🚗 (from Ginny because I'm too lazy to switch users sorry)
🚗 - for our muses’ car to break down in a blizzard
The worst had happened – again. There was a new horde attacking the city, one that they still didn’t have any details on, and Peter got taken out of the game early. His webbing was useless against the monsters, as was his ability to fight in close quarters. Even worse, he had gotten severely injured just as he found out that his webbing wouldn’t do a thing, and so to keep him out of the fight while he healed, Tony had given him a task:
Take Ginny – and Sarah – and go to a safe house in a completely different state. Wait there until Tony could call with more information.
Peter didn’t like the idea of being sidelined so long, but the options were that or do nothing, and of the two, Peter preferred the one where he made sure a close friend and her newborn were safe. They got the baby seat in Peter’s car, loaded it up with food and drinks and snacks, enough to last a few weeks, and then loaded themselves into his car.
By some miracle, they managed to get through the blockade of cars on the bridge (and by ‘some miracle’, Peter meant JARVIS), and then managed to avoid the cities. The traffic was clear, and the two adults made small talk as Peter drove, trying to keep their minds off the mess behind them.
They started running into problems after they hit the 6-hour mark. They’d stopped for walking, diaper breaks, and additional food a few times, but the weather was starting to get bad. A storm was blowing in, and everything was closing earlier because of it. Peter noticed he needed gas, and tried to roll into a gas station, just to find the power was gone, and the store closed.
“Maybe the next one,” Peter said, shrugging.
The next one’s power was gone too.
“We’ll find something,” he tried to assure himself.
“Of course we will,” Ginny responded, squeezing him lightly on the forearm.
But something never came. Peter found himself running out of gas and options on a country road, a mile from the nearest town as the car came to a stop.
“Shit,” he muttered, and then slammed his head on the steering wheel. “Ginny, I’m so, so sorry. I should have stopped at that last motel.”
“I think you made the right call on that,” Ginny said. “It didn’t look all that structurally… sound. And I can survive for a night.” She looked at the backseat, where her daughter was napping – for the moment. “But the car’s gonna get too cold for her soon.”
“There are additional blankets in the trunk. One of my uncle’s rules – he always kept at least one, in case I got cold in the backseat in the winter. I have two back there. ”
“If you go get them, I can make it work.”
Peter didn’t question it, or why two blankets were enough to keep them – and baby Sarah – warm through the night. He fell asleep in the car, watching the snow fall, and woke up the next morning to a clear sky.
Ginny’s additions to the blankets (Peter carefully didn’t ask) had kept all three of them warm during the night, but he knew they couldn’t stay where they were. Peter carefully placed the excess food near her, and then put his blanket to cover her and the babe.
“Hmm?” She was still half asleep, and Peter knew how rare sleep with a newborn was. He didn’t want to wake her.
“I’m going for more gas and food, perhaps to get a tow.”
He then opened the door, forcing the snow away, and started the trudge back to civilization. He had to protect them. Peter wanted to get back in the car, where there were blankets, but he knew they needed to get out of there.
As he walked, he cursed the lack of things for him to swing from.