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Tweak says, "What have you done today"

Bobbi Morse (biology_degree) wrote in avengers_logs,
@ 2019-07-04 11:57:00

Entry tags:

-open thread, bobbi morse, bruce banner, bucky barnes, carol danvers, christine palmer, clint barton, darcy lewis, drax, jane foster, loki laufeyson, natasha romanoff, pepper potts, peter quill, sam wilson, sif, stephen strange, steve rogers, tony stark, valkyrie

Who: Everyone
What: 4th of July/America's Ass' surprise birthday party
When: 4th of July DUH
Where: Governor's Island
Rating: Don't do anything Rogers wouldn't do! *shakes finger*

Disguised as a legit celebration/benefit for America's veterans, the surprise birthday party for Steve is kept as lowkey as possible...considering it's Captain America.

You know the drill!

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Bucky and Jane

semi_stable
2019-07-07 11:57 pm UTC (link)

Bucky was a sucker for science stuff, even if he didn't understand a lot of the inner workings. The whole sci-fi aspect of things fascinated him when he was younger. Like Howard Stark's flying car. But thinking of Howard lead his thoughts down a path that he knew was better not to follow right now.

The thing about having multiple versions of one's self showing up meant that other people still had memories of how the past ones were. Bucky was watching her warily, but he also looked a little apologetic too.

"You know, I like that you didn't ask that," Bucky admitted. "I don't remember you from before. But I remember you on the network. You were sick."

Steve's mom got sick a long time ago and that was really the first time he dealt with illness and death, through seeing Steve go through it. It was hard to watch, and then with the war...he was still dealing with a lot of what happened between the war and becoming a tool to shape politics by killing a lot of people who didn't deserve to die.

"Sorry," he said, and he meant it.

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Re: Bucky and Jane

science_fact
2019-07-17 03:30 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, I was." Jane's smile didn't reach her eyes and the corners of her mouth didn't quite curl up. "Cancer's a bitch. Time skip says I'm remission and my hair grew back sometime over the last four years so I guess it's turning out all right. But thanks."

She paused, tilting her head and sending that freshly grown-in hair swinging. "I can share some more astronomy facts if you want."

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Bucky and Jane

semi_stable
2019-07-17 07:38 pm UTC (link)

"You look nice," Bucky said with a smile that didn't reach his eyes either, no matter how much it was the truth. For someone who survived cancer and came out the other side of that battle alive, she looked so very alive. It was good that even though really unescapable bad things happened to good people, sometimes those bad things didn't win out.

"Sure doll, if you want to," Bucky said, even though his gaze was directed back to their surroundings, ever vigilant for the dangers he was trained to look out for. He used to like that stuff, but everyone else was smarter than he was. He was just an army boy with a interest in science way back when. A lot of what he thought was cutting edge was now prehistoric. That didn't stop him being fascinated with it, even if his fascination was much more subdued. A lot of stuff had him trying to wrap his brain around it, or why it existed.

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Bucky and Jane

science_fact
2019-07-19 04:23 am UTC (link)

"Thanks." She ran a hand through her almost subconsciously. "You look like you don't want to be here."

It was hard, talking to Bucky like they weren't friends. The last time Jane'd been this to close to him was actually the night she'd told Thor about the cancer. Wound up dripping wet from rain, crying into Bucky's shoulder, and spending the night in his spare room. That Bucky seemed like he was in a better place than this one. More reason to let him know there were people who cared. Not because he was Captain America's best friend or because he could crush skulls with one hand. He mattered all on his own.

"Look like me anytime Thor has an Avenger thing or does anything Asgardian, ever. I'd always rather be in the corner doing quantum physics. So astronomy facts. Nuetron stars spin six hundred times a second."

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Bucky and Jane

semi_stable
2019-07-21 02:13 am UTC (link)

Bucky almost smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm not a big party person either."

It was hard when others had expectations that he'd be the same as some other versions of himself that came before he arrived. Even if the mind control stuff was removed from his head so he wasn't a danger to others, he still remembered everything. That was still a lot of dark memories to wade through, and a lot that happened to him. It didn't go away quickly, and from what he was reading, some people took years or an entire lifetime to learn to even learn to cope with it. He was giving himself time to mend and being patient with himself, for the most part.

In the meantime, he was semi-stable. Just like he told Steve. Semi-stable was probably the best it was going to get, and Bucky was ok with that. He would let his actions speak more than his words by helping, while not calling too much attention on himself in the process. He didn't want to get his friends in trouble if he was caught for murdering a diplomat, scientist, or politician in another country in years gone by. That was one hell of a body count to live with, when someone else was pulling the puppet strings.

What helped, though, was Jane talking about going through the same thing, and that she was spewing science. He nodded at that, and asked, "How long does a neutron star last?"

He kept an eye out for trouble, but he was listening to everything that Jane was saying because it was interesting. He liked new inventions and science fiction turning into something tangible. Of course he listened. It was what he did best, in place of talking too much.

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Re: Bucky and Jane

science_fact
2019-07-26 03:19 pm UTC (link)

Jane thought maybe it would help Bucky to have someone that was connected to that complicated past. Who didn't have a reason to judge. Or at least she hoped.

"Billions of years. They're what's left when a massive star comes to the end of its life. This massive thing becomes unsustainable and the core collapses in on itself. The protons and neutrons condense down and what's left is this new star."

Jane couldn't hide an eyebrow twitch. If that wasn't a metaphor for change.

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Bucky and Jane

semi_stable
2019-07-27 12:47 am UTC (link)

Bucky let out a long low whistle. Thinking about that sort of scale of time and implosion to turn from one thing into another was both fascinating and frightening at the same time. Sometimes he felt that old, but only after that irreversible change happened on the day he fell from the train.

"The same but different." He was quiet for a moment. "How much does that mess up the stuff around the star when that happens?"

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Bucky and Jane

science_fact
2019-07-27 09:52 pm UTC (link)

Jane's shoulders slacked, she cocked a hip, and sipped languidly from her drink. If only ever didn't involve astronomy discussions.

"It's rare for a nuetron star to be part of a binary system. When it does happen, there can be a few different effects. Sometimes the immense gravity well of the nuetron star will actually pull it's neighbor closer and closer to itself. 3ventually they crash into each in this massive intergalactic car crash.

"Or," she continued eagerly, "and this is fascinating and a case of this happening was found only recently, the gravitational pull of the nuetron isn't quite strong enough to move the binary star. Instead what happens is the nuetron star stars stripping away the electromagnetic outer layers of the binary star. The mass of it reduces, the core becomes unstable, and eventually that star collapses. When it's over, what's left is a pair of neutrons in a binary system together."

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Bucky and Jane

semi_stable
2019-07-30 08:23 am UTC (link)

Bucky was still staring at the scenery, but he was thinking that Jane was really good at astronomy discussions.

"Sounds pretty scary," he summarized, since he was wondering what it would be like to be stuck nearby, watching everything being stripped away until it collapsed into itself and turned into something new. It might be scary, but also beautiful.

He looked over at Jane and said softly, "Thanks. Even if it probably gets annoying when people ask about science stuff."

Like it did when people asked why he was so quiet or set apart. He knew what he could do and he knew what it was like to be unstable, too.

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