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001 wakanda
There's peace in Wakanda. Bucky had spent a little while under the ice while Shuri figured out a way to work on his deprogramming and while it's been a painful process, it's a necessary one and he's glad for all her work on the tangled knot that's HYDRA and the mess inside his brain. It's all wired incorrectly, a bomb that never went off but still needs to be defused, and he's scared every time she goes in there that something will go wrong and he'll attack her; it hasn't happened yet.
When he isn't working with her or Ayo, he has a little hut to himself where there are goats and sometimes children come visit him to see the curious white man who has taken up on the fringes of Wakandan society. Steve has visited a few times but when they announce a visitor this time, it's apparently not Steve. They're still at the palace being received, though, so Bucky takes the time to tidy up where he's been staying as much as he can one-handed; he's neat by nature but he also isn't used to having company come by either.
Who could it be? Sam? Sharon? Bucky isn't sure who would come to visit him aside from those two and Steve. Tony Stark certainly wouldn't and he isn't sure the Wakandan government would even let him in. Would Wanda come to see him? He's not certain. He imagines she's in hiding the same as he is, trying to avoid the Sokovia Accords and their inevitable consequences on her. It seems she's suffering more from them than anyone else, even himself, so he doesn't think she'd risk coming to see him.
He catalogs the other people he knows and he comes up with Natasha. He's got a strange history with her. He's shot her twice while the Winter Soldier but curiously, both times, he'd shot her non-fatally. It's almost as if he'd known that she needed to live even if he didn't know her and that's not what the Winter Soldier does. He doesn't leave loose ends. He kills whoever is necessary, even an innocent bystander, and Natasha has been actively opposing him both times he's encountered her. Even when he'd been activated by Zemo he'd attacked her but didn't take her down. There's something in him that protects her and he wonders why that is and always has. He doesn't know why she'd visit him but he wouldn't turn it down, either, so when he hears someone at the door he calls for them to come inside.
"Come in, I'm not busy." He's just finishing up wiping down a counter in what counts for his kitchen and when he comes into view of the visitor, he sees that it is Natasha. Curious.
"Hi."
When he isn't working with her or Ayo, he has a little hut to himself where there are goats and sometimes children come visit him to see the curious white man who has taken up on the fringes of Wakandan society. Steve has visited a few times but when they announce a visitor this time, it's apparently not Steve. They're still at the palace being received, though, so Bucky takes the time to tidy up where he's been staying as much as he can one-handed; he's neat by nature but he also isn't used to having company come by either.
Who could it be? Sam? Sharon? Bucky isn't sure who would come to visit him aside from those two and Steve. Tony Stark certainly wouldn't and he isn't sure the Wakandan government would even let him in. Would Wanda come to see him? He's not certain. He imagines she's in hiding the same as he is, trying to avoid the Sokovia Accords and their inevitable consequences on her. It seems she's suffering more from them than anyone else, even himself, so he doesn't think she'd risk coming to see him.
He catalogs the other people he knows and he comes up with Natasha. He's got a strange history with her. He's shot her twice while the Winter Soldier but curiously, both times, he'd shot her non-fatally. It's almost as if he'd known that she needed to live even if he didn't know her and that's not what the Winter Soldier does. He doesn't leave loose ends. He kills whoever is necessary, even an innocent bystander, and Natasha has been actively opposing him both times he's encountered her. Even when he'd been activated by Zemo he'd attacked her but didn't take her down. There's something in him that protects her and he wonders why that is and always has. He doesn't know why she'd visit him but he wouldn't turn it down, either, so when he hears someone at the door he calls for them to come inside.
"Come in, I'm not busy." He's just finishing up wiping down a counter in what counts for his kitchen and when he comes into view of the visitor, he sees that it is Natasha. Curious.
"Hi."
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Still, he starts working on her clothes. Tac gear is made to be practical and functional but it still isn't the easiest to pull off in an emergency and he's careful with it, not wanting to hurt her any more than he has to. Once the vest is off and the shirt underneath, he can see there's a nasty wound on her right side.
"What the fuck did this? Someone try to flay you alive with a butcher's knife?"
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"You can stitch it up and it'll be fine..." she protests glancing down at the wound in the memory of it all. Apparently falling out of the sky tends to be tough on the body.
"Caught some shrapnel in a crash is all.." she mutters letting him tend to the wound.
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It's more than a standard first aid kit - Bucky has sutures and staples, antibiotics and painkillers and anesthetics. He gets some gloves out and slides them on and rubs the wound down with anesthetic. He has some forceps and he gives her a look.
"Was it a through and through or is the shrapnel still in there? Because I gotta get it out before I stitch it. I've got lidocaine but you might feel it."
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"You can sew it up and it'll be fine, I've had people far less skilled then you do some of these over the years," she comments her mind thinking about the bullet wounds that he put in her himself. She winces when he starts to work on it more, unable to help herself.
"Besides you're the only one that will be stuck looking at the scar if you mess up too bad."
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"I haven't sutured in a while but I should still remember," he says, starting the needle when she's had a chance to numb up.
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"I'm sorry I couldn't get in contact to tell you..." she murmurs softly in apology. She knows it must have been hard for him.
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"I was just...devastated, you know? I didn't know how to process it."
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“I’d be really bummed if you didn’t have feelings about me dying you know.”
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"I know you can't promise you won't let this happen again but...if you could, god, I would ask you to. I need you too much to lose you."
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“How about we just start with you holding on to me so you can remember I’m here yeah?”
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"C'mere, let me hold you for a little while. I need to get some touch in for a while so I can remember you're here."
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She doesn’t tell him that he used do this when he’s come back from a mission wiped. When he knew her but didn’t know her fully, finding her again. It was too much to think about.
“My nose is probably all messed up from having broken it, hope you don’t mind me looking all beat up.”
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"You know the looks don't matter to me," he says quietly. "I just don't want you to be in pain, that's all."
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"I'm tired," she murmurs softly there, as if it's an excuse for not being better prepared. Like she's afraid she's done something wrong is and is going to let him down by the way she is behaving here.
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"Do you wanna go get in bed?"
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"It was a fucking nightmare, and I'm not ready to relive that in my dreams yet," she adds with a murmur. She knows he knows exactly what that is like.
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"Do you want to just curl up on the couch for a bit instead? I think you need to rest somehow if you're gonna start healing up."