|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 7, 2016 16:49:40 GMT -7
Teresa smiles behind her glass when Nat teases her. In honesty she actually does need the drink. That dancing definitely had been hot. Then of course Bucky speaks Russian and it sends her over the edge and she needs more of the drink.
She pushes her eyebrow together when Barton speaks and looks over to see that he is looking at Nat and so she looks over at her too and Teresa can't help but raise her eyebrows this time. She grabs her drinks once more and lets the conversation go on around her about Nat's boyfriend.
"If she does have a boyfriend, she's not going to tell any of you" Lexi said and looked around at the guys before rolling her eyes. She grabbed her own glass and then smiled down at Nat. In honesty it was like having brothers, and she definitely knew what it was like to be teased by guys. James and Jace had done it all the time, in the end she just ignored them and didn't give into them. But these guys definitely were different from her brothers.
"Well I reckon it would be cute" Teresa said and smiled down at Nat, "You know if you had a boyfriend" the smile not sliding off her lips as she leaned back in her seat once more. "But of course.. you don't" she said in a tease before finishing up her drink.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 7, 2016 17:04:58 GMT -7
Nat smiles a little, but only a little; hiding it behind the rim of her glass as she shakes her head. "I'm sure it would be, if it were true." She murmurs in reply to Teresa, before sipping at her martini once more. "Fortunately, it's not."
"The morning after the Christmas Party says otherwise..." Barton clears his throat, clearly a jab, and downs the rest of his drink. Nat turns her eyes back to glare at him, one brow curved upwards and her stare dangerous.
"Oooh!" Sam lets out, perhaps a little too excited by the prospect of his conversation. He leans forward, elbows resting on his knees, and looks with rapt interest between Barton and Nat, who haven't broken eye contact in about a minute. But Barton is smiling, just enough to make it entirely possible that this is all a practical joke. But Bucky knows better. He sits forward slightly too, blue eyes fixed on Natalia's profile. "C'mon, Nat, you gotta give us a little something. We don't ever get dirt on you." Sam prods, as charmingly and innocent as ever. Nat rolls her eyes and sets the bottom of her glass on her thigh. "Is he an agent? Is he cute." Sam asks, a little comically, his brows bouncing suggestively.
"Yavlyayutsya li oni opasny?" Bucky asks in turn, but his voice is far less amused than everyone else's.
Nat's eyes catch on his.
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 7, 2016 17:16:05 GMT -7
Teresa snorts at the direction that this was going in. "Regulations state that no SHIELD agents are allowed to be together" she said out of nowhere and then clears her throat before knocking back a shot that was left on the table. "I mean if he was an agent" she shrugged up a shoulder before looking around once more.
Lexi raised her eyebrow at Teresa before shaking her head, of course she would say something like that. Her eyes then move over to Bucky when he speaks and she looks between Nat and Bucky and clears her own throat. "I'm going for more drinks" she said out loud and stands up. The last thing she wants to be is in the middle of this. She moves out of the spot and walks down towards the bar, plus more drinks would make everything better.
Teresa looks between both Nat and Bucky and for some reason she's never seen anything intense, not even when Caesar and Emily are looking at each other, trying to say something with their eyes rather than their words but of course that wasn't anything to do with her either. She finishes up lexi's drink and watches as the dark haired woman moved out of where they're sat and down towards the bar, wondering if she needs help right about now.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 7, 2016 17:41:41 GMT -7
Each one of them pauses to look in Teresa's direction at the sudden outburst; listing off a regulation that most agents don't even know, let alone pay attention to. Barton's brows raise high in surprise, and a short moment of silence follows.
"Luckily," Nat says suddenly, drawing attention back away from Teresa. "This agent boyfriend you've all dreamed up for me doesn't exist, so there's no regulation to be broken." She smiles deviously, and leans back in her seat, glass of martini lifting to her red lips. "Not that regulation really matters in SHIELD." Natalia comments under her breath, before drinking the rest of the vodka filling her glass. She swallows it down and leans forward to set it upon the table.
