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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 14:17:35 GMT -5
"...I know," Bucky finally said, eyes narrowing as he glanced over at Loki, and then looked back to the blonde in front of him, "I read about you, in a museum." And that was all he had done. The man was familiar to him, but he had no... he had no real memory of the man. He knew that they had been friends though, he had been his Bucky, but now... he wasn't Bucky Barnes anymore.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 14:53:12 GMT -5
Loki was expecting more than what he had just seen. Bucky apparently knew him, and yet he didn't show any real excitement. Either that, or he had a weird way of portraying it. But the god didn't say anything, he just continued to watch.
Damn HYDRA... thought Steve. They had screwed everything up. Why couldn't the world be without problems? Hadn't they learned anything from the past? "I need to take you back to headquarters." he tried to keep his words as non-offensive as possible. Bucky knew him, but he was still unpredictable under this current state. He could either try to flee or attack if he didn't want to follow instructions. "And you," he beckoned with a finger to Loki. "You can come with us."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 15:04:17 GMT -5
"S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters?" Bucky asked warily, glancing over at Loki as Steve addressed him. He didn't want to go there, anywhere but S.H.I.E.L.D. He was afraid they'd hurt him, try to get information out of him...
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 15:13:38 GMT -5
"No. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s gone." Steve said. "Avengers headquarters."
Loki almost choked, Avengers headquarters? He would be dead for sure if he came. He would just have to go with Bucky and Steve, and then get out of there as fast as possible without them noticing. That place was even worse than being captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 15:20:17 GMT -5
"Avengers," Bucky said simply, glancing at Loki again, before saying simply with a small shrug, "alright." As long as they didn't put him in a cage, but what was he going to do with Loki...
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 16:02:22 GMT -5
Now, he needed to get these two back to base as soon as he could, and privately without drawing the further attention of the public. He would bring them back to his place tonight to recover and answer questions. And in the morning, they'd fly out to Manhatten. "Let's go." he held out the sunglasses to Bucky, he'd need them more than Steve did to hide himself.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 16:32:24 GMT -5
Bucky hesitantly took them, gestured to Loki with his head, and began to walk. His heart was beating, and a little voice in his head just kept... it just kept egging him on to hurt Steve. He didn't want that. Steve was good. Steve... Steve had been his friend. He was not a threat.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 19:51:51 GMT -5
Steve had to keep his guard up, just for safe measures. He led Bucky and the other guy out of the alley. They'd have to walk back. He didn't feel it was a good idea to call a taxi. At least it was only a few blocks away. He walked slowly so that they could catch up. Steve wished it could be like old times, where Bucky would walk beside him, and they could talk and laugh over a drink. Things were different now. He wasn't the same man he knew a long time ago. "You okay, Buck?" He wanted to put his hand on his shoulder, but now was not the right time to do so. Steve would get his friend back, he just had to.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 20:38:02 GMT -5
Steve had to keep his guard up, just for safe measures. He led Bucky and the other guy out of the alley. They'd have to walk back. He didn't feel it was a good idea to call a taxi. At least it was only a few blocks away. He walked slowly so that they could catch up. Steve wished it could be like old times, where Bucky would walk beside him, and they could talk and laugh over a drink. Things were different now. He wasn't the same man he knew a long time ago. "You okay, Buck?" He wanted to put his hand on his shoulder, but now was not the right time to do so. Steve would get his friend back, he just had to. Bucky didn't walk by him. He walked a bit in front of him, not quite looking at him, but glancing out of the corner of his eye. "Fine," he finally said, shrugging. Other than hungry, scruffy, and smelly, oh, and homeless, yes, he was fine. At least he wasn't dead, or with HYDRA. Ugh, HYDRA. He had been worried for a moment when he'd heard the helicopter that it had been them.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 20:49:52 GMT -5
Steve didn't expect much of an answer. The fact that he'd gotten a bit out of him made him feel at least a little luck. They walked past many abandoned shopfronts. Well, not really abandoned, just closed down for the night. But he was feeling hungry, and tired after a long day. One small pizzeria loomed ahead of them, it looked like one of the few places that hadn't closed yet. The neon lights of the sign that hung down in front of the door buzzed in the air. He opened the door, its glass panels smudged and in need of a good cleaning. "Come on. In here."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 20:58:30 GMT -5
Bucky paused, warily, glancing at Loki almost like he wanted assurance, but then heading inside at Steve's prompting. A bell jingled, nearly making him jump, but he managed to still himself as he waited inside the door, head down and chin tucked into his coat, eyes fixated on the toes of his muddy, street stained boots. He could feel his heart pummeling his chest again, and he clenched his fists, shutting his eyes. He felt like he was going to have a meltdown right then and there, but he took a deep breath, and opened his eyes again. He was fine.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 21:35:15 GMT -5
While Bucky and Loki sat down. Steve quickly ordered a pepperoni pizza slice for them each, and some plums for Buckyit was easy and simple. One of the pizza guys had just pulled one out fresh from the oven. He sliced it up and placed three on paper plates, giving them to him over the counter. Steve exchanged a few dollars and gave one plate to each of them. Loki sat at a different table, with his hands clasped together and elbows on the table. He didn'the touch his pizza. "Mortal food." He grumbled. "Disgusting." Steve sat down in front of Bucky, scooting his chair in as it screeched over the tile floor. "I know you don't want to talk..."
