❛ you know, @getquippy, it's truly impressive that every time i hear about you, you're somehow in more trouble than you had been the last time i saw you, but i really would suggest you schedule some downtime for all that. ❜ regular superhero work is tiring enough - more so, for those that choose to save everyone to their own detriment ; spider-man one of those that is a hero of people, people, people, tearing himself apart to stretch a protective web across the whole of a city he can't possibly hope to defend alone - but coupling it with saving the world events? well, it'll run even the best of them into the ground. ( she knows better than most. and she should check up on steve the next time she has a free moment, now that she thinks on it, but this one first. )
blue eyes track him carefully, like every inch and movement is under extreme scrutiny, the black widow a woman near impossible to deceive. she wonders if the exhaustion has sunk into his bones yet. ❛ or at least take a helping hand now and then. ❜
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sentences / starters taken from black widow : name of the rose, #1 & #2. feel free to change pronouns / tenses as necessary. / part two. part three.
TRIGGERS : espionage, death, injury.
sweet as, they say. all thorns, they say.
you have to be able to trust a spy.
i was a spy. i was trusted. until i changed sides.
call me crazy, but i just wanted to be free.
you never did stop falling for shadows.
old friends, old games. a hug or a handshake would be too boring.
bad enough those men and women die alone. they deserve dignity.
i’m looking for reasons someone might have sent this. rumors, names. i thought it might mean something to you.
those are the kind that usually get someone killed. our kind, especially.
i hear things about you, [NAME]. things i would not have imagined all those years ago.
you have friends now. i am happy for that. and scared for you, as well.
we know things about each other. not everything, but enough.
i have some secrets no one should know.
i surrender. take me to your leader.
assume the worst. live another day.
good. thank you. you are very skilled, just as they said.
i apologize that i could give you nothing to dull the pain.
but pain, as they say, always passes. and you are very strong.
you feel exposed. but you aren’t, you know.
no one looks below the surface, not here. you fit the mold of what they expect in a place like this, and that’s all that matters to them.
just human behavior.
it’s all about calculating how willfully blind a person is going to be. and then exploiting that.
please. i’m very precise in my research.
or i’ll come for you again. and again. and again.
i think i love you, [NAME].
we need to find out who did this.
you left a clear trail. you had to know you’d be easy to find.
convince me why i shouldn’t kill you.
death is such a… primitive concept.
there are a hundred like me, under orders, and we will not stop coming. not until we get what we want.
you always knew what you had to do. no one ever told you.
nor were you afraid of the dark. or what waited for you there.
bleeding stumps are flesh wounds. what i’ve got is a scratch.
he knows what was taken from me.
in his own way, he just warned me. because if he knows… then i don’t have much time. i don’t have any time.
my experts call her the most dangerous woman in the world.
your pitch needs work. as far as i’m concerned, those are all positives.
like trust. trust in battle. trust when the chips are down. the kind of trust that lets you put your life in another person’s hands. a person like [NAME].
you must always have a safe place to go. that is the first thing you learn.
i forgot that secrets never keep.
so predictable. like clockwork.
i have hunted for less. i have killed for less. but never with as much pleasure.
we’re all guilty of something.
black widow wants you dead or hurting, she does it herself.
some folks think you kill a legend, you’ll become one too. but that’s not how it works. legends aren’t made so cheap.
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