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"It's Clint; you just missed me. You know how this ends."

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after a call that didn't go through—

[carmesi]

why does your voicemail sound so dramatic?
my phone has sticky buttons

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Everyone knows to leave a message after the tone. Except you since you didn't.
Clean your phone.

[carmesi]

i was intimidated by it and i do * not * know how it ends

oh , you meant the leave a message after the tone part. that's how it ends.
my phone is clean. it just puts spaces at random , like that , see?

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Generally how these missed call messages end. But now that I know it's intimidating
I'm definitely not changing it ever.

Sounds like your phone wants you to give it some space.

[There is no escaping the dad jokes.]

[carmesi]

( ugh not the dad jokes )

as long as you find it funny , i guess.
are you going to that resort place?

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Figure I might as well check it out and see what there is.
God I hope this one doesn't try to kill me.

[carmesi]

do i get to keep your car if it does kill you?

( trying to keep this light(tm) )

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I hereby bequeath unto you my car if I bite it in the pool.
You going?

[carmesi]

i have a shift at work when some people i know are leaving.
it's too hot anyway.

( she will get FOMO later, don't worry. )

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Guy who tracks these things for a living
(how does one get into THAT?)
thinks it'll stick around for a bit. You can still have your chance if you want to ride on out. Not sure how much would be left to salvage though.

[carmesi]

this place is so weird. the people , too.
are you hoping to come back with a lot of things? looking to loot the place?

that's doing a lot.

( she thinks, from their previous conversation, that he's doing a lot. maybe in trying to keep himself from becoming inert, settling the score with his thoughts. but, she's not natasha, and she's not about to tell him what to do or not to do. )

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Good to keep busy. And stash some money for a rainy day. Jewelies or whatever.

[Does it seem like a lot? Maybe. Probably. He just knows, remembers, that spending too long not doing things made the world around him a lot darker. Much better to do.]

[carmesi]

joolies.

( pft, okay, clint. )

just remember to relax.
it's a resort.

send me pictures.

post-event 1, after a dome fight

[carmesi]

did you leave after your fight ?

[brandingproblem]

Didn't need to stick around.

[carmesi]

it looked painful.

( the hits the other guy got on him. )

[brandingproblem]

Not like pain isn't an old friend. A handful of aspirin will help.

[carmesi]

do you need anything ?

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[Instead of answering the question, he's going to let the implication of her knowing that what he got looks painful actually sink the hell in.]

Wait were you at the dome watching fights?

[carmesi]

yes.

[brandingproblem]

It just doesn't seem like your scene is all.

[carmesi]

( she isn't offended by this comment at all. )

you really came to know me when things were mostly neat and easy. your dad senses would go haywire if you knew the things we got up to growing up in novi grad.

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If the kids ever ended up anything like me and how I was when I was young, I would've had a heart attack.

So you like watching fight club in real life huh. Hope I wasn't an embarrassment.

[carmesi]

now that's a story i'm curious about.

( the shit young clint got up to. )

i guess it helps when you aren't fighting enhanced individuals or people with powers. you did ok.

( lol wanda )

[brandingproblem]

Haven't we had enough shitty childhood stories between us? [Because while never as bad as Wanda's, not nearly, man, maybe they don't need more fucked up stories about growing up.]

I can take on a powered person just fine so long as I can shoot them from a distance or have something else going on besides taking them head on in fisticuffs.