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Le Ciel - Heaven (part 2)

Characters: Bucky x reader, Steve, OFC (Claire), OMC (Eric), basically just a lot of people talking to each other

Summary: Bucky meets a girl in France during the war. Will he ever see her again? (my summaries suck, I know)

Warnings: some swearing but mostly bad grammar and poor spelling and messed up tenses, implied smut, mentions of torture, angst, fluff, war

Word count: 1800

Notes: Inspired by the end of the movie “French Kiss” with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. I assume Bucky might have been in France at one point during the war. If not, he was now.

English is not my first language and I have nobody to proofread so brace yourself. Feedback is appreciated.

* MASTERLIST *

“She doesn’t understand it anyway, Dum Dum,” Bucky huffs. “And it’s not like I can ever have a decent conversation with her.” He turns his attention back to you. “But man, I sure do want to.”

Bucky looks straight into your eyes with sincerity you haven’t seen in a long time in a man his age.

“And what would you say if you could talk to me, monsieur Bucky?” you say in perfect English that you learned from your English grandmother.

And that’s how your story starts, with Bucky’s jaw dropping to the floor and Dum Dum laughing his ass off.

July and August 1944, France

The soldiers have taken up residence in your village waiting for a mission but even they don’t know when it will take place. They process intel when it reaches them but it’s more than anything a sit tight and wait situation causing a false sense of security to settle over them. To pass the time the guys lend a helping hand on a large nearby vineyard where there’s a shortage a men because of the war. Steve also got his hands on some art supplies and Bucky seizes every chance he gets to try and win over your heart.

The next weeks of the summer are spent together whenever you and Bucky can. You work in your family’s bakery during the day but the second you’re off you bike to the little hotel to see Bucky. People talk behind your backs, a young girl like you and a handsome foreign soldier that will never stay. It’s plain to see that your time spent together involves more, way more, than just holding hands or him chasing you around the town square and stealing kisses from you behind the church. Seeing you leave his hotel at 5 am spark rumors even more.

“We are worried about her reputation, madame. What man will want to marry your daughter when he finds out he isn’t her first?” the butcher’s wife asked your mom one day. Your mom was so mad at her she told her off, calling her narrow-minded and old fashioned and all but kicked her out the bakery. But she didn’t stop there and by the end of the day, she had told off everyone else in the village, too. No-one gives Bucky dirty looks anymore since then.

“You know, that’s probably the only mother in the world that defends your honor, Buck.” Steve joked. That evening Bucky showed up at our doorstep with flowers for your mom.

Bucky’s group has an impressive physique and stamina to maintain and just working in the vineyard isn’t enough. Behind the old school house at the edge of the village there’s a small football field on which only kids play and so when Steve asks you if you know a good place for them to work out you bring them there. It’s nice and quiet, perfect to read a book while waiting for your newfound boyfriend to finish his daily routine. To be honest, you fan yourself more with the book than you actually read it because oh my, what a sight. It’s all bare chests, rippling muscles, grunting, panting, ragged breaths under a beautiful and hot French sun. It does something to a young girl in the midst of summer.

Needless to say you enjoy the view, not even hiding that you are checking them all out. The lean body of Jacques, the incredible abs of Jim, the broad shoulders of Dum Dum, you feast your eyes on each and every one of them. Steve definitely is a sight for sore eyes. Built like a god with his broad chest and shoulders, flawless fair skin, arms that look like he could rip a log in half with his bare hands. From the corner of your eye you see one man has stopped his work out. By the time you stop openly ogling Steve, Bucky’s looking at you with an expression you can’t quite place.

“What’s the matter, baby?” you ask with a smile.

“Nothing,” he murmurs under his breath, looking defeated. He releases a deep breath and looks off in the distance, hands on his hips. The lack of a cheeky response from him instantly gains the attention of his fellow soldiers.

