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Such a beautiful mess

Feb 22, 2012 18:19

Who: Kate Bishop and Tommy Shepherd
When: Wednesday
Where: Their apartment
Summary: Following Billy's death, Tommy has been scarce around the apartment; Kate can't deal with losing a friend and watching her boyfriend push her away.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Yelling, crying, sadness, grieving, Tommy.

( Intertwined and overrun )

tommy shepherd, kate bishop

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artemisaim February 23 2012, 00:27:19 UTC

This week hasn't been easy on Kate either. For once in her life she doesn't know what to say about something and it sort of scares her. In a way, this feels like it's just the last straw. She feels like she's been holding back an avalanche for the past six months and now it's finally threatening to break through. Almost everyone she cares about from home has left her. First Teddy, then Cap, then Clint and now Billy. Tommy is the only one left and he won't even talk to her. It's just too much. She doesn't know how to deal with it. At this point, all the sadness she was feeling is being slowly replaced by anger. Anger at this place, anger at everyone else around her and anger at herself. She somehow manages to catch Tommy coming in and the anger she had been pushing down for the past few days flares back up again when she sees him. This should be a fun talk.

"Where have you been?"

notaspeedyhobo February 23 2012, 01:08:06 UTC

If he were in a better state of mind, he might have considered that, what his leaving for the week, what pushing people away, would do to Kate and to Luna. He and Kate are the only Young Avengers left (sort of, something odd is going on with Chie and Timothy, but still) but... That just means they have more riding on each other. It'll hurt more if they lose each other. Some part of him wants to withdraw completely to protect himself.

It's the same part that wants to run when he hears Kate's voice. He pauses in the doorway and glances over at her briefly, then away, unable to meet her gaze. "Out."

artemisaim February 23 2012, 01:15:50 UTC

If she were in a better state of mind, she would have approached him in a gentler way. She would have taken the time to try to explain to him that this is not the way to handle grief. But she's not so this is what he gets.

"Out. That's not an actual answer."

notaspeedyhobo February 23 2012, 01:19:38 UTC

"I wasn't in, so I must have been out. It's an answer," he says quietly, tersely, not looking at her as he heads to the bedroom to pull on a clean shirt. This isn't the way to handle things, he knows that, but at the moment, everything hurts too bad to care. His brother is gone. His brother is gone and never coming back.

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