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[ The feed starts recording and instantly there's a blurred flash of purple, muttered curses and bitter mumbling as the device clearly slips out from someone's grasp. ]

It's always the left one.

[ When the image steadies, Clint appears on the screen looking somewhat more uplifted than usual, eyes blown wide as the pain killers he's taken kick in. And then he's holding the thing up in hopes that he's sporting off his shiny new cast of purple decorating his left forearm. ]

Guess who got too confident and misjudged a landing from one rooftop to another? [ He pulls the device in close, too close, and beams down at the lens. ] You guessed right. It was me.

[ He frowns openly, glaring down at it and squirming in the wheelchair he's been dumped in as he waits to be discharged. ] Anyone got something long and pointy? It itches.

[ And, again, distracted, Clint looks up and across the open waiting room, squinting at someone across the other side. ] And there's a doctor who keeps trying to catch my eye. Quick, someone come save me, 'cause this isn't how I--

[ The device slips again before the feed cuts out. ]

[ OOC: The doctor in question is

dr_conscience, and everyone should feel free to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid before he comes down. ]

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Clint? [ He frowns. Which is the first time all day he really has. What a day for him to do this. ] You were jumping rooftops? [ That actually sounds really fun! ]

[ He grins, something he doesn't do openly all that often, but the drugs help. ]

You've got a look that tells me you wouldn't mind trying it yourself.

[ He should grin more! Oh. That's dangerous, Clint. ]

If it weren't dangerous and if my friend weren't in the hospital because of it, maybe I would. [ No, really. He might start... He needs to work out all this wolfy energy. ] Do you do it a lot? Should I be looking up more?

You have another friend who--? [ Oh, wait, no, because he's the only idiot who's stupid enough to do it. ] Outsmarted by a teenager. [ And yet he doesn't seem to mind. ] If you ever wannna find me? Always look up.

Sorry. [ Not that he looks or sound it. Yes, Clint. He's talking about you. Scott is impossible to mind! ] You realize I'm now picturing you above me like a stalker.

[ He likes to think he'd follow that if he weren't slightly high. ] And now I'm picturing something even worse, so I think we should maybe change the subject. People might talk. [ He's trying not to laugh and failing. ]

[ Slightly high? He must be having a blast. Always slow on the uptake, Scott McCall. ] Okay. You seem... were you given any pain killers?

[ It's an interesting place to visit. ] How'd you know? Must've been good 'cause I can't feel much of anything nevermind pain.

You're laughing. And you seem happier. Lighter. [ He does smile, though! Also, his mom's a nurse. He knows what people on painkillers look and sound like, Clint. ]

Hey, I laugh. And I'm happy. [ Mostly. Sort of. Sometimes. It's been known to happen, is what he's trying to say. ] But I can't argue that they don't hurt.

I wasn't saying you're not happy. Just that you're happier. You seem... loose.

Learned the hard way not to let my guard down, kid. But I can't say I'm not enjoying it.

Everyone has to let their guard down at some point. You can't always be guarded. I like this you.

Yeah? Not planning on breaking anything else to get like this, but I could work on it.

Oh, I like other you, too. Don't break anything else. That'd be a - bad idea.

[ Chuckling. ] Yeah, no, I'm not in a hurry. But I'm kinda used to it, y'know? Comes with the job.

What'd you do? Job-wise?

[ He's hesitant, tempted to throw around Chandler Bing's name and how no one really knows, but instead he hedges. ]

Not much different from what I do here at the police station. [ If protecting people is anything to go by, but he's been here a year and he's still not sure how it'll go down if he admits to being an assassin. ]

So, you protected people? Maybe investigated some stuff.

Yeah, something like that. Mostly took care of bad guys, that sort of thing.

You were a hero.

Not sure I'd go that far, it's not like I was Captain America.

There are all kinds of heroes, Clint.

Yeah, I'm the kind who likes to get in and out unnoticed with questionable morals on occasion. Not sure I was cut out for any form of the title.

Edited 2013-09-28 23:07 (UTC)

Now it just sounds like you're some kind of hit man.

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