"Well I know for a damn fact that you don't own a New York Giants t-shirt, but you showed up at my apartment in one." Barton shrugs his shoulders dramatically, looking at Nat like he's got her in the bag. Nat pauses, her hand still hovering around her glass, a flicker of something unreadable flashing across her eyes as she looks quickly towards Barton.
"O-oh this is getting interesting." Sam grins.
"Giants?" Bucky asks, furrowing his brows a little, a slightly disbelieving smile tugging at one corner of his mouth. "Really?" Nat slowly slides her eyes towards him, and sits back in her seat. "Pereryv s nimi. Eta komanda yavlyayetsya uzhasnym."
"We all can't get lucky and sleep with a Patriot." Natalia retorts snarkily. Sam almost spits out his drink, his hand flying to cover his mouth before he can.
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 7, 2016 17:52:32 GMT -7
Teresa raises her eyebrows when they all look at her and she clears her throat. Of course she would be the one to almost spill her SHIELD secret right here in the club but luckily Nat saves her and she can't help but smile in her direction. The last thing she needed was for everyone to find out right here and now but luckily it looked like they weren't going to.
She looks between Bucky and Nat and bites down on her lip. This definitely was intense and was about to say something when Lexi turned up with more drinks.
"Oh please tell me you're not still interrogating Nat on her boyfriend" Lexi rolled her eyes and then grabbed a shot glass, there was enough for possibly three each. She likes her drink and once she got started, she actually didn't stop. She knocked the shot back and then looked at Nat. "If she has one then it's great, if not then don't keep going on at her about it" she nods and then looks at Teresa. A smile pulling at her lips. "Let's go dance" she said and nudged her head towards the dance floor.
"Hell yes" Teresa said straightaway, she wanted to get away from this. She knocked a shot back and then stood up and made her way towards Lexi before the two of them disappeared into the dance floor once more. Letting the beat of the music carry them away again.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 7, 2016 18:15:25 GMT -7
"Yes, let's dance." Nat replies, rising swiftly to her feet.
"I'll sit this one out, thanks." Barton replies, trying his hardest not to laugh at the present circumstances.
Nat flashes him a silently angry look. "Good. I wasn't talking to you." She holds out her hand for Bucky instead, and nudges her head towards the dance-floor, a strand of red hair catching at the corner of her lips. Barton's mouth closes with a click, and Sam hides his absolute glee behind a fist. Bucky rises to his feet and takes her hand into his metal one, and Nat leads him out with her towards the dance-floor.
"On oznachayet takzhe." Bucky muses, a small smile lingering around the edges of his mouth as he guides Nat around to face him once more. His palms skim down to her sides, and her fingers come to a rest around the back of his neck, brushing across his hair.
"He's an ass." Nat replies, matter-of-factly, not even sounding mad about it as she glances briefly towards their little table. Her grey eyes return to Bucky's face, and she cocks a brow upwards. "Not like you to defend him."
"Not like you to hide something from me." Bucky retorts, arching a brow right back at her. Nat exhales slowly through her nostrils, they're bodies swaying to the music without them even thinking about it. He leans his face towards her, blue eyes looking over her face in a slow blink. "Doveryayete li vy ikh?" He asks, voice low, but she still hears him over the loud music. Her fingers scratch lightly at the back of his neck, her mouth twisting slightly to the side.
"Nyet."
"No vy, kak oni?" Bucky presses his brows close.
"Enough." She murmurs, shrugging a shoulder upwards.
"That's not like you."
"I'm not the same girl you fell in love with, James." Nat muses, a hint of humor in her voice.
"No," Bucky replies, knowingly, "But I still know you." Nat glances away, the smile remaining vaguely. "Ne poranit'sya."
