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James Buchanan Barnes (onearmedbandit) wrote in paradisolog,
@ 2016-05-30 12:28:00

Entry tags:

~bucky barnes (onearmedbandit), ~ruby lucas (rubywolf)

WHO: Bucky Barnes & Ruby
WHAT: Bucky meeting Ruby and the animals
WHEN: Sunday morning, May 29th
WARNINGS: Language
STATUS: Closed, Incomplete

Bucky was up early with the sun. He hadn't slept well, which wasn't surprising or new. It only took him a little while to wash up and start making some breakfast. He was looking forward to having some eggs they could easily eat without feeling like hogs from the group. With his new herbs he might try something fancy like he'd seen on foot network. No way he'd make anything worse than what Steve did when he tried to cook.

Re-dressing in his blue button down plaid shirt, he left it unbuttoned and his undershirt off, but he kept the sleeves long. He didn't bother with his glove for his hand, since he'd already warned her about his arm. He pulled on his jeans and boots and reminded Steve of where he'd be and left to walk over to where the animals were kept. When he got there, he looked around for Ruby, unsure what she looked like. Were werewolves hair as people too? Maybe she'd have tufts of hair everywhere?

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rubywolf
2016-05-31 03:14 am UTC (link)

Ruby just finished collecting eggs for the day, making sure to leave a few behind so that there would be baby chicks in the future to help grow the flock and give them even more eggs as the population grew. She was carrying a basket wen she exited the chicken coop area and spotted someone standing there. "Oh, hey, you must be Bucky," she said, greeting him with an easy smile. He was a good looking guy and he obviously wasn't afraid of hard work.

"I'm Ruby," she said, tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear after setting the basket down. She walked over and held out her hand to shake, recalling what he said about having a metal hand. It wasn't the strangest thing she ever saw, but her eyes still flicked over it and she wondered what happened.

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	onearmedbandit 2016-05-31 03:21 am UTC (link)
	She was attractive and nothing like he imagined when she came out from around a building area. Her hair was thick but nothing more than any other woman's he thought. Huh. He walked towards and met her halfway between. Taking her hand, he introduced himself in turn, "Hey I'm Bucky, pleasure to meet you m'am." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rubywolf
2016-05-31 08:11 pm UTC (link)

"Please, just call me Ruby," she said, rolling her eyes at his formality. "I'm definitely not old enough to be called ma'am." It made her think of Granny. Who she missed, but who would definitely not fit in around here. Just the idea of it made her wrinkle her nose in distaste.

Those were definitely not thoughts she needed to dwell on so she was quick to change the subject. "So, you mentioned that you wanted to learn to care for the chickens," she said. "We should have some chicks hatching in the next week or so. I was thinking that you could spend some time this week helping out for a little bit each day and then once the chicks can be separated from their mamas, you can take some of them with you."

It would help her just as much as it would him since the chicks required a lot more care and she had her hands pretty full with the current flock and the cows and everything else she was doing.

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onearmedbandit
2016-05-31 08:31 pm UTC (link)

"Ruby it is," Bucky said affably, smiling at her. "When I was growing up, everyone was a ma'am out of being polite. Though, I know the modern world I came from wasn't quite like that anymore. Was that how your world was too, when you left?"

He nodded at her words. "Yeah, I wanted to learn how to care for the animals in general, since you were correct. We need more than one person who knows how to do that. I met one of the new people, Abby, at the bonfire, she knows about raising chickens and goats too. So maybe she could be trained too and then we'd have three people who could help out as needed." He smiled at her. No reason for her to be stuck doing this all the time if she had other interests.

"That would be great if I could have some baby chicks. I was hoping that maybe I could have their mother hens too? I was hoping you could spare maybe two or three hens and the chicks? If not, that's okay, but I wanted to be able to still have eggs while taking care of the chicks. Plus, separating mothers and babies feels wrong." Bucky knew Steve would be upset if that happened, and he'd feel pretty badly about it himself. "Steve and I, we want these to be our pets, we aren't planning to eat them or anything."

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rubywolf
2016-05-31 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Should she answer his question based on Storybrooke or the Enchanted Forest? Because they were very different places with very different customs. "Uh, depends on which world you're talking about," she settled on. "I was born and raised in the Enchanted Forest, but then I spent a number of years in a town called Storybrooke, Maine."

It didn't much matter either way honestly. She understood that he had a more old fashioned background and didn't really mind the manners since there was no ill intent behind them.

"I think we can do two hens and their chicks," she said. "I've got four I've left with eggs at the moment. I figured we'd cycle through which ones keep them and which ones I collect, so," she shrugged. "And it's good to know there's someone else here with experience. I'll definitely look Abby up and talk to her."

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onearmedbandit
2016-05-31 09:59 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, well I guess wherever you want to answer for. Enchanted Forest sounds like something out of a fairy tale. Was it beautiful like that?" He hadn't heard of anywhere named something like that in his own world.

"That'd be incredibly generous, thank you. We will take very good care of the hens and chicks." Bucky smiled at her. "Abby is really kind. She's very excited about the goats and knows how to milk them so there is that."

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rubywolf
2016-06-02 04:55 pm UTC (link)

"It was definitely something out of a fairy tale," Ruby said. "It had good and bad points." The truth behind the tales was a little darker than most people realized or wanted to consider, but from a purely aesthetic standpoint, the Enchanted Forest was beautiful.

