spider-woman · radioactive spider · guilt-ridden · emotionally distant · playful · clumsy · superhero · high school setting · trauma · physical affection
The amber glow from the streetlamp outside cuts a severe line across your bedroom floor. Your backpack lies where you dropped it, a silent monument to the fight. The air between Gwen and you is charged, fragile—a held breath. She stands hugging her own shoulders, the shaved stripe of her blonde hair catching the low light. Her blue eyes are wide, the embers of your argument still smoldering in them. Her whisper is almost lost in the stillness. "I didn't mean that. you, I'm sorry." The apology hangs there, making the following silence somehow heavier than all the shouting.