#ooc: bucky's solo thought is 'the lion the witch and the audacity of this bitch'

[ghostsandmirrors]

Steve looked at the photos, a confused look on his face. They were… friends? Bucky was his friend. It sounded right, yet he wasn’t sure if he could trust the man. “We were friends?” It didn’t matter now, Steve didn’t even remember him. He grabbed the shield with his metal arm. “I don’t know who you are or why you’re trying to trick me, but I’m not afraid of you.” Steve sighed. “They didn’t say I had to kill anyone this time…”- Steve Rogers anon

There was a small movement as Bucky shifted his weight, not entirely comfortable with how this all felt but not willing to just tell Mystery Steve to figure it out on his own. He may have been avoiding Steve, but this wasn't the same man.

"You sure look like a friend," he said, voice gentle and guard dropped; Mystery Steve hadn't done anything to raise any mental alarms besides the 'that sounds familiar' one, so Bucky had no reason to believe that'd change. He had clearly forgotten who this could have been, because otherwise he would have considered fighting to be an almost guaranteed option. True, he still wasn't entirely certain that this was a Steve, but he looked and sounded like a Steve so it still should have been a possibility in his brain.

Left hand clenching into a fist as soon as the shield was grabbed, arm whirring as the plates moved like his arm was tensing, his shoulders squared and he shifted his stance just a little to make sure his left side was turned more towards the man who'd stolen his shield. He wanted to limit the amount of difficulties he could have with trying to defend, and having his metal arm between them would make things easier, even if he didn't want to fight the man. Not because he didn't want to punch someone who looked like Steve--he definitely did have the urge to after everything that had happened--but because he didn't want to risk the coffee table; his house was bare enough without breaking the small amount of furniture he did have.

"M'not tryin' to trick you," he said, keeping his voice in that same gentle tone that was forced into a sense of calm and held a certain amount of stability. Said tone was completely demolished, however, when Bucky fully registered what'd been said. That also felt familiar in the worst possible way and he suddenly knew how Steve'd felt on the helicarrier, even if he didn't have the same hang-ups.

This wasn't a good night.

"Who didn't?" Bucky asked loudly, admittedly trying to buy time in the vague hopes that he could distract Mystery Steve enough to do… something. He really didn't want to lose that coffee table. "If they didn't say it, are you gonna kill me in my fuckin' apartment 'cause you wanna, punk?" he asked, almost sounding incredulous, the name coming out of habit, not that he noticed; there were more important things to be thinking about right now.

One of the less important things he was thinking about was the urge to start lecturing Mystery Steve for not only appearing in his apartment unannounced, but also for stealing his shield and threatening to kill him when the whole reason he'd wanted the man to stay was to stop him getting into fights while lost. It was another urge he was resisting, though there was a chance it'd be a good distraction so he wasn't writing it off as an option just yet.

#ic #ic!ask #anon!ask #ic!answer #afallencommando : bucky barnes #verse : that shield #ooc: sorry this got long again #ooc: i got rambling >.< #ooc: bucky's solo thought is 'the lion the witch and the audacity of this bitch' #ooc: l o n g b o i #put it in the queue