Of course Kate throws her arms around Yelena, hugs her to the bone. It makes her feel small: like she can taste the first burst of summer strawberry; like she’s waking up on Christmas morning in Ohio; like she’s wading barefoot in a clear stream on a sunny day. It makes her feel like a child.
It puts a fissure in her carefully constructed floodgates.
Yelena doesn’t know how to say that Kate needs the wingspan of a seabird to hold her safely at the distance she desires. She doesn’t know how to say that a frigatebird has the highest ratio of wing to body, but that wouldn’t even be enough. She doesn’t know how to say a hawk definitely does not. That Kate’s arms could never bear the gap Yelena so desperately needs.
How can she say she has kept her entire life at the disposal of someone else, that she does not know to keep herself and Kate? How can she translate the tangle of grief and anger that snares around her throat? How can she say she would rather chew through her own bone than be trapped again?
Except, Kate’s arms don’t always feel like a cage. Sometimes, and Yelena hates this, sometimes they feel like a bed. And what is that feeling but a lure? Always waiting for the other shoe to drop. How long until the reality check that none of this is real? Isn’t joy just a ruse?
Kate will never hold Yelena at the distance she desires. She is a thorn that digs into flesh, she is a burr that carries the seeds of a new life. A promise of something Yelena has to be brave enough to tend to. She can’t. Not yet.
It’s a good thing Kate is heavy handed. She isn’t patient, but she is stubborn. And maybe one day Yelena can say all the things that evade her. Until then, Kate Bishop squeezes the life out of her and gives that stupid toothy grin because this time, Yelena didn’t immediately duck out of the embrace. That’s something, right?
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HCs for Yelena being a supportive partner to the very ADHD Kate?
(ADHD Kate Bishop is my favourite thing and I love supportive girlfriends)
So! I think this has a lot of growing pains-Kate is hyperactive ADHD and Yelena is inattentive adhd and sometimes those competing access needs really develop into an argument.
In terms of active support? Yelena always has fidget toys on hand. Kate picks at her cuticles and bites her nails (which drives Yelena up a wall) so Yelena makes sure there are distractions on hand. She's also the one who manages Kate's meds, because Kate will forget to even go pick the damn things up. Yelena is a list girlie which Kate doesn't really get. Yelena also makes a concerted effort to at least enjoy Kate's hyperfixations (as long as they don't contain active triggers). She might not LOVE Rupaul's Drag Race, but she grows to enjoy it and watch it with Kate.
Yelena gets overwhelmed and overstimulated easier than Kate, and needs alone time to decompress. Kate is MUCH more consistently outgoing, and it takes them some time to figure out boundaries when it comes to Yelena needing a break.
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If Bishova was in the following Movies! And some reimagined quotes!
Titanic - “Kate Bishop freezing is not a cool way to die, we will both fit on that damn door.”
Jerry Maguire/ Bishova Title - Yelena Belova - “Ты дополняешь меня”
Godfather - “Don’t ask about my business Kate”
Rear Window - “Where does a girl have to go before you notice her?” “Well, if she’s pretty enough, she doesn’t have to go anywhere. She just has to ‘be’.”
Brokeback Mountain - "There Ain't Never Enough Time."
Leon The Professional- Yelena: And stop saying "okay" all the time. Okay? Kate: Okay. Yelena: Good.
Forest Gump - "I don’t remember being born, I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas, and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world."
Fight Club - "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
The Notebook - "So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard. We’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me, every day."
Romeo & Juliet 1996 / Yelena & Kate - “O Yelena, Yelena! Wherefore art thou Yelena?”
The Great Gatsby - “I knew that when I kissed this girl, I would be forever wed to her.”
Knocked up - “Are you the lady who doesn't realize she's pregnant until she's sitting on the toilet and the kid pops out?”
The 40 year old virgin - “I’m a virgin. I always have been.”
Legally Blond - “All people see when they look at me is blonde hair and big boobs.”
Grease - “Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy.”
Cruel Intentions - “She took down my pants and she started writing the alphabet but she was writing it with her tongue.”
Legends of the fall - “Love is both a tender embrace and a violent storm.”
Father of the Bride - “A wedding! Father of the Bride. Can you believe it?”
The Phantom Of the Opera - “The tears I might have shed for your dark fate / grow cold and turn to tears of *hate*!”
A walk to remember - “You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.”
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Kate: *Banging a pen against a table*
Yelena: Oh my god Kate Bishop! Would you stop? How would you like it if I banged you against the table?
Kate:...
Kate:...I...don't know the correct answer to that question.
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Yelena: why is Gorgeous the only thing you can be Drop-Dead?
Nat, already sighing: what do you mean?
Yelena: I want be drop-dead silly. Let my enemies crumble before me, overcome by the depths of my whimsy, don't you think?
Nat: I think you're spending too much time with your girlfriend and she is rubbing off on you
Yelena: You leave Kate out of this
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