re: winter soldier #1

[kneecaptain]

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

Comments

[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.

[kneecaptain]

Heh.

Anyway, I already got too many teenage girls sweet on me.

[bests]

Can it.

You're dead, how do you have teenage girls sweet on you?

[kneecaptain]

Okay, maybe that'll help her get over it.

[bests]

Who is she?

[kneecaptain]

Kate Bishop?

[bests]

Hawkeye?

[kneecaptain]

That too, I guess.

[bests]

That's adorable.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, okay.

[Girls are weird.]

[bests]

It's probably not even a real crush so much as it is hero worship with a side of thinking you're cute.

[kneecaptain]

Oh, so you're the expert, now?

[bests]

It's common sense. How well does she even know you?

[kneecaptain]

How well did I know Rita Hayworth?

[bests]

Celebrity crushes and actual crushes are two different things.

[kneecaptain]

Hey, I'm on TV.

[bests]

I know, that's the point. I'm saying she's probably got the same kind of crush on you that you had on Rita Hayworth, not the kind of crush you would've had on your first girlfriend.

[kneecaptain]

She probably wouldn't want us talking about it.

[bests]

You're probably right. I wouldn't want people gossiping about my private life.

[kneecaptain]

Didn't you hire a publicist?

[bests]

Okay, one? That was not my brightest move ever. Two, a good publicist will keep the worst of the stuff out of the papers. Three, the general public is going to gossip anyways. The people I know are a different matter entirely.

[kneecaptain]

You have "worst" stuff?

[bests]

Either my file wasn't all that detailed, or you really didn't read much of it.