the lights are so bright but they never blind me
Summary: Yelena has a thing for strays and Kate can’t say no to her.
Notes: god, so many things to say about this one. i wasn’t planning on writing it at all, it started out as just a silly little idea with a friend of mine and before i knew it i was opening the doc and words were coming out.
so this one is for you, my beloved pepper. happy easter sunday/name day! i know you know how much you mean to me but i never get tired of saying how grateful i am to have you in my life, and how happy i am that i get to experience this whole new fandom with you. hope you enjoy this one as much as i’ve enjoyed writing it!
this work is brought to you with the lovely blessing of cinnamon rolo and my favorite dweeb. thanks guys <3
title’s from taylor swift’s welcome to new york
Rating: teen and up audiences
Kate trekked down the icy alley leading up to her apartment building with Lucky in tow, weariness setting deep in her bones.
As it turned out, Clint was right; being a superhero was hard. Between finishing up her last year of college, finding a job to keep herself financially afloat now that her mother’s assets had been frozen, and fighting crime, Kate barely had time to slow down and just be.
Sometimes, it felt like a blessing — being so busy and tired left her with little to no time to think about the entire shitshow with her mother, giving her a very convenient excuse to not write or visit her in jail.
In others, it felt daunting — aside from Lucky and the occasional phone call from Clint and Laura, Kate didn’t interact much with living beings that weren’t criminals, putting a serious dent in her already scarce social life. But right now her life was hard and dangerous, and she didn’t want to involve any more people in it that could, and would, get hurt because of her.
However, that didn’t mean she didn’t miss Grills and his cooking, geeking out with Missy over costumes, hell, even hanging out with her college friends, if she could even call them that; most of them started ignoring or avoiding her after her mother’s scandal, anyway.
It was lonely, and Kate had never dealt with negative emotions well.
Just as she was about to enter her building, a hissing thwip! reverberated across the empty street and she looked up in time to see Spider-Man swiftly swinging by. She knew she wasn’t the only superhero out there in the world, let alone in New York, but the fact that she hadn’t crossed paths with him in all the missions she had been on so far served only to further prove her point — that the life of a superhero was lonesome, and if she had known that beforehand, maybe she would have reconsidered the whole thing.
But she could still try and fool herself).
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