So I'm the full meal deal, huh? I'd say that I could super-size that, but the copyright infringement would be too expensive. Plus, I hate McDonalds with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
[He went with the flow of the conversation, noting the glance of her eyes and maybe for the first time entertaining the idea that Ava was setting herself up for a very nasty reality check when it came to him. He wasn't the kind of man that people stayed with long and certainly wasn't one that anyone built a deep connection with. Back on Earth, it had been because of his job, his secrecy and his general lack of willingness to commit himself to anything other than HYDRA. Now that he was in the wind, he was almost less willing to commit because who knew when he would be turned back into an ice cube in a box.
Rumlow had to laugh when she compared him to a badger, though it wasn't far off when he thought about it. There were not a lot of shits that he gave, wasn't afraid to take on the most venomous of snakes, and he was never afraid of putting himself in danger for a goal.]
Maybe a Honey Badger. Those assholes stop at nothing to be assholes, and they have some serious skills.
[Of course, making her flush was the goal, putting her back on her heels as he recognized that someone in Ava's position was likely not to feel compliments much, least of all genuine ones. There were plenty of backhanded compliments that came in most conversations, but she was going to have to get used to conversations in general again, and not just the ones that came with living in SHIELD Academy (where everything was a code for something) or the streets (where everything was a code for something).
He liked that she struggled to come up with something in reply.] Oh, I very much do. It looks very nice on you. [Her blush was almost darker than her red hair, and he chuckled in amusement to the sight of it.]
Or I don't give people a reason to give me a chance. [There was a reason that he often played the jerk card more often than not. These people weren't his team, weren't people that wouldn't look at his extreme views and consider them insane. In his mind, most people had already made their decision about him before ever putting in the effort, and that was just plain human nature. First impressions were everything.] You shouldn't worry about me. I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself in the big wide vicious world.
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[He went with the flow of the conversation, noting the glance of her eyes and maybe for the first time entertaining the idea that Ava was setting herself up for a very nasty reality check when it came to him. He wasn't the kind of man that people stayed with long and certainly wasn't one that anyone built a deep connection with. Back on Earth, it had been because of his job, his secrecy and his general lack of willingness to commit himself to anything other than HYDRA. Now that he was in the wind, he was almost less willing to commit because who knew when he would be turned back into an ice cube in a box.
Rumlow had to laugh when she compared him to a badger, though it wasn't far off when he thought about it. There were not a lot of shits that he gave, wasn't afraid to take on the most venomous of snakes, and he was never afraid of putting himself in danger for a goal.]
Maybe a Honey Badger. Those assholes stop at nothing to be assholes, and they have some serious skills.
[Of course, making her flush was the goal, putting her back on her heels as he recognized that someone in Ava's position was likely not to feel compliments much, least of all genuine ones. There were plenty of backhanded compliments that came in most conversations, but she was going to have to get used to conversations in general again, and not just the ones that came with living in SHIELD Academy (where everything was a code for something) or the streets (where everything was a code for something).
He liked that she struggled to come up with something in reply.] Oh, I very much do. It looks very nice on you. [Her blush was almost darker than her red hair, and he chuckled in amusement to the sight of it.]
Or I don't give people a reason to give me a chance. [There was a reason that he often played the jerk card more often than not. These people weren't his team, weren't people that wouldn't look at his extreme views and consider them insane. In his mind, most people had already made their decision about him before ever putting in the effort, and that was just plain human nature. First impressions were everything.] You shouldn't worry about me. I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself in the big wide vicious world.