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This is the IC inbox for Bucky Barnes at Riverview.

Network name: user.name

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

Note: As of the end of December 2017, Bucky has no phone, he has destroyed it. Consequently, this inbox can only be used for in person interaction. You are still more than welcome to post here without plotting with me first.

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[kumkani]

[He clasps his hands behind his back, looking Bucky over as if he's trying to determine what to say next. He's careful with what he says and does, mindful.]

I will not argue with you. How you feel is your own. But I do disagree. You do not blame the gun for taking a life. It is the person who pulled the trigger who is at fault.

[Ah. That was understandable.]

T'Challa. King and protector of Wakanda.

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[Wakanda is a country he's never actually been to, even as the Soldier, and that's unusual. He's been most everywhere in the world by this point in his life. How did he get an actual King to want to protect him, even if he had wrongly believed him responsible for the death of his father?]

Seems like you should have a lot bigger problems, being a King, than the fate of one guy.

[kumkani]

No, I do not.

[Bucky wasn't a problem. Neither were his people. He chose to do this and he'd do it until the debt was repaid. Only the two of them would know when that was.]

Will you allow it?

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Will I allow some stranger that I never met, who's apparently a King, to babysit me?

[Excuse his dry tone.]

No.

[kumkani]

Very well.

[Unfortunately, he was on the stubborn side.]

Then you'll forgive me for still trying, when circumstances allow it.

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No, I won't.

[His expression finally gets a little more forbidding.]

I don't like people following me, and I can't guarantee your safety if you try it. You don't owe me anything, understand?

[kumkani]

[T'Challa doesn't flinch or move at the change in Bucky's expression. He wouldn't be here, now, if he wasn't convinced it were the right thing to do.]

I'm not going to follow you around. But if there is trouble, I will be there.

[He inclines his head.]

That is not so simple, Sergeant Barnes.

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Don't call me that.

[He's barely managed to reclaim Bucky for himself, he certainly hasn't managed to reclaim Sergeant Barnes.]

That's a dead man's name.