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thearena2015-02-26 09:24 pm
tookthewheel) wrote in thearena2015-02-26 09:24 pm
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There's ice in your heart [closed]
Who| Bucky and Thor, with Steve arriving late to the party
What| Bucky finally runs into brainwashed!Thor and it doesn't end well for him, then Steve shows up and the awful continues
Where| The glacial lake
When| End of week 4
Warnings/Notes| Death, violence, ptsd, brainwashing, flashbacks... all the good stuff
The cold snap lingers in the air, making Bucky's breath fog up in front of him with every exhale. He's bundled on every layer he has, with his scarf pulled up over his mouth to try and make the temperature more bearable. It reminds of a place, a time before, making his way through the deep snow. Russia, Siberia? Maybe different places at different times.
He doesn't have a rifle in his hands now, nor the comfort of a white camouflaged snow suit. Technically he probably shouldn't be out here at all, not after the mess that was the beginning of this week for him. Just the thought of it makes his right hand hurt all the more, the palm of it ruined by a bullet hole which made his fingers barely responsive. Any movement he does manage to get from them brings a horrible pain with it.
But there is a reason for him to be out here; Darcy is gone. She has been for an usual amount of time and with the recent loss of Sam at the beginning of the week in a trap laid by the Capitol (the cause for the sudden plague of jabberjays) he feels more keenly any unusual absence from any member of the group. Bucky's not the only one who feels that way either, which is why he's left the cave with Steve beside him. The two of them could cover more ground together and, hopefully, keep each other out of trouble.
At first they had tried to follow the path that Darcy had taken but even their combined tracking skills they lost the way eventually. The snow constantly floating down from the sky had made her imprints in the snow vanish. The path they followed had ended up near the edge of the glacial lake with no Darcy in sight, just an empty white expanse of ice and snow to greet them with no sign that Darcy had been here at all.
They'd split up then, for better or worse, as a last ditch attempt to find out where she'd gone. It was Bucky's suggestion, after Steve made the initial decision, for them to travel twenty minutes in the opposite direction from the other before turning back to meet at the starting point. If one of them didn't show up then at least the other would know which way to go to find them.
Now, fifteen minutes after leaving Steve's side, Bucky's feeling of pessimism is only worsening with the suspicion that Darcy is gone already and they're too late to do anything about it. Still he trudges forwards through the snow with a grim determination, counting down the seconds until he can turn back to reunite with Steve and hopes tgar his friend has had better luck than he had.
What| Bucky finally runs into brainwashed!Thor and it doesn't end well for him, then Steve shows up and the awful continues
Where| The glacial lake
When| End of week 4
Warnings/Notes| Death, violence, ptsd, brainwashing, flashbacks... all the good stuff
The cold snap lingers in the air, making Bucky's breath fog up in front of him with every exhale. He's bundled on every layer he has, with his scarf pulled up over his mouth to try and make the temperature more bearable. It reminds of a place, a time before, making his way through the deep snow. Russia, Siberia? Maybe different places at different times.
He doesn't have a rifle in his hands now, nor the comfort of a white camouflaged snow suit. Technically he probably shouldn't be out here at all, not after the mess that was the beginning of this week for him. Just the thought of it makes his right hand hurt all the more, the palm of it ruined by a bullet hole which made his fingers barely responsive. Any movement he does manage to get from them brings a horrible pain with it.
But there is a reason for him to be out here; Darcy is gone. She has been for an usual amount of time and with the recent loss of Sam at the beginning of the week in a trap laid by the Capitol (the cause for the sudden plague of jabberjays) he feels more keenly any unusual absence from any member of the group. Bucky's not the only one who feels that way either, which is why he's left the cave with Steve beside him. The two of them could cover more ground together and, hopefully, keep each other out of trouble.
At first they had tried to follow the path that Darcy had taken but even their combined tracking skills they lost the way eventually. The snow constantly floating down from the sky had made her imprints in the snow vanish. The path they followed had ended up near the edge of the glacial lake with no Darcy in sight, just an empty white expanse of ice and snow to greet them with no sign that Darcy had been here at all.
They'd split up then, for better or worse, as a last ditch attempt to find out where she'd gone. It was Bucky's suggestion, after Steve made the initial decision, for them to travel twenty minutes in the opposite direction from the other before turning back to meet at the starting point. If one of them didn't show up then at least the other would know which way to go to find them.
Now, fifteen minutes after leaving Steve's side, Bucky's feeling of pessimism is only worsening with the suspicion that Darcy is gone already and they're too late to do anything about it. Still he trudges forwards through the snow with a grim determination, counting down the seconds until he can turn back to reunite with Steve and hopes tgar his friend has had better luck than he had.
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He lies still, just for a moment. Steve's voice is clear and it's like his words are echoing in his mind over and over. He doesn't know what they mean, he doesn't understand the implications. He doesn't understand why it makes something deep in him ache with an intensity that makes him half curl in on himself.
The sound he makes is haggard and frustrated, almost mournful before it turns to rage. He can see now that Steve is lying, that Steve is looking to get him into trouble so he can be rid of him once and for all. He won't let it happen. He needs to silence him. He pushes himself up, clawing desperately at the ice as he drags himself up slowly.
And then. He doesn't make a move. He's calm for a moment, eyes down and lips pressed into a sad line. There's an eerie still, a seeming reluctance to attack or move or even look at Steve.
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He wants to approach the other man, but he thinks better of it, knowing how well that worked out for him the last two times he dealt with brainwashed people. Which was, not very well.
But it's when the other man goes still, oddly calm, that Steve goes on his guard again. Something instinctively inside him says that at this moment, Thor is completely unpredictable, he might run, he might fight, but it still puts Steve into a deep unease. It makes him hesitant to even speak, knowing making a sound could set him off, knowing the wrong words could alter the situation irreversibly, but they could also help. The right words could reach him.
Right?
"Please, more blood on your hands won't do you any good," the words are more a whisper, enough for the man to hear, something soft, more like he's talking to a wild animal that needs soothing than a man.