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[obmanchivyy]

[ Well, she was biding her time in hiding to go break some friends out of prison — she hadn't even picked out a color to dye her hair, or a style to cut it, to make herself not as identifiable on first glance — but sure. Planet detour it is. ]

I can't say I've ever had a detour located outside of the Milky Way before.

[ Some dry sarcasm. But also truth; she's never been on another planet, let alone galaxy or universe. ]

I'm going to keep this brief, so let's just get to it: I don't suppose anyone can assure me that governmental agreements and such made in our own worlds don't have any standing here?

[ Asking for a friend and all. (She's the friend.) The question gives away the fact that she's new here, and well, if the Sokovia Accords do have standing here, she's prepared to go way back underground. ]

If any of my friends are here too, I seem to be assigned to a ship called First Breath.

[ Natasha-speak for 'you know where to find me if you need me, and also I want to see you in person ASAP so move your asses over here please and thanks'.

And then she finally, a bit abruptly, cuts the video off. ]

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[burnyoudown]

Hey, so long as someone walks away in one piece, they're better than dead.

[He wasn't going to say how many people he'd been involved in maiming; it wasn't really important. And he didn't need his reputation following him here, too.]

And trying to be a better person is hard. [That part wasn't a joke, at least.] But sometimes other people make it worth it, you know?

[obmanchivyy]

Finally, someone who Gets It. But yeah, some people certainly do make it worth it; thank god, or whoever, for second chances. Or third. Fourth. Whatever. It's the sentiment that counts.

[burnyoudown]

The important part's that you're trying, right? And that you keep trying even if you slide backwards a little.

[He wasn't going to say he'd never relapsed in progress, but that was only because he'd never tried to be a better person before Ronan. But Ronan made him want to try, to be someone he could genuinely care about.]

Besides, doing it for someone else means you've got a shoulder to lean on when shit gets hard, too.

[obmanchivyy]

Exactly. And I'm not going to lie, other people's faith in me when I had none for myself is something that's oftentimes been the thing keeping me going along. Which sounds corny as all hell, don't judge me, but it's true.

[burnyoudown]

Nah, it doesn't sound corny, it sounds... [Nice.]

No one's ever had faith in me for anything. Except fucking shit up.

[Except maybe Ronan. But they'd never talked about it, so all Kavinsky could do was assume.]

[obmanchivyy]

Well, I'm not one to judge a person based on their worst mistakes alone, and everyone deserves a chance — so, I'll have faith that you won't fuck shit up.

[ a beat, then she adds as a small half joke: ]

Plus, kind of hard to one up the fuck up of alien multiverse kidnapping. The bar is set way too high now.

[burnyoudown]

Thanks.

[He meant it, too. They didn't even know each other, but she probably had more faith in him right now than most of the people he'd known back home.

He laughed.]

Yeah, you've got a point there. I can't say I've done anything worse than kidnap a bunch of different people from all over.

[obmanchivyy]

And that's why I love perspective. You can say 'on a scale of One to Mass Mulitverse Kidnapper, how shitty is this?', and probably come out okay.

[burnyoudown]

With that scale, I'm practically a law-abiding, upstanding citizen.

[He joked.]

Some people probably wouldn't agree, but they can go fuck themselves.

[He didn't think there'd ever be a scale where people like Dick saw him as an upstanding citizen.]

[obmanchivyy]

That's usually where most people and their unsolicited opinions can go, honestly.