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Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] imfollowinghim) wrote2012-07-04 04:53 pm

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[The video feed clicks on, except at first, the image is upside down and you're getting a pretty decent view of a blue jacket before the camera's righted and held back at an angle where you can actually see who's holding the thing.

Bucky's still wearing his Howling Commandos uniform and looks a little worse for wear, if only because he was just in a firefight that went badly after you know. He fell off of a very fast moving train and into a frozen river, but the Barge has healed any injuries and he's just ready to get going on this. He can worry about the rest of it (being dead) later. So he just smiles at the camera, and there's a touch of the familiar cockiness in the expression, even if he's more or less trying to be professional. This is a job, after all.]


This is Sergeant James Barnes, formerly with the 107th Infantry. U.S. Army. Most people call me Bucky. I've been on assignment with the Howling Commandos for the last couple months, but I guess someone decided I'd be better off transferring here for as long as this Admiral guy thinks I'll be useful. [It's a joke, see? Also Bucky really, really does not know what to think of him or this place in general, because this is really not what he thought the afterlife would look like at all.]

So if anyone's got some advice on what to expect for the new guy, I'd appreciate it. [Really, he's got a lot of questions he wants to ask, but he'll leave it at that for now.]
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome aboard, Sergeant.

There's a lot to tell. The Barge is a unique working environment, to say the very least, and it's subject to some - unusual conditions.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The Barge will sometimes encounter a form of - turbulence, for lack of a better term, that causes it to merge slightly or completely with an alternate reality or realities. In practical terms, that can mean that people briefly become a different age or gender, or someone they know from their home world, or a version of themselves who's lived a different history. In extreme cases, the Barge becomes something else entirely - a town, for instance.

People call them 'floods' although nothing tangible actually enters the ship.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I doubt he would consider it part of the job. [Heavily suggested by tone: because he's kind of a bastard.]

You do get used to it, after a while. Though I know that's not much consolation now.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry. Although it's better to be forewarned than learn about it firsthand, trust me.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, sorry. I've been here about two years, and recently returned from a leave of absence.

Toshiko Sato. Nice to meet you.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
August 2009. Yourself?
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-04 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. I'm afraid most people are ahead of you, historically speaking. Although some have centuries on me as well.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-05 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
It's not so bad. You're never too far from someone who wants to help.

[Private]

...I...apologise for barging into your conversation to go off at Castiel. [She smiles tightly.] Not very professional of me.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-05 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
He seems like an idiot. Then again, I suppose you can be as flippant as you like about death when it's something that happens to other people.

[A pause. She's not sure what she would have done with commiserations on her own death, but she wouldn't have wanted the fact brushing over entirely, either.]

I'm...sorry about the circumstances of your coming here.
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[personal profile] breakingmyheart 2012-07-05 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

[Another quick, tight smile.]

Well...welcome to the Barge, again. I see you're joining a friend here [which is....either a very good thing or an EXTREMELY BAD THING], but if you ever need any help or have any questions for someone who's been on board a while, my cabin is 8-2.