[Weird, how he gets that. He tips his head off to one side. He's never been good at this kind of small talk, it feels enough like gossip that it's making him uncomfortable, and he's not entirely sure why Steph is telling him all this, or what she wants or needs in return.]
It sounds like she's been through a lot. You both have. Sometimes it's-- hard to be a good friend to someone else if you don't know who you are first.
[If Steve feels awkward, Steph is twice as much, because it's occured to her that she doesn't have anyone to talk to, there's no one here she trusts enough just yet, and she needs that.
She puts the dishes away almost automatically, freeing her hands so she can press her fingers against her arm, where the tracker is hidden. Its an unconscious gesture, something she used to do back in Exsilium to comfort herself when she needed it.
When she looks back at Steve, she gives him a crooked grin.]
Pretty sure I was here for your tragic backstory, not mine.
[She just offers a wry smile and a shrug for his first comment. Hospitals are complicated things for her, and she hasn't even been to one for fourteen months.]
She'll chew you up and spit you out if you don't treat her right.
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No idea why?
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[Steph never understood it. Cass was never loyal to Bruce, she was loyal to the symbol.]
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It sounds like she's been through a lot. You both have. Sometimes it's-- hard to be a good friend to someone else if you don't know who you are first.
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[If Steve feels awkward, Steph is twice as much, because it's occured to her that she doesn't have anyone to talk to, there's no one here she trusts enough just yet, and she needs that.
She puts the dishes away almost automatically, freeing her hands so she can press her fingers against her arm, where the tracker is hidden. Its an unconscious gesture, something she used to do back in Exsilium to comfort herself when she needed it.
When she looks back at Steve, she gives him a crooked grin.]
Pretty sure I was here for your tragic backstory, not mine.
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We can't do both?
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[Courtesy Peggy, because she's the best.]
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[The struggle is so real. She doesn't even like to drink, but god could she use one.]
But where the hell did you get tea?
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I know a dame that knows a guy... you know.
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[She won't let this go. Because:]
Can this guy summon coffee too?
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[He misses army coffee like you would not believe. Even if caffeine doesn't work on him so well.]
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[help her]
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Go big or go home, I say. Why not one of those fancy single serve machines? Starts with a K?
[SHIELD HQ has one, but he always bought his coffee from a little old man that pushed a cart around downtown Washington.
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[jeez, Steve]
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[NO REALLY, HE DOES. IT'S AWFUL.]
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[laughcries]
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Yeah, I avoid those when I can.
[He hates hospitals for a variety of reasons. More than anything, it's the smell.]
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[that-- that isn't a good thing]
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Technically, Haven has a hospital.
[... so, you know...]
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[also shush you]
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[So he starts making tea, just because. What little he has is precious, but he hardly minds sharing.]
Gotham's a pretty rough place, huh.
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She'll chew you up and spit you out if you don't treat her right.
[Steph is weird about Gotham.]
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[But hard cities grow hard people who can survive anything. Brooklyn made him what it was, and he wouldn't trade that for anything.]
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[Even broken and crumbling, even when half her people were dead or gone, Gotham still looked after the people who stayed.]
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[Cass had mentioned it a little, enough for him to get a picture of what it might have been like.]
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