Comic booking it

[from_a_distance]

Clint was not one to frequent comic shops. In fact, he usually stayed as far away from them as possible--not because, like the other Avengers, he was afraid he might be recognized, but because he was pretty certain he wouldn't be, and that got a little old after a while.

But Coulson had been moping because he couldn't get in to get his Captain America comics for a couple months, and Clint didn't like to see Coulson moping, so he decided to stop by and pick them up for the agent. He'd probably just drop them on his desk when Coulson wasn't around, but at least he knew it would make the man smile.

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[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve charges at Bucky.

[not_a_commie]

Bucky watches Steve and doesn't move until the man is almost on him, and moves out of the way of the man's fist, and grabs him by the wrist and twists it behind his back and takes him down slowly.

"It's all about using you opponents bulk against them..."

[mediumdrip]

Blaine thinks that Steve's hit is going to connect at first, but then Bucky successfully gets out of the way. He gasps a little. "Can you show me how?" he asks, because everything happened too quickly for him to really see.

[sonofcoul]

It's all Coulson can do not to grin at Blaine's reaction, because he's fairly sure he would be doing much the same thing at his age in that position. He keeps it at a very small smile, instead, just watching the interplay.

[from_a_distance]

Clint smiles as well, pleased that Blaine seems to be relaxing around them.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"We'll do it again, slower," Steve tells Blaine. He takes a step back, and goes through the motions of throwing a punch, slow enough for Blaine to see.

"I outweigh Bucky and am a few inches taller," he tells Blaine. "So he can use that to his advantage. I throw a punch at his face, but he grabs my wrist--"

[not_a_commie]

"I grab his wrist, and move behind him, and because he's a big oof..." Bucky teases lightly, "He's still going forward, so I can twist and take him down." There is more Buck would do in a combat situation, but that's not kid friendly he just keeps it to the self defense.

[mediumdrip]

"How do you grab his wrist? Isn't he moving too fast for that normally?"

[sonofcoul]

He continues to watch the lesson, smile not actually fading.

[from_a_distance]

Clint eventually steps back to lean against the wall next to Coulson.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"There's only so many ways a body can move," Steve tells Blaine. "You learn to read them, and know what to expect. Bucky has the advantage in that he's sparred with me, and fought beside me, many times. He knows my moves.

"But even with people you don't know, you can learn to read what they mean to do. And you can do it in the blink of an eye."

[not_a_commie]

Bucky nods and moves over to the edge of ring and holds his hand out to the kid, "Come on up, and we'll show you."

[mediumdrip]

Blaine wasn't sure that he believed them, but he moved to join them. He glanced over at Clint to make sure he was still there and then looked up at the two men.

[sonofcoul]

"I'd say this is going well overall," Coulson commented to Clint, quietly so as not to cause a distraction.

[from_a_distance]

He gives Blaine a reassuring smile and an encouraging nod as he steps into the ring.

"Yeah, so far so good," he says to Coulson, smiling at him as well. "One hour down, seventy-one to go?"

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

In the ring, Steve is guiding Blaine through the moves of a fistfight.

[not_a_commie]

Bucky grins a little "You know Steve used to be your size." Bucky tells Blaine like it's a secret adjusting his fist a little and shows him how to grab Steve's wrist with other hand.

[mediumdrip]

"What?" Blaine asks and then after a moment. "No way." He looked up at Steve's body and the muscles of his arms.

[sonofcoul]

"Well, the first impression's usually the hardest part." He nods over at the sparring lesson. "And that's been passed with flying colors."

[from_a_distance]

He smiles more as he watches them. "Yeah, well...once Steve came into the picture, the kid was a goner. He's got almost as big a crush as you do."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve glances at Barton and Coulson. His lips quirk.

He tells Blaine, "I was a kid once. A pretty scrawny one."

[not_a_commie]

"Yeah, He was a kid once. A kid who puked on me when I took him to Coney island for his birthday." Bucky laughs brighter then he has in a long time he turns over to Coulson and Clint and grins.

[mediumdrip]

"You knew him when you were little?" he asks, impressed. The comic books have been around for ages and enough people know that Captain America was frozen, even if they don't know all the details of how or why. Blaine just assumes that Bucky went with him. He pictures cytogenetic labs with tubes of frozen super heroes.

[sonofcoul]

If he notices his ears have gone the slightest bit pink from Clint's comment and the responses to it, he makes absolutely no indication of it. "Like he said. Sizable head start."

[from_a_distance]

Clint notices at least, and is hugely gratified.

"Yeah, I'm sure that helps," he says, half-listening to the conversation in the ring.