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Steve Rogers ([personal profile] stands_for_something) wrote in [community profile] nexus_sages2016-03-11 09:37 pm

A Break in the Weather

There's an old man sitting at a table in the Forum, reading his way through a pile of mail and enjoying one of the first balmy days this part of the Nexus has had in a while. To all appearances, the letters are a series of magazine-publisher sweepstakes entry forms, if anyone feels like reading over his shoulder.

Setting one down, he sighs, then looks up and turns a question toward whomever might be around and inclined to talk. "Does anyone have a story of a particularly satisfying way they quit a job? Or if you're management, a satisfying way you dealt with a problem employee?"
brave_heart_verity: (trying to explain)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-14 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Calmed? Cleansed? Converted? (And those are just the "C" words.)

She's noticing a distinct 'I don't sleep enough' trend among the heroes she meets. She doesn't approve--for all the good it does. Whatever part of his burden he's willing to share with her, she's willing to take. "Maybe she's due for a sabbatical? Or reassignment to a job that'll reinforce why you're changing things?"
brave_heart_verity: (Default)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-14 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Verity's not going to think about what else of his has been compared to a religious experience. Poor girl can only take so much.

Something to train out of the newer generation, perhaps? "So now you just need a job for her that'll provide the perfect teachable moment. No problem." She knows it wasn't a super helpful idea.
brave_heart_verity: (shy smile)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-14 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, because they're definitely going to listen to her. Cap's got the whole 'I'm the original Captain America' thing going for him. Verity's got... a magic curse and an encyclopedic knowledge of braids.

"You're welcome. I hope you find the right place for her soon." What good hoping is supposed to do, she's not really sure, but it usually makes people feel better.
brave_heart_verity: (thinking about it)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-15 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they should team up and do a PSA about the dangers of sleep deprivation. They know of what they speak.

"Um. Well. Why do you do it?"
brave_heart_verity: (nope)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-15 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
If he keeps talking to her like that, she's going to start getting ideas. Lovely, shiny ideas.

"You make it sound like it could really happen," she sighs. It'd be so nice to live in that world. "Have you helped anyone change for the better lately? Maybe she could be their handler, helping them get situated out in the world again?"
brave_heart_verity: (baby)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-15 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
She doesn't have a great track record with lovely, shiny things.

Believing that Clint helped save someone from a life of crime isn't hard for her; she gives him flack sometimes, but she really does love and admire him. Her trouble now is in trying to remember where else she's heard that name. 'Mach VII' never much made it to the 6 o'clock news, after all.

"And he needs someone to help him figure out the whole civilian life thing now?"
brave_heart_verity: (thinking about it)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-15 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
She'll get there. There's a lot of names to sort out, names and code names and costumes of people who were really just excuses to stay inside to her for so long.

"An elegant solution." She has no idea how badly that's going to go. Then again, neither does Steve, or Maria, or Abner. The Sinister Six is in so much trouble. "And you can tell her you need to put a top agent on it because you need someone capable of dealing with things if Mister Jenkins starts to backslide, or his parolee starts trouble..."
brave_heart_verity: (shy smile)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-15 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
And there's no telling when or why someone's going to get a new name. So you need not so much a book as a binder.

Boomerangs ruin everything. This is a fact. "Then I'll hope it works out."

She officially got to help Captain America. This is one of the best days of her life.
brave_heart_verity: (blushing)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-15 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
"You're welcome." Oh gods that smile. She's.

She's going to need to just sit for a minute.

But then she'll manage to remember how knees work and will leave him to his paperwork.
Edited 2016-03-19 23:15 (UTC)