#friendship ended with Tony the Tiger

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btw this was from DannyMay day 8, u know the DannyMay I said id finish but didnt (i got depressed again)

very upset at yall for not remembering to include a mentor to replace Frostbite in your electric core AUs 😔

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Watched

Watched | A Foxy 🦊 and Wolfie 🐺 One Shot

Summary: Weeks after the encounter with James Barnes or Wolfie inside your head. You embarked on a journey of discovery as you learned who he really was. During those times, he was radio silent. You don’t know why, he seemed eager that night to know you but you took it as a win. You are not by any means going to be involved with the fucking Mob Boss of New York city despite how fucking beautiful he is.

Not until one day, you felt like being watched and you know your effort to come to the police is futile. So, you decided to ask for help. Cash in a favor. After all, he owes you one right? 

Warnings: Mentions of violence, stalking and being stalked, police ignorance and possible assault. If you are triggered about this, please read with CAUTION. On a good note, this also have fluff and comic relief.

Words: 7.1 k

Ratings: 18+ Minors DNI

Author's Note: I was hoping to make this spicy but I ended up making this a bit cute on the end with lots of innuendos. BUT don't fret. I'm gearing up for a spicy encounter with these too but NOT TODAY.

This is also like kind of a sequel of one of my one shots, When Foxy meets Wolfie. Check it out through my Master List link below. :)

Disclaimer: I have not beta reader. I do apologize for my mistakes and errors in terms of grammars. Please do message me if I miss something with my warnings.

Main Masterlist

New York is always filled with people and if you live here long enough. You would be able to at least recognize the regular people. Yes, you might be a person who loses touch of her surroundings but it always has been when you are coding. Though when you are walking around the city that never sleeps. Well, you are as alert as a fucking fox.

Huh, maybe that is why you also named yourself Foxy (You already admitted it was because of your Naruto addiction but nobody has to know about that.). But since the past few weeks, you swear there is someone following you. You could feel eyes watching your every move.

You are quite secure with your identity remaining anonymous to the internet or even on the dark web. After all, you are a good hacker, you just chose not to be a hacker and instead dedicate your life to coding for robotics and tech with Shuri. You already have back up plans in case a cyber bullying would happen (highly unlikely, you hate social media.) or when your accounts or identity is suddenly stolen (that is impossible. You made that sure but still…).

You never really slipped up when you do a thorough background check even to the sketchiest people. That includes the socialites of New York specifically, James Buchanan “White Wolf” Barnes.

Now you get why Shuri named him that. That is basically his name now, the White Wolf of New York. Known for owning the business conglomerate, Barnes Incorporated. An old family business that started in a very familiar place. Brooklyn.

Before he was the King of New York, he was the Boss of Brooklyn known as the Winter Soldier. How do you know this? A magician never tells their secrets. But you found pictures of him and reports of news that involves him.

Though you can’t quite figure out when he had the metal arm. It's a story you're going to ask him if he ever calls or text. The only thing he sent you was an emoji of a wolf just so you can save his number. Then silence. Not that you are waiting for him to text back or call. He’s dangerous but he owes you a favor. So he said so.

Anyway, you had to use the very same emoji and save his name as “Wolfie” . You can’t resist. After all, all the names in your contacts are a total of six plus Wolfie now that he is in it. Shuri is a “Cub” with a picture of a tiger. T’challa is a “Panther” with a picture of a black cat. Tony Stark is “Old Man” with a metal gun (Yes you know him and wish you didn’t because he constantly annoys the hell out of you). Wanda is “Witch” which has the devil emoji (She never took offense to it. After all, your friendship with her happened in a dark place. Another story to tell on another day.) Then her brother, Pietro, whom you named “QuickSilver” with the running emoji. Of Course your Mother who you named “Ghost” with a ghost emoji because let’s face it. She was only a ghost in your life. Only there but never really present, ya know?

Since finding out about him, you have felt as if you are being watched. You are sure you made the precaution when you gathered the intel about him. Maybe he had a taboo kind of thing on his name when searched?

You only learned about his business (which screams MOB all over it) and some of his personal information.

Name: James Buchanan Barnes

Parents: George Barnes and Winnifred Barnes

Siblings: Rebecca and Sarah Barnes

Age: 31 years old.

Birthday: Unknown 

If you are asked what is the best information about him, his marital status. Single. You don’t know why you are relieved but your stomach did a flip on that or it might just have been a facade. You know, he might be secretly married and cheating— Okay, Y/N you gotta chill my girl. 

This is not a fucking novelesque life or fiction. This is real life, as real as it can be at least for you.

Besides a man like that, you can’t help but sigh as you scroll through the plethora of pictures of him in various business functions and news. He was quite an eye candy.

A best piece of candy– maybe more edible than your gummy bears but you wouldn’t admit that. You won’t betray your favorite candy that way.

Focusing on the situation at hand, since obsessing about him by searching through the world wide web and trying to know much about him. You swore someone is watching you.

Your fears were confirmed when you noticed someone new on the route you take to go to your grocers which is coincidentally your route to work too. For the past weeks, it has been busy in Wakanda Industries and Shuri has asked you to come in at the labs to work hands-on. After all, she needs extra hands that she trusts to handle the vibranium that came in from their country.

You noticed him at first, he was tall and towers over you. You never really noticed him until he stood beside you. He was broad too and you knew he could easily manhandle you. He wears a cap over his head all the time and the same black bomber jacket and straight blue jeans. He is also wearing working boots. 

The reason why he raised a red flag, because usually a few people in New York do greet you. Contrary to people’s statement, if you are a regular around the neighborhood, people greet you. Sometimes, foreigners do that and that makes them stand out but this man. Oh boy, this man scares the crap out of you.

If he greeted you properly you wouldn’t have thought about him but the way he specifically reached out to you to tap your shoulders.

“Hey” He breathed out as he smiled or smirked?? You don’t know but it floored you when you saw his eyes. It was dark and fucking dangerous. You scrambled away from him after that, not bothering to greet back. Not your finest moment and you might have thought to toughen it up. But what happened at the club did a number on you. Men these days are more fucking aggressive and why do they choose to be one when you decided to take part in the real world.

That is why you wanted to stay at your apartment and code. Coding can only hurt you because it was a mistake you made that made it wrong. People? Well, you barely cope up with your mother’s absence and mistakes. You can’t deal with them at all.

Since then, you noticed him everywhere and your mind concluded (rather cursed) that it might be James Barnes’ fault that you are now being followed.

You are so regretting giving his number or even getting involved with him. It’s not totally worth it to stare into beautiful blue eyes and have the interest of one of the most eligible bachelors in New York when you might end up in a ditch somewhere.

So, you made a logical move, and reported it to the police. Though, you knew better. Not that you are bashing the police force but the people in Brooklyn PD? Is such a fucking waste of time.

You compiled pictures and evidence. Even the times when he followed your route to the T and even came into the same coffee shop as you. You even brought Wanda into it.

The people in the police station, specifically that dumb brunette that manned the desk for this kind of reports scoffed at you.

“Miss, it just looks like he walks and goes to the stores you are in as a regular. I’m sure you just noticed him now but we would ask around,”

Ask around my ass. That already happened a week ago and they never get back to you.

Now you are walking yet again to your home and you know he is right behind you. You could hear the gum he was chewing. You had your headphones on and no music playing. Afraid that if you got caught up with the sound, you might not hear him approaching.

You just want to get home safe. It's that too much to ask? You decided to pull out your phone. You have to call someone, anyone. 

You looked at the six contacts and sighed. Shuri and T’challa are out of the question. The former is still busy in the labs when you leave the building. The latter is off in Wakanda despite your salary. International calls are expensive. You don’t want to blow him up after all despite being CEO, he is still a fucking king of the country.

Your mom is also out because that woman never answers a call even when it was from her precious daughter. Pietro is a no go, its a middle of the fucking week, he might be somewhere even out of New York. You don’t even know what he does exactly but he is out most of the time.

Wanda is ideal so without thinking you dialed her up and prayed to whoever is listening to let her answer. You continue to walk aimlessly. Trying to make the guy think you are going off somewhere but he never faltered in following your steps.

Though your hope was dashed when it went to voicemail.

“Heya! This is Wanda, if I haven’t answered in the third ring. It means I’m busy, leave me a message and I’ll get back to you babes,”

“Wands, I kinda need you right now. Someone is following me,” You whispered to your phone. You tried to discreetly look back and you knew you shouldn’t have done that because now the man is staring straight ahead at you. His almost black irises turned darker as he grinned at you. He looks so damn familiar but you can’t quite place where you last saw him. You decided that it doesn’t matter now. You are going to die anyway.

You cursed. You put the phone down and looked down at your contacts. Great, being the best hacker and a fucking IT genius. Yet you are here scrambling to do something that is supposed to be logical.

Fuck life, this is a dangerous situation and you cannot deflect or even joke about it. This isn’t about numbers or codes anymore or having the fucking problem how the hell do you write a code that could make a fucking robot flex it’s arms.

You stared down at the last number.

Wolfie 🐺

Fuck it. You pressed the call button. You could have texted but hey, your life is at stake.

The first ring didn’t even finish when it was answered.

“You finally—”

“Listen to me,” You cut him off his sultry greeting with a hissed as you tried to not be too noisy. You are speedwalking now and from your last glance he is matching your speed. “I-I need to cash in t-that favor now,”

Silence only met you as you walked through the streets of New York. You don’t even know where you are going anymore.

“Cash in?” He said, his voice turning serious. You started to breathe harder as you took a turn. Not noticing that you have entered the park just a few blocks away from Winter.

“Y-yes, ummm– It's not ideal but I am in the same situation as before,”

This time you heard a growl. “Someone is trying to assault you?” 

You can’t help the chill that ran down your spine when he said that question. The coldness from it felt like seeping through the phone and to you.

“Might be the end of it if he caught up to me,” You panted as you tried to weave yourself through the people. Panic started to settle on your veins. You cannot hide anymore that you are trying to run away from him.

“You’re being chased?” You heard him shuffling on the end of the line. If you have focused, you could hear him clicking on something then a car door closing but you’re not. You are too focused on losing the man.

You chance another glance and saw him quite obviously chasing after you, making you curse.

“Yes,” You told him in panic as you turned back around only to slam into a girl. You nearly let your phone go but you held on tight to it as you apologized furiously to her. You could hear James’ muffled voice over the phone as you looked behind to see the guy had caught up to you.

“I’m sorry but I got to go,” You only said to the girl and started to walk away. You held your phone back to your ear.

“---Foxy, you better speak to me now. Where the hell are you?” 

“I’m here, I uhh–” You looked around as you saw the place. “At the park, four blocks away from Winter.”

“Okay, you know about Sarah’s Bake Shop?” James' voice said to you. He was eerily calm and quiet now. Momentarily you forgot you are on the phone too caught up by looking over your shoulder and where you are going. “Foxy, talk to me baby. Don’t go quiet on me,”

“S-sorry,” You muttered and confirmed that you knew about the bake shop. You remember opening a couple of years ago. You never really had a chance to visit since bread isn’t something you consume on a daily basis but Wanda and Pietro are regulars despite living in Manhattan. You looked around and saw the exit to the park. “It’s the artisan bakery around the corner,”

You took a turn, your feet already walking you towards the Bakery.

“Good, go there and come up to the counter. You will see a brunette with the same eyes as mine. Tell her Bucky sent you and you need to be kept safe,” James explained.

“Bucky?” You can’t help but snort at that name. It wasn’t an unusual name per se but it reminded you of a certain man back in college in Utah. His name was Buckett with a double “t”. He always emphasized that and he was a total tool bag to say the least. He tried to hit on you and you can never forget the words he uttered to you the first time. Earning him a big ole slap. Your hand had to be bandaged up and you were restricted to move it for a week making you miss a coding class. (This is the reason why you also started your obsession with Naruto. You can’t really do anything but watch TV when you badly want to code instead.)

“I heard quiet girls are freaky. You might want to show me if it's, baby girl?”

You had to do it though and you did not regret that slap. He was such an extraordinary human being. Though last time you heard, he was locked up. Figures.

You know it's not the time to be amused by that but you can’t help it. You are scared out of your mind and you are uncomfortable with all the human interaction you had to do for the past few weeks. This is what you result into when you are in that state. 

“Now is not the time baby, just do as I say,” James grunted as he heard the quiet giggles now that you made your way over the bakery.

“That name reminded me of a douche bag in college,” you told him, your filter off now as you made it through the crowd. Though your voice still sounded panicked.

“Tell me all about him later, doll but I need you in the bakery now okay?” James coaxed you and that made you glanced back to see the man’s eyes are now dark. A sneer on his face as he neared you.

You cursed. “He’s nearing me,”

“Do you see the bakery?”

You frantically looked around and once you saw the distinct pastel blue sign and “Sarah’s Bakery Shop” on the front. You sprinted, willing your short legs to please not fail you this time. You could hear him running after you now, and you didn’t even look at the road that you were crossing. Cars started to blast their horns but you didn’t care.

Your eyes tunneled towards the door and luckily a man was coming out of the shop and opened the door. Just in time for you to dash past him. The bakery was a bit filled despite it being 7PM at night. A few people were dining there and once you crashed in they all looked at you shocked.

“Excuse me Miss?” You looked towards the voice and then you were struck dumb thinking you are seeing James but in his place was a woman a bit taller than you. She is wearing a long sleeved white blouse and she is looking at you weirdly. Though what caught your eyes is the electric blues she sported. Almost the same ones as James but he was more beautiful. Sorry to say or is it just biased thinking?

You looked out to see the man ready to cross the street so you blurted out the words that James gave you.

“Bucky sent me here and to tell you to keep me safe,” you told her in a rush. Your eyes wide as you clutched the phone to your chest. Momentarily forgotten that James is on the other side of the phone. The woman looked at you for a moment and then followed your vision to where you turned. She must have seen the man because the next thing you know she was already shielding you from him as he entered the bakery.

It suddenly felt like the air in the shop was sucked out. The chatter quieted down as the man entered the shop. His eyes fixed on you.

“There you are babe,” The man suddenly exclaimed as he looked towards you. You remain frozen to where you stand but the woman behind the counter stepped right where he won’t be able to see you.

“Do you know him?” The woman only asked as she stared at him down.

“No,” You outright told her and you tried not to flinch as the man sneered for a moment before replacing it with his maniacal smile.

“Come on babe, don’t be like that. I already said I’m sorry to you, come on lets just—”

“Don’t touch me!” You exclaimed as he reached out over the woman. The woman, despite her fearless way of shielding you, wasn’t strong enough to deflect his reach. He was able to hold on to your forearm but you managed to twist it out of his grip. The woman then pulled you away from the man.

“That is not nice, babe. Don’t pretend you don’t know me. I have been walking with you for the past weeks,” He mused. You only glared at him as you held your forearm. He tried to reach out for you but this time the woman slapped his hand making him glare at her.

“I don’t even know you, you freak.” You told him as you leaned towards the woman who has her arms around you now. “You were stalking me,” you spat out.

“I was just trying to protect you babe.”

“Don’t call me that, i’m not your babe,”

“Of course you are,” He snorted and then reached out again. 

“Don’t you dare touch her,” The woman threatened as he slapped his hand away. “She is not your babe. She is my brother’s girl,”

The man growled at that. “She is nobody's but mine and I can do anything to her,” he spat back as he reached out again. You tried to step back and produce space between you and the man but to no avail, he was big enough to be able to reach for your wrist this time.

“Oh, my brother would be so pissed off if he learns that you are touching his girl,” The woman threatened as he finally closed his hands on your wrist. When the words finally processed, you froze, which was a wrong decision because the man now has easily pulled you to him but your mind is elsewhere.

Brother?

“Oh yeah, what is he going to do—”

“You will be dead,” A voice interrupted. You knew that voice and the next thing you know you are in his arms this time. You look to see him staring at the man down who glared back at him.

“Who the hell are you? Give back my girl—”

James only laughed at that while your eyes suddenly caught a quiet murmur. The patrons were being escorted out by two men. One of them is Sam who offered a nod to you while the other is a tall blonde man. He has piercing blue eyes but his eyes are kind despite the stoic expression on his face.

Though the moment he saw you looking, he offered only a smile as he continued his job. Soon the shop was empty and the window blinds were closed.

James still has you in his arms and the woman is now standing alongside Sam and the blonde man. The man suddenly realized he was outnumbered.

“Just give her back to me. She has been making trouble—”

“Buddy, how many times am I going to tell you that she is not your girl?” James mused as he pulled you closer. You only leaned against him, quite shocked at yourself on how much you let him touch you. Again, your filter is off and you are in a dangerous situation. You might have been uncomfortable with human touch but if it comes from James it wasn’t entirely uncomfortable.

