I was quite literally very mentally unwell.

Another nightmare. Fuck.

Do I?

"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.

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?"

No helmet! Gasp! Such a rule breaker!

"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."

"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.

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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?"

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?"

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

"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.

"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?"

|| 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."

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

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?"

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

Hugs were something he had done like twice in his whole life. "Scarlet Spider, Kaine, whatever, not an Uncle. I put up with Ben, sometimes Peter, and I don't get involved in any mutliversal bullshit. And symbiotes. Fuck that."

Listen, if anyone is gonna kick my brothers ass and make sure he's normal again, it's me. Trust me, been there, kicked his ass, he's normal again. Pass. Just don't mess with him anymore ok?

We didn't get to finish our first fight, really. I ripped your heart in two. ...What's he done to you anyway?

"Okay, but am I going to have to kill Wolverine to save my brother?"

Story of his life. Actually literally. That's happened a lot. Ugh.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not hero."

The Other did some shit. You good?

Yes. But also no.

"Which one? Both have died more than enough times to count." His eye's met hers as he added. "All I've done for years is care. You tried, good job, now make sure you go and kill him without them knowing. Stay low, act calm, slip out from their watch."

Everything is finally quiet. I want to keep it that way. I like minding my damn business. Why don't you do it, Ben?

I am not an Uncle.

Facepalm. "You told people? Man, Look, that's rough, and I don't mean to ne a total ass but, I'll pass on that. Probably lots of homicidal Spider dudes who will be more than happy to though."

"I move between, you know? But yeah I've been back to Houston for a bit. Always something there." A thought crossed his mind...No...Maybe...Damn it. "Look, if Petes is too cramped I have an apartment I'm not using at the minute you can crash in."

"Hell no. We are not doing this."

"No need to ask then, you've already solved your issue." He rolled his shoulders, hands raised as he said. "Go try kill him."

"You guys and your costume changes. Wear red, you dont have to worry about the blood." That was a poor crack at a joke. "Yeah, your side of the coin has landed in the shit for a while, glad you're getting there though. The Spiders, not so much. Too old for this dimension shit."

"Beer good. Yes I can get drunk. I just don't do it often." Parkers are terrible at holding their drinks.

|| didn't follow like 3 people back and been interacting ahehdgevvdd it was one of those days at work my bad my bad