"This is scarring," and he pulls Z's hand closer and kisses the back, still very gentle. "Having been hurt is not disgusting." 

...okay he's just going to be paralyzed for a second by Marlo Rogers kissing his hand!!!!!!

Z is so important. 

"You are just...a ridiculous fucking fairytale prince, you know that?" he says, faintly.

"Thank you." 

Something occurs to him.

“When they did the whole...supersoldier thing...uh—do you still get scars?”

"Technically, yes, but they fade very quickly. And I don't have any left from — before." 

“...that’s actually kinda sad.”

"I can hardly complain," he says, which is not a contradiction. 

"...'d offer to fix some of it for you but I'm pretty sure you don't swing that way."

"...I'm not sure what you mean." 

“—oh. Sorry. Masochist joke. They just kinda come out.”

"...I'm not opposed in theory but I think the amount of blood loss involved in finding a way to make it work would be a bad idea." 

"...no way. You?"

"....not the cutting. But the — having marks you put on me." 

"...when...did you...start being that into me?"

"I have no idea." 

...he...has to pat him on the head.

Can he hug Z? Is that a thing he gets to do? 

It is so a thing he gets to do.

Z will even hug him back, very securely.

That's good. 

That's good. That's — that's good. He doesn't know if he wants to do any more than this, right now, but this is good. 

Sasha goes home. 

He doesn't have anything to say to his parents. They don't ask. He doesn't know whether he wants them to. 

Asher emails Lev:

Spiderman died in part because of Wilson Fisk's plan. I'm going to destroy him. 

I want information about his crimes that I can show to the police-- publicly available information with logic they can confirm. And I want as much as you can connecting Wilson Fisk to Kingpin, especially things that would be convincing to someone close to him, and as much as you can about Kingpin's crimes. The more vivid and horrifying the better. Don't worry about invasion of privacy on that second one. 

If I want to convince somebody I have to know who I'll be convincing. 

The police and Vanessa and Richard Fisk.