Tali lay on the couch, upside down her eyes staring straight ahead unblinking, until finally her arm snapped out pointing at the other across and under the coffee table in the same position.
"You blinked!" she exclaimed, rolling off of the couch and grinning triumphantly as her staring partner flipped over and sat on the couch.
"I did not, you're imagining things," Clint replied but it was with a grin of his own.
"No, I saw you, when the door closed your eyes flicked to it, it's natural for you to blink every time your eyes move, you lose!" she said grinning her face off.
"How do you know that?" he asked, raising an eyebrow, wondering why she would know something so obscure at such a young age.
"My best friend is a genius," she replied shrugging, Branden occasionally rattled off random facts that may have been relevant at the time, but Tali almost always remembered them all, just because, they could be useful, like in times such as this.
"Right, right, and he looks absolutely nothing like another genius with glasses we all know," he said, her lips twitched.
"You're supposed to be ignoring that, you know," she replied and Clint shrugged.
"I don't like ignoring things usually, I just pretend not to notice when I feel I need to," he replied and she grinned.
"Yeah, M-Miss Romanov said as much when I asked as a kid," she shrugged hoping he hadn't noticed her almost slip up. Of course he did, he just didn't mention it, he had other questions anyway.
"You asked? Why not ask me?" he pouted and she pursed her lips, looking at him for only a moment before she shrugged and looked away.
"Oh…" he said, well that was a downer. He'd come into the room to the girl laying as she had been, upside down with her feet on the headrest of the sofa, staring off into space. Just for the hell of it he'd mirrored her on the couch across from her and started an impromptu staring contest. She had smiled so widely, Clint hadn't known what to think.
"Yeah," she shrugged and then hopped up putting a smile back on, "Life goes on-well…shit that is the worst euphemism ever," she grumbled under her breath.
"I'll say," Clint snorted, "So, what takes me out? Is it a gun shot? Please tell me it's not a sniper, because that would just be insulting."
"No, it was an explosion, a very very big one, you ah…were sent in to try and stop it, but…well…" she shrugged, not making eye contact.
The truth was, Tali was a talented liar when she wanted to be, she had grown up around the God of Lies after all, but it was very hard to do it to the people that you had grown up with. Like Loki, or her mother, she'd never really gotten the chance to try it on Clint, all considering, but she really didn't feel like she should try, like it was wrong.
"Ah-huh," Clint replied and then shrugged again, "Well that's a long ways off, I hope," he added this time she rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, you have about…oh…I probably shouldn't say…" she shook her head, "Details and the future probably don't mix well."
"You're right, so you can't tell me who your mom is?" he asked and she gave him a look.
"If you don't know already I take back all the nice things I've ever said about you," she said flatly. Clint tried very very hard not to, but he did. He opened his mouth and started laughing.
"Okay, okay! I'm sorry, I just wanted to see that face, wow, you two…" he shook his head, "It's kind of weird."
"Tell me about it," she murmured softly, but then cleared her throat, "So what do you do around here for fun?"
"Well…Tony and I are having a video game tournament," he shrugged and she grinned, it was almost evil.
"Bring it on."