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James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes ([personal profile] nerves_of_ice) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2021-02-21 03:24 pm

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"Go. Go! Take this journal and write down everything you can remember. It will help, I promise you."

"Princess--"

"Do not argue. Find somewhere quiet, where you won't be bothered."

"The kids aren't a bother."

"They are also not quiet."


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It's been a long time since he's been here, enough that if pressed he couldn't actually say how long. He hadn't exactly meant to come, either, but he'd been thinking about finding somewhere out of the way when he walked out of Shuri's lab, and there's no question that Milliways fits that description better than anywhere else.

About ten minutes later, Bucky Barnes is settled in at one of the quieter booths in the back, the journal open in front of him. (A close observer might notice that each page is subtly embossed with the logo of the Wakandan Design Group.)

He's holding a pen in his right hand and tapping it against the blank page. From time to time he sets down the pen and picks up the cup of coffee waiting beside him instead. A swallow or two later, he repeats the process, swapping cup for pen.

His left hand is immaterial to the whole process, as it's entirely absent. A series of gauze bandages are barely visible under the collar of his shirt, and his left sleeve is neatly pinned shut over where his arm used to be.
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-27 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Fives jerks a thumb back at himself.

"Clone army."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-28 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Big war," Fives says wryly. "Big galaxy."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-28 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Three billion?" Fives says, trying to remember. "About that."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-28 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Least the Republic is only a few thousand worlds," Fives says. "But yeah, takes a big army."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-28 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Fives says gruffly, "retirement, right."

Retirement's for people who have lives to get back to.
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Fives shrugs and rubs the side of his forehead.

"I'm not - "like you " - someone who left a normal life and a family and whatever, and gets to go back to a woman and kids. I was born and raised for one life. Rapid aging, remember?

"If I'm lucky I'll spend the last few years of my life training my younger brothers."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-02-28 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Fives shrugs - he doesn't mind at all.

"I'm ten years old, Galactic standard years."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-03-01 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Same as anyone, opened a door on the outpost, discovered it led here."

He chuckles for a moment. "Spent days trying to get my brothers in here too. Turns out it doesn't work like that."
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-03-01 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Really?" Fives starts in surprise, and gives a slight guffaw. "Well that's unfair.

"My... Echo," he decides against saying 'my brother' three times in one conversation " - we grew up together in the training facility, he's the only one left of our training squad..."

He pauses, to check Bucky gets the implication.
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-03-01 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Echo is more than a brother, in the same way that a brother is more than a friend. If you could call people 'twins' where there's already genetic identicality, you'd still not be close.

This isn't difficult at all to pick up on.

"...we've been on the same deployments ever since. Tried to physically pull him through a bunch of times but the door was a fucker for that. I'd easily give my access to him, the guy could do with the time off."
Edited 2021-03-01 20:14 (UTC)
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-03-01 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Magic," says Fives with some feigned distaste. "There's no understanding it, is there?"
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[personal profile] 5ame_heart 2021-03-01 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, yes, Jedi," Fives says, "or whatever they're called in your world. No understanding them, either."

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