Throwing Ourselves Into Work (Peter/Gwen)

[Gwen Stacy]

Location: Unnamed Restauraunt, New York City
Date: October 5, 2012
Time of Day: 7:45 PM

Peter was late to dinner again. Not that Gwen didn't understand why, or that she was so pretentious to think that she deserved all of his attention... but - it would have been nice for him to tell her he'd be running late. She had made reservations, she had done everything for the two to have a nice evening. 

... maybe she was taking this too seriously? Was it just a high school fling? They had only been together for a  month or so, but already the two had been through so much together. Gwen would like to think of it as more than that. 

When the waiter came to take her order she rejected, "No thank you, I'm waiting for someone." That was the second time they came for her order. Originally she had ordered just a glass of water, which she sipped from casually while waiting. She looked down at her phone, tapping on the home button. The screen lit up and she checked the time. 

7:45 PM.

She had been waiting for thirty minutes, which in retrospect wasn't too long. Gwen figured that Spider-Man got caught up in something. He had been busier than ever recently, always leaving Gwen with a knot in her stomach (at least when she knew about it). Gwen was used to saying goodbye to public servants, growing up with her father being the Chief of Police. But there was always that predominant feeling. Everyday Gwen had wonder if her father would come home after work.

She dabbed a napkin underneath her eye as thoughts of her father swelled up inside. Gwen tried to shake off those thoughts. She couldn't let herself be clouded up with negative thoughts like that. While she loved, and did mourn her father she knew that in a public place - a well established restaurant like this, it was simply not the time. 

Gwen looked up from the menu she had been staring at while she had been lost in thought for the past few minutes. Peter had made it. 

[novatwo]

Peter was on his way to meet Gwen Stacey for their dinner, but work is never over for a hero. On the way, he had to stop a bank robber. He'd leave it to the police, but it was a hostage situation. Meaning he had to sneak in and take care of the robbers for the cops. He knew this had taken a fair bit of time, being stealthy and then explaining the situation to the police.He quickly took off, checking the time on his phone.

7:40 PM

Oh god, he was late. He really needed to move! He was a lot later than he had initially thought! He began swinging ever faster until he reached a halt right across from the restaurant and took off his mask and suit. He stashed them along with his web-shooters.
He ran into the restaurant, and quickly seeing Gwen, sat down across from her. He wanted to apologize, but what could he say that wouldn't sound like an excuse? He honestly wasn't sure what to say. Eventually, he just said,

"I hope you weren't waiting too long?"

'Stupid, Stupid Peter! She had clearly spent over half an our here! Why did you even say that?' He mentally berated himself. Despite being in a somewhat-stable relationship with Gwen, he sometimes got a little tongue-tied and said dumb things, like right now.