Sitrep 4 ¦¦ Video

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[Encrypted to Bucky]

So, I guess you're out enjoying the... whatever this is. [Instinctively reaching up to wipe his mouth because FFFFF SO MUCH KISSING.]

[Then, after several hours of no answer:] Bucky? Hey. Sergeant Barnes, please respond.

[Later still:]

[Encrypted to Tony Stark]

[Trying very, very hard to hide his worry; it doesn't work

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[... Not a request Rogers would make lightly, therefore Pietro is up and on the move before the man's message even concludes.]

On it.

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[He'll just be pacing his room until he hears back...]

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[Well, he's a dick but he's not about to be cruel. He updates Cap after he's cleared each zone with a text notification. He's not as thorough as he could be - after all, these zones aren't exactly tiny - but he knows how to canvas a wide-open area.

And at the end, he comes up empty-handed.

It takes him a while to actually contact Rogers, though. He goes over a couple of the zones again, perhaps he could have missed someone in all this snow.

Ultimately, he knows better than to second-guess himself. Barnes is gone. Rogers wouldn't have asked him as a first resort, he would have gone to someone else first. Stark, perhaps, with his knowledge of tech, or perhaps an acquaintance that he's made here. Searching entire zones, even with super speed, isn't exactly convenient.

He's sitting on a park bench when he turns the wearable back on. He doesn't know how to phrase it, and can't help the slight inwards cringe that causes him to not quite focus on the wearable. It's not his fault, but it still feels like a failure.]

No luck.

[...

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[An eternity of silence before he says anything, and when he does, it's barely focused; coherent, but that's about all that can be said.]

No. I know you did your best.

[He's forgetting something. A falter, then,] Thank you. That's- all I needed to know.

[He shuts off the feed.]

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can you breathe?

[ ie take a breath gosh, I'm on it ]

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[Nope not really.] Sergeant Barnes. I can. Get you his wearable's information - [not that Tony needs the help. Steve stops himself from saying anything else and just waits.]

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[ it doesn't take him long; Bucky doesn't show up on any search, not even Google. there's a slight pause as Tony thinks up something... less douchey to say ]

On the brightside, that's one less Christmas gift you have to wrap.

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[He stares at the feed for a very long few seconds, trying to wrap his head around the fact that Stark just said that. And then he just switches it off.]

HACKED audio, private encryption;

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Would you like me to search as well?

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[Buh. Politeness is a little bit beyond him at the moment, so instead she gets:]

Why would you do that?

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I was fond of his company.

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Was. [It's almost accusing.]