WHO:
hangtherisk and
coinopratedheroWHERE: Toro's hospital room
WHEN: The evening of Jim's arrival in the city.
WARNINGS: Derp and squish and sadtiems.
SUMMARY: Jim is visiting his boy in the hospital. =(
FORMAT: Para para para.
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I'll stay here with my little man near / We'll listen to the radio )
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Battered as he was his boy had grown up handsome...
"Toro? It's Pappy, kiddo, how are you holding up?" He brought a warm hand down to stroke through the matted hair on the less-bruised side of the young man's face. "I'm so sorry, I should have been here sooner. Cap told me what happened."
He cast about for a chair and tugged one of the little rolling stools away from the wall with his foot, easing himself onto it with his gaze stuck on Toro's sleepy face.
God, what a mess this was...
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He squinted, his swollen, bruised face protesting the movement. The hand in his hair had weight to it, affection.
"Pappy?" he repeated thickly, questioningly. A thought hit him and he sucked up his breath hard. "'M I dead, Pappy?"
It seemed reasonable enough, as addled as his head was. Pappy wasn't in this rollercoaster of a future and Bucky'd tried to kill him and everything was so screwed up and wrong, it'd make sense that this little slice of right would be a bastardization of the pearly gates opening for him. Jim was a good enough man that he was sure he'd go to heaven, ( ... )
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"You're not dead, Tom. I got into this city place just a little earlier today. Cap went and picked me up and told me where to find you."
He would have given about anything to have been able to scoop Toro up out of the hospital bed just then and held him like a child, but he was too scared of what it would do to all his setting bones and other broken bits. Seeing his son so battered was hard enough but that pain in Toro's voice was another huge step beyond what he'd been ready for.
"And if you aren't grown up all handsome..." he said slowly, trying to gently guide the subject to something happier and bolster Toro's spirits a little.
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