Natasha listened as Joan spoke, attempting to weave some sort of picture of what her roommate and work partner must be like. Natasha could certainly understand brilliance and the various idiosyncrasies that went along with above genius-level intellect from her time spent with Tony Stark, but she thought there had to be something about Joan’s roommate beyond his obvious intelligence. Natasha had to think that it would take something special to hold a woman like Joan in orbit, even if only for a short time, and that Joan was planning on making this fellow part of her life for the foreseeable future certainly said something about them both.
“It sounds like he needs you very much,” Natasha said after a moment. “Which can be a complicated thing, I know that from experience, but I mean to say perhaps it’s more along the lines of the balance you provide. Two opposites with just enough in common to make life tolerable makes for the best sort of friendship. He’ll get over you moving out, I’m sure, as long as he feels like you aren’t leaving him entirely. Does he have anyone besides you? Other friends or a lady or boyfriend?”
Natasha was exactly the sort to run, though she could admit it wouldn’t be forever. She had Clint here with her, along with a few other friends and various other relationships that needed watching and that would keep it all for a while, but she knew herself well enough to know that all that she cared for so deeply would be enough to push her away, too. When she became too confused about how certain people at the Nexus made her feel, she would escape it. There was no avoiding that.
“I don’t know if I’m the sort to run away forever,” she said, “but I’m definitely the sort to get driven out by my own bullshit, at least for a while. I came here to avoid some trouble at home, but now things are getting complicated here, too. It’s the whole shitty taste in men thing, you know? I found someone here, an ex of sorts, that I thought was lost to me, and I also found someone else I thought I hated. Neither of those things are true anymore, but it’s complicated all the way around and I guess thinking about either of them is just a waste of time.” She leaned back on her palms and gave Joan a wry smile. “Which is, of course, why I think about them, I suppose. You know how it is.”
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Date: 2015-02-15 07:10 pm (UTC)“It sounds like he needs you very much,” Natasha said after a moment. “Which can be a complicated thing, I know that from experience, but I mean to say perhaps it’s more along the lines of the balance you provide. Two opposites with just enough in common to make life tolerable makes for the best sort of friendship. He’ll get over you moving out, I’m sure, as long as he feels like you aren’t leaving him entirely. Does he have anyone besides you? Other friends or a lady or boyfriend?”
Natasha was exactly the sort to run, though she could admit it wouldn’t be forever. She had Clint here with her, along with a few other friends and various other relationships that needed watching and that would keep it all for a while, but she knew herself well enough to know that all that she cared for so deeply would be enough to push her away, too. When she became too confused about how certain people at the Nexus made her feel, she would escape it. There was no avoiding that.
“I don’t know if I’m the sort to run away forever,” she said, “but I’m definitely the sort to get driven out by my own bullshit, at least for a while. I came here to avoid some trouble at home, but now things are getting complicated here, too. It’s the whole shitty taste in men thing, you know? I found someone here, an ex of sorts, that I thought was lost to me, and I also found someone else I thought I hated. Neither of those things are true anymore, but it’s complicated all the way around and I guess thinking about either of them is just a waste of time.” She leaned back on her palms and gave Joan a wry smile. “Which is, of course, why I think about them, I suppose. You know how it is.”