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 7, 2016 18:41:42 GMT -7
Once Teresa knows that the.. whatever it was was over at the table, she headed back, leaving Lexi to finish off dancing. She grabbed a drink from the table and knocked it back. "You know you need to have more fun Barton, you're like a rain cloud on a nice summer day" she huffed out and looked down at him, an eyebrow raised. "Live a little, get with the vibe, chill" she said and wasn't sure how else to say it. He pretty much needed to lighten up
She moved her hips to the music and then her hands went up in the air. God this music was amazing, it was definitely making her feel good and it was making all the stresses of SHIELD slip off. It's what she needed right now and she wasn't going to let anything get in the way. "Sam" she said and pointed at him with a smile before she slid into the seat next to him.
"I'm so glad that you are here" she said with a smile before nodding. "I know someone that you know too....Ooh" Teresa reached over and grabbed Lexi's drink. "She's not going to need that" a grin took over her lips as she knocked the drink back. She was completely wasted and was going to regret it in the morning but right now she really didn't care. That was tomorrow and this was tonight. She completely forgotten what she had first said and was now taken by the drink that Lexi had left behind.
Tonight Teresa was going to go with the flow and living in the moment especially when she wasn't sure when she would be able to do this with the rest of the team.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 7, 2016 19:02:37 GMT -7
Barton raises his brows at Teresa when she comes gliding back in search of drinks. She's drunk, drunker than Barton is sure he's ever seen her, and it's just one more surprise to add on to a night of surprises. "Did she just say chill?" Barton asks in a faux whisper, looking towards Sam.
"Yes, she did." Sam chuckles, lifting the rim of his glass to his mouth. "And you should, man. I thought Nat was going to kill you for a second." He admits, taking several long swallows of whatever cocktail this was. He can't even remember at this point. Barton grunts a little before grabbing a shot and throwing it back, clearly needing it out of all of them. Even Bucky is less uptight tonight. Teresa plops down into the seat next to him, and Sam releases a somewhat startled, "Oh," holding up his drink so it doesn't spill. Another smile stretches across his lips, as he turns his head to look at her. "Is that so?" He asks, but Teresa never finishes her statement. Instead, she just continues drinking, and Sam throws a trying-not-to-be-amused look over his shoulder towards Barton, who laughs a little.
"I have a feeling we're going to have two new players at our poker game at Stark Tower tonight." Barton comments, shaking his head and setting the empty shot glass down.
"I don't need to lose to two drunk girls, no thank you." Sam retorts.
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 7, 2016 19:26:13 GMT -7
Teresa looks between them and then bites on her lip. "Yes you really should chill Barton". More than anything he needed to have fun, get the drink down his throat and get up and have fun because he was missing out on a lot of stuff right now. Like dancing and having a good time, she definitely was. Lexi had been right, this definitely was fun and it meant living it up. God she wanted to take Barton's hand and pull him up and to the dance-floor but she was sure that he would object and that was the last thing she wanted. He had to come willingly or it wouldn't be much fun at all.
After all what was the fun in dragging someone up to the dancefloor when they didn't want to be there after all?
Teresa shakes her head. "Not for me, I can't play poker..." she then sits there and thinks about it "Or at least I'm not sure if I can" she nodded. She knew she was good at Monopoly. She has kicked Graeme's ass quite a few times and ended up with the real money at the end of it. It was fun and she definitely loved to rub it in about the fact that she had won the money, fair and square.
"Oh wow.." she said and pointed to Barton. "You actually laughed, I like it when you laugh. It's better than you being miserable" she grins at him before looking around for another drink.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 7, 2016 19:51:15 GMT -7
"Chill." Barton repeats in slight exasperation, shaking his head at the very fact that that word had come out of her mouth. Tony is the only person he's ever heard say that and say it seriously, and it's not something he's looking forward to hearing in every day conversation. Teresa really must be drunk. Though with the way she's putting away drinks, he's not all that surprised. "Well if you're not sure, it's probably better not to tempt fate." He admits, "Natalia will wipe the floor with you."
"Wish you would have told me that." Sam huffs, drinking more of his cocktail.
Barton reaches over to pat a sympathetic, sarcastic hand on Sam's shoulder. "Gotta learn somehow, man."