You remember the way he touched your face that night and— now is not the time,

“Fuck it, she’s not worth it. I could find a different whore—”

The only warning all of you had was the sound of his vibranium arm’s plates clicking and the next thing you know. The man was flying until he hit a wall and you swore you heard a crack after. You jumped and gasped at that. 

James momentarily let you go and in his place came the woman who took your trembling figure in her arms. Though your eyes remained fixed on James who menacingly stepped towards the man whose eyes are half-lidded. Without any more words, you heard his metal arm wired to life, suddenly you are momentarily distracted by that as it reminded you about the code you are still working on to help with that. But then before you can finish that thought, the man cried out as you heard another crack.

You looked back at James but before you can even see what happened to the man. Sam and the blonde man blocked your view. Then you are back in James’ arms.

You tried to look again but you felt a hand behind your head turning you gently towards him.

“Don’t look,” is all he murmured as you nodded. You buried your face on his chest, knowing you wouldn’t like what you are going to see anyway. Your grip on your phone loosened a bit and then you completely let it go as you felt his vibranium arm wrapping itself around you.

“I got you Foxy. You’re safe now,” You didn’t know you need to hear those words. You sagged against him. The adrenaline and the rush of trying to save yourself seeped out to you. Your knees buckled and you felt James leaning down to take you in his arms. Your phone fell down on your grip and you might have winced when you heard the crack but you don’t care. You're safe.

You felt James move somewhere and the next thing you know he is seated in one of the booths with you on his lap. Your head now leaned against his shoulder as his vibranium secured you on his lap while his flesh one caressed the back of your head.

You stayed there trying to get your thoughts and your body to cooperate. In another situation, you might have quipped something inappropriate or joked about it. A defense mechanism of yours when things are overwhelming but right now. You seek the comfort you thought you didn’t need to the most unlikely person ever.

As you stayed quiet, you heard James murmuring orders to the two men. While the woman, who you later on will know as Sarah Barnes had busied herself in the kitchen. She even pulled out a cup of water and a cup of coffee towards the both of you. Your broken phone also laid on the table. 

But you didn’t move and you remained in James’s arms. James continues to caress you and continue to whisper sweet nothings. Assuring you that you are safe and no one is going to touch as long as he is around.

You don’t know how long you and he stayed there but eventually someone has to break the silence. James decided it's going to be him.

“We should really stop seeing each other like this,” James said and that finally broke it as you can’t help but snort.

“It's your fault,” you can’t help but say as you leaned back to look up at him. His electro blue eyes staring down at you amused.

“My fault?” He asked his eyes now, swimming in amusement.

You nodded. “I got involved with you and now I am in my quota for dangerous situations,”

James chuckled at that as he reached up to you and cupped your cheek. Your brows scrunched at the deja vu feeling this situation is giving you.

“I guess I owe you one again?” James asked as he looked at you.

You huffed as you looked away making your cheeks squish against his hand making you pout. James must have found your huffing amusing because you heard him chuckle again.

“What is it? You don’t like me owing you?” He asked as he tried to catch your eyes but you continued to dodge him as you huffed.

You felt like this is going to be the cycle between the two of you and you wanted not to do anything with him. Even if he is the most beautiful man and you wanted to do things to him that you rather don’t want to think about. You don’t have your filter on. (You will never have it back. Let’s face it.)

“I’d rather not have anything to deal with you,” You grumbled but it only earned you a chuckle from the man himself.

“Oh Foxy, do you think I would be able to let you go now?”

“Well, you did a good job ignoring me for the past few weeks,” you blurted out and then your eyes widened at what you just said. You looked back at him to see him looking at you taken aback before it morphed into mischief. You huffed again.

“You are waiting for me to call you?” James asked amused.

“No!” You exclaimed and when you tried to move away. You noticed that you are still on his lap. You immediately move to stand up. James again, let you not make any move as you stared back at him incredulously.

“I thought you don’t want to deal with socialites like me?”

“Shut up,” You quipped not knowing what comeback you will give him. Shit shit shit. You just outed that you are thinking about him. Soon he would discover you were stalking him through the world wide web. Oh gosh Y/N, you really did it this time. You’re dead. Completely dead.

“I was out of the country,” James suddenly said, making you look at him in confusion. He turned his body so he is still facing you. He remained seated in the booth as he laid both of his hands on his thighs. You just noticed his outfit now. He was in a casual black sweater paired with black jeans and doc martens. An outfit that usually is fit for traveling.

“I was in Russia and then Wakanda for the past months doing…” he trailed off as if trying to find the right words.

“Mob business” you completed it for him and then your eyes widened again. Oh shit. 

James then looked at you before he smirked. “Yes,” he didn’t even deny it as your eyes widened more. “I’ve been busy and I wasn’t able to hold on to my phone until today. I just landed when you called me,”

You bit your lip at that. He came all the way here? Then your eyebrows scrunched together. 

“How come you came here so fast? New York is like a labyrinth of traffic,”

“I came here through my building. T’challa let me use one of their Quinjets.” He explained and you nodded now. Not knowing what to say anymore.

“So you’ve been busy huh? What more did you find about me doll?” James asked and your eyes widened at that.

“I am not inclined to answer that question,” You decided to tell him. To hell with it, you won’t snitch on yourself.

James chuckled at that as he looked at you though his face grew sober as his eyes trailed down towards your arms. You followed his gaze and saw the mark that the man left on it. Suddenly, you felt your knees become jello as the events of today crashed to you again.

“How long is he following you around?” James asked quietly as you shakily looked up at him. 

“A few weeks now,” You told him and you watched as he clenched his jaw. “I-I tried to go to the police but—”

“They didn’t do anything about it?” He sharply asked and you shook your head. You heard him curse before he took a deep breath, calming himself down. “Well, I guess it's a good thing I ended it before it became too much,”

You looked up at him and then your eyes trained towards the wall where the man was slumped. You didn’t hear James stand up but the next thing you know, he was right in front of you again. Blocking your view and making you look at him.

“Hey Foxy,” He murmured quietly as he hovered his arms over your face. His eyes asking for permission. You can’t help but nod. He kept doing that, even on the first encounter. He was always asking you before he touched you. You liked that.

Once he held your face, one flesh and one metal, he stared at you for a while. His eyes roaming around your face making you self conscious. You scrunch your nose and were about to remove your face from his hands. This time his hold was gentle yet firm.

“I’m sorry for not reaching out to you for the past weeks. I really wanted to know about you, Foxy.”

You only stared back at him. Oddly, he sounded sincere.

“I think it's also bad that I get to see you when you are in danger,” James added as he smirked at you. You huffed at that. 

You pouted. “Well, you are trouble personified as much as I know,” 

James chuckled. “You attract trouble, baby.” He answered back and you looked at him offended.

“I do not! I just have poor luck,” You mumbled but James just looked at you with amusement.

“Then, I’ll be your lucky charm.” James declared as you raised a brow at him in questions. He gently ran his thumbs over your cheekbones as he looked down at you with a small smile. 

“I didn’t know people like you can be this cheesy,” You told him.

“It's a hidden talent,” James joked and you have to stop yourself from laughing. Instead you just ballooned your cheeks. James just finds it amusing but then his face turns serious. “But I’m serious Foxy. Whether you owe me or I owe you one. When you run into something bad, you call me okay?”

You looked at him for a moment. “Why are you so adamant on knowing about me?” You questioned instead. Your stand of having nothing to do is still up but you are curious about his fascination with you.

James then thought about it with a playfully expression on his face before he looked back down at you. He ran his tongue on his bottom lip before he spoke.

“You intrigue me Foxy,” James said and you were about to protest that it was such a vague reason when he added. “Trust me, I don’t get intrigued or amused easily.”

You blinked at that. Intrigued? No one really told me that before. 

“Bucky?” You and James turned around at the mention of the name. You saw the same woman before, her eyes the same as James trained on his hand which was holding your face. An amused expression fixed on her face. Though the both of you didn’t make a move as you both looked at her expectantly.

Then something clicked in you. Bucky.

You snorted suddenly, the memories of a man named Buckett coming back to you as you looked at James. Then it clicked.

���...You will see a brunette with the same eyes as mine. Tell her Bucky sent you and you need to be kept safe”

“She is not your babe. She is my brother’s girl,”

Bucky = Brother = James

“You’re Bucky,” You concluded out loud and James looked down at you amused. Then you heard a giggle to look back at the woman. Then your eyes widened.

Sarah’s Baker Shop 

Siblings: Rebecca and Sarah Barnes

“Holy shit, your his sister Sarah,” You mumbled and the woman, Sarah nodded. She turned to Ja—-Bucky with a smirk.

“She’s smart. Different from the girls that flocked around you Buck,” She retorted towards her brothers. James rolled his eyes at her before letting go of your face but then you snorted and couldn't help the giggles that came out of you.

Now two identical blue eyes looked down at you amused yet confused.

“Why are you laughing Foxy?”

“Bucky? Seriously Wolfie?” You can’t help but let the nickname you have for him slip out as you continue to giggle. “Where the hell Bucky came from?”

“He hated Buchanan and he hated being called James before,” Sarah mused as she caught on to what was funny to you. She looked at Bucky now with a small smile. “He insisted everybody call him Bucky. Steve joked about that sounding so much like Bucket–”

“Oh gosh, Buckett. The college douche bag,” you exclaimed and now you are full on laughing. Sarah snickered at you while James just sighed.

“Glad I could make you laugh Foxy,” James grumbled and that just made you laugh more. It was a while before you had your laugh under control. Then you sobered up as you looked back at Sarah remembering how much she tried to protect you before.

“Thank you,” you blurted out as you looked at her. Sarah then offered a small smile. “You didn’t know me yet you protected me,”

Sarah then glanced at Bucky before looking back at you. “Any friends of  Bucky are friends of mine too or is there something going on?” She mused.

Your eyes widened at what she was implying. “Umm– we-we are not– something! We- we are–”

“We are not yet something,” James slyly replied as you looked at him now with wide eyes as he looked back at you. “But we are friends now,”

“I said no such thing!” You exclaimed as you tried to take a step back away from him. “Besides you are one of our clients in my work place and I do not—”

“I am friends with Shuri,” he cut you off again as he looked at you with a tilt of his head. “Why can’t I be friends with you?”

You opened your mouth but honestly, you don’t even know why he can’t. Yes he might be involved with the mob but honestly, you just blamed him for the situation you are in. It was honestly a coincidence that you had a stalker and you happen to know one of the dangerous men of New York. Maybe because you knew once you let him in your life. You would be dealing with shit you never dealt with before and you knew that you wouldn’t be able to walk away. As one of the articles says about him; “James Barnes, the most charming CEO over 30’s”. Of course, you won’t admit that. Over your dead tiny body. So you say your default reason.

“You’re dangerous,” 

James chuckled as a sense of dejavu washed over you. “I told you, you are the safest with me,”

You looked at him for a moment and sighed. “I will never be able to get rid of you now huh?”

James then turned serious as he looked at you. “You never really told me you want me out of your life.”

“I did,” you mused as you looked at him but James shook his head. 

“You have to mean it, Y/N.” You can’t help but blush at the way he said your name. “And when you do, I would know.”

You continue to stare at him. For once, you are lost at what to say back to him. You know your resolve is crumbling. Who are you even kidding anymore?

“Maybe it is best if Y/N take her rest,” Sarah interrupted as you both turned to her. Your eyes widened when you realized you weren’t able to introduce yourself properly.

“Oh right, I forgot. My name is Y/N Y/LN,” You offered a smile at her. Sarah beamed back at you.

“Nice to meet you Y/N. I’m Sarah Jane Barnes, Bucky’s youngest sister.” She introduced herself. “Well, as much as I want to know more about you and how you met my pain in the ass big bad brother. It's best that he takes out for a bite first before ensuring you are safe home?”

She said that as if she was talking to you but one she mentioned James, her gaze turned to him as she finished speaking.

“I’ll make sure she’s eaten and home safe,” 

“Good, see you Y/N.”

After that, James— rather Bucky now in your head. Escorted you to the car he drove here which was parked right outside the shop. Sam had greeted you and then you were introduced to the tall man.

“This is Steve—”

“Oh the one who joked about your nickname sounding like Bucket,” you blurted out and then blushed at that. Steve had looked down at you amused. His stoic expression is long gone.

“You are really cute,” He commented, making you blush deeper and lean more towards Bucky who glared at him.

“Stop flirting with her dumb ass.” Bucky said before he led you towards the car. When you were situated, he turned to instruct them on helping Sarah up. You didn’t know what they talked about but the next thing you know Bucky is inside the car.

“Will you be taking me home now?” You asked without thinking about your question before you even realized the implication of it. It was too late as Bucky turned to you with a dark expression and smirk.

“I would love to take you home now Foxy,” He flirted and your eyes widened at that.

“No! That is not what I meant— I meant if you are taking me back to my home,” You emphasized but Bucky only laughed at you as he put the car on drive.

“I promised SJ I would be feeding you and then taking you home,” He said as he spared you a glance before turning back to the road. “Whichever home you prefer,” He teased and you huffed at him.

“You don’t have to–”

“I want to,” Bucky suddenly turned serious as he gave you another glance. “I might have promised my sister but that is what I’m going to do anyway,”

“If you are going to feed me, I want pizza.” You said and then you hurriedly added. “But I don’t want high end things. I had too much stress today. I want the pizza at Hal’s the little store near Wakanda,”

If he wants to know you, you both do it on your terms. If he is uncomfortable, then he’s not worthy to be your friend—

“Sounds good.” He then pulled out his phone and handed it to you. The same phone he handed me before. “Why don’t you call ahead and order in advance?”

You looked at the phone and then him. “Are you seriously handing me your phone right now?”

Bucky raised a brow as he glanced at you. His hand remained, one hand on the wheel and the other giving his phone to you.

“Ugh yes,”

“What if your mob business got–”

“This is my personal phone,” He explained and then he lifted it again as an offering. You took it and shrugged but then you have another idea. You are still not that comfortable with this so you decided to be a little shit that you are.

“I’m going to order a whole pizza. Half and half. Are you okay with pineapples, olives and mushrooms?” You asked as you looked at him. Then he gave you quite the opposite of what you expect. 

“With extra cheese?” He asked and you blinked at him.

“Ugh, yes.” You can only answer.

“Sounds good.” He only said and then you just continued to stare at him. Bucky must have noticed before he chuckled. “What do you expect me to say no and force you to be taken to a high end restaurant just like in fiction?”

Honestly? “Yes.”

Bucky laughed at that and you can’t help but admire it. “I’m not going to force anything on you Foxy,” He then looked at you with a mischievous look before looking back at the road. “Besides, the only thing I exert force on is in my work and in bed,”

You can’t help your first instinct and lightly hit him on the shoulder earning a laugh from Bucky.

“Stop with innuendos!” You exclaimed and Bucky laughed.

“Can’t help it, Foxy. I like it when I can make you blush,” He said and then made you tuck in to yourself.

“Gosh, now I'm starting to see how you are going to be in the future,” You grumbled and Bucky only smirked at you.

“I’m just starting, Foxy. I have a lot things in store for you,”

Again, what have you got yourself into Y/N?

