Stuff [OTA]

[worthallthis]

Who: Winter (Bucky Barnes) and OPEN
When: September catch-all
Where: Various, see prompts
Summary: What Winter gets up to in September
Warnings:


I. Movie(s) - his apartment, close CR only

In the end, Winter chickens out on setting up another outdoor projected watch party for the movies he wants to watch. Instead, he invites people to his apartment sporadically, sometimes one at a time, sometimes in pairs. He always has food and cocoa for them while they watch The Wizard of Oz or Buck Privates or Snow White, all movies that apparently came out during the time he was supposedly living in New York being a normal person.

He watches each one with dedication, hoping for... something. He's not really sure what.

Buck Privates makes him laugh, at least, startling even himself-- even if it's also kind of uncomfortable. He remembers more flashes of the war during that one than he does the movie.


II. Weeding - in town, OTA

The lamb plants sprouted in one place: he and Yelena rooted them out, burned the remains, and salted the ground where they'd sprouted. Now he's prowling the town making sure there aren't any more around. Find him poking his nose into alleys around Thing of Beauty, haunting warehouses near the one they'd cleaned out, and glaring at the fences around Dogtown as if suspecting the things to be in there, lurking, waiting to spread outside the confines of the weird places.


III. Lost - Dogtown, OTA

Winter is... not great at simply drifting along and not thinking. He is not great at being careless. So when he dives in after some stupid kids late one afternoon, he finds himself soon hopelessly lost. He isn't afraid... but he is frustrated and that apparently counts as enough to keep him turning around on himself for hours. He misses dinner. He misses curfew.

Someone might have to come in after him and lead him out, or else let him stumble out whenever the woods simply get bored of him, in the middle of the night.


IV. Passtimes - around town, OTA

Even when not "weeding", Winter patrols the city on his days off, because he can't not work even when he's not on call at ADI. His patrols are, often, more of an amble than a stalk, hands tucked into his coat pockets and gaze roving around to interesting and familiar things about town rather than fixed and open to take in as much as possible at once.

He sits on benches in the (non-Dogwood) park and reads out loud to himself from whatever book he's working on that day. He checks the local papers on streetcorners (those he doesn't read out loud). He buys a milkshake at a little drive-through and looks surprised at how good it is. He looks for any sign that there might be an event related to swing dancing anywhere in town, and is largely disappointed at the lack.

A friend passing by might get offered a sip of his milkshake. A stranger paying any attention to the newspaper stand might get his newspaper offered to them, even if he isn't finished with it.

Comments

ii.

[setthetone]

It's been one of those months. Or, well, times of the month. Where things just happen and you should probably deal with that but there is no real way of dealing with that so Carter just cycles through coping mechanisms and hope something sticks.

Like going for walks. And pretending that did anything to clear his head.

When he sees Bucky, Carter slows, hands in his pockets, furrowing his brow as he approaches and peeks into the alley.

"Please don't tell me you're chasing anything supernatural."

i. The Wizard of Oz

[bindlestifflost]

George for the most part isn't completely sure what to make of the movie. He's surprised and delighted when it switches to color. Visually, it's stunning. Thematically...he's less sure of where it's going. Now Lennie, Lennie would have eaten it with a spoon and begged for more but also not given either of them time to enjoy it with endless questions.

He sips his cocoa as he thinks and watches. Only when it's over does he turn to him and say, "Well, what'd you think?"

III

[punched_hitler]

Steve is kind of bad at curfews sometimes. But Winter is, to his knowledge, not. At least, not like this, with no word, he figures. So when he tries to get ahold of Winter after curfew and has no luck, he doesn't really stop to think before heading out to try to find him.

He doesn't know what draws him to Dogtown; probably because it's the most interesting, dangerous, and likely place for someone to disappear, with nothing else seeming to take center stage at the moment. Or maybe it's luck. (Probably dumb luck.) But he's on the path (for now) with a flashlight, sweeping it through the trees and calling for Winter, because he'd rather make a ruckus and a fool of himself than walk right by his best friend.

II

[musicdied]

It's near Dogtown that Yelena comes across him. It's her turn to patrol the fences, to chase off wandering idiots, or to dive in after the ones who inevitably slip through, whether lured by contrarianism, juvenile bravado, or some other, less inherent thing. She resents it a little - with music once again flowing from the graveyards, it feels like a waste of time to be stuck rescuing people from their own stupidity - but given everything Dogtown chooses to be, there's too much risk that anyone who spends too long inside the fence might come back as something else to shirk her responsibilities.

Veering a little off her path to catch up with Winter, however, doesn't count as shirking. She raises a hand in greeting as she lopes over, waiting until she's within normal conversational difference to say, "If you've come with orders to napalm the entire fucking forest, I might have to kiss you."

ii!

[lowficharm]

Martin remembers those plants, and when he hears whispering that they've been seen around lately, he can't help but go and take a look himself. He's sure someone has dealt with it- if anyone knew enough what they were they certainly knew enough to destroy them- but still, he finds himself walking past Things of Beauty and just taking a (maybe paranoid) peek around. It's one such time where he rounds the corner and ends up facing Winter, suddenly feeling like he's been caught, but when the initial surprise wears off he greets the other man with a smile.

"Hey! Hey, good to see you, sorry, I-- didn't expect to see anyone else here? I guess. Not that it's odd you are."