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Tweak says, "Doh!"

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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Bucky Barnes (MCU) & Tony; careful of the dark web JARVIS

sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-27 12:43 am UTC (link)

Had things not gone to hell with Zemo showing Stark that footage, then yes, they probably would've done well as a trio in stopping him, foiling his plan. But they'd gotten it all wrong. They'd assumed Zemo was going to unleash the other Winter Soldiers, but that wasn't the plan at all. They'd played right into it and even though Zemo was in a prison cell, all of them were still reeling in the aftermath to this very moment. And the real kicker was, they couldn't even blame Zemo. It wasn't like he did anything. He just showed them what was there. If it hadn't been Siberia, it would've been something else at some point. It was going to come out eventually. Zemo just sped it up.

And now here they were, in a bar in some bizarre clash of universes having it out. Tony was drunk, Bucky was numb and all of it was just a recipe for disaster. Bucky wanted to remove himself from the conversation. It wasn't going to get better. It was just going to get worse and frankly he didn't want Steve involved with it. Not while Tony was drunk. Nothing good was going to come from this.

Although Bucky knew Steve had a stake in this too, that he was also at fault, it'd be a cold day in hell before he'd ever throw his best friend under the bus other than sort of hinting at it before. He'd call Steve out on his own bullshit to his face, but he'd never do it to anyone else, least of all to Tony Stark. He'd defend him no matter what. It was what they always did. Even when Steve thought the Winter Soldier really had set off that bomb during the Accords signing, he'd come to try to warn him and get him away from the authorities. It didn't matter what the other did; they had each other's backs and had since they were children.

"I didn't put him there," Bucky said, flatly. "I didn't draw a line. In fact, I was trying to pull myself out of the equation entirely before Zemo fucked it all up. So if Steve's in the middle, then you two can figure it out. Probably not until you've slept and drained Barton of all his coffee, if you want that conversation to go better than this one."

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Bucky Barnes (MCU) & Tony; JARVIS trolls on 4chan

allaboutego
2019-04-27 05:15 pm UTC (link)

Tony wasn't trying to throw anyone under a bus, not even a little. If anything, he wanted to pull them all out of the line of any busses coming their way. He wanted to do it in a way where they all saw what the problems were, acknowledged them, and then pushed them to the side for something new instead of really dealing though.

Or maybe he didn't want that. Maybe he wanted to argue it out, maybe he wanted to yell and shout and finally break like he'd needed to for years now.

He didn't know. Especially right now he didn't. The smart tiny little part of his brain that still had common sense left told him he'd regret so, so much tomorrow. But he was ignoring it. "That's what I'm saying," he said, desperate to be understood and failing spectacularly. "He doesn't have to be. We can -- it. It doesn't always have to be about him." Except the part where it probably did, at least a little. Because even Tony, a star that shined bright all on his own and without any help seemed to revolve at least a little bit around Steve Rogers. It was impossible not to.

Then again, maybe the vice verse could be said of Steve.

Tony wiped his hands across his face, clearly frustrated, and wobbled slightly left and then right before he righted himself again. "You're fucking stubborn," he decided, and didn't sound so much mad as surprisingly impressed.

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Bucky Barnes (MCU) & Tony; JARVIS invented nyancat

sgt_barnesjb
2019-04-27 10:25 pm UTC (link)

Being dependent on Steve Rogers was something Bucky had been accustomed to for decades. They'd developed a level of codependency when they were children and it only grew as the two of them grew older. It was why Bucky stood there in a burning building shouting he wasn't going to leave without Steve. It was why Steve dropped the shield on that helicarrier. Maybe some of it was unhealthy but it was what they knew. Shifting that into the whole situation with Stark, well, it made the codependency that much more complicated. Because whether Stark wanted to admit it or not, there was some dependency there too. This whole thing had been incredibly personal. In another setting, with better conditions and a lot less alcohol, maybe Bucky and Tony could've worked out some of their issues. But it was an extremely fragile and delicate situation and confronting it head on with a booze fueled Tony Stark trying to navigate through it with Bucky resisting about as hard as he could, well, it didn't make for a good mix. They needed Steve.

He'd meant it when he said that Tony and Steve needed to get their shit together and figure things out. It wasn't going to fix anything if they didn't have it out. He'd concede that even though his and Tony's talk was pretty awful, some things were brought up that needed to be, but not right fucking now in the middle of a bar with other people in it and way too much scotch on Tony's breath. If he was being honest with himself, Bucky knew he needed to talk all of this out with Steve too, because there was a lot of shit he didn't understand either. All three of them were just big on avoiding and not so much on confronting emotional issues in a healthy, constructive way.

"Yeah well," he finished off what was left of his beer. "I grew up with Steve Rogers. I had to be." He got up from his seat. "I shouldn't have come here. Great talk, Stark." He shook his head and walked past him, heading for the door.

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