deadliestviper: (for that i am sorry)
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[This time, there's no image. There's no fucking around with an introduction either, no explanation of the sounds of a fight broadcast over the network a few days ago, just Beatrix's resigned, tired voice.]

Yeah, I know. I have it coming.

[Private to Jesse]

I shouldn't have threatened you. You didn't deserve that.

[Private to "Nicole"]

If you don't ignore this message, please accept my apology for what little it's worth. Had I been myself, we never would have butted heads as we did.

[A sigh of breath, which could be taken as nervousness.] ...Your skill is impressive. I was prepared for a challenge, but you gave me more than I bargained for. For that, and the much-needed dose of humility, I thank you.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-19 01:34 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (Where are you from? Legal.)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
No.

[Because she feels she owes that much honesty.] But you might get close.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-19 01:58 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (eyeballing with the best of them)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Russia. Siberia. [Which she knows will lead to KGB, but that's okay. She'd done work for the KGB, but she wasn't KGB.] Among others.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-19 02:16 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (we're not in love it's not enough)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Not quite. [There's the tiniest smile in her voice, but it's gone before the sentence finishes. She was never a sleeper agent, it had been so much more active than that. But she doesn't owe B that explanation, and after that flood - after knowing that her life would have been that, would have been more blood drenching her ledger, she doesn't really want to think about the Red Room more than necessary.]

Russia. We had good teachers. [They'd been taught on home ground, soaked it with their blood until they were ready to soak it with others.] You?

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-19 03:10 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (if I never have to be a notary again...)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Mm. I'm sure some facility was, somewhere. [But not hers. Or maybe hers, but that was the Red Room: you never really knew everything.]

That hasn't been me for years. For the record. [At least, not with those ideologies, because is working for SHIELD all that different? Not really.]

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-19 03:45 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (I heard your voice as clear as day)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Good to know. [Because she believes B about as much as she believes herself.]

I guess they weren't kidding about floods.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-23 03:28 pm (UTC)
persuadeyou: (I copy)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
[Natasha doesn't have a single face to blame, just the entity of the Red Room. She tells herself that made for a cleaner split from them.]

It may have been a mild concern. [That may have been teasing or just understating, it's hard to say. Because B is good, and Natasha kind of likes her, but she's not going to trust the blond at her back any time soon.] Glad to hear that.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-24 10:09 pm (UTC)
persuadeyou: (we're not in - trust me)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
All bets are off if we don't even know who we are. [I.e., no arguments here. Natasha's good with taking what's on the table.]

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-24 11:34 pm (UTC)
persuadeyou: (I'd do whatever I wanted to)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Were you Beth? [Meeting questions with questions is practically a talent of hers. Especially since she's fairly sure Beth knows; and she's fairly sure she knows, too.]

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-24 11:46 pm (UTC)
persuadeyou: (The neutralist face)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Does it matter?

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-25 12:52 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (Been different people many times)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Not really. [Names are just names, after all. And she's seen what kind of person Beth was.]

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-25 01:29 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (can you not talk while I prep lucha libr)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
And Nicole it was.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-25 01:47 am (UTC)
persuadeyou: (I'll bleed you dry)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
Oh, it is. But you asked who it was then.

[Private]

Date: 2012-06-25 01:51 pm (UTC)
persuadeyou: (sup boys rebooting systems)
From: [personal profile] persuadeyou
[And Natasha never got to be one. In most ways, they're identical, but in others, well.]

Maybe next flood.

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