Kate Bishop is practically an Avenger. (hawkeyetoo) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2017-09-22 22:29:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, kate bishop (hawkeye), tyler lockwood |
Who: Kate and Tyler
When: When Tyler first came back… a little after that.
Where: Tyler’s place?
What: Catching up on missed times
Rating/Warnings: Low/None
Status: Complete
Instead of going out for drinks, Kate brought the bar to Tyler’s house. (It was cheaper, and they could talk without having to shout over the din of a busy club. Also, once you worked in a bar? Hanging out in one lost its appeal.) Some hard ciders, cinnamon whiskey, pretzels and chips were in a bag at her side as she stood on the front step and rang the bell.
Tyler was glad that Kate had decided to come visit him at his place. He liked going out, but sometimes spending too much time out in massive crowds made him uncomfortably hungry. He heard Kate walking toward his door, but he waited until she rang the bell before he got up to answer it.
“Hey you,” he said cheerily when he saw her at the door. Then he glanced at everything that she was carrying. “Wow, you really came prepared, didn’t you?”
“Heyyyyy,” Kate lifted one arm to wrap around Tyler’s shoulders in a hug, grinning all the while. She pulled back and held up the bag for him to take. “Of course I did. I was a girl scout, after all.” That was the Girl Scout motto, wasn’t it? Kate was only a girl scout for part of a year. She barely remembered all that stuff.
“Gosh, it’s good to see you. How the heck have you been?” Kate asked, moving further into his place and making herself at home.
Tyler returned the one handed hug happily. He took the bag, and headed to his fridge. He had had some hospital blood bags in there, but with Kate coming over he’d transferred them to the freezer. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust her with his vampirism, but he did want to keep that knowledge on a need-to-know basis. Now his fridge was empty, so there was plenty of space to put the hard ciders. “I’ve been good. Amazing what four months of camping can do for a guy. And I got to say, it’s a helluva lot more relaxing than this place. What about you?”
“Four months camping sounds… well, that certainly sounds interesting.” Kate was a fairly girly girl herself, though she could rough it if she absolutely had to. But four months in a forest? She’d much rather spend it in a fancy hotel. “Did you get stinky? I bet you were super stinky by the end of it.” She gave him a grin as she followed him into the kitchen. “Man, I should have brought more than some chips and salsa. You haven’t had time to shop for any food?”
“I was pretty ripe,” Tyler said, grinning cheekily. “Luckily, there were a lot of crystal clean rivers and lakes up there. It wasn’t like I was lacking in places to get clean.” Though it also wasn’t as though he’d brought a whole shower kit up there with him. “Chips and salsa is fine, seriously. I normally eat out anyway. I can’t boil water without burning it.”
“The crystal clean rivers and lakes sound like my favorite part of this whole four-months-camping thing.” Kate teased. “I expect you spent a lot of time swimming.” She pulled the snacks out of the bag and arranged them on the counter. “Clint’s definitely the cook in my house. Though, we’re both pretty much at a loss without step by step instructions.” She opened the chips and the salsa to start munching.
“Like a fish,” Tyler said. It wasn’t like there was too much else to do out there. “I could probably show you and Clint sometime. Speaking of, how’s the whole, you know,” he said, gesturing to his ears.
He grabbed one of his bowls from his cupboard, half-heartedly wiping some dust off from it, and brought it into his living room.
“Hey, I’m sure Clint and I would like that.” Kate followed after Tyler, then grabbed the bag of chips and dip and started putting them out on the table. “Man, it’s something else. I’ve learned… well, mostly learned… sign language. So he can still understand me when he can’t see my lips. But it’s this whole other world.”
Tyler raised his eyebrow. “Sign language, huh? They taught me how to spell my name when I was in elementary school,” though, he wasn’t sure if he could remember how to do it now. “Was that difficult to learn?”
Kate lifted her hand and fingerspelled for him. “T-Y-L-E-R.” She said, going through it slow so he could see it. “It’s not bad. But I keep making mistakes and then Clint just laughs at me.” She couldn’t help but grin, though. It was painfully obvious how much she loved her husband. “That bastard.”
Tyler mimicked Kate’s fingers, a little clumsily but he thought he figured it out. “Oh yeah, what a bastard,” Tyler said, rolling his eyes. “Sounds like you really hate him.” He shot her a bit of a smile. “Well, I’m glad everything seems to be going okay. It’d be less good to come home to discover that all my friends were having a terrible time.”
“Right?” Kate was grinning softly. Then she shrugged her shoulders. “I think most of us are okay. I dunno about the rest of your friends though. And your… girlfriend? The redhead?” She asked, tentatively. “I mean, ex-girlfriend?” Subtle, Kate.
“Blossom,” Tyler said, a grin spreading across her face. “Still my girlfriend. She was actually the first person I went to see when I got back.” Even before he’d come back to his loft to drop things off. “Which is lucky. Part of me had been convinced that she would have moved on while I was gone.” He was glad that that hadn’t wound up being the case.
“Right. Blossom. I remember meeting her, she’s a firecracker. I’m glad things are good between you two.” Kate gave him one of her award winning smiles. “She is quite the catch, but then again… so are you. It makes sense that you two would end up together again.”
“I am too,” he said. “I don’t know how I got so lucky to get her, though I appreciate you thinking we’re good together.” Not that he didn’t think they were good together. He really couldn’t imagine being with anyone else. He’d had girlfriends before, but none that he’d ever felt as strongly for.
Though it still tore him up a little that someday she’d grow old and grey and Tyler would never change.
“Let’s hang out again sometime. The four of us.” Kate said, brightening at the idea. Going on double dates with Tyler, Blossom, and Clint was a very strange idea. But somehow it worked. Really well.
Tyler grinned. The last time he’d gone on a double date had been with Stefan and Blossom’s sister. “I’ll run it by Blossom. I’m sure she’d be happy to.”