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.

Comments

[from_a_distance]

"So do I," he says in a mock-whisper.

"I guess it's not such a secret. But yeah. That doesn't make you a bad kid, Blaine."

[mediumdrip]

Blaine frowned a bit. "My dad says only perverts like other boys. Are you a pervert?"

[from_a_distance]

Clint frowns as well at that. "No, I'm not, and your dad is wrong about that. Some of the best people I know like other boys."

[mediumdrip]

"Are you sure?"

[from_a_distance]

"Yeah, I'm sure. And you know what else? Even Captain America thinks so."

[mediumdrip]

"How would you know?" Blaine asks. "He doesn't say so in his comics and I haven't heard him talk about it on the tv."

[from_a_distance]

"Well, I'm...kinda friends with him, I guess."

[mediumdrip]

"Nah-ah," Blaine denied. "That would make you a superhero or something."

[from_a_distance]

He shrugs. "Well, not super anything, really."

[mediumdrip]

"So you were lying?"

[from_a_distance]

"No. We are friends."

He thinks. Sometimes. He's still not sure where he fits into all this.

"What do you know about the Avengers?"

[mediumdrip]

"That they killed all the monsters that attacked New York?"

[from_a_distance]

"Do you know who they all are?"

[mediumdrip]

"Umm... Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America..."

[from_a_distance]

He laughs a little. "Yeah. Who else?"

[mediumdrip]

Blaine has to think. "Oh! Thor! And... a lady and an archer?" Though the images of those two were never as clear as the other three, Blaine was pretty sure they were part of the team.

[from_a_distance]

"A lady and an archer," he laughs again, mostly for Natasha's sake. It's been a long time since somebody's called her a lady.

He leans forward again. "Who do you think the archer is?"

He's not surprised Blaine doesn't know him. It's not like anybody's clambering for interviews, and he likes it better that way.

[mediumdrip]

"I don't know. Do you know them too?"

[from_a_distance]

"Yeah, I guess you could say I do."

[mediumdrip]

"I haven't seen him on the news." A pause. "Is the archer a man? A girl can use a bow too, right?"

[from_a_distance]

He smirks. "Nobody can use a bow the way he does."

[mediumdrip]

"Well he'd have to be the best, if he's an Avenger."

[from_a_distance]

"Well, that is what people say."

[mediumdrip]

"Aren't they right?"

[from_a_distance]

"Yeah, they are. But when I say it, it sounds like bragging..."

He's really not used to talking to kids.