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[imfollowinghim]

[Filtered away from Steve & Ben]

[Bucky seems physically fine when he clicks on the video feed. Port had been a couple different kinds of hell, but he's had to be uncomfortably familiar with different kinds of hell and so it's more or less easy to just push everything back and keep soldiering on.

Even if there's something a tiny bit distant or strained in the smile he flashes the camera, he's clearly in the mood to poke a little fun at his best friend while doing something quasi constructive and nice for him, because God knows it's been a while since they've actually done something for either of their birthdays. There's a war on, you know.]

So if the calendar's right, Steve's turning ninety six on Friday. Which is the Fourth of July. [Yeah, that's right, Captain America was literally born on Independence Day, how's that for coincidences? Or destiny or whatever.]

I need a hand getting him a cake. I've never actually made one before, figured it couldn't hurt to ask if someone wants me to owe them a favor. [He has realistic expectations about what a cake baked by him would taste like.

Normally, he'd ask Ben about something like this, but with Alex gone? He doesn't want to rub salt in that wound. :c]

[Filtered to Scott & Stiles]

Do you guys remember the USO shows? From the flood? Or the comics, or whatever.

I've got a favor to ask.

[This is totally going somewhere, feel free to get suspicious Scott if you also got dancing monkey memories alongside punching HYDRA in the face and shit. c8]

Comments

[imfollowinghim]

Neither. He got frozen in the arctic by accident, and it took a while for people to find him.

[And someone is still Not Happy about all of that, so he sounds a little less terrifically amused by the whole thing. By like, a lot.]

[godsays]

That's... I haven't heard one of those before.

[imfollowinghim]

Yeah, it's pretty fucked up.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it happened, but it's pretty messed up.

[godsays]

Why are you glad?

[imfollowinghim]

Because otherwise, he'd be dead.

[godsays]

But he'd be alone.

[imfollowinghim]

He's made some new friends.

[godsays]

He's too friendly.

[imfollowinghim]

Is he?

[godsays]

Too willing to help. People like him would get ground down to nothing in my world.

[ Except Kelsier, a small part of him corrects. Kelsier was like that. ]

[imfollowinghim]

You don't know Steve all that well.

[godsays]

You don't know my world.

[imfollowinghim]

No, but I know him, and he's the most stubborn pain in the ass you can imagine. He'd be standing up for the little guy until it killed him.

[Bucky is by no means an optimist, but he knows Steve.]

[godsays]

Then it would kill him.

[imfollowinghim]

Maybe. [But Bucky doesn't have faith in much, except - reluctantly, even, because he knows, okay, he knows how often he should've died but didn't - he's got faith in his idiot of a best friend.]

[godsays]

Even Kelsier died.

[imfollowinghim]

Steve and I did, too.