AFTERMATH ASK MEME ||Â âIâm home and getting ready for more murder.â for @vengeancedemonâ
Robbie Reyes was someone that Jess actively enjoyed spending time with, and one of the few people she could think of whose name appeared on her phone and didnât make her groan. With her apartment literally torched, and Carol still searching through property listings as she spoke, Robbieâs couch seemed as good a choice as any, so when he dropped down beside her, interrupting her mid afternoon nap, she couldnât exactly complain. She couldnât blast him off the couch either, courtesy of her current ⌠dysfunction. The words he was saying registered, and Jess opened one eye, looking up at him curiously. âAre you trying to hit on me right now?â she asked, voice thick with sleep. âBecause talk of murder wouldâve turned me on last month, but this week ⌠itâs a no go. Sucks. Youâre not terrible, face wise.â
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AFTERMATH MEME ||Â âBring it on, I have a fork and very little will to live!â for @thecanaryxlanceâ
The last thing Jess expected to deal with on a night out was someone starting a bar fight with a fork, but here she was. Jess seemed to pick the best drinking partners, truly. She sighed, pushing herself up from the bar stool she had been determined to park on for the rest of the night, grabbing some tape from her jacket pocket to wrap her knuckles. Super strength meant it was less for protection so much as to prevent too much blood being left at the crime scene â her own blood, safe to say. âYou want some backup?â she asked, raising an eyebrow at the other woman.
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hearthecanarycryâ:
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: yeah.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: yeah, and we were so creative we named her âoliviaâ.Â
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: differences for sure
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: she looks at me and expects someone else and then throws the âur not my momâ card in my face
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: like i donât know that already
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: i canât be her mom
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: letâs do it. get out of here. girls weekend
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: i just have to take care of something first
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: and try not to get ollie pissed off at me
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: whatâs it called when ur boyfriend cuts you off from the bank account?  Â
(â â chicken tenders):Â Naming someone after their father can be cute, if their father isnât a super villain. So good job, alt-universe Dinah.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Technically you /are/ her mum though, right? Get a DNA test and then throw that in the little shitâs face.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Sorry for calling your kid a little shit.
(â â chicken tenders):Â She doesnât expect you to be her mum. Believe me, sheâs probably well aware of all the specific differences between you.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Take care of something?
(â â chicken tenders):Â A murder something or an already cold body something? You know I can help out.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Boyfriends sound like so much work.
(â â chicken tenders): âBeing a dickâ?Â
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wxbhexdâ:
(â â unknown): but this time, itâs definitely not, assuming youâre talking about a nude, I barely know her, so it was not at all.
(â â unknown): really? Duly noted, I will try to remember that.
(â â unknown): Iâm gonna guess you two broke up and things got awkward?
(â â Unknown):Â That doesnât usually turn men off. Barely knowing women seems to be a prerequisite, in my experience.
(â â Unknown):Â Iâm full of helpful pieces of advice.
(â â Unknown):Â We broke up, got back together, and then I murdered him.
(â â Unknown):Â Joking.
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lawyerwaltersâ:
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): You want to hear it again?Â
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): Iâll talk legal to you any day. Â
(â â sexy shulkie):Â Only when youâre in front of me.
(â â sexy shulkie):Â Want me to get arrested so you can be my representation? I would commit more than petty theft to get you in a pencil skirt.
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ofdirectordanversâ:
(â â J.Drew):Â Youâve annoyed me
(â â J.Drew):Â Usually when someone contacts me with information itâs because they want something
(â â J.Drew):Â So, tell me what you want or stop wasting my time
(â â deo):Â Yeah, letâs see that stand up in court.
(â â deo):Â What do people /usually/ want when they contact you?
(â â deo):Â Money. Cash. Dollars. A bank transfer.
