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Billy had been captured, and placed in prison. And now she was watching Cassie walk away from them. Leaving them to go get registered and join the other side. One by one their group was splintering apart because of this civil war, and it hurt, it really hurt. She barely noticed the clap of thunder all of the sudden, and being blinded by light, and falling.

She blinked, and noticed she had fallen in a field somewhere. There was a dirt road nearby, but seemed empty.

"...Where am I?" Still wiping her eyes a little from earlier tears.

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After the strange forest, Will has been exploring more and this time went down the road the other way, he still hasn't found a sword but is being cautious

The woman crying gets his attention but he can't help but be a little wary as he approaches,

"Lass, what's wrong?"

Kate was equally wary. Since he seemed like a civilian offhand, and she had to be obvious in her Hawkeye costume.

She sniffled, and wiped her eyes, "It's nothing...but where am I?" She couldn't have been captured again? Could she? Locked up like Billy?

His outfit is rather strange, medieval hose and boots with a modern t-shirt, bandages are poking out from under his sleeves and he carries himself with a stiffness born of pain,

"Kansas an na sure much more then that, gotten few clear stories since fell 'ere myself an tisna my 'ome."

Then he offers her a hand up with a slight grimace, his back has been hurting more since the fight with the spider.

Kate actually relaxed once she got a better look at him. Foreign accent, and the clothes. Didn't look like anybody she recognized.

"Wait, Kansas?" Stamford wasn't near here, but it was the Midwest still. More anti-superhero sentiment out here." She took his hand, and got up.

"We can't stay out here, somebody might see us. We have to hide now!"

He gives her a long look, "Tis na one out 'ere 'xcept the folks at the Cooper farm an 'alf o''em are mutants or Fae o'some sort, ye'll be safe there."

Will's too tired to worry about his own safety, he's still not sure yet that Kansas isn't in Faerie.

Kate relaxed a little more, "Some of the X-Men are here? ...Wait, which ones?" Could be still be some of Iron Man's Registered teams.

"And what do you mean Fae?" She was still nervous about being out in the open like this. Occasionally glancing around for SHIELD helicopters, or vehicles to show up.

"Guess so, dinna know all their names, Val an Marley from Toronto, Angelo, the red woman, also tis Toph an Roku who are somethin' called Benders an Tom who's a Rat."

He's heading along the road with some wariness too, but the farm isn't too far off, the skyscraper and castle come into view first,

"Ye know Fae, na sure if tis anyone who truly is but tis an odd movin' forest an feels like somethin' Fae would create to trick lost souls. Forgive me manners, I'm Will Scarlett o'Nottingham, was year o'our lord 1138 'fore fell 'ere."

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Kate relaxed some more. "Probably not then. SHIELD agents haven't been around, right?"

She eyed the buildings oddly, and almost missed his explanation and introduction.

"Actually I don't know Fae... Wait, you're who?? Seriously?"

"Na idea what Shield is, na seen anyone carin' one an aye, tis who I am."

He sounds more weary about saying that then anything else if he's some great hero, why does everything hurt so much.

"SHIELD. They're the ones who've been locking up any superheros who aren't registered. They already arrested me and our team once, and they know we escaped. I look too obvious like this now." Kate replied worriedly.

Will gives her costume a look and figures if it will help her relax and slowly with a good bit of pain pulls off his t-shirt and offers it to her.

The farm is approaching soon, but hopefully this will help her feel more sure, though it also means she'll see the bandages that cover his back and the solitary one on his chest,

"Ne'er 'eard 'em mentioned by anyone in this world, but this may 'elp ye feel safer."

She glanced at him with concern, and tried to push the shirt back toward him, "Wait, no, you don't have to do that. You're hurt. We should get inside, you shouldn't be out here like this."

She added, "My codename's Hawkeye. Though my friends call me Kate."

He gives a small, painful shrug,

"Nay, tis fine, been 'ealin' an canna stay inside fore'er, tis food in the kitchen."

Once they reach the Cooper settlement, he leads her to the main house, making sure she keeps the shirt and setting to work making sandwiches, he can do that be useful.

Kate glanced around the house as they headed inside, and blinked at the kitchen.

She then reached over to still his hand from what he was doing, "You don't have to do that. I'm still too tense to eat right now anyway."

Its a rather normal looking house, though the kitchen has quite a lot fruit in it and he does stop fiddling with the bandage on his wrist,

"Oh aye, just thought ye might be 'ungry is all."

She sadly shook her head, and quietly replied, "Thank you, but no. I..."

She closed her eyes, and moved her hand away. She found a seat to sit down, and placed her hands over her face. After a few moments, there was some quiet sniffling like somebody starting to cry, but trying to hide it. Or fight it.

He's not quite sure what to do but knows what he'd like someone to do if he felt like this and so comes over and puts an arm around her,

"I know."

Kate sniffled more, and then went to hug him carefully back.

"No, you don't know. It's horrible. One of my friends is in prison somewhere, and we don't know how to get him out of there. And now, Cassie, my best friend, she decided to join their side, and get registered. I knew she related to Iron Man, but I thought she understood the stakes. Our team's falling apart, and all of the sudden I'm out here. They need me, I have to get back there." It was less sniffling, and more crying now.

He just listens and then says quietly,

"'fore I came 'ere, 'ad spent three days bein' 'eld by the Sheriff, noose was round my neck an 'eard Robin's 'orn comin' to save me. Now I'm 'ere an useless an 'urtin'."

Kate glanced back at him with dismay at that, "Oh god... that's horrible." Still crying some, and trying to hug back very carefully.

"How do we leave? Is there anyway to call?"

"Tis folks 'ere who've fallen in from many worlds an places, dinna know o'anyone gettin' back to where they started."

He gently hugs back, it feels good to hug and isn't even aware that he's trembling. All the pain and hurt has been pushed down for so long, it feels like a wave.

"...What?" Kate replied with shock. She'd notice he was trembling, but now it was starting to sink in how far from home she really was.

"Oh god, my friends... my home, I can't leave them. They need me, I can't abandon them like this." She was starting to choke on the sobs threatening to emerge, and her own frame was shaking.

He has no soothing words since he won't lie and anyway he already let Robin down, might not have broken but got captured.

So instead he just holds her and trembles, he's not aware of the tears or pain in his eyes, he can at least hold her.

That seem to surprise her enough to choke back her own crying for the moment, and clung to him. She then started to stroke his hair, and make shushing sounds, still shaking herself.

Only once or twice has he allowed himself to feel or think about all that's been lost and happened and now he can't stop,

"Didna break."

Is all he can get out through the pain and tears.