“You okay, Buck?” Steve wonders while wiping the sweat of his face and chest with a towel causing Bucky to look between Steve and you. Steve furrows his brows but you quickly catch on. You hop off the small wall you’re sitting on and slowly walk over the green grass to your boyfriend. The sad look in his eyes breaks your heart, like a man offering his heart to you on a silver platter, expecting it to be ripped to shreds and fully accepting that cruel fate. You better make this count, you think. Your hips sway a little more than usual and push out your chest. Your tongue licks your lips and your bottom lip is caught between your teeth. All eyes are on you but your gaze is fixed on Bucky, giving him a sly grin. Only stopping when your bodies almost touch you look him up and down while releasing a soft moan for good measure. You feed your eyes on his beautiful body thinking about all the things you could do to him but that will have to wait till you are back in his room. Bucky swallows thickly when your right hand touches the nape of his neck, moving higher and grabbing a fistful of his hair, slowly but surely guiding his head to one side while your other hand finds its way to his chest. Your lips ghosts over the side of his exposed neck until you reach that certain spot below his ear and place a kiss, linger a little longer than necessary. Moving your lips higher, your teeth graze his ear. By now Bucky’s breathing heavily, his eyes fluttered closed. You can’t help but smile at the sight. He’s a mess, a sheen of sweat coats his skin, chest heaving both with anticipation and surrendering to the moment. Your right hand slips from his neck and joins the left one, your fingers now slowly raking over his toned pecs and chest.

“You don’t have anything to worry about, Bucky,” you whisper softly in his ear. His head is tilted a little to the side. By now your fingers reach his abs. “It’s not him I kiss.” Your fingers continue their way down and you can feel him draw a deep breath and his muscles tense, making you smile against his cheek. Your lips graze his ear again when your fingers hook in the loops of his pants and pull him close. He stumbles a step forward and opens his eyes unable to truly focus. “It’s not him I think about when you are between my legs at night.” That’s when you kiss him and moan a little in the kiss for good measure. This boy needs assurance you are choosing him over the huge super soldier and that’s exactly what you’re giving him. You feel his chest swell with pride and not only his chest. Hooting and whistling surrounds you both making you blush a little but giving Bucky a cocky grin, his arms firmly wrapped around your waist claiming you as his girl and only his. Mission accomplished.

The moments Bucky opens up to you the most are at night. Lying in each other’s arms Bucky tells you little bits and pieces of his life before the war. You heard the guys talk about the all girls he charmed and took on dates and dancing which sounds like something Bucky would do. But with you he only talks about his family, what the little money they had, taking care of Steve who was ill all the time, leaving his mother and little sisters behind. The stories about how he ended up here. That he regrets joining the army. Wondering why he lays his life on the line while his family is now left without a man to take of them and struggling to survive. He's a humble man you learn, not wanting great things. His only dream is returning to a normal life after the war. Finding a job and maybe make enough money to buy an actual house with a garden, marry and start a family. Nothing more, nothing less. You love it when he talks about his hopes and you listen when he talks about his fears. He tells you he was captured and how he was tortured by a man named Zola. That he’s absolutely terrified of it happening again.

It’s all pillow talk. It only comes out in the darkness of the night. Like he’s ashamed of it all, ashamed of not having won the fight, of being captured. He talks about who The Howling Commandos are and what they do. About Hydra, which scares the hell out of you. He tells you about the experiment Steve went through that made him Captain America, a super soldier. He admits being insecure since his scrawny best friend became this impressive physical appearance. It used to be him people looked at and now it’s not him they want. He’s not jealous but he has difficulties coming to terms with it.

“He doesn’t need me to be here but he wants it. He says I’m his strength, his rock in difficult times,” Bucky whispers. “But it’s not easy to hold a rock his size, darling.”

And with that your angel buries his head deep in your chest, pulls his legs up and makes himself as small as he can. His heart is pounding in his chest, his breathing fast and shallow. It’s like this almost every night. He needs protection, feel warm arms wrapped him, someone whispering sweet nothings in his ear and you give him what he needs. It helps him forget the cold table he was strapped to and the yelling he endured during his captivity. You see it a lot these days. People are worn out by the war and you hope it will all be over soon. This beautiful man is so broken already. You fall asleep worrying how long he will be able to hold himself together. He has nightmares almost every night. He keeps repeating his name, outfit and service number in his sleep, whimpering Steve’s name for help, before waking up crying and sweating, before holding on to you for dear life, almost squeezing all the air out of you, begging you not to leave him alone. The really bad nights are when you have to shake him awake and he doesn't focus on you but has this 1000-yard stare. He loses himself and it's difficult to get him to come back to you, and even then it’s like he barely recognizes you.

At daybreak, all that haunts Bucky is pushed aside. “I’m fine, doll. As long as I have you,” and with a soft kiss to your lips and an enchanting smile that doesn’t always reach his eyes, he brushes you aside. During the day he’s all smiles and jokes, hiding his troubles too well. It’s a completely different Bucky and it worries you. Steve doesn’t seem to notice and you wonder if you should tell him. But you decide against it. It’s a decision you will forever regret.

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The mythic horror movie, like the sick joke, has a dirty job to do. It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us. It morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest fantasies realized . . . and it all happens, fittingly enough, in the dark.

