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sᴛᴇᴠᴇ ʀᴏɢᴇʀs ✮ ᴄᴀᴘᴛᴀɪɴ ᴀᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀ ([personal profile] uprightness) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-01-01 06:41 pm

ᴛʜᴇʏ'ʟʟ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ᴀ ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴜs ( ᴏᴘᴇɴ )

Who: steve rogers circa civil war + you, yes you
Broadcast: nope
Action: various;
When: throughout january



[ new year, new memories and what begins as one monstrous headache.

it takes a couple of hours to sort through everything that's new, to make sense of a kaleidoscope of memories, images and sounds. at first, he starts writing it all down, lagos, the sokovia accords, the UN, black panther.

Only the dry details and nothing of what starts to weight down on his shoulders, faces and names that inspire a heavy, intimate, terrible sort of pain.

And so an avoidance of a sort begins that lasts through the two days the new year. Hours upon hours spend on the library aboard the Iskaulit, reading books and making nothing of them. It's an odd sight, Steve Rogers in one of the corners of the room, staring at a book and randomly picking up a notepad and writing something down ( another detail that comes up, scott lang or spiderman ) and then staring at the notepad only to go back and stare at the book.

He might also be found at odd hours at the gym; evidently, taking out his burdens on a punching bag, seemingly lost in thought even as takes out what seems to be a world of trouble on the thing.

It will take these two days of isolation before those of the fleet start seeing steve rogers off the Iskaulit. He'll make a return to the Starkstruck, though this return, too, will be a reclusive matter one will have to actively seek him to find him in the weaponry or otherwise, in his room. ]
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2017-01-03 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Tony wasn't ready for that. I know it's not much of a comfort, but he's known for a while. He wasn't ready to talk to you.

[She shakes her head.]

I don't think either of you are actually ready for that. For now... just give it time.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2017-01-04 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I know you didn't. And Tony knows it too.

[She can't even say Tony was wrong about how Steve would react.]

But Tony needs that time too. He's got a lot to process. There are some things that just don't fix.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2017-01-06 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible. It's also possible he'll remember things we don't. But speculating isn't going to do us much good.

[They have to deal with what they have in front of them.]

One thing at a time.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2017-01-09 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Natasha puts on a strong face, but she feels for Steve. It would be hard not too.

Unsure what to say, she'll catch him when he comes back her way, one hand on his arm comfortingly.]


Sometimes there's not much to do. There's nothing you're supposed to do. You just have to let things be uncomfortable for a while, until the opportunity change something comes up.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2017-01-14 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
You had other priorities. [No judgment, but it's a fact. Given the choice between his standards and keeping the team together, he chose his standards. She respected that, but it was his choice.

And that had been before Bucky got pulled into the mix.]


Stability is nice, but it only goes so far.
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[personal profile] outstandingbalance 2017-01-14 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[She squeezes his hand back, her expression a little sad.]

I know. It's okay.

[Natasha's already had the time. She's processed it, found her perspective.]

We're still friends. Nothing changes that.