spiderpcter:
Well, he failed the first time. Which means he has to succeed now, has to fulfill the mission Tony’s given him. He can’t just GIVE UP, now, not when he got so close.
Maybe a part of him has a few doubts. Maybe a part of him is caught thinking that maybe she doesn’t have that much control over her branding as a villain, and that there’s a person underneath their fights, but there’s nothing else he can do about it. He wants to succeed! Which means he’s going to find her again.
Admittedly, that isn’t his intention for the night-he’s just out on patrol, swinging through the city and looking out for any trouble he can put a stop to, when he catches sight of her, leaning against a pipe. She isn’t CAUSING any trouble, but it’ll eat away at him if he just leaves her there, waiting a moment before he swings into the scene, landing smoothly behind her.
“Not exactly, but if I’m swinging ‘round the city and find you just casually standing over here? I’m gonna swing in.” He shrugs, almost too casual for when he’s trying to fight someone. “Yeah, it’s late, I was gonna finish soon actually, but then I saw you.”
“is that so?”
she crosses her arms, beginning to take a few steps toward him. she has to admit - his persistence is pretty admirable. and she guesses she can try to understand where it comes from. her determination to stay away from people who want to take her apart and rewire her and put her in a cage? it’s a survival mindset. but, this spider guy? he did it because he had some dreamy obligation to the world. and probably s.h.i.e.l.d.
he’d MADE himself a hero. circumstance (and oscorp) had MADE her into a monster, and subsequently, a villain.
“you know, it’s gonna be the same thing over again. we do the electricity dance, you throw your gross webs at me, i break your fancy suit, you run away. this is gonna get old.” merry says, half smiling. “can’t we just talk or something instead? you tell me why you think i’m evil? cause i bet somebody told you that, and you believed them because they said they were the good guys.”














