[IC]

[stupidcupid]

[ slipping back inside quietly, cradling his left hand after this went down ]

[ he ruffles through his cabinet to get the bandages . . . ]

Comments

[avengeme]

You're welcome.

[sitting nearby]

I think I'm spoiling Stark.

[stupidcupid]

[...]

Sorry, I thought you said you were spoiling Stark.

[avengeme]

I did.

[stupidcupid]

With all due respect sir, what the fuck does that even mean?

[avengeme]

He figured out I was hiding because there stopped being cooked food on the table.

[stupidcupid]

That's how he figured out? Real genius, that one.

[avengeme]

He's easily distracted.

[stupidcupid]

I'm not playing guinea pig to Stark so you can get away, Coulson.

[avengeme]

He's not doing that already?

[stupidcupid]

[dick]

Not from lack of trying. They don't know how to handle me.

[avengeme]

You're not easy to handle.

...And they don't think like us.

[stupidcupid]

Do you think that maybe we should learn to think like them?

[avengeme]

[sighs] I've thought about it.

[stupidcupid]

And?

[avengeme]

It's worth a try here but SHIELD protocols are what they are.

[stupidcupid]

Our protocols aren't everything. You broke a few confronting Loki, remember?

[avengeme]

[shrugs] It was a special circumstance.

Thinking like them isn't the problem.

[stupidcupid]

Isn't it?

[avengeme]

[wry smile] There's a lot of reasons SHIELD keeps secrets and they'll want to know.

[stupidcupid]

Have they asked?

[avengeme]

[pointed look]

[stupidcupid]

I don't mean Barnes, I mean have they asked about we know about them?

[avengeme]

No.

[stupidcupid]

Then?

[avengeme]

... it's not that simple, Barton.