selfhelp | [IC] Appointments Post

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[IC] Appointments Post

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[Clint grins at him.]

So obviously, I should claim you as my mentor and ask you for guidance on being a real superhero.

...it is weird just thinking about another version of me.

[Psh. Mentoring one of the Avengers? Are you trying to kill him, Clint? Well...]

You think that's weird, I should tell you about the next generation. Hawkeye 2.0.

[Right back at you, buddy.]

[That grabs his attention, and his eyes widen at it.]

Wait, there's another? No, that's...really?

[Someone would want to take on his code name?]

Really-really. While he was... dead, or presumed dead, anyway, the Young Avengers got our very own Hawkeye. Cap said she earned the name, as well as his bow. And she's amazing with it.

Careful there, I'll start to feel inadequate. [And he'll just try to keep ignoring that he's dead, or sort of dead but not really in this other world.]

I'm impressed she can even draw it.

[It might be different there, but his bow has a hell of a draw weight on it.

But there's something kind of cool about it too, that someone could take on his name and live up to his reputation.]

Kate's full of surprises.

[And here he was trying to avoid real names. He is terrible at this secret identity thing.

Oh well, Hawkeye's trustworthy. Especially with her name.]

I hope we exist in your universe somewhere, so you can meet her someday. She's... really special. One of the strongest people I know.

[He can't help but smile at that.]

She sounds like she must be quite something. I think I'd like to meet her someday.

Then maybe the rest of us can sit back and enjoy the Hawkeye tag-team.

[Sounds like quite the show.]

And thus, the world ends. Or at least Coulson has an aneurysm.

Natasha... is Natasha. She'd deal.

Natasha... Black Widow?

[Does she have her codename yet? And if they know each other, that's just one more similarity between their universes.

Good to know.]

Yeah, that's her. She's my best friend and my partner in SHIELD.

[...Oh wow, they really are close. Billy mulls over that for a moment, drumming his fingers against the counter.]

You should stick with the Avengers- they're better for you than SHIELD is.

[That gets a raised eyebrow, his expression becoming more serious.]

SHIELD has been good to me. I would've been nothing but a killer if they hadn't recruited me. Well, they didn't exactly give me much choice but... it worked out.

...Mm.

[Billy can't really argue with that without giving good reason for it, something he's not prepared to do after promising to keep the Civil War business under wraps. He sits in silence for a long moment, then finally shrugs his shoulders.]

It's just a thought.

If there's something you know...

[And there obviously is, if he's warning Clint away from SHIELD like that, although he doesn't know if it's relevant to his version of SHIELD.]

I'll think about it. I know you about as well as I know them, honestly.

[Billy is reluctant to say more; like Clint, he's not sure if it's even relevant, or if the future of their version of SHIELD will follow the same path.

It's a concern, is all.]

It's okay. Your SHIELD could be totally different from mine. I just think it's dangerous to mix government and superheroes.

[He can't say that he believes SHIELD wouldn't use them for their own ends, is the thing, even if he generally believes in those ends. What he doesn't believe in is who Fury has to answer to in the end.]

I can't deny there are people who would probably love to have heroes serving their purposes.

It's difficult to know. There's a lot of similarities between our worlds, but a lot of differences too.

The biggest difference is time, I think. You guys all started kind of... late, I guess. And twenty years is a long time to be doing something. It can change people.

[This is a pretty morose topic, though, so he doesn't say any more than that. He's already got Tony's promise that the civil war won't happen, but if everyone forgets, it's kind of a pointless reassurance, isn't it? And the same goes for warning people about SHIELD.]

...twenty years. Yeah, that's a lot of time to change.

Gotta say, I'm impressed with you guys being so heroic at your age.

Mm... we're not that great yet, but we're trying. I don't know if we'd be heroes at all if we hadn't had good role models.

[He gives a pointed look at that.]

[Ow. That look. That look could burn.]

Now that's just scary.

[His life so far has been a study in what not to do to be happy healthy and well adjusted.]

Don't be. If we did okay, then that means you guys did, too.

Right, well. Kudos to my alternate universe self and friends.

They've certainly earned it. I know you all will get there, too.

Assuming we don't kill each other first.

[It was a legitimate fear. That many conflicting personalities and agendas...]

We'll work it out. We have to.

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