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awclintbartonnoâ:
âBullfutz you would,â Clint said, giving Jess a long look. âYou wonât go to them for the same reason you stitch up knife wounds in your bathroom at the end of a night. Because this job â itâs everything, and you wonât risk getting benched,â he said, shaking his head. âEspecially for something that might not heal.âÂ
Brains didnât come back as easily as muscle. And hearts? Hearts never healed right, not really. Jessâ heart had been through more than most, some of the scars caused by him. And her heartbreaks kept ripping open it seemed. âYeah, heard a little something about that,â he murmured. Catching up on what SHIELD had become meant learning about what Ward had done. Meant finding another snake in the hen house. Clint hadnât spent a lot of time on his farm, but he knew there was only one thing to do with a snake.Â
I killed him. Clint nodded once, a deep frown on his face. He pulled Jess over to the couch, guided her to sit with him. âWhat happened between us had nothing to do with who you are,â Clint said firmly. âYou know that, Jess. That one is on me. We both got enough weight without taking on what we donât need.â He touched the side of her face gently. âAnd no offense â but youâre not perfect at anything. And thatâs a good thing. Because humans keep growing, ya know? And so are you,â he assured her. âYouâre not a weapon, Jess. Youâre a human, and sometimes humans let their emotions get the best of them. Nothingâs more human than that.âÂ
Jess couldnât help but sniff a laugh at that. âYou know how long it took me to get cleared for active duty with SHIELD in the first place?â she asked. She had Fury Sr.âs sign-off, which was probably the only reason she made it through. She had no interests outside of work, no supportive personal relationships, no friends outside the walls of SHIELD HQ, and she didnât want them. Jess found comfort in temporary homes and nothing else, and that didnât make for a safe investment when it came to an agency. She learned how to bluff the system. She learned that asking for help only resulted in her being held back from her mission for atonement, from the one thing she was actually good at. âIt kind of pisses me off that you do know that.â
Because Clint saw everything. He saw everything, and he adjusted to everything, and maybe thatâs why Jess got so attached, why she felt he understood her more than anyone else before. It usually took people more time, but Clint and Natasha ⌠they got through to the core of Jessica, of whatever was left. âI shouldâve known,â she said, simply, because it was the truth. âIf anyone couldâve known, it wouldâve been me. I ⌠I was with him, Clint. We were talking about ⌠we were going to run away together, like idiots. I never even suspected.â
It took actually sitting down on the couch for Jessica to realise sheâd followed Clintâs lead easily. âYou say that, but you donât follow it yourself,â she replied, looking up at him. âI was a part of it too. A big part. We werenât ⌠we never promised anything.â Jess was the one who asked for something Clint couldnât give, something that she couldnât give if push came to shove. He touched her face, and she flinched, but didnât move away. She half expected him to light up with green energy, but he didnât. Her gaze dropped to her hands, feeling no electricity running through them. âI never learned how to control these,â she whispered. âI didnât think I needed to. I always thought I wasnât strong enough to ⌠to hurt someone this way. But I am.â
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hearthecanarycryâ:
âSee. Now, was that so hard?â Dinah smirked. This Jessica Drew was certainly keeping her attention. Losing her attention would be a dangerous move to make. âNow, what are you so eager to know?â she asked, reaching out and tucking a strand of hair behind Jessicaâs ear. âWhat are you so interested in knowing that will take away the guilt for the naughty things you want me to do to you tonight?â she purred, loving any rise she could get out of the woman. âIs it Ollie? You donât need to worry about him. My Ollie has been dead for years, and this worldâs version of him is a pathetic excuse for one.â
A muscle clenched in Jessicaâs jaw as she looked up at the woman, but the irritation that went through her wasnât nearly the same level as usually did with that level of condescension, because the woman standing in front of her wasnât just anyone else. This was Dinah, her friend, in the flesh and in the form she originally knew her. Dinah â this Dinah, she had to keep separating them in her mind â reached out, and Jess wanted to hit her hand away, but she didnât. She just glared at the woman as she spoke, biting down on the inside of her cheek. âI have guilt about a lot of things, but what I think about you isnât one of them,â Jess retorted, immediately knowing sheâd given the woman an inch sheâd turn into a mile. âThis universeâs version of you seems pretty keen. Iâm not crossing that line. I donât care who you are.â
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whitequeenemmaâ:
