A F T E R G L O W - N W H「3」

T H R E E

- MESSING WITH MAGIC -

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It was only an hour later in the afternoon and Liz was on her way to the Sanctum Sanctorum, residence of Dr. Strange, one of Peter's buddies.

She was introduced a few months back after Peter got back from saving the universe with him. Liz was apart of Stark Industries in a way, and has known Happy and Tony Stark for a few years now. She got to meet quite a few of their fellow superhero's and other supernatural oddities, as she liked to call them.

She wasn't sure if it would work, let alone if it was worth trying, but she had to ask if he had any way of knowing how to get her to her respective universe.

She was walking down the street towards the grand building, the royal blue doors coming into sight and with them, was Peter.

Her expression morphed to one of curiosity as she sped up, the boy walking in the same direction as her. "Peter!"

He stopped and turned around, smiling halfheartedly with his brows downturned in question. "Elizabeth, hey. What are you doing here?"

"Y'know, just...sightseeing." She gestured to the number of brick buildings surrounding them, nothing necessarily interesting enough to just be here for sightseeing.

Normally he would pester her about it, but he was on a mission and was trying to act as normal as possible. "Okay, well, I hope you enjoy your sights."

He started to walked away, in the same direction she needed to go, but she grabbed his arm. "Where are you going?"

"Where am I—where am I going?"

"Yes...?"

"Um...that way." He waved his hand in an indirect place behind him with a shrug of his shoulders.

"All right." She was also on a mission and decided her interrogation would have to wait for later.

They both nodded in sync, waving goodbye. However their departure from each other never came to be as they both took a step in the exact same direction.

They looked up at one another, silence falling over them awkwardly as they shared another step.

"Okay, where are you going?" Liz asked, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Where are you going?" He copied her stance, mirroring her widened eyes of question.

"I asked you first." She smiled in victory once he sighed and looked down at his feet.

"I'm going to see Dr. Strange." He muttered under his breath in disappointment of himself for being very un-sneaky.

She chuckled, standing up straighter. "What a coincidence. I am too."

"What?" Peter was taken aback with no clue at all why she'd have a reason to see him.

"I had a couple questions about magic and I figured who better to explain them than Dr. Magic himself." She shrugged, brushing off his odd stare and walking past him, looking both ways as she crossed the street. Peter shook his head of the surprise, clumsy in his steps as he sped up to catch up with her.