[open] august starstruck mingle

[wingedman]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: n/a
Action: Starstruck
When: August 1-31

Everyone on the Starstruck is regretting their life and their choices. Why does anyone want to visit this ship again?

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[outstandingbalance]

You might consider that you weren't in the best place just then either.

[She sighs, squeezing his hand, then submitting to the fact this is going to happen and pulling him down for a hug.]

Well, whoever you figure out you are... try to be kind to him?

[Natasha knows better than just about anyone how hard what she's asking is, but she means it.]

[uprightness]

Nat, I'm not sure I remember what a 'best place' looks like.

[ maybe like coney island during a late afternoon, hot dog in one hand soda in another, with bucky. a lifetime ago. they'd stay at the beach until nighttime, watching the lights. ]

It's been a few years.

[ his tone is dry until she tugs him closer. steve leans into it for a moment, tucks his chin against her shoulder. ]

I promise I'll try my best.

[ and, just to try and make her smile - ]

are you here to check up on me or steal our coffee again?

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha considers letting him get away with it. She's willing to believe it's true, that he's been struggling since he came out of the ice. But she doesn't want him to miss her point, or to let him talk himself out of listening to her.

She pats his shoulder.]

I won't say it hadn't been a while, but even then you weren't usually watching the Avengers fall apart just after one of the only two people who you knew before going in the ice's funeral, and the government started going after the other one.

[Look, just hear her out that both you and Tony might have been more than a little emotionally compromised at the time.

She lets him go then and lets him change the subject with his joke, smiling just a little.]

And if wanted to drink your coffee, I'd be drinking it. I know where the kitchen is.

[uprightness]

--- are you implying we've all been having a few bad days?

[ he's smiling, however. it does seem that since his return to the world, they've gotten very few breaks from dangers and perils. ]

What have you been stocking up on? seems like you can buy just about anything on this planet.

[outstandingbalance]

Maybe I am. Maybe I'm just saying you don't have to go all in on something based on that.

But I'm not saying don't make adjustments, or take some more time if you need it.

[She'd never say that.]

As for stocking up... there's plenty of food. Plenty of weapons.

[She does not mention she's been looking for a throw rug for Barnes's floor. For various reasons, but she will say:] Maybe a few things to make hanging around on spaceships more comfortable.

[uprightness]

That's a good idea. We could use a few more things for the room now that it got bigger.

[ maybe a footstool or a quilt or some nice pillows. ]

and we could always use more food.

[ mostly it's his fault :| ]

[outstandingbalance]

[Almost all of it is his fault, let's be real.]

Pick it up while you can. The city has just about everything you can ask for.

[She's smiling a little then, though.]

So how's that going for you? The bigger room.

[uprightness]

[ that's a metaphorical question, isn't it? ]

It's going very well.

[ ahem. ]

it was a good decision.

[outstandingbalance]

[Is it? It could be.]

Good. That's what I want to hear. We could use a win.