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Avengers WIP paragraphs
Jul. 19th, 2012 09:44 pm.
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Bucky’s alive, has been alive all this time, and every now and then there’s someone else in his eyes, someone dark and cold, but Bucky always comes back. And he won’t tell Steve about it, but he talks to Natasha because the same people had them, took her as a little girl and found him in the mountains, and Bucky and Natasha, they’re the greatest weapons those bastards ever made, but Natasha and Bucky, wearing identical smiles, said their masters were dead, and Clint nodded. Clint nodded because he was there, he had their backs when the Red Room bled out, while Steve was still in the ice.
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I won’t let us die, Winter Soldier tells him. Bucky can feel Winter Soldier dodge, throw a knife, jump, and hit the water in a perfect dive.
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He’s a case of textbook domestic abuse, and he knows how to use that. Plays the pitiful, beaten down boy and the hardened survivor just looking for the right person to heal him. Plays the warrior trying to save all the other kids. Plays the atoner, for those years he was on the wrong side of the law. He plays so many things.
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But it’s getting harder to hide. If there’s one thing to thank Loki for, though, it’s the last command he gave - keep your talents hidden, he’d murmured, hand on Clint’s face, looking into his eyes. let them all underestimate you. I may have need of you again.
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Aleksei Lebedev was not an immortal who slipped through the cracks. He had no buzz at all, those thirty years he aged like a mortal and worked for Red Room. He was the primary handler for the weapon no one ever spoke of; he conducted most of the tests, wrote most of the reports, wiped the mind and put the weapon to sleep for years at a time.
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Bucky’s alive, has been alive all this time, and every now and then there’s someone else in his eyes, someone dark and cold, but Bucky always comes back. And he won’t tell Steve about it, but he talks to Natasha because the same people had them, took her as a little girl and found him in the mountains, and Bucky and Natasha, they’re the greatest weapons those bastards ever made, but Natasha and Bucky, wearing identical smiles, said their masters were dead, and Clint nodded. Clint nodded because he was there, he had their backs when the Red Room bled out, while Steve was still in the ice.
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I won’t let us die, Winter Soldier tells him. Bucky can feel Winter Soldier dodge, throw a knife, jump, and hit the water in a perfect dive.
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He’s a case of textbook domestic abuse, and he knows how to use that. Plays the pitiful, beaten down boy and the hardened survivor just looking for the right person to heal him. Plays the warrior trying to save all the other kids. Plays the atoner, for those years he was on the wrong side of the law. He plays so many things.
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But it’s getting harder to hide. If there’s one thing to thank Loki for, though, it’s the last command he gave - keep your talents hidden, he’d murmured, hand on Clint’s face, looking into his eyes. let them all underestimate you. I may have need of you again.
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Aleksei Lebedev was not an immortal who slipped through the cracks. He had no buzz at all, those thirty years he aged like a mortal and worked for Red Room. He was the primary handler for the weapon no one ever spoke of; he conducted most of the tests, wrote most of the reports, wiped the mind and put the weapon to sleep for years at a time.
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