23/12/25 S.H.I.E.L.D. TAP 78830. AI TRANS RUS-ENG
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: Hi Mama.
Encrypted: Yelena, it's your mother.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: I know mom.
Encrypted: How can you know? This line is encrypted.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: Because you said you'd call me when I woke up and I'm awake and you called me – from an encrypted number. So...
Encrypted: I could have been anyone.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: Do you know how many people call me?
Encrypted: Considering you're my daughter, I imagine you're very popular.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: Ha. Very funny.
Encrypted: I am hilarious. Much funnier than your father.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: That is very true. He should not be allowed to open his mouth in public. Or at home actually.
Encrypted: I'm the one who has to put up with him all day every day.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: You have free will mother, you are not a pig.
Encrypted: Thank you for noticing.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: Although if I had a pig, I would call it Melina. For sure.
Encrypted: Now I can see why you don't get a lot of phone calls.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: What? Because of my charming personality? I'll have you know that I was at a party last night where I proved to be very popular.
Encrypted: Americans have bad taste darling; the whole world knows that. Look at Miss Bishop, what she sees in you, I'll never know.
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Encrypted: Yelena?
...
Encrypted: Oh Yelena, what did you do?
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: What did I do?! Why do you always assume it is me who has done something? It wasn't me always ruining your favourite lipsticks.
Encrypted: Darling...
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: It wasn't me who caused an international incident at The Hague and it wasn't me who fed Alexei cabbages.
Encrypted: Darling, I know.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: That oaf left the gate open and I wasn't even in Den Haag at the time, I was getting baked in Amsterdam.
Encrypted: Yelena.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: And Natasha was the one with the Courtney Love phase, so stop assuming I'm the bad kid.
Encrypted: Are you finished Yelena?
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: ... *sigh* ... Yes.
Encrypted: Are you going to tell me why I got a text at 7am asking me to arrange a flight back to St Petersburg for you?
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: Nope.
Encrypted: An urgent flight out of New York. Off the books.
G0 AW4Y C4R0L: I just thought I'd get started on Christmas with the family early. Wouldn't that be nice? Just the four of us?
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Christmas in July
FanfictionWith Yelena in NYC for mysterious reasons and Kate on a job for a mystery friend, our two future bffs finally share that drink and ultimately quite a bit more. This is currently a 30 chapter fic on Ao3 I'll be posting a chapter a day for the next 3...
