New York, Friday Evening

[so_hawkward]

Clint had never paid a lot to the rules and traditions of getting married, but the one thing his and Kitty's friends had insisted on was that he wasn't supposed to see her from tonight until the actual wedding. Clint thought that was pretty stupid--like his natural bad luck could get any worse?--but he'd let Barney drag him out with Tony, Steve, and Thor (and Natasha, who insisted that someone with a brain needed to keep an eye on them all) while Kitty's friends took her out for something he hoped wouldn't involve male strippers.

At the third bar of the night, Clint managed to get away from the others long enough to hit the speed dial for Kitty's number on his phone. Not seeing her didn't mean not talking to her, right?

[For the omg-soon-to-be wife and anyone else who might want to call!]

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Whatever Clint was going to say disappeared as Barney came up behind him and snatched the phone out of his hand. Being the taller brother totally had its benefits. "Is this my future sister-in-law?"

[throughaphase]

Being an only child, Kitty had never really considered that anyone would call her that. It was kind of beat. "It is! Hello, soon-to-be brother-in-law," she greeted him.

[so-tricky.livejournal.com]

"You know you still have time to change your mind, right? Decide you don't want to marry into this family?" Barney said, grunting a little as Clint tried to smack the phone from him.

[throughaphase]

"Yeah, I know. It's not gonna happen, though," she told him. It was not the first time today someone had asked her if she was sure about this. "You guys kinda grew on me."

[so-tricky.livejournal.com]

"Aww, she says we both grew on her," Barney said to Clint.

"I'm going to grow on you and strangle you if you don't give me my phone back!" Clint said.

Barney laughed. "All right, I'll give you back. Just remember, if you need a quick out tomorrow, let me know."

[throughaphase]

"Okay. I'll signal you if I need it," Kitty laughed.

[so_hawkward]

Clint grumbled as Barney gave him his phone back. "Yeah, go drink some more or something. Go tell Tony more embarrassing stories about our childhood." When he got back on the phone, all he did was sigh. "I'm sorry."

[throughaphase]

"Oh, don't worry about it," she assured him. "You know what, it's a sign of a good brother-in-law that he'd help me out like that, even though there's less than zero chance I'd take him up on it."

[so_hawkward]

"Even though you are absolutely marrying down and I'm marrying up?" Clint asked, half-teasing.

[throughaphase]

"No, we're marrying right," Kitty said. "Also, we're both marrying awesome, too."