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Clint "Hawkeye" Barton ([personal profile] makethatwork) wrote in [community profile] capitalh2014-04-04 02:21 pm

I'm coming home

Who: Clint Barton and YOU
Where: Alpha Force Tower, later Trailblazer dorms
When: TODAY. ...yeah, whatever today is.
What: Clint's back from his leave and is clueless about the things he missed. Like half his team disappearing.
Warnings: none (yet)

Alpha Force Tower

Clint could use a haircut and a shave, but all in all he doesn't look too worse for wear when he clomps into the residential area of Alpha Force tower, bow on his back and dufflebag slung over his shoulder. He's fiddling with one of his hearing aids, since he'd gotten kind of used to not wearing them most of the time so it's like getting used to them all over again, but otherwise he mostly looks way more relaxed and less likely to flip out than he did in the immediate aftermath of Mockingbird and Captain Victory's deaths.

"Hey, anyone home?" he calls out. "Fi, I brought you a souvenir!"

Trailblazer Dorms

In the wake of finding out that half of his team has disappeared without a trace, Clint wasn't really sure what to do with himself. "Disappeared" doesn't mean "dead", which is a blessing, but that doesn't make him feel that much better. A shower and a shave later, he's still pretty scruffy, but he feels like he should be doing... something.

And that something, he figures, is he should check on the Trailblazer kids. He always tried to keep an eye on them, even outside of the official mentoring or training, and now he's been gone for more than half a year. If nothing else, he knows there's new kids that he hasn't met yet, and he should do that. He shows up at the dorms and just hangs out in the living area, waiting to say hi to whoever comes by.
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[personal profile] thisisntagame 2014-04-06 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Tron usually didn't wind up in the residential floors, typically staying holed away in his office, but he'd come to grab a few things from his rooms. Seeing Clint down the hall though stopped him in his tracks, after so many months he honestly hadn't expected him back at all. Let alone dropping by without a word.

He crossed his arms, facing down his teammate with a scowl. He didn't make much effort to keep the bitterness out of his voice.
"Clint. It's been a while."
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[personal profile] thisisntagame 2014-04-06 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't that Tron didn't understand losing people close to you but-
What?
Tron was visibly stunned when Clint asked about Fissure. He stalked across the hall, following Clint into the kitchen, blocking the doorway.

"Clint, Fiona, Dana, and Zeke have been missing for months." Even if he hadn't kept in contact with the team, surely he would have heard that much.
Edited 2014-04-07 03:30 (UTC)
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[personal profile] thisisntagame 2014-04-10 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The look on Tron's face was a forlorn combination between regret and loss. He legitimately hadn't expected Clint to be in the dark about this, and this was not how he expected this meeting to go at all. The sudden confrontation of emotion did nothing but remind him of the months he and Celestia had spent trying to cope with everything and keep the team functioning. He paused to compose himself again before delivering the briefest summary of events.

"November. They went to investigate a sinkhole that had opened in the local desert. The sinkhole disappeared and we haven't heard from them since."

He sighed, running a hand through his hair , an empty habitual motion.
"I'm sorry, I assumed...it was all over the news I gathered you would have heard, even if you were out of communication."
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[personal profile] thisisntagame 2014-04-14 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't blame yourself, there's no guarantee you could have done anything."

How many times Tron had tried to convince himself of that same fact in the past few months was beyond count.

"There's nothing we can do but find out what happened to them. I can fill you in, once you've gotten yourself settled."