perseverance | ( OPEN POST )

Could be? ( !!!! ) How about you do what you're actually into? Be yourself.

Why would that be a mood? ( he does not understand the twitter or the snapchat very much, other than people yelling into the void. ) Smashing the Keurig was an accident.

i'd do you, but you're currently unavailable. unless one of the good docs on avengers payroll invented teleportation recently?

[ asking for a friend? ]

would you feel more comfortable with dad jokes?

Can't say they have. ( and since this isn't facetime, she thankfully avoids witnessing his reaction. ) Can't say that I'd be able to explain why I needed access to extremely classified and limited technology, either.

I'm not uncomfortable with toddlers killing their toys. ( ...well, no, hold on. ) I'd probably laugh in person.

oh, you have to ask? we usually just yolo it and beg forgiveness if anybody finds out

[ nick fury probably would have tore his eye out if it wasn't already missing ]

you do have a nice laugh, for what it's worth

Interesting. Are you saying that's under the life or death clause now? Because there are exceptions to every rule when it counts, for the right people.

( he's not sure that ranks, which is not something he's about to utter out loud. what's not an insult but feels like it is? )

It's worth more than you know. I'd like the chance to hear more of yours.

[ oh no he's asking her to have self-worth... time to abort mission ]

i'm pretty sure no one has ever included me in "the right people", captain

That's a load of crap and you know it.

oh my heavens, i cannot believe your language

Got your attention, didn't it?

you know what else gets my attention, sir?

Danger?

( sir? just going to casually, hopefully, deflect that. )

[ actually? yes. ]

if it's a direct order, sir.

[ DEFLECT IT HER ASS ]

Stand down, soldier.

( because he's as prone to her using flirting as an assault as she thinks he is. )

are you asking me to assume the position?

You're avoiding the subject.

( as someone that never received it prior to becoming a science experiment, attention doesn't get old. it does get weird though—only two people ever gave a damn about him before. so as much as he wants to pursue the topic, he switches gears. there's something else happening here. )

You're a part of a team and when you go into the field after each other, you know the people around you have your back. No matter how deep the ditch you fall into gets, they're going to pull you out. You're already the right person when you count on people like that and they can count on you, too.

[ ew, emotions. she was perfectly content being a shithead and ignoring the topic at hand, okay, she doesn't exactly relish being called out for both being self-deprecating AND bad at being serious. just let her have this moment, okay! ]

you can punish me for it later.

[ and then, thirty seconds later: ]

i'm not very good at this part. the being a person part. i'm much better at blowing stuff up and/or hacking into your phone records.

Careful what you wish for.

( of course, the punishment he has in mind is running her ragged in a training session, not whatever she's most likely alluding to. )

What are you looking for in my phone records?

[ por que no los dos ]

it could be hypothetical. [ it isn't. ] did you know your phone transmits a data record of the cell towers it connects to approximately every three minutes?

[ "i was worried you'd somehow gotten murdered when you didn't reply after 3 minutes but i'm not going to SAY THAT" ]

I wasn't aware of how frequently that happens, no. Hypothetically, for people into tracking.

( what he wants to say is i miss you, too but the words hang in his throat, like he hasn't learned anything about missed opportunities in his old age. steve's thumb hovers over the screen, reluctant and mindful. time for an olive branch? )

And here I was thinking I was hard to pin down.

[ hypothetically speaking, she’s the best hacker in shield by a mile. outpacing seasoned pros on a tin can and string budget, daisy could have found him without missing a beat.

but she did it because she wanted to, for once, and not just because she could. for herself, not just for answers. maybe that’s growth? ]

they usually say that about me. [ sorry, can’t let him off that easy. ] if someone was hypothetically checking, they’d notice your data has been pretty stagnant for a while. are you stopping for the night?

The road's are rough over here. We're not making any headway. ( and while he prefers the cover of night for a covert mission, he can understand when they're detained by weather. ) And I think Sam's hiding an injury.

I'd call you if I thought we could talk without being mocked about it later.

i'm sure he's the only one who's ever done that.

[ even mr "i can do this all day" gets shot every once in a while. ]

one of these days, we'll teach you how to do something and not care what other people think. [ could be dirty. could also ... not be. but probably is. ] you'll still overthink things, though. that's just the vibe.

It's different. I can patch up a debilitating wound practically overnight. ( give or take, it's not like steve would let an entire round slow him if he could help it. it'd actually have to be through the skull. he trusts sam to know his limits because he has to, doesn't mean he can stop wondering what strategy might have prevented this. )

I don't know. I think we've made strides in that department, at least when we're together. ( likewise it can be pristine or filthy, depends on how daisy wants to read the subtext. ) I can handle the ribbing. I want them to leave you out of it.

( not out of some outdated need to protect her, although, partially it is. )

I like knowing there's one thing not in the history books or plastered on every television set.

only overnight? super serum's lacking lately.

[ half a tease, half an agonizing thought. should it be immediate? she can almost picture it — gaping wound, stitching closed every half-breath, skin reaching for its parallel partner like romance novel ex-lovers separated by an impossible chasm. and then daisy gags to herself, because when did her thoughts become so damn flowery? ]

i know what you mean, though. [ uncharacteristically sincere? maybe he's just rubbing off on her. ] it's nice not wondering what someone's putting a dossier about you. some things don't have to be government property.

You think so? Second complaint right after, "you would've been a lightweight without it."

( getting daisy off his back is no easy task, however, he thinks he can get her to agree with that objection. lot of people would like steve better if he let loose once in awhile, stopped being this poster boy image they have in their head that he's never actually lived up to. )

Yeah, like you. You being free to go where you want and to be who you want — basically the best thing this world has to offer. Aside from you in my shirt and nothing else.

that's below the belt, rogers.

[ how dare he. she was being appropriate and everything, and here he comes, mister rico suave with a casual text message. truly outrageous. ]

and freedom isn't free when it comes with strings attached. thanks, mace.

All of a sudden you don't enjoy me below the belt?

( being below the belt is kind of her motive. deflective, perhaps, but still has her name written all over it. he's just keeping up. )

If the strings are on me, it's a moot point. They've been that way since I volunteered for science. I know how to operate while cutting them.

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hi my electricy's been shit, which mean wifi sucks but!!!

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