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Carol Danvers (cpt_marvel) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-04-18 22:47:00

Entry tags:

america chavez (616), bucky barnes (mcu), carol danvers (mcu), clark kent (dctv), clint barton (616), evaan verlaine, gamewide plot, gwen stacy, janet van dyne (avac), kate bishop (616), klaus hargreeves (netflix), loki (616), peter b parker (sv), peter parker (mcu), remus lupin, rose tyler, sirius black, steve rogers (avac), steve rogers (mcu), tony stark (avac), tony stark (mcu), vision (mcu)

Who: Anyone who wants to come by
What: Grand-opening party!
Where: Pancho's Bar
When: Friday Night

The streamers were up (because Jan had insisted), and the bar was as ready as it ever would be. Alcohol was stored in a few make-shift shelves on the back wall and a relatively well-cobbled together bar was freshly polished and ready to go. It wasn't the most well-put-together, place, but Pancho's definitely resembled its namesake in terms of dim lighting, chipped tables and a floor that looked like it should be sticky. All in all, Carol was pretty proud of what they'd made. The minifridge was even a good choice since it allowed them to keep some drinks cold (they were going to have to find a larger one in the future, though).

She had warned Peter that the pizza oven needed to be ready by that evening, but she wasn't sure how on the ball with that he was. She'd been busy doing damage control on some electrical issues they were having with the fridge and double checking to make sure they actually had drinking cups (that took a little bit of maneuvering, but Clint came through with the coffee mugs). Yup, vodka from coffee mugs, a mini-fridge filled with a variety of stolen beers, and mismatched chairs. And, of course, the balloons. The annoying, awful squeaky balloons that had floated into a couple of corners of the room, save for the two that kept dragging on the floor and that Carol dreaded would pop at some point that evening. Definitely professional.

Karaoke was set up in one corner of the room with a make-shift stage and Christmas lights (Yes, more Christmas lights) decorating around it. Old 80s rock music blasted from the speakers for now, and Carol stood behind the bar, ready to serve as needed but more than willing to drag anyone else into the position should they so choose that evening.

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America | 13

oh_brilliant
2019-04-23 06:31 am UTC (link)

"It does in a crisis. Luckily, no such crises' here, yeah?" Not yet, anyway.

"So you just punch the air and bam! Instant portal. That's brilliant. I'd love to see you do it one day. Can you take people with you, or is it just you that goes?" She wanted to know more. And her beer was empty. The Doctor frowned, setting the bottle down, but turning to America. She was more interesting than beer, anyway.

"Time travel is always tricky. Even for my TARDIS. Usually, she gets us where we're going. Sometimes not so much. But I always end up where I need to be, an' that's what matters, right?"

"She does! And space. And it's sorta like a portal. It phases into an outer dimension that lets us travel through time and space- a black hole sort of. To most people, it just looks like it's coming and going- disappearing and appearing with a sorta 'whoosh, whoosh' noise. She has a camouflage function, too, but it's been stuck for centuries to look like a blue Police box. I like it, though."

The Doctor sighed at the last question and shrugged. "I will. Eventually. Gotta have hope. Just dunno where she's gone off to."

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America | 13

starsandhearts
2019-04-23 06:49 am UTC (link)

"Not yet," America agreed stating the unspoken thing, so far it seemed that only mostly good people were showing up here, but America didn't expect that to last, someone always had to ruin a good thing in her experience, it was more a matter of when.

"Yeah, I can kick too, but then just bam!" She splayed her hands wide, "Star portal. It stays open as long as I like when it's working, and I can send as many people through as I want, and then once I go through it closes." It was a pretty effective way to travel, America did so hate public transportation, there were very few people in this world she'd travel the normal way with.

America nodded, and only just managed to hold back the question about whether or not this was where she needed to be here as well, she supposed the answer to that would come in time. Maybe if she got her tardis back and she could get them all back then it would be exactly where she needed to be just like she said.

"That sounds pretty cool, Do you travel on your own like that?" America wondered, it wasn't every day you met someone who traveled through the universe the way you did, even if she had a ship to help her do it. "I hope you find it, it sounds like the sort of thing I'd like to see." And yeah she hoped maybe it was the sort of thing that they could use to get home too.

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America | 13

oh_brilliant
2019-04-23 12:54 pm UTC (link)

"Wow! Now I really wanna see it. Maybe someday." The Doctor sounded almost wistful at the idea. "That would be handy in a crisis, I think. M'sure that's how you used it.

The Doctor had been thinking the same thing about the TARDIS, but the trouble was she'd seen no sign of it in all her time here. That was troubling. She'd only just gotten it back from her big "lost in space" situation and now it was gone again.

"Sometimes, but I prefer to travel with friends. Rose was one of my friends, actually- wherever she went. Have you met Rose Tyler? She's brilliant! I'd been a few centuries since I saw her, though- very different face back then."

She beamed. "I'll definitely show it to you when I do find it. She's brilliant- bigger on the inside and with a swimming pool somewhere! I haven't found it, yet, though."

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America | 13

starsandhearts
2019-04-23 08:22 pm UTC (link)

"I can show you later," America said hearing that wistful sort of note in the Doctor's tone, "I mean it won't open a proper portal, but I can show you what a shaky one looks like." Maybe she just needed to work on how to get them to even out? Stabilize the portals. She wondered how she'd do that, but wasn't sure she knew the answer, maybe someone would have an idea, the Doctor even.

America was usually more of a travel on her own sort of person, but she did like those times when she had friends with her, whether that was the Young Avengers or someone else. "Rose? I don't think I've met her yet," There were more people here than she realized, but that happened when you spent your time in a funk about all of this she supposed.

