[log] Event: Howl [open]

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Characters: everyone
Location: The sort of location M.C. Escher wishes he'd thought up.
Date: nights 211 & 212
Summary: I hunt for you with bloody feet across the hallow'd ground
Warnings: potential for violence, death, and psychological horror; please note in subject lines if any specific warnings come up!

like some child possessed, the beast howls in my veins
I want to find you tear out all your tenderness

Comments

[definingfuture]

What if I just wanted to make sure you're okay? I know I'm not much use to you at the moment, but you said we were friends.

[He failed at that already. Tony is trying to make up for it.]

[advanced]

[That surprised expression remains, but he nods. It makes something ease in his chest.]

Yeah. From what I remember, we are.

[definingfuture]

If we're friends, then I want to make sure you're alive. I'm trying to do better here.

[He's awkward about it, but he's still trying to repair their broken friendship and make amends for threatening Bucky before.]

[advanced]

[Again, he nods, even takes a half step towards Tony.]

I'm alive, not hurt. You?

[definingfuture]

No, I'm not hurt.

[He looks awkward, though. They haven't completely sorted things out, but they're on better terms. Tony is trying to carefully heal things between them.]

Have you run into any monsters?

[advanced]

Yeah, I was with someone, though.

[He shrugs slightly, he had lost them along the way and that itches under his skin like a failure.]

They could see them, I can't.

[definingfuture]

We're just not special like that.

[Tony can see the uncomfortable way Bucky shrugs.]

This place has a way of pulling us apart. Do you want me to help you find them?

[advanced]

No, you should be looking for people like them to help too.

[He isn't refusing Tony's help because he's Tony, just because they both have a job to do.]

[definingfuture]

I am looking. [Wow, Bucky, don't give him that cold answer.]

I can do both, you know. And I'm worried about more than just the lights.

[advanced]

I'm not.

[His jaw is set, voice pitched low.]

I have a mission now, nothing else matters.

[definingfuture]

[Wow, Bucky. Tony would look offended, but it is honestly something he's gotten used to by now.]

Nothing matters? Why are we doing this anyway?

[advanced]

[He shrugs slightly.]

I'm not sure, but I know it's the right thing to do. We're protecting people, that's a mission that I want.

[ooc: Sorry for the wait, I've been on holiday without internet for a few days.]

[definingfuture]

Well, I'm protecting people by making sure they're actually okay.

[Not really sorry either. Tony shrugs with an exaggerated motion.]

That's the mission I want. So there.

[advanced]

[His lips curl ever so slightly upwards in a sad smile.]

That's why you're a hero and I'm not.

[definingfuture]

[Tony gives Bucky a completely honest, doubtful look.]

I'm a hero because I don't want to listen? I really don't think that's how heroes work, Bucky.

I'll settle for being your friend.

[advanced]

[There's a long pause, the silence stretches where it doesn't seem like Bucky will respond, before he finally gives Tony a small smile and a nod.]

I think I can work with that.