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Okay but if you did, I'd be fine.

[Look, he's trying to be funny! Sheepishly. Awkwardly.]

I don't think it's cursed, just... I'm used to things going south. I think I got too comfortable with this place.

[Peter can't help but snort at that.] Not the point, and you know it.

Casey, things just happen, it's not your fault. Sometimes bad things happen, and it's out of our hands. We're going to celebrate your birthday, and its going to be really fun.

[He's just gonna silently laser focus on that "it's not your fault" for a few seconds and go back to compartmentalizing it. Nope, nope, noooope.]

I know... I said I'm used to it, not that it's my fault. [Every other time it hasn't been. And maybe the timing would still have been bad, especially if Peter... died. Like Leo thinks. (Thought? He doesn't know if they've talked about it since then.) Maybe something else would have ruined it. But this one was at least in part on him.] Anyway, it's fine. Rue gave me a cupcake.

You felt like you needed to apologize for not warning us, kind of veering close. [Peter bats back, but seems like he's going to let it be for now.]

Okay, I'm glad you have a cupcake. Gimme like a few days and I can get something together too. Wouldn't hurt to make something fun, right? [He's giving Casey an out. Take it if you dare, Jones.]

[Wow he can't even make a joke (that was also kind of not a joke and he was then called out for so now he has to pretend it was a joke-)]

You don't have to do anything else. Look, you just gave me this! [Pointing to the spider bot.] Give it a party hat, now it's a birthday present.

[Peter is dating the King Of Not Coping With Comedy, he sees you, Casey.] I want to, Casey. Spider-Bot was genuinely me having fun and probably getting carried away, I figured you'd want one of my first ones to play with.

For your birthday, I want to do something more. I mean, making you a meal isn't the biggest thing I could do, but, at least humor me and maybe some latkes.

[Lover, meet son. Since Leo raised him it tracks that he'd pick up on some of the same bad coping methods. ...At least it's not usually a habit with Casey, though.]

What're latkes?

[He doesn't mind saying yes to food. That's a smaller commitment than a present.]

[Teenager to teenager communication; Food. Peter isn't surprised Casey is taking the out, and readily settles into the different topic as Spider Bot plays with Casey's hair.]

Latkes are a traditionally Jewish food. They're like deep fried potato discs. My uncle loved making them around Hanukkah, but I feel like they're an anytime food.

Oh! They sound good... I'd love to try it, then!

[He's. Pretty sure he's heard of Hanukkah? Never experienced it though, obviously. Not his wheelhouse and no supplies for it.

He doesn't seem to mind the spider bot doing its thing. He does like having his hair played with, actually.]

I'll make a lot of latkes, so everyone can have some. Most of them are for you though. [Peter says easily back.]

When its actually closer to whenever Hanukkah lands on this places calendar, maybe I'll make some other stuff too. Though, I haven't celebrated since I was really young.

[He'll be looking forward to these mysterious potato snacks.]

I don't really know anything about Hanukkah... but it usually lands around winter holidays, right?

[He vaguely recalls any mention of it coming up around when people started talking about Christmas, anyway.]

Somewhere in there, yeah. Hanukkah always starts on the 25th day of Kislev, which is like the ninth month on the Hebrew calendar. Its- [He barely remembers anything about any of that. It wasn't like he had a bar mitzvah as a kid.] a lot. I didn't learn a lot about it to be honest. I'm a bad source of information.

I remember the food though, Ben liked me helping him cook. So, I can at least do that much.

Can I help? I'd like to learn.

[He's still learning to cook, so complex recipes are a little shaky for him, but this sounds like something fun to make.]

Sure! Lemme just do like, a test batch or two first. Just so I know what I'm doing first. It involves a lot of hot oil, which can be kinda scary to cook with at times.

Oh- yeah, I haven't done that much yet with oil. Bacon is great but it's a little nerve-wracking, the way it pops.

[He's had little droplet burns a few times already. Dangerous work, when food attacks you.]

I'll see if I can do an oven only version too. See if that would work better. [He loves a good science, and Casey is giving him that chance.] If it is, we can make it way faster with less popping.

I'll follow your lead, since I have no idea what I'm doing.

[He's in your hands and at your mercy, Parker. Be gentle.]

I'm going by memory, so, I think we're both in for fun time. [Peter muses with a snort and shake of his head.

Spider bot just beeps helpfully from its spot upon Casey's shoulder, still attempting to slowly play with the teenager's hair.]

Could there be a recipe somewhere? Like at the library, or...

[He trails off, losing steam in his claim. He's still new to libraries, so he doesn't know if cookbooks count as valid reading material.

He gives the spider bot an idle pat again, amused that it's so fascinated with his hair. Better that than tackling him at least?]

Maybe? [He hadn't thought to really look at the library since its such a niche feeling thing for a place flush with magic.] It's... a cultural food. Like, you'd make it at a certain time of year. I don't know how many books about Jewish food would be here.

It is worth a shot though at least.

Well, yeah. Asking's free.

[Worst case scenario, they'll just tell him no.]

...Think I've won over the robot yet?

[ lol ]

You say that, but I can promise I'll probably get lost in the library wanting to read everything. [Peter jokes idly back.

He does laugh a little at the question. His gaze lands on the spiderbot who is trying to wiggle under Casey's hair to look like it has hair.]

Oh, just maybe.

[Casey lifts a section of his hair, then drops it back down on the bot, teasing playfully.]

That's what keeps happening when I visit the library. I have to force myself to go home or I'd try to sleep there. I never knew so many books could even exist.

[Spider bot beeps in a tone that can be read as happy as it tries to hold the hair in place.]

If you think about it, there should almost be infinite book here, right? This is a hub world, so many people from so many different worlds and time periods end up here. So you never know what's actually there

[He might die for this goddamn robot now.]

I've kind of wondered where all the books come from. But if Thirteen can summon people from all over, no reason why she can't summon books too.

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