Look, my parents were mad scientists who pumped me full of spider-juice just to see what would happen. I went to Hail Hydra high school and Nick Fury university. I've been extraordinary my entire life. After all these years of insanity... a little ordinary sounds pretty #$%^ great. You have your normal... and I have mine.
Carol wanted to reach out but hesitated, her fingers twitching in her lap. “We won’t let anything happen to him. He has the best protection a toddler could ask for.” She was inclined to agree, that Gerry had been introduced to a world that wouldn’t always favor him, but he also had more people that would lay it down for him. “If there’s one thing I can promise, it’s that.”
Head inclining to rest on the heel off her palm, Jess let her fingers get lost in her dark hair. “I’d die for him, but then he’d be alone and – being a mom is terrifying, Carol. It’s beautiful and terrible and rewarding and just… why the hell did you let me do this?” Not that she had asked for permission or would have accepted feedback. It was more impregnate now and explain later. “Thank you. You know that I love you, don’t you?”