I'm a little slow right now because I'm in the middle of another test. But it's all fine.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 21:53:36 GMT -5
[[ #givebuckyhisplums and it's fine! ]]
Bucky glanced over at Loki as he heard the mumble, but looked away again, closing his eyes softly, hands folded in front of the plate that contained the pizza slice. Steve was talking, talking about talking. Yes, he was right, Bucky didn't feel like saying much of anything, so he actually picked up the slice and took a whopping bite. It wasn't good, but he said anyways, after he'd put it back down, "Thank you, Steve." It was then he finally meeting his eyes, searching them with his own. His brow furrowed. "You used to be smaller," he finally said, picking at half a pepperoni situated on the quickly hardening cheese.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 22:15:59 GMT -5
Steve chuckled slightly at Bucky and looked down for a second at his shoes, but then back up. "I know." He said. "But I'm still me." Memories flowed through his mind of the war.... so long ago, so much had happened since then. A lot he hadn't been able to be able to experience himself since he'd been under. But there had also been a lot he had experienced. The battle of New York, the continuous struggle against HYDRA.... And he missed Peggy. She was still alive, and of course he still loved her. But that wasn't the same either. It hurt to think about it. He'd start out with a simple question. "So who is this guy?" He nodded his head towards Loki. "I don't recognize him."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 22:33:01 GMT -5
Still him. Bucky barely even remembered who Steve was, nevertheless who he would've been before the serum. "My friend," he answered after another bite of pizza, easily. Lying wasn't hard for him now. "Lukas." Lukas. Not a bad name. Had two of the same letters as Loki, but he knew that Steve probably wouldn't figure it out, unless the god did something.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 10, 2016 23:08:35 GMT -5
Loki breathed a silent sigh of relief. He would have thought that Bucky would have said something, he was friends with Steve Rogers after all, and he knew what Loki had done in New York. He hated to admit it, but now he probably owed the guy one. "Mmhmm." Steve said. He tapped his fingers on the table. Thinking. He would ask more questions about Lukas later on. "Now, tell me, what did you do after you pulled me from water?" Bucky had to have gone somewhere. Sure he wasn't looking his best, but he had lived by himself now for a while without being caught until just a few moments before when S.H.I.E.L.D. had shown up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2016 23:23:32 GMT -5
"Left," Bucky said with a simple shrug, eyes landing on his now empty plate, "moved around for a bit, tried to remember things, worked odd jobs." He hadn't remembered much of anything, really. He was pretty sure that half of the things he "remembered" were just false memories he had conjured up after he'd been to that museum.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 11, 2016 0:44:14 GMT -5
"Is there anything about HYDRA you can tell me? Anything important?" He wanted to end that organization once and for all.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 13:06:43 GMT -5
"No," Bucky said simply, bluntly, "I don't know anything about them." They hadn't exactly let him in on all the intimate details of the organization while he'd been under their control. "Can we go now?" He glanced over at Loki, to see if he was done with his slice of pizza. Sitting here was making him nervous.
[[ wanna just skip to when they're at the base? ]]
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 11, 2016 16:52:54 GMT -5
Sure!]
Loki was irritated at the fact that he'd have to stay in this stupid disguise much longer. He wanted to be in his Asgardian form again that he was used to. He still hadn't spoken up since Steve had shown up. Finally they had gotten to the Avengers Tower. It was tall and grand, centered in the middle of Manhatten. "Here we are." Steve stopped and looked up at it, squinting his eyes against the light reflecting off of the building.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 20:34:40 GMT -5
Bucky looked up too, screwing his eyes up against the brightness of the whole thing, glaring in his eyes. "Didn't Tony Stark build this?" he asked, just a bit of wariness creeping into his voice, for one reason only, but he wouldn't mention it. If Steve knew, well... he knew that the man and Howard had been close friends, and he had, well, he had too. Sergeant Barnes... He visibly flinched, putting a hand to his head before saying a big harshly, "Can we go inside?"
