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

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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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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-25 03:33 pm UTC (link)
It was a very fortunate thing that Clint had enough instinct and insight not to ask 'are you okay?' because that would've just made things worse. And it was probably pretty obvious that he wasn't okay because right now he wasn't trying to hide it. He was upset, and thought he was alone, so he wasn't going stone-faced or stoic.

That said, it was damn near impossible to sneak up on Bucky Barnes, so as soon as he heard the other man he straightened up, his expression gone and replaced with neutrality. He couldn't really explain why seeing Clint made him feel a little more at ease. Probably because he wasn't Steve or Stark. He was someone Bucky didn't have history or baggage with. That in of itself was a relief.

"Of all the back alleys in Starklandia, you had to walk into mine." It was a weak joke, but it was still one that rolled off the tongue as he attempted to be normal for a hot minute.

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-04-25 06:05 pm UTC (link)
No one here was okay. Not really, anyway. They'd all lost something at some point or another -- some more recently than others, Clint figured, but that didn't make things less -- raw sometimes. Even in his own world, Tony could be volatile at the worst of times (and his own Tony didn't even drink, so that was telling, right there) and he suspected whatever had gone down between the two hadn't been great. Luckily, Hawkeye was pretty awesome at dispelling tension, so long as that tension had nothing to do with himself.

Clint made a face, something sort of squished and uncomfortable and tilted his head into his hand, not quite poking at the inside of his ear. Luckily, he had great vision and half his hearing yet so it wasn't like it was hard figuring out Bucky's words or attempt at sarcasm. "Sorry," he said, not sounding sorry at all. "I wasn't aware any back alleys had been claimed yet. I'll make a note of it in my mental map."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-25 06:31 pm UTC (link)
No, no one here was 'okay.' They'd all experienced their fair share of trauma, loss, pain, basically been put through the ringer and left to dry in this hell hole -- well, that might've been extreme. Bucky had been kept in some pretty shitty places throughout his life and this town really wasn't that bad; just the circumstances themselves were hellish. They'd all 'been through some shit' and Bucky would never presume his issues were more important or worse than anyone else's as though it was the world's worst pissing contest. He was just having a bad night, and wanted to be done with it.

He didn't want to go back to his place, because he'd just be alone and probably pace and maybe put a hole in the wall with his fist in a feeble attempt to get some sort of emotional release. That wouldn't be productive and it sure as hell wouldn't help him feel better. That was why he'd just stepped outside and away from the door.

"It's okay," he said, even though he knew Clint wasn't actually sorry. "You're allowed." He almost smirked, but it was stifled by his mood. He could tread around the subject lightly, try to get Clint to admit he'd followed him out but they both knew he had. So rather than make small talk about it he just let his gaze fall to the ground. "I should've probably skipped this opening. I don't know why I thought it'd be good for me to come."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-04-26 10:41 pm UTC (link)
Clint got that, the whole thing where being alone was only worse sometimes. And he was good at it too, holing up on his own and sleeping even when he wasn't tired and then waking up tired again because after a while it was a whole thing. Practically a process. Not everyone dealt with bad feelings in the same way, but Clint knew that Bucky already wasn't the most talkative of people. He wasn't gonna seek out help any more than Clint would have.

"Nah," he said, skipping over the jokey parts, because there was no point in really pretending for each other right now. "It was really cool you came out. I've been trying to talk to you all night, dude. Anyway, everyone was invited, so why shouldn't you have come?" He stuck his hearing aid back in, clipping it around the outside of his ear and then thumbed toward across the town square. "But it's late now and a fight's gonna break out. How bout we ditch 'fore they make us clean stuff?"

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-27 09:59 pm UTC (link)
Bucky was used to being by himself more recently, even before coming to this weird town. And a lot of the time, he was fine with that. Other times, however, being alone was self-destructive. When the guilt and pain of everything the Winter Soldier had done would creep up on him and he had no one there to stop him from doing so he'd spiral downward pretty hard into a self-loathing-fest of depression. In moments like the one he was in now, being alone was definitely not a good thing. Old memories had been drug up from the depths of which probably all three men involved had been actively trying to keep buried in order to avoid dealing with the repercussions and all it took was some scotch and Stark's mouth to bring it all up again.

