IC Contact | Drift Fleet

[sinistral]

you know what to do

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[sinistral]

But what if it's actually monsters and not lava?

[seeingscarlet]

I'll throw my soup at them?

[sinistral]

The soup that Vision made you to get better?

[seeingscarlet]

I can't get better if I get eaten by monsters

[sinistral]

Which is why you should be sleeping with a combat knife under your pillow.

[Duh.]

[seeingscarlet]

But I usually have a Vision over my pillow

[which is obviously better, duh]

[sinistral]

Who says you can't have both?

[seeingscarlet]

One of these things is much better than the other. Much more comfortable, too

[sinistral]

Maybe you should ask him how he feels about knives just in case.

[seeingscarlet]

Because asking about knives in the bedroom is normal and wouldn't worry him at all

[sinistral]

Why wouldn't it be?

[Bucky, no.]

[seeingscarlet]

What do you think it normally means?

[sinistral]

Being prepared for an attack.

[duh]

[seeingscarlet]

That's not what most people would do

[And even in her current state, she knows that if Bucky can't figure it out from here, she should not be the one to explain it to him.

That's Steve's job.]

[sinistral]

I'm not like that. Like other people.

[He knows full well what she's implying; he's not dense. He's also pretty sure that he's just not wired that way — literally or figuratively.]

And I don't trust anything in this Fleet that I'd sleep unarmed.

[seeingscarlet]

If my powers can't save me it's too late for a knife I think

[sinistral]

Not if whatever's attacking you thinks you rely on powers and nothing else.

[seeingscarlet]

A knife wouldn't have stopped this

They were far away and I never saw it coming

[sinistral]

Sniper tactics. It's a good strategy.

[seeingscarlet]

You're not supposed to side with them

[sinistral]

It's a good strategy, it's not the only strategy.

Shall I turn their tactics against them for you?

[seeingscarlet]

[BUCKY NO]

They were trying to save Vision. They thought I was going to hurt him

But I can't walk around in a shield. It would look silly. And we'd get even more attention

[sinistral]

[LOOK it’s always good to know someone who will murder in cold blood for you.]

I guess I can forgive the trying to protect him part of it. The two of you might just have to lay low for the rest of the time here.

[seeingscarlet]

I wish we didn't have to. I've been hiding for so long

[sinistral]

Would it help to think of it less as hiding and more as time alone, just the two of you, after the ordeal we had aboard the Marsiva?