#bucky barnes #bucky barnes x female reader #bucky barnes × reader #mob!bucky x reader #mob!bucky #bucky barns x you #alltheficsiwant writes #Foxy & Wolfie #ilovemybuck #marvel

[bitchyglitterfox]

Bitchyglitterfox Masterlist

All of my Fics are Reader Insert

Last updated: April 24 2023

** - Indicates Smut

My Recommendation List

House of The Dragon/Game of Thrones

Rhaenyra Targaryen

I Wanna Ruin Our Friendship

Alicent Hightower

The Queen's Secret **

Daemon Targaryen

Moon of my life **

Dragon Riders

Ser Harwin Strong

Coming Soon

Ser Criston Cole

I'll Gladly Be Your Whore **

Aegon Targaryen II

Bath Time

He May Be A Beast Or A Troll

Helaena Targaryen

My Sweet Helaena**

Aemond Targaryen

Little Dove **

Jacerys Velaryon

Remember Me

Christmas Cookies - Modern AU

Go Get'em Tiger

Multiple Characters

Dead Girl Walking

Decorating The Christmas Tree - Modern AU

Series

Survive - Zombie Apocalypse and Modern AU

Marvel - Cinematic and Sonyverse

Moon Knight

Moon Boys Go To Knotts

Rise Once More

Doppelganger

Traditions

Down Bad For Teacher **

The System As College Professors

Sour

Kpop Groups I Think The Moon Boys Would Be Into

Who The Hell Is Moon Knight

Pegging The Moon Knight System**

Jack Russell

Dia De Los Muertos

Champurrado Kisses In the Moonlight

Sorry I Couldn't Save You

Sex Pollen**

Bucky Barnes

A Love Through The Ages

Dancing In The Moonlight

Don't Ever Call Me Doll

With You Til The End Of The Line

Steve Rogers

Travelin' Soldier

One Last Dance

NSFW Alphabet**

Wanda Maximoff

Valentines Day

Moonlight Sunrise

Pietro Maximoff

Angel

Stephan Strange

Anal Play**

Fate

Tony Stark

The One That Got Away

Clint Barton

Marry Me

Peter Parker

Petals and Bullets(TASM)

Always Second Best(TASM)

Full Moon(MSM) Werewolf AU

Multiple Characters

Happy Birthday - Various Avengers

How They Are One Your Period** - MoonKnight and Jack Russell

What I Think My Favorite Characters Smell Like - Moon Knight and Jack Russell

Werewolves and Moon Knights and Magic! Oh My!** Jack Russell and Moon Knight

Incorrect Quotes

#1

#2

#3

Series

Blinding Light** (Hiatus) - Avengers

The Sun Will Shine On Us Again(Hiatus) - Various Avengers

The Sun Will Shine On Us Again Pt 2(Hiatus) - Various Avengers

Dirty Little Secret** - Moon Knight

Stranger Things

Robin Buckley

The Siren And The Fairy**

Stuck

Steve Harrington

Amnesia

First Snow Day

Eddie Munson

Oopsie Daisy

Feeding Time

Christmas Movies

After Concert Treat**

Nancy Wheeler

Coming soon

Jonathan Byers

Breathe Play**

Argyle

Coming soon

Multiple Characters

What I Think My Favorite Characters Smell Like - Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington

Series

Star Wars - OG!Trilogy, Prequels, Sequels, and Shows

header: @nightxval on pintrest

Anakin Skywalker

In Another Life

Luke Skywalker

Shower Sex**

Din Djarin

Forever and Always

Poe Dameron

Hey There Fly Boy

Slashers

House Of Wax

Relaxation

Saviors

Halloween OG and RZ

The Boy

Save Me

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Showing The Hewitts How To Season Their Food

Multiple Characters

Suckin Off The Slashers**

What I Think My Favorite Characters Smell Like - Sinclair Brothers and Thomas Hewitt

Series

Triple Frontier

Santiago 'Pope' Garcia

Coming soon

Frankie 'Catfish' Morales

Belly Lift

Will 'Ironhead' Miller

Coming soon

Ben 'Benny' Miller

Coming soon

Multiple Characters

No One Gets Left Behind Or Forgotten

Series

The Last Of Us

Clementine

Multiple Characters

Series

COMING SOON

COD: Modern Warfare II

König

Silly little Thoughts

Simon 'Ghost' Reily

Coming soon

John 'Soap' Mactavish

Coming soon

#stranger things imagine #stranger things #marvel #pedro pascal characters #eddie munson #stranger things smut #house of the dragon #ser criston cole smut #ser criston cole #GoT #game of thrones x reader #sony marvel #bitchyglitterfox writes #robin buckley x reader #robin buckley smut #anakin skywalker x reader #clint barton x reader #spencer reid x reader #criminal minds #slashers x reader #slashers #triple frontier fanfiction #the last of us fic #the last of us fandom #cod: mw2 #konig x reader #konig modern warfare #konig mw2

[themculibrary]

Peter & Shuri Masterlist

5 Times Shuri and Peter Quoted Vines and 1 Time They Didn't (ao3) - MysteryElle T, 5k

Summary: Exactly what the title says. Might do another one if this one gets good reviews.

Children Of Tumult (ao3) - nhasablog G, 509

Summary: T'Challa watches Shuri and Peter interact.

Clever (ao3) - Rivulet027 T, 1k

Summary: Shuri takes a break and tries to help the group get Groot to stop pouting.

Difficulty Breathing with Peter, Shuri, Tony, and Bruce (ao3) - Some_weird_queer_writer T, 1k

Summary: Trans!Peter is an idiot (affectionate) and binds while doing exercise, has a panic attack, isn't out to Tony or Bruce, but is out to Shuri. Happy ending

Gobbledygook (ao3) - kjstark steve/bucky G, 3k

Summary: Peter didn’t think it’d turn into a thing. Not an active thing, at least. With ten months well into the compound and his so-called training (after a few very awkward first months as Mister Stark and the Captain slowly made peace again and his team of “rogues”, as Peter had begun calling it, were welcomed in), Peter was already adjusted to being the only kid around. Well—him and technically Vision, but the robot doesn’t really count.

So, it starts off as breezy as breathing.

How Peter Parker met Shuri (ao3) - Georgiah G, 394

Summary: Basically how Peter and Shuri Met

Iconic (ao3) - denyingmyselfalways T, 3k

Summary: In which Shuri and Peter keep quoting vines and driving Tony and T'challa insane. The rest of the team is just confused.

(Except for Nat.)

More Adventures of Peter Parker and Shuri (ao3) - aceschwarz222 pepper/tony G, 142k

Summary: Peter Parker and Shuri are science bros for life. It's been a year since they first met, and with the second summer upon them, it's time for more crazy shenanigans. And what better place to start those shenanigans than with a wedding in Las Vegas?

Never Let Peter and Shuri on YouTube (ao3) - Climbergirlio G, 4k

Summary: It all started innocently. Peter (as Spider-Man) and Shuri film a Q&A video about The Stark Intern to answer some of the public's burning questions and debunk a couple conspiracy theories. But after watching the video the people of the internet start shipping Spider-Man and Shuri.

Peter and Shuri annoying everyone (ao3) - orphan_account peter/shuri N/R, 2k

Summary: Shuri and Peter being annoying to the Avengers :)

Peter and Shuri's Not So Boring Day (ao3) - Artemis_Day G, 3k

Summary: Peter never thought his Saturday would end with an actual princess in his apartment, but sometimes, you just have to roll with it.

Peter and Shuri Solve A Mystery (ao3) - odd_izzy pepper/tony G, 4k

Summary: Inspired by aceschwarz222's brilliant Vegas storyline in More Adventures of Peter Parker and Shuri, I have written what started out as a one-shot featuring the kids attempting to unravel the events of the night that almost all the adults they know got very very drunk and couldn't remember any of. A tiger cub may have been stolen.

Peter Parker and Shuri Prank The Avengers Team (ao3) - myheartisoverseas mj/peter, clint/natasha, gamora/peter, steve/bucky T, 37k

Summary: Peter and Shuri are just adorable and like freaking their friends out with pranks.

take me back (ao3) - jaybaybay T, 47k

Summary: Peter and Shuri are kidnapped by a gang of bandits who demand ransom money for the princess of Wakanda. They’ll soon find out that they have more than one prize in their grasp.

The Adventures of Peter Parker and Shuri (ao3) - aceschwarz222 gamora/peter, pepper/tony G, 92k

Summary: T'Challa must spend two weeks at the Avengers Compound working on an agreement with Tony Stark in light of Wakanda opening its borders and resources. He brings along his sister, Shuri, who meets the equally nerdy Peter Parker.

Basically a bunch of short, fluffy drabbles about a fantastic friendship between two adorable dorks.

Whatever It Is, Peter Started It! (ao3) - sdottkrames G, 1k

Summary: comfortember Prompt 26: Junk Food

Peter and Shuri meet. Hijinks and memes ensue

#themculibrary #mcu #marvel #peter parker #shuri #friendship #friendship masterlist #masterlists

[oliviermiraarmstrongs]

mid year book freak out tag

thanks @bloody-wonder!

1. Best Book You’ve Read So Far in 2022? it’s a toss-up between the robber bride by margaret atwood and in the dream house by carmen maria machado. I'm leaning more towards the former because I just can’t stop thinking about it.

2. Best Sequel You’ve Read So Far in 2022? Ruin and Rising, by virtue of being the only sequel I’ve read this year. I liked it! I think it’s the best one in the trilogy. I love a good team dynamic, love a globe-trotting (country-trotting?) adventure, love all the saint stuff. I have a lot of feelings about the ending, some good, and some…I wouldn’t say bad, I think I was just really broken up about it.

3. New Releases You Haven’t Read Yet, But Want To? I don’t even know if the ophelia girls by jane healey is good or not, but “psychological female character study about girls who are obsessed with the pre-raphaelites” is 100% in my q-zone and I am obligated to check it out.

4. Most Anticipated Release for Second Half of 2022?

5. Biggest Disappointment? I was gonna say Ariadne, but tbh that would’ve required me to have had high hopes for it in the first place. Female-centric mythology retelling are like trashy romance novels to me; I know they will be formulaic and low-quality, but they scratch a certain itch. Sometimes you get a Til We Have Faces or even a Circe, but other times…well, you get Ariadne. An actual disappointment might be The Tiger’s Daughter, even though I’m not done with it yet. I read the first couple of chapters a few years ago and was pretty excited about the concept of an Asian-inspired epic fantasy centered around wlw, but after picking it up again I can’t quite get invested in it. Maybe it’s the second-person past-tense narration resulting from the framing device – I might connect to the characters and story more if I could actually experience them happening in real time instead of killing any sort of dramatic tension (the fact that I’m supposed to care about Shefali and Shizuka’s relationship before I even know who they are is bad enough; even worse is that it sets up Shizuka’s uncle as a major villain and then not even halfway in just off-handedly mentions that she already overthrew and banished him in the present day. stakes!) But maybe it’ll surprise me by the end.

6. Biggest Surprise? Honestly, the robber bride surprised me as I read it. I experienced a rollercoaster of emotions throughout; midway through (I think around tony’s portion) I became concerned about the way the book would turn out. Was this a commentary on the ways women tear each other down while at the same time absolving men of any wrongdoing, or is it just doing exactly that? I think at the time, I wasn’t really catching on to the unreliable narration from all three women, but the ending did really well to re-contextualize all the disparate ideas into coherent themes.

7. Favorite New Author? I wanna look into other stuff by carmen maria machado; she managed to write about her own life in such an imaginative manner. her being on you’re wrong about only makes me like her more. also shout out to ocean vuong, I’m not done with on earth we’re briefly gorgeous yet, but by god is it tugging at my heartstrings.

8. Newest Favorite Character? I went from thinking “god, zenia from the robber bride is such a two-dimensional caricature of misogynistic stereotypes” to by the end being like “zenia is an ever-shifting narrative mirror. zenia is everyone and no one. zenia is a secret mentor helping the three protagonists to become truer versions of themselves. zenia is a dealer of hard lessons and ugly truths. zenia is a guardian angel protecting women from shitty men by exposing how inadequate they really are. zenia is the other woman, both in the traditional relationship sense and in the sense that she represents the Other, cast out by her fellow girls for being the “wrong” type of woman. zenia is a martyr, allowed back into the bonds of female friendship only after her death. I am zenia. we are zenia.”

9. Newest Fictional Crush? If I were toni, charis, and ros, I would have simply seduced zenia myself. rip to them bu

10. Book That Made You Cry? on earth we’re briefly gorgeous is getting me very close and I’m afraid every time I pick it up again bc I’ve been on vacation the past few weeks and I don’t want my family to see me cry fichxjdjd

11. Book That Made You Happy? I don’t read happy books…..maybe the ending of the robber bride where the three women sort of accept zenia for the mystery she is after she dies and spread her ashes in the toronto harbor. that’s the closest I got ashddhshs

12. Favorite Book Adaptation You Saw This Year? I haven’t seen an adaptation of anything I’ve read this year, but I did finally knock bram stoker’s dracula (the coppola film) off my list. iconic. it understood the assignment. the crimson peak of the 90s

13. Favorite Review You’ve Written This Year?

14. Most Beautiful Cover? I found a lovely leatherbound edition of the aeneid at an antique store. I’d upload a photo but I’m not at home now, so take my word for it

15. What Books Do You Need To Read By the End of the Year? I was gonna say on earth we’re briefly gorgeous, but the tiger’s daughter was boring me so much I already started reading it to cleanse my palate between chapters. god knows what else I’m gonna read this year; future sophia is an unpredictable creature. I probably should finally read six of crows and the rest of that series. beyond that, well I’ll see.

tagging @illuminaticns, @betweenironyandsilver, @antema, @trckstergods, @borispavlikovskys, and @palamedesthesixth, if y’all wanna!

#sophia says shit #tagged as me #the unread stack of books continues to pile up #mid year book freak out tag

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.4

Holidays

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Day

Apocalypse Day

Army Day (Guatemala)

Baal Fire Day (Northumberland, UK)

Buffalo Bill Day

Bullion’s Day

Commemoration Day of the Victims of the Genocide Against the Jewish People (Latvia)

Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)

Day of Agwe (Haiti)

Dree Festival begins (Apatani people, India) [Ends 7.7]

F-Day (Alaska)

Filipino-American Friendship Day (Philippines)

Garibaldi Day (Italy)

Hillbilly Day

Invisible Day

Jumping on the Mattress Night

King Tupou VI Day (Tonga)

Koko the Gorilla Day

Kwibohora (Liberation Day; Rwanda)

Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day

National Architect Day (Venezuela)

Queen Sonja Day (Norway)

Republic Day (Philippines)

Stone Skipping Tournament (Mackinac Island, Michigan)

Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day (Hannibal, Missouri)

Unity Day (Zambia)

Virgin Islands Day (British Virgin Islands)

White Cloud’s Birthday and Tatanka Bison Festival (North Dakota)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Honor American Beer & Cyder Day

Jackfruit Day

National Baked Beans Day

National Barbecue Day

National Barbecued Spareribs Day

National Caesar Salad Day

National Pub Opening Day

Sidewalk Egg Frying Day

First Monday in July

CARICOM Day (a.k.a. Caribbean Day) [1st Monday]

Carnival Monday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) [1st Monday]

Independence Days

Abkhazia (from Georgia, 1993)

Philippines (from US, 1946)

United States (from UK, 1776) a.k.a. …

Barbecue Day

Boom Box Parade (Willimantic, Connecticut)

Firecracker Day

Holy Firecracker Day (in John Updike's Couples)

Independence From Meat Day

Indivisible Day

National Country Music Day

Feast Days

Alec Guinness Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Andrew of Crete (Christian; Saint)

Bertha of Artois (Christian; Saint)

Bolcan (Christian; Saint)

Catherine Jarrige (Christian; Blessed)

Day of Pax (Ancient Roman)

Elizabeth of Aragon (or of Portugal; Christian; Saint)

Finbar (Christian; Saint)

Oda of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Peter the Hermit (Positivist; Saint)

Pier Giorgio Frassati (Christian; Blessed)

Sisoes (a.k.a. Sisoy), Anchoret in Egypt (Christian; Saint)

Ulrich of Augsburg (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [38 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Alice in Wonderland (Novel; 1862)

America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee), by Lowell Mason and Samuel Francis Smith (Song; 1831)

Die Hard 2 (Film; 1990)

Fernwood 2 Night (TV Series; 1977)

Foo Fighters, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1995)

Greenfields, by The Brothers Four (Song; 1959)

Hail to the Chief, performed by the U.S. Marine Band (Song; 1828)

Kylie, by Kylie Minogue (Album; 1988)

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (Poem; 1855)

Once Upon a Time in the West (Film; 1969)

Summer in the City, by The Lovin’ Spoonful (Song; 1966)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy (Novel; 1891)

Tony Orlando & Dawn (TV Series; 1974)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 185 of 2022; 180 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 27 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Héyuè), Day 6 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 5 Tammuz 5782

Islamic: 4 Ḏū al-Ḥijjah 1443

J Cal: 5 Lux; Foursday [5 of 30]

Julian: 21 June 2022

Moon: 24% Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 17 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Peter the Hermit]

Runic Half Month: Foeh (Wealth) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 14 of 90)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 14 of 30)

#Holidays

[brookston]

Holidays 7.4

Holidays

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Day

Apocalypse Day

Army Day (Guatemala)

Baal Fire Day (Northumberland, UK)

Buffalo Bill Day

Bullion’s Day

Commemoration Day of the Victims of the Genocide Against the Jewish People (Latvia)

Constitution Day (Cayman Islands)

Day of Agwe (Haiti)

Dree Festival begins (Apatani people, India) [Ends 7.7]

F-Day (Alaska)

Filipino-American Friendship Day (Philippines)

Garibaldi Day (Italy)

Hillbilly Day

Invisible Day

Jumping on the Mattress Night

King Tupou VI Day (Tonga)

Koko the Gorilla Day

Kwibohora (Liberation Day; Rwanda)

Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day

National Architect Day (Venezuela)

Queen Sonja Day (Norway)

Republic Day (Philippines)

Stone Skipping Tournament (Mackinac Island, Michigan)

Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day (Hannibal, Missouri)

Unity Day (Zambia)

Virgin Islands Day (British Virgin Islands)

White Cloud’s Birthday and Tatanka Bison Festival (North Dakota)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Honor American Beer & Cyder Day

