1st Flight - text

[swissarmybow]

[Alright, so Hawkeye may, in fact, have spent some time going through the device and getting familiar with it, and he may have read up on the situation at hand, but he's not one to run in without a plan. Well, not into all-out war, anyway. He may also have noticed some familiar people in the archives.

Unobtrusive, he stands in a corner of the banquet hall, sending out a short message:]

I heard there's some things that need shooting. My kind of welcome.

Comments

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[kneecaptain]

Really, though. I dunno what you want me to say. I've been professionally stupid since I was sixteen.

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[swissarmybow]

Professionally? That's a hell of a statement. What do you do that makes you stupid?

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[kneecaptain]

I said I was in the army, didn't I? [ See he makes jokes. ]

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[swissarmybow]

[Fffft okay that was funny.]

Early recruit.

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[kneecaptain]

I was fifteen, when I enlisted, if you wanna get technical. [ He didn't get the sidekick gig until sixteen, though. ]

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[swissarmybow]

I waited 'til my twenties to get stupid. Haven't regretted a day.

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[kneecaptain]

Yeah?

[Mentally filing this under: things real Clint Barton wouldn't do. ]

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[swissarmybow]

[Excuse you, real is relative.]

SHIELD conscript. If you've even heard of SHIELD.

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[kneecaptain]

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Yeah, me and Fury go way back.

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[swissarmybow]

Me and him go back far enough.

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[kneecaptain]

Kind of a jerk, isn't he?

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[swissarmybow]

Yeah, but it works for me.

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[kneecaptain]

Crap at poker, though. [ He says this like it's a private joke, because that's what it is. ]

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[swissarmybow]

I can't imagine one eye lends itself to a good poker face.

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[kneecaptain]

You know, it's weird, but I forget that he's lost it, sometimes.

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[swissarmybow]

It's kinda our inside joke at the lunch table.

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[kneecaptain]

What, that the guy lost an eye?

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[swissarmybow]

We like to put stuff in his blind spot. I don't know how any of us still have jobs.

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[kneecaptain]

Because who else'd take the job?

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[swissarmybow]

Damn good point.

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[kneecaptain]

I make 'em, sometimes.

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[swissarmybow]

Keep 'em coming, and I'll try not to step on your alternate-universe toes.