Bad Influence (Tag Peter)

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Alec was sitting in the cafe eating a sandwich with some fries. He had sort of been looking for a steak, but he had been told sandwiches and fries or he could try to convince the chef to make not-chicken. Alec had already tried that enough times that he decided to pass on that idea. So sandwich it was and - turns out - it was pretty good.

He leaned over his food, chewing and thinking about what he was going to do this afternoon. He had no idea that somewhere not to far off a certain eight year-old red-head was training with Peter and had just said the word 'dammit'. He also didn't know that she was explaining to Peter where she learned it from and that, of course, she had learned it from Alec.

[Rocket and Alec] escalation

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Since the attack on the Inn, the on-and-off war between Rocket and the asshole living with his neighbor had been mostly off. Fighting the dead things together had earned a cease-fire, but those never lasted forever, and it had felt like time to end this one. It called for something new, not just another glitter-paint bomb.

That was how Rocket came to be up a tree by the pool, turning a locket on a chain over and over in his hands. Pretty but useless.