[ That intensity in the way she watches him hasn't diminished much, but she isn't glaring at him or acting openly hostile – or attempting to throttle him – so that could be taken as a good sign. She lets him squeak out his answer, lets him try to process everything, but she offers a small nod at his question. ]
I'm fine.
[ Which, fortunately, sounds more level and calm than dismissive. ]
I am... disappointed.
[ Not by the situation itself or the fact that they'd gotten so physical, but— ]
I wanted to have our discussion before anything like this happened.
[ Before it happened – not to prevent it from happening. That's probably the important distinction here: she wanted them to come to an understanding about what this... even is and what they both wanted to avoid doing nothing more than giving into their hormones and tumbling into bed together. She highly doubts they would have gone through with it before dealing with that big, daunting (metaphorical) Terran elephant in the room, so she'd largely assumed they would get around to discussing this, sooner rather than later.
She doesn't want to pretend like it didn't happen, though, and she certainly doesn't want to brush it all aside to become part of that unspoken thing that they really need to speak about. They can't just let it fester or... more precisely, Gamora doesn't want to let it lie between them. If she wanted to ignore it, to act like it never happened and never would happen, she wouldn't be spending so many nights in Peter's bed; she wouldn't be so physically close to him, and she wouldn't be making so many allowances for the way she treats him.
There's a softness in her demeanor around Peter, in those quiet moments together, a sweetness that comes with him. Waking up next to him and running fingers through his hair, curling up against him to sleep and leaving sweet kisses on his shoulder, pressing their foreheads together and simply smiling – it's all for him, all gestures of emotion that she's never been able to express before, and never truly wanted to before Peter.
Too much time has passed, and that unspoken thing has hung between them for too long, and she's tired of it.
She wants him, but— she also needs to know what he needs. ]
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I'm fine.
[ Which, fortunately, sounds more level and calm than dismissive. ]
I am... disappointed.
[ Not by the situation itself or the fact that they'd gotten so physical, but— ]
I wanted to have our discussion before anything like this happened.
[ Before it happened – not to prevent it from happening. That's probably the important distinction here: she wanted them to come to an understanding about what this... even is and what they both wanted to avoid doing nothing more than giving into their hormones and tumbling into bed together. She highly doubts they would have gone through with it before dealing with that big, daunting (metaphorical) Terran elephant in the room, so she'd largely assumed they would get around to discussing this, sooner rather than later.
She doesn't want to pretend like it didn't happen, though, and she certainly doesn't want to brush it all aside to become part of that unspoken thing that they really need to speak about. They can't just let it fester or... more precisely, Gamora doesn't want to let it lie between them. If she wanted to ignore it, to act like it never happened and never would happen, she wouldn't be spending so many nights in Peter's bed; she wouldn't be so physically close to him, and she wouldn't be making so many allowances for the way she treats him.
There's a softness in her demeanor around Peter, in those quiet moments together, a sweetness that comes with him. Waking up next to him and running fingers through his hair, curling up against him to sleep and leaving sweet kisses on his shoulder, pressing their foreheads together and simply smiling – it's all for him, all gestures of emotion that she's never been able to express before, and never truly wanted to before Peter.
Too much time has passed, and that unspoken thing has hung between them for too long, and she's tired of it.
She wants him, but— she also needs to know what he needs. ]