Dani Moonstar's a survivor (ms_moonstar) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-05-27 14:00:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, dani moonstar (mirage), natasha romanoff (black widow) |
Bored out of my mind.
who: Dani, Natasha
What: Dani visits Tasha in the hospital.
Where: The hospital
When: Yesterday
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13 for mentions of male strippers, ooh la la
Natasha was bored. How did Tony stand this? And how come no one was sending her chippendales dancers?
Probably because the hospital wouldn't let the chippendales dancers in. That wasn't a bad idea, though.
Dani was also bored out of her mind. It was her day off, and she really didn't have much to do besides take the dog for a walk and clean the vast house she'd been crazy enough to purchase for herself. She wasn't really in the mood to clean.
She checked the clock and decided it was too early to get drunk and play pool, either. The Valarnet had been an amusement for 30 minutes or so, but she didn't need to flood it with messages about how bored she was. So instead, she decided she'd go visit Natasha. The other woman had to be as bored as she was.
She picked up a potted plant on the way to the hospital - you were supposed to bring flowers and things with you when you visited someone, right? - and then headed on it. The paparazi had circled around the doorway to the hospital, and it seemed there was someone at the entrance keeping them from going inside. She waved at the guard after she fought her way through, and headed up to Natasha's room.
Tasha was playing with the automated bed, lifting herself, and then lowering herself, but that quickly lost it's amusement. The only thing on the television were soap operas, though last night she'd gotten to watch a ridiculous take on her accident on Entertainment Tonight. Oh those people.
"I wholeheartedly believe that this place could kill your soul if you had to stay in it longer than a week," Dani's tone was lightly sarcastic as she walked through the door. She held up the plant with a grin, "I brought you a plant. Maybe you can talk to it to pass the time."
"Lovely, I am sure it would grow to my voice," Tasha replied, with a tinge of sarcasm. But her smile was genuine, "I'll be out when they feel I can put enough weight on my leg to use crutches."
Dani plopped the plant down on the table next to her and took a seat, "This probably screws up your whole shooting schedule, doesn't it?"
"Da, it does." Natasha replied, "One of the writers will be coming in later so we can figure this out."
"Maybe a Soviet trap.."
"Would your character fall for that kind of thing? It would have to be a pretty well-hidden trap." Dani looked thoughtful, like she was trying to figure out a way to fit things in, herself, "Maybe she was escaping from somewhere."
"Bear trap," Tasha clarified with a grin, "Complete with long, slow pullout of myself laying in the snow."
"That sounds like just the kind of drammatic thing tv-watchers will love." Dani nodded.
"I was supposed to direct an episode next week too!" Natasha groaned, "How could I be so stupid?"
"There are lots of people who get overconfident about outdoor activities," Dani shrugged, "You get used to being able to do a thing and you don't take all the precautions you should. It's done now, you know? Don't keep beating yourself up over it."
"I didn't check the kind of rock, and I didn't bring someone with me." Natasha shrugged her shoulder. "Not many people I could bring that wouldn't want a different kind of outdoorsy excursion when we got to the top."
"You either have friends that respect your boundaries or you don't have any friends at all," Dani sighed, then shook her head, "I didn't come here to lecture you. I just came to see if you were as bored as I was."
"Bored out of my mind. Tony Stark got strippers, where are my muscly chippendale dancers?"
"I could try and make a call?"
Tasha laughed, then held her head, "I'll pass. Your company is good enough." There had been something else, while she was in the ambulance, "..was the EMT Scottish..?"
"I think so, yes. The accent was ..." Sexy. Insides-squishing. Uhm... "...very nice. I meant to get her phone number, I still have some crap to fill out on our incident reports."
Natasha smirked knowingly, "I'm sure her name is on the incident report here."
"Why didn't I think of that?" Dani hopped up off the chair and pulled Natasha's chart, flipping through it to find the initial reports they'd filled out. There was a lot of paperwork in the file already, "All of this just for a busted up leg? No wonder the rainforest is in danger, we can blame hospitals and all their forms."
She pulled out her phone as she got to the form she was looking for, "Here we go, Rahne Sinclaire. Kind of rolls off the tongue."
"There must be thirty pages there," Tasha noted. "That's a scottish name..has to be her." Rolls off the tongue?
Rolls off the tongue. Like, it was a gorgeous name to say repeatedly. Or maybe that was just Dani and her opinion. She tapped the name into her phone's notepad for later reference and put the chart back where it belonged, "There. It's like I never snooped around in your personal files."
"I didn't see anything," she assured her. She let the obvious fascination go, too out of it to tease. She didn't know the woman well enough, anyway, "Is it always this exciting to be a Park Ranger?"
"You want the honest answer?" Dani perched back in her chair and looked around to see if anyone would overhear them.
"Da."
"Before you took a dive off the mountain, there were entire parts of my shift that I could take a nap in my truck," She'd been about to mention that she'd even spent 5 hours the other day smoking joints in her truck with a hippy, but figured that was probably an overshare just yet.
"Wow. Sounds spectacularly boring."
"I was hoping there'd at least be bears on the loose to shoot tranq darts at. Apparently they were a much bigger problem in Colorado."
"Out here you get cougars. I'm sure they're just as good," Tasha assured her.
"We actually had a coyote situation right before I was hired on. I hear it was all kinds of exciting," Dani laughed, "But really, it's mostly things like putting out campfires in places they aren't supposed to be lit, chasing away kids trying to get drunk away from parental supervision. That kind of thing."
