“ ——-Sarah? ”  He isn’t drunk or high enough to hallucinate, that much he knows, and yet, he questions his sanity when he sees her, hears her. His heart aches, just slightly, like someone quickly jabbed the two letters he had etched there with a letter opener.  “ Thanks. Do you, uh… You got time for a drink? ”

      “ Actually, yeah. My imaginary friend Easy Sobriety’s sitting there. Sorry. ”  His tone is flat, gruff, tired voice masking the humor he intends to convey.  “ I’m just fucking with you. Yeah, take a seat. We can be outcasts in this shit together. ”

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Frankie voice: You fucking wish, boyo.

Keeping an apartment in Brooklyn while working upstate probably wasn’t the best idea, but Steph just couldn’t let it go. Brooklyn was, and always would be, home. And anyway, she just couldn’t sleep with all the silence of nature that surrounded the Avenger facility upstate. She had taken to making the trip back and forth every couple of days, working from home whenever possible. It was a lot of wear and tear on her bike; she knew that. But Tony took good care of the thing for her. 

So when it made a loud clicking noise and the motor shuddered into silence, Steph pulled over to the side of the road and sat for a moment, staring forlornly down at her beloved motorcycle. “Ok, I know I didn’t miss an oil change. What’s going on, sweetheart?” She climbed off the bike and eyed the thing, at a loss as she had always been whenever trying to figure out the mechanics. Battle strategy and leading a team she could do, but working on vehicles? Not so much.

tbh I love your love of Duke

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She hadn’t even bought her groceries. Gabi had left the store and went home, locked the doors. Set the alarm. She called Dom while she sat and fed their baby. She didn’t want to tell him, it would upset him, but she also needed to tell him. 

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"I need you,” she had said on the voicemail she’d left him. She’d been certain he would ignore it. Make her wait. If he acknowledged her at all. And she’d gotten comfortable after work, anticipating not hearing from him. Shoes off. Hair down. Chinese ordered.