re: winter soldier #1

[kneecaptain]

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

Comments

[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?

[kneecaptain]

Of course.

[He was… mostly thinking about Steve.]

[bests]

Then trust me on this.

[ well. that might make her wrong about this. maybe. ]

[kneecaptain]

I didn't know you were such an expert on what people think about me.

[He doesn't find Steve annoying though!!]

You see my file, or something?

[bests]

No, I haven't seen your file, though I imagine it's quite a read.

I just can't see you putting up with someone who still looks at you like that for long, which would mean they don't matter much to you in the long run. Am I wrong?

[kneecaptain]

Come on. I put up with a lot of crap.

[bests]

Personally insulting crap or things like your friends being slobs?

[kneecaptain]

I don't think it's an insult.

[bests]

People stubbornly seeing sixteen year old you instead of the you that's here now? What isn't insulting about that?

[kneecaptain]

I liked who I was, then.

[bests]

That doesn't matter.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, it does.

[bests]

... So is it the you now you don't like, or is it more the not-you in between when you were sixteen and now? Both?