22 - Regrouping (video: action for Bucky. Backdated to post weeping angel BS)

[charring]

[The feed kicks on, the device clearly on a table but not the one in Charlie's apartment. This would be a diner table and Charlie's very half heartedly looking through a menu. She still looks a bit tired and a bit stressed. She should be fine soon, though. There's the sound of a door opening and Charlie turns, watching whoever it is that enters the place a bit anxiously. And then, she frowns.

She's waiting for someone and that wasn't them. Oh, well. At least this time when she's waiting for someone at a restaurant, the npc waitress is nicer. The one at Hymns had been kind of obnoxious.

There was also a big bag next to her, the name of a local video game store on the side. Apparently, she'd been shopping. Impulse buys were the perfect post-curse therapy, okay?]

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[yourbestguysgun]

[ ... ] Flew?

[charring]

Yeah. [ She's happily eating the pancakes now.] He owed me a flight from a week ago. After he'd got the suit running, he said he'd take me flying. So I asked him last night.

[yourbestguysgun]

Uh - does he have a jet or somethin'?

[charring]

His armor flies.

[yourbestguysgun]

Looks kinda small for two.

[charring]

He carried me. It was kind of cool.

[Ignore the odd, happy smile on her face, Bucky. It's not there. Nope.]

[yourbestguysgun]

Uh huh. [ Narrowed eyes. ] Somethin' y'wanna tell me?

[charring]

Not comfortably, no. [Bucky, you are her big brother. She is not telling you certain Things.] Nothing bad happened.

[yourbestguysgun]

[ This face, this is a face who doesn't believe you. ]

[charring]

[This face right back, Bucky.]

[yourbestguysgun]

Well, fine. If y'don't trust me.

[charring]

I do. I trust you a lot. [That was kind of unfair, Bucky. She leans back on the bench, tapping her fingers on the table.] We just ended up kissing and I'm not sure what to make of it at all. Sort of makes it awkward to talk about.

[yourbestguysgun]

[ She kissed Tony Stark. Sudden urge to dismember, rising. ] Did he trick you?

[charring]

[What?!] Is he a pile of ash, right now?

[She knows a trick when she sees one, Bucky. She's been through some doozies. She nudges his side with her foot, this being made easy by the fact that her feet are still on his bench.]

No. It wasn't a trick. I was feeling giddy after everything. Being kidnapped by statues, staying Nowhere for a while, being flown home. Not to mention finding out people were looking for me while I was Nowhere. I think I was sort of the one to instigate it, anyway.

[yourbestguysgun]

An' he didn't take advantage of you? [ Because Bucky will break him. ]

[charring]

[Now she's a bit annoyed. Frowning in your direction, Bucky. Loads of it.] You think I'd let something like that happen? Really?

[yourbestguysgun]

Hey, gotta ask. Wouldn’t want a guy like that pickin’ on you is all. [ Orz. Coffee. ] You like him?

[charring]

[Blushing now. Again. Thanks a lot.] Yeah. I do. I probably shouldn't.

[yourbestguysgun]

Why not?

[charring]

He's twice my age. [Which is pretty much code for "Charlie is kind of a chicken."]

[yourbestguysgun]

[ Bucky shrugs. ] Plenty of dames dig the older fella.

[charring]

That's another thing. I don't know what i 'dig' or not. Never really had the opportunity to figure it out.

[She's finished her pancakes, Bucky. How about you?]

[yourbestguysgun]

Well, y'got time here, I reckon. He ain't exactly ideal, but if y'like him -?

[ Shoving another piece into his mouth. He's slower, because you distracted him with terrifying news. ]

[charring]

I like him. Yeah. It's a new feeling. [New feels. What do?]

[She's going to keep her hands around her coffee. It's still steaming. She's been keeping it warm.] So, one of my friends the other day said that impulse buys were good therapy. And I think she's right.

[yourbestguysgun]

Depends on what you're plannin' to impulse buy?