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Nobody Is Allowed To Be Alone On Christmas with @greatcstarcher

"Kate Bishop." Yelena walked right into her friend's room. Technically, Lucky had entered first and she had just followed him in. It was fairly normal for Yelena to wake up earlier than Kate. Usually, she did not mind this. But this morning was different. "The plan was for us to wear these matching outfits. Not for you to sleep through it." Yelena was dressed in the holiday themed matching onesie Kate had bought for them.

Yelena picked up a stray arrow that had fallen onto the floor. "I am also making us breakfast. What do you want? It cannot be cereal or pizza."

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@greatcstarcher this is exactly what these two get up to.

Kate has purchased matching holiday jammies for herself, Yelena, and the dogs.

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Yelena's gaze also returned to the dead bodies at the woman's gleeful interest in them. The assassin didn't understand what all the excitement was about. They were fairly boring kills. Yelena's gaze snapped back to the woman. "No. I did not send you. I work alone. It does not matter what anyone else says."

She kept her gun aimed at Rio. "If you go for your knife then yes." Her finger rested on the trigger. "If not..." Yelena shrugged. "I am not being paid to kill you. But I do not leave witnesses."

‘ well, you aren’t wrong…they’re all dead. compliments to you! ’ the spectre smirked as her eyes swept gleefully over the deceased before returning to the blonde and the gun pointed at her. ‘ rio..rio vidal and from the looks of things, you did sweetheart. ’ her tongue presses against the inside of her cheek. ‘ are you going to shoot me too? ’

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The safehouse was decorated to look like any other random house. The walls were populated with framed photographs of random families and the furniture looked well used. "That sounds very messy." Yelena didn't have an ex. But she had seen many movies about ex-lovers. They were always messy. And confusing.

"Good." Yelena pulled a fresh bottle of vodka from her painfully empty refrigerator. "It is my favorite." She grabbed two shot glasses and poured a generous amount in both. She pushed one glass towards Agnes. "It is good in every situation." Yelena drank her shot and then poured herself a fresh one. "So is it just you over there?"

"Packing was the least of my problems, I can promise you that."

Agatha was pleasantly surprised by the firm handshake she was given, not used to such formalities with the somewhat younger generations anymore. She then followed the blonde inside, glancing around the place the other called home, just to see if she could infer anything about her neighbor. This wouldn't be as cut and dry as Wanda had been, that much she knew.

"Try having your ex re-enter your life and fuck it all up. You can see why I'm more than glad for a drink. And make it vodka, please. Beer is just so...lacking."

The best shit Agatha had was back in the original moonshining days of 1920's America. Sure, most of the shit was risky as all hell, but some people knew how to make a hell of a liquor. God she missed those days sometimes. Things were far simpler then than they were now.

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winter season is their season imo.

i'll probably color this at some point this week.

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"Let me just ask the spirits of the dead, first… The spirits said 'no'."

Gun drawn and aimed at the woman, Yelena looked around at the bodies scattered around the floor. Her most recent targets. All dead. A very easy job. Except for this stranger's arrival. "Their opinion does not count." Yelena stepped over one of the bodies. "Tell me who you are and who sent you."

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continued from here || @vdovapauka

"Breathe, sestra. You were having a nightmare." Yelena sat down on the edge of the bed. She was quite familiar with nightmares. She had them often. She knew what it felt like to wake up thinking she was back there. "We are in your safehouse. A really nice one too. The last one Mason put me in smelled like old people." She almost gagged at the memory. "Do you want to talk about it?"

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"I am not comparing you to a rat." Yelena grabbed a box of Cheez-Its from one of the cabinets and returned to Bucky and little Alexei. "I am comparing you to a guinea pig. He was in a lab. He is probably very strong like you."

".... Well squirrel then." Bucky sigh, shaking his head. It all looked the same to him, it beeped and got two big front teeth.....Like a rat. "You're comparing be to a rat?"

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NO PARTNERS || @blkhcrt

Yelena added the last of her back-up guns into a small black duffel bag and zipped it shut. "Tell Valentina to eat shit. I only do solo jobs." The assassin looked over at the stranger. Someone who knew her, knew where she was, but Yelena knew nothing about them. She was definitely going to need another raise if these were the games Valentina wanted to play.

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Like this post for a little starter from YELENA.

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random dialogue from the recesses of my sleep-deprived brain ... sentence starters

mixed bag of funny, angsty, angry, and just plain weird

"I picked you a flower."

"Am I dead? Please say yes."

"One more word and I'll leave."

"I don't think we can salvage this."

"If you were really sorry, you'd change."

"Don't tell me what I'm allowed to feel…"

"Don't act like you know what's going on."

"No. Get out of here. I don't want to see you."

"You snore so loud, I can't hear myself think."

"Who ever gave you the right to act this way?"

"They weren't supposed to tell you where I am."

"It's called empathy. Maybe you should learn it."

