skyagain | catchall bucky

We'll see about that.

[ on the one hand: yes. on the other hand: bucky is keenly aware of how short his fuse is, even now. ]

Then try not to embarrass yourself too much. I already told people you used to be on my team.

[ he's joking. mostly. ]

Now why would you do that, if you're trying to protect your own rep?

So people know I've got no reason to have a bias.

[ ...squints. is this an insult. ]

What, towards your old team?

Either you want me to act nice and reflect well on you, or you want me to make a fool of myself to prove you're not biased, but you can't have it both ways.

You asked why I told anyone. Guy asked if I was likely to cover for people on my old team if they wanted to murder.

[ he was just answering the question actually ]

...and? What did you say?

Same as it was in the Realm. You guys wanna do stupid shit, don't involve me in it.

Smart.

I hope that means I can trust you not to do any killing either.

I don't think you should trust anyone on that front. Heard about what actually happened with Sieghart?

Yeah. Looks like our own thoughts and decisions might get thrown out the window.

And we don't know if killing just once is enough for those, or if the only way to get the shadows out is to catch whoever it is.

Knowing our luck, it'll be the latter. Or even a third, worse option.

Like winding up in the death hotel isn't our third, worse option to begin with? It's only downhill from here.

Yeah...but there's always more rungs down the ladder. More ways to go downhill once you're already at the bottom.

[ okay, look. he gets what bucky is saying. but on the other hand ]

... Of the ladder?

[ that metaphor got away from bucky maybe. ]

...sure. You can have ladders along the side of a hill.

...

[ just a judgmental look ]

... Right.

I never said I was a poet.

Don't think anyone would ever think to call you that.

Maybe not a poet, but giving rousing speeches used to be a big part of my job.

... Really?

When I wasn't on the battlefield, I was giving speeches to boost morale and raise war funds.

And it actually worked?

Sure did. Netted a lot of war bonds, led like four different youth groups for the war effort...

It's not why I got the job to start with, but I did it damn well anyway.

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