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driftfleet2017-09-10 08:02 pm
vagabond_code) wrote in driftfleet2017-09-10 08:02 pm
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Who: Clint "Hawkeye" Barton and you's all
Broadcast: Video
Action: Introductions on The Caprine, Katie-waiting on the Blameless and dog-walking aboard the Iskaulit
When: Action immediately following the shuffle, video in the days after.
Action | The SS Caprine, the SS Blameless and then the Iskaulit
[Immediately after the shuffle, Clint spends some time milling around on SS Caprine, knocking on doors or on the walls beside entranceways, poking his head in places. New ship, new faces. Does anyone on this ship play the drums at odd hours of the night? Is that a thing he should worry about? Do the kitchens have coffee? What's the space-mold situation in the corners of these space-rooms? Inquiring minds must know. Inquiring minds wearing standard-issue jump-suits.
But Clint stays off the network for a little while. Why? Because he wants to find Kate Bishop in person, first. That feels important to him -- not to settle for firing off a quick text message. After all, back home, it would be putting the situation mildly to say that they don't hang out as much as they used to. He hopes to find her still billeted on the Blameless... and... Okay. she's gone when he gets there, but Lucky is sleeping on her bed. In the Captain's room. So that answers that, and more besides. After a brief and joyful reunion with much shushing and good-boying Clint opts to knock out two birds with one stone and takes Lucky for a walk on the Iskaulit in case the Hawkeye to his Hawkeye should happen to be hanging out there.
Of course, since she's not there, he doesn't find her. And when Lucky tires Clint returns to the Blameless, again (weirdly, it feels less like trespassing to loiter here than on his own ship, and he feels less guilty drinking the coffee from Kate's kitchen than his own now that his own kitchen is on a strange ship full of strangers.) Finally, when at last he feels his welcome is being overstayed, Hawkeye retires to Kate's room to await her there.]
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[In the days that follow, feel free to contact him remotely. For his part, Clint does address the fleet with a short- ]
Hey.
This is Clint Barton, here to help with all your bow-and-or-arrow based needs. I've been here before, as some of you know. It's been about ...
[He looks at his hand, and the back at the camera.]
Five months?
So, what did I miss.
((ooc: if anyone should want to incorporate/continue CR from the test drive, by all means. It would have taken place while he was walking Lucky on the Iskaulit. That's canon now!))
Broadcast: Video
Action: Introductions on The Caprine, Katie-waiting on the Blameless and dog-walking aboard the Iskaulit
When: Action immediately following the shuffle, video in the days after.
Action | The SS Caprine, the SS Blameless and then the Iskaulit
[Immediately after the shuffle, Clint spends some time milling around on SS Caprine, knocking on doors or on the walls beside entranceways, poking his head in places. New ship, new faces. Does anyone on this ship play the drums at odd hours of the night? Is that a thing he should worry about? Do the kitchens have coffee? What's the space-mold situation in the corners of these space-rooms? Inquiring minds must know. Inquiring minds wearing standard-issue jump-suits.
But Clint stays off the network for a little while. Why? Because he wants to find Kate Bishop in person, first. That feels important to him -- not to settle for firing off a quick text message. After all, back home, it would be putting the situation mildly to say that they don't hang out as much as they used to. He hopes to find her still billeted on the Blameless... and... Okay. she's gone when he gets there, but Lucky is sleeping on her bed. In the Captain's room. So that answers that, and more besides. After a brief and joyful reunion with much shushing and good-boying Clint opts to knock out two birds with one stone and takes Lucky for a walk on the Iskaulit in case the Hawkeye to his Hawkeye should happen to be hanging out there.
Of course, since she's not there, he doesn't find her. And when Lucky tires Clint returns to the Blameless, again (weirdly, it feels less like trespassing to loiter here than on his own ship, and he feels less guilty drinking the coffee from Kate's kitchen than his own now that his own kitchen is on a strange ship full of strangers.) Finally, when at last he feels his welcome is being overstayed, Hawkeye retires to Kate's room to await her there.]
Video
[In the days that follow, feel free to contact him remotely. For his part, Clint does address the fleet with a short- ]
Hey.
This is Clint Barton, here to help with all your bow-and-or-arrow based needs. I've been here before, as some of you know. It's been about ...
[He looks at his hand, and the back at the camera.]
Five months?
So, what did I miss.
((ooc: if anyone should want to incorporate/continue CR from the test drive, by all means. It would have taken place while he was walking Lucky on the Iskaulit. That's canon now!))
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[Clint returns to the dart board and reclaims his projectiles. Well. Kate's projectiles.]