It was easy for Emma to pretend like she didnât care about anyone else. It was easy for her to be cold and manipulative. It was even easier to push people away in those attempts. Of course, admitting that she actually had feelings, emotions - that was the difficult part. Emma tried her best to not feel anything. At least, that was what she did in public. Behind closed doors, she was much less composed. How could she be composed when the man she loved would never love her in the same way? When she pushed everyone away because she was too afraid of growing close to anyone else? Being cold was easy.Â
âI know what you did,â Emma confirmed lowly, her eyes narrowing at Jess as she began to panic slightly. She barely had to look into her mind to see every painstaking detail. It was almost the only thing that this woman was focusing on. It wasnât healthy. Emma knew because sheâd been in the same position before. âOh darling, itâd be easy. You wouldnât remember a thing. The pain that youâre feeling. The suffering. Itâd all be over with the snap of my fingers.âÂ
I know what you did. Jessica heard that very line almost every time she had nightmares â so basically every night she dragged herself from the sofa to go to her bed instead, hoping that this would be the night she could finally tell herself she left the past where it belonged. Unfortunately, after the war was won, you couldnât just get everything you did in it and pack it into a cardboard box in the back of your mind. You had to live with it, had to work through it, and usually it took friends to do that â but Jess found it almost impossible to do that. She found it impossible to talk, even to the people that she was closest to, but then here was this stranger seeing through her instinctively, immediately.
Her first thought was not to trust her. Her first thought was not to trust anyone, cultivated from her line of work. But if this woman could truly see into her mind, if she was a telepath, then she couldâve done a lot worse and not needed to ask. âBut he would still be dead,â Jess replied, voice controlled but far from cold. âI would still know he was dead. I would still feel that. Everyone else would know, and Iâd be on the outside looking in. You canât just ⌠you canât just numb feelings. You canât change what happened.â
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kunlunsironfistâ:
Would he be better now if heâd embraced his grief as a child? Would he be more well adjusted if heâd been allowed to face his trauma, if heâd been taught to cope with it instead of pushing it down? To the monks who raised him, the things he felt were a hindrance. An inconvenience. Feelings had no place in a weaponâs heart, especially not feelings of grief. Theyâd always preferred his rage, always liked him for his anger. That fury, at least, could be harnessed. It could be used. So theyâd taught him how to turn his grief into rage, how to replace sadness with anger, how to make his pain useful. Danny wondered if Jessâs upbringing had been the same. Was it a universal thing in people who raised children into weapons to pick and choose what feelings those weapons got to keep? Was it common practice to maintain their anger while shoving their trauma down to a place where it would one day overflow and tear them to pieces?
But⌠Maybe they still had a shot, in the end. Danny was far better adjusted than heâd once been, and Jess seemed to be doing okay, too. Maybe it was possible to come back from the way theyâd been raised⌠and maybe it was possible for Davos, too. It was a nice thought, if nothing else. A nice thing to consider. She said that hating each other didnât disqualify you from being a family, and Danny thought of Joy, whoâd hated him so much sheâd been willing to do anything just for a chance at hurting him. What did it say about him, he wondered, that so many of the people he considered family had tried to kill him at one point or another? Joy, Ward, Harold, Davos⌠So many of the people heâd loved had wanted him dead at least once, and it was hard not to wonder if the problem was with him instead of all of them. He looked up when she spoke again, a startled laugh coming from his lips. He had a feeling she wasnât kidding, but he couldnât help the sound. âI donât â I donât want to do that.âÂ
There were a lot of things that held Jess back in training, at least according to the Taskmaster. He said that she was afraid. He said that she was angry. As far as Jess was concerned, she needed to be some amount of either of those to force her through the gruelling processes he pushed on her, because it certainly wasnât for the love of Hydra that she fought â not even when she knew no differently. Jess liked to think she had good instincts, and that they were a large part of the reason she was still alive now. Growing up, thereâd always been something telling her that she was doing the wrong thing, that something was slightly off. There were people, of course, who got in under that. Jared, Grant ⌠they were the most significant examples, and ones that she couldnât quite get over. But in the grand scheme of things, Jess liked to believe she chose good people, and one of those people was sitting in front of her right now as she spoke.
