The Shooting Range, Thursday Morning

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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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Re: Archer Versus Archer

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"I..." Wow. Alec blinked rapidly and yep, the arrows were all still right there in the center? "Are you that good when you're moving? I don't... huh."

Yeah, he was a little bit speechless. Kate had not oversold this guy.

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"Yeah, I am," Clint said, because there wasn't much point in lying. "I should point out that I started doing this when I was younger than you are, and I'm twice your age, so I've had pretty much your entire lifetime of practice." Way to make yourself feel old, Clint. "It's the one thing I'm good at."

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"Give the bow back if you're going to be an idiot," Kate demanded.

She looked at Alec. "Clearly that's about the last part."

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"I can... see why you're friends," Alec said slowly, grinning faintly as he looked from one of them to the other. "Or why... you're friends with him, I guess."

Timelines, man.

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Clint hesitated for a second, to fake her out in return for that attitude, but he handed the bow over nonetheless. "Don't get cranky just 'cause I outshot you," he said. "I'm starting to think I need friends my own age."

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Kate smirked over at Alec as she took her bow back. "Please, old man, like you said, you've been practicing longer than we've been alive."

And seriously, he was an Avenger. He had plenty of friends his own age.

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Alec was not Kate, so he actually looked a little sheepish at that. "Sorry, you don't have to stick around with us all day," he offered. "Overseeing kids shoot worse than you is probably a little dull."

Hey now, Alec.

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"I don't mind, really," Clint said, smiling at him. "Everybody shoots worse than me, I'm used to it. And you guys really are good, I wasn't lying."

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"We are," Kate agreed, smiling at Alec too.

She glanced at the bow in her hand, clearly pondering a decision. After a moment she offered it to Alec. "Want to try a longbow?"

Be advised of the honor, big 'brother.'

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Hold on, there was an archer out there with an actual sense of self-worth? SAY IT WASN'T SO.

"You don't mind?" he asked, taking the bow gingerly. Oh, the pressure was really on now. And not just because messing up twice in a row in front of two people who could shoot a lot better than him, and Natalie, was kind of unacceptable to him.

He took his time getting used to the new bow's weight and nocking his arrows. Once he worked his way up to actually shooting, the first two landed as noticably off-center as his previous attempts with the recurve, but by arrows three, four and five, his were hitting only barely further away from the bullseye than Kate's.

"That's... much better," he said as he handed the bow back, a little breathlessly.

Shut up, he was allowed to be a dork.

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"See, you just needed to warm up," Clint said. "And use a nicer bow." It really was a damn nice bow, and Clint was pleased with his other self's taste.

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There was one, and she had her hands full insisting on self-worth for the others, huh.

"Nice," Kate agreed, nearly grinning as she took her bow back. Yes, it was a good bow, wasn't it. "And with a strange bow so even more so."

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Kate Bishop: Official Self-Worth-Booster of Every Clint Barton In The Multiverse. And Alec. It would look good on a resume, if nothing else.

"I'm definitely going to need to get one of these," he decided. Even though, let's be real, probably about half of the skill in those last few shots had come from increased confidence from being lent another person's bow, good god. "Thanks for that."

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If she ever wrote a resume, she'd have to remember that.

"Well, you can get a longbow at least," Kate smirked.

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"I can help you pick one out if you want," Clint said, leaving out the part about how he was going to be doing the same for Natalie, since that might not have gone over well. "But if you keep practicing, I don't doubt you'll get better and more solid."

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"I'd like that," Alec said with a nod. "Thanks. I thought I was solid already, but..." APPARENTLY HE NEEDED WORK. "I'll work on it."