Fall Colors

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:40 pm

"Not at all, I'll just take what I can get." She chuckled.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:46 pm

"Would you feel better if I made some awkward, bad-romantic-comedy attempt to kiss you?" She smirked.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:52 pm

"I'd feel flattered, but I don't think I'm that needy."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:57 pm

"Besides, your girlfriend would probably turn me into something unnatural."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:39 pm

"She likes fire. I'd watch yourself," she chuckled.

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:42 pm

"Fire's a tough one," Natalya agreed. "Of course, we're heading into my time of the year."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:55 pm

"Stop making me get excited about the two of you fighting."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:01 pm

Natalya looked at her and raised an eyebrow, "That prospect excites you?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:06 pm

Samantha's expression was a little like a child caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"Well ah... not if it were in any serious sense but..."

"...perhaps."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:12 pm

"That makes things even stranger than I could have possibly conceived of," Natalya said, turning to wheel her way on down the path. "So you may want to explain that."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:15 pm

"Well I told you that I sensed what happened to you in that HYDRA base, aye?"

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:17 pm

"I remember, yes," Natalya said, obviously listening carefully.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:18 pm

"I've been... picking up on things like that, recently."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:23 pm

"So the range on your telepathy is increasing?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:25 pm

"No, the fact that I picked up on it from that far away was unusual. What it was wasn't."

"Fights, Natalya. I pick up on fights. There's a feel to them, the way they flow."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:29 pm

Natalya's mind completed its mental Tetris. "So I was right years ago when I conjectured there was a possibility you might be... well... more than human?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:31 pm

"...aye. This is rather a war goddess thing, it seems."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:35 pm

Natalya was quiet for a long while after that, wheeling herself along in silence and apparently lost in her own thoughts for the moment.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:36 pm

"...suppose that's about the reaction I should have expected."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:40 pm

When she finally spoke, her voice was unusually quiet, "To be honest, I'm not sure how I want to react."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:41 pm

"...I know. I struggled with it a long time, myself."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:46 pm

"On the one hand, I always said you were a goddess," she quipped, somewhat weakly. "On the other, it's quite something else to admit it and think that it's somehow touched my own life."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:48 pm

"I'm still me, Natalya. I've just... you wouldn't believe how deeply in denial I was."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:49 pm

"Oh, maybe not the specifics, but I can imagine just how deep that hole was."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:51 pm

"It just took something to shock me out of it. Something and... well if I'm honest, someone."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:53 pm

"If nothing else, the question isn't hanging over you anymore, right?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:54 pm

"Aye. Since then I've felt so much more comfortable in my own skin."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:55 pm

"Well, that's good then. Not many people ever get that privilege."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:56 pm

"I think that's where the other things have come creeping in. I think I've almost let them, now."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:59 pm

"What 'other things'?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:07 pm

"This is going to sound absurd but... sometimes it feels like my favor is being asked for."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:58 pm

"If you're only one listening, then I suppose you're the one they're asking."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:03 pm

"I mean, there's no names involved, but..."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:04 pm

"Do you feel like you're giving them anything?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:06 pm

"No. At least... I don't think I am, though sometimes... they seem to feel like something has answered."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:08 pm

"Sometimes that's all it takes for some people."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:08 pm

"I know. It's not like this is something I want to encourage..."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:38 pm

"I'm not sure it's something you can get around."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:22 pm

"I'm just more than aware how crazy it all sounds."

by **Natalya Romanov** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:24 pm

"Eh, what do we know from crazy in this business?"

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