Unnamed Legends/Avengers Verse

[strongerthanyouknow]

The Waverider isn't foreign to having the every now and again visitor, picked up in the middle of a mission. Dragged along for one. Dropping off, like so much chaff or a wayward puppy. The Avengers aren't exactly that, but at the end of the day The Avengers aren't Sara's concern. Her people are. Time is.

Cleaning house, and sweeping the people out, brings with it a sort of peace.
Another check in the books, that means they are at the end of the mission.

Means they can pretend for five or ten minutes, they're normal. Eat a damn meal all together, without everyone running off helter-skelter, guns at blazing. Means she can get some rest, in a bed really, really not made for three, but they've found ways to make it work, and there's nowhere else she'd be. Just a few more loose ends and mission notes to tie up. Then, a cursory glance over the timeline to see what and where Gideon thinks they should be headed next, and she'll be done with today.






[ For Bucky's Request To Come Aboard & Steve/Sara Conversations About This ]

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[bringstheheat]

Mick makes his way in after a quick round of the ship, making sure things were quiet and in order. Beer in hand he walks into her room without knocking, pausing only to strip off his customary black jacket and gloves.

"So what's the deal with New Guy? He stickin around?"

[strongerthanyouknow]

Even though she knows he's coming, and she knows just what he's doing, Sara's glance still flicks in Mick's direction, before it's back to the tablet in her lap. She put the finishing touches on the thing she was working on, before leaning back in her chair, hands shifting to her thighs, where they are circle, popping the bones there quietly.

"Seems he'd like that." Sara let her shoulders lean back, looking at the ceiling and then to Mick. "Thinks it might do him some good. Help him find out if there's another way for him."

If she doesn't say, another way that's not the Avengers, maybe Sara doesn't need to. It's not like they don't have enough examples just between her and Mick about how that works out. Not fitting where you should. Especially not when you haven't figured out who you are, and who you might be, yet.

[bringstheheat]

A quiet grunt in response.
Contrary to what others might have thought at the time, Mick paid attention through the briefing, through the information provided about Bucky and what Gideon had put together from the timeline. Brainwashing. Being used as nothing more than a weapon.

Winter Soldier. Chronos.
Too many parallels.

So maybe this one time he doesn't bitch about change, maybe this one time. "Could use another decent hand in a fight."

[strongerthanyouknow]

Sara's smirk is still the first answer -- the truest one; the one that says really the delight of that shouldn't be what it is, where they go first, that they both think of that, fighting, odds -- even if her words are,

"You know we could actually pretend to hope for a quiet ride."

[bringstheheat]

That smirk is met and matched with one, maybe even with a peek of dimple. An expression reserved for two people alone.

Mick shakes his head. "Now where's the fun in quiet? Quiet is boring."