ambience includes audio of Yelena Belova from Marvel’s Black Widow and Disney+’s Hawkeye, fire crackling, rain outside, soft music playing on radio, and more! Listen on spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/4397z8BK9PhfdTbpDL6muC?si=d2cef58b5804498e
~~~the story~~~
After a long day of work, you’re excited to be back inside your New York apartment and relax. You close the door behind you and your body tenses at the sight of your old friend Yelena Belova, standing in your kitchen uninvited.
“Hi!” she says, lifting a pot, “I made macaroni if you want some.”
“What are you doing?” you take off your coat, hanging it on a kitchen stool. You move around cautiously, even though she didn’t appear to be armed.
“Well, I was starving and you took forever so I wanted to make food.”
Your heart squeezes. She hasn’t changed at all. But she can’t be here. She just can’t. It’s too much.
When you don’t move or say anything, she sets the pot down with a frown. “Are you really not hungry? That fight was sooo long,” she points at the food, “It’s really tasty. Really tasty.”
She begins rummaging through your drawers.
“Yelena, you can’t be here–”
“No…,” she says, turning, “You have one fork? That’s so weird.”
“I’ve got one fork, because I’m one person and I can’t be with–”
“This is not cutlery. This is not cutlery.”
You sigh out of frustration. She’s just not listening. She doesn’t want to. “I can’t do this, Yelena.” It’s too much seeing you after so long. You mean too much to me.
“That’s a lie also. Come on, take a fork. Eat. eat please, my daddy says it’s good for you.”
“Can Yelena Belova please stop for a second and listen to me?”
She blinks and waves her hand over the pot to move the scent. “She made some really good smelling macaroni.”
You take a deep breath. Very well. She wants to sit and eat. You obey. A few moments pass of you two eating out of the pot until you set your fork down and she asks, “Are you done? I go? I can put hot sauce on it?”
“Please.”
“Ugh, I love hot sauce. Yes!”
“Yelena, what are you doing here?”
“Well, it’s my first time in New York. Mhm, but it’s a business trip so time is limited. But I do want to see some things. I want to see the Empire State building, the new and improved Statue of Liberty, the Rockefeller Center…”
Your voice gets quieter, “Did you find him? Hawkeye? Did you kill him? Because you remember when I asked you not to. Because he’s a good man, that is the truth.”
“The truth is it doesn’t matter. We are defined by what we do, not by nice words.”
“And yes, he’s done bad things, but he regrets things. He’s a broken man, but he is just a man. Whatever you think of him–it’s one side to a story.”
“What is your story?”
“He saved my family–my world.”
“Did you ever wish for kids?” She’s changing the subject, “I want a dog.”
“Yelena, do you have anywhere to sleep tonight?”
She sighs and puts her chin down on the table. “I don’t know. I don’t really have anywhere to go back to, so I guess anywhere.”
“You can stay here,” you reach over and grab her hand to give it a squeeze and smile.
She squints at you. “You’re going to give me some big hero speech. I can feel it.”
“I don’t have to. I think you’ve already said it to yourself a million times. You’ve just got to listen to it.”
“That sounds like a shit load of work.”
You snicker and clean up, setting up a place for her on the couch. You spend the rest of the night cuddling on the cough, even though it breaks your heart to be so close to her after she rejected you so long ago. It hurts, but it doesn’t matter, because you would do anything for her.
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IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR?
happy one year anniversary! words could never fully explain how much you guys mean to me and how much you've all helped me through some hard times. thank you for listening and for being patient and gracious with me. i love you all so much. can't wait to see where we all go next. happy pride, happy one year--mwah mwah
~honey-lou
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