video;

[interns]

Oh! See, I'm ready this time. Hi.

[ guess who's sitting on camera looking cute in the Oxford hoodie she got for Christmas from Peter, hair perfectly styled, make-up perfectly done. this girl! ]

Hello, everyone temporarily tuning into the Barge network for the next few days - my name is Gwen Stacy. If you have any questions about what's going on, or who might be here, or- anything at all really, please feel free to ask me and I'll try my best to answer them.

[ mostly, she's just hoping to hear from her family. or maybe even Flashua. she'd be really okay with that. ]

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[excussus]

[Both of them. That takes him aback, but only for a moment, a sharp, surprised moment where he thinks he forgets to breathe. Both of them, she's saying that now, after he killed her (he didn't kill her whispers a vicious voice in the beack of his thoughts, he only dropped her, it wasn't his fault Peter didn't catch her in time), now--

And that twists slowly, to now, now she offers, now after it's too late, with the venom already in his body, after everything it did to him, after Harry Osborne died screaming on the flood before the tech suit, before he was reborn in it, before after now now--]

I didn't have time to wait for you two to work out your shit. Really, Gwen, you'd have helped me from Oxford? You think I could just sit at home, and wait for you two to leave me behind and settle in while I lost control of every fucking bone in my body? Is that what you think I should have done?

[He's almost screaming by the end, because no, no, there was no alternative, he will not see it.]

[interns]

Yes! Yes, maybe that's exactly what I think! [ no, she doesn't know the details of the Harry's disease, how quickly it would have taken over, how long he had. she only knows how long Norman fought, the things she heard after his passing. but she also doesn't really know that Norman was also looking for that same miracle cure that Harry thought he had access to, in Peter's blood. ehhh. details, details. ] You don't know anything about me, so don't you dare try and say what Peter and I were going through had any effect on your decisions, on what you did to yourself. That was all you.

Oscorp might have had its secrets, and the more I learned the more I wanted to distance myself from it - but I never once held that against you, and I never would have. You were Peter's best friend, you were- a kid, just like us. Nothing we were going through would have mattered if you had asked for his help instead of demanding it like you did. Instead of trying to put this impossible pressure on him to try and save your life. And you're calling us selfish?

[ she shakes her head, pulls in a big breath because she's just ranting, and this isn't like her. she's not shocked by it, but it's just- a lot, all at once ]

If you weren't so selfish, maybe you would see that I wasn't the only way to ruin Peter, I was never the only way. What you did to yourself? That was it, that was more than enough. You ruined him the second you ruined yourself. So you don't get to lecture me about being selfish, Harry Osborn.