"Wait, you have a swimming pool inside of a police box?" America asked, stunned at the idea of it, now that sounded cool. "Now that I have to see, as soon as you find it again." She added because wow, she didn't know how that worked but it sounded awesome.

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America | 13

oh_brilliant
2019-04-24 12:16 am UTC (link)

"I'd like that. Sounds epic- I guess I'm using epic now." She considered and grinned.

"She's brilliant! Blond girl. British. Very spunky. I love Rose. Traveled with her some years when I was my 10th, but then sort of....lost touch, so to speak. But she's here now and it's been great! Er, somewhere. I think she's trying to get food." The Doctor shrugged. She'd turn up, right?

"Yes. And a library. Used to have a tennis court, a gym, a bridge over a large pool of lava. Loads of stuff! It changes whenever the TARDIS decides she needs an upgrade. I'll definitely give you a tour when she comes up again."

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America | 13

starsandhearts
2019-04-24 01:34 am UTC (link)

"Epic is a good word," America agreed, grinning when the Doctor decided she was adding it to her lexicon.

Spunky and blond were both things that America thought were probably pretty good. And trying to get food, that sounded like Kate. The timeline was kind of weird though if so much time had passed since the Doctor had seen her last and Rose was still the same girl. "Is she like you?" America asked, because that made sense, "A Timelord, I mean?"

"A library, a tennis court, a gym..." America could hardly wrap her mind around something that was supposed to be the size of a police box having all of that inside. "Wait why would it need a pool of lava?" She asked cause that seemed kind of like a hazard more than an upgrade. But maybe it was some sort of time travel thing that she didn't understand?

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America | 13

oh_brilliant
2019-04-24 02:34 am UTC (link)

"Oh, no. Rose is human. Very much human. I like humans. And Earth. Sort of fancy myself a protector of it." She smiled and stood straighter, leaning close to whisper to America. "See, we don't have Avengers in my universe. No. Just ordinary humans doing their best to survive and lots of alien threats. I step in to help where I can."

It's been working. So far. "Earth's still around, at least. Or it was when I left."

"Yes! It was very dangerous, almost lost Clara in that one- she's another companion I had years back. The TARDIS can be odd. One regeneration it has a llama barn, the next a pool of lava, and the next it's a walk-in freezer filled with cakes. I loved the cake freezer by the way. The TARDIS didn't put the cakes there, though. I did. Thought it was a good spot for cake."

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America | 13

starsandhearts
2019-04-24 03:49 am UTC (link)

"No Avengers? That's ... weird." It was probably a good thing that the Earth had the Doctor looking out for them if they didn't have the Avengers, it seemed like they were having to deal with some sort of cosmic threat every other week, so that there was some version of Earth that didn't need something like that? "But I mean it's great that you're looking out for them, it sounds like maybe they need it," If there were aliens out there trying to mess with them.

She huffed softly and nodded, "Yeah, I hope our Earth is still going to be there when we go back." Sure it wasn't all of them who ended up there, but you know they were gone and that didn't necessarily mean others weren't gone too - just because they weren't here.

Her eyes went wide when when The Doctor said she'd nearly lost someone called Clara inside her tardis before. The tardis sounded intense in a lot of ways, but pretty cool in a lot of others. "I hope we'll get to check it out sometime."

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America | 13

oh_brilliant
2019-04-24 11:01 am UTC (link)

"Humans are surprisingly resilient, but I think it's best I step in a little here and there. Try not to interfere too much." She was terrible at that, though, since she tended to interfere a lot more than she might be letting on.

"Ya know, I was thinkin'' about that. Considering how many of us got here and the differences in our times, maybe this place doesn't abide by the same laws of time and space the rest of our universe might? If that's the case, time might not be passin' for the people back home at all. We might just be stuck in a weird kinda purgatory....thing. I don't like that word. I should find a better word." She made a face at the notion then shook her head.

She smiled and nodded, taking a drink from the empty bottle then making a face again to put it down. She needed a refill.

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America | 13

starsandhearts
2019-04-24 11:50 pm UTC (link)

"That must be kind of nice, not to have to get involved too much." America always felt like maybe that was the route she should take but then things just always seemed to kind of happen around her and well - she couldn't just sit by and watch bad things happen. Not when she could do things to help.

America hadn't considered that time wasn't passing at all back home while they were stuck here, and it was the sort of thought that kind of made her sick to her stomach, the world just stopped because they weren't in it? What about everyone back home? "Purgatory?" America's eyes went wide and she made a face, yeah that was a terrible word for it, "Yeah, no, you need a better word." She agreed that just made this whole thing feel that much worse. Like they were dead the way some of these people had suggested they might be.

Noticing when the Doctor made a face at her bottle, America caught Peter's gaze and asked for two more for the both of them, maybe this wasn't that kind of bar, but it could be maybe? Whatever, Peter brought them another drink anyway. "I think maybe we should not think too much about what's happening back home, at least not until we've got a better idea about how to get back." It would just freak her out more about being stuck.

Instead she raised her bottle in offer of a cheers with the Doctor, "To figuring things out?" She suggested.

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America | 13

oh_brilliant
2019-04-25 01:30 am UTC (link)

"Sometimes..." She looked down, thinking about all the times she did get involved too much. And how many times that cost her. Best not to dwell, right? She shrugged and forced a smile as she nodded to America. "It'll be fine. If time isn't passin' for them, maybe it's not passing for us." Her mind was already spinning with that, but then she stopped as America handed her another drink and the Doctor smiled.

"Right! To figure it out." She toasted with America before taking a drink. Best think about it tomorrow when she was sober. Rose was right about having a little fun tonight. Wouldn't change anything, would it? Maybe.

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