Hope's End Guest Post: Day 7

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Welcome to Day 7 of Hope’s End! This is where guest writers can have their characters post to the network. These posts will be handled the same way as any other post to the network, but we'll keep them grouped together for everyone's sanity.

All guest characters arrived in Hope’s End with a communicator that resembles a Blackberry. These have text,

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[Video]

[nataliaromanova]

[She stares coldly at the screen, a tap-tap-tap sound emanates from just under the screen view. When it pans one slender, black gloved finger is tapping against the collar visible under the unzipped collar of her suit.]

I was done being someone's plaything when I left Red Room. I will not start down that path again. If you have anything useful to me, contact me. Otherwise leave me be to find my way out of here.

[Video]

[bucky_cap]

[He's just going to stare blearily at the screen for a minute. Hey Natasha, your boyfriend is still kinda drunk. He also looks really exhausted and has a lot of scars you probably don't remember, like faint scratch mark scars on his face (though they're hard to see underneath the stubble).]

...Fuck me, now I'm seeing things...

[Video]

[nataliaromanova]

[Drunk? She'd seen him that way before, she'd seen him battered, bloodied and bruised from battle. She'd seen him exhausted from fighting and other less volatile pursuits, this was a different state entirely.]

I would say that same but I'm having trouble thinking of why I would hallucinate you in such a state.

[Video]

[bucky_cap]

[Bucky runs a hand through his hair, groaning quietly. How the hell is it possible to have half a hangover while still drunk?] Tom was right, I need to lay off the booze, why the hell would I imagine you here? They took Steve, it's- they can't... They can't take you too, not now...

[Video]

[nataliaromanova]

They took Steve?

[now you have her attention James]

As much as I can appreciate alcohol, I need you to focus. What's happened? Where are you?

[Video]

[bucky_cap]

The- Consortium. Bastards who- who run this place. Torture facility, space station, blah blah this place is fuckin' worse than prison- They burned him. Burned Steve to death.

[Frowning slightly, also he's waving his 'berry around uncoordinatedly to show you the front porch of the capes' safehouse. Breaking his own rule oops.] Lot- Lotta stuff happened. M'here. But yer not. You can't be here...

[Video]

[nataliaromanova]

[That sounded a little too close to their mutual back grounds for comfort. She scanned what she could see from the 'berry on his side, she had enough in a few seconds to find him. You don't spend as long in her line of work as she has unless you are very damned good. And she was.]

Don't speak, I'll find you.

[end of feed]

[Video]

[ippotsuko]

Yeah, I said the same sort of shit.

But guess what?

You have no say in the matter.

[Video]

[nataliaromanova]

Perhaps that was true for you, but as I said if you have nothing useful for me, leave me be.

[Video]

[ippotsuko]

I think telling you to save your breathe is useful, because if it's true for me, it's true for most people.

You have no way of realizing, but I'm the kind of person that can literally stop the earth from rotating if I want to or survive a nuclear explosion.

[Video]

[nataliaromanova]

And that means exactly nothing to me.

[disconnected]

(OOC; Sorry! It's not me, it her, she's kind of a bitch, especially to people she doesn't know)

[Video]

[bucky_cap]

Hey- Hey you, you be nice to your mother. [SO FUCKING DRUNK RIGHT NOW YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW, ACCEL.]

[Video]

[ippotsuko]

What?!

[Video]

[bucky_cap]

That's- That's Nat. My lover. If I'm not hallucinating because of the booze...

[Video]

[ippotsuko]

How many times do we have to go over this? Doesn't mean she's anything to me.

[Video]

[bucky_cap]

Yeah yeah, we'll go over this when I ain't drunk. Be nice to Nat. I love her.