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anyone wanna explain why the sit-rep didn't include a heads up on a loki being here?

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...I'm just here for the science?

[ ...helpful, bruce. ]

and not for giving a decent debrief.
duly noted, banner.

To be fair, when Natasha came to get me I thought S.H.I.E.L.D. was there to kill me. I'm not yet well-versed in the song of your people.

[ clint can blame that turn of phrase on tony. also able to be blamed on tony: the gentle trolling bruce is getting into.

...tbh just blame everything ever on tony, it's a safe bet. ]

it's not that hard to figure out.
i'll get you a recording.

Like whales?

[ tony is the worst influence and bruce really just doesn't feel comfortable broaching the whole 'loki possession' thing without clint initiating. ]

are you making jokes?

...I think I was, yes.

i'll take a raincheck on encouraging that.

[ of all the avengers, clint is the one bruce is the least easy around; tony's... tony, steve is nearly impossible to remain awkward around, thor is tigger if tigger was a throwback to the norse gods, and he and natasha have spent enough time on-ship to smooth off their rougher edges.

it's a little bit of a shock, how comfortable he's gotten out here. ]

Won't happen again.

[ it's always a strange moment, being reminded of how much everyone else has shared together and how he only arrived at the end, crashed in with bloody hands and a drenched ledger and--

well, making up for lost time is never fun. ]

it's not a good moment.
sorry, bannre.

No, I owe you the apology. I think I've up here too long-- I should have thought better, Agent Barton. And it won't happen again.

[ because the team member bruce is least close to or not, clint is team; and because he knows exactly how it feels to have someone carelessly step on an aching nerve and grind down. ]

it's clint.
the agent isn't really necessary.

[ the sidestep is more or less a signal of acceptance. clint wasn't looking for an apology. ( maybe just from natasha, but that was something different all together ) but he relents and quibbles over the name because he doesn't know how to do the sappy moments ]

Edited 2012-10-04 05:31 (UTC)

All right. And Bruce, then. Banner is... something else up here, if Tony's explaining it right.

[ the avengers: the healthiest, least emotionally constipated people on ship

OH WAIT. ]