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003 ✫ Voice

I've been on some pretty odd worlds in my time but I never saw one like that before. Somethin' new every day on this ship, huh? [On the whole, he sounds pretty pleased about it.] Anyone out there know how to patch up spike holes in leather?

[Private to Natasha]

Appreciate the expertise back in the wilds there. How'd you know how to deal with big cats?

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No. [But she's heard enough about what's going to go down with Loki, and that's enough to keep her hackles raised. Not that, you know, she'd volunteer that infor for Mal.]

Anyone been givin' anyone you know trouble? [Probably a wiser question to ask. The answer could give him a good idea how to best help her now; he just wishes he had some way to make her tell the truth.]

If someone had been giving me or mine any trouble, do you really think that would still be a quiet issue?

[Yes, actually, because she doesn't really like to make big stinks about things but she's banking on Mal not realizing that.]

I think you're even better at keepin' secrets than your file says, and I'm betting you think if I didn't have that you could play me for a cloudheaded fool. [After all, he's sure she'd gotten a bit of trouble over the Winter Soldier thing, and she'd kept that quiet enough, hadn't she?]

[A bit is putting it kind of mildly. She's quite for a few breaths, then decides to just bypass.]

Are you going to give my weapon back, or not?

Sure. Just as soon as you tell me why you want it.

Are you armed?

What do you think?

Tell me why.

Habit, for one, which we ain't trying to break me of. And on a ship full of thieves, I don't much fancy the idea of leavin' it in my cabin.

I'm on a ship full of murderers. Do you think I fancy the idea of being unarmed?

Right, I can see why you wouldn't wanna be. You are unarmed, right? After all you've only been on this ship, what, three months now. How could you get a weapon in that span?

You don't believe me? [She will hide that knife okay, you jerk.]

Should I? [Hey, who's the one lying, jerk. :|]

[Hypocrisy is not in her vocabulary. :|]

Do I need to prove it?

Can you?

You want your weapon, I ain't got a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is you not tellin' me what you do got.

If I had a weapon, would I ask for another?

You're avoiding the point. Bite'll never find its way back to you at that rate.

And what's the point, Captain? You want to search my room?

The point is, you're not bein' honest with me, an' that's all I'm asking for.

You never think I'm being honest with you. Is that what I should expect for as long as I'm stuck with you? Distrust?

Yep. Right up until you start givin' me reason to trust you.

And how am I supposed to do that? Search my room. Search me if you need to. I don't have anything to hide.

[Because she can hide her knife with someone else, and...she really has nothing else to hide. She has barely been in that room. And she doesn't really want him in there, but she doubts he'll understand what it means to her, and she's good at pretending.]

No. Got no mind to search your cabin, keep that to yourself. [She needs a place of her own to go back to at the end of the day. He assumes she has it.]

You can have your Bite. I'll ask the Admiral and drop it off with you if he gives the go-ahead. [Just know that they'll be Having Words if she sees fit to use it.] Just – explain what it is this thing does.

[Well that is actually unexpected, not that she'll let him know. And the only place she is going back to, now, is Clint's room. It's only familiar in that it's a hotel room, and they have stayed in hundreds of those on a mission. She's fully okay with that.]

Think of it like a pair of pair of tasers strapped around your wrists.

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