ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅᴏᴡ, sᴡᴇᴇᴛ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ-ᴀɪʀ ( ᴏᴘᴇɴ )

[partialities]

Who: Margaery Tyrell, Cisco Ramon & Steve Rogers
Broadcast: nope
Action: yes, all over the planet and on the Windrose, Blameless & Starstruck
When: catch-all log for the duration of June & July, starters can be found in the comments! feel free to add one of your own or ask me for one/contact me at ladylike

also: cw for gif-use at the comments! all of them are sfw, however :>

Comments

[uprightness]

It is.

[ he nods; the breeze is good and the air is clean, it smells like the candies sold at the little stalls and the salt of the seawater. If asked, Steve would have said Winter has earned this and much more, so much more than this world can offer, more than perhaps Steve can try and give.

He can still try.

he passes him the little drawing pad so he can look at the sketch more properly. ]

it's been a while.

[reconstitution]

[ He doesn't want much, but it still takes effort to feel deserving of them. This freedom, though? It's okay. At the very least, he doesn't feel like he's going to buzz out of his skin in anticipation.

Winter takes the drawing pad carefully, committing Steve's current drawing to memory. The soft lines of clouds and the sharper silhouettes of cresting waves as they come closer. There's a bird flying, and it's idyllic. He can imagine it would look much better in color.

He hands it back carefully. ]

Looks like you handled it just fine.

[uprightness]

It's a bit like swimming, it comes back as easy as that.

[ said with a small smile. both are equally relaxing, too, a chance to work away the burdens. the punching bag is for another kind of worrying, the gnawing memories and sadness of the war mixed with the current worries. for days likes these, when Steve only wants to clear his head for an hour or two, sketching and swimming are more than enough ]

Think we'll stay here long?

[reconstitution]

Hn. Hard to tell. Cycles between planets and space are more sporadic now than they were five months ago.

[ They were at the sickly moon for far longer than any of the previous planets they'd been to, but it could have been a fluke, or the Atroma had a reason for it.

They can't possibly know how thought out every goddamn event that happens in the Fleet is. ]

[uprightness]

Are they?

[ he has been here for such a little while, compared to the rest of them. it leaves him second-guessing, at times, about everything that came before. There is so much that happened after all, just knowing of the other Steve is disturbing enough. There is so much that happened here that he can't and probably will never understand ]

Was it longer in-between each stop?

[reconstitution]

It wasn't longer, it was more consistent. Probably reading too much into the change.

[ He's just paranoid, nothing more. ]

[uprightness]

Don't think so.

[ he shifts on the sand. from all that he's been through, he learned never to let those things slide without at least mentioning them and taking them into account. winter's instincts are not very different than steve's when it comes to these changes ]

we should stock up the ships; the fruit won't last us more than two weeks but we can try to get meat. maybe some fish.

[reconstitution]

Already in the habit of doing that.

[ It's a good habit to get into in case they run into planets like the sickly moon again. Easy enough to barter or trade items for a decent amount of currency if there's a surplus.

Really, it pays to be prepared for anything. ]

[uprightness]

Figured as much,

[ said with a smile that he doesn't bite back. his crew is lucky, Steve will never think otherwise. Winter knows survival better than most people, certainly better than Steve. Whenever he visits the Heron, he is mostly there to see him, he is not overly familiar with his crew but he does hope they are smart enough to appreciate him.

he may have changed but the core is still the same, he will never be anything but good in Steve's eyes, the young man who would finish his fights for him at times, who kept him safe more often than not. ]

You know, we could try fishing by ourselves. We have the time.

[reconstitution]

[ Most of the crew probably isn't aware it's even his doing, stocking the extra cubbyholes on the ship with non-perishable food or supplies. Blankets are a particularly bountiful staple on the Heron. If there's one thing he's prepared for, it's being cold.

He's not acquainted with some of his crew as well as he should be, but he's not going to push them into it, either. It's not escaped Winter that Shinji avoids him like the plague. That's his business.

Winter looks up at Steve quizzically. ]

I guess it's worth a shot. Not sure how useful I'll be.

[uprightness]

[ it's called one-friend-is-roping-another-into-something-so-they-can-spend-more-time-together, you'll catch up soon enough on this little ploy. ]

Haven't really tried either, but between us two we might catch a few.

[ how many super soldiers does one need to catch a fish. ]

[reconstitution]

If you think so. Haven't heard of very good luck off the pier.

[ He will never be convinced that these friendships are something that he's earned already. ]

[uprightness]

We could take one of the boats, try sailing around a bit. There may be good spots for it.

[ and it is such an ordinary things to do, between friends, go fishing like this. they could use ordinary in their lives, Steve things, even forced ordinary routines as they have so few days of peace. ]

[reconstitution]

Mm..yeah. We could do that. Should have enough currency to rent a boat.

[ Hopefully it's not too expensive or too much of a hassle to get one. ]

[uprightness]

Between you and me, it shouldn't be a problem.

[ and there is a smile here because this is going to happen and it's been quite a while since either of them had something to look forward to. ]

I have a good feeling about this.

[ hey maybe they'll catch their dinner. right? right. ]

[reconstitution]

[ He pushes himself up to a standing position, brushing his pants off. ]

There should be someone in the market willing to rent a boat and equipment.

[ He's glad that Steve wants to do this together, but at the same time, he's not to the point of being over the moon. Spending time with Steve is good, and it's proven that just being around the guy helps him remember. ]