I didn't remember any of this stuff when I went back home. You could have laid out the next twenty years of my life and it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference.
[She had told him he killed Bruce. He remembers now. He didn't remember when it counted.]
I'm thinking it doesn't mean much.
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[ there are no kid gloves. there never needed to be. and that's half-a-relief. it's good to be honest with him. it reminds her of how things should be. ]
Don't even pretend like it didn't. I could have spared you that.
[ should have. ]
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You know what Kate? I would have been pissed if you hadn't tried to warn me.
[He figures that's what she'd been doing. Nothing else made sense.]
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[ but that's not fair, is it? she hadn't been warning him. she'd been accusing him. raking him over the coals 'cause he'd cut her out of the picture the first time around. ]
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It was the sort of thing that should futz us up. Both of us. It should still be futzing us up.
[It should. It is.]
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[ because she can read between the lines. it should, it is. he's not well, even if he's acting so. ]
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[This isn't the time for weird generation-Y callbacks, Kate. There's a time and place for everything, but not now.]
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[ HONESTLY. ]
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[He's trying. Really.]
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[ can you hear alla this relief? ]
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Hey. Reckon you can Domitian these things?
[He'd done an admirable job of changing the subject, he thought. And now he was appealing to her showmanship. A bit unfair, maybe, but given the brevity of that hug it didn't seem like they were in the right place to discuss their feelings]
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What, four at once?
[ she sees the attempt for what it is. she's grateful for it. and far be it from her to let it go unused. kate stands up, rolls the darts between her hands, and then holds out an empty palm. ]
Futz it. I can do five.
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[He knows, because four was a bad idea. He hands her the dart anyway though. If Hawkeyes balked at bad ideas they'd never get anything done.]
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[ she stands up. and she divides the darts between her hands -- two in one, three in the other. ]
Get out of the way, Barton.
[ she waves in his direction. would hate to take out an eye. ]
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Oh well. He waits until she's about to release the darts. And ever so innocently says,]
So you and Shiro room-mates in here or..?
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and a half-beat after they do? oh, she rounds on him. ]
What the hell do you mean, huh? [ roommates. honestly. but he tells her a lot by risking her wrath -- apparently, he's met shiro. or someone else who knows shiro. and he knows about the shared captaincy.
so, yeah, she know exactly what he means by that. ] It's not like that. My God, is it ever not like that.
[ she jabs a finger in his direction. ]
You need to try a lot harder than this to make me futz up a shot. You oughta know better.
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[Losing her cool, finger in his chest and everything. It's true that she got her job done all calm and collected, but she won't always get to decide when the need for self-control is over.]
If I know this is gunna piss you off and I got here like an hour ago, you know I'm not the only one.
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not anymore. ]
Yeah? And anyone else saying it wouldn't have mattered. [ her cheeks puff out with the confession. ] Besides. I don't think you wanna start slinging this particular brand of mud. You know I have more on you than you'll ever have on me.
[ at least, when it comes to relationships. or not-relationships, as the case may be. ]
But it's insulting you'd think for a second I could be so easily 'nudged' off my game.
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[He hadn't expected her to get quite that nudged.]
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It's a cheap shot. Look around this room -- you're at least a half as observant as I am. Does it look like I'm sharing it with anyone outside of Lucky? [ hands on her hips. yeah. she doesn't think so.
he'd asked a question he already knew the answer to. and all just to bug her. ]
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If you asked me, I'd say you were the captain of this ship.
[Which is exactly the problem. Once Shiro had explained the situation he might have put money on the fact that Kate would sooner have let the Captain's room go empty than occupy it herself.
The fact that she slept here sent a message. He just wanted to make sure it was sending the right message.]
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[ but kate's a clever girl. she can read between his lines and suss out what he's trying to say. even so, she's not about to hand him her justification on a platter. ]
But go on. Ask. I dare you.
[ -- lucky, meanwhile, is napping through yet another round of hawkeye v hawkeye. sounds like home, really. ]
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[She knew, of course, that whatever she was daring him to ask there was no way he was going to do it. Not after a dare of all things.]
You need to be careful, Kate, of how this looks. That's all.
[If Shiro had described their situation any other way it would have been a whole different thing. But he had said co-captains, and she wasn't treating it that way. Maybe they had some sort of arrangement, maybe they switched rooms every new system or something, but Clint still had the sore jaw to remind him of what had happened when his joint leadership of the resistance had turned bad on a dime. Him and Natasha. And it had happened because as far as Nat was concerned, Clint didn't appear to be doing everything he could to stop the force that threatened them.
In leadership, appearances mattered.]
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