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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.]

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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[He does move though. And he observes her technique. He might have just held all of the darts together in three pinchy fingers himself, and figured some way to account for the spread on the fly.

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..?

Edited 2017-09-17 16:53 (UTC)

[ -- is he hoping to knock her off her throw? 'cause they both know she's better than that. from the moment she takes her initial breath, powering straight through his asinine comment, she's got her eye on one goal. it's not a particularly amazing 'trick' shot, but all five darts find the board.

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.

I dunno Kate - I kinda think this here is a teachable moment.

[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.

[ but that's just it -- he is the only one. and where does he get off, eh? going around on his high horse talking about teachable futzing moments. like he's some kinda teacher to her.

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.

You look pretty nudged from where I'm standing.

[He hadn't expected her to get quite that nudged.]

[ oh i'll nudge you. ]

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. ]

No, it doesn't.

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.]

I am. [ she tells him what he already knows. ] I'm one of them.

[ 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. ]

Is that where we're at?

[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.]

[ it rankles her. of course it rankles her. clint broaches the topic of the optics of it all -- of how this looks -- and all she hears is derek bishop in the back of her head. think of the press; think of the headlines; think of the family. it's not want clint means and she knows it.

doesn't make her any less sour to hear it, however. ]

It's a room. It's big room, too. Which comes in hand when I'm stuck looking after your dog. [ ... ] That's all it is.

[She didn't seem to be listening - it wasn't about what things were, it was about what things seemed to be. Who were people going to look to in the next crisis? Shiro? Or Kate? What if the lion-guys were stuck for a moment between their loyalty to Shiro and their duty to the woman in the Captain's seat? A moment's hesitation could be all it took for things to go south.

But there was a point at which continuing to argue was useless. And he felt like he'd reached it. Maybe, after a little time, she'd realize what he was saying. She didn't have to agree with it, but maybe she'd acknowledge it. For now, he stood up and retrieved the darts.]

Okay, no, my mistake then. That's where we're at.

[ -- kate falls back a step. maybe two. earlier on, she'd noticed the aids in his ears and so there's nothing lost when she shoots a comment at his turned back: ]

Good to know you're still as big an asshat as ever.

[ taking a few of her good things here in the fleet and already trying to poison them with his miserly and fatalist approach. old-school doom and gloom. ]

He seems nice.

That's because he is.

[ nice. responsible. stalwart. kate could say all kinds of nice things -- and ordinarily she might. but she's hesitant to fuel whatever fire both clint (and, coincidentally, lance) have sparked in their imaginations. ]

And he's got relevant experience doing this job in space. It seemed like a good idea to ask for his help.

[ there. she'll tell clint that much, then. she'd been captain prime, and had soon-after requested the opportunity to serve together. maybe he already knew it. maybe he didn't. she can't tell for certain how much poking around he'd already done. ]

Lucky likes him.

[At this point he's probably just going to keep saying things that seem, to him, like they shouldn't be inflammatory. Although he might be better off trying for whatever the vocal equivalent of water would be. Clint held his hand in a dart-hurling pinch but thought better of the follow-through, instead handing the handful of darts to Kate. It seemed like she needed to hurl things more than he did.]

I'm sorry for messing with your shot.

[Or, for trying to.]

I was going for a Robin-hood-thing.

[So at least it was on-brand.]

Lucky likes anyone who isn't wearing track pants and who'll give him head scratches.

[ -- she looks at the dog, just then. it's a great excuse to ignore the darts a moment longer. three, two, one, before she snatches them out of his hand. and shakes her head with a sigh. ]

Yeah. That's your new MO isn't it? Travelling outlaw, 'cept without actually being outside the law.

[ gotta love that acquittal. her lip curls. ]

Don't worry, I found my way outside the law in the end.

[He'd like to think Kate wasn't being as malicious as she seemed. He'd like to believe she wasn't trying to throw shade on him for dodging a legal bullet that, were it up to him, he would have stood and taken gratefully.]

Between, what, harboring fugitives and orchestrating acts of terrorism. Threatening the common good.

Edited 2017-09-26 20:55 (UTC)

...Fugitives?

[ if he's looking to hook her curiosity, then he's got it barb and sinker and all. ]

What fugitives?

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