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[starer]

Its been about four weeks. Though I guess I should say Earth weeks. Twenty-seven days since we started turning up. Two since it started happening again.

[Which begs the question, when does it stop? Seventy-two beds on this area of the station. Are they planning to keep going after that?]

Viveca is the name of the AI that spoke to us all then. Some of you may have spoken to her already. She went missing though, a couple of days after we arrived. There was a power cut, she said something about an emergency mode, and then she was gone.

We got a delivery right before that though. Clothes, toiletries, books, food. A bunch of stuff showed up and got split out.

That was when there were twenty-seven of us. Looks like we've about doubled since then. So if you new folks needs something, ask. There's probably someone here who can help.

Speaking of, we're stuck relying on those drops to get fresh food. So don't hog it. There's kids here who need it too.

[Edward]

A guy I know. He cooks up huge batches of food at a time. If you're hungry, check the fridge. Nine times out of ten, he's left something in there you can have.

[And if not, giving Sam a look will probably be more than enough to get him to make something new.]

You've also all probably noticed that you can't get in to the Northern Wing. Its been like that since we first got here, and we've got no idea what's on the other side. It's classified, apparently. Messing with whatever's on the other side would affect us all, so I wouldn't suggest trying to break through.

Don't know about you guys, but I don't plan on getting tossed out an airlock if I can help it.

[And that's it. No sign off. No goodbye. No anything. Sorry?]


[ooc: Feel free to threadjack as much as you like! Bucky's using this post as an information exchange.]

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[unclesam]

[ another delay. sam's tempted to ask if any of the sisters are still alive - if they had families. if bucky looked. if bucky wants to...

Instead: ]

you read to them?

[ 'cause The Hobbit, Sam knows that much, was published as a children's book, and Bucky was grown in 1937... it would explain something he'd tucked into the back corners of his mind about that tidbit. ]

[starer]

When they were younger, sure. I got replaced after I brought Steve home though.

[unclesam]

outcharmed by the white kid. that sounds familiar.

[starer]

Now, this might come as a surprise, and I really hate to be the one to break it to you. But I'm white too.

[unclesam]

you don't say. no but seriously, only in comparison to anyone whose skin ain't the color of stale sandwich bread. trust me. you're what we call spicy white.

[starer]

Spicy white.

[What]

[unclesam]

yeah. spicy white.

typically for white people from europe, but we make an exception or two for semi-cultured white boys like yourself.

you're welcome.

[starer]

I can't tell if that's a compliment or an insult.

[unclesam]

well, let me put it like this:

john walker's white
natasha and you are spicy white

[starer]

You also said Steve's white. So if you're putting him in the same bracket as Walker, I don't know how to feel about that.

[unclesam]

well yeah, hate to break it to you, but steve is the kinda white that walker is. lang, barton, banner, too.

honestly, before you started thinking about it for three more seconds, back in baltimore with the cops? you were acting that kinda white, too.

[starer]

[Oh. Okay, now he...sort of gets it. Right.]

In Steve's defense, a lot changed in 70 years.

[And, well, Bucky didn't exactly have a mind of his own for even longer than that]

[unclesam]

[ A lot changed - at least officially. And yet... ]

you don't gotta tell me
hey, don't worry. you know I don't actually lump steve into the same drawer as captain 'I'm gonna hail a black man with a police siren after dark', right?

[ there's a pause between messages here. sam thinks, deletes. thinks. deletes again. then: ]

everything that day put me on edge
I took as much of that out on you as you took some shit out on me

[starer]

Walker's in a class of his own.

We both said some things. It's in the past. So unless you've got something else you need to get off your chest, I'm good to leave it back there.

[unclesam]

actually, yeah.

I always wondered, did you hear what your doc and Walker said when you were released at the police station?

[starer]

When Walker talks, I try to tune it out.

This a conversation we need to have in person?

[unclesam]

yeah. not something I'd put on the network. not something big or dramatic, just... we never talked about it, figured we might as well.

[starer]

Then it can wait till tonight. I ain't in a rush to hear about anything that came out of that asshole's mouth.