Running into Clint, or rather, Clint running after Bucky was probably the best thing for him now. If Steve had come out it probably would've been another argument because frankly, Bucky was over all the bullshit now and didn't want to deal with anything his best friend had to say about it because Steve was just too close to the situation. Being around someone who had absolutely nothing to do with it was definitely better right now.

"Yeah," he said. "Probably best to go." He'd noticed the hearing aids before, but didn't say anything about it because well, he didn't go poking into anyone's personal life. The Barton he knew hadn't worn them from what Bucky had noticed, so that was a difference, among other things he was sure. "The further the better." He pushed up off the wall to stand upright, and started walking with the other man away from Pancho's. Bucky didn't need his heightened senses to hear the beginnings of the brawl inside.

Once they were a little ways away, he chanced glancing over at him to take in the sight of his profile. "Was there something you want to talk about? Earlier? You said you were trying to talk to me tonight." That was safe. It wasn't talking about him and Stark.

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-04-28 09:35 pm UTC (link)
Definitely after instead of into, but they didn't need these kinds of semantics in the air when it was mostly just obvious that that was what it was about in the first place. Sometimes stuff like this didn't need attention paid to it. It just had to be.

"Yeah," he agreed, pleased when Bucky was on the same page as him. He didn't really have a place in mind beyond maybe his own house, just because COFFEE. seemed a little bit to close to the general chaos that was starting to spark in the air in a way that was more than just audible. Clint saw it coming and it was pretty clear Bucky heard it so with their powers combined they could be like .... Captain Planet: Avoidance, or something.

"My place?" he asked, Chuck Taylor's dragging through the grass and the dirt until they found the actual paved cement of the town square. "And what? No. Not really. I just thought I'd say hi, you know. Like friends do? Ask you how your inner centaur is doing."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-29 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Bucky really had no actual destination in mind when he'd rushed out of the bar. All he'd known at the time was that he needed to get out. What had started off as actually a pretty fun time talking with the younger Steve took a sharp, drastic, awful turn in his verbal confrontation with Stark. It didn't matter where he and Clint ended up. He was just glad to get away, and to get away with someone who didn't need to 'get it' to really 'understand it.' Even better, Clint wasn't asking questions. Much as Bucky probably did need to talk about it, he really was not wanting to go there tonight. Or ever.

Wonder Avoidance Twins Powers: Activate.

"Oh, yeah," he said. Friends. That was what friends did. Bucky sometimes sort of forgot that part. It wasn't intentional. He was just used to his friend being Steve because he didn't get a lot of company from many others except Shuri and the kids who lived near his hut back in Wakanda. "Your place works. If my inner centaur didn't look like a make-love-not-war type of creature I would've probably channeled it in there. Then again, I'd have Danvers and the Spider-guy on my ass for being the one to make a mess and I'd rather avoid that"

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Re: Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-04-30 03:46 am UTC (link)
"Oh yeah," Clint parroted, not even offended that it sounded like Bucky hadn't really realized they were friends. It was cool. He'd just like, worm his way in further eventually. Or get annoying, and Bucky'd tell him so. Whichever came first.

"Yeah," he mused, thoughtful. He wasn't going to ask what it was about. Bucky could tell him if he wanted, but Clint was slowly learning there was stuff in Bucky's world that just didn't match up with his own. "As much as that's great to picture, it's probably best not to get Carol mad at you. She's got a mean left hook."

His place wasn't all that far. None of the places were, and he opened the door with a little key wiggling in the lock and then waved Bucky in. "No couch," he lamented. "Sorry." A couch would have been great, because they were the best thing in the world when it came to sitting down and unwinding, and Bucky clearly needed that, but they'd just have to make do.

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-30 02:55 pm UTC (link)
He hadn't meant to make it sound aloof, like he'd forgotten they were friends. Bucky liked Clint, and he did want to be friends. Sometimes he just forgot that other people liked him, too. That other people besides Steve might want to be his friend. Being a murderous living weapon for seventy years would do that to a person.

There'd been a huge part of him that wanted to punch Tony Stark right in the face. He almost did. That part about not putting Steve in the middle of everything really pissed him off. If he didn't want Steve in the middle, then that whole fight at the airport shouldn't have happened. It never should've escalated to that point. Steve was always going to be in the middle until the two of them put on their big boy super hero suits and figured their shit out. And until then? Bucky was done. He could chill on Clint's floor and be fine.

