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“You have got to be kidding me.” Natasha rolls her eyes half-heartedly as the black cat winds around her ankles. She shouldn’t be all that surprised really - Liho is about a hundred different kinds of stubborn, of course he would find her all these years later. She has to wonder if he lived with the other Natasha - well, her, but from the future. God, time travel is a pain. “Is there such a thing as homing cats?” She asks absently, letting out a sigh as Liho settles at her feet and looks up at her with those big damn eyes. “Surely he belongs to someone around here.”

For some odd reason Earth never stopped being so... odd. Sure, she’d been living here for nearly 6 years, but it didn’t make any of the day to day things any more normal, any less weird. And sure, she’d voluntarily left Asgard, but that didn’t mean that she didn’t miss the bigglesnipes, or the warriors. Here things were beautiful and calm in a way that Asgard really hadn’t been for thousands, if not millions, of years, but they were also strange, broken down, and dirty in a way that Asgard, nor Sakaar, hadn’t been.

.    ◞    ‧  *    ❝ well ── that  ain’t  a  nice  thing  to  ask  a  lady  you ghoul !   ❞ the  words  floated  across  the  room  ;  a  playful  smile  on  her  lips  as  jessica  watched  her  new  companion, intrigued  by  the  almost  indiscreet  question. ❝ but  i  have  been  asked  worst  things  so  i  guess  it’s  your  lucky  day !  what  was  it  again  ?  ❞

There was something almost disturbing about public gyms. The sweat never seemed to come out of the walls, and the blood never seemed to come out of the mats. The light, no matter how many windows, or how new the light bulbs, never seemed to be at 100%, instead it looked like it was filtered through a sepia lens. Worse than all of that was the people though, there were so many of them, and it felt almost as if they were all staring. Sure, as a dancer, people tended to stare at her, but there was something different about preforming staring than person staring, and Cass really wasn’t fond of the person staring aspect of all of this.