[ Ben just nods, trusting that Peter knows what he's doing with the actual files themselves. For just a moment, he wishes there would be some mix-up, and Peter would delete all the footage and no one would have access to it. Maybe it would be better not to know. It would make it so Ben couldn't find out what these people see as worth keeping.
But of course, it wouldn't really make anything better. Not in the long run.
Grateful for the suggestion - the permission, really - Ben shakily replies: ]
Yeah. I'll- I'll wait at the entrance.
[ There's only one way in or out. Peter will be safe enough, right? Ben is grateful for the few moments alone as he makes his way out the dark tunnel. No cameras here, for sure. No one seeing him. He lets himself pause, punches the wall just once. He doesn't have Peter's strength, and there's no danger to it - apart from his knuckles hurting a little after.
Ben is just outside the crack in the wall when Peter emerges, leaning his back against a tree, arms folded tight across his chest. If a killer mutant cow were to come at them now, he would have absolutely no guilt about venting some of these awful feelings on it.
But that doesn't happen and instead he says, before Peter can say anything at all: ]
We should get the cameras out. Before anything else.
[ He had been able to judge from the angle of the video the area where it must be hidden. Ben isn't going to be able to sleep or even sit still in his bedroom until that is done. It's something he might be able to accomplish on his own, but...
But the truth is, he wants to have Peter there to help. He wants to have a friend there. ]
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But of course, it wouldn't really make anything better. Not in the long run.
Grateful for the suggestion - the permission, really - Ben shakily replies: ]
Yeah. I'll- I'll wait at the entrance.
[ There's only one way in or out. Peter will be safe enough, right? Ben is grateful for the few moments alone as he makes his way out the dark tunnel. No cameras here, for sure. No one seeing him. He lets himself pause, punches the wall just once. He doesn't have Peter's strength, and there's no danger to it - apart from his knuckles hurting a little after.
Ben is just outside the crack in the wall when Peter emerges, leaning his back against a tree, arms folded tight across his chest. If a killer mutant cow were to come at them now, he would have absolutely no guilt about venting some of these awful feelings on it.
But that doesn't happen and instead he says, before Peter can say anything at all: ]
We should get the cameras out. Before anything else.
[ He had been able to judge from the angle of the video the area where it must be hidden. Ben isn't going to be able to sleep or even sit still in his bedroom until that is done. It's something he might be able to accomplish on his own, but...
But the truth is, he wants to have Peter there to help. He wants to have a friend there. ]