bettercallit | (no subject)

I tried that. I fell off. But caffeinated beverages it is.

i fell off this summer. i'm trying to get over myself.

[And maybe not to care so much anymore. That feels impossible.]

Got a shoulder here, too, if you need one.

[ But Clint loves her the way she is, and next time he sees her in person he's going to hug her. ]

nah. i'll probably drive you to drinking instead. i don't want that on me :P

If it does, I might get a good night of sleep out of it. No one loses.

don't do that. that's how i got started.

Is it a serious problem?

my answer depends on if you're going to lecture me or not.

I've always been more of the naughty school boy in the principal's office than the lecturing type.

[ But that doesn't mean he's not worried. ]

[The reply only comes after a long fifteen minutes.]

sometimes.

[She doesn't even know why she's telling him. Maybe it's time she spoke up more.]

From before or after you got here?

[ Because he knows he drinks more here, after everything he saw before coming, but because he spends a lot of time alone, and the ticking is always louder then. ]

after. definitely after.

[She partied hard before, but now she doesn't even party. Here, she drinks to drown out the ticking, the loneliness, the constant feeling of being abandoned.]

[ He doesn't ask what it was that started it, he can guess well enough, but he doesn't exactly close the subject off if she wants to bring anything forward. ]

It's got a nasty way of doing that to people. But, hey, if you're gonna do it, might as well do it with company, right? And I'd be offended if you got the party started without me.

aren't you supposed to lead me away from temptation, not encourage me into it?

[Besides, if she had company, she wouldn't feel the need to drink so much, at least until she's so far gone that she passes out and can't hear the ticking.]

One step at a time. If it reaches the point, I'll get Coulson on the case. You'll love his lectures, they're thought provoking.

[ He's hoping that the excuse to push himself on her will be enough for now. ]

i may have already made him drive me around town late at night, so he knows already.

You guys went out without me? I'm wounded.

i wouldn't call it going out. more like 'please drive me because i might get drunk and i don't want to kill anybody'.

Can't say I don't know that one.

[ A few moments later. ]

You make a pass, in your drunken state?

i'm not interested in him like that.

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