IC Inbox

[advanced]

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.

Comments

[redrooms]

Personal experience with myself, and others like us. We aren't allowed emotions or connections. That's hard to shake.

[advanced]

[Damn, how does she keep doing that? Taking the wind from his sails by understanding so well.]

I can handle it, trust me.

[redrooms]

I know you can. You don't have to handle it alone. You shouldn't. That's my point.

[advanced]

Now you sound like Stark.

If you want me to trust you, trust me first. Stop pushing.

[redrooms]

This isn't me pushing. This is me asking. I do trust you.

[advanced]

It wouldn't have been pushing if you waited longer than a few hours.

[He's so damn angry, so furious, and none of the damn Avengers will leave him alone long enough to let himself grieve.]

All of you need to back off.

[redrooms]

[Well, this is going terribly, and Natasha actually feels bad. This is the exact opposite of how she wanted him to feel. There's another pause, and she responds more quietly.]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable or rush you.

[advanced]

[He nearly asks her how it's supposed to make him feel to already be essentially questioned twice on his coping methods not even five hours after his best friend has died. But he keeps it shorter and sharper.]

Then leave me alone. And tell Stark to stop pushing so hard, I don't care what obligation he has to the other Barnes, he's not me.

[redrooms]

We know you're not the same, Bucky.

[But Tony is drowning in guilt and grief, so he's overcompensating.]

I'll talk to him.

[advanced]

[Do they? It doesn't seem so sometimes.

He doesn't indulge her need for a goodbye this time, he's just had enough and he's going.]