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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?]

Comments

[coldhand]

You mean between all the...

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

[starspangledman]

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

We still talk, you know.

[coldhand]

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

Hopefully not about me.

[That seems like a mood killer.]

[starspangledman]

Not in the middle of it, but yeah.

[coldhand]

[she reeeeally hopes not]

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

[starspangledman]

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]

[coldhand]

[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.]

[starspangledman]

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

[coldhand]

[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.]

[starspangledman]

[squeezes her shoulder]

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

[coldhand]

[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.]

[starspangledman]

[he nods, rubbing lightly]

He was.

[coldhand]

Seems like I should apologize to someone.

[starspangledman]

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

[coldhand]

[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.]

[starspangledman]

[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.

[coldhand]

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

[starspangledman]

I don't need to be in the middle to support you two. You're both important to me.

[coldhand]

Is there a way to do that without taking a side?

[starspangledman]

I can find it.

[he's pretty confident in that]

[coldhand]

[If anyone can find it, it's Steve. Bucky is just less convinced.]

We'll see how the apology goes first. Go from there.

[starspangledman]

[Steve nods in agreement]

One step at a time.

[coldhand]

So you think he'll actually follow through with the arm?

[It would be convenient. Maybe useful. At least she'll be able to get rid of the star.]

[starspangledman]

Yeah, I think so.

[coldhand]

It'll be interesting to see what he comes up with.