"No couch needed," he replied. A couch would've been nice, but given the fact he'd spent a lot of his life sealed up in a tube frozen, Bucky Barnes wasn't picky about interior decor. "I don't have a couch either. Back where I'm from I was living in a thatched roof hut with goats. This is fine."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-05-01 07:13 pm UTC (link)
That was kind of the thing about all the Avengers, wasn't it? At some point or another, someone sort of deserved a fist to the jaw. Clint had had his moments (lots of them, fuck, so many). Cap and Tony had their moments. Bucky'd had them too, frankly.

Carol really would have really thrown down if there'd been a fight like in the bar. And Clint didn't even want to imagine Steve's disappointed face. That face haunted his dreams.

"Goats?" Clint asked, toeing his shoes off once the door was closed behind them and gesturing to the mess of pillows and blankets that were taking up space in the living room. It was...an attempt at comfort, anyway.

And he had a bed in the other room. Just. Clint preferred a different place to be when he wasn't actually intending to sleep. "I don't have goats, sorry. I have -- hey. Lucky!" He called his dog's name and there was a scampering sort of scratchy nails on wood noise from the floor above and then click click clicking down the stairs. "The world's best dog."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-05-02 02:26 pm UTC (link)
If anyone asked Bucky, he'd definitely say he deserved a punch to the jaw. Worse, even. Hell, he'd even told Stark at the bar if he'd killed him out of revenge for his parents' deaths, he would've been entirely justified for it and he did believe that. Because despite all the procedures he'd undergone to have HYDRA removed from his head, that didn't take away everything the Winter Soldier had done. And as he'd told Steve when his friend said what'd he'd done wasn't him -- he'd still done it. They needed someone to blame. So yes, he knew he deserved some hits. But tonight, it was Stark who'd deserved it but Bucky had refrained. Probably for the best. He didn't need Danvers' super punches knocking his teeth out.

"Yeah, I have--" Before he could talk about his herd of goats -- which was just as well -- he heard Barton calling for the world's best dog. The sight of Lucky actually did make Bucky smile. He loved dogs. There'd been a brief time on the rare occasion he'd actually opened up some of his issues to Sam who'd been in counselor mode and it'd been suggested Bucky might do well with a psychiatric service dog for his anxiety and depression, but they'd not really gotten the chance to do much exploration on the matter.

"Oh wow, hi Lucky," he said. Bucky knelt so he could be on the dog's level and could be sniffed properly. "I'm Bucky. So we rhyme. Which means we're gonna be friends."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-05-03 07:30 pm UTC (link)
Lucky wasn't any kind of service dog, and certainly had not been trained for that sort of thing, but he was really good at cuddling, and reading the room to know when it was time for it and when it definitely wasn't. So that was something. In any case, the second Bucky noted that their names rhymed at that they had to be friends, his heart melted fully and completely. Because, jesus, if that wasn't the best and cutest thing he'd heard in a very long time.

Clint smiled, genuinely pleased, and plopped down so he could sit beside Bucky and Lucky both. And god, it did rhyme. He couldn't even handle it. "That's just -- yep. Digging it. Dumb cute." Listen, he couldn't not say it, it was on his mind. That was just how Clint worked.

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-05-04 03:07 am UTC (link)
Back in Wakanda, Bucky didn't have a dog, but he did have goats. He'd named them after each of the Howling Commandos and one particularly stubborn one after Steve. They were entertaining creatures who each had personalities and Bucky enjoyed taking care of them. But they weren't dogs. They weren't a super cute dog like Lucky. When the dog finished sniffing him and it seemed like Bucky was determined to be a good peoples, he started to bed the dog behind the ears and scratch his head. It was pretty much love at first sight. For as stressed and pissed off as he'd been when he left the bar, he felt a lot calmer now just from petting Lucky.

There was something about the way Clint remarked about his interaction with his dog that made Bucky's mood lighten even more. It was another reminder that he did really like Clint, and he did very much enjoy his company. "That's a first," he said. "I've never heard of or been called 'dumb cute' before." He turned to look at Clint, though he was still petting Lucky. "Is that good or bad?" Because that was something that sounded both good and bad at the same time.

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-05-05 01:09 am UTC (link)
Clint had never really been a pet person before Lucky simply because his life had been too on the move and hectic to have something like that. But he'd always liked animals, and had often been the one to volunteer spending time with the ones they'd had at the circus. There'd been a tiger at one point, Clint remembered. She'd been old and in retrospect he was certain she hadn't been treated well. But he'd always been keen on reaching through the cage and petting her. And he'd always been the first kid to try and adopt strays and take them on the road with them, although he'd never been allowed.

