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079. Handstand

Summary:

Handstand. "What?" Kate asks. "I like winning."

"If I lost, I died, so I also like winning."

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Kate comes home to find Yelena going through the display case of Kate’s ribbons, trophies, and plaques.

“Come on!” Kate yells. “Just because you can break in doesn’t mean you have to!”

“Hello, Kate Bishop,” says Yelena. “You are very accomplished for a bourgeois American girl. Fencing, archery, ballet… tap dance, I would like to see this, please… gymnastics. Tae-kwon-do, karate, judo… not bad. You should try krav maga next. It’s very violent, lots of fun.”

“My mom liked me to be busy,” Kate says.

Yelena holds up a gymnastics trophy. “Which Avenger inspired this passion?”

Kate shrugs. “Your sister.”