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Karli's on the move; she'll strike soon. Bucky and Sam have been in long, tense conversations with each other and with Torres, and she herself has been keeping an obsessive eye on the tracker blip that is Batroc.
It's a lot. The air in the apartment is tense. But she still has to laugh at the sight that greets her when she walks into the living room: Bucky crouched down, his phone out as he takes a photo of Alpine, who is lounging in lazy grandeur, soaking up a puddle of sunshine.
"That'll be a good one," she approves. "Baby, I've been wondering – what happened to your nice camera? You didn't leave it in Wakanda, did you?"
It's a lot. The air in the apartment is tense. But she still has to laugh at the sight that greets her when she walks into the living room: Bucky crouched down, his phone out as he takes a photo of Alpine, who is lounging in lazy grandeur, soaking up a puddle of sunshine.
"That'll be a good one," she approves. "Baby, I've been wondering – what happened to your nice camera? You didn't leave it in Wakanda, did you?"
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Date: 2022-05-12 11:56 pm (UTC)"This is the price we pay as pet owners, I guess," Sharon says, amused.
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:00 am (UTC)“Could be worse.”
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:03 am (UTC)"Will you take a picture of us so I can send it to my mom?"
His Wakandan camera sits nearby, but she's not going to suggest he use that. Not yet.
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:10 am (UTC)"She'll get a real kick out of it, I'm sure."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:13 am (UTC)"She thinks he's sweet," she says. "And I don't think they're tired of getting new pictures of me yet."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:16 am (UTC)He turns the phone around so she can see and scrolls through the pictures he's just taken.
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:18 am (UTC)She pauses his scrolling, then goes two back. "This one."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:21 am (UTC)"What do you want the message to say?"
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:23 am (UTC)"Once everything's finished with Karli, maybe we can go see them again."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:26 am (UTC)"I will, too. They're good people."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:30 am (UTC)She still thinks Sam's living a dreamworld if he's going to be able to get her a pardon and down to New Orleans, but for a second she lets herself imagine that it could happen, too. "And it was really nice to be back at the house."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:36 am (UTC)"It's not a mansion."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:41 am (UTC)"It's a really nice house."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:46 am (UTC)"Yeah, it is."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:48 am (UTC)"My blue collar boy," she says, amused. "Here you are with an uptown girl, now."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:53 am (UTC)"That's exactly what I think."
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Date: 2022-05-13 12:59 am (UTC)"Construction worker, dock worker, soldier boy..." Bucky shakes his head. "Blue collar through and through."
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Date: 2022-05-13 01:03 am (UTC)"Give me a kiss, soldier boy."
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