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Daisy Johnson, Agent of SHIELD ([personal profile] chuju) wrote2021-04-25 04:08 pm
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
You know, you're really taking the shine off the whole 'jaunting across the stars' thing. [ Bucky's nose wrinkles, amused and barely serious. ] In general— Was space full of wonder or full of nightmares or kinda both?

[ If this movie is anything to be believed, it's both. He still wonders what it's like out there, too. Never got the chance to leave the planet like some of the other superheroes had. ]
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Do you still get to fly around in the spaceship? Just, y'know. Wondering. [ Har, har. ]
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Bucky jolts, now fully distracted from the film as he props himself up on his elbow and swivels, the better to turn and stare at her. Half-laughing: ]

Wait, you— look, you can't just keep offhand dropping shit like "Fury's super-secret space station". Of course I want to go visit a super-secret space station, what the hell. This better not be a joke, because I am entirely down for a field trip.

[ A beat, a small ripple in his easy demeanour like an accidental skip in the record. ]

As long as he, uh. Doesn't hold any grudges about the whole "trying to assassinate him" thing.

[ Daisy had maintained that SHIELD didn't have anything against him despite all the ruin left in his wake, but Bucky still suspected some agents were more wary of him than she was — and then, Fury hadn't just been accidental collateral damage either. He'd been a specific target. The director may have faked his death, but the two sniper rounds through the wall and into his chest had been real. ]
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, is that how it is? We're at the meeting-your-parents stage?

[ His voice is already warm, but before she can panic or think she overstepped, he adds, ]

I'd love to. Like I said, I've only heard good things.

[ Those bloodstained trading cards in Steve's hands. They'd left an impression. He'd told Bucky about it during those long months on the run, when he'd been filling his friend in on everything he'd missed, on the origins of the Avengers and that initial battle which had brought them all together. Phil Coulson died still believing in that idea, in heroes. Well, it's an old-fashioned notion. ]
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
If by "racking up a social calendar", you mean "cribbing from yours". [ It was a thing he was faintly self-conscious about. It paled in comparison to all the far more visceral guilt he carried around, but it was still there like a small but annoying pebble in his shoe: the awareness that he'd been trailing along on Steve's coattails, then Sam's, and now Daisy's. The only friend he'd picked up on his own initiative and in his own time had been Yori — which meant a disaster, a ticking time bomb, before that inevitably imploded. ]

How do people even make friends these days? Like, genuine question. I can barely remember how I did it before the army, and the world's such a different place compared to the '30s anyway.
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Hobbies. What are those?

[ An accidental echo of her own thoughts. ]

I took art classes with Steve, once upon a time, but I mostly did it 'cause the models were pretty. He was the artist between us. I did used to box a lot at the YMCA, though— maybe I gotta find a local gym...

[ He's never really gotten the chance to ponder this question aloud with someone before, although it's been haunting him for a while, so it's oddly nice to have someone to brainstorm with. How to exist as a person outside of work, outside of duty? ]
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously? Yeah, that would be great. The main reason I've never really signed up anywhere— [ or at least one of the reasons, ] is 'cause I didn't want to, y'know, walk in and then commit grievous property damage. Steve broke more than a few punching bags. I didn't know businesses had branched out these days.

[ Bucky snorts, though, at the phrasing. ]

'Enhanced spectrum'. Nice way of putting it.
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shouldn't be surprised that people say such bigoted shit about people like Daisy with her powers, and yet it's a bitter pill anyway, learning that. Weirdly enough, he's actually managed to be pretty removed from that whole side, since he doesn't know that many people with ingrained abilities. Wanda, maybe. He opens his mouth, almost says something, but then bites down on it. Bucky's mouth purses, but he follows her usual tack and asks a question just out of curiosity instead. ]

I don't think I ever asked— are there any other 'enhanced' operatives in SHIELD? Or is it just you?
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She is so stupidly cute when she yawns.

When Bucky glances back at the screen, distracted, he realises he's completely lost track of what's happening in the movie. But that's fine; he'd already assumed that's where they would wind up, and that they can just restart it next time when they're not both hopped up on painkillers.
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You can rest up if you need to. Don't worry about it.