Jackfruit Day

National Baked Beans Day

National Barbecue Day

National Barbecued Spareribs Day

National Caesar Salad Day

National Pub Opening Day

Sidewalk Egg Frying Day

First Monday in July

CARICOM Day (a.k.a. Caribbean Day) [1st Monday]

Carnival Monday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) [1st Monday]

Independence Days

Abkhazia (from Georgia, 1993)

Philippines (from US, 1946)

United States (from UK, 1776) a.k.a. …

Barbecue Day

Boom Box Parade (Willimantic, Connecticut)

Firecracker Day

Holy Firecracker Day (in John Updike's Couples)

Independence From Meat Day

Indivisible Day

National Country Music Day

Feast Days

Alec Guinness Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Andrew of Crete (Christian; Saint)

Bertha of Artois (Christian; Saint)

Bolcan (Christian; Saint)

Catherine Jarrige (Christian; Blessed)

Day of Pax (Ancient Roman)

Elizabeth of Aragon (or of Portugal; Christian; Saint)

Finbar (Christian; Saint)

Oda of Canterbury (Christian; Saint)

Peter the Hermit (Positivist; Saint)

Pier Giorgio Frassati (Christian; Blessed)

Sisoes (a.k.a. Sisoy), Anchoret in Egypt (Christian; Saint)

Ulrich of Augsburg (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [38 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Alice in Wonderland (Novel; 1862)

America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee), by Lowell Mason and Samuel Francis Smith (Song; 1831)

Die Hard 2 (Film; 1990)

Fernwood 2 Night (TV Series; 1977)

Foo Fighters, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1995)

Greenfields, by The Brothers Four (Song; 1959)

Hail to the Chief, performed by the U.S. Marine Band (Song; 1828)

Kylie, by Kylie Minogue (Album; 1988)

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (Poem; 1855)

Once Upon a Time in the West (Film; 1969)

Summer in the City, by The Lovin’ Spoonful (Song; 1966)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy (Novel; 1891)

Tony Orlando & Dawn (TV Series; 1974)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 185 of 2022; 180 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 27 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Héyuè), Day 6 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 5 Tammuz 5782

Islamic: 4 Ḏū al-Ḥijjah 1443

J Cal: 5 Lux; Foursday [5 of 30]

Julian: 21 June 2022

Moon: 24% Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 17 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Peter the Hermit]

Runic Half Month: Foeh (Wealth) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 14 of 90)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 14 of 30)

#Holidays #calendar

[tygerbug]

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is one of Marvel's better attempts at a solo film introducing a new hero. Shang-Chi, played by Simu Liu, is charismatic and charming, and has a funny and believable friendship with Awkwafina's Katy. There is some controversy about Awkwafina's use of an African-American dialect in her comedy, but with that put aside she's very pleasant here. Tony Leung is one of those villains who is almost a hero in his own right, and commands the screen. Michelle Yeoh is also a welcome presence.

I would have happily watched Shang-Chi in a smaller-scale film or TV series, more focused on martial arts, like Daredevil and Iron Fist. The comics character Shang-Chi was, after all, The Master of Kung Fu. But this film has bigger aspirations than that. We're a long way from the smaller, more realistically grounded world of the first Iron Man, which also introduced the "ten rings." Marvel is just too big for that at this point, so this is a fantasy film with knights and CGI dragons and glowing energy powers. It is perhaps dismissive to call this the Chinese Black Panther, but I think that also describes the film's appeal, There's a secret society designed with traditional Chinese motifs, and a battle over the power it contains. It's not a million miles away from martial-arts fantasies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hero, although with an extra layer of CGI comic bookiness that obscures that.

That would have been, for me, the ideal way to go with this.

The film doesn't seem to know what to do with Ben Kingsley's comic relief character, who is really a tragic damaged figure that they mine for cartoony cheap laughs instead. It strains credibility and is much less interesting than if they had faced Trevor Slattery's trauma head on, for either drama or comedy.

It's unfortunate that this movie ends in a CGI dragon fighting another CGI dragon. It shouldn't be that kind of movie, and it is. But there are planety of more realistic delights along the way. Early on, there is a fight on a bus which gets into wild super-powered territory but is still centered around real-world physical fighting. It feels as grounded as the Raimi Spider-Man movies. By the end, the fights feel more like we're in Avengers Endgame territory. That's not a criticism so much as an observation. It's two guys fighting with lasers from their fingers against an ashy greenscreen background. Which is fine, but a slight step down. It's a good thing the actual story they're telling is solid.

Asking this film to be smaller scale at this point is like asking toothpaste to go back into the tube. I'm sure it will be fun to see what other Marvel movies might do with the Shang-Chi character. But right now, in his first appearance, it feels intrusive to suddenly have Wong from the Dr. Strange film fighting The Abomination, and hanging out with Captain Marvel and Bruce Banner. I apologize for the spoilers, but these cameos feel both inevitable for an Avengers film, and unnecessary to a movie which otherwise has its own vibe. They stick out like a sore thumb, and expect you to have already seen the She-Hulk TV series, which isn't out yet.

Much of the current Phase Four of Marvel's movies and TV series has been focused on introducing new heroes to replace the original Avengers who have retired. We've met a new Black Widow, Yelena, and a new Hawkeye, Kate Bishop. And thankfully Shang-Chi avoids making the mistakes of Marvel's previous attempts to include an Asian martial-arts hero in their roster. That is, the cast here are actually Asian.

Finn Jones played Danny Rand AKA Iron Fist in his own series and The Defenders. Although Danny is canonically white in the comics, he was a very white choice for a character inspired by the success of Bruce Lee's martial arts films. Many fans wanted a mixed actor, and Iron Fist was the least popular of the Defenders characters, after the success of Daredevil.

Dr. Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, also seemed like a very white choice for a character who was depicted as Asian in his first couple of appearances, although Steven Strange is canonically a white guy at this point. Fans wanted someone like Keanu Reeves, and casting Tilda Swindon as Asian mystic The Ancient One seemed like a step too far. It avoided Asian stereotypes by going too hard in the other direction.

The Iron Man series has also struggled with The Mandarin, an Asian villain powered by his ten rings. The character is certainly an outdated stereotype, and they've found no less than six ways to reimagine his absence so far. 2008's Iron Man was much more grounded and realistic than the films that followed, and set the MCU on firm footing. The Ten Rings here is a terrorist organization inspired by American fears of Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban. The Mandarin himself is not shown until Iron Man 3, but is revealed to be merely a British actor, Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley). The true power was Rebecca Hall's Maya Hansen in the script, and Guy Pearce's Aldrich Killian in the movie as released. All these people are white. The Mandarin from the comics only appeared in the toylines.

But now, for the fifth and sixth and seventh time, we find out who the real Mandarin is. And again it's impossible to reconcile with the more grounded real-world war-on-terror antics of the first Iron Man movie, for better or for worse.

It's now Tony Leung, as the ancient warrior Xu Wenwu, who became a feared crime lord in modern day. We see him devastate entire armies in the past, and yet there's something heroic about him. At the very least it's not hard to see things from his point of view. He's one of those nuanced villains. And that's very different from the Mandarian as metaphor for Osama Bin Laden that the Iron Man films suggested. But the Mandarin as metaphor and legend also gives the series something to build upon going forward, if it decides to.

I wish I could say that it felt like the Iron Man series was planning this all along and that things are just clicking into place now, and that all is explained. I bet the filmmakers wish they could say that too. But this is less offensive than anything they had planned previously.

Even Benedict Wong's character Wong feels more at home here. And the English actor has appeared in seven of these, as of this writing (counting Dr. Strange 2).

The film does a deft job of stepping around anything problematic. Where it's stereotypical, it's exotic rather than offensive. It mainly casts Asian actors and an Asian director/co-writer, and has the heart of an Asian-led martial arts film about it, even though it pushes things farther into fantasy territory. And that's something that Marvel hasn't done before, despite the martial arts emphasis in The Defenders series. It's action-packed, has some laughs, and interesting characters with some depth to them.

And it's got a hero who we'll be happy to see again.

Simi Liu and Awkwafina are charming as friends, and the reasons behind their friendship are fully explained before they're presented as love interests. We understand the villain's motivation, and everyone else's.

So I can forgive CGI dragon fights, obligatory Avenger cameos and greenscreening. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings sort of delivers something new for Marvel, and it does deliver something worth watching.

#marvel #mcu #reviews #shang chi and the legend of the ten rings #awkwafina #simu liu #shang chi

[elysian-prince]

A, C, K, U for the ask game, dear 💖

Thank you, darling ☺️💜

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

I would say right now my top three ships are obikin, taibani, and geraskier. C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

😂 are you really gonna make me say it? c*dyw*n, but also really just any Obi-Wan ship that's not with Anakin.

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

I feel like the obvious answer for this one is Tony Stark because his journey of growth is just... the Best. Not just in IM1, but all the way through to IM3. Barnaby Brooks Jr. has to get a special mention on this answer though because obviously I've been thinking about him a lot lately, but I'm not expanding on that one because spoilers, LMAO. This is my plug for people to please watch Tiger & Bunny.

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

Initially when I looked at these names after I typed them out I was like "oh they're all attractive, selfless idiots with beards," but there truly is a lot more to them than that 🤣

Obi-Wan Kenobi - buuuhhhhh I don't even know where to begin with Obi-Wan. He's Obi-Wan. Is that not explanation enough? He’s the perfect Jedi, not because he tries to be, but because he’s just such a caring and compassionate person. But he’s also snarky and an asshole, and he’s just so much wrapped up in a perfect little bundle.

Tony Stark - My longest running blorbo. My mans since I was 14 and my middle school boyfriend took me to see Iron Man when it came out. Tony just cares so much, and tries so hard to make up for his past mistakes and shortcomings. His story has always meant a lot to me, and it’s a reminder that your lowest point doesn’t have to become your ending.

Kotetsu T. Kaburagi - MY SECOND LONGEST RUNNING BLORBO. No seriously, I got into Tiger & Bunny when it aired in 2011, and Kotetsu has never left my mind. On the surface he's such a goofy character who messes up a lot, but he tries so hard and never gives up. He's grown so much since Season 1, and I just adore him in Season 2 so far. I am fully capable of gushing about this old man for hours right now but I’ll leave it at that.

(from this ask game)

#asks and replies #elyse.txt

[vagrantblvrd]

Early days of Tony being Iron Man and people being ??? at this joint venture or what have you of SI and WE developing body armor, right?

(Because SI may not be in the weapons manufacturing business anymore, but there are other ways of protecting military troops and LEOs and so on. Also, WE has been in that business for a while and it’s like, who better to partner up together, right?)

And it’s just this thing that keeps going, snowballs into a fairly profitable venture. Enough so that Tony doesn’t have to completely design something from scratch for the spy twin or Steve from the ground up when the Avengers form.

Still.

That’s not to say they’re expecting to walk into the communal living room in the tower to find Tony going over specs for body armor with Bruce Wayne or the Drake kid he adopted, you know? Weird how knowledgeable about the stuff they are because everyone knows about Brucie’s reputation as something as an idiot and so on, but they probably had someone go over it with them beforehand or Tony’s run them through it, and anyway, unexpected.

(As unexpected as discovering a Bat or two lurking/skulking about the rooftops of NYC on random nights and so on while said Waynes are in town.)

Tony looking like he’s trying not to smile while Brucie is calling the kid Tiger and being obnoxious in front of the team. (And the muffled laughter when whichever Avenger stumbled on them this time leaves the room because what even is the deal with all that???)

And then!

Some fancy gala or fundraiser or whatever being attacked by the villain of the week and Brucie being a klutz who somehow manages to avoid being perforated by bullets and incidentally knocking Tony or some other rich socialite out of the way and so befuddled at what’s happening?

The kid with this long-suffering sigh while being taken hostage and scowling at Tony when he reassures him it’ll be fine, because hey, Tony’s Iron Man. And also other Avengers will be there soon.

Tables being turned when there’s a kidnapping and a Bat swoops in before the Avengers get there and Tony is like “My hero,” and a stoic Batman or Red Robin (if not both) while Tony is :DDDDDDDDD at them, and Tony, pls don’t antagonize the nice vigilante superheros who just saved your life.

And then!

Like, a few years down the road some big (attempted) world-ending event and the “WAIT, you’re who???” moment where the Avengers realize Brucie is also Batman and that kid of his (which one, you’ll have to be specific, and also yes, they are also vigilante superheroes, it’s the family business) and it’s like.

“How could you not know?”

Because it’s not like Bruce and the others were working all that hard to hide it, you know?

Like, they never came out and said it, but the Waynes being in town the same time various Bats were spotted all over the place? The suspicious timing of it all?

Odd little jokes and Tony being all >:DDDDDDDDDD and so on???

(And maybe Tony and Bruce with this friendship that spans back to their school days and general weirdness around one another the Avengers thought had more to do with being ~business rivals???)

The Avengers being like “...” while the Bats are like *incredibly judgemental side-eyes* and Tony is dying laughing because he told you Bruce, didn’t he? He fucking told you.

(Natasha and Clint maaaaaybe had suspicions, but never anything concrete.)

And then mentions of previous thwarted kidnappings (Tony never mentioned to the Avengers) with Tony and Brucie - because Brucie is just such a klutz and just a complete slapstick comedy farce and so on.

Even later Tony and Bruce on a tower balcony while Avengers and various Bats mingle in a quiet little yay, the world didn’t end, go us \o/ party takes place inside and it’s like.

They’ve got a good thing going in their lives, y’know? Tony with the whole Avengers thing and Bruce with his little brood of Batkids and such, and who would have guessed they’d ever get here one day?

And then there’s some commotion inside and the two of them are like oh, no, because they know their team/family/kids, and it can only end badly because horrible, horrible people and Tony just had walls fixed the other day, and anyway, shenanigans???

#batman nonsense #avengers nonsense #because i can never get enough of tony and bruce being old school pals who get into the superhero business and then shenanigans #also #both deeply invested in keeping their loved ones safe #and like #being trolls is just a bonus #technically not a fic #vagrant fic #¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cdc1345711]

I ❤ Arlo Story : I Heart Arlo? PT 1

(It was another day in the happy beach town of Seaside by the Seashore a home for outcasts and miscreants including a very special Alligator Boy)

Arlo:(Sing Song):Good Morning Seaside, it's such a beautiful day, in fact it's too perfect to be on my own I should spend it with my Friends"

(On the Rooftop of his Apartment shows Arlo's best friend and roommate Bertie relaxing and taking care of her plants)

Bertie:(Sigh)This is very nice"

"BERTIIIIE"(a noise so loud it shocks her)

Arlo:Howdy Bertie I was wondering since it's such a good day you and the Others would like to spend the day together?"

Bertie:Gee Arlo I normally would but..... I kinda wanted to just spend some time alone.... If that's okay?"

(Arlo feeling a bit bummed)

Arlo:Oh well that's fine Bertie"

Bertie:Are you sure?"

Arlo:Yeah you do you Girl I won't get in the way of your thing"

Bertie:Well okay than cool"

Arlo:Cool cool cool cool cool cool(leaves his apartment) well Bertie might be busy but least my Other Friends might enjoy the day with me"

(Cuts to the Dept of Hair run by the Queen Fuzzball herself Furlicia)

Arlo:(Barges in)Hello Furlicia would you like to spend this glorious day with me?"

Furlicia:Oh sweetie I wish I could but I'm too booked"

Arlo:But I thought you decided to take breaks once in a while"

Furlicia:Don't worry Arlo I am taking breaks I just gotta deal with my Customers(sees like 20 or so people) maybe around closing time we can hangout"

Arlo:Oh okay then(knowing it'll be around dark)just take care of yourself and these fine people"

Furlicia:(Cutting a Women's Hair fabulously)Will do Arlo"

Arlo:Okay Furlicia is also busy who else who else hmmmm"

(At Teeny Tiny Tony's Pizzeria Tony is busy selling his delicious home made pizzas to the people of Seaside)

Tony:Arlo I'm too busy selling these pizzas to the starving masses of Seaside to just close up shop and goof off now either buy a pizza or take a hike"

Arlo:Well what about Alia?"

Tony:She's delivering my Pizza Pies"

Arlo:Oh......"

(Arlo walks around eating some pizza)

Arlo:No Bertie No Furlicia Not even Tony.... Who else can I ask"

(At the fountain of the Man Fish Marcellus)

Arlo:Hey Marcellus you wanna...."

Marcellus:No....."

Arlo:But...."

Marcellus:I don't care leave my Fountain"

Arlo:okay....."

Marcellus:WAIT!"

Arlo:(Happy Gasp)"

Marcellus:(Eats the rest of his Pizza) okay now you can go"

Arlo:oh....."

(Arlo is just sitting down feeling completely bummed out until he sees a Van drive up to him)

Alia:Hey Arlo(sees the look on his face)Hey what's wrong?"

