She had t to hold back a little laugh when Jessica responded to her Russian - sometimes it was habit, sometimes it was enough nostalgia that she just did it to do it. It wasn't like she thought she should or would or could forget her past or who she was, you don't bleed the red out without holding to those memories. Even the ones from earlier that she'd prefer to forget. The ones that lingered sometimes in dreams. The ones that reminded her of things she'd forced herself to believe were just mind games.Bruce wasome childish attempt at getting herself to forget all of that, wasn't it. You now. Finding some anchor like she had only had one other time in her life - not that Natasha was the sort to dwell and pout about things. It wasn't her way. But it didn't (on the other hand) mean those thoughts never came up and never lingered. They tended to linger even more when you just watched.... felt... remembered, whatever it was that half of those people you even gave half a damn about... vanish. She didn't even know if Clint or Scott or their -
- Natasha had to stop herself there, she counted on Steve and the others and they'd figure something out but she wasn't there to know so she knew she just had to push the thoughts aside. They couldn't do jack shit about it from here but Nat also wasn't really in a place where she wanted to outright lie about any of that to Jessica. So right now? The plan was to tell her enough but not... too much. There was no reason to burden someone else with the shit that was threatening to bring you down, truly bring you down, for the first time in her life.
She drank again, "It means to your good health. It like Prost, but decidedly more Russian." Chuckling softly, she shoved her free hand into her pocket. "Ya so, don't need to remind you about New York - but that was all about the tesseract. About one of the Infinity Stones..." Wetting her lips she just continued, there was, "So turns out, same big bad who hired Loki to cause his normal amount of mischief well... he's been collecting them. So long story short? He showed up. He showed up in Wakanda with some crazy hordes of aliens and all sorts of fun creepy crawlies. Thor showed up, sans hammer - additional bad ass axe instead - and who did he have with him..." Natasha immediately looked Jessica right in the face, "Rocket Raccoon. Apparently, they cal themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy."