Avengers Text Chat

Nat --- Bruce

Am I a bad person?

???

Am I a bad person?

No?

Tell me the truth. Am I a bad person?

I said no.

It was a questionable no.

What's going on???

Am I a bad person?

Did you do something?

I broke up Clint and Laura.

You didn't do that.

Laura seems to think I did.

Clint too.

Clint doesn't think that.

How do you know?

Have you talked about it?

What'd he say?

We haven't talked about it, I know Clint.

So do you.

...

...?

I have nothing to say.

I thought you guys made up.

Sort of.

Sort of is better than nothing.

We just made out.

Oh.

That's worse than nothing, isn't it?

You just made out. That's it.

Yeah.

That's better than what else could've happened.

It's still worse than nothing.

Nat...

Laura hates me.

Do you blame her?

You're really bad at this advice to make me feel better thing.

I'm sorry; I don't know what to say.

Did you just use a semicolon over text?

Don't change the subject.

Fine, dork.

Who do you usually talk to about these things?

Laura.

And when you can't talk to Laura?

Clint.

Maybe you should just talk to one of them.

I can't.

Why not?

They hate me.

Clint made out with you. I don't think that means he hates you.

I hate myself for him.

You shouldn't hate yourself.

I do. You hate yourself too.

That's a false equivalence. I'm a monster.

I'm a homewrecker, same thing.

Nat.

And a murderer. Forget about that?

You can't blame yourself.

Why not? Everyone else does.

I don't.

You're uninvolved. You're nothing in this situation.

I'm your friend.

Then you're not Laura's friend anymore.

That's okay. I don't need to be Laura's friend.

I do.

Why?

...

You must know why.

Yeah.

So why?

Because she's my family. They're my family. They were my family. Now they've got a restraining order against me.

Seriously?

Yeah.

Tough love.

No love. She hates me.

She'll move on.

I've been staying with Clint.

You can stay here at the tower instead.

When she's going to bring the kids over, he makes me leave.

Come here.

I won't be going anywhere.

Nat.

That's not healthy.

Life isn't healthy.

No, life is healthy.

The [CENSORED] that happens during it is what's unhealthy.

I'm not going back there.

Come back to the tower then.

[Nat is offline.]

Nat.
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Everyone misses you.
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Come back.
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Please.
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