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Tweak says, "I could've been a contender!"

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
2019-07-21 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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