[log] clint barton's no good very bad week [closed]

[awwnoun]

Characters: Clint, Steve, Ecks, Natasha and Tony
Location: Building 108
Date: Days 155 and 156
Summary: Clint finally meets Steve face to face after he revives - and also finds Ecks again. Nat and Tony catch up the next day.
Warnings: Will update as necessary!

108: A standard single-story house with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom, and bedroom. The bed in the bedroom is a loft-style bed, giving extra space for the desk beneath it. One of the desk drawers is empty, and the others have countless small plastic cases that look like they could have been SD cards, although there aren't any computer chips in them. These are only plastic shells.

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[bottledblond]

Though he can't hear any emotion in an electronic voice, he can see something in Clint's face. Oh no, he thought to himself. What happened? Did Clint lose his wife? Did he lose his children too? Keeping this a secret wasn't going to help anything, so Steve nodded. "The shorter Clint Barton I know has a wife and three kids. Two boys and a little girl."

He would tell Clint Laura's and the kids' names if he wanted him to but Clint kept that life seperate from his Avenging one. And Steve respected that.

[awwnoun]

A wife and three kids. God, he - what's he supposed to do with that? It absolutely is another universe, it has to be, because... well, he'd never even gotten close to having kids with Bobbi. Or with Natasha, or Jessica - he hadn't been married to either of them. He has no idea what to say to Steve's revelation, and it has his fingers silent for a few minutes as he processes.

"I'm not even married." Clint types out finally, giving Steve a sadder sort of smile. "Not anymore, anyway. Was it with Bobbi? What's my wife's name? My kids?"

What a weird question, he thinks.

[bottledblond]

Bobbi...?

"Her name is Laura. She has dark hair-- But you do too where I'm from. Your oldest son is Cooper. Your daughter is called Lila and you just had another son you named after Natasha. He's got a lot of spunk. Nathaniel." Maybe Steve had visited a few times to play with the kids when Natasha went visiting. He was never Uncle Steve but..

He sort of wanted to be. He was jealous of Clint. The guy had everything from where he was standing. The grass was looking really green over on his side of the fence.

"Different time lines. Different people in them I guess?"

[awwnoun]

Clint sort of just... slides down the couch to slump on it, staring up at the ceiling. Laura. He doesn't know any Lauras, he doesn't think. But that Hawkeye is different, the one from Steve's world. Cooper, Lila - Nathaniel, after Natasha? He could almost laugh at that, with how ridiculous it is.

"Very different." Clint types after a minute, after he rubs at his face and clears his throat. Maybe his eyes are burning a little, it's whatever. "I'm divorced from an incredible lady named Bobbi Morse. We still talk but we never even came close to having kids."

He hesitates, not looking at Steve. He'll just try to brush this off with a casual sort of joke, to try and pull the attention away from how upset not having a family might make him. "Do me a favor and never tell Natasha here I named a kid after her. She'll never let me live it down."

[bottledblond]

"Didn't anyone ever tell you how bad I am at keeping secrets?" He actually wasn't all that bad, especially if they weren't suppose to be secrets. Or shouldn't be secrets. Steve thankfully just wasn't the type of guy to hold information like this over anyone's head. "But you've got it. Because you don't have a child named after her," Steve grinned, nodding sagely. "I would find it a little strange too if you told me something radically different about myself too."

Even if that just made him curious.

"Nat and Tony just said that the other Captain is mostly just angrier." He rubbed the back of his neck as if embarrassed. "And older."

[awwnoun]

He figures the information is gonna come out one way or another, because Clint tends to tell Natasha everything whether he means to or not, but still. He appreciates the fact that Steve is going to at least attempt to keep it a secret.

As for the rest, Clint sort of just half grins at the guy.

"You seem younger, yeah. It's not a bad thing. Might be a good thing actually, uh - you and I tend to butt heads a lot." A beat. "You and the other Cap. Whatever. Universes."

[bottledblond]

"How many Caps are there...?" That has got to be confusing for everyone. Did they all wear the Stars and Stripes? Steve use to think of Captain America being a mantle to pass down. Did that mean that he retired? He couldn't be dead if he was still butting heads with everyone.

He liked to think that he and Hawkeye were friends. They weren't as close as he and Nat or he and Sam but they fought side by side. They were a team. Barton might have joined his side of things to protect Wanda but that didn't mean that Steve didn't already enjoy working with him.

Clint was sort of the example of a hero with his life done right. He had it all.

[awwnoun]

"Two. Technically. I don't want to tell you too much in case it messes up what you've got going on back home, but. It's mostly Steve Rogers that is Captain America."

Clint doesn't dislike Bucky as Captain America, he just doesn't think it feels right. Captain America is Steve Rogers, end of story. When he's through, the title gets retired. It's not like Hawkeye, or Wolverine. They're not as important to the grand scheme of things.

Clint sighs. "There's two Hawkeyes, also. That's why I asked you before if I was a girl where you were from."

[bottledblond]

"Can't... Are there so many of us that everyone has to double up on code names?" Steve couldn't help but laugh at the thought of two of everyone running around. "Is the other Captain America a woman too?"

He liked the idea of more women participating in heroics but...should they ride the coat tails of men? Yes, he was a very progressive guy from the 1940s.

[awwnoun]

"No, and no. Mostly it only happens if someone dies or retires and then comes back, the doubling thing? Which happened with me."

Clint looks only mildly sheepish at this. "Other Cap's a guy. Other Hawkeye's a girl named Kate, and I told her she could keep the title."