Arlo:I wanted to spend this Beautiful day at Seaside with everyone but Bertie is taking care of her plants, Tony and Furlicia are busy with the Pizza Place and Hair Salon and Marcellus..... Well he just wants to be alone"

Alia:Well why didn't you try to ask me?"

Arlo:Tony told me you were busy with delivering pizzas so I didn't want to bother you"

Alia:Pfft Come on I can hangout with you"

Arlo:Really? You're not busy?"

Alia:Nooo in fact Tony gave me the day Off and he even gave me these Pizzas"

(Back at the Pizzeria)

Tony:(On the Phone)Yes I'm sorry your delivery is late, what? No no refunds!WHERE IS ALIA!!!!!???"

(Back with Alia and Arlo)

Arlo:Let's start this Perfect day"

Alia:Heck Yeah!!!"

(The Alligator Boy and The Tiger Girl spend the whole day just goofing off and being silly starting off with going on a Joyride in Alia's Van making donuts which makes Alia laugh with excitement but freaks out Arlo,and rolling around on the beach as the 2 roll and laugh on the sand as Alia gets a call)

Alia:(Answers)Hello?"

Tony:WHY AREN'T YOU DELIVERING THOSE PIZZAS!!!!!!????"

Alia:(Realizes she's still on the job)AWE FARTS I forgot about the deliveries I thought you gave them to me"

Tony:YES so you can deliver them to the Customers"

Alia:But you said I could leave"

Tony:Again to deliver Pizzas your literal job"

Alia:What am I gonna do?"

Arlo:Don't worry Alia I can help you"

Alia:Really you would?"

Arlo:Sure that's what friends do"

(The 2 then start to hand out the deliveries to all the customers and after hitting most of the houses each one has a special delivery in the form of songs dances and jokes causing Alia to laugh so hard as Arlo looks back at her with his thumb up seeing him in a New Light making her smile then blush at him as they made the final delivery)

Tony:Mama Mia that was a close one"

(The 2 Walk home)

Alia:Thanks you so much Arlo this is the most fun I had at work EVER it didn't even feel like work"

Arlo:Well I'm glad I could help you, you know I got your back because that's what friends are for"

Alia:Well I never had a friend like you"

Arlo:I aim to please heh heh"

Alia:(Smiles and Blushes)"

(They then arrive at Arlo's Apartment and Alia's Van)

Alia:I had a really fun day with you Arlo"

Arlo:I had fun too. You're a really fun person to be around Alia"

Alia:Awe stop it"

Arlo:No really when everyone was busy you took the time to hangout with me and even though it made your deliveries late like really really late,it was still fun to help you deliver them(the Tiger Girl smiles and blushes)"

Alia:Thank you Arlo"

(Alia walks to her Van but stops midway and turns around running to Arlo as she puts her paws on his cheek and in mere seconds......... Lands a kiss on the Gator Boy for a solid minute until she breaks off and both Alligator Boy and Tiger Girls stare at each other both eyes wide and blushing like crazy)

Arlo:(Stares at Alia with no words to say)Uuuuuuh"

Alia:Well look at that it's time for my shift"

Arlo:But.... It's nighttime"

Alia:LATE SHIFT! Okay gotta go bye(runs to her van and shuts the door)"

(Arlo enters the door to his home)

Bertie:Hey Arlo how was your day?"

Arlo:It was good..... Maybe.....not sure...I might need to write a song about it"

Bertie:Okay?(Confused)"

Arlo:(Walks up to his room but peeks out says)Alia kissed me...on the lips"

Bertie:Okay.....(realized what he said)WAIT ALIA WHAT!!!!!?"

(At Alia's Van the Lil Tiger is freaking out)

Alia:Awe man what did I do what did I do? I can't believe I kissed Arlo why did I do that? I mean he is nice and sweet and cute but he's like my Best Friend.... UUUGH what is wrong with me...... Not to mention what this does to our Friendship ooooh WHAT IF I RUINED EVERYTHING???!!"

Arlo:I mean it was strange but..... It was nice"

Bertie:Oh Arlo you had your first kiss... How was it"

Arlo:(Thinking of the perfect word).....Magical.... Oh but it must've messed Alia up I mean are we a couple now is that what she wants or was a stir of the Moment thing? Will this mess with our Friendship? BERTIE WHAT SHOULD I DO!!!!?"

Arlo/Alia:WHAT SHOULD I DOOOOOOO!!!!!???"

(What will happen between Arlo and Alia? Is this the start of something New or the End of a Great Friendship?)

To Be Continued......

.......In Part 2

#I Heart Arlo #Fanfics

[where-s-all-blue]

Okay so, I was tagged into This post right here by @vinsmoke-luffy and since I didn't want to over complicate his/her/their post too much, I decided to answer the questions on a separate post. Thank you for tagging me buddy!

One Piece Questions

1. What got you into One Piece?

Honestly speaking, I saw one of the volumes in the local library and decided to read it. I found the thing to be interesting, but I'd only hear about the anime later on, around the age of 13. I first found out about the series when I was 6 years old.

2. What got you hooked into the series?

Oh man, it's been over a decade, it's so hard to say- probably the kindness that the characters portrayed, loyalty and friendship? Something that I'd totally yearn for taken in how oddball of a child I've always been.

3. Which character would you punch and why?

That's pretty much a tie between Black Beard, Akainu, Doflamingo and Big Mom, all four of them represent things that I absolutely despise; Lust for power, corrupt "Justice", lack of empathy/sympathy and abusive behaviour. I'd go into detail of why, but I am fairly sure that it's no brainer why I'd physically assault them on sight even if it'd probably cost me my life.

Sometimes, people who are in power, do not deserve the power they've obtained and in those cases they must be taken down before they can cause any further damage to the people.

4. Which moment will stick with you forever?

"Ikitai! Watashi wa isho ni umi ni tsureteitte!"

Robin's seyuu went all out in it and.. It made Something resonate in me. I am not sure what it was, but it'll stay with me to the end of my day's.

5. Which moment pops up randomly in your head?

The first time we meet Brook, that moment will forever haunt me. Brook's voice is so gentle and it just makes you pay attention to him in it along with just how nonchalant he is while he sips his imaginary tea.

6. Who is your favourite character and why?

Uhhhh I absolutely suck with choosing favourites, I can't even say what my favourite food is! But here's a list of the characters I'm attached to for no particular reason? I honestly never know why I like someone, it's not really that important to me, if you like someone, you usually like everything in that person. The following block of names isn't in any order because I am a chaotic dumbass.

Rosinante Donquixote, Coby, Eustass Kidd, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Killer, Shachi, Bepo, Penguin, Shirahoshi, Katamuri, Brulee, Pudding, Niji, Ichiji, Yonji, Reiju, Chiffon, Lola, Ikkaku, Portgas D. Ace, Sabo, Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Black Leg Sanji, Cat burglar Nami, God Usopp, Tony Tony Chopper, Nico Robin, Franky, Jinbe, Emporio Ivankov, Sengoku, Fujitora, Rebekka, Vivi, Koala, Tiger, Otama, Okiku, Komurasaki, Izo, Marco, Edward Newgate, Thatch

7. How much has One Piece impacted your life?

I am literally as old as the manga (23 years old (2020)) so uhh... Use that as a measure I guess? No, don't really do that. But it's.. It's kind of hard to say, I have been a fan of the series since I was six years old, I've laughed, I've cried, I've grown a lot during the 17 years that I've been part of this fandom.

I can't say that it hasn't had any effect on me nor my views, because I can say that a lot of the way how I look at certain things like familial bonds and friendships were heavily influenced by the series, but I can't even start to measure the amount of impact it truly has had on me.

8. What is your favourite One Piece quote?

“There comes a time when a man has to stand and fight! That time is when his friends' dreams are being laughed at! And I won't let you laugh at that!” - Usopp

“Stop counting only those things you have lost! What is gone, is gone! So ask yourself this. What is there... that still remains to you?!” - Jinbei

“The government says your existence is a crime, but no matter what kind of weapons you may hold, just being alive isn't a sin! There's no crime in living!” - Franky

“You can spill drinks on me, even spit on me. I'll just laugh about it. But If you dare to hurt my friends... I won't forgive you!” - Shanks

“When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.” - Hiluluk Doctor

“Compared to the "righteous" greed of the rulers, the criminals of the world seem much more honorable. When scum rules the world, only more scum is born.” - Eustass "Captain" Kid

“Inherited will, a man's dream, and the flow of time. As long as man continues to seek out the answer to freedom, these things shall never be stopped.” - Gol D. Roger

Honestly, I couldn't choose only one out of this bunch, I've tried before and I always fail because they all are equally meaningful to me as a person.

9. Which laugh style gets to you most?

I-

I honestly have never thought about it? I don't really notice things like laughing styles, because to me laughter is one of the most beautiful things on earth. It shows the joy within us. And when you come to my age (or this might be more about me as a person) you just... Stop paying attention to something like that? Especially if it sounds natural to your ear.

But then again, my friends time and time again have to remind me that my sense of what is normal is very flexible and abnormal by itself. I might pass a person wearing a horse head out in the public dancing whatever is The meme dance currently and not even realise that it's not something that'd normally just happen in my home town. Yes the before mentioned has happened before.

But yeah, to sum it up: I have literally never paid attention to the laugh quirks of the characters I just don't see them as something that should bother me or make me react to it in other way than being happy for the person to be comfortable enough to actually laugh the way they would laugh when they are alone.

It's just... Laughter?

10. How will you feel when One Piece ends?

The same way as I feel about anything ending most likely, I'll be melancholic over it ending, but happy to have experienced it.

Tagging: @nue-nue-nomi @shambledsurgeon @whereistheonepiece @shadowstormdragon (TUMBLR Y U NO LEMME TAG?!) @ohnoluffy @luffytarhoe

Though if you're interested in answering these questions in general, do take a shot at it!

#one piece #onepiece #One piece questions #R answers #one piece ask #long post

[puropoly]

For the last thingy you reblogged: Near

(tony the tiger voice) grrrrrrrrrrreat, thank you Valentin!! ( i almost wrote “Valenting” by accident, like a verb...)

My otp for them: 

I love to be a sad sack and draw Near with a chocolate in his hands in homage to Mello, I thought Ohba left strange and loose details indicating connection between Near and Mello and those little facts have always endeared me. I still very much ship them, even if I don’t draw meronia as often- but never in a setting that works out, for some reason? I like it as it is: an unrequited disaster

For happy, canon-divergent endings my pal @beyondkira​ has introduced me to natebit with her adorable headcanons

My brotp for them: I really like the SPK as a whole, I’ve always thought Near demostrates a sort of camaderie with the SPK members, specially dad friend Rester who’s very attentive to his needs. I also like his scenes with Aizawa, though not enough to call it a brotp

and not to indulge in OC bs, but ive always loved to think of abbie and near as a big sister-little brother sort of bond

Any other ships: moonriver can be..............interesting... I need to read fics

Their best friend: his robots and complex scenarios that he creates with them...i bet those stories keep him company while he solves crimes. In canon the closer we get to a demostrated friendship are Halle and Rester, but I like to think he wanders through the depths of the internet in his free time to interact with distant online pals. Probably active in the bionicle fandom

 My favorite nickname for them: I don’t have any, but I always either mispell his name as bear or neat

My favorite AU of them: one where Mello and Matt don’t die LOL

My favorite outfit they wear: his classic pajamas? unbeatable- though I like that colored edit where he looked like he had a black vest or something. I like to think of him in comfy clothes and I like fanarts where he’s dressed very formally and stuff but it isn’t very in character considering he presented himself in fuckin pajamas when he met the president or something. I love him

Defining color: 

Would I date them: 

I do get along with quiet, peaceful people, but I don’t think he’d have any interest in dating someone like me lmao

First impression: “he’s just a watered down L............ but I still want him to win” 

Current impression:

Hogwarts House: I don’t think I can answer these because I have 0 harry potter knowledge but I’ve heard hufflepuff or whatever are the nice hardworking ones so maybe? I really dont know.........

Which Pokemon starter they’d be: Piplup and I blame Carly for this

#i love him........i havent listened to his theme song in a long time #near #eyeciclez

[shadowhunter250]

Avenger Preferences #3 They Ask you out

Iron-Man/Tony Stark You were at one of Tony's parties mostly against your will. You were only there to see your best friend Steve who begged you to come so you could help him out. You, of course, said yes and were now dancing around the dance floor. You laughed as Steve danced with you as you were trying to show him dance moves of today. Just then you felt a light tap on your shoulder and you turned around shocked. It was Tony and you were surprised to find that so far he wasn't drunk. He took a deep breath before yelling over to Steve, "Hey can I steal her for a while? I need to ask her something." Steve nodded slowly trying to make sure that you were okay with it or if he wanted to steal you away. Tony smirked as he turned to you and took you by the hand. You were blushing slightly at the contact. He led you to a room and you thought, "Uh oh." Tony locked the door behind him and said, "I need to ask you a question." "What is it?" You asked worriedly. "Well, I was um wondering if you would um you know. Like to um go out with me." You smiled as he stuttered to get the words out and then said, "Sure why not, but listen if you hurt me in any way-" "Steve's going to kill me right?" "Maybe," you said with a smile and then the two of you went back out to enjoy the party. For the rest of the night, you couldn't help but notice that Tony didn't even glance at another woman.

Hulk/Bruce Banner

You took a deep breath and then walked into the lab. You were a field agent and managed to get grazed with a bullet on your right arm. Bruce was fixing you up and when he was done you (rolled your sleeve down or put on your jacket, you were about to leave when he said, "Um (name)?" "Yes?" You asked as you turned around to look at him. He gave you a warm smile and said, "Um I was wondering if you would like to maybe go out with me sometime." You smiled and wanted to scream yes at the top of your lungs and pulled him into a hug. But instead, you said, "Yeah that would be great." He smiled and said "Really?" You looked at him and his surprised face. "Yeah- I mean unless you changed your mind." You said worriedly. "No, no, no not at all it's just- well it's just I thought you would say no since you were out of my league." He said with a light blush. You smiled he was cute and you said "Of course I want to go out with you Bruce you are an amazing guy. I feel honored." He laughed and you joined in as well. "Well see you on our date Dr. Banner," you said with a smirk as you left the room.

Captain America/ Steve Rogers You sighed as your brother, Bucky was following you around like a puppy. You smiled at him and then grabbed him in a headlock. Just then the door opened and you saw Steve. (in this part he doesn't know that you two are related.) He blushed and said "Am I interrupting something?" since you two were on the floor and it was weird for Steve to see you two like that. "No not at all." you said and then pinned Bucky and said, "pinned you!" He flipped you over but you flipped him over and yelled, "Pinned you again." He laughed as the two of you got up and you looked at Steve and said, "What do you need?" "Well, I kind of wanted to ask you a question," Steve said and Bucky gave you a knowing look. You rolled your eyes at Bucky and then Bucky left the room. "So what's the question Stevie?" you asked. "Well, I was um, wondering if, um you would like to um, go out with me." He said and you smiled at him and pulled him into a hug and said "yes!" Then Bucky came out and said "I knew it! so that's why I got you guys cake and ice cream!" Bucky said and Steve smiled and sighed "You'll do anything to get cake." "I learned it from you," Bucky said stabbing his cake and he handed you yours. You smiled and said "Thanks, Bucky." "No problem," he said and patted you on the head. You laughed and then kissed Steve on the cheek and he blushed bright red. You all laughed and then ate your cake while watching your favorite show. Hawkeye/ Clint Barton You took a deep breath and aimed an arrow at your target. you then let the arrow fly off your fingertips and it hit the bulls-eyes. You smiled and then you heard clapping and you knew that it was your best friend, Bruce. You turned to see him and Clint. You wave to the two of them and they smiled. You went to retrieve my arrow. You came back and you saw that Bruce was gone but Clint was there. You looked at him and said, "Hey where's Bruce?" "Oh well he had to leave so I thought that I might as well stay here because I have been wanting to ask you a question," He said with a small smile. "What is it?" You asked as you put your bows on your shoulder. He took a deep breath and the said, "I have liked you for some time now and I was thinking, hoping that I could take you out to dinner sometime." You smiled at him and said "sure!" "Really?" He said and you nodded and you saw the relief flood on his face. The two of you ended up talking all the way back to the tower.

Thor You took a deep breath as you jumped on the trampoline and then did a flip. You landed on your back and laughed. You turned to see tony your best friend. He laughed and then the two of you felt someone come in. you turned to see Thor. He looked at you with a smile and then to Tony. "Um, Tony could I maybe ask (name) a question alone?" "Um, I guess," He said with a shrug and walked out with a smile. Thor sat down on the trampoline and you sat down to where you were face to face. He took a deep breath and you could already tell that he was nervous. He looked you in the eyes and then to the ground and then back to you. He looked you straight in your eyes and quickly yelled. "I what to take you out on a date!" You stared at him shocked and then said, "um.... sure?" But it came out as more of a question and then you said "Oh um sorry I mean yeah. I wondered when you were going to ask me." He smiles and pulled you into a hug.

