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" 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙞𝙙𝙨 "
Being the newbie in the Avengers is awkward on it's own, but being the deaf newbie just makes interacting with half the team more awkward. Sure, having hearing aids helps a lot, but the tendency to forget them every other day kind of cancels that out.
For example, I woke up this morning to silence, which is very strange for two reasons, a)waking up to the Avengers compound being quiet is as rare as a golden apple and b)there is no b. I ignored the silence and decided to just embrace it since it won't be there for a while.
After a good stretch I brushed my teeth and got dressed in sweat pants and a tank top and made my way to the training room... still in silence. Did I find it suspicious that the punching bag wasn't making any punching noises or that the treadmill wasn't making whatever sound it makes? No, not at all, because I proceeded to take a long, relaxing shower in the absence of the pitter-patter of the water, got dressed and ready for the day and strutted out to the kitchen in all my confidence.
To be quite honest, the silence only became suspicious when Tony came running past me with his mouth moving fast and his arms flailing around as I was walking to the kitchen. My suspension solidified when Steve walked up to me and handed me a stack of papers without telling me what to do with them, only sternly lipsynching some lyrics I don't know then walking off.
I found everyone else sitting around the dinning table having a large breakfast and decided that I would decipher this silence over muffins and orange juice. So I took a seat between Thor and Pietro and greeted everyone 'good morning'. As I reached for a grape I was rudely interupted by a white man's fingers snapping in my face,"what?"I asked in annoyance, but my words were silent.
My fucking words were silent
That's when it finally clicked, when everything went into place and my brain finally registered the fact that something was missing. Obviously I started panicking and immediately shot out of my hair in search of my hearing aids. I started in my bedroom, checking literally everywhere I could think of and when I couldn'tfind them in the midst of my messy room (which now looked like Hulk stopped by) I moved on to the living room, then the training room, then the kitchen. Nothing.
I couldn't, for the life of me, find them anywhere in the tower. Maybe they fell off the tower? Or maybe somebody somehow mistook them for airpods?
Just then, like some sort of Knight in shining armour, Clint suddenly appeared out of thin air (I'm lying, he came out of the toilet) and gently handed me (threw) my missing aids and then vanished into the light (he went to the kitchen).
I hurriedly put them on and rushed after him, "how the hell did you find my hearing aids? Are you a witch?"
"You mean wizard?" he asked
"No."
"Oh, well you gave them to me, remember?"
"Why would I give them to you?"
He shrugged, "I don't know, something about always forgetting them and stuff. You also gave me your lucky hello kitty socks and that keychain thingy"
"What keychain thingy"
"You know, THE keychain thingy"
"Ohhh... thanks for holdings on to them I guess"
"You're welcome I guess"
I have no idea what keychain thingy he was talking about.
