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"It's a miracle I ended up halfway sane with a home life and, y'know, alive." Don't ask him how he did it, because he has no idea most of the time. What a trip it's been. Because he easily could've had a whole hell of a lot worse happen to him when he was young and ended up on the streets all his life or dead before he ever got recruited. Figuring out relationships as an adult and not exactly having a good frame of reference from youth wasn't fun. And here he is.

Wild.

"Banner's off hanging out in some Mexico lab he and Stark built. Now that he's got his shit mostly sorted, he really deserves to just retire and take care of himself. Thor's always off on some quest to find himself or something; he was never gonna confine himself to just Earth anyway." Which, yes, then makes him the last Avenger otherwise, except: "I'm also retired. You know that, right? I'm so retired. Getting the band back together to save the universe feels like it doesn't really count. God, is being an Avenger one of those jobs? You can never really leave it."

And, well, he spent several years very decidedly not retired in the least. But in a different sense.

"It might be one of those jobs you either have to die or fuck off in time to get away from, I guess Sam is like one of you now or something?" He asks with a chuckle. It really was weird as he thought about it all, the shield passing on and all that junk. He was glad it had all avoided him.

"Maybe it's like a cult and the only way to get out is to not get in. Thank god, with Steve gone I'll never have to risk being dragged into that shit..." he says with a smirk.

"Hey, he was training at the Avengers compound before he ever got the shield; he's definitely one of us. He's god damn Captain America, and he's gonna drag you into so much shit." Because that's what Captains America do, as far as he's concerned. You get Cap calling you up, you go.

"No no, I always said I was following Steve from Brooklyn and not Captain America. This one is yours to follow," he teases back at him. "I did my duty on that one, it's time for someone else to be 'caps best friend' for once. Please you can't think I can replace Steve that quickly, it's not like you're running around best friends with Yelena now."

"And which one of us has hung out with Sam's family and had kiddos hanging off his arm? Sounds to me you guys are getting pretty buddy-buddy already." Just saying! "And your new good friend definitely hasn't tried to kill you yet, so it's not the same kind of situation at all."

"You know-- speaking of which? Why did Yelena try to kill you?" he asks changing the subject. He's not really sure how Clint knows all about that, but he assumes it's more spy shit and he doesn't want to get into it.

Yelena trying to kill him however -- that was something more interesting.

Wilson's a good dude who's not out to kill teammates. He figures it's a good guess that attempted murder hasn't happened. Yelena doesn't have a team. She has herself and whatever's left of the Black Widows.

"She got hired to." The long and the short of it. The fact that she hadn't come after him sooner, in spite of the desire for revenge, is...a little alarming, actually. Because she doesn't strike him as the type to be motivated by money. (At least, not to that amount.) Was she biding her time, in mourning? Did she get told what had happened? Which meant that that story got out somehow, and it sure as hell wasn't Clint talking to anyone outside the time heist group.

Concerning. But, now that the issue is resolved, not a problem. Anymore.

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