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This is the IC inbox for Bucky Barnes at Snowblind.

Network name: @bucky; formerly @j, @username, and @robertsmith

This is the place to contact Bucky over the Network. Contact by voice, text, or video is all perfectly acceptable, and there is no need to plot with me prior to posting in this inbox.

Any contact for @j following day 125, @username following day 190, or @robertsmith following day 224 will be met with the following message: USER NOT FOUND.

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Watson.

[He knows what they discussed the other day, but...]

I still have frostbite and I can't afford to wait and find another doctor.

[redrooms]

How's your shoulder? Can I see it?

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It's not pretty.

[But it's a mark of how far he's come in semi trusting her that he doesn't immediately say no.]

There's nothing you can do in looking at it.

[redrooms]

That's true, but I'd like to see it anyway.

[Because she's worried, okay.]

audio -> video -> audio

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Alright.

[He switches the video feed on to show the bare boards of one of the houses and Bucky stood in front of one of the walls. He doesn't look too bad. His hair and clothes still need a wash, but he's no worse than the last time they saw one another.

However, when he peels his coat and top off, it's all with his right arm and his left dangles uselessly at his side. He doesn't show any discomfort, even though it's very painful, he's dealt with worse before. The skin around the shoulder is turning black in places and sloughing off to leave open bloody gashes, clearly starting to become gangrenous. He's got it packed with strips of an artist's smock he ripped up for bandages, but it's not doing well at all.

Bucky only leaves the video on for a second or two before he switches it back to audio again.]

I'm approximately three days out from treatment.

[redrooms]

[It's... bad. Much worse than she was expecting, but she doesn't make a sound until he switches the video back off. Three days is too long, she thinks. It could get so, so much worse in three days.]

Can you use the arm? Have you been switching out the bandages?

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[He's been trying to take as good care of it as he can, but it's been over a week and he's been out in the cold most days just making it worse.]

I can use the arm if necessary, and I've been doing what I can with bandages. I know it doesn't look good, I'm expecting some amputation.

[He sounds so matter of fact.]

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Some of the tissue is dying, it looks like.

[Also matter of fact.]

Make sure Watson takes good care of you.

[She kind of wishes she could be there, ugh.]

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I know, it smells like it too.

[That's why he's expecting amputations. He just hopes it comes in time to stave off sepsis, because he really doesn't want to die that way.]

I'll get it sorted.

[Not by Watson. He'll do it himself when he reaches hot water. Watson is for interrogating only.]

ew bucky gross

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If you'd prefer for one of us to come meet you, I can arrange it.

that's just the tagline for the character

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No, I'll contact you after if I need help.

[See how far he's come?]

LMFAO change his name to that on his profile tbh

[redrooms]

[It is proof that he's come a long way, so Natasha leaves it.]

Alright.

[There's a pause, and then:]

I'm not sure how accurate his movie versions are to us, but I'm not pleased to think of how much he might know, or think he knows.

ew bucky gross barnes

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[No.

He's not discussing this, he's just not. It's too raw and too personal and he's not getting into it. It was enough to tell her that they had been friends.

So he ruins the progress he just made.]

Goodbye.

[And then he's gone just as abruptly.]

[redrooms]

[Well okay, she's going to call him back, because wow.]

So close, but somehow still rude.

[She's not expecting a response, but she has to say something.]

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[A brief pause and then:]

Goodbye, Natasha.

[And he's gone again.]