I was quite literally very mentally unwell.

𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛『地獄の使者!!』@aranehenna.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yeah! What the fuck is this?

Another nightmare. Fuck.

Do I?

𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐛『地獄の使者!!』@aranehenna.bsky.social · 2y ago

You've got some explaning to do, bud.

"I'm not dead."

Thwip! Kaine swung through the streets of Houston, and the chill of the night air kept him awake and his senses sharp. It felt good to be here, like coming home, which was an odd sentiment he couldn’t shake. Still, patrol continued, and with each swing, he let Houston know he had returned.

And with himself, he brought two hot coffee's. One with creamer, sugar, and even chocolate sprinkles. Kaine's was just black. Unironically, he actually did like it like that. "Those better be the donuts from the place on 5th." Kaine said as he arrived, expertly not a drop spilled of the coffee.

𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲.@fracturedthwips.bsky.social · 2y ago

The usual spot. Had to be the Empire State Building. Had been a while since he hung out there. Good spot to clear your head. If Kaine was so eager to hang, must have meant he was going through something too. Didn't need a Spider-Sense for that. "Be there in fifteen. I'm bringing the donuts."

Ever try to kill your siblings once or twice? Don't. Otherwise, you will suffer them quipping at you for the rest of your life as penance.

"Oh my god, quit it. Is tormenting me just something you enjoy doing?"

AMAZING..@amazingarachni.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Guess responsibility follows you around."

No helmet! Gasp! Such a rule breaker!

�𝘍𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘺@queenof-thieves.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Listen, man, I don't care how cool I look or who the fuck you are, I'm busy, I don't have time for chit chat. You're either helping me bust these guys or I'm busting your damn skull."

Richard "Dick" Grayson@night1stwing.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Well damn, you have attitude... I was going to say how cool your outfit look but I don't know now. "I'm not with them no." He shook his head

"Sure. Wanna meet at the usual spot?" Something about meeting and then jumping off the Empire State Building wa definitely in the Parker DNA, Kaine couldn't even deny it.

𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲.@fracturedthwips.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Hey Kaine. You busy? Was thinking of patrolling. Maybe beat some people up. Whaddaya say?" Ben paused. Nevermind the existential crisis he was going through. Fists to faces was the best therapy.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀꒷◠꒦︶꒷꒷꒥꒷◡꒷꒦꒷◠꒷︶꒦◡ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀𝙒𝙀 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙊𝙈.ᐟ ⠀

꒦꒷ 𝙇𝙀𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙇.@headcruncher.bsky.social · 2y ago

𝙋𝙊𝙋 𝙊𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝙏𝙊 𝙆𝙇𝙔𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙍 𝙎𝙊𝙈𝙀𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙉 𝙍𝙐𝙉 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙈𝙊𝙐𝙏𝙃.ᐟ

He'd just about bandaged his hand when the phone began to ring. Why did he still have this thing? Momentarily, he ignored it, before he noticed it was Ben and answered. "Yeah?"

𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲.@fracturedthwips.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dialing Kaine's phone... "Pick up, buddy... c'mon."

Kaine stared at the mirror revealing studying himself, his face, his brother's face. Yet, each time he looked, he noticed new scars marking his body, each one setting him further apart from them, making him his own man...But yet he still truly didn't know that man in the reflection.

"My 'I'm going to punch you know the face' sense is tingling."

"I put you in my spare apartment and I'll sure as shit take you out of it." He sneered, yet smirked as he slided on to Ben and cracked his own open. "So, Princess Sleeping Beauty, got any other jobs lined up or you just happy at the pizza place?"

𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲.@fracturedthwips.bsky.social · 2y ago

Clink! Beer downed with a resounding 'ahh!" "Hey. That's /Princess/ Sleeping Beauty to you, buddy," he laughed. Drink finished, he made a three point shot. Score! Then webbed another to his hand. "Oh yeah! Keep em comin'!"

"Well one hopped straight into my apartment so I wouldn't say that's my fault."

AMAZING..@amazingarachni.bsky.social · 2y ago

"That's either poor effort or you secretly like it but you like to complain."

"Where is she?" Kaine hissed, securing his grip on the trafficker's neck. "Tell me!" Squeezing harder, a faint hiss escapes his grip as he began to not only choke, but burn the man too. After weeks of chasing leads and dismantling the operation, he was ready to kill, with or without answers.

"Oh my god." The beer is downed, tossing it behind him it landed in the bin perfectly, as he webbed another over. "Sure Sleeping Beauty." He leaned his bottle towards Ben's, offering a cheers.

𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲.@fracturedthwips.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Can you swing me home instead?" Ben snagged a drink as well, cracked it open. "Joking, joking."

"𝙊𝙝, 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 -- !"

"Hello. Hi. Satisfied?" Kaine sighed as he cast his masked glare to what he was watching, a drug deal that was about to unravel. "Making sure I jump these morons at the right time. Are you with them?"

Richard "Dick" Grayson@night1stwing.bsky.social · 2y ago

“No hellos or hi?” “Man, I was just curious what you were doing.”

|| Pls I always seem to write grumpy saps pls forgive me if he's a bit too abrupt.

"Oh you know, trying to forever not be pulled into the weird Spider shit show and yet here I am."

AMAZING..@amazingarachni.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Not too bad so I'm not complaining much. What about you?"

Sigh. Swigs a drink. "I'm not walking you home."

𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲.@fracturedthwips.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Sap boy! Drink up, buddy! The night is young!"

He turns fast, aware of the other moving near him but unsure if he would approach. Great. Unblinking, he looks at the other, tense in his stance. "What's it to you?"

Richard "Dick" Grayson@night1stwing.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Hey there!" he waved as he jumped down in view of the other "Are you waiting for someone?"

The great web can go fuck itself. ... Sorry.

𝔾𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕥-𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕣@gwen.quill.blue · 2y ago

Well, y'know, great web of destiny and all that, I'm sure we all have a lot of parallels like that.