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Tweak says, "el pollo loco"

alwaysactive (alwaysactive) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-10-03 17:17:00

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eddie kaspbrak, natasha romanoff (mcu)

Who: Natasha Romanoff and Eddie Kaspbrak
What: Handbook for the recently deceased.
Where: Around town
When: Today

Her arrival in town had been a quiet thing, which Natasha preferred, caught up in the arrival of a few others, so she managed to slip in a little bit more easily than if she'd arrived on her own. And she'd been taking the time since she arrived to get as much detail out of Tony and Steve both about what had happened, and her previous selves that had been in town. She wasn't sure she liked the idea of some other her being here in the past, not some other her from a different dimension, but a her from her own death. It was strange, and it didn't help her shake off the idea that this might just be some sort of purgatory.

But she kept that theory to herself for now, Tony had made a life for himself here, with Steve. In a way that she'd never thought they'd ever actually manage back home, so she didn't want to take away anything from that, even if it was just her own personal doubts about what all of this meant.

The town was interesting though, far smaller than she'd have guessed on her first day, and no amount of going through the woods managed to get her away from the town. So instead she was investigating houses, Steve and Tony had been more than kind enough to let her stay with them since she'd arrived but she would want her own space in time. And she'd heard you could just pick an empty house, so there she was wandering through the little rows of houses peering in the windows when she came across someone she didn't know from home. She didn't often forget a face, and even if he was some other version of someone she knew, he didn't carry himself right.

So she put on her friendliest smile, warm and easy going as she relaxed the set of her shoulders and lifted a hand to wave. "Hi," She said while there was still a little bit of distance between them so neither one of them were taken by surprise. "I'm new in town, I'm still getting my bearings." She explained, "I'm Natasha. I don't think we know each other?" She offered him her outstretched hand.

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ekaspbrak
2019-10-19 06:56 pm UTC (link)

Psychological torture was just par for the course at this point in any of the Losers' lives. Eddie included. Though, yes, if he had his choice between being tormented by a leper, his dead friend's severed head, severed legs, a closet, or a Pomeranian and an alien army he'd probably take the army too. That was just the most recent shit too. He hadn't even gone into the horrors the Losers had seen at 13. They'd have to trade war stories eventually. He'd like to hear more about the army she faced or whatever she was willing to tell him and it might be nice to actually talk about some of this shit with someone who believed him. It might be beneficial for both of them.

Right now, however, the entire fucking city on the other side of the door was the priority. Along with whatever they were going to find. Dishes maybe. Bandages and gauze, hopefully. He'd settle for a large bottle of hand sanitizer at this point. Just... anything that might settle his mind on the who germ front or the household. He'd already decided that Richie wouldn't be much help when it came to filling their place. It really would be up to Eddie.

Seeing her look back to the open door and consider the dangers just made him like her more. Natasha was practical. She was brave but didn't seem reckless about it. She looked at the situation they were in and considered the variables. It was something most of his friends didn't do. Something they should've done a little more of.

He didn't worry too much when she said they should close it because he could still see the gears turning in her head. He, too, didn't really like the idea of leaving the door open and risking setting something free in the world they'd just stepped out of. He also didn't like the idea of possibly losing this door and finding themselves trapped here with no means of escape if things went bad. "I agree with you." He said. "Just because nothing has come through yet doesn't mean it'll never happen." The risk was probably minimal but still there. There was no way of knowing just how aware of the doors the inhabitants of these worlds were.

He could deal with mostly closed. If they did it right then no one would become aware of it and they could still find it if they needed to make a quick retreat. He nodded and reached for the door, pulling it mostly closed. Taking a step back he inspected the building they had just come out of and nodded, seemingly satisfied with what he saw. "You know... this does make me wonder where the door would've been in that open field." A tree? Randomly out in the middle of a sky? Would there be a building that was sitting there just for the door? Someone else would have to figure that out later and tell him. He still preferred the city.

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alwaysactive
2019-10-20 08:21 pm UTC (link)

Natasha nodded, it wasn't that she was the only one to ever stop and think - but often she was the only one to take a step back and consider what their actions might lead to. So it was nice to see a little bit of that in Eddie too - this was a situation with a lot of possibilities for how it might all play out in the end, there was no way to know for certain if any one option might be more realistic than another. In truth, were she not already dead, she might just have been a little bit more skeptical of a place that had so many variables to deal with. But there they were, dead and in a city that they'd stepped into through a door in a house in a town that would fit in a space less than half the size of one of these city blocks.

It was all more than just a little bit crazy. She knew this, and she was running with it. There hadn't been a lot about her life over the last decade that hadn't been more than a little bit crazy.

But here they were looking around and trying to decide their next course of action, she closed the door, slowly, watching as she did to make sure that she knew exactly what they were dealing with and that they'd be able to get back again. But in the end it closed just like any other door and remained there looking not quite like it belonged, but not so out of place that it drew attention to itself.

"You know, I hadn't thought of that." She admitted when Eddie mentioned the door into the field. "Maybe it would have been one of those free standing doors with nothing on either side of it. Like you see in movies." Well she thought maybe they were in movies, that seemed like the sort of thing that would be. "Next time it opens out into a field I'll have to go through just to see how it looks." Though she guessed any other field might handle it differently than the one they'd just seen.

"I see a couple drug stores around," She pointed out after she felt settled enough about the door and the reaction of people on the street to it and them. "Want to start there and then see how we feel after?"

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ekaspbrak
2019-10-31 09:40 pm UTC (link)

There were a lot of variables. A lot of unknowns and, really, it would be hard for him to try and predict what would happen and what action was the best without more information. That would involve talking to more people or becoming acquainted with individuals who had gone through the doors before and who were willing to talk about the experience. The fact that he didn't and couldn't know the risks involved with any of this was a little worrying but, maybe, it didn't matter. He'd already died. The worst had happened. He should probably just move on and worry about the doors and what could be set loose into their sleepy little town when he wasn't stuck inside one of the doors.

The field and it's door was definitely something to be revisited but not by him. This was a little much even for him, even if he was dead. Hell, thinking about how he was dead was a little much for him. So Natasha could revisit the pink field whenever she liked and just tell him about it. He'd love to hear about it.

The mention of drug stores perked him right up though. Maybe he couldn't get an inhaler or any of his other drugs (because they were all prescription and he doubted he could have his doctor call them in here)but he could get a few other supplies. Eddie had been in drug stores and hospitals so much as both a child and an adult he knew a thing or two about playing medic. Not enough to take care of himself, obviously, but he might need a few things. Just in case Richie injured himself or for when he needed to change the bandage on his face. "You know what, I'd love to start at a drug store." He said a little too easily.

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