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[vagabond_code]

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!))

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[ladybro]

[ uhm -- what a day! she's been down on the planet, shopping. shopping with billy, actually, and that in and of itself is something of a wonderful thing. there's a bounce in her step and a whistle on her lips when she 'rounds the corner to the hallway where the blameless's quarters are kept.

and when she pops into the captain's room (her room) she finds a familiar figure sitting at her vanity, his feet propped up on the table and his mitts all over her darts. an excellent throw or two have already been lodged in the board above her bed.

kate swears, colourfully, under her breath. lucky gets to his feet with a groan and comes a-wagging her way, winding briefly between her calves before taking a seat. she leans down, rubs the back of his head, and glances at the interloper. ]

...You're back. [ he remembers being here, right? he must. god, she doesn't know if that's a good or a bad thing. but if he came here, if he came looking for her? he must. ]

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[vagabond_code]

Kate!

[He swings his feet down and stands, throwing the dart he's holding as an afterthought - to free up his hands. Triple twenty.]

Should we hug?

[There's none of the irony in his voice that she might expect - he actually lifted his arms part-way and then realized the two of them might be from radically different times, or this might not be the Kate he remembers, or something.]

You were gone a while.

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[ladybro]

I was gone for a while? [ a bit of bluster; a bit of pain. ] Says you.

[ but she decides they should hug. briefly, at least, as she closes the distance and wraps him in a very short-lived hug. they weren't much for hugging ever before, and definitely not during his stay in the fleet, but kate's made a lot of peace with his actions in his absence. she's talked the problem out.

she's prepared to feel happy at seeing him again. ]

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[wingedman]

[squiiiiiiiiint]

You look...different. You sure you're Clint Barton?

[...but who else would like arrows that much?

(He hasn't met Kate yet, obviously.)]

It's not just the bandage, either.

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[vagabond_code]

[He's definitely happy to see her. But he pulls away too when she gives the signals.]

Says us.

[The other one of us is Lucky, obvs.]

I guess it's been five months? Even longer than that for me. How much do you remember happening after my trial?

[Not "after I killed Bruce". He just doesn't want to say those words.]

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[ladybro]

[ her nervous, excited energy at seeing him again dissipates with a gut-punch realization. he remembers. all kate can do, at first, is nod her confirmation that it has indeed been about five months.

but she's been down this alley-way before. she knows better than to just blab. ]

Depends. How much do you remember?

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[vagabond_code]

That's what it says on the card--

[Pause while he rifles around for his Avenger card, which feels like an oddly familiar thing to do at this particular moment. He doesn't have it, though. Of course.]

Don't have the card. Okay. We know each other?

Action | Iskaulit

[takingkarabusiness]

[ Kara's wandering about the Iskaulit, needing a change of scenery from her room & ship for the time being. She catches sight of him and does a bit of a double take ]

Clint?

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[vagabond_code]

Some bad stuff happened after that. You went to L.A, I went everywhere else. Reality got screwed up. Like, really screwed up. Why does it depend?

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[ladybro]

I've been thinking a lot. Lately. [ she takes a seat on the foot of her bed. lucky leaps up, groaning on old bones, and curls up beside her. ] Like about what it means to tell someone too much about what they might not already know.

[ sounds like he's a little further than her, for example. so she shakes her head and offers: ] I'm still in LA.

[vagabond_code]

Kara, hey - you're still here.

[He'd been walking fairly slowly, but even so when he stops dead it takes a moment for Lucky to notice, and the tug on his leash jerks him more than he'd probably be comfortable with. He pads over to Clint's ankles with an 'urf']

[wingedman]

Well, I know a guy named Clint Barton back home, and he's real fond of bows and arrows. And birds.

[Sam, like you have room to talk.]

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[outstandingbalance]

Hey. [Not her Clint, but still a Clint. Natasha hadn't entirely decided how she felt about that when he left last time, but if awkward, it hadn't been a negative relationship.

She can't help but remember the conversation she had with Kate after he left.] You missed a party. And having our heads messed with.

So call it about even?

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she kneels down ]

Aw, hey, Lucky.

[ Then she stands to talk to Clint, making sure her lips are visible, if that's still a concern ]

Turns out I am. I shouldn't say "welcome back" but I know a few people who will be happy to see you.

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[vagabond_code]

So you have a lot of shit not to look forward to.

[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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[ladybro]

Sure. Yeah. I know that much. [ that what they learn here doesn't translate to what they know back home. ] But what I told you -- [ bruce banner ] -- it futzed you up while you were still here.

[ 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. ]

[vagabond_code]

Okay so maybe I know a guy called you. What're you called?

[Or, who are you called? Sorry, the question got away from him a little.]

[wingedman]

[Yes, Sam, introductions might help. Maybe.]

Sam Wilson. [A pause, and then-] Falcon.

[vagabond_code]

That many?

[This is genuine surprise, not self-pity. He could probably count the number of times he left his ship last time on one of his hands. Not many opportunities to meet and greet.

It's good of her to make sure he can see her lips, but he's overtly not watching them.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, Kate, me, Lucky. I'm sure Natasha will be, too.

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[vagabond_code]

Nat.

[Clint looks a little bewildered. He rubs the right side of his face subconsciously. Although he knows this is Black Widow, it isn't his Black Widow. What a trip. He imagines that in this moment the big-brother cameras are watching his every micro-expression.]

People messing with your head huh - sucks.

[The audience probably would have got a laugh out of that. Along with his ineffective...]

You alright?

[Just give him a beat. He'll catch up soon.]

[vagabond_code]

[Sam Wilson.

Or as Clint knows him, Captain America.]

Yeah, hey, we do have one of those. One of you. Are you as sick of this alternate-dimension stuff as I am? It got old fast last time.

[vagabond_code]

[Has Kara been talking to Nat? Why has she been talking to Nat?]

Furiosa, maybe. She still here?

[About Clint?]

They gave me a new ship. Feels... weird. I should go drop by the old one.

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[vagabond_code]

[This sounded like apologizing. Why would she apologizing?]

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.]

[takingkarabusiness]

I'm not sure I know her.

That would be very strange; I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. Are you going to try to transfer back?