Centennials Are A Nuissance

[reconstitution]

Who: Bucky Barnes & You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Heron
When: 3/10


[Broadcast;;]

[ The feed opens up with a view of the Heron's cargo bay, set upon a surface and focused on a very plain, yet sizable crate set in the center. Bucky comes into view, absolutely suspicious of the box addressed to him. He circles the crate a few times before kneeling and pulling out a knife so he can shimmy the lid off. It's removed very carefully and set to the side, much like he's diffusing a bomb. It may as well be, he knows what day it is, and this is obviously some weird thing from the Atroma.

He lifts a piece of paper from the top, skims through it quickly and crumples it and tosses the offending thing across the cargo bay. Bucky takes out a package that looks harmless enough- the crate is filled to the brim with very questionably made bottle rockets? Fiddling with it ends in a very harmless but extremely unnecessary explosion of glitter and confetti.

Boy, those sure aren't very nice words are they? Bucky seems to realize that the communicator is broadcasting this catastrophe, so a very glitter and confetti-covered captain stomps over to the device to shut it off. Not long after, a text comes through the network. ]

I don't care who takes the damn things, just get them off my ship. There are 99 more...

[Action;;]

[ Throughout the day, Bucky can probably be found sulking around the Heron, or sitting in the kitchen trying to clean glitter out from between the plates of his arm. His mood would be so much better if there were cake. ]

Comments

[takingkarabusiness]

I can't do that! It's your birthday.

[reconstitution]

Then I wish you would.

[takingkarabusiness]

[ dramatic sigh ]

That's cheating, but fine.

[ she blows out the candles ]

[reconstitution]

You never clarified the rules. [ A brief pause. ] What did you wish for?

[takingkarabusiness]

You know if you say a birthday wish out loud it won't come true, right? I wonder if it holds true for someone else wishing for you.

[reconstitution]

I'm not brushed up on my birthday superstition lore.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, I'll forgive you this time.

[reconstitution]

How about I share that cake with you as an apology.

[takingkarabusiness]

I will accept it.

[ She sets it down and gets a knife out to cut it up ]

So, I take it you weren't planning on a party?

[reconstitution]

I don't think so, no. Never been one for parties.

[ Lies and slander. Though the dance hall was never so much a party as it was a good time. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Then you just haven't been to the right parties.

[reconstitution]

I'm not big on crowds, anymore.

[ Not unless it's big enough for him to disappear into. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

You don't need a crowd to have a party.

[reconstitution]

How many people consists of a party?

[takingkarabusiness]

I think two is the minimum.

[reconstitution]

Is two really a party, or is that a get-together?

[takingkarabusiness]

Do get-togethers have cake?

[reconstitution]

The better ones do.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, maybe this is juts a get-together, then. But it's also kind of a party.

[reconstitution]

I'm fine with get-together.

[takingkarabusiness]

Good! That makes two of us.

So, have you done anything special at all?

[reconstitution]

What, other than the confetti shower? Not a thing.

[ He's not that broken up about it. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

And you like it that way, huh? I guess I can live with that idea.

[reconstitution]

Spent so long not having a reason to, it seems weird trying to again. Missed it last year. Figured it was just another year.

[takingkarabusiness]

One hundred is kind of a big deal, though.