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The Shooting Range, Thursday Morning

Because Alec was officially the most welcoming of all fake siblings ever, suck it Natalie Adams, no sooner had he met his new little sibling Kate yesterday than they had made plans to go to the shooting range today. And because Fandom had no shortage of ~~professional arms models~~ archers, they even had a judge lined up to oversee the proceedings. In the epic battle of recurve versus longbow, only the world's best archer could be the judge.

Because Clint definitely didn't have anything better to do on the week of his birthday than watch two teenagers shoot stuff, right?

So Alec and his recurve bow and Kate and her ~~arms~~ longbow made their way to the range, where Alec promptly swung his arms awkwardly and looked around. "So... how should we do this?"

[[up crazy early because so am I, la la la. for the archers, but open!]]

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Yeah, Natalie's blank look completely agreed. "Is there something you're afraid of right now, Alec?"

Because she felt like he was trying to shoo her away. Passive-aggressively.

That got an eyebrow-raise out of him, even though yep, Natalie was spot-on right there. "Should there be?"

Well, you know. Losing to a mundie in front of his mortal enemy, etc.

"You're acting like there is," Natalie replied impassively, glancing around. "What is it that you're actually doing here?"

You know, right now.

"My school-assigned sibling and I were going to practice our archery."

You know, at the same time. With different types of bows. While a professional archer judged them.

That was totally normal.

"Right," Natalie said.

Please excuse the way she was reaching into her pocket for her phone right now.

"...What?"

No, he actually was ignoring the phone. His attention was mostly on that 'Right.'

Edited 2013-01-10 19:30 (UTC)

"What?" Natalie asked right back at him, while glancing down at her phone because she couldn't quite find the new text bit blindly.

"You said 'Right.'"

And Natalie was a master at that dry sarcasm thing that Alec never seemed to quite get the hang of when other people did it, so...

"Yes," Natalie agreed, barely looking up. "Could've also been substituted with 'Of course', or maybe 'I see'."

"Aren't there other places you could be using your phone?" Alec interjected, abandoning the sematics discussion. He didn't know why, but he knew that something about Natalie was unnerving him right now.

He'd just sealed her decision to press Send. So, thanks for that, Alec!

The phone went back in her pocket after that. "It's a public space."

Rude, Natalie. Very rude.

"I noticed that," he said. "But it's supposed to have a purpose, which some of us here are trying to achieve. Are you just going to stand here?"

"Am I in your way?"

She wasn't exactly standing in front of the targets or anything, Alec.

"You could be less in my way," Alec replied. Which was about as much of an answer as hers had been.

Well, Natalie had thought his question pretty ridiculous, so. "I'm standing here, in no way obstructing you from shooting your arrows," she pointed out. "Everything else should be irrelevant. Unless you actually have a problem with me specifically being here."

"I have a problem with you specifically being here," Alec replied.

This probably came as quite a shock. If you needed to lie down for a moment, Natalie, Alec would understand.

Natalie's expression didn't change, not even a little bit. Calm and mild as ever. And no, she wasn't surprised.

"Why?"

She just wanted to hear what he'd say.

"I think you've noticed by now that we aren't exactly best friends," Alec said. He wasn't about to put the actual reason into words, so he went with being condescending instead.

"Because you're jealous."

Well, he was. And maybe in some way, she was too. She just made it far harder to accuse her of it, point blank.

"But you're at least supposedly a good archer. I can't stay to watch and learn?"

"You can do what you want," Alec sighed, filing the 'jealous' remark away in a mental file of things to not discuss ever. He was so great at pretending he had no issues, trufax. "Try not to be too distracting."

Like Natalie was ever distracting to a normal person.

Edited 2013-01-10 21:26 (UTC)

Natalie only responded to that with a very slight eyebrow raise.

Look, she was already being not-distracting. Also quietly amused at him, but at least she didn't let that show.

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