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Who: Bucky Barnes (

sidecars) and Billy Kaplan (

actualwizard)
Where: Theater Room
When: Backdated before October 24
Rating: PG??
Summary: Billy takes pity on a kid from the 40s and shows him how to play movies in the theater room.
The Story:

Timing the guy is a little mean what with him being practically on the theater room's doorstep once he ended the transmission. When he opened the door, it wasn't quite what he expected. The screen is just as big, but there's so few seats, and half of them are on the floor. He's not sure what to think of it when he takes a seat in the dim lighting and waits for Billy.

Hell, if it works like it's supposed to, Bucky won't care how small it is. Catching films was something he enjoyed immensely when he had furlough. It was about the only thing he was actually willing to go home for. Now to have it right at his fingertips... He's not sure how he's going to survive the grind he's about to put himself through.

Passing the time, he fiddles with one of the knives he stuck in his boots before coming down. Not that he thinks Billy's going to be dangerous, but stupidity is what gets you killed. And Bucky is many things, but he ain't stupid.

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Timing Billy would be just fine since all he has to do is teleport into the theater. Which is does with a resounding crack of bright blue light. No matter how many times he does that, it's still jarring and it takes him a moment to refocus, letting the slight nausea pass. A small inconvenience for being able to get around quickly.

He looks around spotting Bucky on one of the recliners in the front. "Hey, was that quick enough?" He asks with a smirk on his face.

The pop is completely unexpected, and totally unwanted. It brings the knife in his hand forward, expecting an attack, but all he gets is kid a little younger than him suddenly standing in front.

"Geez Louise!" You are so lucky he didn't throw one. "Well, sure, if you count cheatin'!" he say with mock-exasperation. Sort of mock. There is a nugget of truth in it, yes. It's just one more super human to contend with as a meager human. After a moment to regain his composure after that dramatic entrance, Bucky gets up from his spot. "So you're the movie master..."

"Sorry." His grin is sheepish and he's sorry, mostly. You did say you to get there quick.

"Movie master? I lke that title, you should tell my boyfriend that one, he thinks he's the master but he's sadly mistaken." He moves over to the stack of movies that seems to keep growing as people add to it.

"What are you into?Action, adventure, comdey, drama?" He needs to know where to start.

Boyfriend? Wow, this kid is just tossing that right out there. Bucky doesn't care, he's not one those religious assholes who has to police everyone to make themselves feel better. Even still, it's not something you just lay out unless you have a big set of balls, or really like getting roughed up in a back alley.

"Uh, I dunno. I mean, I like whatever I can get." They don't get all that many choices, especially as a soldier. He sees about one or two new movies a year. "But those science-fiction are swell! Anything with action's good too! But no war movies! They are so fake."

Billy doesn't think twice about telling people about Teddy. He's so used to not caring what anyone thinks he forgets not everyone is from the twenty-first century.

"Science-fiction and action, I think I should start you on the greatest trilogy of the twentieth century." He rummaged through his pile of movies before finding what he wanted. "Star Wars."

"Oh okay, well, I like space and I like war--Well, that sounds..." Absolutely horrible even if it's sadly true. "You know what I mean!" He follows after Billy, leaning over to see just what he is rifling through. They aren't exactly film reels like he expected. What the hell? They're so small!

"This is gonna be one short movie..."

Billy laughed. "I know what you mean. Don't worry, we've come a long way since the 40s. Movies are on these now."

"This is..." This is a joke, right? It has to be! The reel is paper thin with a picture on top and nothing on the bottom. It's just some kind of alloy disc.

Bucky is staring at it, staring at Billy, and every time he repeats steps 1 and 2, his scowl grows deeper. "You're tryin' to pull one over me. There's no pictures on the--disc or whatever you call it!"

Billy tries to hide his amused smile, not wanting to piss Bucky off further. "I promise I'm not trying to trick you. Watch, sit down and I'll put it on, you'll see."

He lets Bucky settle before going over to the dvd player and poppig the movie in before taking a seat in one of the recliners, turning on the screen and cueing up the movie. This was going to be fun.

As thrilling as this would be, Bucky keeps his cynicism. He's not going to let some punk from the future try and tease him for being out of his time. No, he's going to remain stalwart in his stubbornness until he sees proof of this magic or science or whatever it is. It's so hard to keep track sometimes!

He takes a seat, arms folded defensively over his chest while Billy fiddles behind him. Then he takes a chair beside him and Bucky can't help but stare at him, looking for answers. The room grows dark, and in the silence he's waiting for some dumb surprise or Billy to call it off.

Then trumpeting music starts and scares Bucky almost out of his seat. "Gah!" He almost wallops Billy, but there's text to be read. "Okay, so we're goin' to another galaxy? I guess I am okay with this." Yeah, another galaxy sounds good. Buck's never been. At least he doesn't think so? Who knows, really.

Billy waits for it, he knows what's going to happen and he can't contain the small laugh that escapes when Bucky jumps. It's always fun to introduce new people to that particular fright.

"See, I told you to trust me."

After that set up, you think they are at trust, huh? Ha! You're lucky Bucky didn't have a PTSD episode or something! Sure would have rubbed that grin off Billy's face. "Don't count your chickens there, pal. We'll talk about trust once the movie's over."

But Bucky obediently settles in, although there's a stubborn scowl still on his face. It's going to take a lot to wipe it off. Or maybe not a lot at all. A woman comes on screen and he can get behind this. It reminds him of the heroine's in Disney's animated movies. But that's not what's making him gape. "It's in color. This has color!" And not just painted frames. This is live-action in color. "Holy moley..."

"Uh, huh." He would like it, Billy had total confidence in the power of Star Wars.

That reaction surprises Billy until he remembers when Bucky is from. "Remind me to show you The Wizard of Oz."

"They made Wizard of Oz into a movie?" He used to read it to his sister when they still lived together. "Man, I got a lotta catchin' up to do..." Turning his attention back on the screen, there's.... sand. Lots of sand and the color is almost blinding to him.

"Damn. You guys are so much better with visual effects. Every robot I ever seen looks like they taped cardboard to a person."

"Yeah, I believe it was one of the first to use technicolor, but don't quote me on that." He settles in and watches Bucky out of the corner of his eye.. He's seen this enough times to quote it and he likes to see people's reactions.

"Just wait until you get to some of the later stuff, this is still only the late 70s. The things they can do by 2014 is pretty amazing."

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