Post by Revan on Oct 17, 2012 17:32:56 GMT -7
After hearing that she had started drinking again, Clint Barton decided to give Carol a phone call and perform his own intervention...
Hawkeye: *dials Carol's number*
Carol Danvers: -hrm- Hello?
Hawkeye: Carol? It's Clint.
Carol Danvers: Oh. Hi, Clint. What's up?
Hawkeye: How are you doing, Carol?
Carol Danvers: Oh, rainbows and sunshine! I think Disney is getting ready to sue me.
Hawkeye: No, I think that'd be Tigra, something about her singing the Circle of Life in front of some kids or something... No, seriously though... Natasha told me you'd started drinking again.
Carol Danvers: ...
Hawkeye: Yes, I AM gonna be that guy... Even if you've heard this five thousand times in the last week.
Carol Danvers: What of it?
Hawkeye: Carol, that thing in Texas was Ultron's fault you shouldn't beat yourself up over it.
Carol Danvers: You weren't there - you don't know what happened
Hawkeye: No, I wasn't but I heard... Carol you can't drown yourself in alcohol like that... what would happen to the world if Ca- Steve - what would have happened to the world if Steve had done that?
Carol Danvers: It wouldn't have. Steve knows how to control what he's doing better.
Hawkeye: What would have happened if everytime Steve screwed up, every time the villain won, he turned to alcohol? Sure, it doesn't work on him, but that's beside the point. Would the world be a better place for it?
Carol Danvers: Perhaps the world is a better place without me out there killing cities of people...
Hawkeye: Carol, you've saved billions more than you've lost. Without you, the world may not be here. So stop acting like it's a good idea for you NOT to be a hero because it isn't and it never WILL be a good idea!
Carol Danvers: That doesn't make up for what happened.
Hawkeye: No, it doesn't. It never will but you're killing more people NOT being out there.
Carol Danvers: Really helping wash away the guilt here...
Hawkeye: I'm not trying to wash it away, Carol. I'm telling you to stop beating yourself up over it. Every hero has guilt - LOOK AT SPIDER-MAN, did he quit? No, he didn't.
Carol Danvers: Spider-man never killed a city of people.
Hawkeye: If you feel so damn bad about that then go ask to be locked up. Don't drown yourself when you could be saving lives.
Carol Danvers: You know what? You weren't there. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you couldn't sleep through the nightmares - seeing a city of faces that were all killed by you - and the only way to get rid of them was to drink yourself unconcious, you might not be so quick to judge!
Hawkeye: What gives you the right to sit around drinking yourself into a stupor while guys like me and guys like Daredevil are fighting off symbiotes? WE COULD HAVE USED YOU IN THAT TUNNEL, CAROL! I nearly had to kill myself to do something that you could have done with one energy blast, but you had to call in sick that day, didn't you?
Carol Danvers: ... Go to hell. -click-
Hawkeye: Love you too *click*