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Say someone tried to stab someone. Worth talking to the captains about, yes or no? Also how are you at sewing?

Did someone try to stab you?

I'm totally okay! My shirt's a little ruined. But okay! Keep that in mind, right?

[Sooooo skipping over frantic and going to straight to scary-angry calm then.]

Who was it?

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Didn't catch the name. It just kept growling at me. Said something about programs, though. Or typed it. Seriously it wouldn't do anything but growl like some mad dog or something.

Glowing orange, creepy, and likes to hurt people?

Spot on. Super creepy. Kind of fast for a normal guy. Wasn't expecting it. Or, you know, it wouldn't have happened at all. Like I can totally outrun stuff like this, usually.

[A machine almost killing her alternate universe brother. No this isn't familiar in a terrible way at all.]

Rinzler. You are not the first person he's attacked. [Very, very bitterly:] And he does not have a mind so there is nothing I can do that will stay with him.

No, no, no. Wanda, you don't have to do anything! [If the guy would attack him, Peter doesn't want Wanda anywhere near the creep.] Look, I was just talking to someone and they said I should get something done about and they kept talking about how there's all these kids running around here and they might run into this shithead and just. I wanted your opinion.

I'm okay. [He slows his voice, trying to sound soothing.] Really. If this had been something really bad, I would have called sooner. This isn't my first rodeo. I mean, it was just one guy this time.

They're right. Something needs to be done about him before he kills someone.

[Peter might have been fast enough to avoid being chopped in half but that won't protect everyone else. She sighs deeply. You're gonna be the death of her one way or another, Peter.]

Do you have a needle and thread?

So what do you think we should do? I'm fast enough I could take him down if I see him.

[It's said nervously, because he may steal and participate in prison breaks, but he's never been intentionally violent.]

I can find some.

No, don't...don't do that. Please. [Can you hear the fear in her voice? You might almost think she'd felt her own brother die.]

We need to talk to the captains, get them to take his weapons. He would not be so dangerous without them, I think.

Hey, hey. I'm not going to do anything stupid. [He's back to the low voice, trying to sound like the soothing older brother.] I'm not going to go looking for trouble. I'm just saying I can handle it, if it finds me.

[A sigh, a little laugh.] If that's what you want to do. You're the hero around here, sis.

[~~Not really, or she would have handled this before Peter was in danger.~~]

I don't know what else I can do that will keep you safe.

Let me know when you get the things I need to fix your shirt. I'm in the library.

Wanda. I know I'm the younger one here. [And how does he say this without sounding bad.] But you don't have to protect me from everything. You'll give yourself heart problems if you worry about everything I get into. I'm kind of a trouble magnet.

[Sighing.] I'll meet you there in five.

[Trouble is...well, it's not ideal but it's part of what makes her brother himself. The problem is when that trouble is attached to bullets or knives or weird glowing discs of doom.

Wanda doesn't say anything when Peter shows up, just goes in for a (tight) hug. Yes, she's overreacting, and it's just another clue that there's something bad she's not telling him.]

[He lets her have the hug, never one to deny his sisters anything. He wraps skinny arms around her, tucks her under his chin. He can only pull from his experience with his Wanda, from the scant memories this version has given him, but he's knows a problem when he sees it. He lets her have a few moments, moments in her time, before he speaks and breaks the calm.]

You going to talk to me or am I going to have to guess?

[red alert red alert]

I was scared. You're fast, but...

I'm okay. [He's said it already, but he'll say it as many times as she needs to hear it. He's alive, he's here and he's not going anywhere.

He puts a hand to her cheek, ducking a little to look her in the eye as he pulls back. His smile is as gentle as he's capable of getting, as soft as he knows to be with his sisters.]

I'm sorry I scared you. But I promise, I'm not going to get hurt. It was just a little slip up. Not going to happen again.

[He backs up a little more, just a slight shift.]

Is that it? You were just scared?

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