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[waitedforyears]

Am I back? ( A beat. ) I'm back, aren't I? 'cept it's busy. Is it one of those weekends? Does that mean I'm just visiting, then?

( Yes, this is Amy Pond, sitting down on the edge of the fountain — a little older. ) How long has it been? Bucky? ( A painfully hopeful expression. ) Doctor? Doctor, are you here?



(ooc; Anything goes for Amy. Also, she's back from being canon updated, and she's a few years after The Angels Take Manhattan now. )

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[yourbestguysgun]

[ Crepe just noses under Amy's chin as Bucky passes to the kitchen. ]

She's kinda not happy with me at the moment.

[waitedforyears]

You really need to tell me everything. I leave for a bit and everything goes to shit.

[yourbestguysgun]

Yeah.

[ It's the fact that he's not even trying to hide it from her that means it's serious. ] Yeah, it does.

[waitedforyears]

Hell, Jaime. ( Leaving Crepe to trail after her as she comes into the kitchen as well, hugging him from behind. )

[yourbestguysgun]

[ He lets her because she's his friend and he needs that. Amy is the only one who knows him properly, who's listened with each hurdle and he's needed her this past week, is so glad she's here now. Maybe she can help, maybe she can stop him from being a stupid fuck up. ]

I'm super great at handling things, didn't you know?

[waitedforyears]

's why you have me, idiot. ( Holding on until the coffee's done, before she settles back on the couch. ) C'mon, spill.

[yourbestguysgun]

You remember Natasha?

[ Hands around his mug, watching Crepe where she's decided to rest her head on one of Steve's discarded art pads. ]

[waitedforyears]

Yeah. ( Leaning against Bucky's side, preemptively. )

[yourbestguysgun]

She came back. [ He doesn't really know how to say it. ] And she knows me, she knows what happens to me. Properly. After Steve thinks I'm gone.

[waitedforyears]

After the train? ( Thinking to what James told her. A plane for him. )

[yourbestguysgun]

Yeah.

[ Taking a deep gulp of his burning coffee. ] She's not the first person to bring it up, Loki called me something else too. The Winter Soldier. So did Kate, and Billy. I just thought it was a mistake, that these people kept recognising me. But she uh - Nat, she knows me. Properly. She knows who I am now and what's going to happen.

[waitedforyears]

Tell me.

[yourbestguysgun]

I -- I guess the Russian's find me. I don't know how. But she said uh, that they do something, an experiment I guess, to make me more like Captain America. Or the commie version anyway.

[ Breathing out. ] She says I won't remember who I am, that I'll be this - assassin - this thing they use. And Steve won't know until it's too late.

[waitedforyears]

Is she from your future? ( Because that. No. She won't let that happen to Jaime. ) 'cause there's different universes, you know there are. It might not be you.

[yourbestguysgun]

I don't know, I don't know. [ Burying his face in his hands. ] I'm fucked, Ames. I just - I don't want to die and I don't want to lose this, and it's just - I'm messing it up with Steve because I don't know how t'tell him that I can't let go of him, I just can't.

[waitedforyears]

Hey, hey. look at me. You're all right, Jaime, right now. Pretty sure she's not from your world, okay, because there's stuff that doesn't add up and you're okay now. Tell Steve. Just that, what you told me now.

[yourbestguysgun]

[ Sighing. ]

I just feel so dumb.

[waitedforyears]

Oh, shut up. You're not, life just sucks. Seriously, though, talk to him.

[yourbestguysgun]

Every time I try I clam up.

[waitedforyears]

Don't be an idiot. He loves you.

[yourbestguysgun]

Maybe he shouldn't.

[waitedforyears]

You really are daft. He does, Jaime, and you deserve it, too.