"Ever have problems with green peace? Chained to trees and things like that?" Tasha tried to sit up better.
"Not out in these parks, that I'm aware of. You mostly get that kind of thing in areas of forest that are going to be under industrial development soon. But I havn't been a Park Ranger very long, either. "
Tasha gave her a grin, "Not only the bottom of the law enforcement food chain, but the bottom of the bottom, then? Get hazed at all?"
"The second day on the job, my partner got over the radio and told me there was this gigantic emergency out about a 2 hour drive away from our bunker. Of course there was nothing there. That's about all the hazing there was, though."
"I think I'd rather take a hazing than a four hour round trip."
"It wasn't that bad, Doom came along for the ride." Dani shrugged, "But I think they were scared of me taking any other hazing the wrong way. Despite the fact that there's plenty of female rangers out there these days, they're still scared of harrassment issues."
"I'm surprised you haven't encountered anything nasty yet. You're not the usual picture when I think of a Park Ranger."
"So I guess you were picturing someone taller?" Dani grinned cheekily at Natasha.
"Less.." she waved her hands in an hourglass shape.
Dani squinted at her, then smirked a bit, "So you think I'm attractive?"
"Girlfriend, if I swung that way I'd ask you on a date. But contrary to the delusions of some members of the tabloid press, I'm regrettably straight." Tasha smiled at her.
"That IS a shame," Dani laughed, "But I'll take the complement anyway, if you don't mind. There isn't much wind in my sails lately."
Tasha laughed. Then groaned as it jarred her leg, "Bad luck on the dating scene? Or too much time in the woods with only a squirrel to talk to?"
"How about we go with about a 50/50 ratio of either? Well the dating scene is kind of ... interesting right now. But apparently I have a stick up my ass that needs removing anyway. I didn't even know it was there," she ran a hand up into her hair and sighed, "I guess I can see his point though."
"I know a guy, but he's already going after someone." She lowered her bed a bit, thinking on things, "Otherwise I'd introduce you."
"That seems to be the way my luck is going right now. It's not really a big deal. I mean, I've got most of the things you need in life. A good job, pets, a nice house. Life is good. It's just boring sometimes. I probably need to meet some people and get a tv." Speaking of tv, she looked up at the one in the hospital room, "That's all that's available to watch?"
"Yes!" Tasha looked so very much depressed, "And the remote is out of reach."
"Here, let me at least fix that for you."
Dani looked around for the remote, then grabbed it and brought it over to her, "Even having it off would be better than subjecting yourself to that. Maybe we SHOULD get some male strippers up here."
"We've give the duty nurses a heart attack," She replied, blinking her eyes at the thought.
"That might be worth it, those nurses have sticks further up their asses than mine is."
"They're just doing their job, Ms. Moonstar."
Dani laughed, "Yeah, they are. Did you need anything while you're stuck here? I could sneak you in some contraband."
Natasha looked around, then leaned closer and whispered conspiratorially, "I'm in desperate need of chocolate."
"I think I can handle that. I'm sure your agent or something will bring by some electronic gadgets for you to mess with, too. Like a laptop or iphone or whatever." Dani's phone had been upgraded purely because her old one had been left in her back pocket too many times. She tried not to have too many of those fancy gadgets in her life.
"I should get you and Ms. Sinclair something. I'll buy you both dinner, how does that sound?" An object might be taken the wrong way, but an offer of food was just being thankful.
Dani eyedarted, "We should probably eat it together, it'll be more convenient that way."
"That would be lovely," Natasha replied, closing her eyes. "One could listen to that woman sing lullabys."
"One really could."
She didn't open her eyes, but did smile softly, "Do you have a little crush on our Scottish princess?"
"I have no idea. I'm attracted to her voice, at the very least." she wasn't really ready to admit the squishy insides thing. She'd been attracted to women since she was 16 years old or so, but Ms. Sinclaire was the first person to actually do that to her.
"Mm...I have to be attracted to someone who's taken." Someones, if she really thought about it. But she didn't want to think about Clint that way.
"That always sucks. I'm sorry." She was completely sincere.
"Oh, he's a complete jerk, so it's no real loss." She waved a hand, like dismissing the idea of Tony Stark.
"You keep telling yourself that, but for future reference, it doesn't work."
Tasha scrunched up her face, "Nyet why do you say these things??"
"Because no matter how often you tell yourself the person is a complete jerk or it never would have worked out anyway, it's not going to make the feelings FOR the jerk go away. It's better to just deal with them." Or get drunk and forget about them for a bit.
"You sound like you speak from personal experience," Tasha replied softly.
"Several levels of personal experience. One of them is in the army now." Dani shrugged, "And we really weren't good for eachother. It's for the best. But that's just words."
Natasha sighed. Her voice was somber, "It was for the best are some of the most painful words in the English language."
"Is there a Russian variation?"
Natasha chuckled, "...Da..."
"This is really not the stuff I came here to chat with you about." Dani frowned, "Not that I had a plan, but I was trying to cheer you up. I'm sorry."
"I'm a little more cheered up," She replied. "I have a dinner date scheduled now." She winked.
Dani grinned at that, "True. And I'll come by tomorrow if you want. With contraband."
Natasha let out a tired little cheer.
"Sounds like someone needs a nap. I'll get out of your hair." Dani got up and patted her good leg, "Hang in there."
"Thanks..mean it.." She drifted off.
D'awww. What a cute little totally straight red-headed celebrity she was. Dani pulled the blankets up a bit and then headed out. She had a lot to think about.