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WHAT ever
WHERE ever
WHEN Day 73 maybe? probably. that was a long blizzard tho.

[EYYYY IT FINALLY STOPPED SNOWING!!!

In fact, the roads are clear, even. Maybe the weird mechanical noises that could be heard in the wee hours of the morning were snowplows...? Sure. That seems like the reasonable explanation.

Seems like time... for a SNOWBALL FIGHT.

In fact, a snowball may be coming at you right now. Who threw that??

...did... anybody throw that?]

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[she nods]

I got that impression. He's taking it well, all things considered. I don't think I could be so cheerful after something like that.

I think he's covering it well. It seems to me like he's still carrying a lot of his grief.

I'm not saying he's over it. Just...

[She shrugs. Even covering it has to be an effort.]

He's handling it well.

We've all got our own ways of coping.

[she nods that that, hiding her face behind her coffee cup rather than responding directly]

[steve will let her have some silence, just reaching out to give a reassuring shoulder squeeze]

[after a brief hesitation, she leans into his hand.

one day she'll be able to have a conversation without it turning all depressing

for now she appreciates his patience]

[he is here for you, bucky!! he smiles a little, rubbing at her shoulder]

I must have done something real right to deserve a friend like you, you know that?

You did. You were there for me when I needed it. When no one else believed in me, you did.

You said it yourself, you saw a scrawny kid from Brooklyn with nothing going for him and said he was gonna go places.

I'd do it again. Apparently I've done it twice already.

[or two versions of her did]

That's more than enough to earn a friend.

You do remember the times I tried to kill you, right. More than one of them. Most people would call that enough to lose a friend too.

It wasn't you, Buck. That was Hydra controlling you. I know if you'd had a choice in it you wouldn't have done those things.

That doesn't mean I didn't do it, though. Or that it couldn't happen again.

Even if it did, I'd still be there for you.

You really are an idiot, aren't you.

[is that affection? it might be. even if it worries her]

I'd like to think of it as doing the right thing.

It can be both. It's almost definitely both.

Well, it's gotten me this far.

I'd call it luck, but we both know that's not true.

Might be a little bit of luck in it.

Or it might be that on top of being talented, and having a... frankly disproportionate sense of fairness, you're also just about the most stubborn person to ever step foot outside of Brooklyn.

Yeah, it's probably more that than luck.

Probably that, yeah.

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