Loki There was a sound and you were slightly surprised to see Loki. "Uh... what are you doing here?" You asked completely confused. "Well, I needed to ask you a question. I mean I have like you for a long time. I know that you are on the side of the Avengers and I don't want to take you away from that. I like you I really do and for that, I will try being good for you. So will you give me an change and take you out on a date?" He asked and you looked in his eyes for any signs of him lying and then you saw that there wasn't any. You smiled and the said, "Yes, but only if you really do try." "I promise," He said with a smile and knew that he really was going to try and you love it.

The Winter Soldier/ Bucky Barnes

There was a knock on your door and you walked over to the door. You opened it and then saw Bucky with a smile and you jumped on his back. He laughed and the put you down and you pouted slightly and he said "I have to ask you something. It is really important. Like life-threatening important." "What is it?" you asked worried that it was going to be something completely bad. He took a deep breath and you looked into his warm blue eyes as he said "I want to know if you will go out with me. I mean I know that you might say no and if you do I don't want to ruin our friendship. I mean you are my best friend." "Don't tell Steve that." you said with a smiled "Yes I would love to." He smiled and then kissed you on the cheek and said, "Pick you up at seven on Friday night." "Wait where on you going?" you asked as he was about to run out the door. He smiled and said, "I need to tell Steve to take out the ice cream and hide the tissues." You laughed as you watched him run down the hall and there was a smile on your lips as well.

Grant Ward

You were hanging out with Skye and she was trying to teach you how to hack. You were horrible at it and somehow ended up making the computer short circuit instead. You threw the computer at the door just before it open and Ward walked in to see you with your arms crossed and pouting and a shocked Skye. Skye looked at you and then to Ward and mouth "I'll give you a minute." As she left the room. Ward sighed as he sat on the bed. He rubbed the back of his neck and looked at the ground as he said "Um I have been wanting to ask you something. Um for a while now actually. I was wondering if you would like to maybe after this mission goes out on a date with me. You slowly sat up and looked at him with a smile on your face because of how nervous he was. You said "Sure Agent Grant Ward." As you messed up his hair as you added: "But you have to tell Fitz that I broke his computer." As you quickly left the room without another word. He smiled to himself as he went to go tell Fitz about his computer.

Spider-man

You were walking down the streets with Peter as the two of you went to a store with Ava (White Tiger). Ava gave Peter a shove and he sighed as he looked at you who was looking at some of the shoes in the store. Peter wasn't sure what he was going to say since he wanted to ask you out but he was afraid of rejection since he never thought that someone like you would go out with someone like him, but once he started to think that the two of you were friends he thought that he might have a chance to ask you out and a chance that you would say yes. So he took a deep breath and slowly walked towards you. You gave him a huge smile truth be told you had an even huge crush on him as well. You were just as nervous as him as he comes over to you and you remember what your Uncle told you. "Just blurt it out and wait for the reaction." You took a deep breath as at the same time the two of you said: "Do you want to go out with me." The two of you stared at each other in shock and both of you were blushing as you said: "Well I guess that means yes." Peter rubbed the back of his neck and blushed even more as he stuttered out "Ye-yeah so um wh-when do yo-you want to um go?"

Natasha

You manage to get the Black Widow nervous. She didn't know what to do. She was pacing back and forth when you walked into the room. "Fury said you wanted to see me?" You asked as you sat down waiting for her to speak. You watched as she took a deep breath and said: "Well I wanted to ask you something." "Ok shoot." You said making fake guns with your fingers. A Small smile came to her lips and she said: "Well I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me." You moved your feet from the table shocked and looked at her in the eyes. Truth be told you had a huge crush on her and the fact that she said she has a crush on you surprised you. She waited for your answer and you said "Um yeah sure." And you both saw the blush on each other's cheeks.

Skye

You sighed as you finished up training with Grant once again pinning him to the mat. You laughed and said, " I am the champion!" " Yeah, yeah," Grant said but there was a smile on his lips as you helped him up. Skye walked into the room and said: " Oh um hey (your name) what are you doing here?" "Just finishing beating up Ward." You said with a smile as he walked to the showers. "So what do you want to talk about?" "Is it that obvious?" She asked with a sigh. "I just wanted to ask um would you like to go out with me sometime?" You spit out the water you were drinking and looked at her with wide eyes. " You want to take me out?" "Yeah," Skye said as she looked at her feet. "Um yeah sure." You said as you looked at your feet. "Um okay then, I'll pick you up on Friday." "So-sounds good" You managed to stutter out.

Fitz

You were walking to the training room when you saw Steve. Steve Rogers was a close friend of yours and as the two of you got closer he said: "Fitz wanted me to give you this." You looked at the envelope in his hand and you took it wondering what it could be. You saw that it was a letter that said is what you could tell was Fitz's nervous handwriting the word "Would you, (your name) be willing to go out with me?" You smiled down at the letter and said: "Yes I would be willing to go out with you Fitz." You saw him pop out from behind Steve and said "Really?" You let out a small laugh and said "Yup!"

Logan

You were walking out of the training room when you saw Logan. You smiled and jumped onto his back.He let out a small groan and then saw that it was you. He gave you a small smile and as he pulled you down you then started to walk away when he grabbed you by the arm and said: "(your name) I have been wanting to ask you something for a while." "OK what is it?" you asked with your head tilted slightly. He took a deep breath and then said, "so would you be willing to maybe go out with me?" You looked at him shock was obviously in your eyes and as he looked at you he wasn't sure what you were going to say. He was starting to get nervous around you and you noticed right away and you came back to reality and said "Um yeah sure I guess. I just sort of zoned out sorry." You said when a light blush came to your cheeks. You saw a smile come to his cheeks and you smiled back at him as he said, "So tomorrow works for you." You nodded and then walked away not knowing what else to say.

Beast

You were walking down to the lab to see Hank. The two of you have gotten really close. As you opened the door you saw Hank standing up looking over a book. He didn't notice that you walked in so you walked in quietly and closed the door. Once you did he turned to see you. You gave him a small smile and he smiled back but then he got really nervous. You noticed but didn't point it out and decided to go and walk over to him. As you did you were shocked to see that he quickly covered the book he was readying with papers. "Um, Hank are you Ok?" You asked as you gently put a hand on his shoulder. He sighed and held your hand as he turned around and said: "Well um I um need to ask you something important." "Really? Ok go ahead, I'm always here for you Hank." You said as you sat on the stool that he always had next to him ever since you started to visit the lab. He took a deep breath as he held your hand and he slightly tightened his grip on it. "(name) I have been wanting to ask you this for a while now actually. I just have never been able to put it into words or get it at the right timing. It was always the reason that I was so quiet around you. But if I don't ask you now I don't think I ever will. So (name) with you maybe think about going out on a date with me?" Your eyes widened and then a smile came to your face as you threw your self to him and said: "Of course I will go out on a date with you!" He smiles and pulled back from your attack hug as he said "Really?!" You smiled and said "Really." as you started into his beautiful blue eyes.

Wanda

You were reading a book by the pool that Tony had when you felt someone standing over you. You looked up to see Wanda. You smiled and removed your glasses as you said: " Hey Wanda what do you need?" " Um, nothing I was just wondering if I could sit here with you?" You gave her a smile as you nodded and said "Sure." She sat down you noticed that she had a light blush on her cheeks as you said is something wrong?" She shook her head and blushed harder you got up and put a hand on her forehead and said: " Wanda you feel hot are you sure you are OK?" She nodded and you heard someone trying to hide a laugh. You turned to see Natasha standing there and you shrugged your shoulders and sat back down. The Wanda glared at Natasha and turned to you and said " Hey um I was um wondering if you would maybe like to hang out. You know like just the two of us." "Li-like a date?" You asked newly spitting out your water. She blushed even harder and looked down but nodded her head as a yes. You smiled at her shyness and lean towards her and said just so she could hear "sure." "Aw... come on (your name) I wanted to hear the answer. " Tony said with a pout. You smirked and said, " Well you're not going on our site so you shouldn't be in our conversation." You gave Wanda a smile and she smiled back.

Victor

You were hanging out with Agent Zero. You were seeing who could throw the knife the farthest since Wade broke the TV when he was on a sugar High. You were about to take your throw when you heard a voice. You turned around to see Victor standing there watching you. You noticed that he wanted to tell you something and you walked over to him. As you did you heard Agent Zero mumble something under his breath and leave the room. You shrugged and then said, "hey Victor what do you need?" "Well you me date on Friday I'll pick you up at seven." he was about to walk away when you grabbed him by the arm and said: "Should you ask a girl out instead of telling her or are you afraid she will reject you?" You tilted your head and Victor sighed and then turned around to face you as he said "Fine then will you got out on a date with me (your name)?" You gave him a smile and said "Sure." and then you walked down the hall and he just watched you as you left.

Pietro

You were trying to figure out how to beat Natasha in a fight when you felt a tap on your shoulder. You turned around to see Pietro standing there. He gave you a small smile and said:: "Hey (your name) I was wondering if you would follow me somewhere." You nodded your head as you got up from the couch. He gave you a smile and you walked down the hall to the elevator and then outside. You gave him a confused looked and then he said: "Can I um carry you?" You nodded your head again not sure what he was up to. He picked you up and you wrapped your arms around his neck and buried your face in his chest. You could hear his heart pounding and then suddenly you felt the wind stop. You looked to find yourself in (Your favorite place). You looked up at Pietro and said: "Why are we here." With a smile on your face. Pietro smiled down at you and said: "Because I wanted to ask you something." He rubbed the back of his neck nervously and then cleared his throat obviously trying to buy himself more time and he said "Well... I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me sometime?" You gave Pietro a grin as you looked at your feet and then looked back at him as you said "Su- sure that would be great." You knew that your cheeks were burning up but what surprised you was when you looked up so was Pietro's.

Phil Coulson

You were smiling as you walked down the hallway you saw Phil and you ran up to him. He told you that he wanted to talk to you about the next mission. You gave him a smile as you said: " Hey Coulson long time no see." He gave you a smile and said "Hello (your name) I wanted to ask you something so I'm glad that I ran into you. I wanted to ask do you  um maybe want to go out to dinner sometime?" "you mean like as in on a date?" You asked with a light blush. Phil nodded and you could have sworn that you saw a light blush on his cheeks.  You felt a smile come to your face as you nodded not trusting your word to not yell yes into his ears.

Agent May

You and May have been getting very close lately and you had been wanting to ask her out but every time you were about to you chickened out. So this time you were going to try to just tell her but things didn't exactly go that way. You walked over to May while she was training when she saw you she stopped and turned towards your direction. You sighed and said "May um I have been wanting to ask you something for a while now. Now you don't have to give me an-" "Yeah ok." She said as she cut you off. You raised an eyebrow as you said: "I didn't even get to ask you the question!" "You were going to ask me out right?" She said with an eyebrow raised. "Well yeah, but you should have at least let me ask you." You said as you looked down at the ground. "Well go ahead." She said with her arms crossed. "It doesn't matter now! I mean you already said yes so, either way, I would already know the answer." "Well fine then I just don't know why you are making such a big deal out of asking the question." She said with a shrug.You sighed as you gave her a pout and then said "So tomorrow at eight?" You saw her give you a half smile as she nodded and continued her training.

Deadpool

He sighed as he looked around the room and saw you. You were sitting next to your brother and talking about the last mission with him. Wade walked over to you as he started to feel nervous. He stood in front of your and you looked up at him as you gave him a small smile and said: "What's up Wade?" "Well, I was wondering if I could talk to you in private." Your smile faltered but you nodded as you two stood up and walked out without another word. You sighed as you looked back at Zero and he was looking at the two of you trying to figure out if he should shot Wade or not and you rolled your eyes at your overprotective brother. The two of you were talking out in the hall when he finally sighed and said: "I brought you here because I wanted to ask you something." "What did you want to ask me?" You asked tilting your head. He rubbed the back of his neck and tried not to look you in the eyes as he said: "Well I wanted to ask you if you would go out on a date with me." "You want me to go out with you?" You asked with a raised eyebrow. "Um Yes..." He said and you could see a hint of a blush on his cheeks. "Well, I guess yeah." You said as you turned and walked into the small area you guys called the living room. You left a shocked Wade not believing that you would say yes.

Black Panther

You were walking down the hallway. Over the time T'Challa and you had gotten closer and out of everyone on the team he was closest to you. So when you noticed that he was becoming distant around you and was always trying to avoid you. You getting tired of it and it finally got on your nerves when you saw him talking to all of the Avengers EXCEPT you. You marched over to them and Tony gave him a wink as they all left. " Why have you been ignoring me?" T'Challa blushed as he looked away but then looked back to you as he said " I uh have grown feeling for you since I've been a part of this team. I understand if you don't feel the same. But I want to ask you if you would at least be willing to go on a date with me." You smiled at his embarrassment knowing that he wasn't use to this. You laughed and then said " Yes of course I'll go out with you, T'Challa." You saw relief fill his face and you smiled as you took his hand and the two of you walked out of the meeting room.

Agent Zero

You sighed you had just gone on a mission with them and you were dead tired. You were about to head to sleep when you felt someone grab onto your hand. You turned around thinking that it was Wade. You sighed and turned around but it surprised you to find out that it was Agent Zero. He sighed as he looked down but then looked up into your eyes as he said "I want to ask you out on a date." You raised an eyebrow and said "Well... I don't know..." "I understand that you are your father's daughter and that you don't want to do anything that will affect him but please?" You didn't think that he would beg for you to go out with him so you sighed and said "Sure why not?" As went into your room to sleep.

Peter (DOFP)

You two have been living together for three months and things have been going really well. The two of you have grown on each other and as the time went on you have fallen in love with each other even though neither of you dared to tell each other. You sighed as you looked at Peter who was racing across the room. You couldn't help the laugh that came out as you saw him doing funny faces. He would always wonder why you were able to do the things that you could but he wouldn't ask about it in fear of it scaring you off. He decided that now was the time since he didn't think he could hold it in any longer. He took a deep breath knowing that this was going to difficult. He had never actually told anyone that he liked them before. He slowed his run as he stopped in front of you. You looked up from the book that you were reading and he had a nervous blush on his cheeks. You gave him a warm smile as you said "Hey what's the matter? If I didn't know you better I would think that you are blushing." He gave you a soft nod and it surprised you as he said "I uh... I want you... to maybe go out with me?" Your eyes widened as you said "Really?" He blushed harder but said "Ye-yeah... I mean if you don't want too-" "No of course! I mean I would love to Peter." He smiled as he grabbed you in a hug as he kissed your cheek and said "thank you."

Mystique

She ask you out and first kiss/ I love you

If we are being honest you saw it coming. Literally, you were sleeping in your room when you saw her asking you out. But because of this you were more nervous that she was, you saw her walking down the hall and you quickly darted down another. It wasn't that you didn't want her, you wanted to date her but you weren't sure if you were truly ready for a relationship. You took a deep breath knowing that you were going to have to face this eventually. You ran a hand threw your hair as you opened your eyes to see Mystique staring at you. You jumped thinking "Oh no I'm still not ready.' "I have been needing to talk to you (name). It is really important and I don't know how much longer I can hold this in. We have been working together for five years now. I have been with you through your PTSD attacks and I know how much you are hurting. Even though you won't tell me what triggers them I understand. They are hard for you and it is hard for you to come out of those situations. I am here for you. I am here though the ups and downs. I will be with you though every break down, though every time you fall apart because I want you. I know you and I still want to be with you. You are broken and you have a dark side. You try to hide it but you don't need to hide it around me. Trust me (name) I want to be with you. I want to love you, I do love you. You mean so much to me and I want to take your pain and hurt away from you. I want to be there for you in the happy moments and the bad moments because just being with you causes me so much joy. SO please (name) will you be willing to date me? Will you be my girlfriend?" You could see the nervousness in her face. No one has ever told you something like this before. You weren't expecting this much of a confessions. No one has ever said that they loved you and your flaws. They all left when they found out about your PTSD. You were expecting the same but when she stayed, saying that she was willing to stay you found your self in tears. You loved her, you truly did. You ran into her arms as you said, "Of Course I will be with you. You mean so much to me. You have been with me thought so many panic attacks where I didn't even know who you were. I love you Mystique and I want to be with you. You are the reason that I have stayed alive this long. I want to be with you too." She smiled as she gently kissed your lips. You smiled into it hoping that this was the person that you were going to spend the rest of your life with.