"I know I'm bad at this; you don't have to rub it in."

"Yes, I hear you. All the dramatics. It's hard not to."

"Why are you shrinking yourself for everyone else?"

"Yeah, let's see how YOU like cold feet on your back!"

"No. No, tell me what you actually think. I want to know."

"Just tell me how to help. I want to, I just don't know how."

"I'm gonna need you to take all that sass and go over there."

"You don't have to prove anything to me, you know that, right?"

"How long have you been carrying all those secrets on your own?"

"Let me just ask the spirits of the dead, first… The spirits said 'no'."

"Nothing you do will ever be good enough for them, so stop trying."

"Has anyone ever told you that your vibe is strange and off-putting?"

"I wanted to slam the door really dramatically, but the hinge caught."

"Everyone should be a lot more appreciative of me not going apeshit."

"Every time I see you, I get cute aggression, I can't help it. I must squish."

"This would be a lot more soothing without the underlying, constant terror."

"It's hard to believe your parents loved you if they gave you a name like that."

"If I looked into your brain, I think I'd just hear the Benny Hill theme on repeat."

"I knew this wasn't gonna work. Doesn't make it any less disappointing, though."

"Does this task require a bra/pants? Because, if it does, I will not be participating."

"I heard your stomach rumble from over here. No argument, I'm getting you food."

"Gonna need you to take a deep breath, find whatever inner peace you have, and be quiet."

"You'd have nothing to worry about in a zombie apocalypse… I mean, they eat brains, right?"

"I knew you weren't good for much, yet you continue to find new ways to disappoint me."

"Yeah, you jumpscared me! You move so quietly, it's like perpetually living in an indie horror game!"

"I can't lower my bar of expectations any more. The devil is already using it for limbo parties in hell."

"You're an amazing scientific study waiting to happen on how someone can survive so long without any common sense at all."

"I really don't care what you think or say about me. But, I draw the line at you disrespecting them... you're on really thin ice here."

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I'm sorry I'm drepressed

☕ Tip Jar: Azahararm

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"I'm going to fix you up, but you have to sit still." - bucky

"I do not know what you are talking about. I am sitting very still." Yelena was, in fact, not sitting still at all. Usually, she patched up her own injuries. But the bullet had hit her shoulder, and this hadn't been her usual solo job. Yelena reached for the open bottle of vodka and took a drink. "You do not have to do this."

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Yelena shook Agnes' hand. "You remind me of my father. He complained all the time when we moved to Ohio. Unpacking all the boxes takes so long." At least, that's what Yelena remembered. Now moving meant bringing whatever she could carry into the closest safehouse.

"Yelena," she answered before gesturing for Agnes to enter. "Come in. I have vodka and beer."

"Hon, you can call me Agnes." Agatha replied quickly, choosing to conceal her identity for the time being. It was just safer that way.

Putting on her best smile, she offered a hand to Yelena to shake. "If you're offering a drink, I won't say no. Lord knows I need it after the last week I had." She would not elaborate, but that last week included Billy, The Road, and her ex. She really could go for a drink right about now, even a cig or blunt would be nice too, but for now, she'd settle for a solid alcoholic beverage.

"What's your name?"

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Hidden Injuries

"Wait - you're bleeding."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"Okay, I have you, I have you -"

"Don't you dare pass out on me."

"You good? You look a little pale."

"Your shirt... is that blood?"

"Oh, my god, are you serious? I think it's broken!"

"Why would you hide this from us?!"

"Okay - okay, breathe. We're going to help you."

"You idiot! You could have died!"

"I'm - I'm calling an ambulance -"

"Why are you breathing so shallowly?"

"You can barely stand."

"Sit down. Right now."

"I'm going to fix you up, but you have to sit still."

"I've had worse."

"It's not that bad, really..."

"I'm just a little... light headed...."

"It's barely bleeding at all."

"Aw, man, I liked this shirt."

"Oh, yeah that's... huh. That's a lot of blood."

"I'm just gonna sit right here... for a minute..."

"My chest really... hurts..."

"I can't really breathe -"

"Ow. It's fine. Ow."

"I can handle it myself."

"Oh, that? Yeah it's just... it's just a little blood..."

"Barely touched me."

"Why are there two of you?"

"I'll be fine. I'm great. I'm - I'm fantastic. Don't worry about me! I'm just gonna go... into this really nice... warm light..."

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"He is not a rat." Yelena looked down at the tiny animal as he explored the table. Nope. Definitely not a rat. "He is a guinea pig and his name is Alexei." Yelena moved to go fetch some snacks. "He might also be like you. I found him in a lab."

"You can't be serious..... You smuggled a rat back here?" Bucky groaned into his hand, he should have seen this comming and yet some part of him always hoped he would be wrong.

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NO PET LEFT BEHIND || OPEN TO MUTUALS

"What was I supposed to do? Leave him there?" Yelena set the small guinea pig down. "No. Besides, he already has a name."