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Who: Starstruck crew and visitors
Broadcast: None
Action: The SS ~~Trainwreck~~ Starstruck
When: August

[It might be accurate to say that the crew of the Starstruck had spent the majority of the month prior avoiding each other, or people in general, but as we leave the hand holding planet perhaps the crew can get back to normal.

Whatever that means...]

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Natasha's - special. I know her for quite a while but I don't think I'll ever know everything about her. She confused the hell out of me, at first.

[ with her missions and her secrets ]

Once she gets you, it'll be all inappropriate questions and poking fun. At least that's how it was with me.

[ that and the weird dating service she seemed to have become back in the day but he keeps that part to himself. ]

-- And how does she poke her fun at you, hm?

[ oh please tell her, steve. peggy wants in on this. ]

[ sensing troubles ahead. ]

Not sure I want to give you both a reason to team up against me -

[ especially as peggy alone is scary and natasha on her own is scary, too but the two combined? he stands no chance. ]

As if a reason would ever be needed.

Fair point.

[ is this some sort of an all-lady team up? because if it is, he just knows he's going to lose. ]

First tactic would be not to arm you both any more than you already are.

[ and to be honest, the combination of his 'beautiful dame' prattle and his honeymoon vacation with natasha story is rather worrying.

he might never hear the end of this. ]

[ -- a huff of laughter. ]

You're not seriously worried, are you? [ a tilt of her head. ] Fair enough. Jim didn't fare so well, either.

[ she doesn't discuss jim much. but it's hard to avoid this particular point; it's simply worth making to watch for steve's reaction. ]

No man would -

[ and more accurately, no version of Captain America would but he says it as he bites back on a little smile. In truth, scary potential and all, he is glad they're finally getting to know each other. ]

Now, stop that. Talking about us like we're some sort of brassiere-burning maneaters. [ really! ] You still haven't learned a thing, have you?

[ is this the the wrong moment to snort because there is a definite snort there before he lifts both hands in surrender. ]

Probably not a single thing - but in my defense, I didn't get much practice.

What? [ she is relentless. ] Haven't they got women in the future?

[ shouldn't you be talking to them too? ]

[ this is obvious mistreatment!! ]

I don't get plenty of chances to talk to them - except for Natasha and she's -

[ highly unusual? ]

Special.

[ really, 'special' seems to be the only way to sum Natasha up. ]

They dye their hair in weird colors - have piercings in all the wrong places.

[ and are still as confusing as ever, really. ]

Don't think I've gotten used to it yet.

-- And which places are the wrong places, precisely?

[ oh steve-my-love, you walked right into that one. ]

[ !!! ]

You're having me on.

[ and it's so rude that it's working. but fin- he will not give in to the tea teasing. ]

There's a girl in the coffee shop who pierced her nose and eyebrow. She's saving for the one in her chin.

[ and of course he asks about his barista's days and their aspirations, weird as the answers might be. ]

Her nose? [ bloody hell. ] I'd feel like a bit of livestock, I think, with metal shoved through my nostril.

[ that's not an appropriate moment for a snort either, is it? but there it is. he does like the nice barista, weird piercings and purple strikes in her hair and all but at least someone understands his confusion with the entire matter. ]

I asked her about it once. She said it expresses an artistic sentiment. I think I'll probably always be a bit old fashioned about these things.

[ -- oh, snort away. somehow, she finds it endearing. don't ask. ]

It isn't all that old fashioned to me.

[ ahem. ]

That's all that matters.

[ it's an easy truth. ]

People in the 21st century always seem to think they invented everything from good music to good coffee.

[ yes, she imagines it's a bit like how americans believe they've perfected all else. really, the gall of it. ]

Oh, Lord, the music is rubbish. I'd thought it was just me.

Some of it isn't half bad. Sam likes Marvin Gaye and he's actually really good - Billie Holiday, really great voice. But the recent stuff is -

[ he makes a bit of a face ]

Not what it used to be.

[ -- she flexes her fingers, like fighting against webbing that's not really there. ]

There are times when I feel so woefully left behind by a world I can't say I recognize. And I'm not the one who has to live in it, I suppose, as you do.

Some things haven't changed. I mean, people still come to NYC and go to see Lady Liberty first and you'd still hate the coffee.

[ it is an odd thing. in years and years, it will be more of her world than it would be Steve's. She'd have grown and seen it change, know it better than he ever will. now, they are both as estranged to it. ]

It's really much more expensive, too.

So Jim told me. A room in a Manhattan boarding house nearly tapped me out, back in '46. And the food wasn't even that good. [ ... ] How does anyone live in New York, these days?

[ a mild smirk. ] I hope the Avengers pay you well.

You know, it's really a trouble keeping a place in Brooklyn these days. You should see the apartments some of these people rent. Thousands of dollars - I think our shuttles actually have more in the way of space.

[ he shakes his head ]

Since I started training the new additions to the team, I've been spending some of my time at Stark Tower.

[ because of course Tony has one. ]

[ and so they find themselves both depending upon Stark charity for a roof over their heads. her smirk twitches -- decades apart, and they still share something in common. it hardly feels fair. ]

And how do your new additions take to being trained by a relic, hm? [ because she can't imagine him as anything but a relic come that time. a highly efficient, still effective relic. but a relic all the same. ]

Fossil is the word they use.

[ shaking his head. ok so it's mostly Natasha and Tony but still ]

You know three of them. Wanda, Sam, Vision, all good friends. You're missing Rhodey, he's a good guy. A good friend of Tony. As to how they take it, well. Me and Natasha have been busy beating them into shape, as she says - and I'm nicer than her.

[ totally gives him credit points.

he thinks. ]