Chasing::notafossil & winterinbarnes
I can’t, Bucky.
Closing his eyes, he grit his teeth as he clenched his feet, body trembling slightly as he sat there.
"I. Can't. S-Steve."
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Chasing::notafossil & winterinbarnes
I can’t, Bucky.
Closing his eyes, he grit his teeth as he clenched his feet, body trembling slightly as he sat there.
"I. Can't. S-Steve."
[[I mean, normally drabbles are supposed to have words and all that jazz. But I just. I have none here. Just feels. Incoherent sobbing feels. So have this. XP]]
Time-stagnates-here suggested I make a Winter Soldier thing with that gorgeous Star-Spangled Banner in the minor key. Please forgive me.
○ Mission Acquired:: the-blackest-spider
This wasn’t easy, not that she believed it would be, but maybe she shouldn’t be even trying? She isn’t as strong as Steve, he can break her, he can hurt her and badly. Still she knows she has to try, she’ll never be able to live with herself if she doesn’t. She’d never be able to look Steve in the eye if she didn’t. Though she isn’t sure if she can do that anyways given she lied to the man to begin with. She’s going to have a lot of explaining to do, but that isn’t relevant right now. Right now keeping herself alive is and trying not to hurt him too badly.
“Yes. You. Are.” She replies back, holding her ground, watching him come forward with that arm. She waits until the last second and then moves, practically pirouettes actually to the side, putting her back to him as she catches that arm, wrapping her own around it. “I’m sorry.” She stated in a manner loud enough for him to hear before pressing her knuckles to the shining metal and activating her Widow’s Bites. Given her closeness and the fact she’s touching metal, she gets a contact shock which makes her eyes go wide, but she holds on for a moment longer trying to slow him down, or maybe even jolt his memory further, for she had seen his eyes before she turned.
He felt slow, like his body was not keeping up with the trained thoughts. Like the soldier was not aware in his body as he was in his mind. His eyes tracked and followed the Widow's movements. So delicate and clear. Beautiful and deadly. And he knew how he should have responded, how he could have reacted, but he did not. Why didn't he? He could have prevented the grasp he now felt from her. But he didn't.
And time seemed to stand still, only for the brevity of her uttered apology. He was frozen, stuck to his position. He had a second to swallow hard as a single tear spilled from his left eye. Then the wrenching shock as electricity entered his body through his bionic arm - and was amplified. An audible choke was heard, but it was all that his mouth could create for sound as the intense pain filled him.
And suddenly, darkness. The winter soldier collapsed to the ground.
Fear::agentham & winterinbarnes
"Am … I supposed to be happy that you yelled at me to identify myself when i don’t even know you?"
"You've seen my face...you know who I am..."
"I am the Winter Soldier."
Twin Stories::oldtimebrawler & winterinbarnes
No kiddin’. I’m serious though, don’t want anything.
The soldier sighed, nodding his head to the stool on his right, stating that the other could join him. Flicking his gaze back into the small tumbler of whisky, he sighed before sloshing some of the spice down his throat, grimacing slightly.
"So what's your story?"
Unexpected, and worrying when the name prompts an entirely new search to begin. Files and names, events and pure speculation pulled from files and articles written in Cyrillic and English both.
"Dare I ask what mission brings the Winter Soldier to this corner of the world?" And how a dead man became a soviet assassin. The first question was the more pressing question.
"A mission," He replied curtly. His stance adjusted into a far more hostile one. The soldier's brown eyes glowered from beneath angry brows. Body and face tense, his mechanical hand flexed in preparation as to whatever was to come. Jarvis. To whom did this A.I. belong to, under what orders was a watch being performed on the Winter Soldier.
Shifting his head slowly, his eyes scanned the shadows as he spoke once more, "And why are so interested in me?"
Fear::agentham & winterinbarnes
"… Wilhelmina Hammond."
"You are frightened..."
Chasing::notafossil & winterinbarnes
We can work on that.
"Please...just leave me..."
