Kitty's Apartment to Fast Eddie's, Saturday Evening

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As it turned out, Clint was glad he'd told Kitty that he'd surprise her with where they were going tonight, because it gave him time to weigh his options. Fandom had an awful lot of places to take someone for food and drinks, but there seemed to be only one place with food and drinks and games he could beat Kitty at.

Look, being impressive to a girl who could make herself intangible was hard, okay? He had to take his opportunities where he could get them.

It had been a while since he'd done anything like this, but Clint was determined to not let that show. When he got to Kitty's apartment, the only thing left to do was knock on the door and hope for the best.

[For that girl with the awesome pants!]

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[so_hawkward]

"I'd like to hope so," Clint said, setting his stick beside hers. "I've had enough of doing terrible things for a while, and I like charming you better."

[throughaphase]

Charming her was definitely working. The only way to ruin that would be to like punch a baby or deny the Holocaust or something at this rate.

"What a coincidence," she smiled, sliding her arms around his waist. "I like that, too."

[so_hawkward]

Maybe Clint would get around to punching babies later, but for now, his first priority was to put his hands on Kitty's waist and lean down to kiss her. Hopefully, she'd like that too.

[throughaphase]

Maybe a little.

She hadn't thought it could actually be a relief to finally kiss someone, and the nerves seemed to have vanished, too. And if he didn't mind, she was perfectly happy to stay like this for a minute.

[so_hawkward]

The pleased noise that Clint made when Kitty kissed him back was probably a little embarrassing, but it had been a while since he'd had someone in his arms like this, and it felt really nice. If she wanted to keep going, he had no problem with that at all.

[throughaphase]

If he wasn't pulling away, she was more than happy to take advantage of that. Which might have been obvious by moving her hand to the back of his neck and deepening the kiss.

[so_hawkward]

That got another, lower noise out of Clint, and he slipped his hand to the small of her back to pull her body closer to his, letting her take the kiss as deep as she wanted.

[throughaphase]

Right now Kitty was convinced his noises were pretty much the best things ever, responding with a pleased sound of her own. And for as much as closer was so nice, she was trying really hard to remind herself that they were still in public. Or else she'd be a lot handsier.

[so_hawkward]

It took a few more long, enjoyable moments, but Clint finally remembered the public part as well, and pulled back just enough to catch his breath. "I think I should have told you I liked you a while ago," he said.

[throughaphase]

"Mm hm," she agreed, smiling again. "And just think, we haven't even reached the shirtless portion of the evening yet."

In case there'd been any question of whether they were going to end up getting to that.

[so_hawkward]

Clint hadn't wanted to assume, but he certainly wasn't going to dissuade her. "Okay, new idea. We call this game of pool a draw, get food to go, and go back to your place."

He was going to have to work out some sort of sock-on-the-door-handle thing with Natasha before bringing Kitty back to his place. That would be a fun conversation.

[throughaphase]

Could make for some interesting mornings, too...

"Good idea. I'll just have to prove I can beat you another time," she said.

[so_hawkward]

"I'm sure we can find something you can beat me at," Clint assured her. The idea of a 'next time' after this one was incentive enough.

[throughaphase]

"Brave words," she said with a laugh. "Very brave."