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Clint Barton Is Eating Crow Again (purpleman) wrote in valarlogs,
@ 2012-04-19 22:38:00

Current mood:	anxious
Entry tags:	!complete, clint barton (hawkeye), eowyn, truthiness plot

Who: Clint and Eowyn
When: Current
Where: A Park
What: Beer and hanging out!

Clint pulled into the park they'd picked to meet and did a quick once over in his mirror. Nothing too serious but he had tried to look more like a decent human being as opposed to crazy survivalist freak the way he sometimes came off when he'd been spending the day at the range. Luckiy, his shirt had an actual collar and wasn't wrinkled, and his pants were clean and boots looked clean without being too shiny or anything.

Not that he was out to really impress Eowyn from the Valarnet. ...Oh who was he kidding, of course he was. But he wasn't going to say it out loud if he could help it. After all, he didn't want to scare her off somehow. That would be a problem, since he really thought they had a good shot at being friends if nothing else, and he didn't want to put her off. Er anyway.

He was clean, he looked decent and not like he'd crawled out of some pit in the ground and into the real world, and he had a paper shopping bag filled with single bottles of several different local brews and microbrews, along with some paper cups with animal faces on them. What? It'd been what he could find.

Okay so there were also a few boxes of crackers and some cheez whiz and a can of peanuts just because they seemed to go with beer. He'd also dredged up a towel that they could sit on. So, he was prepared in other words, and all he had to do now was locate Eowyn. Had she gotten here yet?

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alwaysbechosen
2012-04-20 02:58 am UTC (link)

Eowyn was here, and she hadn't dressed up. With the exception of make up, which as a rule she usually put on anyway, but this wasn't a date.

She had no illusions.

Still, it was nice to get out of her apartment for once, and while the whole conversation had been ridiculously awkward, she found herself looking forward to it. If she could just keep her mouth in check...

Sitting on a bench near the pond, Eowyn waited, checking her phone. They hadn't really thought through the meeting part.

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purpleman
2012-04-22 06:03 pm UTC (link)

Clint didn't have any illusions about it being a date thing either. Eowyn had said she didn't do those, and whatever the reason, you couldn't blame a woman for that. It meant, usually, they'd been really hurt sometime in the past, and while he wasn't going to come out and ask her that, he knew it was a possibility, and also that he wasn't the kind of person to swoop in all heroic like and heal everybody's wounds. He may have had a tiny bit of medic training, but that didn't mean that he could handle bigger wounds like that. Still, a friend was always a plus, and he wanted to go ahead and make those, so that was what he planned on.

Now that everything was out of the car, and he was on his way to find Eowyn, he shot off a quick text, asking where she was and letting her know he'd gotten there, then, when he noticed no one was around yet, surreptitiously reached up and checked the controls on his hearing aids.

It'd be bad if things started beeping during a conversation, after all. They'd killed real dates before, more than once in fact. He also didn't want them to completely show. He wasn't exactly self conscious about it but...they did kind of feel like the biggest things in the world sometimes when you were pretending to be normal so...

Luckily, this time, for everyone's sake, the aids were neatly in place and the volume settings were correct, so that was all good. And now to locate the mysterious and elusive Eowyn.

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	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-22 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Eowyn answered the text, making a point to not check her hair. Really. She had no idea what was going to say or do, honestly. Still, making new friends was the whole point of valarnet and it'd be fun if nothing else. She scanned the crowd, looking for a guy she didn't know likely looking confused and scanning the crowd. Should be easiest enough. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

purpleman
2012-04-22 08:43 pm UTC (link)

Pretty blonde over on the bench, checking her phone. Had to be. Not that Clint was thinking about her in terms of her being pretty, even though she was drop dead gorgeous. It was more the kind of thing you couldn't HELP noticing, not that he was going to be a pervert about it or stare at her creepily or anything. Anyway, right. He made his way over and shot her a little grin.

"Eowyn?" he asked her. "Cause if not, I'll have to be really embarrassed."

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alwaysbechosen
2012-04-22 09:16 pm UTC (link)

"Well, you're safe. That's me." She gave him a grin back, eying the preparations for what obviously would be a rather nice picnic.

"Clint, you brought Cheez Wiz. This is clearly the start of something amazing." She'd gone on one of those stupid macrobiotic diets a few months back and nothing made you appreciate the delicious and disgusting processed foods like depriving yourself of them for awhile.

