[He flashes a grin at her assessment of his mentoring.] And you still want me to teach you anything?
[He'd taught her what he could. They all did. Little bits and pieces of the Avengers all living in Wanda, passing on their lessons. And for as much as he railed against the idea of mentoring Kate, he'd passed on some lessons to her in a few short, jam-packed days, too.
Life's the best teacher there is. But some help along the way doesn't hurt.
He'll have to get into that at some point. For the sake of context. That maybe if Wanda ever does go back, she might be hearing Hawkeye and seeing someone very different. But it's Wanda's turn to attempt this. Asking after the damage done, in a sense. What he knows, and thus, what her reputation now is.
Clint tilts his head, watching her. His hearing might be damn near gone, but his eyes are as good as they ever were. For as shit as he is with his own emotions, he can read and handle others in a way that tends to surprise. She's expecting big. She's expecting awful. She could be asking as a test of sorts, but if she was anywhere after--afterwards, with newspapers and radio and television, then she would also know.
He's never been in the habit of making things easy for anyone. He's not about to start now.]
I'd never heard of the place until you.
[It doesn't answer the question. Could be it was big, that he saw it, heard about, read about it. Could be he just has his finger on certain pulses, has sources of intel that are still alive and kicking. He doesn't think the answer is all that important, because this is the sideways slide in.]
no subject
[He'd taught her what he could. They all did. Little bits and pieces of the Avengers all living in Wanda, passing on their lessons. And for as much as he railed against the idea of mentoring Kate, he'd passed on some lessons to her in a few short, jam-packed days, too.
Life's the best teacher there is. But some help along the way doesn't hurt.
He'll have to get into that at some point. For the sake of context. That maybe if Wanda ever does go back, she might be hearing Hawkeye and seeing someone very different. But it's Wanda's turn to attempt this. Asking after the damage done, in a sense. What he knows, and thus, what her reputation now is.
Clint tilts his head, watching her. His hearing might be damn near gone, but his eyes are as good as they ever were. For as shit as he is with his own emotions, he can read and handle others in a way that tends to surprise. She's expecting big. She's expecting awful. She could be asking as a test of sorts, but if she was anywhere after--afterwards, with newspapers and radio and television, then she would also know.
He's never been in the habit of making things easy for anyone. He's not about to start now.]
I'd never heard of the place until you.
[It doesn't answer the question. Could be it was big, that he saw it, heard about, read about it. Could be he just has his finger on certain pulses, has sources of intel that are still alive and kicking. He doesn't think the answer is all that important, because this is the sideways slide in.]