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entrancelogs2015-05-11 08:32 pm
assembles) wrote in entrancelogs2015-05-11 08:32 pm
all that's left behind [closed]
Who: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanoff, Bucky Barnes, Pepper Potts, Lydia Martin, Darcy Lewis, Billy Kaplan, & Carol Danvers
Where: Starting in the hedge maze, then all around the mansion.
When: 05/11
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Steve is back from a year-long trip home and has a lot of people to catch up with. Possible spoilers for Age of Ultron within! This is a closed log, but if you want to be added to it, feel free to contact me.
The Story:
One moment, Steve is in the middle of a training session at their new facility. It's what most of his days are made up of lately, him and Natasha putting their new group of Avengers through their paces. It's all about learning to work together as a team, to act as one unit instead of six separate entities. It's been going well, all four of their new additions ready and willing to show up every day and put their all into it --
But the next thing he knows, he's looking at nothing but green. Steve's grip on his shield tightens as he spins in a quick circle, only to find that Natasha is there with him. But it's just the two of them, and it takes a few seconds of puzzled staring before he realizes that they're in a maze. A hedge maze.
There's only one place he knows of that has a hedge maze, and it's a place he'd forgotten about entirely until this exact moment. To have a year's worth of memories crash back into him all at once is almost enough to send Steve off-balance, and he definitely doesn't have the coherency to speak as it rushes back. This place, the events, the people. Bucky is here. Bucky, who he's spent a year searching for back home to no avail, had been right here all along. Trapped in time. Peggy had been here too, and then there are those who he met and befriended here: Pepper and Darcy, Sansa and Evelyn, Lydia and Carol.
He snaps his head to look at Natasha when he remembers that Bruce had been here too, and they had found something here together, carefully working their way into a relationship long before it happened back home. They'd had the peace and quiet and security to actually make something of it here, whereas at home Natasha has been doing her best to accept that Bruce took off without her. (To keep her safe, Steve knows, but it's not like it stings any less that way.)
So many people had described to Steve what it would be like to go home and then return here, but even with all that he hadn't really been prepared for it. He rubs at the side of his head with his free hand as he finally finds words. "Looks like the two of us are doomed to come and go from this place together." At least, that's what Steve figures happened, but he'd better be sure. "What's the last thing that you remember?"
If it's training their team after cleaning up Stark's hugest mess, then they'll be in business. Or on the same page, at the least.
Where: Starting in the hedge maze, then all around the mansion.
When: 05/11
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Steve is back from a year-long trip home and has a lot of people to catch up with. Possible spoilers for Age of Ultron within! This is a closed log, but if you want to be added to it, feel free to contact me.
The Story:
One moment, Steve is in the middle of a training session at their new facility. It's what most of his days are made up of lately, him and Natasha putting their new group of Avengers through their paces. It's all about learning to work together as a team, to act as one unit instead of six separate entities. It's been going well, all four of their new additions ready and willing to show up every day and put their all into it --
But the next thing he knows, he's looking at nothing but green. Steve's grip on his shield tightens as he spins in a quick circle, only to find that Natasha is there with him. But it's just the two of them, and it takes a few seconds of puzzled staring before he realizes that they're in a maze. A hedge maze.
There's only one place he knows of that has a hedge maze, and it's a place he'd forgotten about entirely until this exact moment. To have a year's worth of memories crash back into him all at once is almost enough to send Steve off-balance, and he definitely doesn't have the coherency to speak as it rushes back. This place, the events, the people. Bucky is here. Bucky, who he's spent a year searching for back home to no avail, had been right here all along. Trapped in time. Peggy had been here too, and then there are those who he met and befriended here: Pepper and Darcy, Sansa and Evelyn, Lydia and Carol.
He snaps his head to look at Natasha when he remembers that Bruce had been here too, and they had found something here together, carefully working their way into a relationship long before it happened back home. They'd had the peace and quiet and security to actually make something of it here, whereas at home Natasha has been doing her best to accept that Bruce took off without her. (To keep her safe, Steve knows, but it's not like it stings any less that way.)
So many people had described to Steve what it would be like to go home and then return here, but even with all that he hadn't really been prepared for it. He rubs at the side of his head with his free hand as he finally finds words. "Looks like the two of us are doomed to come and go from this place together." At least, that's what Steve figures happened, but he'd better be sure. "What's the last thing that you remember?"
If it's training their team after cleaning up Stark's hugest mess, then they'll be in business. Or on the same page, at the least.
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Bucky gives him the out to move on and track down everyone else here who'll need to be informed that he's back. That's Steve's duty, but there's a part of him that wishes he could just stay here and enjoy Bucky's simple presence for a little longer.
"Yeah," he says with a sigh as he reaches across the couch, grips Bucky's hand and squeezes it. It's not much, but it bolsters him, and then he stands from the couch and stretches.
"Just... you're not allowed to go anywhere, okay? No leaving Wonderland without my say so." He quirks a smile, making sure Bucky knows it's a joke because neither of them have any control over that. But Steve's not sure what he would do if Bucky vanished.
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He lets Steve grip his hand, feeling it distinctly when he pulls away. He doesn't know what to say or do. He just knows that the sooner Steve does what he has to, the sooner he'll come back, and James can insist on staying together.
He thinks - no, he knows Steve is joking. Steve has never asked him for something impossible like that and expected him to follow through. James wishes he could, anyway. And not because he thinks it's an order or even just because he knows Steve wants it... He wishes he could because it's what he wants, too. And like a lot of things he wants, it's outside of his control.
He gets up on impulse and lets instinct carry him forward. There's a brief hesitation, but his fingers rest lightly on Steve's shoulder and he leans in to kisses Steve's cheek. It's quick and light, but he's trying.
"I missed you, too. Come back when you're done - I've got nowhere else to be."
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It's a soft, gentle way to see him off. It's a casual show of affection that they haven't been able to pull off in months. It's a stark contrast to everything the Winter Soldier had been. It's nice, and Steve's cheeks flood with heat as he fixes Bucky with a dorky smile.
For now, maybe it's easiest to just accept little gifts like this when they come.
"I'll be back as soon as I can, promise," he says, looping his hand around to squeeze briefly at the back of Bucky's neck before he finally extricates himself.
With that, he heads out the door, already looking forward to when he can return.