#pwc17

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Some days I think I have lost the ability to string even the most simple of sentences together. Others I stay up all night to write 2K of feelings and gratuitous smut.

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Cat!! Okay I obviously have like a whole list of my favorite scenes and writing that you've created, BUT I thought I'd pick somthing from a more previous chapter which is PWC 17:

“Sarah, just stop!“ He shouts, cutting your words off at the knee. His lips turned down, frowning at the forms in your lap, clearly offended by their presence.

“I just want to understand,” you whisper mostly to yourself, feeling small for the first time since entering headquarters that morning. You can’t recall him ever yelling. Not at you. Not ever. The moment shocks you both into a harsh, prolonged silence. It seems poised to go on forever but then Marcus sighs, all of the steam leaving him at once, turning towards you, cupping your cheek gently and pulling you into a kiss, letting his lips wrap around your bottom lip for one long lingering moment. When he pulls away, he slips his glasses back on and starts sifting through the documents one by one.

Thats definitely not 500 words but remember I had to read that paragraph over and over again because it's so fantasic to just see Marcus break like that and show such a relatable human characteristic, again all your writing is brilliant and I couldn't possibly choose but this scene has been in my head ever since I read it. ilysm

Miley! My love! I knew someone would come at me with this scene and I'm so glad that you did, because as I was planning out PWC as a whole, this was a turning point for Marcus...

Marcus, for me, is someone who carries everything silently on his shoulders. All of his responsibilities, his grief, his regrets, his pain, all piled one on top of the other, and he is not someone who is going to complain to much. He might grumble a bit, but outright complaining about his lot in life? Not his style.

But that can be so hard on a person, super hero or not.

The paperwork is significant for Marcus because he knew it would be coming and he had been putting it off. You know how you have a deadline for something annoying and you just don't want to deal with it, so you ignore it? Pretend it doesn't exist?

That's what Marcus did with those papers, and now they're sitting in his girlfriend's lap and he's feeling a lot of emotions: He's mad at himself for putting them off, he's mad at Granada for being the one to bring them up, but mostly he's frustrated that it has to be a conversation at all. If he wasn't powered he and Techie could just be two people, in a relationship, no waivers, no NDA's, no insurance forms. All of this is going through his head while Sarah is peppering him with (reasonable) rapid fire questions, and so he snaps.

I wanted to really display this very human moment for him, because no one is perfect, not even a superhero. I also wanted to show that these two as a couple still have their flaws, especially as they start to move away from that honeymoon phase. Couples bicker, they fight, and it's what comes next that makes or breaks the moment.

In this instance, it's Marcus who comes back to Techie. Again, this was intentional for me. He knows, immediately, that he shouldn't have yelled and the guilt and regret he feels is enough to knock the wind from his sails. Techie, for her part, is almost passive in that one single moment. The kiss even is described as being done by Marcus- he cups her check, he pulls her in. Our girl is not the best at confrontation (as demonstrated on Christmas with her dad) and her slightly wilting in this moment was intentionally meant to mirror those moments from chapter 15.

Thank you so much for the ask Miley and thank you for loving my two idiots! <3

Director's cut - Come ask me about your favorite scene

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