Sable!reader and peter are so mean girlfriend and sweetheart boyfriend it makes me insane. Everything you do comes off so mean and authoritarian, people would think you’d be with someone who matched that. Nope. It’s a shock to everyone when he manages to get you to crack a smile. First time it happened it was a bit weird, but after several occurrences? Something is absolutely going on. It’s sort of an unspoken thing, cause no one who works for you would dare ask, but they all know you and the spider have something going on
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the thing is you’re the head of a huge organization with a lot of firepower under your belt. you need to be authoritarian. you need to have your men in check, they need to follow your orders, you have to maintain this constant respect and be impossible to question. it’s a lot of pressure, but you’ve been working this job a long time.
the people working under you probably joke that anyone who’s with you must have their balls cut off or something. or that you’re as tight lipped and commanding in bed as you are at work. or that no one within a fifty mile radius could ever date you when you act so unapproachable. obviously all of it is p much locker room talk and means nothing.
which is why it’s so shocking when spider-man of all people—the guy you hunted down when he was your first suspect, the guy you’ve held at arms length bcos you didn’t trust him, the guy you’ve tried to exclude at every turn… is not only working much closer with you but you seem to enjoy it. you’re talking to him in a low voice. you’re showing him things. you’re letting him in on your thought process and listening to what he has to say. his expertise matters to you. you’re treating him like a consultant which is what he was brought on to be. and then he has this weird intimate grasp on your sense of humor? people used to joke you had your funny bone removed along with your tear ducts. but spider-man gets you. you’re seen elbowing him and bumping shoulders with him, anything to give him some approval on whatever joke he made. you like him.
before these people know it, the spider-man—after months of working with him—is now .. inexplicable.. your right hand man.







