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graveyard meet cute
that au where nat is still alive
midnight texts | aprongate 2k21 | injuries | halloween | new year's eve | holiday party | pre-thunderbolts
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pacific rim
graveyard meet cute
that au where nat is still alive
midnight texts | aprongate 2k21 | injuries | halloween | new year's eve | holiday party | pre-thunderbolts
other aus
pacific rim
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Nah. I’ve still got a place downtown. Barely furnished, [ and that was probably a common point of contention with his therapist, the way he was still avoiding putting down roots, ] so it wouldn’t be hard to move. But.
[ But those skeletons of rooms: the awareness that they would be walking around inside the shell of something that had once meant something, not a slapdash group cobbled together under false pretenses, filling impossibly big shoes. Captain America’s plucky boy sidekick and a budget Widow. They didn’t even have the real current Cap; the real Cap was pissed off and rightfully so, considering the disgraced imposter Bucky would have to be rubbing elbows with in the tower —
He tries bravely for a pop culture reference, a vague stab in the dark, a joke he’d heard Mel say once: ]
Not sure if I wanna be on a team with Temu Captain America.
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[ she could either a) psychoanalyze him right here right now where jerry and george and elaine sat, or b) make a passing snarky comment on his barely furnished apartment. except she's not one to talk, because she can relate a little too hard to that and that's opening another can of worms. she's just stays at fancy hotels (on valentina's dime, of course) to avoid staying at their new headquarters— that she spends a lot of time at anyway.
it's not so bad, really. except when she remembers that natasha spent a lot of her time in this very building while yelena was out carrying out hits under chemical subjugation.
she's not spiraling at this very moment because of his company, and... you know what? his joke gets an earnest laugh out of her. she even snorts. ]
Did Mel show you what Temu is? [ in between laughs, some coffee. ] Don't order from there. IKEA is better.
[ she shakes her head because she can't believe she's about to say what she's about to say: ] Walker isn't so bad when he isn't the one in charge, you know.
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except, also, a nagging thought keeps nipping at him like an intrusive memory. He remembers the fight with the Sentry, each of them flinging themselves helplessly at the (man, entity, whatever Bob had become by then) only to be batted away like gnats. Right when the Sentry had turned his bored, destructive attention to Bucky, then John Walker had been the one to leap out in front of him, shield up to take the blow instead, protecting James Buchanan Barnes and sending both of them crashing into the penthouse wall.
You could almost even say he jumped on the grenade.
So he tries to bury his bitterness behind another sip of equally-bitter black coffee. He’s doing a very good job of sulking on his side of the booth, but he usually can’t help but lighten up a little whenever Yelena’s around. Her attitude’s infectious. ]
Has everyone else moved in already? Am I the only straggler?