She wasnât sure how to comfort people. She was good at becoming the role that they wanted her to be, good at seduction in particular given her training, but when it came to helping people just because she wanted to help instead of to gain something in return ⌠it was a desire that she was familiar with, but not one she ever truly knew how to follow through on. She moved slowly, knowing that Danny was on the same page as she was, and put her hand on his arm, loosely at first so he could move away if he wanted to. âThen you did the right thing,â she said, simply. If the mission was to take down his brother, he had attempted all avenues. He tried to change him. He tried to save him. When that didnât work, it significantly altered the decision. âMost people wouldnât be sitting here saying that. Youâre giving him a chance he wouldnât have otherwise. With time ⌠with time, people get over a lot more than they thought they ever could. This isnât the end, Danny.â
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(âď¸ âĄď¸ Soulmate): Hill is usually right.Â
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Soulmate): Youâre a good person, too.Â
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Soulmate): Alright, Jess.Â
(â â knick nat):Â Just donât give her the ammo of saying that to her face.
(â â knick nat):Â I try to be. It doesnât come quite as naturally.
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vengeancedemonâ:
When youâd been to Hell and back, it wasnât hard to recognize people whoâd done the same. Robbie had seen the flames of the underworld reflected in Jessâs eyes the first time heâd met her, had understood as sheâd approached him in a warehouse full of bodies heâd put down that she wasnât the sort of person who was content sitting back and doing nothing at any given moment. She had the Devil in her, just like he did. And, just like him, she wasnât afraid to let the Devil loose. It was necessary sometimes, something most people didnât quite understand. They wanted the world to be generous, wanted forgiveness to fall from the skies like rain, but that wasnât how things worked. The world never gave Robbie anything he didnât take for himself, and he knew Jess understood that. People like them couldnât rely on the kindness of angels. Sometimes, the Devil was all you had. âMy experience wasnât much like Mean Girls,â he admitted with a shrug, thinking back briefly. His high school experience had been teachers who didnât understand the weight of the shit he was carrying and students whose lives seemed so goddamn easy that it was hard not to resent them. Gabe always made it seem like Robbie ought to regret dropping out, but he never had. Heâd never felt more free than the day heâd walked out those doors with the knowledge that he was never going back.Â
âIâve thought about it,â he admitted with a shrug, still grinning. Of course heâd thought about it. When you grew up with nothing, it was hard not to imagine what youâd do if you suddenly found yourself loaded. âUpwards of $17 million, depending on the condition. They donât come on the market often. Not many of them left.â Rarity was a sure-fire way to make things more expensive. People always wanted things they couldnât have, after all. âYeah? Shit, I might have to hitch a ride on the party boat, then. I get the feeling we could have a hell of a time with it.â Heâd never been one for the water, either, but she was right â exposure therapy was a good a way as any to get rid of that discomfort. âGuess we run in the same crowds,â he shrugged. âOh, Jesus Christ. You tell me werewolves are real and I swear Iâm out of here.â Some things were just a little too ridiculous, even for a guy with the Devil riding shotgun. He raised a brow at her question, tilting his head to the side slightly. âYou think, what, I just donât feel anything? Nah, I still feel it. It doesnât tickle, either.âÂ
Jess had friends in high places. She dated Clint, considered Natasha a soulmate, knew most SHIELD agents by both their name and their number. For some reason, people seemed to trust her. In the beginning, that was hardly unexpected. Jess was trained to shift like a chameleon into whoever the person in front of her wanted. It was only months or years later, when that facade started to shift (because not even the best spy in the world could maintain a ruse forever) that Jess began to have questions over why she was still a part of peopleâs lives. She could only come up with one explanation, and that was the fact that, against all odds, she managed to have good people caring about her. She managed to drag them down to her level, make it so they were indebted to her, or at least protective. With Robbie, she didnât need to worry about that. He already had the Devil. He had far worse than she could offer, and there was something reassuring in that. âYouâll need to pull together a realistic high school movie for me, then,â she replied. âWhat if Iâm undercover sometime and they ask me what I did in science class? I couldnât answer them.â It was mostly teasing. Hydra covered many topics, and typical education programmes so she could bluff her way through was only one of them.
