[ Those words strike an all-too familiar chord with Gamora.
("This is not Cheers after all!")
And that old wound feels fresh again, that insinuation that she wants to push him away, but— she's protecting herself.
("This is whatever the show is where one person is willing to open themselves up to new possibilities—
—and the other person is a jerk, who doesn't trust anybody!")
But she does trust him, she trusts him more than she thought herself capable of, and once again, she finds herself so frustrated by— what? Her inability to communicate that? The fact that he can't see it? It's different now, though, without their history, without the small steps Peter has been there to witness her taking, the small offerings of vulnerability and intimacy that she's extended to him.
Another frustrated noise catches in her throat, and she steps back from the couch, gesturing out at the apartment. ]
What do you want from me?
[ Because she's doing what she can, doing what she knows, and she has no clue how to give him what he's apparently missing when she has no idea what that is. ]
the tru struggle
("This is not Cheers after all!")
And that old wound feels fresh again, that insinuation that she wants to push him away, but— she's protecting herself.
("This is whatever the show is where one person is willing to open themselves up to new possibilities—
—and the other person is a jerk, who doesn't trust anybody!")
But she does trust him, she trusts him more than she thought herself capable of, and once again, she finds herself so frustrated by— what? Her inability to communicate that? The fact that he can't see it? It's different now, though, without their history, without the small steps Peter has been there to witness her taking, the small offerings of vulnerability and intimacy that she's extended to him.
Another frustrated noise catches in her throat, and she steps back from the couch, gesturing out at the apartment. ]
What do you want from me?
[ Because she's doing what she can, doing what she knows, and she has no clue how to give him what he's apparently missing when she has no idea what that is. ]