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Tweak says, ""Arise, watchtower! Astion!""

james barnes (freezerburn) wrote in entrywaythreads,
@ 2021-02-25 12:22:00

Entry tags:

bucky barnes, jason todd

WHO Bucky Barnes & Jason Todd
WHAT Bucky's looking for a job.
WHEN Thursday, February 25, 2PM
WHERE Bruce's Best Weapons, Ammo & Indoor Shooting Range
RATING Let's just go ahead and say R for a lot of swearing

The auto shop was out. Though Bucky could fix a lot of stuff, the mechanical arm made some things dicey: he might get his arm stuck in the car engine and though he could get it back out, it would likely be at the expense of the engine. And that might not be so good for business. He could likely work at every shop this place had, but the one that seemed the most likely to need someone like him... well, that was Bruce's Best Weapons.

He'd dressed in his jacket, tucking his metal hand into the pocket of his jeans so that it wasn't easily visible to the public. A man with his hand in his pocket wasn't as immediately concerning as a man with a black metal arm. Bucky'd tucked his hat over his head, and then he'd gone out for a walk.

Calming his nerves was never a problem. Bucky had learned to be unblinking in the face of basically any threat, or if not unblinking, at least to keep moving. Keep responding. Keep active in any situation he was in.

Walking into a shop and saying, Employ me!, though...

He took a breath and pushed open the door, walking in to face a ton and a half of weapons. Bows and arrows, knives, guns. So many weapons that Bucky felt immediately at home.

He didn't even mind the fucking giant, lanky man behind the counter. He walked right up to the counter, trying to find words that didn't start with hire me because I'm a better killer than ninety percent of the people here. Technically, he wasn't wrong. But it wasn't the way Bucky wanted to start his employment.

What came out was, "I need to buy a gun."

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freezerburn
2021-03-03 05:32 am UTC (link)

"Sounds good." Bucky nodded. "I don't stockpile, and magic is a little out of my comfort zone. Not entirely, but I don't know what I'm doing with it, and the thing I've learned is, if you don't know what you're doing, don't play with it."

He'd learned that a lot, actually, through several different sources, and only one of them was HYDRA.

"So when do I start, and what time do you want me here?"

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abetterbatman
2021-03-03 10:19 pm UTC (link)

"That's probably just a good way to live." He could call Constantine or visit that new magic shop if he ran into magical issues his blades couldn't handle. He vaguely remembered tacking up their numbers on the cork board in the back room but he would have to double check that, and maybe a few other things now that he wasn't going to be alone in the shop.

Jason always said he preferred to work alone but again and again he was proving that to be a lie. At least Bucky was less likely to need supervision than most of the people he'd worked with. He was fairly sure he wouldn't have to follow him around the city to make sure he didn't hurt himself or someone else.

"Saturday work for you? I've got a shipment coming in at nine that'll be quicker to deal with if I have a second pair of hands. We can make it a late morning, say about eight?" He wasn't going on patrol in Gehenna meaning he was less likely to be up all night, these days he was and on his morning exercise routine by five or six. It was an odd way to live but he was getting sleep and eating. Maybe he was smoking again but as always he was working on quitting. No one who knew him would have believed it.

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freezerburn
2021-03-07 02:12 am UTC (link)

"Saturday." Bucky nodded, tucking his hands into his pockets. He could figure out a job quick; it was one of the things they'd said was a positive trait of the Asset, a long time ago. They'd had a long trait list, and they'd sorted it into positive and negative, and like they were training a dog, they had rewarded the positives and brutally punished the negatives. And though it had been years, there were still things his hand quavered when he thought about. Still things his brain stopped just shy on.

Not always, but they were there, hidden in the back of his brain. He was getting pretty good at moving past it, though.

"Eight AM, right?" It wasn't like Bucky couldn't make it to both the morning and evening nine o'clocks, but knowing which one exactly he was supposed to be working at was sort of the whole point. Bucky didn't exactly sleep well, or for very long, but he could get himself wherever he needed to be at whatever time, exactly, he was supposed to be there.

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abetterbatman
2021-03-08 07:25 pm UTC (link)

"Eight AM." Jason nodded, "Time might not mean much down here but it helps to try to stick close to a routine." He wasn't sure how accurate the time keeping in purgatory was, apparently all the clocks were set to time at city hall but that could mean anything really. With no day cycle and no stars they could claim it was any time. He tended to think that time moved differently than the real world but that wouldn't be something he could really investigate until he found a way out.

He was still looking for a way out, sure, but that wasn't nearly as important to him as figuring this place out. If he was going to leave he was going to try to take as many as he could with him, even the troublemakers. He wasn't sure if Bucky felt the same way but he would have plenty of time in the coming days to get to know the guy better.

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