FIC: Communication Difficulties 1/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsdictator_duckJuly 23 2012, 01:36:36 UTC
note: Yeah, so, Clint's team (because snipers and field agents tend to have teams) is mostly based on Walsh's from The Unusuals, though they are all their own people. >.>. I hope it works!
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In Clint's defense, it only takes him three hours to give up on the first round of codes. He'd checked their website during a slow watch, but try as he might he was neither a computer-nerd or of an intelligence background, so he passed it over to Nick Henry to keep him occupied. His teammate might be nice and polite and trying not to be bored as hell without any locals to make friendly conversation with, but he takes to the tangles of code with a glee Clint won't ever understand.
Two hours later, Henry hands Clint a series of numbers and dashes written in his chicken-scratch, a code-form Clint actually recognizes, and Clint offers to grab him breakfast when they're back at the San Diego offices
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FIC: Communication Difficulties 2/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsdictator_duckJuly 23 2012, 01:38:02 UTC
His spotter/co-sniper calls him "old man" for never learning how to do any communication skills more subtle than texting Natasha's back-up team, but Schmidt would call him "old man" anyway and he can't really tell her to get off of his lawn now that she's thirty-one.
(The fact that she's over thirty will never stop creeping him out. She was twenty-four only - seven years ago! He's pretty sure that's not how time works.)
As it is, after he wakes up and's been on watch for awhile he sends Koskinen a quick hey howre you guys because he's in nowhere, Alaska, keeping an eye on a sleeping scientist with severe anger management issues, and it's 2am but it could be late afternoon for all the shit the sun gives.
The rapid reply of Aw, I didn't know you cared. doesn't mean much (beyond, "we're safe," which actually, Clint supposes, means a lot) because Koskinen keeps as odd of hours as he does. It's hard being a team leader
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Re: FIC: Communication Difficulties 2/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsdictator_duckJuly 23 2012, 19:48:54 UTC
Haha, I am so glad! :D As one of my friends said about the number (accrued over two weeks), (imagine Clint to Nat) "Well, you're really hot and this job is REALLY BORING-- I mean it's mostly you being hot. Yeah. :D?"
Ahaha, anyway. THANK YOU for letting me know :D. Rewatching The Unusuals is the best way to spend your time. (Except from eating pie. And watching The Middleman. Anyway.)
Re: FIC: Communication Difficulties 2/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsdictator_duckJuly 23 2012, 19:50:46 UTC
:DDD I am really glad you liked it! This fic entertained me unduly, so! Thank you for letting me know!
(As I recounted to jacedesbff above, a friend said about the numbers accrued [as if she were Clint speaking to Natasha]: "Well, you're really hot and this job is REALLY BORING-- I mean it's mostly you being hot. Yeah. :D?")
Re: FIC: Communication Difficulties 2/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsdictator_duckJuly 23 2012, 23:28:10 UTC
:DDD I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks!
And ahaha, wrt (A SHORT DIVE INTO OT) Middleman -- I really want someone to write a Middleman/Unusuals crossover? I don't think Middleman/Avengers would work, but the Middleverse looks like quirky normalcy to most of its residents!
I just think Schraeger and Dubby would get along like something that gets along very well.
Re: FIC: Communication Difficulties 1/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsinkvoicesJuly 23 2012, 23:39:51 UTC
The layers and layers to the code, oh Natasha, are you trying to break the poor guy's brain? *grins* I love that he has to ask for help and that he's planning to settle the debt with fancy coffee, ha, and that after all that effort the message is pretty straightforward and not actually giving much of anything away :D
Re: FIC: Communication Difficulties 1/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsdictator_duckJuly 23 2012, 23:42:20 UTC
Hahaha! :D Yes, that... Natasha is sneaky. Clint knew what he was getting into, it's-complicated-ing her, but he still feels somewhat sorry for himself XD. I am really glad you like it, thanks!
There is a 2/2! It's posted as a reply to this part (maybe that was not the clearest way to organize them, sorry!).
Re: FIC: Communication Difficulties 1/2, PG for some bad language, no other warningsinkvoicesJuly 23 2012, 23:45:52 UTC
Ignore me, just found 2/2 :D :D :D OH CLINT, who's method of communication is texting Natasha's back_up team <3 And love them playing The Unusuals numbers game and the rest knowing that it's some 'kinky bullshit' on principal, heehee. THANKING YOU! :D
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In Clint's defense, it only takes him three hours to give up on the first round of codes. He'd checked their website during a slow watch, but try as he might he was neither a computer-nerd or of an intelligence background, so he passed it over to Nick Henry to keep him occupied. His teammate might be nice and polite and trying not to be bored as hell without any locals to make friendly conversation with, but he takes to the tangles of code with a glee Clint won't ever understand.
Two hours later, Henry hands Clint a series of numbers and dashes written in his chicken-scratch, a code-form Clint actually recognizes, and Clint offers to grab him breakfast when they're back at the San Diego offices ( ... )
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(The fact that she's over thirty will never stop creeping him out. She was twenty-four only - seven years ago! He's pretty sure that's not how time works.)
As it is, after he wakes up and's been on watch for awhile he sends Koskinen a quick hey howre you guys because he's in nowhere, Alaska, keeping an eye on a sleeping scientist with severe anger management issues, and it's 2am but it could be late afternoon for all the shit the sun gives.
The rapid reply of Aw, I didn't know you cared. doesn't mean much (beyond, "we're safe," which actually, Clint supposes, means a lot) because Koskinen keeps as odd of hours as he does. It's hard being a team leader ( ... )
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Ahaha, anyway. THANK YOU for letting me know :D. Rewatching The Unusuals is the best way to spend your time. (Except from eating pie. And watching The Middleman. Anyway.)
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:D
Sorry. Carry on.
(i will actually read this fic and respond properly, i swear.)
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(As I recounted to jacedesbff above, a friend said about the numbers accrued [as if she were Clint speaking to Natasha]: "Well, you're really hot and this job is REALLY BORING-- I mean it's mostly you being hot. Yeah. :D?")
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And ahaha, wrt (A SHORT DIVE INTO OT) Middleman -- I really want someone to write a Middleman/Unusuals crossover? I don't think Middleman/Avengers would work, but the Middleverse looks like quirky normalcy to most of its residents!
I just think Schraeger and Dubby would get along like something that gets along very well.
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Is there gonna be a 2/2 *hopeful eyes*
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There is a 2/2! It's posted as a reply to this part (maybe that was not the clearest way to organize them, sorry!).
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:DDD thanking you BACK (so... there? haha). This was ridiculously fun to write, yay, I am glad you liked it!
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