Mostly, he'd forgotten he'd wanted a pet when he got older, until Lucky showed up and took a bullet for him. He loved his dog something fierce and was really touched that Bucky seemed to, too. And not just in a yay dog! sort of way, but in a --well. He didn't know. Real connection... thing? Whatever.

"It's good," Clint said with a scoff, giving Bucky a look that said he ought to know that already. "It's like... it's so cute that it's stupid. It's like -- ridiculously cute? You've never seen someone so cute or attractive that you just kinda got mad about it?" Maybe he wasn't describing it right.

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-05-06 08:06 pm UTC (link)
Bucky had never had pets of his own but he remembered the old lady who lived next to him and Steve in their shithole apartment in Brooklyn had about seven cats. The cats would sometimes try to come inside and Bucky would have to chase them out for fear of Steve's allergies flaring up but he liked them otherwise. There'd been some dogs in the neighborhood too and he'd really liked them. Lucky, he could tell, was a special dog. Not that he had criteria or credentials to really back that up but the dog was sweet tempered and it was obvious Lucky was very important to Clint. That made him important in general.

"Yeah, I get that," he said. He could remember one time piling every quilt and blanket he could find on top of a shivering Steve because their radiator wasn't working and the first snow of the season was coming down outside. Steve hadn't been too happy but the whole thing was kind of endearing even though Bucky had been terrified at the time Steve would get hypothermia or something. But he'd looked 'dumb cute' under all those blankets. That sounded like what Clint meant, anyway.

He also kind of felt his ears burn a little -- it probably didn't mean anything -- cute or attractive -- but it still kind of struck him a little and Clint was right there. "Thanks, then." A small smirk tugged his lips. "This is better than a couch, by the way."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-05-07 03:00 am UTC (link)
Cute and attractive certainly meant something, even if Clint wouldn't have called himself aware of the fact, words had plenty of power. He meant what he said, and he'd said it out loud because --

Because maybe he just wanted Bucky to know it. To know those things. He didn't have to do anything with the knowledge, Clint wasn't expecting anything. But. It'd just be there, maybe. Look, he didn't know.

"My dog's better than a couch?" he asked, smiling back in return. Small as it might have been, Bucky did have a great smile. "That might be true, but I still kinda miss mine. And my tv. You ever seen Dog Cops? I miss Dog Cops."

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]sgt_barnesjb
2019-05-07 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Knowing it and knowing what exactly to do with it were definitely two different things. And Bucky was trying to sort of figure out if there was something to be done about it. Maybe he kind of wanted there to be. Because it wasn't like he didn't feel an attraction too. He absolutely did, and it wasn't just the physical side. That was where it got even more tricky. If he just thought Clint was a good looking guy, then that was a lot easier to sort out and either they'd act on it and that'd be it, or they'd just let it fizzle out and so be it. But there was more there, at least on his end. He actually liked Clint and he liked being around him. He liked the way Clint made him feel.

Like right now, he'd just come off from being pretty intensely pissed off and riled up after his blow up with Stark, and after a walk, a nest, Lucky, and some seemingly meaningless but actually quite important exchanged words had completely calmed him down. There was something to be said about that. Bucky wasn't exactly 'easy' to deal with, especially during his darker moods.

"Dog cops?" He asked. "I don't think I've heard of that one. But, I don't have a television back in Wakanda. Actually, I've never owned a television. Steve and I had a radio back in Brooklyn that sometimes worked if we positioned it just right or if I hit it hard enough. What's Dog Cops?"

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Bucky MCU / Clint 616
[info]today_sucks
2019-05-07 10:24 pm UTC (link)
It wasn't hard, really. Dealing with Bucky. It wasn't dealing so much as just interacting with. Because Clint found him genuinely interesting and appealing, and he was used to him being something of a grump in his own world-- he knew it wasn't anything personal.

Yeah. He liked him. Clint was certain of that.

"Oh Bucky," he said, dramatic and sad, before flopping back into his nest, half buried in pillows and blankets. "That's the worst thing I've ever heard. I'm getting a tv. Before a couch. It's gonna happen. And we're gonna catch up on everything good. But for now, buckle up, man. I'm gonna just give you a story time recap of the first episode of Dog Cops. You're gonna love it."

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