meme

I have been tagged by monicawoe to post 7 lines from the 7th page of my WIP. Unfortunately, either my WIPs don't reach 7 pages or they go way past it, and the 7th page has already been posted.

However! I do have one that is a multiple of 7, so here are 7 lines that are on the 21st page (and would be the second part) of "where there are no keepsakes":


Steve sits Bucky down at the kitchen table, doesn’t call anybody, doesn’t try taking the boy away from him, doesn’t demand answers. He just makes some cocoa and a platter of sandwiches, sets it all in front of Bucky, and waits patiently while Bucky tries to figure out how to eat while holding a sleeping child.

Bucky’s eyes keep going from the kid to Steve and back, and he’s nibbling his lip to death, the way he always did while working out a problem. He finally offers the boy to Steve and Steve carefully takes him.

The story pours out in fragmented sentences and tangents while Bucky works his way through seven ham&cheese sandwiches.

The gist, as far as Steve can determine, is this: Bucky was in England, saw a couple place a basket on a doorstep, have a conversation that made no sense, and vanish in plain sight, leaving a basket with a toddler sleeping inside on a doorstep at night in November in England. And Bucky didn’t know what to do, so he lurked till sunrise, when a woman opened the door, saw the basket and baby, screamed, flailed at the basket, kept screaming –