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Natasha Romanoff ([personal profile] widows_kiss) wrote2012-11-12 09:54 pm
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Appointments Post



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~ STANDING APPOINTMENTS ~
Daily:
Early morning run
CH5 Avengers Breakfast
Training Session at the Battle Dome

Other:
Friday: 8AM Coffee Date with Pepper


jamesbarnes: (same old story)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-08 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Bucky steps inside, silent as she gets her thoughts together. The last thing he expected was for this to shake Clint and Natasha. Whatever they have between them runs deeper than he could hope to guess, and while a part of him is admittedly jealous, he understands being so close to someone that you practically live under their skin.

He also understands how things can get... messy, when new feelings come into play. He's never seen her so out of sorts, and it's no wonder. He shakes his head.]


Sounds like a rough morning. Do you want to talk about it, or hole up for the day and watch some movies? I can leave, too, if you're not up for the company.
jamesbarnes: (see right through you)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-08 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Bucky's lips quirk up into a small smile. She's almost babbling; it's cute, though he wouldn't dare say that out loud. It's not like he's doing much better. He can feel the warmth at his collar when she mentions the last time they were together. It's not like him to blush like a schoolboy, but that was... generally more adventurous than he's accustomed to.

He settles on the couch beside her. She's trying to play it off, but he doesn't see how it couldn't hurt to be shut out.]


Well, while we're being honest, I could use some company too. I can't believe that jerk was actually dumb enough to spend any time away from the most gorgeous dame I've ever laid eyes on. [He winks at her. Though the words are meant sincerely, he plays it up in hopes of lightening the mood. He catches her eye before he reaches over to put an arm around her shoulders - honestly, she just looks like she could use a hug.]

It was complicated. [It's still complicated, but where do they even begin to talk about that?] What do you think, is it a Die Hard kinda day?
Edited 2013-03-08 01:39 (UTC)
jamesbarnes: (eyebrow raise)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-08 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bucky chuckles.] Does it? I can keep going.

[He keeps his hold on her light, easy to shake off even after she sinks against him. He can feel the warmth of her through his shirt, and he's grateful for the ease of it, soaking up as much comfort as he tries to give.

When she asks if she owes an apology, he shakes his head.]
Not a chance. I think... I think we ought to sort all of this out, but I don't have any regrets if you don't. [He pauses, drops a light kiss against the crown of her head.] I mean, aside from the obvious, we also broke your lamp, and that one chair, and the, ah, your unmentionables ended up on the ceiling fan...

[Bucky clears his throat. Getting them down had been pretty entertaining too. When she mentions the movie he raises an eyebrow, curious.] Yeah? Alright, hit me.
jamesbarnes: (pic#4797997)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-12 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll have to get 'em off me first. [Bucky winks at her, but neither of them are really up for anything right now, and he's happy to cuddle up with her and watch the movie. Partway through he coaxes her into a dance, and as much as he was enjoying the movie, he can't say it has his full attention just then.]

This is gonna sound... so ridiculous, but sometimes it's like you knew me since before we met, and I'm still trying to figure out how I got so lucky you decided to stick around anyway.
jamesbarnes: get in the car steve (serious)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-12 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[When she stumbles he automatically reaches to catch her, letting her steady herself against him, though he's clearly surprised. He wonders if she was hurt and he didn't notice somehow, or if he said too much, or just the wrong thing at the wrong time. There's an apology on the tip of his tongue but the look on her face forestalls it.

He lets her go - slowly, though she doesn't seem unsteady anymore.]
Natasha what... Are you alright? What was that about?
jamesbarnes: (this is not my impressed face)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-12 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't know exactly what it was, but that wasn't just a random accident. Not with that look on her face after, and the way she's trying to play it off now. But at the same time, he's not sure what it's supposed to mean. She can't possibly... They couldn't have met. He died. He fell from a train into water so cold it burned, and he died.]

That's not the best lie you've ever told me.
jamesbarnes: (lost)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-12 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[He almost wants her to laugh in his face and tease him, like this is all some big joke, and he's the world's biggest sucker for falling for it. He watches her sit, sees the way her hands shake, and he knows it's not.

He's been making excuses since the day they met, since he saw her fight and dance and made love to her - they move like mirrors, and her hands know his skin like the lines of map.

A part of him wants to sit with her and take her hands in his, but he feels like he's frozen where he is.]


I -- I died years before you could have even been born.
jamesbarnes: (need another drink)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-13 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Bucky is silent for a long moment, and then he sits down slowly.]

Jesus.

I think you'd better start from the beginning.
jamesbarnes: (pic#4813054)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-16 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods at the very beginning. He doesn't expect to like what he's about to hear, but he can respect her privacy, and whatever official red tape there is keeping her past under lock and key.

It starts off familiar enough. Lost parents, lost children... but then it becomes so much worse. One of his hands is balled into a fist in his lap, and he curls the fingers of his other hand over it, feeling the pressure of them tense and release as she speaks. He's looking at his hands but not seeing them at all. He thought Hydra was a nasty piece of work, indiscriminate as they were, but this Red Room had deliberately used children as lab rats and tried to mold them into killers. And in a horrible way this, too, is a part of the legacy Steve left. People think men like him can be made, then made into weapons. They experimented on children. On Natasha.

He doesn't know how she speaks so calmly, because he's not sure he can speak at all at the moment. He's caught somewhere between anger and a hollow kind of grief for what was done, and what wasn't. What can't be changed.

He feels her gaze on him and looks up to meet her eyes, nodding just slightly for her to continue. He realizes as soon as she says he's the one who taught me how to fight that this where he comes into the story. It feels like all the air has been punched out of his lungs. It can't be true. He wants to argue, but he can't bring himself to, right at that moment. There's something in the quiet cadence of Natasha's voice that rings too true.

He helped them do whatever it was they did to her, and who knows how many other people like her. He doesn't know how or why in God's name he lived for that, but suddenly it seems like death was easy.

His arm seems like a small thing to lose in comparison, and he thinks dully of when Steve had scolded him for joking about just that. He can't decide if it's less funny or more now.]


I don't... I don't know how to... [He swallows, and makes himself look at her, at least.] I'm sorry. For everything.
Edited 2013-03-16 02:14 (UTC)
jamesbarnes: (head up)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-16 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can read between the lines enough to hear what Natasha's talking around. They got involved, maybe they fell in love, and maybe they found something human in each other, there's no way for him to know. It hasn't happened yet. But either way he thinks Natasha is giving him too much credit for some things, and not enough blame for others, if everything she says is true.]

No. The only thing you could possibly owe me was the truth about what happened between us, and that's out now.

[There's a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach. He needs to get out of here and sort all this out. He cards his fingers through his hair.]

I think I should go.
jamesbarnes: (same old story)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-18 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
[There's something telling about her stillness, and the near total lack of reaction. He realizes too late that his first instinct has been to run, and it's going to hurt her, but it's too much.

He can't make himself stay, and he can't just leave things like this between them.]


Natasha... [When they get to the door he starts to reach for her hand but stops himself short, fingers closing on air before returning to his side.] We'll talk later.
jamesbarnes: (lost)

Re: Feb 19th | Action

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2013-03-20 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He can't read her expression or the response after it. He doesn't know what else to say either, or if he wants anything like an apology from her. On the one hand, he wishes she'd told him from the start, but on the other, some small cowardly part of him wishes she'd never told him at all, and it's just enough for him to understand.

He nods in return and steps out. He doesn't look back as he heads back down the hallway. Faint notes of music from the movie follow him until she finally shuts the door.]