had seen the universe through the eyes of a free woman.
Gamora, in the here and now, worries that means she might not get the chance. This isn't her own time or her own life, and she feels like she's been dropped into the empty slot left behind by a version of herself that's already lived a life more full than she could have dreamed.
Does she feel jealous? Cheated? Or does she feel vulnerable and exposed in an environment where her insecurities and fears have already been shared, whether she wanted them to be or not?
It's complicated.
She looks over at Peter properly with that little slip, that change in pronoun.
no subject
She must have.
It's so wildly disconcerting to think that Gamora – in some universe, in some way – had all of these experiences. The Gamora of this world had found such a loyal family, had fallen in love, had seen the universe through the eyes of a free woman.
Gamora, in the here and now, worries that means she might not get the chance. This isn't her own time or her own life, and she feels like she's been dropped into the empty slot left behind by a version of herself that's already lived a life more full than she could have dreamed.
Does she feel jealous? Cheated? Or does she feel vulnerable and exposed in an environment where her insecurities and fears have already been shared, whether she wanted them to be or not?
It's complicated.
She looks over at Peter properly with that little slip, that change in pronoun.
"You." ]
Play that one next.