Stephen King, “Why We Crave Horror”

Essay III: The Universe of Paranormal Activity Movies

Horror movies are fears, unexplained events, demonic possession, the darker workings of our mind. The occult of figuring out what is real or paranormal. The Paranormal Activity movies play on different sub-genres of the demonic possession, the occult, the coven and paranormal. We may never know if these movies are genuinely based on real events or just an excellent storyline.

A brief analysis of the movies, Paranormal Activity plays on an entity that is haunting Katie and Maciah. The film starts off with Micah purchasing a camera to catch what is happening throughout the house. The events start out small with keys on the floor and then progresses to noises around the house. Micah conducts an EVP session to catches a grunting sound. One night Katie just wakes ups and stands up beside the bed, walks out of the room and goes downstairs. Micah wakes up and goes downstairs and finds Katie outside on the swing, doesn't want to go inside and wants to stay out, Micah goes to get blankets and Kaite is back inside, going to bed. Wakes up the next morning and has no recognition of what happened the night before. Date Night and Micah buys an Ouija board, and Katie flips out on him, leaves Ouija board on the coffee table, and planchette moves and strange noises, scratching sound, the wind is blowing in the living room, ouija board catches on fire. Micah places powder on the floor to find footprints, massive footprints come into the room and leave. \Micah and Katie wake up and leaves the room, following in the footsteps of the closet to find attic is open and Micah looks and see pictures of 15 years old Katie, burned around the edges. Katie gets dragged downstairs and gets be bitten on her side. Katie wants to leave and is very adamant about wanting to go but then changes her mind about wanting to stay and says “it's better if we stay.” The final night 21, Katie stands up and moves to Micah’s side of the bed. Goes downstairs and screams Micah’s name and struggle are happening and dragging noise upstairs and Micah's body is thrown into the camera. Katie standing in doorway covered in blood, crawls and sniffs Micah and then face turns demonic, film ends.

Paranormal Activity 2, takes place in Carlsbad, CA, where Daniel and Kristi Rey live (Katie’s sister), daughter Ali and newborn son Hunter. These events that take place are before Katie and Micah. Right from the start of the movie and intruder comes into the house and breaks in and destroys everything, to only take a book of old VHS that Katie brought over. Mysteriously the picture that was found in Micah and Katie's attic was in Kristi’s photo album. Nanny is watching Hunter and hears a loud BANG! Hunter wakes up crying, she is now holding Hunter and is sages in the house and saying prayers. To rid of the evil spirits and keep the good spirits. Most of the activity revolves around Hunter, which is a clear sign that he is the target for the entity to target next. Most of the events that happen in this movie are similarily parallel to the first movie. Kristi hears noise in the kitchen and goes to check is out a pot falls from racking. Kristi freaks out and tells her husband, and he doesn’t even believe her. She then has various events happen to her, making her almost seem crazy. She is then alone in the house with Hunter one night, the camera shits to the living room and the basement door opens, she then senses a precise outside the door. The entity knocks Kristi off her feet and tries to drag her downstairs, she then fights and thinks she is free, but he grabs her again and pulls her all the way to the basement. She is down there for a long time and then comes back up. Everyone returns home, and Kristi is acting extraordinary husband checks her out and has a but mark as well. Kristi is very overprotective of Hunter. Dad then calls the nanny back to help get Kristi back, she tells him that the only way to save her is to pass it to a blood relative who would be Katie. Then takes a cross and holy water, they fight with Kristi in the basement, and she screams a demonic scream and then a women screams, she is back. Three weeks later, Katie returns to get Hunter and kills Kristi and Daniel Rey in the process. Ali is away from the house.

Paranormal Activity 3, is set in 1998 where Kristi and Katie are younger children. Katie brings up Toby her imaginary friend (demon). Entity appears in-house right from the start and shows in Dennis and Julies room from dust from the earthquake, then disappears. Toby is clearly talking more to Kristi than Katie and keeps asking her to do things. Dennis finds drawing in the closet a triangle with a circle in it. The babysitter has experience with Toby and gets shoves by the entity. Kristi disagrees to not do what Toby wants anymore and then get really sick. Taken to the hospital and Randy watches over Kristi, she wants to play Bloody Mary in the bathroom, and Rany receives scratched on his side, the girl's room gets turned upside down, and Toby is clearly rattling the door to get to Katie. The kitchen is literally above the ground and comes crashing down, and they go to Grandma’s house. The night at grandma’s house; Dennis wakes up to noise and Julie goes to check it out, gone for a long time. Dennis goes to check it out and fines women's coven behind paintings and devils pentagram, is the chase around the house and finds Kristi, Katie is crying at the bottom of the staircase, has black eyes and screams and forces Dennis flying. Dennis is crawling on the floor, and grandma appears, and Kristi is passing in and out of the camera frame. Dennis is forced down by Toby and then gets bent in half. Grandma calls out for Kristi and Katie is already by her side. Kristi asks Toby to join them upstairs.