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 11, 2016 21:36:43 GMT -5
Steve was convinced that Bucky was worried that the team would confront him about his current stand. He had no idea what he had done in the past. "Yes.... he did." Steve answered. "But you'll be alright. We're going to sort things out. You don't need to worry." Bucky still seemed hyped up and anxious over everything, so he was trying as much as possible to keep him from totally freaking out or turn against him again. No, he didn't want that. He wanted more than ever to have his friend back.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 21:55:10 GMT -5
Bucky squeezed his eyes shut again. Steve didn't know. He sighed softly, running a hand through his long hair before silently nodding, and beginning towards the building, footsteps slow and dragging. Oh god, oh god. Memories were barging into his head now, ones that he didn't want. Murders and murders and murders. He should've never gone with Rogers. Maybe he should've gone with those men, whoever they were. Men and women and children and whole crowds of people... there were so many names of so many people that he'd murdered in cold blood. It wasn't his fault, no, but he... but he had done it.
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 11, 2016 22:58:00 GMT -5
Since we are so off-canon right now with the timeline I'm going to do Tony, Wanda, and Peter. But right now I'm just going to start with Tony. Spidey's butt can be off busy at school right now, and Wanda's doing whatever the heck she wants. ] Tony was down on the bottom floor of the building, he had nothing on his mind right now, so he was doing what he was best at; downing a bottle of alcohol on the couch yet still fully alert. It was a gift Pepper had given him a few days ago. He had nothing to do, which was why he'd chosen to bring it out now. The Captain was coming in through the doors along with Bucky and Loki now. He stared at with disbelief as he walked in. Was he serious? There was so much going on right now with the tension between HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D., how could he drink at a time like this? Tony almost jumped to his feet, eyes open wide as Steve approached with the two strangers. "You're back! Who's the Cyberman and the guy that looks like he wants to murder me?" he chuckled. Steve just gave him an unimpressed look.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 23:04:16 GMT -5
[[ okay xD ]]
Bucky's eyes widened ever so slightly as he saw Tony, head ducking so that he was looking down at his feet, and chest heaving ever so slightly. He said nothing, and didn't look up, not until he heard a different voice, one that he recognized not just from when he'd first met Steve again, but from a very long time ago too... "Barnes?" He looked up, eyes widening even more as Natasha Romanoff appeared in his line of vision. He said nothing still, subconsciously shifting closer to Steve. "Steve, where'd you find him?"
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 11, 2016 23:42:57 GMT -5
"Excuse me? Is this a reunion party now?" Tony looked back and forth between Natasha and the new guy. Steve and Loki ignored him. "I found him down in Boston with this guy, name's Lukas I guess. Anyways, a mob of S.H.I.E.L.D's crew was there interrogating him. It's a wonder they even let me take him back here." Loki decided to speak up. "Pardon me..." he began, sounding as un-Loki-ish as he could. "We've been traveling for a while, and I've experienced a lot of unnatural things in the past 48 hours. Is there a place I can go to think?" Being in a room full Avengers was making him nervous. One sign that he was the former God of Mischief and he'd be in trouble. He needed to be by himself, in a bathroom, a library, anything.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 23:51:27 GMT -5
"Yeah, sure," Natasha said, tearing her gaze away from the fidgeting Bucky, and to this Lukas guy, "I can take you somewhere to sit down. Come on." She gestured with one hand, beginning to walk back the way she came. She had a gun on her, just in case this Lukas turned out to be someone he wasn't, but she had a firearm on her, so she wasn't all too worried. He was scrawny anyways. Bucky, meanwhile, was being hit with a whole new barrage of memories at seeing the Black Widow. "Steve," he said, under his breath, nearly swaying on his feet as a sudden wave of anxiety and fatigue swept over him, "I need to... I need to go somewhere to sit too. Please."
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 12, 2016 0:17:20 GMT -5
"Okay." he said quietly, then called after Natasha and Lukas. "Take Bucky with you please. I'm going to stay here and speak with Tony." He gently nudged his friend forward with his shoulder. "Go on. She won't bite." Loki glanced back at Bucky and Steve while he was escorted away. If Bucky was with him, that was fine. He already knew who Loki was and he had already saved his skin once.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2016 6:44:28 GMT -5
"I know," Bucky murmured, stumbling ever so slightly as Steve nudged at him, but then followed right after the redhead and Loki. She smiled welcomingly at him, but he didn't smile back, and when she saw that he wouldn't, she turned and began down the back hallway. Bucky followed, slowly. So, the Black Widow had made it out too. He knew that she had, but it hadn't clicked that she'd so much escaped HYDRA and Russia before. He'd just thought of it as a betrayal. Plus, most of his memory of her had disappeared in that chair a long time ago. "How are you?" he finally asked. "I'm good," she replied, and then tacked on a bit awkwardly, "James."
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Post by Darkshine Laufeyson-Barnes on Dec 12, 2016 15:57:27 GMT -5
I feel really bad today. >.< It started with a headache when I woke up, and then I didn't feel like eating but I was starving at the same time. And if I have just a little bit it makes me feel nauseous.] Anyways, I'm a bit confused right now, but are Bucky and Nat still with Loki right now, or did they walk with him part way, and then go the other direction?]
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