#rprgrmmd

it’s rare for jonathan to be away from home -- hawkins, yes, but much of the concept roots in the presence of joyce and will -- and rarer still for him not traveling alone. socialising have never been his forte, and his companion knows that well enough. fortunate for him, really.

there are times bucky can’t stay with them in person – because the world needs their hero – but the byers never forget their fourth member. especially not joyce, who is definitely waiting for a proper wedding and all the decades to share ahead. when bucky comes back, the byers will make sure bucky knows how much he is missed.

“ I haven’t slept in four days… ”

She still sees new differences between the team every day, no matter how much time she’s spent with them. To see what and where lines are drawn is amusing, if not educational, and she tries to fill in the blanks where she does not know the full background. Natasha never fully turns her back on an entrance. Wanda’s own wariness is as instinctual as Natasha’s, and since seeing that, she’s started copying it until it becomes as much of an automatism as breathing. On the other hand, Steve doesn’t; and right now, she’s trying to figure out if that means Barnes does. “Don’t mind me,” she pants in greeting, noisily swallows water, the hairs in her neck clinging to sweaty skin. “Just staying here until my legs won’t fail me in the hallway.” Her legs ache – she’s never worked out this much in her entire life, so it’s not a complete lie.

Bucky was…he was one of the good ones. Of course she’d heard the stories: that he was a pawn of HYDRA (who was just as bad, if not worse than TRASK), he wasn’t in control of his own mind, he was dangerous and would turn on them. At first, she’d heeded those warnings, believed them, and kept him at arm’s length. Slowly, he’d begun to work his way under her skin; she began to see the side of him that the rest of the world didn’t know. He was loyal to a fault, dedicated to his cause, brave beyond words – and willing to help instead of sitting by and watching as mutants were jailed and tortured for no reason other than the genetics they carried inside them.

“Careful, Barnes. Keep up that good-guy shit, and I’ll actually start to believe that you are one of the good guys.” He was, without a doubt, and tonight proved it. He’d gone above and beyond, helping them even at the expense of his own needs – his own revenge.

There was a smile on her face as she spoke, amused at his words and her own response.

“Besides, so what if it was a compliment? Can’t be the first time you’ve gotten one, right?” She was already heading back to the van, already counting on the others to be inside waiting. “We need to get these guys back to Sage, have her run them – make sure they are who they say they are.” Lorna didn’t like that they had to treat everyone coming into the Underground as a possible enemy, but that was just the nature of the beast. Not every mutant was on their side…Pulse, as much as she hated to say it, had been a shining example of what could happen to mutants who were held in captivity too long.

after laughter / accepting / @rprgrmmd

quentin is ... familiar with the feeling. bucky says it and it itches in his chest, ringing a little - a lot - more true than quentin is really comfortable with. he bears his knuckles down against his sternum as if that can get rid of the feeling, as if he'll feel any less fragile-sickly for it, and then turns towards the span of the kitchen, doing the one thing he knows how to do without losing his goddamn mind at the present. he makes tea. he's always preferred it over coffee, really, and a childhood affinity for books set in england or written by the english gave him a long-lasting, entirely silly and completely stereotypical attachment to the drink.

Injuries | { Accepting! } 

“You’ll need to take better care of it than you have been,” Vision chided, knowing that Barnes was not the sort to take the time necessary to actually allow a wound to heal. In fact... most of the people the android knew were not like that.

Irresponsible, all of them.