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[chicagocityofclans]

Chris Bialar → Kris Holden-Ried → Lion 

→ Basic Information 

Age: 143

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Straight 

Born or Made: Born

Birthday: July 30th 

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Religion: Animism

→ His Personality Chris is first and foremost a family man. Whether it's by blood or pack, he is there unwaveringly for them. This may be most evident by the Bialar packs' frequent vacations to Africa together, where they spend months running in the wild and getting in touch with their animal forms. However, he fills the many stereotypes associated with alpha male lions. Dominant and territorial, Chris can be difficult to communicate with when he is in a mood. He can also be vain at times and somewhat short sighted if it doesn't pertain to his pack. He also shares many of the admirable traits of his other half. He's incredibly respectful of women. A majority of the teachers and decision makers in his pack are women. He is also very affectionate and protective of his people. They always have an ear to listen to and someone to support them in most of their choices.

Chris is a staunch believer in education and bringing what he can to his community. In this he has created one of the foremost schools for young Cats in the world. He strives to be generous and supportive to those he mentors and teaches. He goes out of his way to help students, parents and teachers in multiple ways; providing housing, financial scholarships, and more. Because of his strong belief in education and personal growth, Chris sends off all pack members to college/university, and encourages them to travel before settling down for a permanent position within the pack. With his main focus being his son, pack and work, Chris rarely allows himself to date or lust after women, especially after the death of his wife and mate. 

→ His Personal Facts

Occupation: Leader of the Cat Shifters and Principal

Scars: Multiple. All Healed by a South African Witch

Tattoos: Tribal Symbol on Right Shoulder 

Two Likes: Baby or Female African Elephants (food) and Traveling 

Two Dislikes: Disrespect and Hippos (food)

Two Fears: Unnatural Phenomena and Family Quarrels

Two Hobbies: Antiquing and Welding/Sculpture

Three Positive Traits: Generous, Supportive, Respectful

Three Negative Traits: Aggressive, Dominant, Extravagant

→ His Connections

Parent Names:

Calvin Bialar (Father): His father is still alive and kicking. Alive and getting on his last nerves. Chris has nothing but respect for his father but it's clearly not mutual as his father doesn’t approve of his relationship status or the way he handles his pack; most of whom used to be his fathers. Both of his parents run the largest animal shifter school in Africa. FC: Tony Curran

Nora Bialar (Mother): Nora is an overprotective mama lion as expected.Chris and his little brother, Canaan, always came first, before their pack and father. She always takes Chris best interest into consideration and is his number one fan. Both of his parents run the largest animal shifter school in Africa.

Sibling Names:

Canaan Bialar (Brother): There was a time where Chris didn’t trust his little brother at all. His unmotivated way kept him from doing anything productive in his life. On top of sleeping all day, he often acted like the victim and blamed others for everything wrong with his life. One being that Chris was born first. However, Chris's wife, Tatiana, took to Canaan and helped them mend their friendship and brother-like bond.

Children Names:

Carter Bialar (Son): Chris didn’t love-starve his son the way his father did him and his brother. He always showed interest in Carter’s schoolwork, hobbies and passions, all the while never putting a fire under him to take over their pack. Chris wouldn’t consider their relationship the typical father son relationship but something more. 

Greer Finley (Adopted Daughter): Chris took Greer in as his own after her mom died during childbirth and her father abandoned her. Everyone saw her as a cub of the pack but in reality Chris and Tatiana were trying for cubs of their own without much success before Carter. They often bump heads now that she’s grown and the packs second, but Chris is proud of the strong independent women she’s become.

Romantic Connections:

Tatiana Bialar (Wife): Their marriage was not an arrangement contrary to popular belief. Chris and Tatiana grew up in the same pack after Chris's father won control of her neighboring pack. Since they were both months old, they’ve been inseparable. Her death hit Chris hard and if it wasn’t for their newborn son, Chris would have withered away. 

Platonic Connections:

Amaria Crais (Old Friend): Amaria is one of Chris' oldest friends and packmates. He was once sure she was his intended but both of their parents shut the thought out quickly. Chris was sure it was only because they were different species.  

Roy Allen (Best Friend): Chris and Roy formed an unlikely friendship when Roy, a former alpha, joined his pack. They have a strong unforeseen bromance. 

Zack Harris (Friend): They share a mutual respect and admiration for one another. Zack was one of Chris’s first friends outside of his pack and species. Chris also enjoys having another male around that understands fatherhood.

Wilhelmina Swanepoele (Packmate): Hank was a member of Calvin’s pack and joined Chris when she was 18. She’s friendlier with Carter more than Chris would like but there’s nothing Chris is willing to do about it. She recently returned home at the death of one of her siblings, but her invitation is always open. 

Kayla Silvestre (Packmate): Chris loves Kayla’s determination and strength. Their relationship was rocky after Chris was forced to put her hypershift father down and more so when he ordered her to see a supernatural psychiatrist but they’re slowly rebuilding their friendship.

Miles Agyeman-King (Packmate): Chris comes from a long line of lion shifters and was raised around different shifters. When Miles came to Chicago, Chris knew deep down that he needed to help him and keep Miles around. He still hasn’t figured out why but Chris is keeping a close eye on him.

Jalissa Toll (Understanding): Jaslissa is a rat and head of keeping tabs on the Cats. She had once crossed too many boundaries and nearly cost Chris his school reputation. They have since come to an understanding.

Clara Fields (Fellow Alpha): They’re closer than the other alphas. They share the devastating mass extinction of their species and common upbringing. 

Percival McCormick (Fellow Alpha): Chris is neutral when it comes to Percival and nimbles in general. He usually ignores him when he can. 

Isaac Baker (Fellow Alpha): Chris and Isaac haven’t had much interaction. 

Ellis Watts (Fellow Alpha): Chris respects Ellis and unlike the local alphas, they can hold civil conversations and share familiarity beyond Council meetings.

Nick Hamelin (Fellow Alpha): Nick and the entire Rat pack irritates Chris to no end. It took multiple injuries for Nick and Chris to come to a mutual agreement over boundaries within the pack house and their schools.  

Hostile Connections:

Malia Agyeman-King (Annoyance): Malia annoys him on purpose to change his old ways and to become more of a modern alpha. 

Sirius Cobic (Dislike): The chief of police has something out for him. Chris and his pack are always getting pulled over or raided for one thing or another.

Kyra Yi (Dislike): Kyra travelled with Josh before he joined Chris’s pack, she gave him a bad vibe, and her sudden disappearance didn’t help. 

Pets: 

None

→ History Underneath the light of a rising sun, the Bialar clan welcomed the first cub of the season, and the last male for years to come. Chris’s birth marked the future, the start of a new leader, the one who would impact their dying species in ways that have yet to be imagined. As a cub, Chris was adventurous and courageous yet inquisitive about their culture and ways. He spent much of his time learning to become King of their pride, loosely translated into pack leader. He would follow his father around, like a second shadow and mimic his every move. Unlike his younger brother, this did not inflate his ego, making him arrogant or boastful. Chris was far from it. His actions and valiance spoke for him in more ways than his ego ever could. And that was only as a cub. 

As a young adult, Chris' personality doesn’t take a shift as it normally does for growing animal shifters. His adventurous side turned into travelling outside of the pack, with a few trusted companions, including his future wife, Tatiana, and trusted friend, Amaria. They backpacked Asia, Eroupe and Africa. Chris swam the Dead Sea, climbed Mount Kinabalu and wrestled a Tiger King. He had always loved Tatiana and knew they would have to marry to continue his line but also they were in love. On their way back, Chris proposed to Tatiana, during a dinner in front of their most trusted friends. To say that their parents were ecstatic is an understatement. 

Chris was planning on leaving his father's pack. It was becoming too large for their safety and secrecy. It took years of planning and research before Chris was able to break off from his father's pack and head towards New York. He wasn’t alone. 60 members of his old pack, including his wife, Tatiana, and good friend, Amaria, joined him in America. They traveled as nomads before finding a home in Chicago, Illinois in the spring of 1923. Chris didn’t waste any time building a school for his younger packmates and those he met along his journey from New York to Illinois. Panthera Academy was built as a sanctuary for younger cat animal shifters that were usually homeschooled out of fear of exposure or discovery. 

Now as a full grown adult and pack leader, with a loving pride, Chris was no longer searching for a place to stay. He found a home in Chicago. He and Tatiana had tried for decades for a cub with many complications. After losing a litter of five, both gave up on their hopes of having cubs of their own and put their focus on expanding their academic territory. That’s why years later, the news of Tatiana being pregnant was serious to them. The entire pack flew back to Africa, which happened often, to inform their old pack, which contained many parents, siblings, cousins and more, of the wonderous news. Most of them stayed after the celebrations, while others flew back to keep up appearances and Panthera Academy. Chris and Tatiana stayed wanting to have their cub on the open plains of the savanna. Sadly, tragedy struck and Tatiana died during childbirth.  The trip back to Chicago wasn’t joyous. Chris was given a bright eyed baby boy but lost his mate due to complications.

Arranged marriages were leading tradition between cat animal shifters. His marriage with Tatiana was often seen as one. Calvin, Chris’ father, had taken Tatiana from her pack and brought her home to Chris when they were cubs. They were always in the same den, hunting groups and classes growing up. To everyone it was arranged without them knowing but Chris and Tatiana knew their love was true. They fell in love without the pressure of knowing the arrangement, therefore, to them, there was no arrangement at all. Like his father, Chris liked to stick to traditions, which was why at first he found it difficult raising his son on his own. His pack helped but the stabbing pains of losing his wife and mate so young played a large factor in Chris' choice to raise Carter without the stresses of him eventually taking over his pack or arranging a marriage for him. Chris was no longer following most traditions. Most importantly, he refused to help devise arrange marriages between his pack and that of his fathers, including a new wife for himself, to help care for his son. → The Present Chris has multiple mini projects going on all at once. He’s working with Greer, Amaria and the Jackals to open up a supernatural University that’ll be open to all animal shifters. He is heavily negotiating with Clara, hoping to come up with a solution about the dying heavy and cat species. He is unsuccessfully trying to meet with Sirius, Churchill or Vincent to discuss the unmandated harsh treatment of this pack. Which is leading, more so forcing, Chris to have a more political face in the human community and politics. 

After Tatiana’s death, Chris has yet to reenter the dating scene and doesn’t plan on it. On the bright side, Chris has had more members from his father's pack joining him in Chicago. Every time he visits home, he comes back with a handful of transitioners. Also, thanks to the Panthera Academy, Chris has seen an influx of cat shifters with children wanting to join his pack. He doesn’t have a problem with those seeking to join or seeking sanctuary, especially now that they plan on starting a university, however, more pack members means more weight on Chris’s shoulders.

#Chris Bialar #Taken

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Others Like Me                                  Chapter 10:  Spain

Chapters 1-5     Chapter 6     Chapter 7  

Chapter 8   Chapter 9    Read it on AO3

Most of the team sleeps on the way back to the Compound, but only Bucky gets on the plane, takes a seat, and sleeps until they hit the tarmac in New York. Actually, he doesn’t sleep the entire time; he wakes up a few times, blinks, remembers, and forces himself to go back to sleep again.  He knows he can’t just sleep until he feels better, like he used to back in Brooklyn when he had the flu.  But it’s working for now.  

He doesn’t dream, at least that he can tell.  Too exhausted, maybe.  

It doesn’t escape him that, every time he wakes up, Steve’s sitting next to him. Sometimes he’s asleep, too, but mostly he’s reading or talking softly to Clint or one of the soldiers.  Bucky wonders if Steve knows how much that helps.  Probably.  But when he can, Bucky’s going to tell him, anyway.  He can’t, right now.  But he can reach out and take Steve’s hand where it’s resting in Steve’s lap.  So he does.  Bucky closes his eyes and goes back to sleep, so he doesn’t see Steve spend the next hour staring at their clasped hands, or feel the tear that escapes to fall onto Bucky’s fingers and then roll down onto Steve’s.  

Back home, it’s morning and Bucky can’t sleep anymore.  He looks around for something to catch his interest, but he doesn’t want to sit still, he’s too tired and sore to work out, and his stab wound isn’t healed enough yet to go for a run.  So he just prowls the compound like a tiger in a cage, restless and melancholy. He’s glad there’s no one around. Steve and Clint are here somewhere, but Tony, Bruce, Natasha, and Sam have all stayed behind to help the Troops figure out their next steps.  Scott’s gone back wherever he came from.  It’s quiet, and there’s no one to be bothered by Bucky’s edginess and constant roaming.

Eventually, he unpacks his gear and works on cleaning and repairs, just for something to occupy his hands.  His mind’s kind of fuzzy, which he figures is probably a good thing.  In his mind, he’s replaying the operation to destroy the bunker and free the Troops, like he always does after a mission, but mostly he’s trying not to think about anything.  He doesn’t want to think about Marya, and he’s not ready to think about Steve.  

The next week goes kind of like that, although every day’s a little better than the last.  Tony gets back and he’s full of ideas for the Troops.  The twelve who are staying together have chosen to live in Spain, in the Basque country west of Bilbao, and Tony and the other Avengers have an idea for a compound sort of like this one, if a little more self-sustaining.  The first thing the Troops did was to choose names for themselves, real names, rather than their number designations, which Natasha thinks is a good sign.  She’s helping them start figuring out the real world, and Sam’s helping them begin to process what they’ve been through and done in their years as Hydra captives. Bruce is working on plans for the compound, which Tony is, of course, financing.  

Steve explains to Bucky that there’s more to this than mere altruism.  The Troops are still dangerous as hell, yet extremely vulnerable.  It’s critical that The Avengers keep in close contact and on good terms with them so that they don’t just become the pawns of some other organization like Hydra, or worse. Besides which, they’ll be great allies if needed in a fight.  

It hurts to hear about them.  Bucky wants to be there; he knows he’s their “brother”, and he should be there.  But he simply can’t.  Tony is full of funny stories about the Troops misunderstanding common turns of phrase, and it reminds Bucky so much of Marya he feels it like a knife in his gut.  He’ll get there.  He knows he will, and it won’t be that long.  But not today, and not next week.  Nobody’s rushing him.  

Steve’s not rushing him into anything, either.  For the first month, that suits Bucky fine.  Their friendship was in such tatters a short time ago that it’s nice, for now, to start simply.   When Bucky had first been rescued from Hydra, he’d been a mess, and Steve had simply been present, letting Bucky set the tone and speed of their reunion.  After that, when Bucky was fully Bucky again, he’d tried as hard as Steve had to recapture the easy intimacy of their friendship and, for the most part, they’d succeeded for a short time.  But things had fallen apart when they’d tried to rekindle their romance.  The romance wasn’t the problem – God knows that wasn’t the problem – but every time he’d tried, Bucky had found himself unable to keep from pulling away, so shamed and disgusted by himself he couldn’t bear to let Steve get close.  The more Steve had pushed, the further Bucky had retreated, until he’d finally decided the least painful alternative for them both was to give up on ever being able to let Steve love him again.  They’d both been so frustrated that they were barely speaking even before Bucky had been abducted and met Marya.

Things are different now.  They’ve been repairing their friendship since before the bunker, even when Bucky was with Marya.  And when she’d told Bucky that she wasn’t coming back with him - that he was ready to be with Steve again, where he belongs - Bucky had known she was right.

It’s taken Bucky this long to get over the shock and initial grief of Marya’s death.  These days, however, he can think about her and smile.  It still hurts like a bitch, but the truth is, she’s been gone almost as long as she was in Bucky’s life.  And Steve’s here.  

They’ve started training together again, which is what they’re doing right now. The serum lets them beat the crap out of each other if they want to, knowing everything will be pretty much healed by the next day.  But Bucky’s been noticing that, lately, he wants to tackle and wrestle Steve a lot more than he wants to punch or kick him, and he knows exactly what that’s about. It’s time.  He thinks Steve’s there, too, but he won’t make a move.  Every time Bucky tries, Steve gives him this “let’s take it slow” speech, the exact opposite of what he did when Bucky really needed to take it slow.  It just wouldn’t be their relationship if they didn’t fuck things up ten ways to Sunday.

Steve’s just thrown Bucky over his head to land with a thud flat on his back, knocking the breath out of him for a minute.  Bucky’s smiling.  He would be laughing if his lungs were currently working, and Steve’s being a complete smug dick about it.  When Bucky catches his breath, Steve makes the mistake of reaching down to help him up from the mat and gets his feet swept out from under him.  In less than a second, Bucky’s got him pinned and his legs trapped with his own.  

“You’re such a sucker!”

“It’s called manners,” Steve huffs.  “You should try it.”

“Make me.”

For the next few minutes, Steve tries to do that, but Bucky’s having it all his way. The end result is a lot of writhing around while Bucky’s lying pretty much fully along Steve which is, of course, Bucky’s entire intention.  

“All right, fine,” Steve sighs disgustedly.  “You win this one.”

“Uh-huh.  Now gimme my prize.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Kiss me.”

Steve’s instantly on alert.  He frowns and goes all concerned.  Bucky rolls his eyes.  “Shit, Steve, it’s just a kiss.  I’m not askin’ you to marry me.”

