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Зимний солдат ([personal profile] reconstitution) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-03-20 11:18 am

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Who: Winter & You
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Iskaulit
When: 3/20

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How does everyone deal with loss? How much of an impact is it meant to have?

Similar. Unrelated. Is anyone familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? I would like to know more.


[ Action >> Iskaulit ]

[ If you happen to be on the Iskaulit at any time in the wee hours of the morning, between two and six, you may run into Winter utilizing the gym. There aren't really posted hours, and that's usually when no one else is around.

The poor sandbags that he helped Jim hang all those months ago are getting a beating. Winter's focus is zeroed in on the same worn spot, but apparently something gives. Winter reels his left arm back, a high metallic whine the only warning before he lands a blow. It's enough force that not only does it knock the sandbag from its hook, but it goes flying across the room like it's nothing.

Emotional? Who's emotional? Nobody here. Mind your business! ]


[ Action >> Heron ]

[ Winter may have been restless before, but without Jim, this is something new entirely. Crew have been coming and going regularly over the past few months, but this is different. The Atroma decided that he should be captain? Over someone who would probably be more capable at it. He sees what you did there. You just couldn't pass up the chance to not have to change names in the roster, huh?

He's trying to wrap his head around it. Sure, he led teams on missions as the Winter Soldier, but that was different. He wasn't really calling the shots. Being Captain is new and scary and leaves room for so much to go wrong.

If anyone wants to bother him, or happens to be visiting, he is more than likely roaming the halls trying to burn off the nervous energy. He's comfortable with the ship, but now he wants to know it inside and out. As if he hadn't already done that. Honestly, he is distraught without Jim and doesn't know how to handle it. It's not as if he can talk to Natasha about it, either. Or Steve.

The message is more than clear- don't get attached. ]
mucked: (☂ any place is better)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-06 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she leans back -- fingers curling over the edge of the bed. peggy appears poised between relaxation and tension. caught between. ]

« Bosses want to know what the Soviets are up to. I was knee-deep in an interrogation with a particularly skilled operative when all this unpleasantness out in California popped up. Summer, 1947. »
mucked: (☂ etherized upon a table)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-06 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
« She'll talk. Not for Thompson or -- anyone else at the office, probably. But she'll talk. »

[ in another situation, this might have sounded almost ominous. but even in a foreign tongue, peggy's tone is certain. curated. she speaks more to a depth of understanding with the enemy operative than to any intention to torture or coerce.

not that she's against hurting dottie -- but it's not much of a fair game when she can't hurt back. ]
mucked: (☂ for years and years i roamed)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-08 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
« I saw what they did to her -- her organization. How they shaped her into what she became. And I think... »

[ peggy's words trail free. not because of the language barrier -- although it's always a little trickier to put hunches and private guesses into words than it is other sentiments. rather, she hasn't voiced this uneasy connection to anyone else.

winter seems as though he might be the very last person she should try and tell, and yet here she is. ]


« I suppose we fascinate each other. »
mucked: (☂ who broke into the mansion)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-08 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ah, this will need more booze. peggy reaches for the bottle. ]

« The day I caught her, she was disguised as me. A tactically sound strategy, I suppose -- but she didn't have to be. »

[ before hitting her head back on the starstruck -- before remembering more of home, like this, she could never have revealed so much about dottie. everything had still been so uncertain. ]
mucked: (☂ any place is better)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-08 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she pours a generous measure into her glass, and sips before she speaks. ]

« It's fair to say so. She was calling herself Dottie -- but heaven knows what name she was born with. The facility we saw in Russia didn't have much left in the way of documents. »
mucked: (☂ from bangkok to calgary)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-08 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she sits in silence -- sipping, and thinking. as much as he might have meant to her (and might mean again), she has to remind herself that he had been used as a soviet weapon himself. at what point is she jeopardizing her own work by talking to him?

what an uncharitable thought. peggy tries to shake it away, soothing her ruffled feathers by reminding herself of how little she remembered upon her 'return' home. ]


« Classrooms. » [ she answers, still in russian. ] « Training facilities. I was there with the Commandos -- we came across a young girl, and she was already... well, the conditions were abhorrent. That place was making children into assassins. »
mucked: (☂ afternoons)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-11 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
« Alarmingly well. She wasn't easy to find -- indeed, she'd been under my nose the whole time. »
mucked: (☂ etherized upon a table)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-13 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
« And they're the secrets I worry about most. Even here. »
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action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-15 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
« A great deal can happen in seventy years. Jim told me an awful lot, but -- I imagine he didn't tell me everything. »
mucked: (☂ for years and years i roamed)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-16 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
« But he told me enough. He told me about Zola. »
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action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-17 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
« What he does. » [ peggy takes a drink -- lengthy, and slow. she holds the burn in the back of her throat like a punishment. ] « What he is allowed to do. »
mucked: (☂ we will save your brothers)

action » heron

[personal profile] mucked 2016-04-19 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ but it isn't done -- not yet, and not for her. she can appreciate the way he wants to shut it down within the conversation, however. it's the painful past for him. and yet peggy can't shake the feeling that she could change it if she tried. save him, even if she can't save steve.

not that steve needed her saving in the end. peggy swallows hard, and then swallows a mouthful of ersatz whiskey. ]


« I'm sorry. »

[ for bringing it up? or for letting it happen? who knows. ]

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