[ Pietro is helping with the post-lunch dishes when it hits. He's not sure how he keeps managing to find chores to do during what is supposed to be some kind of vacation, but maybe it's just that he gets impatient waiting for his classmates to take responsibility for things, and maybe that has less to do with his classmates and more to do with him. Though he's lightened up a little from the night before, 'camping' still feels too much like living rough to him, only dressed up like it's some kind of fun game instead of an unpleasant necessity, and he keeps gravitating toward whatever tasks scuff up that nostalgic veneer.
Or shatter it altogether, as it happens. The dish tub tumbles out of his hands first, soapy water sloshing out across the ground to turn dirt to mud as Pietro sinks to his knees and further, barely managing to get a hand awkwardly under himself as he falls. The ground comes up too fast — everything, suddenly, is moving too fast, except him, his limbs heavy as lead weights and his chest tight and his lungs on fire—
Breathe. In and out. Pietro struggles to find his rhythm again, panic and anger rising to overtake the sudden, exasperating slowness of his autonomic nervous system, because this feels familiar. ]
Fence, [ he manages, squinting out at the obnoxiously too-fast world. ]
pietro maximoff | june 9th | closed to laura & katniss
Or shatter it altogether, as it happens. The dish tub tumbles out of his hands first, soapy water sloshing out across the ground to turn dirt to mud as Pietro sinks to his knees and further, barely managing to get a hand awkwardly under himself as he falls. The ground comes up too fast — everything, suddenly, is moving too fast, except him, his limbs heavy as lead weights and his chest tight and his lungs on fire—
Breathe. In and out. Pietro struggles to find his rhythm again, panic and anger rising to overtake the sudden, exasperating slowness of his autonomic nervous system, because this feels familiar. ]
Fence, [ he manages, squinting out at the obnoxiously too-fast world. ]