"Says the guy who can't go five minutes without making a bet."
"Wanna bet on that?" Barton smirks a little. Sam just raises a brow at him. His blue eyes shift back to Teresa, who looks both surprised and blissfully wasted. "Hey! I laugh!" He blurts out defensively. Sam scoffs a little. "Sometimes. I just...fuckin' hate clubs." He admits, looking towards the dance-floor once more.
"Oh, is that all?" Sam comments under his breath, knowingly. Barton looks back at him, and stabs a finger right towards his face.
"Don't start."
"C'mon, you and Bucky have been doing fine for months now. But one night out and you two are back at each others throats."
"We've been doing fine because we haven't been in the same room with each other for more than five minutes."
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 7, 2016 23:41:06 GMT -7
"You make it sound like it's a dirty word" she teased at Barton when he kept saying chill over and over. It was cute and funny at the same time. "Yeah, I don't think I'm going to tempt that fate" she huffed out a laugh and leaned back in her seat, after finishing about shot. This has got to be the first time she was blissfully drunk in a very long time. Usually she has a handle on everything but this was the first time in a while she's been able to come out with Lexi and she was definitely going to enjoy it.
Teresa looked at Barton when he got defensive and couldn't help but grinning at him. She looked up at the ceiling and closed her eyes, feeling the AC blowing the strands of her dark hair away from her face. It felt so amazing and she couldn't help the smile that pulled at her lips as it moved the strands.
"You still not getting on?" she asked seriously and opened her eyes to look up at him. She pushed her eyebrows together and then frowned slightly.
"I suppose not everyone gets on with him" Hell Lexi didn't but she was so happy to see him, it was funny and weird at the same time considering her cousin had been the one to tell her to stay away from Bucky and how he was definitely not worth her time. Her eyes moved towards the dance-floor and she bit down on her lip.
But Lexi and Barton didn't know he's been training her up since the incident at Stark Tower.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 8, 2016 19:34:44 GMT -7
"It's not dirty, but it's hilarious coming out of your mouth." Barton replies with a small grin. Honestly, there's a lot about tonight that's hilarious. Seeing Lexi so wasted that she called Bucky, of all people, was probably the cherry on top of this sundae, even if it resulted in getting dragged to a loud, obnoxious, pretentious club in the heart of Manhattan with overpriced drinks and shitty taste in music. Nat was even a little funny, even though Barton is pretty damn sure he's going to pay for his teases later. He shouldn't have brought it up, but also, how could he not? Nat having a boy toy is about the last thing he expected to come out of this New Year, and he's even more convinced now than he had been before.
But, still, there are things that are a little less funny.
Bucky topping the list. More specifically Bucky's sudden, newfound interest in Teresa that can be nothing but bad.
"He's..." Barton begins, eyes flicking to the side when he catches sight of Nat and Bucky returning, slight smiles on their faces. He's glad he at least missed that dancing session. "Somethin'." Barton finishes in a slight murmur, and drops his eyes to the last remaining shot.
He knocks it back, and feels it sliding all the way to his stomach.
"So we gonna get a name?" Sam asks, a little drunkenly, a smug smile stretching across his mouth as soon as Nat is within earshot.
She tucks a lock of curly red hair behind her ear, and then promptly flips him off.
"I'll take that as a no." Sam chuckles a little. "Lucky bastard, whoever it is. If there is." He tips his head in a slight bow, and Nat gives a crooked little smirk as she sits back down.
"Flirting with me now, fly-boy?" She teases a little, Bucky clearly having put her back into a good mood. Bucky takes a seat right next to Teresa again, and Barton pretends like it doesn't bug him.
"Just sayin'..." Sam replies, holding his hands up innocently. "I'd like to shake the man's hand, is all."
"Like she's ever going to bring him around to meet us." Barton snorts, knowing that for a fact.
"I know right." Sam laughs loudly, shoulders shaking as he reaches over to five Barton a slightly weaving fist-bump.