âSeventeenâŚâ Jess let out a low whistle, trying to contemplate the magnitude of that kind of cash in her head.â âHoly shit. I donât even think Iâd know how to write that without thinking about it.â Thereâd be six zeroes after it, she knew that much. âMoneyâs never really been something I considered. Easy to ignore it exists when you donât have any, right?â Jessica made a habit of moving in with people who did have it, or scraping it together when she needed it. Her lifestyle hardly required mortgages or saving, after all, nor was it conducive towards planning for the future. âA hell of a time? Did you, Robbie Reyes, just make a joke? I dare say Iâm rubbing off on you. You should be careful â I hear my sense of humourâs contagious,â Jess singsonged, a grin coming onto her face that didnât fade even at the next sentence. âI know a girl thatâs part fox. Sheâs out in Madripoor. You can find anything in that place.â Jess shrugged a shoulder, unsure exactly what she thought. âIt was a hypothesis I was testing out. Sometimes things hurt so much they go numb.â That happened for her more than a few times throughout her life, after all. âAnything help?â
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hearthecanarycryâ:
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: yeah, i get that.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: i ever tell you thereâs an alternate universe where ollie and i have a kid?
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: cause she hopped universes after her parents over there died.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: idk what made them capable of being parents, but i sure as hell am not equipped for it.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: [UNSENT] literally and figuratively
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: easy as that.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: i mean, iâm really good at yelling at nurses if something happens.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: i can throw in some âiâll sue ur assâ for good measure too.
[âď¸ âĄď¸J.D. (jaw dropping)]: sue them with ollieâs money that is.
(â â chicken tenders):Â You never mentioned that, no.
(â â chicken tenders):Â You have an alternate universe /kid/??
(â â chicken tenders):Â That has to be trippy, right? The similarities between worlds, but also how different they are.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Itâs not the nursesâ fault. Any time Iâve been in hospital, itâs been me who caused it.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Ollieâs money is definitely useful for a lot of things.
(â â chicken tenders):Â We should take a week for the spa. Get out of the city, just for a retreat.
(â â chicken tenders):Â I feel like I canât breathe here.
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hearthecanarycryâ:
(â â J.D. (jaw dropping)): just how much endurance does a spider have?
(â â J.D. (jaw dropping)): breathing helps with running, and we both know i have quite the set of lungs.
(â â J.D. (jaw dropping)): my ass is the best. though yours is no joke.
(â â chicken tenders):Â I havenât reached my limit yet, in past experience.
(â â chicken tenders):Â Are you suggesting I get a run /and/ a front row seat to the Canary show? What have I done to deserve these treats?
(â â chicken tenders):Â Your legs arenât half bad either, though donât let it go to your head.
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(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): Prefer to just get worked up for you, babe.Â
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): Iâll take that proposition. Â
(â â sexy shulkie):Â Only for me? Thatâs something I havenât heard before.
(â â sexy shulkie):Â Talk legal to me.
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kunlunsironfistâ:
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Jess D.): Whatâs wrong with Hallmark movies? I think theyâre nice.
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Jess D.): Maybe Netflix just wants you to watch something nice, Jess!
(â â iron fisting):Â Theyâre /too/ nice. They give me the willies.
(â â iron fisting):Â I donât know why it keeps recommending them when all I watch are whale documentaries and weird murder mysteries, though.
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lawyerwaltersâ:
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): I donât think that they could handle it.Â
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): We can spar. So long as you know the end result.Â
(âď¸ âĄď¸ Hot Spyder): Not as if I can keep my hands off of you either way.
(â â sexy shulkie):Â I might do it anyway, as long as I knew /you/ could handle it.
(â â sexy shulkie):Â The end result? What would that be, exactly?
(â â sexy shulkie):Â I would never ask you to. Part of my charm, Iâm afraid.
(â â sexy shulkie):Â And I donât even need to use my pheromones. You really boost a girlâs confidence.
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