➽ VIDEO

[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Bishop, if you like. Sorry guys.
When: Valentine's Night

[ bless her, but she's figured out these devices pretty quickly. and why shouldn't she? they're only a bare step above her top-of-the-line smartphone. except that thing hasn't been getting service since before the marsiva. and now... ]

So. I've heard it's February 14th. And how good of the Atroma to get me my very own monogrammed ship. Apparently it's the perfect gift for the girl who so recently had everything. [ tacky, much? kate kinda cringes every time she sees her family name on her assigned ship -- regardless of how coincidental it might be. ] Kate Bishop, reporting for duty aboard the SS Bishop. I kid you not.

[ haha, tres funny. ]

Can we change? Ships, I mean. Not that this one isn't lovely, sure. But I'm getting flashbacks to summer camp at Interlochen and my mother writing my name on all my shirt tags.

[ speaking of shirts... ] Rogue? Can you hear me? [ she knows rogue taught her about the locked transmissions, but that still kinda evades her at the moment. ] I think it's time you showed me 'round this space station I keep hearing so much about.

Comments

[ladybro]

More like stealing taxis. You scooped me.

[ ... ] I was blonde at the time.

[vagabond_code]

[There was no way he was going to be able to remember a random blonde pedestrian. Far easier to assume he'd got the wires of her lip-shapes crossed somehow.]

It's Madripoor. Stealing is how you say "how about that weather?"

[ladybro]

It was lousy, incidentally. Wasn't it? All auto exhaust and sleaze. [ she gives a shiver. ] Ugh. But...

[ okay, it's time to be serious. ] Clint. What'd you leave behind?

[ because everyone else had warned her about this: differences; timelines; problems. ]

[vagabond_code]

You're talking -- unfinished business?

[He'd left his credits in the safe at the bar, but that was on purpose.]

[ladybro]

Something like that. [ she exhales. he isn't making this easy on her. but why did she ever expect he would? ] So?

[vagabond_code]

There's Lucky, the building, the last of the tracksuits -- but it looks like you and the guys handled most of them. What do you want me to say? We beat them, Kate. It's back to business as usual.

[Or it should be. He wasn't sure whether it was Kate or the Atroma who were posing the bigger obstacle to the 'normal' that he craved.]

[ladybro]

[ -- god. god, that was ages ago. kate takes a sudden step forward, as though closing the gap between them. here stands a clint who'd not yet betrayed her trust. her heart swells. just a little. ]

Right. Sure. Business as usual. [ and would ya look at that? she smiles. ]

[vagabond_code]

[Alright, weird, but he smiles too.]

So you're convinced now? We're good?

[ladybro]

We're good. [ she exhales. ] Hawkeye.