She is Brave

“ this might answer as to why your ass seemed so familiar too me.” the man had the skills to play this game and could enforce his own prowess while doing so. Pleased at seeing her, he would try to recall, but it was fate intervening. “ I was about to fire a kill shot and then my position was under threat of RPG, I actually tweaked my shoulder jumping from the building.” running and gunning was no where near done with him, though everyday he learned something new about her.

“ no i suppose it was not,.” He crossed his arms over his chest before he got an idea, “ Should we go dancing? Maybe there is some job offers waiting for us at a club?” 

“ Serves you right  for trying to shoot me,” she joked lightly. Clearly there weren’t too many hard feelings about the situation. The past was the past. That felt like a different life entirely, one that literally hadn’t been her own.

“ We could do that,” she said with a noncommittal shrug. It wasn’t like there was anything better to do at the moment. Their motivations for what they did was so vastly different. Billy took the jobs that he wanted and she didn’t judge him for that, but if they weren’t tied to the Red Room than Sonia couldn’t have cared less about being involved or partnering together. 

The man would peer away from some book he was reading, arching an eyebrow as to why she was stating such thoughts to him. there was always a reason even for a free spirit but the woman would be doing this all to distract him. sharing experiences and a space with a beautiful woman wasn’t so bad s he got to enjoy a lot of perks from the partnership. He would turn his head and then laughed, “ I’m not even mad, that’s amazing.” although he would have to be quicker next time. 

Be a marine he didn’t chose here he went off too. Being a Super soldier Mercenary in Madripoor gave him t hat freedom again, “ you are a bad girl.” 

“ Clearly you didn’t succeed,” she said sitting up slightly so that she could look over her shoulder at Billy. She didn’t know what had stopped him or if it had merely been luck on her part considering that Billy had never been one of her targets. She had no idea why Billy would ever have been ordered to go after a Widow, but then again she didn’t know a whole lot about his past anyways. They may have been partners in a few different ways but not in any way that required them to be that open with each other. 

“ Your name wasn’t on the pizza box so technically I didn’t break any roommate rules.” Not that they had any of the stereotypical rules in place. Sonia grinned “ And therefore I didn’t do anything wrong to deserve that title.”

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Athena had to bite her own tongue for a moment to avoid saying something she'd regret. The exploitation that Annie was speaking about was different from her own, but that didn't make it any less valid. The younger victor sighed. " You're more than that, we all are." Even if not everyone could see that. The people in their lives who truly mattered could see beyond the labels or their capital facades, even if those people were few and far between.

“ Just keep your head down, don’t bring too much attention to yourself and things should be fine. This extra attention will pass.”

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" Bullshit," Gwen responded almost immediately. " You're allowed to feel however you feel and anyone who tells you different is wrong." It's advice she should take for herself but there was a reason for the saying ‘ Do as I say not as I do’. 

“ Is there something that’s bothering you ?” Her voice was softer this time, more appropriate for the topic at hand. “ Cause if there is something we can talk about it and you can have as many emotions about it as you like.” Not that she needs to grant permission for that but instead she wanted to encourage the other to get whatever she needed off her chest.  

“ I’m pretty sure that you tried to kill me once when I was a Widow,” Sonia hummed from where she was laying on their shared couch. It was water under the bridge of course, from a time when her life hadn’t even been her own. She could hardly hold that against him when she would have done the exact same if someone had told her too. “ I only bring it up cause I think its funny that we’re roommates now and also because I ate the last piece of pizza.” 

 So maybe she wasn’t the best roommate, but part of having freedom was doing what you wanted and if she wanted to push Billy’s buttons just a little bit than she would. 

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Sonia has never had the luxury of being a nervous wreck. She hasn't even had the luxury of being nervous until recently. " What's bothering you?" she asked with a brow raised in question. She was still working on being socially adept. Her past self would have never bothered with such a question unless their was something to gain from the answer.  “ Whatever it is maybe you should just face it. Get it out of the way and then you won’t be so bothered by it.” A direct and efficient solution, or at least in her own mind it was. 

“ oh — ! ” an immediate exclamation escaped her as she realized how her words must have come off. of course, athena wouldn’t know the conversations behind closed doors. the ethics of an already unconventional relationship, changed by two lovers in the early morning sun and tangled sheets of her bedroom.

             it was a rare thing, finnick waking up before annie, but this was a rare exception to the confines of a partnership. he’d kissed her head as she woke, served as a place to curl into while she came to, just as she so often did for him. once awake, though, he’d breached the subject of her feeing unsatisfied. when she denied it, it was him feeling it was unfair. him being gone for months at a time several times a year, made to fall over countless others on public television, putting on a show so convincing that even annie sometimes huffed in irrational jealousy. and he was right, it probably wasn’t fair, and she was a creature capable of constant and unwavering love. no one was in denial of that.

             the answer after hours of talking, him promising it was what he wanted, her repeating that she would never love someone the way she did him, that they settled. “ finn knows, not in a weird fetish way, and not that i would come to you, ” she paused, deciding to choose her words carefully. “ nothing has to come of this, if that’s not what you want, but believe me that no one is going behind backs or betraying each other. he wants me to love somebody, because i have so much love to give, and because our situation is… a bit unorthodox, to put it lightly. ”

“ wait, ” she said as a ghost of a smile appeared on her lips as if she’d unearthed some great ancient secret, “ did you say your feelings for me ? ”

“ You guys talked about this already?” she questioned though it was hard to meet Annie’s gaze. Suddenly it was much easier to stare at her glass or the pattern of the carpet. Anything to not feel quite so seen or exposed. Never had they addressed the old romantic feelings they had once harbored for each other or at least what Athena had thought were Annie’s old feelings. 

 It wasn’t a surprise that Finnick hadn’t mentioned this to her. She wasn’t always privy to what was going on with the couple even if there were few secrets that they didn’t share with each other. Maybe Finnick hadn’t said anything because he hadn’t felt like it was his place to tell her about Annie’s possible other relationships.

“ But you didn’t tell him that you had feelings for me?” Would that change how he felt about the situation knowing it was her? Or why hadn’t Annie told him that she was the other person whom she had feelings for. A million questions were already racing through her head but they were momentarily halted as Annie asked her about the way she felt. “ Well yeah,” Athena replied bashfully. 

She had always felt like it had been painfully obvious. “ I’ve felt this way since we’ve met but the situation wasn’t exactly ideal.”

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“  days  like  this,    i  don’t  know  what  to  do  with  myself.  ”

“ I’ve learned that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.” Not knowing what to do with yourself meant that you at least had agency. There had never been a moment where Sonia had been allowed to wonder what to do with herself. There was always a command to carry out. “ Today I think I’m gonna do nothing, maybe eat popcorn for lunch or a milkshake.”