I think that your choice-making has improved in the time I have known you. [Sure would've been hard for it to get worse!
And he always assumes teasing.] You have been in a coma for a very long time. You have never been this close to my level. [Which is not to say that she's close, just... closer.]
[That gets a little smile from her. There were some dark times in Marina. She'd like to think she's grown. Healed. It wasn't so much a character trait she'd always had so much as dealing with a lot of things she never had time to deal with back home and reacting without her usual coping mechanisms.]
Maybe when I was twelve? [Okay, she's just the worst.] Nat's pretty good. How's Fenris? I've never seen him fight.
[It's good progress, and sometimes it's good to acknowledge that progress even if it came about because of a kidnapping prison universe.]
Okay, yes, you were closer when you were twelve. [Look, he was always better with phasers than hand-to-hand combat back at the academy, he knows where he stands.] Fenris is somewhat less terrifying than Natasha... mostly, probably, because he's under the impression that I'm delicate. Tasha knows that Russians are innately durable.
Want me to give him a call and tell him not to hold back with you? [She never would. She's prepared to bubble wrap him if it comes to that, but she respects trying to get better and to be fair she doesn't really know how good he is. There must be some training with Star Fleet, right?]
Not today, thank you. Maybe later when life has been boring for longer than three consecutive days. [Little known fact: Pavel did undergo standard Starfleet training and fights better than the average nerd. That's still pretty awful when almost everyone around him is extremely experienced, ridiculously well-trained, working with superpowers, or some combination of those three.]
I wrote a star-mapping program, that was a little exciting. I bought three more books for the library and I ran out of vodka from the rock planet. [Somehow it sounds even more boring than it actually is when he says it out loud.] ...It wasn't very interesting without you at all.
You're the worst, Kitty. [The fact that he hugs her again after saying that makes it terribly unconvincing.] Unfortunately for me, you're also my favorite.
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