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Gumball Wishes and Taxicab Dreams
[On today's episode of the Drift Fleet:
The cargo holds are full of mysterious crates! The crews are filling beyond capacity with new faces! Official alerts are informing the passengers that they are signed to contracts that they've never agreed to! They are docking at the dazzling FS Starlight, but are flat broke!
What are they going to do!? Stay tuned to find out!
...Meaning, this is a kickoff mingle for you all to enjoy the beginning of the latest plot setting. This is a convenient place to start threads relating to the first week of the event-- meeting new crewmembers, reacting to the mysterious cargo, arriving on the station and discovering that you're all broke, etc.
Tag around, start whatever you'd like, have fun. And, as always, feel free to make your own posts and mingles from here on in, as this will be the only mod-posted one for this event!]
The cargo holds are full of mysterious crates! The crews are filling beyond capacity with new faces! Official alerts are informing the passengers that they are signed to contracts that they've never agreed to! They are docking at the dazzling FS Starlight, but are flat broke!
What are they going to do!? Stay tuned to find out!
...Meaning, this is a kickoff mingle for you all to enjoy the beginning of the latest plot setting. This is a convenient place to start threads relating to the first week of the event-- meeting new crewmembers, reacting to the mysterious cargo, arriving on the station and discovering that you're all broke, etc.
Tag around, start whatever you'd like, have fun. And, as always, feel free to make your own posts and mingles from here on in, as this will be the only mod-posted one for this event!]
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[ a huff. He ruffles Steve's hair. ]
What's the point? You'll just get miserable over it.
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[He sighs, tips his head into that ruffling. He won't deny the misery - of all people, Jim's the one who best knows how he bleeds - but sometimes, the only way forward is through.]
Was it-- did it take me longer to find you? In '42?
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[ And it doesn't take an artist to notice the movement of his shoulder where the skin is scarred. There's muscle damage that diminish upper-body strength. No way it doesn't hurt. ]
No, it — I got shot by one of those ray-weapons they had. Whole arm just [ making a 'poof' gesture with his right hand. ]. After that they pulled me off the work line, sent me straight to Zola.
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What's one more what-if? In the grand scheme of his life? Not much. He steps out from under Jim's arm and goes back to studying the prosthesis.]
Did the Army try to serve you a discharge?
[He's privately surprised, war hero or no, that they didn't just confiscate the arm under the thin veneer of it being enemy technology they needed to study and ship Buck back stateside. Captain America wasn't worth all that much weight back in '42, so what then? Phillips? How many strings did he pull? They had to fight hard enough to keep Morita and Jones. Arguing for an integrated unit - much less an international one - burned up every favour Steve's tenuous influence had accrued, and Philips always claimed he'd cashed in all his chips to allow it.]
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No. The Colonel and Stark kept it quiet, if anyone asked we all made the excuse it was experimental. You'd covered it up before we joined the rest of the men marching home. Peggy and the other Commandos knew. Guess they all figured [ he grimaces ] they could look at it after the War.
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You're kidding, right? I learned from the best.
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I wasn't that bad, was I?
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The worst. Some days I felt like I couldn't sneeze anywhere in New York without you hollerin' bless you.
[He huffs, half a laugh.]
I missed it, you know? After.
[He doesn't specify, after what.]
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I kept lookin' for you. You know. Felt like I wasn't walkin' right or something.
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[Rhetorical question, but. He rubs his forearm across his forehead to get his too-long hair out of his eyes and then glances out from under the mess at Jim properly.]
You were missed, pal. Just as much.
[Because he's come to the conclusion that somehow, Jim doesn't think an awful lot about his own self worth. In some awful, twisted-up way, Steve wonders if it's because he never did a good enough job of lettin' him know he cared.]
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Steve, it wasn't — you always did fine without me. I was the one aimless. Even when we were kids. It wasn't about you needin' to give anything back, you were there. That was enough.
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You thought I did fine.
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[ Soft, ]
You were fine in the War.
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[It doesn't register, that he's using the name he'd been asked not to. It's natural, to him.]
Every second I was there, I was scared. I was gonna make some bad call and get one of our boys killed-- or you, or Peg. I-- a lotta good things came together for me over there, I won't lie about that. But I was never fine. I just-- I did what I had to. That meant holding it together, so I did.
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[ For not seeing that. He always had a nose for Steve's wounds, and the instinct to help close them. Why can't he accept that losing him was the most painful one? ]
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You don't owe me an apology. Not for that, not for nothing. Okay?
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[ To look after you. ]
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[So he just pushed himself to the end of every edge. It didn't catch up with him until they pulled him out of the ice, from a tomb he'd have not objected overmuch to remaining in at least at the time. Now, knowing Bucky's out there in the wind, he's a little more resistant to the idea. Getting to that point of self awareness wasn't easy.]
Look-- you never fell down in lookin' after me. You. [His voice pitches, it breaks a bit. He fusses with the arm a moment longer.] You're my best friend, Jim. How could you?
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[Steve finishes tuning up the various bits of the arm as best he can, puts the plates back together in silence and starts hunting around for a cloth to wipe the grease and the red hydraulic fluid from his hands.]