Steve Rogers ☆ Captain America (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
punched_hitler) wrote2015-06-27 08:00 pm
punched_hitler) wrote2015-06-27 08:00 pm
☆ 33 ☆ (TEXT; Private to Bucky | SPAM; OTA)
[TEXT: Private to Bucky]
Hey, I need you to hang on to something for me for a little while, if you don't mind.
[SPAM; OTA]
[It's not that there's a new guy on the Barge - there's not. But anyone used to seeing Captain America around might notice that he's conspicuously missing as of Saturday - or, at least, he's not six-foot two and two hundred twenty pounds anymore. He's five-foot four and about a hundred pounds soaking wet, and he's not apologetic about it in the least. Same haircut, same voice, same style of dress (at least he asked for some civilian clothes that would fit), same attitude.
Steve goes about his day the same as he ever has - he goes for a run through the Barge early in the morning, and he shows up for his lunch shift in the kitchens and his shifts in the infirmary on time. He shows up at T'Pol's cabin for meditation, and he's even in the gym sometimes, working out against the bags. It's just that his mile has gone from two minutes to twenty, and he's got an inhaler in his pocket for those times when running or climbing the stairs - he's not taking the elevator, he refuses - gets to be a little too much.
Of course, he knows people are going to notice, but unless someone says something to him first, they're not going to hear a word about it from him. Actions speak louder than words, after all.]
[ooc: If anyone needs a reference, 1, 2, & 3, just with this haircut, still. Feel free to recognize him or not!]
Hey, I need you to hang on to something for me for a little while, if you don't mind.
[SPAM; OTA]
[It's not that there's a new guy on the Barge - there's not. But anyone used to seeing Captain America around might notice that he's conspicuously missing as of Saturday - or, at least, he's not six-foot two and two hundred twenty pounds anymore. He's five-foot four and about a hundred pounds soaking wet, and he's not apologetic about it in the least. Same haircut, same voice, same style of dress (at least he asked for some civilian clothes that would fit), same attitude.
Steve goes about his day the same as he ever has - he goes for a run through the Barge early in the morning, and he shows up for his lunch shift in the kitchens and his shifts in the infirmary on time. He shows up at T'Pol's cabin for meditation, and he's even in the gym sometimes, working out against the bags. It's just that his mile has gone from two minutes to twenty, and he's got an inhaler in his pocket for those times when running or climbing the stairs - he's not taking the elevator, he refuses - gets to be a little too much.
Of course, he knows people are going to notice, but unless someone says something to him first, they're not going to hear a word about it from him. Actions speak louder than words, after all.]
[ooc: If anyone needs a reference, 1, 2, & 3, just with this haircut, still. Feel free to recognize him or not!]
[infirmary]
Did Bucky change his deal?
[infirmary]
His mouth twists a little.] He must've. I don't know what his deal is, now. I haven't asked. But it can't be the same one. That's gone and past.
[infirmary]
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But now he's here, and he remembers, and my time's up. So the Admiral can't give me a damn thing when I graduate T'Pol. I was never in it to get something out of this job, but you see why he can't come through on his original deal with me, anyway?
[He's got a few ideas, he's planning to change it, but that's not the point. His current deal is invalidated, but the Admiral never said a thing. You could argue he got his time - or, rather, he got time, anyway - but he hasn't graduated an inmate, so the system's still broken.]
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[infirmary]
I still trust what he's doing. I just don't know that I always trust him, if that makes sense. [He thinks about it, then laughs a little, softly.] He's kinda like my boss back home. Complicated. Maybe he really does see the bigger picture, but he's not always the greatest about dispensing that information down to the rest of us on the front lines.
And he's not infallible. I still believe that.
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And we can work together, even if we have different ideas about why we're doing it and who we're doing it for, right? God knows people aren't always going to see eye to eye on the whys, but that's just the way people are.
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