Chapter 8
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So now that Spider-Man checks in with at least one person once every twenty-four hours there's some things he's come to discover a bunch of small tidbits about his neighbors.
Daredevil always wears a mask of some kind whenever he's outside of his own apartment. In fact, the guy washes his laundry in the community laundry room wearing just one of his many masks and a pair of shorts. And no one so much as blinks about it.
Which is good to know.
Peter has also taken up the same habit of washing clothes in the community laundry room wearing pajama pants and a comfy tee shirt along with his mask. He sometimes has to wash the mask too so he's taken up Daredevil's habit there too and sometimes comes out of his apartment wearing a masquerade mask or a toboggan he cut eye holes in so he can cover just the top half of his face or one memorable time he wore a paper bag with holes in it over his head just for giggles and to mess with everyone yet no one even looked twice or so much as said anything to him about it so now he wears all kinds of crazy face coverings to see if he can ever get even so much as a raised eyebrow from someone.
Deadpool hangs out in the communal kitchen constantly trying to mother everyone into eating. He wears a pink frilly apron over his costume and sings while he cooks and cleans and shoves heaping plates of food, cookies and/or snacks at various passers-by but most especially the other heroes of the building.
Kate Bishop, Clint Barton's protege, once mentioned her nose was getting stuffy and by the end of the day no less than twelve fellow vigilante residents of the building had brought her containers of her favorite soup.
Yelena loved video games and kicked ass at Street Fighter and Mario Kart
Logan, Frank, Deadpool, Sam, Yelena and Bucky hung out together a lot talking about various soldier shenanigans they had seen during their various times of service which would almost always steer into becoming a pseudo group therapy session that everyone else in the building recognized and respected and would find ways to give all the soldier group privacy for.
Everyone in the building knew sign language for just in case Clint forgot his hearing aid or the battery had worn out.
Frank Castle liked to bake and would sometimes commandeer Deadpool's apron and take over the kitchen.
Kate and Yelena always found a way to strong arm everyone into playing board games at least once every other week.
Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley and Khonshu all inhabited the same body but were well and truly all different people so much so that each one even had different heartbeat rhythms. Peter got to know them all.
Steven was sweet and liked to info dump about his special interests which were myths and legends about Gods and Goddesses of different Pantheons from different religions and cultures.
Marc was gruff and serious but would silently pin an injured Frank to the couch and force him to hold still so Deadpool could give him stitches so even with as stoic as the man was he always showed he cared in his own ways and had his own soft spots and his own moments of sweetness.
Jake was a straight up sociopathic psychopath but considered everyone in Clint's building "his" so he was still creepy but chill about it.
Khonshu was a straight up asshole. But he also has a soft spot for everyone in the building.
All four of Marc's personalities seemed to recognize that Clint's building was probably the only place they could all get chances to be present and coexist in the same body and community without being judged or cast out so they all protected it and the people within with a vengeance.
Peter realized his neighbors might all also live double lives like him, or more than double lives in the case of Marc Spector, the other vigilantes that lives in the building might sometimes be weird neighbors because of their vigilante activities.
But it was a community. It was home.
It was beginning to feel like family.