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[It's empathy on her face.

Just like before, just like every time they've spoken so far, she seems to genuinely care about his distress. His instinct is to back away and let her go, even though she clearly wants him to go with her, and he almost does.

But how can he ever know whether to trust her kindness, or know if it's a facade like Martin's, unless he tries? He can be ready, prepared for if it goes wrong. He hopes. The indecision of whether to stay or go hangs in the air between them, before he takes just a small step towards her.]

Okay.

[Wary, but still here.]

How do they work?

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[Daisy is surprised just as much as she relieved when he agrees to go with her, and she does her best to keep her expression neutral as to not scare him off.

She starts to head in the direction of her house, making sure not to stand too close to him and give him that space he needed.]

I don't know all of the details, but essentially they absorb my powers so I don't end up absorbing them into my body.]

[And she won't explain why exactly that is bad unless he asks. No need to freak him out even more.]

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[He doesn't really understand. He doesn't have any powers, not really. He's just a human, albeit an enhanced one, and his particular skills come from long training and the serum. There's nothing to absorb.]

Why don't you carry them with you?

[Seems dumb not to, if they're needed to keep her safe while she uses her powers. And in this town, it seems best to be prepared.]

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[Not the question she was expecting, and it makes it hard not to laugh. He's not wrong though. It would make more sense to keep them on her.]

Well, they're not exactly stealthy.

[For one thing.]

And I wasn't expecting for people to be falling out of the sky today.

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That's stupid.

[It's probably not his place to pass judgement, they don't know each other and he's not exactly been the friendliest to her. But he's far past the point where any of his meagre social skills are working, exhausted and wrung out.]

You oughta be prepared to defend yourself.

[morethan084]

[That does make her chuckle at least, even if he's not saying it as a joke. She appreciates his bluntness.]

Yeah it probably is.

[When she was on the run, however, it was out of necessity. She couldn't afford to be caught and thrown in prison. Here, well, she guesses it was just a habit.]

I can, even without them. Just means I have to ice my arms when I get home.

[Not that icing them always helps.]

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[He still thinks it's a stupid thing to do, to put herself out of commission afterwards just because she doesn't want to carry around her gauntlets. But perhaps she has other reasons, perhaps-- it's not truly his place to pry, so he does drop it.]

The strength from it actually comes from your arms?

[Even though she wasn't physically holding anyone up, as far as he could see.]

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[Having people ask questions about her powers wasn't something that happened very often. Usually, people were afraid of what she could do.]

Not exactly, no. It's more like it comes from my whole body.

[Daisy tries to get a read on him, but he's very good at hiding his emotions.]

Everything has vibrations, I can just tap into them.

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[There's that wariness again when she mentions she can tap into everything, he's fairly certain that means his prosthesis makes a pretty good target. But she knows the consequences if she uses her powers on him, so he'll try-- really try to not act as though she already has.]

But it takes effort? You can't keep doing it indefinitely?

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It puts a strain on my body, yeah.

[Has that stopped her? No.

Coming up to the steps of her house Daisy stops near the door.]

Did you want to come in?

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No.

[He should, really. It's stupid to stay outside when there are things falling from the sky at random intervals, but he's absolutely not ready to step into a space that she controls.]

...I'll be here when you come out.

[A quiet assurance that he's not about to run. Yet.]

[morethan084]

Okay. I'll be out in a minute.

[Regardless of whether or not he trusted her enough to come into her house, this was still huge progress from last time.

Putting her gauntlets on, sans the suit, Daisy takes a minute to collect herself before heading back outside.]

See? Not exactly subtle.

[Daisy lifts an arm up to show him, a tired smile tugging at her lips.]

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[He actually manages a very small smile in return, because... okay, she wasn't kidding.]

I don't know, I've seen weirder.

[morethan084]

[Even just a tiny from him has her smiling that much bigger. It's much nicer to see him with a smile on his face instead of being fearful of her.]

Gee, thanks.

[Making sure the door is locked, Daisy steps down the stairs.]

It's okay, you know, if you don't want to stay out here.

[He said so himself, that he couldn't help save the people from falling. So why put himself through all of that again?]

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Where else am I gonna go?

[He doesn't have anywhere particular to be at the moment, and the only few places that he knows inside are not a viability at the moment for various reasons.]

It's fine. I can take care of myself.

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I know you can.

[Maybe she should just leave it at that. She doesn't want to come off as babying him, but this was clearly traumatic for him.]

So, what have you seen that's weirder than these things?

[Since he had teased her about the gauntlets, why not go back to a less depressing topic? You know, while they wait for it to start raining people again.]

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[The person falling from the sky was the least traumatic thing about the last month, though he does wish that he could have done more to save the man from what had been a pretty gruesome fate.

He glances at her sidelong, but he'll allow the subject change, though it's odd to be talking to her so... casually.]

Iron Man.

[Just. Iron Man.]

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Yeah, I think he's got the one up on me there.

[Please. He has the one up on her in every way imaginable.

She definitely idolized him.]

I'm pretty sure he doesn't have alien DNA though.

[Just casually dropping a fact about herself...]

Although, with how good he is with tech, who knows?

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You're not human?

[That would explain the powers in a way that's less disturbing than her being experimented on, because as far as he knows those are the only ways to get powers at the moment.]

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Mostly human.

[Daisy corrects, an amused smile on her face.]

You ever hear of a race called the Kree?

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[He thinks back, but the only alien race he's seen named so far have been the Chitauri.]

No?

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Yeah neither did I up until a few years ago.

[And what a surprise that had been.]

Long story short, Kree experimented on humans to give them powers in order to be soldiers in their war a really long time ago. Basically, we were their slaves.

[Good thing Daisy wasn't there for that...]

We're called Inhumans.

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[The way she's telling it is a person reciting history, not someone who actually lived through it. That's good-- nobody should know what it is to be experimented on to become a soldier-- but it means he doesn't feel right offering her sympathy either.]

So you were born this way?

[That must have been awkward, having a kid with powers to contend with.]

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Technically. I didn't know about it until a few years ago.

[And who knows what her life would have been like if Whitehall and HYDRA hadn't separated her family. Maybe she could have saved her mother from becoming--

Doesn't matter now.]

The gene is dormant until something called Terrigenesis triggers it.

[And both times she's gone through it, here and back home, were terrifying.]

It's as fun as it sounds.

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[Her openness about these things is both strange and telling. He can't imagine being so casual about things that have happened to him, the idea of laying out his private moments to someone else almost without provocation is unthinkable. But it also paints a picture of how much she trusts him, backing up her previous claims that they were friends before this.

He doesn't want to ask about Terrigenesis. Whatever trust she held in the Barnes she had known, he is not that man and it feels wrong to exploit it just because they share a face. So he changes direction on the questions a little, making it less personal.]

Are there a lot of you?