[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

Comments

[uprightness]

A - what?

[ a lawyer, steve. a lawyer. ]

When?

[outstandingbalance]

You have a problem with lawyers now?

[Maybe he should? Who knows.]

He was involved in a vigilante case in New York. Not sure you'd remember that one.

[uprightness]

Never figured they're your type.

[ and you know what, now that he thinks about it, he figures he has no idea - ]

What is your type?

[outstandingbalance]

I didn't say he was my type. I said we had a drink—and mostly I mention it because he knows who we are.

[Dodging the question entirely.]

[uprightness]

Are you ever going to give me a name?

[ smiling so much, it's exactly here where people may yet find proof to the fact that captain america is just a punk from brooklyn ]

or an answer to my question?

[outstandingbalance]

His name is Matt.

[A pause, one eyebrow hitching up slightly as she gives him a disbelieving look.]

And I don't have a type.

[uprightness]

When you mean he knows us do you mean - in the future, personally or that he heard of us?

[ because evidently he will now need to look into this whole matt business ]

at all? I find that hard to believe.

[outstandingbalance]

I mean he's heard of us. Him and most of the world.

[Natasha crosses her arms behind her back, holding one wrist in the opposite hand.]

I like a lot of different types of people. Is that really that strange?

[uprightness]

No, I guess not.

[ he smiles and tugs a bit on her hand ]

The more you know.

[outstandingbalance]

You're not gonna start hassling the people I flirt with, are you? Because that isn't going to be necessary.

[uprightness]

When was the last time you've seen me hassle anyone?

[ it's not a straight answer but. ]

That's plural. Anyone else I should know about?

[outstandingbalance]

That depends what you think you should know. He's not the only person I've had a drink with, but it's just a drink.

[A pause, then she shrugs.]

I'm not really looking for more than that right now. If it happens, it happens but...

We both now what happened the last time.

[uprightness]

Nat.

[ he stops, still holding onto her head ]</small. Come on, you can't be giving yourself a hard time over that.

[outstandingbalance]

I'm not giving myself a hard time. It didn't work out. That happens.

[Her tone is reasonable, as though she's determined not to be irrational about her own love life.]

That doesn't mean I'm looking for a repeat.

[uprightness]

Not everything has to repeat itself. If I learned one thing about life is that they tend to be unexpected. One minute you're in the 40s, the next, the twenty first century and then - a spaceship. In an unknown year.

[ he looks around them as if it just about explains itself ]

I'm not saying you should - go steady with the first fella who buys you drinks. all I'm saying is that if one thing didn't work out, it doesn't mean it'll have to happen the same way again, that's all.

[outstandingbalance]

Well, I'm still letting them buy me drinks.

[She can't help but smile at the suggestion she go steady. Steve somehow manages to still be very much from his own time and place.]

And a few of them aren't so bad. We might have some fun.

[uprightness]

You know, you can talk to me about anything but - feel free not to fill me in on the fun parts.

[ this goes to the top of the list of things he doesn't want to know. ]

[outstandingbalance]

I'll remember that; no fun for Captain America.

[See, this is why she never tried to poach Steve for herself. But she supposes it's sweet of him to care.]