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[Oh shit. That is A LOT of snow.

It might be time to get holed up with someone!! Maybe share a blanket? Huddle for warmth? See who can REALLY cook? Do rock paper scissors to go retrieve anyone stuck by themselves?]

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Why wouldn't it be?

[Does she even get to have an opinion on this? it seems like the answer is probably not.]

If it makes you this happy, it's more than all right.

[She's glad she didn't throw a wrench in things by showing up, if that's the direction they were going.]

I just know things are rough between the two of you. I don't want this to be something that makes things harder for you.

It's all right. He's... I don't think he likes me, but he's talking about fixing my arm.

He's fixing it for you?

He's talking about it. No promises. He took a look, asked about getting a blood sample.

That's still good, isn't it?

I mean, it's Tony. He loves playing around with that kind of stuff.

It's not bad. [She's not sure if she'd call it good yet.] Guess it makes sense for him to focus on the thing he can fix.

[As opposed to the rest of it.]

Think he knows he doesn't have to?

I'll try mention that to him.

You mean between all the...

[She gestures, doing her best one handed impression of him before.]

[hey don't attack me like that. Steve takes it with good nature, flushing a bit]

We still talk, you know.

[look, she's found how to make him blush again.]

Hopefully not about me.

[That seems like a mood killer.]

Not in the middle of it, but yeah.

[she reeeeally hopes not]

...Is he taking things okay? On your end, I mean.

It's not easy, but he's working through it. With some time, I think it'll work out all right.

[he's absolutely being the optimist right now]

[Bucky is less so. But it's nice to see him seeing the possibility.]

Do you think it would help if I apologized.

[Who knows. She's been thinking about it. Maybe that would just needlessly complicate things, or make it harder for him to think of her as someone else, who didn't hurt him. On the other hand... he deserves it.]

It couldn't hurt, if you handle it right. I wrote him a letter to apologize for my part in it.

[Better than apologizing to an answering machine. Maybe.]

I'll think about it.

[Because that would be a hard apology to give. How do you even say it.]

[squeezes her shoulder]

It's all right to take your time. I know it was hard on both of you.

[She leans into his hand.]

He was a friend.

[Not Tony. Howard. She thinks about that, sometimes, what it might have been like for Howard to die that way.]

[he nods, rubbing lightly]

He was.

Seems like I should apologize to someone.

If nothing else, I think Tony deserves to hear it.

[Nodding at that quietly. She can't escape the feeling it might set them back again, but he does deserve to hear it.

If Tony gets angry again, he's entitled to that too.]

[Steve will be there. for both of you. we can work this out without causing a global conflict again, maybe.]

You just let me know if you need me to have your back. I'm still with you, Buck.

I've already put you in the middle of it once. Not doing it again.