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[stupidcupid]

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

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

Comments

[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.

[stupidcupid]

Maybe not. But I rather make it simple.

[avengeme]

[he's almost proud]

You're already thinking like them.

[stupidcupid]

Maybe it's contagious.

[avengeme]

Probably.

[stupidcupid]

You did too.

[avengeme]

[questioning look]

[stupidcupid]

You started to believe.

[avengeme]

Had to adapt to the situation.