[Yeah. Tempted to echo it. Just...father to father. Gets them nowhere. Cooper and Lila were those ages once. They've grown more. Still got more growing to do. If Coop gets any taller, Clint will start have to make basketball jokes, and if Lila gets any smartaleckier, Laura's going to claim she got it all from Clint.
It still makes his head spin even now that, for a couple more years yet, Nate was nothing but dust for longer than he ever got to be alive.
What does saying any of it do to the man who lost everything so permanently, so horrifically?
So the shift is actually kind of nice. A gift to them both in a way. Even if the recognition never gets easier, he at least takes it with a little more grace than he used to back in the prime Avenging days. Still makes him awkward, still gives him a strange embarrassment. But yeah. He recognizes the look long before the guy says anything.
Though what he says makes Clint huff out a tired half-laugh, tight smile on his face.]
Seems like an everyone kinda problem, but, yeah, doesn't sound like you're wrong.
[Shame half the Avengers are gone and one's off world for who knows how long and one just wants to retire to Mexico and one just wants to stay the hell retired for once jesus christ-- Not that there aren't others. But they aren't a team. They're individuals with their own shit going on. The ones that are left. Or the ones just coming into what they are, who they are. Kate's not exactly fit for the big leagues, but someday she will be.
Not exactly placing bets on who's going to come to the rescue. Might have to be an inside job.
Clint doesn't have quite the same reaction. But. When playing the 'don't I know you from somewhere' game, it isn't like the big guy's completely foreign. Or that...a New York park massacre is foreign to him. And...wasn't this guy arrested? For murder? Lots and lots of murdoh god that's the Punisher.
That's fine. This is fine. The fucking Ronin has no judgement to give on that.]
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It still makes his head spin even now that, for a couple more years yet, Nate was nothing but dust for longer than he ever got to be alive.
What does saying any of it do to the man who lost everything so permanently, so horrifically?
So the shift is actually kind of nice. A gift to them both in a way. Even if the recognition never gets easier, he at least takes it with a little more grace than he used to back in the prime Avenging days. Still makes him awkward, still gives him a strange embarrassment. But yeah. He recognizes the look long before the guy says anything.
Though what he says makes Clint huff out a tired half-laugh, tight smile on his face.]
Seems like an everyone kinda problem, but, yeah, doesn't sound like you're wrong.
[Shame half the Avengers are gone and one's off world for who knows how long and one just wants to retire to Mexico and one just wants to stay the hell retired for once jesus christ-- Not that there aren't others. But they aren't a team. They're individuals with their own shit going on. The ones that are left. Or the ones just coming into what they are, who they are. Kate's not exactly fit for the big leagues, but someday she will be.
Not exactly placing bets on who's going to come to the rescue. Might have to be an inside job.
Clint doesn't have quite the same reaction. But. When playing the 'don't I know you from somewhere' game, it isn't like the big guy's completely foreign. Or that...a New York park massacre is foreign to him. And...wasn't this guy arrested? For murder? Lots and lots of murdoh god that's the Punisher.
That's fine. This is fine. The fucking Ronin has no judgement to give on that.]