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ɴᴀᴛᴀsʜᴀ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴏғғ ([personal profile] relicta) wrote2015-08-04 12:23 pm

practice for [teleios] .

5,890 years and 2 months


This isn't the way I counted it. [ her ledger is substantial, but the numbers before her eyes are making her head spin. she swallows, tries to compose herself, and looks again. but the numbers don't change, those zeros are next to her name. ]
valuedstrength: (you need to confess)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't go that far. [The whole thing is meaningless at the end of the day.] We're dealing with a pair that makes snap judgments on us and runs off. Their opinions don't count for much in my books.
valuedstrength: (You're blind; I see)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[He is so onto her, but now isn't the time to start fight about it.]

Isn't that my line? It's been months for me. Maybe a year. [He glances down and smiles in amusement.] Is this a bad time to tell you that I've been cheating on you with another Natasha?
valuedstrength: (b: let's start with the end)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I literally have another Natasha in my life. [He pauses a beat as he tries to figure out how best to explain it with movie/tv/pop culture references.]

You know how there's a bunch of different versions of Snow White? Imagine if each of them was a real person. Now imagine the same thing happening to us because it has. A lot.
valuedstrength: (it leaves me cold)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think anything. [Because you know he's wrong 90% of the time when it comes to women.] But, I should you warn about certain things that happened assuming you want to hear them.
valuedstrength: (I'm gonna be released)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Our other Natasha is dating Bruce Banner. It's pretty serious. [Yeah....and now onto the bad.]

You might also run into trouble with people from a certain... Earth. Their Natasha did something terrible enough that no one actually wants to talk about it. They just looked at her like the devil incarnate so that could be a problem.

[A beat.] The good news is I took care of the Bucky situation so no more fighting on highways for us. [Yay?]
valuedstrength: (b: options)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I argued a case that they couldn't hold him accountable for actions that were done without his consent. Bucky was... [He shakes his head.] He wasn't capable of defending himself at the time.

[He leaves it at that. There's no need to get into the awful details. Suffice to say the man barely remembered how to be human and distrusted everything and everyone including Steve. It was an incredibly stressful and dark period for the two of them.]

They went to Bucky to give him the choice of reclaiming his memories and accepting the debt or losing his debt and staying how he was. He chose to take his memories back.
valuedstrength: (And the walls kept tumbling down)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a relief to see him well. [He could live with Bucky never remembering him. Steve couldn't stand to see him struggle to do even the most basic care for himself and lash out at every inanimate object he could get his hands on.]

He couldn't live like that.
valuedstrength: (b: mountains)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[His face falls. It's not surprising for him to here despite how little he knows of any Natasha's story.] I figured you would.

[Just like that he rushes to appease her.] It wasn't all bad. We had time before it happened. The other Natasha told us what might happen to him so when it did we were prepared. The other Avengers knew saving him was my number one priority so it's not like we had to get into a big argument about who I was really loyal to and what I was going to do about him.

[He chose Bucky before the question could even be raised. They seemed to accept that.] Everything's fine now.
valuedstrength: *avengers (Even heroes have the right to bleed)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.] Tony and I aren't exactly close even after all this time. He didn't really have an opinion one way or the other.

[It kind of hurts actually that Steve could more or less declare he picks his best friend over them and no one seemed to be bothered by that. No one ever fought to keep him. Then again they weren't as close back then as they are now. Bruce and Pepper at least would say something now.

Here comes the moment of truth. Steve has to take a breath to brace himself.]


I know. [Bucky kind of spilled that one ages ago.] I was mad at you for not telling me for a long time. I told myself I'd never be stupid enough to trust you again back when I first found out.

[It was hard not to feel betrayed after all they went through. The fact that the other Natasha had told him everything from day one only further solidified his anger.] Seeing you now I guess I can't find it in myself to be angry anymore. It's just nice to see you again.
valuedstrength: (Am I gonna be an optimist about this?)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-04 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[It helps he never expected one. Steve lets it go with ease.] Yeah, she's actually in her eighties so it makes a little more sense than you and him.

[Because wow is he ever too old for her otherwise. Like seriously what would they even talk about? Then again he never got the impression Bruce and the older Natasha did much "talking" while they were alone. God help him. The man is like a little brother to him now. He shouldn't have to notice that.]

She got a version of the super soldier serum on her world so she looks about your age more or less. Her eyes are blue too.

[Fun fact.]
valuedstrength: (welcome to your life)

[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-05 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He's already resting a hand on her shoulder. Yeah he gets that part is the weirdest.] Look at it this way: it's like having a much older twin sister. Aren't you excited to know three fossils now?

[He already knows she isn't.]
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[personal profile] valuedstrength 2015-08-05 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
That's the spirit. [He smiles enough for the two of them.] We have cool stuff you're gonna love. I have a dog and you can see my old apartment from the 40s.

[It has all kinds of stuff she can look through in other words. Her snoopy self will love it.]

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