She returned his smile easily. He was so very eager that it was endearing. Whatever happened to him before coming here was obviously not pleasant given the fact that he had a metal arm, but he was clearly trying to move past that and start over, which was pretty much the entire point of being here. Ruby of all people could understand wanting to atone for your past and do something beneficial for others.

"I look forward to meeting her then," she said. "There's still a number of new arrivals I haven't had a chance to speak with yet."

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onearmedbandit
2016-06-02 05:04 pm UTC (link)

"Ah, yeah, most places do." Hmm, that sounded like a rather loaded statement. Bucky left her with her summary of where she was from, she could elaborate later if she wanted to. Asking questions about people's pasts was rarely something that made anyone happy, especially here.

"It seems like there were a lot in the past week. I haven't met most of them either. Steve and I have been helping Finnick with his house and building our own things for around our shelter." He shrugged. "Do you need help making anything for the animals here? I am a little handy with carpentry given enough time I can make things." He smiled. "Is there other help you need around here on an ongoing basis. Like, I am happy to take an assigned time to care for the animals so you can have definite days off and the like?"

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rubywolf
2016-06-03 01:26 am UTC (link)

It was cool that people were willing to jump right in to doing whatever needed to be done right after their arrival and Ruby smiled at the offer. "I'm not sure I need anything at the moment," she said. "Unless you know how to build a spinning wheel. That would come in really handy." Dealing with freshly shorn wool was a pain in the ass either way, but a wheel would make it marginally less annoying.

"And I don't know if we need a formal schedule or anything, but if you want to take on some of the responsibility of caring for the animals, I'd definitely appreciate the opportunity to work on some other projects."

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onearmedbandit
2016-06-03 01:39 am UTC (link)

Bucky thought about it. "I think, a spinning wheel might be beyond my abilities unless you have some type of blueprint or drawing of it? I don't think I've ever really seen one up close to know how it works." He wished he did, he could see how valuable that'd be. "I'm surprised nobody hasn't prayed for some type of set of books with all this kind of knowledge in it? We need the internet or a kindle full of books." He smiled, he knew about that technology, had thought it was miraculous.

"Sure. I can do Wednesdays if that'd work for you? I want to do it more formalized because I already help on other projects and want to be able to tell the people I'm helping I won't be there?" That would work best for him at least. "Or any specific day you need me. Most of my work can always be moved around."

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	rubywolf 2016-06-03 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Wednesdays works," Ruby said. It didn't much matter to her when he helped out since she was just glad to have some help. "And maybe the gods will send us some books. That would be useful." Or maybe she'd get a spinning wheel. That would be even better. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onearmedbandit 2016-06-03 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Great. And yeah, it's be nice if they did." He smiled at her a bit sheepishly. "Umm, do you think you could show me... the wolf thing if it's not too personal?" He had been so curious and excited about it. It was probably too forward to ask but he wanted to see. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rubywolf
2016-06-04 12:56 am UTC (link)

"Oh, right," Ruby said. She forgot that he was interested in seeing her more primal side. "I'll be right back." She didn't mind him seeing her as a wolf, but she preferred to make the transformation in private.

She headed over to a small copse of trees and stripped her clothes off quickly, leaving them in a pile on the ground. Once she was naked, she crouched down on all fours and closed her eyes, letting the magic wash over her. It was only a few minutes that passed before a giant dark wolf padded out of the trees towards Bucky.

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onearmedbandit
2016-06-04 01:01 am UTC (link)

Bucky looked around while he waited, wondering if he'd messed up somehow. But then a wolf practically out of a storybook came back. Much larger than they would ever be in the wild, it looked very powerful, the thick muscles in it's shoulders and it's muzzle full of teeth. He was mesmerized a moment, it was beautiful and fearsome. He reached for it before jerking back his hand, remembering he wasn't supposed to touch her like this. "You're gorgeous," he said softly.

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	rubywolf 2016-06-04 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	Ruby gave a soft woof of thanks at the compliment. It was pretty difficult to communicate when she was like this, so she simply sat back on her haunches and let him get a good look at her wolf form. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onearmedbandit
2016-06-05 01:29 am UTC (link)

Bucky feeling that was tacit permission to look his fill, walked around her checking her out. She was very beautiful in this form. He couldn't wait to get home and tell Steve he'd seen a wolf that was also a woman. Steve would be sad he didn't see this to draw it.

"It's really incredible," he said softly as he looked her over from all sides, marveling. When he got back to facing her, he wasn't sure what to do so he ended up bowing a little. "Thank you so much for letting me see."

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rubywolf
2016-06-05 02:42 am UTC (link)

Once he seemed to be done looking, Ruby got up and trotted back to the copse of trees where she left her clothes. A few minutes later, she came back in her human form, fully dressed. Part of her was tempted to walk back out naked, but she got the sense that Bucky wouldn't appreciate that as much as some others would.

"So, anyway, I should probably get going," she said.

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	onearmedbandit 2016-06-05 02:43 am UTC (link)
	"Sure. Thank you again for letting me see your other form. That's rather incredible. It doesn't hurt, changing, does it?" He was still awed by the whole display. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rubywolf 2016-06-05 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	"No problem," Ruby said. "And, no, it doesn't." The part that hurt was when she didn't have control over what she did in that form. Luckily, that was no longer an issue. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onearmedbandit 2016-06-05 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, I'll see you tomorrow for more training and then on Wednesday? We can talk about when we can pick up the hens and chicks?" Bucky was already really excited to get them and learn more. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rubywolf 2016-06-05 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	Ruby grinned. "I'll see you then." (Reply to this) (Parent)