[ Gentle permission to close her eyes, to doze off, to not have to fight for wakefulness any longer. ]
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-25 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A wan smile flickers across his face as he looks down at her. As she drifts off, he settles down even lower against the pillows and turns the volume lower on the TV: not fully silent, but enough that the music and voices drown into a low soporific hum. He usually falls asleep with it on, anyway.

His metabolism's still strong enough that it takes a while before the side-effects finally kick in. It comes on slowly: he's half-paying attention to the movie, still awake but drowsing, but that sleepiness keeps gnawing at the edges of his focus, nipping and dragging him down. In the end, it's a relief to just close his eyes and let go.

Normally Bucky is a terrible sleeper. He's only relatively recently gotten used to the softness of an actual mattress again, and he's usually awake and sweating in the middle of the night, tangled in his sheets. This time, though, the meds and the pain and the exhaustion just knocks him right out. At some point, the radiators come on with a noisy clang and he does wake up then — but just enough to blink blearily across the room, realise the woman beside him is still asleep, breathing deeply, and he reaches for the throw blanket from the bottom of the bed and drapes it over her. They've both just fallen asleep on top of the sheets, but his body runs hot enough that he's a human radiator himself, blazing with warmth.

And then that exhaustion comes in like a boulder and Bucky rolls over, buries his face in the pillow, and passes out again.

By morning — dawn light starting to spill through the windows, he doesn't even have curtains — they've somehow managed to burrow into the bed enough that he's wedged up against her, a leg entangled with hers, Daisy's head against the crook of his bare shoulder, close to the slow rise-and-fall of his breathing.
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-26 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He wakes up after Daisy, but just barely: it was that shift, the unaccustomed sensation of someone else in his bed, her squirming closer. And he remembers just enough of tucking her in that he doesn't jolt at the presence, doesn't immediately try to untangle himself and then panickedly yeet himself out of the bed. He cracks open an eye instead and squints at her in the morning light. ]

Yeah, uh, no problem.

[ This should probably feel more awkward than it does, right? This is the first time anyone is waking up in Bucky Barnes' bed in... jesus, some eighty years. It's an inconceivable stretch of time. But somehow it doesn't feel strange or uncomfortable: he's just drowsy, and maybe thinking about how he needs to catapult himself into the bathroom to spare her the morning breath, but just— having her here is nice. Having the company is nice.

Not having the nightmares for once. Is nice.
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I didn't really want to kick you out into the cold at 2am.

[ He shifts slightly — his right arm is half-asleep under Daisy's weight, so he readjusts, moves it a little higher so it's more slung over the pillows and her shoulders rather than trapped beneath her. Absolutely nothing happened between them, but he's hopelessly aware of how close she is now, and how normally waking up with someone else means an entirely different context than just dozing off on painkillers.

And yet. It still doesn't feel strange.
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You sleep okay?
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-27 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Better than usual.

[ Maybe he shouldn't have let that admission slip out, but— they both know that they both suffer nightmares and that they don't sleep well. They've already talked about it. It's not especially a surprise.

His dog tags are strangling him a little with the angle he's wedged against the pillows, so Bucky fishes them out, tugs them loose so they're back to their customary spot on his chest rather than wound tight around his neck. And then he lets his head fall back against the pillows, looking up at the ceiling so he's not staring right at Daisy's face from a few inches away, looming too-close. They're going about this all backwards, but in a way — he ponders — maybe falling asleep together doesn't have to be a big deal. It's just that human companionship, that soothing presence. Like a comfort blanket or a stuffed animal.

Buck, do not tell the cute girl that she's like a stuffed animal.

Instead, he takes a stab at trying to explain it, which backfires almost immediately but then he desperately tries to course-correct a second later.
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I think I've missed sleeping with— I mean, not like that— I've missed falling asleep with someone else in the room. The army, or a full house when I was a kid. Hasn't been like that in a while.
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[personal profile] armeyets 2022-03-28 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
A building full of SHIELD agents? [ He shoots her a sidelong look, sneaking a glance. For a moment he's not sure if she's talking about her home or her workplace; but granted, those lines are pretty blurred anyway. ] So, wait, is that a setup like— company housing or something? SHIELD owns the whole building and rents it out to its employees?

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yrs to wrap?

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