Follows this.Bucky is silent, but fuming as he stalks away from the site of Thor's future home, his body language so tense it's a wonder he's even standing straight instead of crumpling under the weight of his own bad mood. That he wouldn't have left the scene without Steve's wordless request is abundantly clear, and Bucky makes no attempt to hide ( Read more... )

The ITF's job was -- and remains -- to keep tabs on everyone who entered Rapture, the underground hellhole of a city that showed up on the island as suddenly and inexplicably as any of the people who walk its shores. The primary mission, poorly defined but executed to the best of our ability, was, by most accounts, an unmitigated failure... Well, ( Read more... )

Bucky gives Steve his space for almost an entire day after they've changed back before he decides to pay his old pal's house a visit. The sun hangs low in the sky as he makes his way over, casting long shadows along the ground as Bucky picks his way along the increasingly familiar path -- one that was as strange to him over the past weekend as it ( Read more... )

It's a nightmare that finds Bucky awake with a start, right hand clawing at the collar of the shirt he wore to sleep, as though he expects there to be something more restrictive than soaked cotton around his neck instead. It's only when his breaths start to even out that he realizes he's off-balance, his body simultaneously heavier than it was a ( Read more... )

True as it is that Bucky Barnes has been trained within an inch of his life, neither the brass at home nor the Brits overseas had anything to say about what to do upon waking up without a stitch of clothing to call his own, sandwiched between a nice looking dame and a detached robotic arm. There's a stiffness to his muscles he can't account for, a ( Read more... )

The sheer amount of ordnance Bucky has managed to acquire in the months since his arrival is, perhaps, startling. Though he'd shown up with nothing but a combat knife to his name, sometimes it paid to be the victim of the island's crueler tricks. Though he hadn't much appreciated the reminder of the time, getting saddled with all of his Winter ( Read more... )

( Bucky Barnes' initial and acquired inventory. )

Bucky is fuming ( Read more... )

It's been two days since Bucky brought an unconscious Jason back to the hut they shared, and nearly four since Bucky fled from the very same place, too distraught from the events in Moscow, imagined and otherwise, to stick around. Leaving, though, had turned out pointless; his guilt chased him around the whole of the island, inescapable and intense ( Read more... )

The sights and sounds of Moscow are exchanged so suddenly for those of his island home that Bucky wonders if they ever even left, the evidence so overwhelmingly in favor of no that it takes him a moment to realize he's brandishing a gun instead of a deck of cards, the feel of it so familiar that he forgets to question its presence until he notices ( Read more... )