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Tweak says, "it's hard to let it go"

falke - sam wilson (winterfalcon) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2017-11-07 08:24:00

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!delivery, !log/thread, sam wilson / falke (au), steve rogers / captain america (mcu)

Delivered by your standard courier delivery guy who requests a signature, though doesn't care whose. The name on the postal label is "D. Falke".

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winterfalcon
2017-11-08 11:46 pm UTC (link)

A surprisingly loaded question, really. How did you tell whether someone thought of you as a friend or a useful ally? He'd tolerated him making use of his apartment and going through his stuff, but he'd assumed it was Bucky at first and then Falke had been feeding him whatever intel he could find in the HYDRA bases he remembered. The Steve on Knowhere had called them friends, but he'd come in biased and had never quite seemed as happy as that time he'd lost several years of memories and started acting like the guy he'd been before HYDRA had been anything more than a chapter in a history book.

On the other hand, he was pretty certain that I don't know, what do friends do? was one of those things that would just result in people making sad or disappointed faces at him. People really didn't need any help with that. He went, instead, with a more diplomatic, "I think so;" if it wasn't true, then at least there was no one here who could contradict him.

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rogerthat
2017-11-09 04:34 am UTC (link)

Steve appreciated each of his friends. Because he was the boy who's only friend was Bucky Barnes. So after the serum, he took to Peggy and Howard, the Howling Commandos. Then the Avengers and eventually, Sam. He held onto them. When Peggy died, he felt like he somehow failed her, despite her dying of natural causes.

"I'll be your friend. I figure after what we've already been through in the past 24 hours, that was a given."

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winterfalcon
2017-11-09 05:09 am UTC (link)

Now admittedly it was likely that he had some degree of neurological damage on top of the brainwashing, but he was pretty sure that coming home to find someone had climbed in your window to camp out in the corner of your room, refuse to make conversation and eat your food before having packages sent to your house so no one would find out where they lived was not actually what most people would call a bonding experience. But with the number of different Steves he'd met now he was beginning to suspect that this really was just some strange quirk of his personality, that he just attached himself to... well, whatever it was about Falke that he apparently found appealing, whether it was the neediness, the personal vendetta against HYDRA, or (possible, though he wasn't sure how much they really had in common) being Sam Wilson. It was sort of an odd idea, one that made him tilt his head quizzically and grace him with a slightly skeptical look. "You're not very good at making friends, are you?"

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	rogerthat 2017-11-09 05:21 pm UTC (link)
	Steve chuckled then, his mind on pulling apart the small packages holding the pieces to the puzzle. "No, I'm not. They usually come to me." He thought about it, all of his friends had come to him as a leader they wanted to follow. Sam Wilson was about the only one he trusted immediately and went to HIM when things were FUBAR after SHIELD went after him and Natasha. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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