“I know, Buck, but I’m trying to do things right this time.  Tryin’ to take it slow.”

“Fine.  Kiss me slow,” Bucky grins.

Steve’s uncertain, but Bucky’s not, and he also happens to be kind of a shit. So he starts rubbing against Steve, leaning down to within a fraction of an inch of his lips, and not letting him get away.  “C’mon,” he purrs.  “What’re you afraid of?”

“Not you, that’s for sure.”

“Then fuckin’ kiss me, punk.”

Steve does.  Bucky can feel that he’s into it, and he’s breathing hard, but he keeps the kiss gentle and almost chaste.

“What am I, your sister?”  Bucky growls. “I said kiss me.”

That works.  The next thing Bucky knows, he’s the one lying under Steve, who’s straddling him and kissing him for real.  It’s about time.  

It feels glorious to have Steve’s hot mouth on his, kissing him hard and invasively, all tongue and moans.  Bucky keeps trying to grind against him, and it works for a few minutes, but then Steve pulls back and rolls off of Bucky.

“What the hell?  Come back here,” Bucky groans, reaching for Steve, who moves a little away.

“Can’t help it, Bucky, you’re just so damn sexy.”

“Which is a reason to come back over here, lame-brain, not move away.”

“No, but, I just don’t wanna start something we can’t finish.”

“Why the hell can’t we finish it?  I want to finish it.  That’s kind of the point I’m makin’ here.”

“It’s too soon.”

“Buddy, it’s been too long.”

Bucky reaches for Steve, who stands up and moves a few steps away.  He pulls his fingers through his hair, clearly troubled. “C’mon, Buck, stop it.  You know I can’t resist you.”

“Then don’t!”

“Dammit, Bucky, this isn’t a game.  I love you.  I’m tryin’ to do right by you.”

Bucky sits up, sighing in frustration.  “OK, OK. Look, I know that.  I just…  I want you, Stevie.”

“Yeah, I got that message.  And I’m right there with you.  But I’m playin’ for keeps here, Bucky.  I pushed too hard before.  I’m not makin’ that mistake again.”

“Even if it kills me?”  Bucky’s voice is half-shriek, half-whine.

“If it didn’t kill me before, it won’t kill you now.  Quit bein’ such a baby.”

Bucky smirks up at Steve from where he’s sitting on the mat.  “I’m not gonna quit tryin’.”

“Good.  Don’t. Because I’m not always gonna say no.”

 As good as his word, Bucky continues to try to seduce Steve.  Steve’s maintained his boundaries so far, but Bucky’s been steadily eroding them.  Steve’s willing to make out, shirts optional, and he’s OK with them getting a little handsy sometimes.  Bucky’s even been able to get him so worked up he agreed to mutual hand jobs a couple times, but so far he hasn’t been able to get Steve’s pants off.  It’s been frustrating in the extreme, but it’s also been the right thing to do.  Bucky’s never going to give Steve the satisfaction of telling him that, but he knows it’s true.  

Three months after the bunker mission, Bucky goes to Spain.  Natasha’s experiences are similar to those of the Troops in many ways, and that’s already proved to be a very good thing on a number of occasions.  They’re free and adapting much faster than anyone expected, but they’re still traumatized and living in an alien world.  Natasha has some things she needs to take care of, and she thinks Bucky needs to be there in her absence.  It’s definitely time for him to help out, and he feels ready.  

In the hangar, Steve kisses Bucky good bye and they agree they’ll see each other in two weeks, either at the Compound or in Spain, if Bucky’s still there.  

“I been thinkin’ maybe, when you get back, we could talk about makin’ some changes around here,” Steve says, holding Bucky close and whispering in his ear.

“Yeah?  Like what?”

“Like, maybe… sleeping arrangements.”

Bucky pulls back, completely surprised.  “You son of a bitch!  You say that to me now, when I’m leavin’ the country?”

“I thought it’d be good for us to, you know, think about it first.”

“Oh, I’ll be thinkin’ about it, all right.  C’mere, you.”

Bucky kisses the daylights out of Steve for a full five minutes before the rest of the crew making the flight begin to be obvious about their impatience. Smiling into Steve’s eyes, he says, “I love you.  I’ll see you in two weeks.”  Then he wiggles his eyebrows.  “Naked.”

“You really know how to ruin a romantic moment, you know that?”

Bucky hugs Steve again, chuckling, and Steve whispers, “I love you, Buck.”

 Marya’s brother, now called Dmitriy, meets the Quinjet with a truck, to take Bucky and the others, and the supplies they’ve brought, back to where the Troops are building their Compound.  They won’t find it without an escort, and even if they did, they wouldn’t make it past the perimeter that’s been set up.  

Dmitriy and Bucky introduce themselves, never actually having spoken before.  It’s a solemn moment when they first stand in front of one another.  It’s a little jarring when Dmitriy speaks Spanish; Bucky had just assumed he’d speak Russian.  When he asks about it, Dmitriy shrugs and says they speak the local languages for everyday.  They’ll stand out less, and there’s something symbolic about choosing to live their new life in a language other than Russian.  

Bucky nods, and mentions that he’s been on missions in this part of Spain and speaks Basque in addition to Spanish.  Dmitriy smiles.  “I thought you might.  You are our brother, after all.”

“I haven’t been much of a brother up to now,” Bucky admits, chagrined.  “But I’m here now.”

“Sergeant, I never had the chance to talk to Marya about you and her.  There was no time.  But I’ve been told enough to appreciate the fact that you mourn her. I understand and, if it makes any sense, I’m thankful that you care that much.”

“I do.  I loved her, Dmitriy.”

“Then we have that in common, along with everything else.”  

Bucky doesn’t quite understand why the hard hug he and Dmitriy share feels so healing, maybe something about knowing that Dmitriy feels Marya’s loss as much as Bucky does.  But he knows from that moment that he wants to make a friend of Dmitriy.

“You can call me Bucky, you know.”  

“No, Sergeant,” Dmitriy says with a grin he doesn’t even try to hide.  “I can’t.”

That gets a belly laugh from Bucky, even though Dmitriy’s resemblance to his sister when he says it hurts like hell.  He supposes he better strap in for a lot of that while he’s here.

 As promised, when Bucky’s been in Spain for two weeks, Steve comes to the Compound for a few days.  Bucky’s part of Dmitriy’s work crew framing the first building of the Troops’ Compound, now that they’ve dug and poured the foundation, so he can’t be there to welcome Steve.   He’s more than a little aware of what time Steve’s arriving, though, and he sees the truck arrive.  

Dmitriy has proven to be every bit the smartass Marya was, and insists that the crew can’t do without Bucky until they get done with the section they’re working on and break for lunch.  His shit-eating grin tells Bucky he’s well aware of the situation, but he refuses to relent. As they work, Bucky keeps expecting to see Steve come walking out of the grove of trees where the Troops are currently housed in a large grouping of yurts, but he doesn’t.  By the time noon arrives, Bucky’s pretty much bordering on blue balls and about ready to give Dmitriy a demonstration of what his left arm can do.  Finally, he hears Dmitriy give a shrill, melodic whistle and jumps, rolling as he lands, from the building’s ridgepole to the ground.  As he strides rapidly toward the yurts, removing his toolbelt as he goes, he hears Dmitriy’s deep laugh follow him.

Steve’s not in Bucky’s small yurt when he tears the door open, but to Bucky’s utter joy, he sees that Steve’s dropped his bag on the end of the bed.  Bucky feels another jolt of arousal as he realizes that means Steve’s staying here.  With him.

As he stalks over toward the biggest yurt, where he thinks Steve must be, Bucky belatedly realizes that he was so anxious to see him that he’s forgotten to put a shirt on or wash up.  He can tell that a lot of his hair’s pulled free of the elastic at the back of his neck, because some of it is in his eyes. But he immediately forgets again when he finds Steve deep in conference with Bruce and Sam, going over blueprints and details of the water system they’re building. Once Bucky sees Steve, he doesn’t see anything else.  He only dimly realizes that Steve’s practically drooling, staring at Bucky’s sweaty, dirty bare chest and flushed face.

They just stare at each other long enough for Sam to roll his eyes and groan disgustedly.  “For fuck’s sake, you guys, I’m gonna get pregnant if you keep lookin’ at each other like that.  Go be alone, and remember yurts have fabric walls.  Damn.”

Bruce blushes and looks down at the table covered with blueprints, drawings, and plans.

Bucky and Steve are in each other’s arms instantly, and they hold one another tightly for so long that, when they let go, they realize that Bruce and Sam have left the yurt without their realizing it.  Their mouths meet hungrily, greedily, and that takes a long time, too.

“I saw your stuff on my bed.  You stayin’ with me?”  When Steve opens his mouth to answer, Bucky says quickly, “And you should know that the only answer I’m gonna accept is yes.”

“Yes,” Steve smiles widely.

It’s hard for Bucky to kiss Steve the way he wants when he’s smiling so much, but he’s also suddenly way too horny to kiss much, anyway, without ending up fucking Steve right here on the floor of Bruce’s office.  

“I made us a picnic,” Bucky says breathlessly.

“Really?  That’s what you wanna do right now?”

“Sam’s right.  Yurts have fabric walls.  And it’s beautiful here.  There’s a hill about a mile away with a clearing.  Sunshine, blanket on the grass… You… Me…”

“Fuck,” Steve gasps.  “Sign me the hell up.”

They practically run to pick up the packed picnic supplies Bucky’s stashed just inside the door of his yurt and get to the clearing.  Steve doesn’t spend much time smoothing out the blanket, just shakes it out in front of him and then pulls Bucky down onto it.  Bucky doesn’t mean to literally tear Steve’s shirt off, but he also doesn’t give it a second thought when it happens.  Feeling Steve’s bare chest against his, the solidity of his muscular body in his arms, the heat and need in his kisses, is like air to Bucky.   He doesn’t know how he’s going to let go long enough to get Steve’s jeans off.

“I love you.  I love you so much, Stevie.”

“I love you, too, Buck.  You’re mine.”

“Yeah.  Fuck, yeah, I’m yours.  Always been yours.”

As it turns out, Steve’s not able to let Bucky go any more than Bucky can let go of Steve.  They end up clasping desperately at one another, mouths open to each other and tongues stroking each other when they remember, grinding painfully hard cocks together until they both come, hissing filthy praise and their love for each other.

“Jeez, Buck, we haven’t done that since we were seventeen.”

“’Bout time, then,” is all Bucky has to say between kisses down Steve’s jawline.

“We’re gonna be a sight walking back into the Compound.”

“There’s a creek,” Bucky mutters, moving lower to take a nipple into his still-greedy mouth.

“Fuck.”

At long last, after months of hot but frustrating make-out sessions and heavy petting, Bucky pulls Steve’s jeans off and takes all of him in for the first time. The sight is enough to make Bucky’s own jeans uncomfortable again, and he quickly peels them off.  Steve’s already hard again, too, and he makes a sound that’s almost a whimper when he sees Bucky reach into the picnic hamper and pull out a bottle of lube.  

“Planned this all along, huh?”

Bucky snorts.  “Sweetheart, I’ve been thinkin’ about fucking you pretty much nonstop for the last two weeks. Damn straight I planned this.”

Steve cries out as Bucky softly touches his hole wit warm, slippery fingers. “I ever tell you how fucking sexy you are?”

Bucky’s smile is almost too happy to be the predatory leer he’s going for.  “Tell me now, while I make all those dirty thoughts come true.”

“I love you,” Steve begins, his words broken and breath hitching as Bucky begins to lick lightly at the head of his cock.  “You’re so gorgeous.  I saw you in Bruce’s yurt just now and I just about lost it right there- oh, shit, Bucky! Fuck, your mouth is a lethal weapon…”

Bucky chuckles and begins a slow but definite rhythm, sliding his finger in and out of Steve while he continues teasing him with his tongue.  Steve’s moving his pelvis, letting Bucky know how fast to go.  “So fuckin’ good,” Bucky murmurs, sliding another finger into Steve as he relents and takes Steve’s cock into his mouth.

Steve’s shout of pleasure is a definite reason to be a mile away from the closest other people.  

“Oh, fuck, Bucky…  You feel so good.  I’ve wanted you for so long.  I…  Oh…”

“You gonna come, Sweetheart?  Yeah, come for me.  Oh, I would love that…”

Bucky barely gets the words out before Steve’s fucking into his mouth and screaming – there’s no other word for the sound he’s making – as he shoots down Bucky’s throat.  Bucky could easily come from watching that, just rubbing against the blanket on the soft grass, but he wants to be inside Steve when he comes next.  

By the time Steve’s starting to relax a little, Bucky’s got him fully ready and, although he just came, Steve’s still hard.  Gotta love that serum.  

“Fuck me, Buck.  Please, Baby, I need to feel you – us together – it’s been so fucking long…”

Bucky feels like he’s been waiting for this moment forever, and when he raises up on his knees, lifting Steve’s thighs to give himself a little more room, it feels like here, pushing his cock gently into Steve is the place he’s always supposed to have been.  He’s surprised to feel tears burn at the back of his eyes.  Despite the awkward stretch it takes, he leans over and kisses Steve’s lips, buried completely in the man he loves.

“Stevie…”

“Ungh...”

“I’m yours.  Always.”

“Mine.”

“Yours.  And you’re mine.”

He has to grit his teeth a little, but he wants to enjoy this moment, stroke after stroke, for as long as he can.  The sun is warm on his back, and there’s a sweet smell of green in the air, and Steve looks absolutely perfect lying beneath him, eyes boring into his, glowing with exertion and pleasure.  When he comes, Bucky doesn’t shout.  He whispers, breathing hard, “I love you, Steve.  I love you.  I’m yours. I’m yours…”

It’s dusk before they wander back into the Compound, holding hands and smiling quietly.  When they enter Bucky’s yurt, they see that someone has laid out supper for them on the table. Bucky knows they’re welcome at the communal evening meal, which makes this gift all the more thoughtful, especially because there’s nothing Bucky and Steve want more right now than to be alone together.  They can hear voices outside, and see the warm, flickering light of a few campfires, but it’s just a comforting backdrop for the small, blissed-out world inside the yurt where only the two of them exist.

 One of the reasons Steve’s at the Compound is that they are going to finish the mop-up of their destruction of Hydra.  On the day they’d taken the bunker, the team had purposely allowed Hydra the opportunity to call for help, to see who would answer.  Sam and Tony had destroyed the three helicopters that responded and, with support from Natasha, the Troops had traced them to a group The Avengers hadn’t known existed.  The Troops learned all they could about them.  It was as bad as they’d feared, and not something they could allow to grow.  

With the Troops, Steve and Bucky spend a few days destroying the group and its facility.  Bucky sees what Steve meant when they’d discussed this earlier.  The Troops are far too dangerous and naïve to be abandoned to their own devices, and they’re invaluable allies.  Besides caring deeply what happens to them, Bucky sees the wisdom of making sure their little community succeeds, and that The Avengers are the foundation for that success.

It’s an opportunity for Bucky to bond further with Dmitriy, and for Steve to get to know him.  Sitting around a fire back at the Compound the night they return from the raid, the three get as drunk as supersoldiers can, mild and temporary as alcohol’s affects on them are. They speak English, because the U.S. Army has never had Hydra’s focus on languages.  Steve could learn them ridiculously easily, as they all can, but he hasn’t bothered much.  They talk about a lot of things, enjoying each other’s company and making informal plans for the future.  

“I gotta ask, Dmitriy, about that scar on your face,” Steve says, slurring his words just a little.  “How’s someone who got the serum develop a scar?  I never do.  Bucky doesn’t.”

“We don’t, either,” Dmitriy answers.  “I think I must have had this before the serum.  I don’t ever remember not having it.”

Bucky asks, “Are you guys gonna work on that?  Your memories, I mean?  Bruce has some theories.”  

“We already are.  More with Sam than Bruce, though.  Nobody’s very comfortable with the idea of doctors, period, and we’ve had about enough of people playing with our minds.”

“Amen to that, Brother,” Bucky mutters, and downs the rest of the vodka he’s drinking.

“We’re more focused on the future.  As you know, we don’t really know what the serum does long-term.  We want to build a life here, which means we need to know some basics about what we can expect.  Our life spans, whether we could ever have children, those kinds of things. That’s what Bruce is working on, when he’s not designing septic systems.”

They enjoy a quiet laugh about that.

“And you two?  It’s not much of a secret that you’re having some sort of reunion, and it’s definitely not a secret what kind.”  Dmitriy smirks.  “What’s in your future?”

Steve looks at Bucky like he’s pretty much perfect and Bucky finds himself expecting a twinge of pain and shame that doesn’t come.  

“Whatever it is,” he says, squeezing Steve’s hand and looking into his too-blue eyes, “It’ll be together.”

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