( audio 25 )

[yourbestguysgun]

[ An amused Brooklyn accent filters through the device with the vaguest rasp of sound. ]

You should all be super glad I didn't get hit with the curse yesterday. New York'll never forget the summer I poisoned the entire block. Jenny Simpson never spoke to me again, broke my little eight year old heart. [ A rumble of a laugh. ] Oh, the good ol' days.

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[yourbestguysgun]

[ Laughing. ]

Somewhere, my eight year old self is declaring you lord of all ideas.

[punchedhitler]

Oh, come on, that's every kid's plan, isn't it?

[yourbestguysgun]

I was gonna live in a strawberry malt factory, I had it all planned out.

[punchedhitler]

Strawberry malt factory?

It's original, I'll give you that.

[yourbestguysgun]

'Member when we'd save up?

[punchedhitler]

Pennies in a mason jar.

[yourbestguysgun]

We were dumb kids. [ He sounds almost wistful for a moment. ]

[punchedhitler]

Those pennies saved my life, those five dollars after ten years got me a doctor, remember?

[yourbestguysgun]

I don't think I'll ever forget. [ Scared the shit out of him. ]

[punchedhitler]

There you go. Every penny counts.

[yourbestguysgun]

[ Nudging him with his toe. ]

Hell, at least we ain't broke at the moment.

[punchedhitler]

For once.

[yourbestguysgun]

Look at us, being adults.

[punchedhitler]

[Steve leans]

I had a lot of backpay. Did you know that it costs over a thousand dollars a month to rent an apartment in Brooklyn now?

[yourbestguysgun]

What? [ That is his disgusted face. ] You serious?

[punchedhitler]

Yes. SHIELD covers it for me, they want to keep me happy.

But it's a lot of money. Makes me feel bad.

[yourbestguysgun]

You shouldn't.

[punchedhitler]

[Shrug.]

That's what Fury says, too.

[yourbestguysgun]

Coulson's cat?

[punchedhitler]

No, the Colonel who the cat is named for.

[yourbestguysgun]

Oh. Well, that's good to know, 'cause I was thinking maybe the future was weirder'n I'd assumed.

[punchedhitler]

It still is, probably.

[yourbestguysgun]

From the crap Clint spouts, yeah, probably.

[punchedhitler]

I don't know Clint very well, to be honest.

[yourbestguysgun]

He's kinda crazy, not gonna lie.