hawkeyekate | Back to New York for another visit

Will doesn't say anything just slips his own hand into Kate's and squeezes it quite tightly as they head down the stairs and outside.

When they get outside, he's quiet and watches the girl, wishing he had something of use to say.

In time as the minutes stretch onward, he starts to sing a slow, gentle song his mother always sang to him of darkness and losing your way in a great forest but finding your way home in the end.

It did seem to help, and the little girl calmed down. Clearly liking the song.

It wasn't much longer that they heard the sirens and a couple of police cars pulling up in front of the building, while they waited around the side of it.

Kate gently urged her ahead, "Go on, they can help you now."

"Help me see Mommy and Daddy again?"

"That's right, go on ahead."

She smiled, and then hugged them both around the waists briefly.

"Thank you! And you sing pretty, mister!" She then ran off toward the police, and there was already an officer hurrying over to help her.

Kate quietly said, "We need to get out of here before they find us. Be asking too many questions. Let's go," She then tugged his hand so they run off the other way.

He gives the girl a small smile, "God go with ye, lass."

Then he follows Kate around the back to find someplace where they won't be seen.

They walk for a while just to be safe, he's not sure where they're going, but he hasn't let go of her hand.

When they finally get far enough away, the adrenaline wears off, and Kate just collapsed onto a doorway step. She then started to cry from pent up emotions for the past few hours, her head in her hands.

As soon as she stops and starts to cry, his arms are around her and he's gently running a hand through her hair,

"Shh, love, ye're safe an so's that lass."

She just cried for a few more minutes, her whole body shaking. She clung back to Will tightly.

"I'm sorry... please don't go. I've just been confused, I'm sorry."

"Shh, will ne'er leave ye 'less ye ask me to."

He hugs her just as tightly, finally lifting her face and kissing her tears away,

"I love ye, Kate."

"I love you, too," She murmured back, and just clung to him for a moment longer. Sniffling as the tears finally stopped.

"...God, some date, huh?" she weakly commented after a few more minutes, and rubbed her eyes some more.

He traces her face, wiping away the rest of her tears and kissing her face again,

"Tisna o'er yet, love. We'll find a way to make it better, promise. Now can ye stand?"

Kate nodded, and slowly went to stand up. Slightly shaky still, but she just took some deep breaths to try to calm and center herself again.

Still had a tight grip on Will's hand.

"Now ye're goin' to show me someplace that ye 'avena been to since ye were a lass an that makes ye smile, aye?"

He gives her hand a squeeze and her a gentle kiss on the lips while he dares a smile.

Kate then brightened at that and kissed him back this time, "Well, it has been a few years... And it's usually crowded. But you should see it. That, and there's another large toy store right by there with a ferris wheel inside."

She then tugged his hand, and there was a cab coming down the road. She flagged it down, and said to the driver, "FAO Schwartz please."

The brightening makes him smile a lot as does her kiss,

"Dinna think I've e'er been in a toy store."

In the cab he moves his arm so its around her waist.

Kate just stroked his hair some, and gave a brief look back at the driver who just glanced through the rear view at them both.

"Hey... aren't you?"

Kate simply replied to him, "Yes, and there's an extra 400 hundred if you don't mention it to anyone."

"Lady, for 400 bucks, I'd drive you wherever the hell you wanted to go and back."

She gave a smile at that, and then said to Will, "Well, you'll get to see both."

Will just smiles and moves under her hand,

"Would like that an 'rhaps can get somethin' to eat too. Were talkin' 'bout goin' to a show or somethin' later, do ye still wish to?"

"We could. There's any number of plays and musicals out there now to see. And you ever had an ice cream sundae before?"

Thinking they could get a really oversized one designed to be split for two.

"Aye, maybe once in the Bar, but ne'er 'ad one with ye."

"There's a place uptown where you can get a great big one for sharing."

They reached their stop finally. She ended up giving the driver 500 instead, which he appreciated, and briefly asked if she wanted a chauffeur.

"I think we'll be ok, thank you very much."

She then gripped Will's hand and lead him inside FAO Schwartz first with the over-sized singing and moving sculpture in the main entrance area was welcoming all to the world of toys.

Will's eyes go very, very wide at the store and he has to dodge out of the way of two four year old girls laughing and twirling,

"So big."

Oh boy, here we go with serious culture shock.

"Yes, a lot of stores in the city are big like this with several floors. Uh, Will? Have you ever been on an elevator before?"

Its culture shock combined with omg toys, "Nay, ne'er 'fore, but ye're with me."

"All right, remember that movie we saw? It's not that big a deal. Just like a little room, only it moves."

She gently tugged him along, though there were another pair of children running past near them. One was a little girl in a pink dress with a toy tiara on her head, the other a boy with a toy bow, and a green cap on his head.

"But I wanted to be Robin!" The girl exclaimed.

"Nu-uh, you can't be Robin Hood, you're a girl! You have to be Maid Marian."

"But I don't wanna, I wanna a bow too! I wanna be Hawkeye!"

The boy scoffed at that, "Dur... Hawkeye was a boy too."

Only for the girl to triumphantly go as they continued running around, "Nu-uh, there's a girl called that now too! I saw her on the news."

"Fine, but I still get to be Robin Hood!" The boy said as they hurried into another section of the toy store, their voices eventually fading into the background noise of shoppers and store workers, and the various sounds of thousands of devices and toys.

Kate watched them go, and quietly said, "...Well, that was seriously surreal."

Edited 2007-12-28 17:45 (UTC)

As he watches the children, Will relaxes and pulls Kate into his arms, kissing her ear. There's a fair bit of awe and amazement in his voice since he'd been told that children played as Robin's men but to see it,

"Tis somethin' I ne'er thought I'd see."

She bit her bottom lip to hide the soft noise at the kiss.

She then added as she turned her head toward him, "Told you you're all famous."

Not mentioning that she was to some degree already, even before she joined the Young Avengers. She then lead them over to the clear elevator to head upstairs to some of the other floors.

"I think we can skip the Barbie section, but there's other areas that are good instead."

"Aye, but to 'ave children doin' that, used to play at Arthur's knights when I was a lad."

He follows her up, moving from a hug to just holding her hand, the elevator gives him a slight pause but he follows her in.

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