MASK OR MENACE IC CONTACT

[selfequipped]

"Hey, it's Kate. Leave a message."

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[inmyothertights]

[A pause.]

No, that's valid.

[He knows he's not going to offer to heal it. He's terrible at that sort of thing.]

I bet Clint breaks a bone once a week, so this is probably overdue.

[selfequipped]

Yeah, totally valid. [What would Kate Bishop be without a bow and a quiver full of arrows?

Well, she'd find another way to be a pest, but she'd be very grumpy about the whole ordeal.]

I almost broke my arm in LA, but it didn't take. I got lucky. I really was overdue. [LA with a broken arm would be way worse than here with a broken arm.]

[inmyothertights]

You...

[He frowns a bit.]

You don't call me, to help, when you go to Los Angeles, do you?

[Maybe this is something unfair to ask. It's not that Billy is upset. But...he worries.]

[selfequipped]

I don't call anyone until the end.

[And then it's America who she calls, as she didn't want to worry anyone else. Kate felt like America was the one who would least respond with ... excessive worry over everything she got into.

She'd been right.]

[inmyothertights]

[He makes a bit of a face.]

I'm not the only one who can be stubborn.

[selfequipped]

Being leader means that I don't make you guys worry about me. [Okay, Kate knows this logic is stupid. She knows it, but she's saying it anyway so he knows where she came up with that idea in the first place.]

[inmyothertights]

That's a load and you know it.

[He gives her an eyebrow.]

[selfequipped]

Doesn't keep me from doing it.

[Besides, look what happened when Eli crumbled under the pressure.]