The next three films will just go over the main findings that will help understand what is actually going on. In Paranormal Activity 4, Alex finds the symbol that is drawn all over her brother Wyatt aka Hunter. The logo belongs to the women cult called the midwives.”Hasttusac symbol of fertility- often present in sacred rituals after that a demon would take possession of the male. For the demon to enter the host, the Hittites believed three stages had to be completed. 1) Actuation- the host will begin to exhibit signs of preternatural ability. 2) The host would have to prove preternatural ability to the demon. 3) Sacrifice- the host will be compelled to spill the blood of an inviolate (a being that had not been profaned and remains pure)”. In Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, Marisol and Hector meet with Ali, tells them about the sign of the midwives. The Midwives with mark an unborn male in utero, wait until the baby matures to be possessed. 666=18 ( age of maturity). Transformation is described as like fighting an infection and perform a final ritual, and then Jesse goes back to normal, but he's not Jesse anymore. At the midwives house, Hector goes through a doorway that leads to Katie and Micah’s house and is then killed by Jesse, the door leads to unholy places only. In Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the family finds a camera with special effects, the house is built on the midwives house, and Katie and Kristi grandma’s house that had burnt down and the new house was built on top of it. The entity is stronger and shows more demon-like features. Strange Markings appear over Leila's bed, opens up to a portal. Skylar looking at Ryan’s research; Revelation 5:6- The slain lamb will be used against God, for the blood of the chosen ones will taint it and help give life to one of the seven princes of hell. Each prince shall return through the blood of the two born of the same moon. Meaning Leila and Toby will give Toby human form. Father Todd comes back to the house to exterminate the home of the entity, it all fails, and mom goes through the portal and is in Katie and Kristi’s old house and is killed by Toby. Toby has taken human-form and walks off camera with Leila.

In the beginning, we can relate this to the feeling of “uncanny, the fact that people differ greatly in their sensitivity to this kind of feeling” (Freud, 124). This has a complicated and diverse theme throughout all six movies that this entity is haunting and has a clear understanding of what it wants. The American Gothic plays a role in introducing a new sub-genre of a new psyche, being able to be possessed and have the ability to transfer demons from one blood relative to another is a strong power. The American Gothic plays on this idea that we usually go in a place that is somewhere else and doesn’t happen in our own homes. The entity shows that is clearly tied to a person and not things like a house. “The seven princes” are on a mission provided by the midwives to live on earth in a human form. “The gothic enables the objects of terror and torture to haunt, a subject who can articulate the meaning of their own suffering.” (Battista). The entity definitely plays the roles of torture and has a strong male precise of making itself known through violence and physical force.

In the second movie, we learn to see a version of magic that is not seen but can be noticeable through the works of passing the demon onto another blood relative. This is a form of imitative magic relies on creating a link with it victim by making an image of him/ her of wax, clay, rags, or whatever materials is to hand, usually including his hair or nail clippings, blood, or sweat, which retain their connection with him”. (Wendish,17). This happens when Kristi becomes possessed, and the only way to pass the demon onto someone else is by a blood relative, and that would be Katie. The ritual is complete, and they have to burn the 15-year-old photo os Katie to make everything finalized. We usually only see this in witch movies but to see it happen in a paranormal film, to save a life is very strange.

A common theme for these movies is that it shows the importance of male and female roles. It relates not only to the nuclear family but also the position are more reversed. I think of this a when researching tribes and their ritual practices the women are purer and are closer to the ground, representing that they are closer to the earth and connected spiritually more. This plays a huge role for the women in Paranormal Activity, the women are the one ones that are more in charge and have more control and say of what they are destined to become or to play out their roles properly. The male is just kind of in the way. Unless they're the marked ones, then they are destined to protect the women and that is their only job to serve them so their protected. This is reverse when we think of the nuclear family in modern socirty in the 70s but it has changed over the years and women have just as much power as men do now.

Works Cited:

Cavendish, Richard. The Black Arts. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974

Freud, Sigmund. “The Uncanny.” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917-1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works.

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