○ Mission Acquired:: the-blackest-spider
It had worked and yet it hadn’t. To her it almost felt like he had let it work and yet maybe not. All of it was confusing for her, she wanted to talk and not fight, to help him work through this, but he didn’t know if he was coming or going it seemed to her. She picked up the dropped knife and broke it, bending it and tossing it away rendering it useless. Had it been anyone else, she would’ve picked the weapon up to use. That was not the objective here, not for her.
“What mission?” She questioned, whether it was to ask what it was or to imply he had no mission was unclear, maybe it was both. Did he not know that he was free? That as far as she had heard he as believed to be gone, no more? He was truly a ghost now basically. Though she knew Steve knew he lived, but clearly it seemed his former handlers did not.
For the moment she let the distance between them live, kept herself separate from him allowing him his personal space. He was struggling more and it took a lot for her not to move closer, not to touch him and try to hold him together. “It’s okay. It’s going to be okay James. They’re not going to hurt you anymore.”
ᴊᴀᴍᴇs! The soldier gasped, eyes opening wide, he appeared frozen. Images flashed brilliantly in his struggling mind once more. This time, however, they were not composed of empty whiteness, of a failure to recall. This time they were vivid, real. Natalia laughing, Natalia's burning eyes, Natalia's red locks flying through the air. Natalia. Soft skin, warm light, passion. Desire. ᴊᴀᴍᴇs! Love..? This moment lasted a mere second, however, only that much.
"I am not James!" A roar erupted from his lips, brows angled heavily with an unchecked rage. He launched himself forward, mechanical fist flying. But there was something in his eyes. Those brown swirling orbs. Were they glassy? Were those tears trapped in them? It was clear that was not as controlled as he was only minutes ago. She was reaching something inside of him, but could she keep it up?
OoC::Who do I owe?
[[Sorry everyone! Gosh, I'm terrible. I've been so freakin' busy! I'mma try to get on those replies. I know I owe:
the-blackest-spider
notafossil
agentham
snarkyai
zxmaghost
Also, Tumblr is being a douche, so if you tagged me recently, and I haven't replied, it's because I can't see it. Feel free to comment or PM me!]]
Chasing::notafossil & winterinbarnes
I get to make that decision for myself.
I’m not going anywhere, Buck.
"I...can't always...stop him..."
Do I have to want something to talk to a metal me?
"There is always something everyone wants. Especially from me..."
"… I’m just a person."
"Identify yourself."
"I am called Jarvis," a milliseconds debate and he chooses to not expand on who and what he is precisely. Who he belongs to, his function. There is an even longer delay as the results from the facial recognition software bring back a match even an AI who has witnessed alien invasions would not have guessed.
A match to an old military photo, images left as relics by his Maker’s father, untouched in a building still maintained but abandoned.
James Buchanan Barnes.
"Apologies, I did not mean to startle you, Mr…?" Sometimes it was best to play ignorant and tread lightly.
Standing upon the corner if that night time street, the midnight nation was vacant here. And lucky for them, any night life witness would have been wiped from the face of the earth as if they never were. Not that anyone would particularly miss them anyhow. Life, to the soldier, was meaningless no matter whose. Though he did not kill any individual in his path, those in the fray of a situation he had not prepared for, they were always unwanted.
And this attention was vastly unwanted. Keeping his feet firmly planted, arms loosely at his side, he was prepared. Though the voice speaking to him was clearly computerized, that did not indicate any form of safety. Turning his head only slightly, the brown eyes scanned his direct area from beneath heavy brows. Pursing his lips, he took a slow and steady breath through his nose.
"Called Jarvis..." He repeated to himself, "I am the Winter Soldier."
“I’m a very persistent lad. Keep going til’ I get what I want. And right now, I want you.”
His arms crossed over his chest, "What would it take for you to just...go away?"
OoC::Replies
[[Hey guys, sorry, this week is really crazy for me. I helped friends move yesterday and shall be again tomorrow. BUT. I am doing replies today, so I owe:
zxmaghost
the-blackest-spider
snarkyai
agentham
oldtimebrawler
notafossil
Thanks guys! Do I owe anyone else?]]