re: winter soldier #1

[kneecaptain]

There you go. Not really dead, and still better off than Jason Todd.

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[bests]

[ LMAO ]

Way before.

[kneecaptain]

So that had nothing to do with it.

[bests]

No, but you never know what might come back to bite you in the ass.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, I had a pretty good guess, myself.

[bests]

Yeah, I think you had one of the worst past things biting you in the ass experiences.

[kneecaptain]

It was always gonna catch up for me.

[bests]

Doesn't mean that wasn't a shit situation.

[kneecaptain]

Nah. I shouldn't have run away from it.

[bests]

You know it wasn't your fault, right?

[kneecaptain]

Doesn't mean it's not my responsibility.

[bests]

Even so. You didn't have to choose to go it alone. Any of us would have helped you, if you'd asked.

[kneecaptain]

No, it's fine. I wouldn't wanna take you down with me. There's more important stuff you have to do.

[bests]

How is it that you manage to be frustrating and endearing at the same time?

oh so now bucky is a cat

[kneecaptain]

I've been at this a while, you know.

yes, bucky is now a cat.

[bests]

You know, you keep saying things like that, but I still have more life experience than you.

he is not that cute

[kneecaptain]

It's not just about how long you've lived, you know.

of course not. nothing could be as cute as a cat besides another cat.

[bests]

I know. I still say I've got more life experience.

two cats!!

[kneecaptain]

I think you're making this a competition, when it wasn't.

what if we got a clowder

[bests]

I think you don't like people thinking they're older than you.

[kneecaptain]

No, I don't like people calling me kid.

Lots of people are older than me.

[bests]

Which implies you don't like being thought of as a kid, either. The people who are older than you are either like Nick or they're obviously older.

[ ... ]

Do you think that I'm going to think of you as a kid if I think of myself as older than you?

[kneecaptain]

Nah, but, when I was sixteen, I had my face plastered everywhere. And people still… see that kid sometimes.

That's what digs at me, I guess, sometimes. Not people bein' older than me.

[bests]

I don't, for the record. And I don't think the people who really matter do either.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah. Maybe.

[bests]

Do you trust me?