"You're right about that." Natalia murmurs under her breath, glancing momentarily back towards the dance-floor. "What do you say we find a better venue?" She asks, looking back to the others and arching a brow.
"I think the children need to sleep it off." Bucky comments, finishing off his whiskey and nudging his head towards the trio, minus the missing Lexi, who are all giggly and drunk off their asses. Nat and Bucky are the only ones even somewhat sober.
"I think you're right." Nat clucks her tongue in amusement.
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 10, 2016 3:19:51 GMT -7
Teresa can't help but laugh, more than anything she thought it sounded hilarious to her too but who was she kidding? He really did need to chill and telling him so many times definitely wasn't going to make that happen, even though she wished it did.
She looks up when she saw Nat and Bucky returning back to the table and smiled at them, although she was pretty sure her smile was all teeth thanks to her being drunk out of her head. She smiled, softer this time, at Bucky when he sat back beside her and then put her attention back on Sam and Barton.
She reached into her purse and grabbed her phone to check the time, it was definitely late, before she put the phone back into her purse and looked up at the others once more.
Teresa raised her eyebrow as she waved Sam reaching over to give Barton a fist bump. "God it's like watching teenagers" she huffed out and then shook her head before laughing herself. As
As soon as she caught the comment about sleeping it off she actually agreed but she wasn't looking forward to the killer headache the next morning, after all she definitely wasn't like Lexi. It seemed like headaches didn't actually affect her and it made Teresa feel jealous. "Sleeping it off sounds good" she admitted with a nod and then looked up to see Lexi moving back to their table. "Better venue? Plaza?"
"Noo" Lexi shook her head. "There is someone staying in the room tonight, some big hotshot" she waved her hand dismissively. Then looked around the table to see all the drinks were gone and then frowned.
"I can see if Graeme can come and pick us up if you want?" Teresa got her cell back out and looked at the time once more. "Oh, maybe not he's probably either working the night shift or he's in bed" she cleared her throat and looked back at Lexi.
|
|
|
Post by Ray on Feb 10, 2016 17:57:46 GMT -7
"Well," Barton drawls out, sitting forward to rest an elbow upon his knee. The alcohol finally hit him, Bucky guesses, and hit him hard considering the slow way he blinks and the sloppiness of the grin that pulls at one corner of his mouth. Good. He's always more entertaining when he's drunk. Less of a douche. "I do believe that there's a particular tower in this particular city that a particular someone has keys to." Barton arches a brow suggestively at Sam, who chuckles a little to himself. "Or...I guess someones." Clint quickly tags on, motioning with a hand vaguely towards Bucky. "Or we could go to Nat's place." He comments in finality with a vague, less enthusiastic shrug.
"Why my place?" Nat asks, raising her brows at him. "You live closer."
"My place is a shithole."
"At least we agree on something." Bucky murmurs, rubbing a hand lightly at his jaw.
"All for Stark Tower?" Sam asks, throwing a hand up in the air. Bucky, Nat, and Barton all raise their hands in virtual unison, eyes turning towards Lexi and Teresa.
|
|
|
Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 10, 2016 18:49:58 GMT -7
Teresa watches Barton and can't help but grin to herself. He was drunk and it was fun when he was. He was more looser, he laughs more and for that she's so thankful for the alcohol. She grabs her purse off the table and puts the strap over her shoulder so that it rested at her side and looked around at the others, even though she had a hard time keeping her concentration on a single person. It's a good thing she didn't drive when she was like this, her concentration would be shot to pieces.
She snorts at what Bucky murmurs and looks down. Teresa actually hasn't been to Barton's place for a while, in honesty not since she found out she was dating the woman from Stark Tower but also because she's been working with SHIELD.
Teresa watches as they took a vote and then all their eyes turned towards them. "Hell you know I'm down" she said and raised her hand up.
Lexi smiled. "I can finally see Stark Tower" she mutters and then puts her hand up in the air. "Plus we don't really have anywhere to go tonight anyway" she grinned a bit sheepishly.
"And there is that" Teresa laughed before looking at the others.
|
|