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Sam took great delight in frequently asking 'are we nearly there yet?' as they travelled. Then his attention was rather sharply drawn by all the snow and ice around San Francisco.

Then his attention was even more sharply drawn by the sudden storm that picked up, tossing them around. Their landing was ... rather rough. They hit a tree, among other things.

Twenty minutes later, Sam is shivering from the cold as he inspects the engine of the car.
"Why is everything so cold here?" It is, indeed, very cold. San Francisco appears to be not only utterly wrecked, but also entirely deserted and covered in snow (almost up to Sam's knees) and frost. After a moment's staring at the engine. "Guys, we're going to need a bunch of new parts for this thing."

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"And what a momentous failure that would make this trip." Sam grumbles, before muttering something under his breath and puffing out a plume of glowing gold smoke. It twists, curls and gathers around him before fading. "'S better. Warmer. For me, at least."

"Aye, well, we can look for people while we're searchin' for parts, each take a direction?"

"Couldn't bring enough for the whole class, huh?" Kate dryly asked.

She added, "Might as well, be warmer to keep moving rather than just standing around here."

She pointed in one direction, "I'll head this way, south. Meet back here in a hour or so?"

"Trying not to overexert myself." Sam replies, lightly. "You'd be more displeased with me if I coughed blood up onto your coat."

He pointed in another direction.
"I'll go this way, then. If anybody gets in trouble ... Well, yell. Loudly. Very loudly."

"Right, I'll 'ead that way. Keep safe."

Then he pulls his jacket closer and contemplates hugging or doing something to Kate again but decides against it.

She nodded, and there was a brief glance to Will more before she started walking south. Keeping to move helped warm her slightly. Just hoped not to get frostbite out here.

It isn't too long until Kate crosses paths with a rather hard done by family. Or, at least, the remains of one.

There's an old woman, wrapped up in as many layers as possible, clutching a basket in one hand and shivering. She's probably aged more in the past few months than she has in the past twenty years - She's very clearly had a lot of hard times.

Next to her is a little boy, in so many layers he almost can't be seen. His face looks rather sunken, and he keeps sneezing and coughing.

The old woman looks rather shocked to see Kate.

A sight she recognized easily from her work at the shelters. Kate slowly approached them, and brought her hands up.

"It's ok. Not going to hurt you. I'm one of the good guys. I can help you."

"Oh, my dear, how on Earth did you get here?" The old woman is shuffling out of one of her coats to drape over Kate's shoulders. "You must be freezing."

"Oh, thank you very much. I'd offer you some food, but we're mostly out. My friends been traveling out here to get supplies. Is there any other way I can help you?"

"Oh, food isn't a problem. We have vegetables and fruit. We grow them inside to stop the frost from killing them." The old woman says, quickly. As the boy starts to wander away, she clamps a hand over his shoulder. "Don't wander, stay close. Are you hungry, dear?"

"A little. But I wouldn't want to impose."

"You wouldn't be imposing." The old woman rummages in her basket, eventually producing a red apple. "Here. Fresh from the food facilities to the South."

She smiled, and accepted it.

"Thank you. Are there stores nearby as well?"

She then took a bite, chewed and swallowed it. ...Funny, didn't remember apples being so sweet.

Neither the old woman nor the child answer. Instead, they shift and shimmer into glowing, humanoid shapes, which flutter around Kate and giggle before vanishing away.

The wind picks up, the gentle snowfall becoming a blizzard as frosty shackles form from thin air about one of Kate's wrists.

There's a sled, drawn by white deer, coming down the street. We can safely presume that it isn't carrying Santa.

What the hell? She blinked, dammit, they must have poisoned her. Maybe something psychotropic?

Felt strange like her head was swimming a little, and she struggled against the shackle.

"Come back and fight!" She yelled even as she felt her feet start to move out.

Toward the sled.

A tall, slender figure steps out of the sled. Pale-skinned, pale-eyed and pale-haired, dressed in white fur and carrying a silver mirror in one hand.

She doesn't speak. She silently waits for Kate to step into the sled.

Who? Some kind of witch maybe? Kate continue to struggle, but her feet continued moving forward. With a free hand she was able to toss the bow away. She didn't expect to be found, but maybe tossing away something personal... Hawkeye's bow, maybe they'll get the message of danger.

She balefully stared back at her, blue eyes fiery with anger. Bad enough being captured, but whatever this was... it was a lot worse.

Even still, she found herself calmly stepping into the sled anyway.

The woman steps back into the sled, sitting down next to Kate.

The sled's driver - A rather dimunitive, green and warty thing, with quite sparkly insect wings - gives the reins a flick. The sled starts moving once more.

An hour passed and Kate didn't return, Will went searching where she had been.

In time he finds her bow and nothing else. He shouts and yells into the snow, digging and searching for her, not caring at the pain it brings to his wounds.

He doesn't want to go back to Sam yet and just holds her bow for a while staring at the snow and wishing there was something to hit.

He doesn't need to go back to Sam. Sam goes looking for him before too long.

"Will?" There may be a hand settling on Will's shoulder.

Will looks up blinking and shows Kate's bow,

"She's been taken by somethin', wouldna just leave this. 'ave to find 'er, na one is to 'urt 'er."

"We'll find her. First we need to find out who took her, though."

"Oh aye, I know, canna see any tracks, like she's just gone."

"Did you see any people while you were looking for parts? Anybody that could've kidnapped her?"