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paradisalogs2013-04-28 10:12 pm
well_assembled) wrote in paradisalogs2013-04-28 10:12 pm
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I pace the floors this empty house
Who: Natasha Romanoff and Leonard Church
What: Calling in a favor.
When: Sunday night
Where: Stark.. the former Stark Tower
Rating: PG13 for language, will up if things change
Natasha had told Church he could come by and store his things at the tower might as well get some use out of the place. She’d had the stand in Jarvis AI work up a set of codes for him that would allow him entry to the building. It would be safe enough and since so few people used it tracking the comings and goings of the place were easy enough.
He’d sent her a message stating he was ready to come by so she waited in the lobby, leaning against a pillar just inside. No big deal right, just doing a favor, ensuring security of potentially dangerous armor and weapons. Yeah, nothing personally vested in this at all.
What: Calling in a favor.
When: Sunday night
Where: Stark.. the former Stark Tower
Rating: PG13 for language, will up if things change
Natasha had told Church he could come by and store his things at the tower might as well get some use out of the place. She’d had the stand in Jarvis AI work up a set of codes for him that would allow him entry to the building. It would be safe enough and since so few people used it tracking the comings and goings of the place were easy enough.
He’d sent her a message stating he was ready to come by so she waited in the lobby, leaning against a pillar just inside. No big deal right, just doing a favor, ensuring security of potentially dangerous armor and weapons. Yeah, nothing personally vested in this at all.
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Ok, so it wasn't something he did to piss her off. She's never struck him as the sort of person that would dance around that kind of thing.
Still, he knows an eggshell when he steps on one.
"Alright" He nods. "Let me go get a shirt."
He motions back to... well, guess it's 'his room' now. Then for her to stay put.
"I'll be right back."
He trots back to fetch a clean shirt.
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Why was she doing this? It wasn't as though she was some sort of nympho that thought about sex all the time. Alright it had been good, but that wasn't reason for her to react like this.
Part of her knew what it was and she was just too paranoid to admit it. She sighed and strode back to his room. "I'm sorry, and if you knew me you'd know that does not come easily."
She wasn't looking at him, her gaze was on the floor, but all the same she was there. "This whole thing is about keeping you safe, from whatever is going on out there. I don't want to make things awkward or difficult. So, I'm sorry."
Miles from the whole truth but it was something.
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Church pulls his shirt on roughly... he's sick of being coddled. He might not be a fuckin' 'super-solder' but he's not an incompetent idiot.
He's about to tell her just that when it hits him, the way she's standing, her tone... she's genuinely concerned. Not just in a 'you're an idiot' way either.
"I... I've dealt with Freelancers before."
He takes a couple of steps toward her and pauses. What is going to do... take her in his arms? Tell her everything is going to be ok? He balls his fists and sighs.
"York worries... Hell, during that Wonderland thing he asked me if I needed a 'rescue mission'. Because the singing flowers might get me."
He chuckles and subtly raises a hand out to her. Keep things light... no pressure. She can safely ignore the hand if she wants and neither of them has too feel like they were snubbing the other. Or being snubbed.
"Carolina isn't a threat to me. I'm just making it so York has one less thing to worry about. And, well..."
He clears his throat and shifts slightly.
"I don't want you to worry either."
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She reads his movement, the hesitation there, the decision and how his poster changed. What if he had? Would she have let him?
“Well then we’ll give York one less thing to worry about, this is a secure environment, it’s better for you and better for Carolina. The less she fucks with the better for everyone.”
That last though, she shrugged it off.
“I’m used to people dying on me, it’s not pleasant but somehow I keep on surviving. I’d just like that track record to change a little bit.”
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He chuckles mirthlessly.
"All of us. York and the others owe me a favor or two. If I have to, I'll just call them in."
He shrugs. He'd like to think they'd help out because they were his 'team' here... but it was good to have insurance. He might think they're good people and he'd fight with them if it came down to it... but that doesn't mean he trusts them. He doesn't really trust anyone.
"I know, but I'm not going to die."
I've already done that, he thought bitterly. Still, he knew what it was like to loose people. Jimmmy and the rest at Sidewinder... Tex (even though he still clung to the hope that she survived somehow).
Tucker and Caboose had been shipped off somewhere else. At least he could enjoy the ambiguity of not knowing what happens to them.
Harper... well, at least he wasn't going back to his death like the Freelancers here.
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“Good to have a team.” She nodded but didn’t expand on that, she knew teams could be the difference between life and death, but she didn’t have hers anymore.
“Everybody dies. Some people die a long time before they figure it out.” And sometimes by some fluke you get to keep living even though you should have died a long time ago. You can do things you shouldn’t be able to, you become something never intended. She was like that, the people she’d cared for were like that too. And she hurts like hell because of it.
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He nods. Good, they had some ground rules and they both knew this was just a temporary thing.
"Yeah, it's good to have a team again. Even if they are a bunch of assholes."
Or crazy bitches.
Church looks away at the 'everybody dies'. Part of him knows he should tell her about the whole 'ghost' thing. More of him doesn't want her to know... he doesn't want to risk it. Plus, it's kind of embarrassing.
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She nodded to the rest, she'd already learned that 'crazy bitch' and 'asshole' were often as close as he got to terms of endearment with people.
"So, ready for the tour or what?" She changed the subject and leaned back on her heels.
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He's grateful for the change in subject. He manages a smile and get's ready to follow her out of the room.