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1st Matchstick Ψ Video

Dec 25, 2011 20:01

You here, Jim? [Yes, he has priorities and he still isn’t sure about all the weird things around here, but Jim was just right there. Him being taken when the Original Human Torch was right will never make sense.] I know nothing’s for certain with things like this, but usually when I wake up in weird places at least someone I recognize is around.

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toro raymond, c: accelerator, c: carol danvers, c: bucky barnes, c: timothy

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[video] 1/? i regret nothing bucky_cap December 26 2011, 01:03:19 UTC

[Another nightmare. He's slept maybe four or five hours since reset, the rest of it has been spent awake and trying to get himself back to sleep. Last week took its toll, and he looks exhausted.

Flipping through the feed, he's taking note of new people when-]

[action] relightabull December 26 2011, 04:10:25 UTC

Not...not yet, I guess. [He takes a deep breath and lets it out as a sigh. He needs to calm down, like Buck says. Getting worked up like this he might burst into flames and not even notice. That would be embarrassing.]

I've only been back a few weeks. The Vision never mentioned you weren't dead. But then again, I wasn't paying him as much mind as much as I should have been.

[action] bucky_cap December 26 2011, 04:23:51 UTC

[Considering Bucky is about arm's length away from you, Toro, he'd appreciate it if you didn't flame on.]

Fuck, Tom... I'm sorry about- That you had to come back like that. The thought of letting you die killed me inside.

You're my best pal. You always were.

[action] relightabull December 26 2011, 04:36:40 UTC

[He shakes his head, looking away.] I know you didn't. You ain't ever been like that. I just...I didn't know what you could have been thinking, Buck.

[It may have been Bucky's fault, but he wasn't to blame. The Mad Thinker had killed him. Still, he didn't know whether to hug Bucky again or slug him for not thinking to save himself.

He lets his arms decide for him and reaches out to draw his friend back into a hug.]

You don't know how wrong things were after you and Cap were gone.

[action] bucky_cap December 26 2011, 04:40:47 UTC

When did we ever think back then? We were a couplea stupid kids back then and we both know it. I was the worst of us. [Truthfully, he hadn't held the cube long enough to make a coherent, specific wish. It was mostly gut desire - I can't let Toro die. He's my pal, I can't let him die.

He folds himself into that hug, sagging a little but holding on tightly. This is too much to handle on no sleep.] As bad as things woulda been without you around.

[action] relightabull December 26 2011, 04:48:23 UTC

The stupidest kids. It was so long ago, I wonder half the time if we could have really been that stupid or my mind's making things up. [He holds Bucky up easily, not the skinny thing he was back in the day. They've both grown up so much...]

What happened? You look like you got stuck going ten rounds listening to Namor monologue at you.

[action] bucky_cap December 26 2011, 05:00:15 UTC

Hell if I can remember. I don't exactly trust my memories all the time anymore. [A quiet laugh, as if his own brain damage is actually funny, except it isn't. God he needs to sleep.

Yeah, he's not moving just yet. This is a little questionable for two guys but he's exhausted and he missed Toro and he can't quite think straight.] I've slept maybe four hours since last Sunday. Bitch computer kept us awake. Joke's on her! I'm a fuckin' insomniac.

[action] relightabull December 26 2011, 05:10:14 UTC

Can anyone trust their memories? It's all we've got, but they get broken like a cheap record way too easy.

[Sorry, Buck. He should be helping you, not feeling sorry for himself like he's been since he got back. He tries to drag him over to the bed that's at one side of the room.]

Come on, you idiot. I've got a bed and even if you can't sleep you can at least lay down. You'll go crazy staying up like this--or crazier. I always knew you were half there already.

[action] bucky_cap December 26 2011, 05:22:55 UTC

'Cause we got too damn many of 'em, old guys like us. We should be retired.

[He goes along with him, sitting on the edge of the bed and slinging an arm over his shoulders.]

Ain't crazy, fuck you. Just have nightmares s'all. [Oh. Look. He's talking about things he doesn't usually talk about. Damn sleep deprivation.] Nope, not sleeping, we've got to catch up. Fuck, you're here, this place is a hellhole like you wouldn't believe, Hot Pants. I need a drink.

[action] relightabull December 26 2011, 05:34:35 UTC

No one else went around calling Namor "Subby." You trying to say you did that without being half-cracked?

[The banter, the teasing, it's familiar. But he's worried.]

We've all got our share of bad dreams, Buck. I don't have anything that will take the edge off in here. [Sorry, he just got here so no hidden booze in his room.] You know where to get it?

[action] bucky_cap December 26 2011, 05:37:33 UTC

I knew exactly what I was doin'. Deep down, he liked that nickname.

[He shakes his head, holding up a hand as if to say 'no, no, no, wait'.] My room. Mine and Steve's. 8... something. B. I got vodka. Let's go.

[action] relightabull December 26 2011, 05:52:33 UTC

[That makes him laugh.] Of course you and Steve would be here together. [And the smile on his face is just a little bit bitter, but he'll try to keep that under wraps.]

Lead the way, Buck.

[action] bucky_cap December 27 2011, 04:53:18 UTC

We weren't, for a while. He showed up... months after I did. [Sorry, Tom, Bucky knows you too well.] You don't want Jim here. No more'n I want you and Steve here.

[He rises tiredly to his feet and slings an arm around Toro's shoulders, heading out the door with him toward 8B.]

[action] relightabull December 27 2011, 05:25:49 UTC

[Tom's more than okay with Bucky leaning on him, but you had to touch a sore subject. Sorry if he gets a little hot without realizing it.]

I would be happier with him not dying again, but now no one's there to make him care. Buck, he's not even all there. You say you know what happens in the future, but it's like the Mad Thinker gave him a lobotomy. He's got memories, but he...he doesn't feel like he did. And he's going to melt in a few days if I don't figure out how to help him.

[action] bucky_cap December 27 2011, 06:14:30 UTC

[He's pretty used to that. Honestly, the heat is nice, he feels cold so often lately... There's nothing Bucky hates more than the cold, except himself.]

He doesn't die. Things'll work out. Time... Time works weird in this place, Tom. If you go back, it's like you never left. You go back to the exact same second you left, and no one even knows you're gone. Things... Things aren't going on without us back home. It's like we're outside the time stream or somethin' here, I don't know, it's all complicated bullshit...

[action] relightabull December 27 2011, 06:29:50 UTC

He doesn't? So...I could go back and he'll be okay? [That's...such a relief to hear. Toro brushes a hand through his hair, letting out a sigh, which sounds more frustrated than relieved.]

You'd think I'd get used to everything not making sense. And I thought being a retired hero was hard? Nothing makes sense anymore. If it ever did. Ann would probably tell me I got just what I--[And yeah, he's not going there right now.]

...How far are we from this room?

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