fourteen ✪ voice

[imfollowinghim]

[Anyone on the second floor (or first or third, really) might have heard a couple gunshots, shattering glass and other signs of a fight not too soon before Bucky's post. Then there's another gunshot, and silence for a couple seconds before quiet voices start up - C'rizz and Bucky.

A while later, a post's on the network. Bucky's panting and his voice is hoarse and strained, either because he's exhausted or in a hell of a lot of pain (it's both), but he manages to let everyone know what the hell was going on anyway.]

Zane's dead. [That's it. That's all he wants to say about it, and it kind of seems like he's going to leave it at that before he bites out:]

We need fucking call signs or passwords next time this happens.

[And then clicks the comm off so he can figure out how he's getting to the infirmary, because he is definitely not being carried.]

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[imfollowinghim]

I fucking know all of that, Anya. [Which might have been snapped at her under slightly different circumstances, but as things are, he just sounds exhausted and bitter.] We can argue about how dumb my suggestions are when I'm not bleeding out of my ears, alright?

[fridgetothefire]

I'm sorry. I just meant - it's not your fault for not having a system already. It's not anybody's.

[imfollowinghim]

I still don't know how much I believe that.

[fridgetothefire]

Maybe it's like the Snow Queen's mirror. A little piece for everybody, but you shouldn't let it get in you too deep.

[imfollowinghim]

[Bucky barks out a laugh, and sort of regrets it when his insides remind him yep, we're still pretty busted up, but he still sounds a little less heavy.] I haven't thought about that story in forever.

[fridgetothefire]

I used to think about it a lot.

[Sometimes her father was the queen. Sometimes he was Kai. She was always the mirror.]

Do you want me to bring you anything? Snacks, beer, cold pack?

[If Zane tried to beat him to death, he's been beaten. He has the look of a man who intends to avoid the infirmary. She makes it sound as casual as she can.]

[imfollowinghim]

I'd take some ice.

[No guarantees on whether or not he'll actually be in the infirmary by the time she gets there to give it to him, but yeah, he definitely could use some ice.]