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The Shooting Range, Thursday Morning

Jan 10, 2013 07:42

Because Alec was officially the most welcoming of all fake siblings ever, suck it Natalie Adams, no sooner had he met his new little sibling Kate yesterday than they had made plans to go to the shooting range today. And because Fandom had no shortage of professional arms models archers, they even had a judge lined up to oversee the proceedings. In ( Read more... )

place: shooting range, person: clint barton, fact: archer, person: kate bishop, issue: alec has inferiority issues

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Archer Versus Archer not_trivial January 10 2013, 13:42:51 UTC

I wish I had a better archery icon than this. This just looks weird. :(

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 10 2013, 17:30:17 UTC

"The pointy end goes in the target," Kate deadpanned.

What? He asked.

Re: Archer Versus Archer not_trivial January 10 2013, 18:24:43 UTC

Helpful, Kate.

"I mean competitively," Alec sighed. "I've never seen people compete at this before."

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 10 2013, 18:44:27 UTC

"You should definitely check out the YouTube videos of Olympic archery," she said. Kate probably wouldn't admit to how long she'd spent watching those. "It's kind of awesome and also totally hilarious how easy they have it with flags and stuff to tell them about wind speed and direction."

Real archers didn't need wind speed flags, dammit.

"They usually compete with distance or points," said the girl who'd learned how to shoot at summer camp. "Or we could just shoot the same number of arrows and see how it ends up."

Re: Archer Versus Archer not_trivial January 10 2013, 19:09:45 UTC

Alec nodded. "Let's do that," he agreed, since it sounded like the easiest option. "Do you have a preference on who goes first?"

His precision runes should probably hold for long enough that he'd be fine either way, so he thought he'd be a gentleman and ask.

Yeah, using runes while shooting competitively was probably a little bit like using steroids, but... shut up.

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 10 2013, 19:12:59 UTC

Nah, it was cool. Kate didn't expect people with superpowers to know how to get by without them. That's how it worked, right?

"You go on. Lots of five?" she checked. And then, hey, they could keep going until they got bored. Or forever since who got bored doing this? Kate was kind of a dork about this one thing.

Re: Archer Versus Archer not_trivial January 10 2013, 19:29:18 UTC

Well, if it came to the point that Alec was losing miserably multiple times in a row, he might put a stop to it, but only because he had Natalie Issues...

In any event, he nocked an arrow, took a few moments to line up his first shot toward the target, drew back, and released.

His first arrow landed close to the center of the target but a little bit noticably off-center; thrown off by that, he botched his next few shots too, and by the time he'd fired all five, he had three arrows on the edge of the second-innermost circle while the other two hovered more than a few inches away.

Well. That was terrible.

"I'm-- usually better," he mumbled, wincing somewhat at his handiwork.

Re: Archer Versus Archer so_hawkward January 10 2013, 21:33:49 UTC

"That wasn't bad for a start," Clint said helpfully, from where he was quietly watching. Honestly, he was pretty impressed, but he also hadn't been sure what to expect when Alec had asked him to do this. Still, it was better than thinking about running his class tomorrow.

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 10 2013, 22:00:07 UTC

"That's hardly terrible. Lots of people would be perfectly happy for that for their best," Kate pointed out easily.

But she liked him more for thinking it was terrible. She'd think it was terrible for her too.

Kate grinned over at Clint. He'd seen her shoot before (or so she thought) but it was excellent to have someone else she knew here. (Or...so she thought).

She shouldered her bow, took a breath, and released her arrows smoothly, clustering all five around the bullseye. It was a rougher cluster than she'd like, but she'd go with it.

Re: Archer Versus Archer not_trivial January 10 2013, 22:08:00 UTC

Alec blinked.

"...I may have to get a longbow."

He was hugely impressed, Kate. FYI.

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 10 2013, 22:44:42 UTC

Of course he was.

"Excellent choice," she grinned. "Who wouldn't want one?"

Re: Archer Versus Archer so_hawkward January 10 2013, 22:54:52 UTC

"Holy sh--crap," Clint said, barely stopping himself from swearing, but damn, that was awesome. "Where'd you learn how to do that?"

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 10 2013, 23:08:29 UTC

"New York?" Kate said, cause clearly that was obvious.

Re: Archer Versus Archer so_hawkward January 10 2013, 23:57:16 UTC

Her attitude certainly said New York, that was for sure. "I guess that's one way to deal with tourists," he said with a smirk. "It's Kate, right? You're really good. I mean, both of you are." Sorry Alec, he hadn't forgotten about you, honest.

Re: Archer Versus Archer not_trivial January 11 2013, 00:12:29 UTC

Alec glanced from Clint back to Kate. "Didn't you say you knew each other...?"

Oh, right. Timelines. He was such a bad big sibling.

Re: Archer Versus Archer hawkeye_too January 11 2013, 00:24:11 UTC

"Yeah, a lot of the smelliest tourists just don't get the message they're not welcome," Kate smirked back. "Thanks."

Her fingers closed on her bow, kind of weirded out by that whole thing too. Because while she could pretty much accept Billy from another timeline, Billy was magical and that made sense. Hawkeye seemed different. And not in the "come back from the dead and now dressing in black" sort of way.

"Yeah, I know Clint at home." There was another smirk. "Does that mean there's more than one of you? Because weird."

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