re: winter soldier #1

[kneecaptain]

There you go. Not really dead, and still better off than Jason Todd.

Comments

[bests]

I can't tell if you don't believe me or if you just don't have anything else to say.

[kneecaptain]

Well, what can I say? I'm a mystery.

[bests]

You're not dark and brooding enough to be able to pull that off.

[kneecaptain]

You know, I'd take it.

[bests]

It?

[kneecaptain]

Not being… [he doesn't want to say dark and brooding] that.

[bests]

What, you don't want to be a moody hero teenage girls will lust after?

[kneecaptain]

I'm not sixteen anymore, you know.

[bests]

Really? I couldn't tell.

[kneecaptain]

People forget.

[bests]

That was also a joke.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, I know. [it turns out he actually is p. broody]

[bests]

And we were doing so well with you finally giving me shit and getting some sass out of you.

[kneecaptain]

Oh, so now I'm getting graded?

[bests]

I never said anything about grades.

[kneecaptain]

No, you didn't. But you act like I'm just learning how to talk sometimes.

[bests]

I don't mean to be patronizing. [ pause ] Okay, I don't always mean to be patronizing.

It's just that you've obviously got a damn good sense of humor in there somewhere, but it usually comes out only to be followed by a remark that takes any and all levity out of the conversation at hand.

[kneecaptain]

Maybe I like to be frustrating.

[bests]

I'd almost believe that, if it weren't for the fact that you seem to have an incredibly morbid streak to you when you do it. And you don't want to be the brooding, moody guy.

[kneecaptain]

I dunno, apparently the girls go for that.

[bests]

Teenage girls. And even then not all of them.

[kneecaptain]

No one wants all the girls.

[bests]

Why is that the part you take issue with?

[kneecaptain]

Do you want to talk about cougars?

[bests]

No! I'm good without talking about cougars.