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Tweak says, "Hey Stud. You want to dance?"

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 MCU / Clint 616

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

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

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

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

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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