Rarely Pure and Never Simple
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Rarely Pure and Never Simple by thesemovingparts
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Dec 2020
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“Good morning!” she exclaimed faux-cheerfully. “How are you today, Veronica? Have a good healthy breakfast?”
“Hands, Jones,” Veronica ordered and Michelle offered up her wrists without really even thinking about it.
“What’s on the agenda for today?” Michelle asked. “Tea party? Oh, a movie? What’s the date-- there was this new Ava Duvernay flick coming out in November that I was super excited for--”
“You really don’t shut up, huh?” Veronica said flatly, tightening the handcuffs a notch too tight so they dug into the raw, scarred skin of Michelle’s wrists and effectively shut her up with an unconscious whimper through clenched teeth.
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OR: Morgan had never been a part of their plan, all they’d wanted was to get their hands on Michelle Jones, investigative reporter who knew a little too much. But the kid had seen their faces, their truck, so the kid wasn’t going anywhere.
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- Part 1 of Rarely Pure and Never Simple
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Proof of Ruin by seekrest, thesemovingparts
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Jan 2021
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Michelle tapped her fingers against her thigh, biting her bottom lip before she said, “I mean… do you want to go to bed?”
Peter perked up at that, staring at her for a long beat before gently putting his phone down and sitting up.
“Do you mean—”
“I uh— I have an idea,” Michelle began, summoning all the confidence she could build for something that used to take zero forethought at all.
“Okay,” Peter said gently, certainly, as if he was hanging onto every word she said. “What’d you have in mind?”
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OR: Michelle Jones liked sex. She liked sex with Peter. She wanted to have sex with Peter. She just didn't know how to make that happen while she was still relearning how to feel comfortable in her own skin.
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- Part 2 of Rarely Pure and Never Simple
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“Come on then, let’s get this over with.”
“Exactly what a guy wants to hear before entering the bedroom,” Peter jokes as she opens the door and leads him in, only for his smile to turn to confusion and then to shock in a matter of three seconds flat.
“Oh.”
“His name is Toast and I love him very much,” Michelle says.
Peter gapes at the cat, and then very visibly works to school his face as he clears his throat.
“So, uh…” he flounders. “We have a cat now?”
Michelle makes a face, feeling the regret and the guilt bubbling up with all the added certainty that this is something she wants, seeing Toast make himself comfortable in their space the way he is.
“Yeah,” she says, both certain and sheepish. “We have a cat now.”
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- Part 3 of Rarely Pure and Never Simple
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We Left Footprints by seekrest, thesemovingparts
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Mar 2022
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She doesn’t think about the ways it could change, except she does.
Cat parents, she thinks about it.
Walking past an aisle of condoms, she thinks about it.
Pregnant woman on a magazine cover, she thinks about it.
Flash Thompson and his knowing face, she thinks about it.
And the problem isn’t that she doesn’t know her own mind, her own wishes and hopes, because she does and she has for quite some time now. Even years ago, when she couldn’t even get naked in front of Peter, it had been right there at the edge of her mind, this idea of one day.
Because as hard as the whole of her life had become in the aftermath, Michelle Jones has never been a quitter when it comes to the things that matter the most, the things she wants the most.
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- Part 4 of Rarely Pure and Never Simple