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[westcoasts]

Hey. ( "so I know we haven't really talked since our last argument—." mm, no. "sorry for being a dick"? maybe, but it's not really the opener he wants to go with. just not acknowledging the argument at all? yeah, maybe—. ) Nat's here, by the way.

She's not the one from our world, but... I thought you should know.

[mockingbirdy]

[ You’d think that after all the fighting she’d be more hesitant or tempted to ignore it but it’s Clint. And Nat is one of both of their good friends. Even maybe Clint’s best one is they were to put words to it so when he says it’s not her she worries about him.]

It’s still weird every time.

You doing okay with it ?

[westcoasts]

( does he know how to answer that? not really. it is weird, and he feels like it shouldn't be. they've experienced weirder, objectively speaking, and yet.

(he hasn't mentioned to bobbi that he's spoken to bucky (""bucky""), and if he had maybe this conversation would be a little simpler.) )

Yeah.

( "yeah, it's weird" or "yeah, he's doing okay"? yes to one of those, but he's not sure which. )

you know, i don't think i say this very much about other places, but their earth sounds really messed up.

and i don't think i've mentioned i hate alternate universes yet today, so... i'm saying it now.

[mockingbirdy]

[ You’d think with all the trauma and bullshit they’ve both been through they wouldn’t be as weird about all of it but she still is. ]

I met a couple others in the labyrinth. One on the network.

Only one of them knew who Bobbi was.

[ She doesn’t mention yet that Daisy seemed to suggest that she sacrificed herself in some way to save her and some other people.]

1/2

[westcoasts]

you're literally a spy, birdie.

( sent first, entirely by itself because it's important, okay. )

[westcoasts]

bucky? i spoke to bucky.

he's different, too.

( but that's totally fine, in all honesty. )

[mockingbirdy]

[ He is not wrong? But she’s still not sure that it’s related at all. ]

Quake. It seemed really different.

Like Bobbi was super important to her.

[ It’s so much more than that but it’s a start. They were friends of course. Clint and her and been on the Secret Avengers under Director Johnson but she seemed really different. Hell Daisy was probably closer to actual Bucky as they’d gone to space together for a long time once they’d saved Bobbi.

She’d almost forgotten about them weird network interaction with Bucky too. She hadn’t counted the other numbers. ]

[westcoasts]

what's that movie? the butterfly effect? where like, even a sneeze makes a difference or whatever.

( great explanation. )

[mockingbirdy]

[ She’d just been thinking about how she wished they were having this conversation in person but that thank god it isn’t because she makes a face. ]

I guess. She’d never met the famous Hawkeye.

Peter Parker had no idea who Bobbi was either. But apparently he doesn’t actually exist in his world so maybe that’s less weird.

[westcoasts]

what?

( ...what? how does someone exist but also not exist? )

there's lots of people that haven't met me, bobbi, that's not... that weird.

( there's probably a joke about meeting the less famous hawkeye somewhere in there, but he's not really in the mood to make it. )

i don't know, i can barely keep our earth straight, let alone another earth or two.

[mockingbirdy]

Did Nat know you?


[ She doesn’t answer anything else. It’s complicated and a mess and she doesn’t know how all of it works.

Doesn’t point out that it’s weird that maybe someone who is close to Bobbi doesn’t know Clint. That it makes her worried that there’s worlds she doesn’t know him.

It’s selfish and so different and she doesn’t have the right to be weird about any of it. They haven’t been a couple in a very long time. ]

[westcoasts]

i mean, she knows A clint barton.

( "you". it's not him, and that's the point, isn't it? she's not nat. )

he's short, apparently.

[mockingbirdy]

Right. Sorry words are hard.

I was starting to get worried there was a Clint out there without a hot spy to give him shit.

Short? Wow that’s tragically uncool.

[westcoasts]

( words are hard, and this conversation has managed to derail itself from where clint orginally planned on going with it, partly because clint doesn't really want for it to go in the direction he'd originally planned. )

brunette, too.

like i said, their world sounds ... weird.

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[mockingbirdy]

Steve Rogers is still tall and blonde and handsome.

Hey, at least we’re not having to meet these versions of each other. That’s gotta be weird as fuck for Sharon.

2/2

[mockingbirdy]

[ Fuck! ]

I guess that’s exactly what you did with Nat.

Sorry Clint, I don’t know how I forgot that.

[westcoasts]

it's fine.

( it's not fine. )

it was a long time ago.

( apart from the fucking in a supply closet thing, but—. )

she didn't, for what it's worth.

( perhaps he'd clarify how that came up if he was thinking about how it might come across, but for now, it's just the statement by itself. )

[mockingbirdy]

[ She’d been thinking about herself as the relationship that would be weirdest because she’d never known Clint when he’d had anything romantic with her. That she knows of. No one ever mentioned the end of the world stuff to her, besides she couldn’t judge that it had made her date Parker. ]

she didn’t what?

[westcoasts]

with her clint.

( which, ultimately, isn't the issue here. it's the least important of the entire NATASHA IS DIFFERENT conversation, but of course it's the part of the topic they've ended up on.

(probably because it's not important, really.)

it's a message that's punctuated by a series of "..." and then, finally— )

had a thing with banner though, which is kind of ironic.

( is it actually ironic, or is it the alanis morissette definition of ironic? either way, it's easier to to type than 'she's dead, apparently.' )

[mockingbirdy]

Huh.

I bet that would drive Bucky a little crazy.

Other Bobbi apparently disappeared on Daisy to save ‘them’ whoever that was. She didn’t know what happened to her.

I can’t stop thinking about that bit.

[westcoasts]

( "didn't know what happened to [bobbi]."

well, that's familiar, isn't it—.

it's a comment he types out, looks at for a minute, and then decides that it's unfair. he's not trying to have an argument, even if that would probably be easiest.

at length— )

other clint has a fucking farm.

[mockingbirdy]

[ She said thought the same thing though ]


God. I bet it’s in Iowa.

[ She’s starting to realize just how much she likes Clint the way he is, even if they are a mess together sometime. ]

Our world might be horrible in some ways but at least we have New York.

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[westcoasts]

i didn't ask.

( and god, he hopes not. )

can you imagine me on a farm?

( when the actual question is "can you imagine me married to someone that's not you with three kids?" )

feels like there's a point where questions stop being constructive and just start being a whole series of what ifs.

( which— )

[westcoasts]

someone smarter than me probably knows where the line sits better when it comes to that.

[mockingbirdy]

[ She really takes a minute to think about all the possibilities. ]

Not at all.

The closest I could think of was like, a suburb with a yard for Lucky and a big grill.

[ Maybe a pool where she images them together but it’s not fair to say that.]

I’d probably tease you about it that you bought a place just far enough away so that I don’t wanna go home at night and sleep over more when I visit you.