Chapter 1
After a vicious mission, Hobie, Miles, Gwen, and Margo go over to Pavitr’s place. It’s quiet and tense, no one’s saying a thing. Pavitr starts to make some tea, Margo comes over and not just in her avatar form to cook and Gwen brings out the med kit.
Miles and Hobie are setting up the sleeping area since nobody’s gonna wanna explain why there are big gashes on their arms, legs, and faces, or why their suits are completely demolished
“It’s kinda upsetting none of us will ever get that high schooler experience..” Hobie says while sitting on the mats. “What like sneaking out and parting all night?” Miles says giggling a little.
“First, sit down. Your leg is real fucked up” Hobie says in monotony, “and I mean if that’s what a normal high schooler experience would be for you then, sure.”
“I think that’d only be for the white people Miles,” Gwen says opening the med-kit and laughing.
“Shut up Gwenzelle, we all thought you were white when we met you,” Miles says hissing as the alcohol pad touches his gash, “Miles I can just NOT disinfect your leg, I can just put the stitches in, and hope for the best,” Gwen says staring him down. “Sorry sorry!” He says apologizing quickly.
“Can someone help us!!” Margo says shouting from the kitchen. Hobie starts to get up and says “All I’m saying is we’re never gonna get a normal teenager experience which kinda sucks you know.” While walking away. “Ow! Gwen this hurts worse than the original wound!!” Miles whispers and yells trying not to be too loud.
After a few minutes, “Foods ready !“ Margo says bringing food out with Hobie and Pavitr behind them. When eating, no one says anything. It’s like an unspoken rule to not speak while eating after a mission. No one wants to talk about what they saw, or heard, or felt. Every time they tried to just ignore it and talk someone somehow brought it up so, it’s easier to just not converse.
As Gwen and Hobie put the dishes away, Margo, Pavitr, and Miles were just laying on each other and listening to Pavitr talk about Gayatri, P.Miles, AND Ganke. Miles and Margo had heard of poly relationships but they’d never expect P.Miles in one.
“What were you guys talking about while we were in the kitchen?” Margo asked.
“Oh, well Hobie was just saying how we’ll never get like a ‘teenage experience’” Miles said. “Well, yeah we’re spidermen/women! We don’t get that luxury, the only time we even get a “break” is if we’re off the grid or hurt” Then Pavitr started rambling about how the “break” policy set is super dumb.
“Wait, what break policy? I’ve never heard of that.” Miles says while sitting up. “You’ve never heard of it?” Margo chimes in, “Basically if you’re hurt or injured because of another universe threat you get this break, and a variant of you will pretend to be you.” She tried to explain
“Yeah but it’s not a break, Miguel just feels bad because he assigns everyone to help the universe! And it’s usually not a break, he just says that so it sounds nice! You’re just still hurt and need more time to heal.” Pavitr starts to rant on about, “A real break would be able to just chill alone with your friends doing whatever you need to do to decompress, then you come back refreshed and a better Spider-Man!“
“Or woman!” Gwen says while lying on Margo. “Hi babe,” Margo says while kissing Gwen’s forehead. “Margo, that's super nasty,” Hobie says, piling onto Miles and Pavitr. “Yeah,” Miles says giggling while kissing Hobie, “super nasty”
“Maybe you just hate sapphics!” Gwen said while laughing and cleaning her glasses.
“Guys..” Miles said in a mischievous tone “Oh god what is Miles, I swear if you say something dumb I’m going to report every out-of-code thing you’ve done to Miguel.” Gwen says in a mundane voice. “It’s not dumb!” Miles says defensively, “But what if we just take our watches off for a few days and go to a random universe and have fun?”
The room became quiet while everyone started to think about his proposal. It’s crazy but they do deserve it.
“Eh, why not, what’s the worst that’ll happen, Miguel kicks us out of the Spider Society?” Margo starts to say, “All of us have watched Hobie so we’ll stay in contact.”
The more they spoke about the whole idea, the more quiet Gwen got. It was like everything stopped for her and nobody noticed. Her chest started moving rapidly and her pupils became smaller and smaller.
As her eyes started watering, only Hobie and Margo noticed. They quickly got her up and ushered her away to Pavitr’s bedroom.
After around 20-30 minutes, Margo came out of the room to update Pavitr and Miles.
“I think we, Gwen especially, need this break.” She said while sighing heavily, “She was panicking over the last time she disobeyed –or went against Miguel. It’s very unhealthy and it’s not just her who gets uncomfortable and panicky around the topic of Miguel.”
Pavitr and Miles stopped and looked at each other. “All right then!” Pavitr exclaimed, “I guess we’re going on a vacation!”