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purpleman
2012-04-24 01:37 pm UTC (link)

"Way to a girl's heart and all." Clint joked, resisting the urge to rip off the lid and shoot some at her then and there. Sure, she may have been a friend now, but there were things you did with women who were friends and guys who were friends and the women tended to fall along the lines of appreciating, you know, the sort of behavior that wasn't socially deviant in places outside of your average frat party. "I plan ahead." He joked, and did shake the can in her face a little, settling for that. "So, time to cue the awkward silence or should we actually try to have a conversation first?"

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	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-24 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	Eowyn just laughed, shaking her head slightly. "Oh, come on, it hasn't even been five minutes. I doubt we need to jump straight into the awkward. Tell me what it is you do?" She lilted it like a question, which it wasn't, strictly speaking. But grammar was a cruel mistress, and she'd just have to make do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

purpleman
2012-04-24 11:10 pm UTC (link)

Grammar was one of those things Barton never really stressed over. Okay, so he'd probably turned most conventional curses into active verbs and then used them as adjectives before, but that was just one example of the ways it could be messed around with. And frankly, if Grammar didn'tlike it, well, Grammar could go suck it.

"I've got a shooting ranger in Ayers Canyon." Clint explained. "Hence, the reason I seemed obsessed with guns on the internet. I teach a few qualifying classes, that kind of thing; occasionally I coach along a decent archer if they get passed on to me. So...not a lot these days." It implied that earlier on there had been more going on there, but he wasn't really going to talk about himself all day. "And you, then?"

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	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-24 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	She noticed the omission of whatever came before 'these days' but didn't press him. What was the point? If he didn't want to talk about it, she'd be the last person to force the issue. "Soul-sucking corporate drone. You know, the usual crap you get stuck in after realizing just how bad your student loans are." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

purpleman
2012-04-26 02:22 am UTC (link)

"Sucky." Clint made a face at that. Sure, the army had sort of chewed on his soul for a while there, but they'd returned it with everything intact. "I'm pretty lucky as far as that goes for skipping the whole college experience. Not exactly any smarter than I used to be, but..." he shrugged a little. "It works I guess. Major then? Oh god this sounds like some kind of job interview, and I am so so horribly sorry." He added, ducking his head a little bit.

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	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-26 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	Eowyn just laughed, throwing a little bit of a cracker at him. "Tell you what. Instead of rehashing our life stories, let's do something reckless and stupid." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	purpleman 2012-04-26 01:00 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm up for reckless and stupid." Clint stretched a little, leaning forward. "So. We going for the kind of reckless and stupid that'll get the cops here, or just the kind that makes people start starring at us like we need to visit the nice people in the white jackets?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-26 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	Eowyn just grinned. "How about parasailing at the beach?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

purpleman
2012-04-26 01:22 pm UTC (link)

"That? Sounds incredible. I've never really done the parachute involving things when it wasn't deadly serious." He confessed. Luckily he had no specific trauma that was going to crop up from being near a parachute, at least nothing that came to mind, so that could work. Besides, the shit therapist had said he needed to start making new associations so why not start there. "When you go reckless and stupid, you go all out." Clearly, he approved here.

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	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-26 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	"Reckless and stupid are the only way to go!" she said cheerfully, standing up and holding out her hand. Innocently, of course. "... but wait, deadly serious? This is just gliding behind a boat up in the air. Barely reckless and only a touch stupid. I take it you've done the real thing out of a plane?" Hadn't he said he was ex-military on Valarnet or something? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	purpleman 2012-04-28 07:22 pm UTC (link)
	Clint took her hand and got up with a grand gesture. "Completely." he agreed, with a little flourish as he stood. "Well and helicopter." he answered, trying to shrug it off as much as possible now that it was out. "In a past life, about three years ago, I was in the army, so..." he shrugged. "We saw some things. But hey, gives me the edge right now, huh?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	alwaysbechosen 2012-04-28 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	Boy, if there ever was a barbed wire fenced, do not approach sign laden area in a conversation, this was it. Eowyn tactfully let the subject drop. Everyone had their ghosts. "I suppose we'll see, won't we?" She gave him a particularly wicked grin and dragged him towards a cab. (Reply to this) (Parent)