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Who: kate bishop + you!!
Broadcast: fleetwide
Action: blameless
When: today
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[ every joint pops when kate bishop wakes up. for the first half hour, all she does is stay in her bunk and stare at the ceiling. what the futz just happened? she wrestles with the ringing ache in her head -- trying to pinpoint the last thing she remembers. was it winn's birthday party? was it venice beach? was it both? with a groan, she at long last sits up. gropes for her communications device.

and realizes just how long she's been out. futz and futz and futz again. ]

Hey, fleet. [ she sounds groggy. and (to those who know her) more than a little under the weather. her dark hair is piled up in a messy bun. she looks...tired. ] Ever have a week-long hangover before? Because what a shitty ability that would be. I've been out since New Year's. What'd I miss?

[ kate doesn't even change out of her pjs. she rolls into the blameless's kitchen and begins to rattle around the cupboards. she wants water -- actually, she wants coffee. but she doesn't have the patience even for the stove-top espresso maker. the feed catches all of it: her expression of dismay as she adjusts back to what a space-kitchen has to offer; her disgruntled yawn; the moment when she collects herself before sitting down and addressing the feed once again. ]

One more thing, actually. What do you do when you feel like you know too much?

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[That reaction doesn't go unnoticed, but Natasha doesn't comment on it just now.]

Probably not coincidental.

[ yeah. no. exactly.

kate sighs and trots out the same metaphor she's been wrapping her head around all day. ] You ever watch Minority Report?

The Tom Cruise movie?

Bingo. Imagine that, but instead it's an Inhuman who can predict future-crimes. [ she just trusts natasha to know what she means by that. inhuman. ]

[Natasha does not, in fact, have trouble following this logic.]

That sounds like it could be a dangerous situation.

Civil futzing war. All over again.

[ she's already discussed the first one with natasha. and (luckily for her!) the term is a fairly common one, even back home. ]

[Of course it was. Though it's different, isn't it? Natasha has a hard time picturing any of the Avengers in her universe, in her timeline, being in favor of per-emptively taking action like that. Both the ethical and PR fronts would be nightmares.]

Do I want to know who was on what side?

Depends. Do you think it matters?

[ more and more, she's starting to think it doesn't. ]

Probably not. Can't blame me for wondering, though.

Cap and Iron Man were on the same side, this time.

[ as though that's all anyone needs to know. ]

That's something, at least.

I'm guessing I don't hafta tell you which side that was.

Not if they're anything like the ones I know.

Captain Marvel was on the other side. Heading it. [ ... ] Ring any bells?

Only know the one captain.

She used to be Ms. Marvel. But -- well, it's not important. [ kate shakes her head. ] A few years back she ditched the bodysuit and got a promotion and cut her hair. It looks really cute.

[ too bad it doesn't make up for putting tony stark in a coma. ]

Still not ringing any bells. Used to the idea that there are fewer of us where we come from than where you do, though.

[It's come up before, at least to degrees. It's a little strange to think why she's in some worlds when other people aren't. Or vice versa.]

I'm sure her hair style takes the edge off PR disaster.

[The ethical one, maybe less so.]

She's not the one with the PR disaster. Not with the actual public, at least.

[ as expected, there's a widening gulf between what the everyday citizen believes and what the superheroing community itself stands for. partially. ]

You're telling me world governments are comfortable with the Avengers acting pre-emptively to prevent crimes on the word of an Inhuman?

[Because THAT is hard to believe.]

From the outside looking in, it looks a helluva lot like Captain Marvel and Maria Hill were working in tandem on this one. [ not that maria hill isn't damaged goods in her own right...

but kate's pretty certain carol danvers answers directly to the president. only she'd not prepared to make that assumption aloud. ]

I know Maria Hill, and I have a hard time believing she'd do something like that.

[A different Maria Hill, though. And Natasha's not sure just how well she knows that one.

But she can't imagine Fury signing on with that, either.]

I know Maria Hill too. [ ... ] But mostly I wish I didn't.

[ kate's history with hill is unpleasant. it didn't matter that the director came through for them in the end -- her behaviour before that point had been top shelf asshole. ]

But then again? Your Captain America's a pussycat compared to ours. Maybe it's the same with Hill.

Well. I can't argue Steve's a pussy cat. Most of the time.

[A slight smile.]

I don't know about you, but cats sometimes feel awful judgmental.

Probably Maria's different too, though. Just like I'm sure I am.

Would it be an insult to suggest that you're, uh, considerably less scary? [ ... ] I mean I'm sure you're just as scary in all the ways it counts. But. Conversationally, the other you is terrifying.

[One of Natasha's brows ratchets up a notch at that assessment.]

So you're saying most of us are kinder and gentler? That's what I'm hearing.

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