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bionicstaringmachine) wrote2024-03-02 10:55 pm
bionicstaringmachine) wrote2024-03-02 10:55 pm
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I mean, you don't have to, I have magic and I can hide my face. But that's really kind of you.
[ Maybe he's lying? There's no way for her to tell. This texting thing is so limited. But if he is, truly, Captain America's best friend, then he must at least be a decent human. He certainly sounds like one. ]
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[ When what he used to do relied heavily on him being quick, efficient, gone as unnoticed as possible - blending in isn't difficult for him but he also knows the ways to bring attention to himself all the same. Someone expressing gratitude to him is still different, even if he isn't as dazed by it as he was before. While she's unaware of it, he nods a little because he doesn't want to call attention to it and instead decides to make it sound like she has options now. ]
Now you can decide if you wanna use your magic or not.
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[ What? He'd just so casually said that people recognize him enough that he can shield her from unwanted attention.
Which he's continuously being so kind about. Now she really wants to meet him. ]
Okay. What else will we need? Aside from knives. Snacks?
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[ People who spent a lot of time looking at that display in the Smithsonian or pay attention to history, mostly but heβs not trying to get into all that right now. ]
What kind of snacks do you like?
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Just a funny man with a funny arm then.
Chocolate and berries. Mostly berries, it's easy to get a lot of that around here. But there must be all kinds of snacks out there.
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[ He doesn't really need the answer, she's still talking to him and that means she's not put off by him yet. He can see if meeting her in person does the trick on that or not. ]
Those aren't bad choices. I guess it depends on the chocolate, since there's a lot out there. Meat, cheese and chips are easy to get for snacks.
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[ She's thinking that too, so they're even? ]
Even human meat?
[ SHE'S JOKING she doesn't eat human meat but okay she can mess with him a little, she can't help it. ]
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[ He's squinting at his phone again, fairly certain she isn't being serious but they did just meet. ]
You're shitting me, right?
I don't think the place down the street from me has long pig.
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Okay, I'm shitting you. I mean, if I was really planning to kill and eat you I wouldn't tell you, that's just dumb. And rude.
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But Iβm gonna wonder if your dog starts sniffing at me like heβs ready to eat me.
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I try not to be rude. But I will fight back if anyone tries anything funny.
Make sure you don't smell like steak then!
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[ He knows a lot about that, between going in and resolving some of Steve's fights ( and seeing him after he'd gotten a decent throttling ) and just generally finding it hard to put his guard down in most cases because he was ready for a fight. ]
Guess I won't shower with some steak before I meet him.
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Okay my brother says our coordinates are 66.3937Β° N, 22.5727Β° W. [ Otherwise known to Midgardians as the Hornstrandir Nature Reserve in Iceland, second in a list of most remote places on the planet. ] Is that anywhere near the Smithsonian?
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You're on a whole other continent. This jail break's gotten a little more difficult. We'll need more snacks.
[ And it's not so much appropriating - no, borrowing - a vehicle to get to her and now it involves more plane travel. Unless: ]
Do you know how to make portals?
[ He knows her dad and uncle are gods ( or something like that ) and the sorcerers can travel through portals ( having done it himself ) so it's worth an ask, just in case. ]
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[ At the risk of alerting her family to her departure. But what's life without a little danger? ]
Can you pick a place that's close enough to you and tell me all about it? I need to be able to picture it clearly in my mind. [ Or, you know, send her a picture. Sorry, she's new at texting. ]
google image search coming in clutch
[ Alright, it's more like three or four minutes in between that first text and what would come next, because he figures a public spot outside of his apartment is a better meeting spot than anything.
A picture follows, because it's probably better than anything he might be able to muster up with words to describe it. He doesn't know how these portals work and if giving her bad info might land her somewhere else entirely. ]
That clear enough to picture in your mind? I don't take a lot of pictures.
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When do we leave? What do I need to pack?
[ She's never been on a roadtrip before. How exciting! ]
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[ He's not rushing her, just like he didn't want to give her a shoddy description of somewhere for her to picture and it land her somewhere she didn't mean to go, he also figures it isn't something that ought to be rushed? Well, guessing is more accurate. He knows fuck all about magic beyond what he's read in the fiction books he reads ( and he hopes it's fiction anyway, but with the world the way that it is, it's possible it's not ) and the little bit he's been exposed to in his own life. So, not much hands on knowledge and more making a guess on what seems reasonable when it comes to magic. ]
Clothes, stuff that'll keep you occupied if you get bored of me. Sometimes I don't talk a whole lot, but I'm good at listening.
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[ She knows she really shouldn't rush these things, but she can't help being excited. Somehow, the thought of going out into the world with someone who isn't her family or one of the many inhabitants of the woods (with the exception of Garmr) is something she finds herself looking forward to. There's so much danger and uncertainty. Who knows what will happen? Anything can happen. ]
Lots of books then. I can read them out loud and you don't have to talk. [ She likes stories! ]
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[ Meaning, he hopes that it doesn't and that she ends up making it through her tries in one piece. She has people who care about her, so he wouldn't want her getting hurt on account of him or anything. Not when there's no real time table on any of this. Smithsonian's not going anywhere, after all. ]
Hey, I'll talk. I just don't always know what to say. What kind of books do you have?
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Stories and history, mostly. [ But not the Midgardian kind. ] Do you like books too?
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[ Not that he knew a whole lot about either of those things outside of what he'd been told by others, as opposed to a first hand experience with them. It has him realizing despite some of the things he's seen and done in his life, there's still a lot of shit that he is entirely unaware of. ]
Yeah. Mostly science fiction and fantasy, but I'll read a mystery if there's one I think I'll like. I've been trying to catch up on ones I missed over the years [ Decades, he means decades. ] and I was told I should check out audiobooks but it doesn't feel right.
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[ She's surprised that he reads. She's somehow had the idea that even if he was only Avengers-adjacent, he'd have been busy doing whatever it was people like the Avengers did. Then again, he's offered to take her on a roadtrip, so he can't be too busy? ]
What are audiobooks? Books that talk? [ Close, but she's imagining opening up a print book and voices emerge from it. ]
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[ Not only does he want to learn more because he figures why not know ( Bucky, your nerd is showing ) but also because he might not be as confused about the shit that goes on around him. With aliens and people with actual powers and magic, he has a feeling that not every thing that the ones who are left of the Avengers will be going up against in the future are going to be along the lines of the Flash Smashers or dealing with Walker. ]
It's a voice recording of a book, so you can listen to it instead of having to read it. I guess it's kind of like listening to someone read it out loud, just without 'em there next to you.
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That's really fun. Father used to read to me. He had all these voices and everything.
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