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[outstandingbalance]

Who: Natasha Romanoff & You
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 6/24

Video

[Transmission starts at the same moment the woman laying in fram shifts from unconsciousness to tense stillness—her eyes open, darting, and she goes tense, but otherwise there's no movement from her for the first four or five seconds. That seems to be how long it takes her to process that she's in an unfamiliar space with no memory of how she came to be lying there. Then one hand balls consciously into a fist. Her eyes flutter. Jaw tightens.

Natasha takes a deep breath and forces her body to relax muscle by muscle.

Seems like spies don't make for great entertainment when they first wake up. Not unless you find tension and veiled suspicious looks riveting. The first minute or two isn't much more than that. She wakes up. She sits up. She swings her legs over the edge of her cot and stretches her back, trying to flex the adrenaline out of her muscles.

She looks directly into the camera at one point, her expression flat, lips tightening in a frown. She taps the edge of the lens experimentally.]

You know, if you're gonna kidnap a girl you could at least buy her dinner first.

[Her voice is just a touch to defiant to be neutral as she speaks.

Then she hauls herself to her feet. The last thing caught on camera before the broadcast ends is a shot of her catsuited figure walking away.]

Comments

[universal_charm]

_{[ Oh, no, Kirk doesn't think it's all coincidence either, Natasha. He is HIGHLY suspicious, but doesn't have much to back it up beyond said suspicions. ]}

No, it really doesn't, does it?

_{[ The tone of his voice said quite a lot - that he didn't think it was all so clandestine and pure as some people might believe, as Atroma would have them believe. ]}

[outstandingbalance]

Good TV.

[At least they're on the same paranoid page with this.]

[universal_charm]

Here's hoping it gets cancelled.

_{[ Haha, see, he can play along. ]}

[outstandingbalance]

[And hopefully that means going home, and not getting stranded in space.]

You and me both.

[universal_charm]

_{[ One can only hope. ]}

Anything else I can answer? I would say do for you, but until you get on one of these smaller ships all I can offer is scintillating conversation.

[outstandingbalance]

You've been very helpful. I could take a rain check on doing more, though.

[universal_charm]

I'll be sure to buy you your first drink on the Iskaulit - once you get assigned. Every newbie gets one as far as I'm concerned.

[outstandingbalance]

I'll hold you do that.

[universal_charm]

I am a man of my word, never fear.

[outstandingbalance]

Oh, I believe it. You seem pretty honest.

[universal_charm]

Aw, that's one the nicest things anyone's ever said to me.

[outstandingbalance]

Somehow, I doubt that.

[universal_charm]

Heh, you'll just have to find out for yourself when we get those drinks.