New Years Conundrums

[red_room]

Nat's in a more prominent spot in the Nexus today, with what looks to be a whiteboard stand set up next to her chair in the Forum. She's idly tossing dry erase markers while she observes the people coming and going.

"They say the new year is a time for change, and yet every year people aim so pitifully low. If you could change one thing next year....any one thing, what would it be?"

Inquiring minds want to know! Or, you know, one bored red head with too much time on her hands.

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[red_room]

"A tour? Busting up HYDRA bases? Hunting otherworldly artifacts that may fall into the wrong hands? The usual stuff?"

He looks to be okay, so Natasha doesn't seem worried. She knows better than most that he can take care of himself.

[aw_hawkguy]

"Yeah, pretty much. HYDRA tried to gas Times Square, witches and ninjas in Cali, giant monsters in Hawaii, magic stuff in Nepal, and radioactive swamp men in Siberia. And that's the highlights."

[red_room]

"You get to do all the fun stuff without me." Nat snorts and drops her gaze for a moment. "All I've been doing is training recruits."

Though the new batch of Avengers is hardly what she'd consider fresh meat.

"You'll be pleased to know that I'm on extended reconnaissance tour for this place, too." This time she does look up again. "So I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, unless it's Avenging time."

[aw_hawkguy]

"Well, I'm gonna hope it's not Avenging time for a good, long while, because I could use a nap. I'm gettin' old again."

[red_room]

"I could agree to that. The less Avenging time, the better off the world is, in theory." Natasha isn't quite sure what she'd do with herself if she was no longer needed.

A question she doesn't need to worry about.

"At least Christmas is over. I like it enough but I was getting tired of everyone telling Steve he had to watch Christmas movies all month."

[aw_hawkguy]

"Aw, that's rough. At least tell me someone slipped Gremlins and Die Hard into the rotation? Gotta have something good to cut all that sugar."

[red_room]

"I dunno. You should have seen some of the pranks he thought to pull on Tony after watching his third Home Alone movie."

Natasha may have helped.

It's best not to talk about who poured syrup and pillow feathers on who, now. They're grown ups.

[aw_hawkguy]

"...tell me you have video."

[red_room]

She's already pulling out her phone and tapping it a few times, before passing it over to Clint.

The garbled "ROGERS YOU ARE A DEAD MAN!!" Can be heard loud enough to blow out her phone's built in speaker.

[aw_hawkguy]

Oh, what a laugh that's worth. "Oh, my god, I need a copy of this." He digs out his own phone. "Can I?"

[red_room]

"Only if you promise to give yours ideas." Natasha winks but she's already moving to send the video to him.

"If only I could get Steve to understand what 'Do it for the Vine!' means...Actually, no. That would devolve into Super Hero Jackass the motion picture in no time."

[aw_hawkguy]

"Tony has been being kind of a dick, lately... deal." He grins, because what Barton doesn't love a prank war?

"I'd be more worried about Thor picking it up."