[Yeah, sure, but knowing him and getting anything through that skull of his aren't one and the same. Bucky's seen it. Like flirting with a brick wall, if walls could flush that way.]
And I'm not complaining about that at all. He told you to get in touch?
[Now, maybe he wasn't so much for school as he was the things that went on under the bleachers when classes cut out. And maybe he was never set for higher places the way Steve should have been, with his reading and his art. But he's not dumb and he's already put together a few things from all the girls that ran to help Steve with his little distress call.
Like the people Melinda May called his allies (in 2014, a place Bucky's still damn sure he won't get to see - but that's all right, it was always Steve who was cut out for more)]
Then what can I help you with, Agent Romanoff?
[Yeah, it's a guess. But she doesn't sound so much like a Thor.]
Natasha smiles, even though the function is set on voice. It's audible though, in the little exhale of her laugh, the way she makes a little noise of consideration before replying.
I've given girls candy before, you're the first who's checked if they need to pay. The future sure must be something.
[And if this were someplace familiar maybe he'd take payment in a turn around the floor. But so far as he knows, everyone's displaced here and no one's much in the mood for dancing (which is funny, because when the bombs were falling you took the good times you could get)]
How about a little of your time. You got questions, you can ask them then.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
CALL_
no subject
Navy wasn't for me. Before this tin can, everything I was interested in you'd find stationed on land.
no subject
You're Steve's friend.
[ Notably: not a question. ]
no subject
That's right. And you and I need to have met before I can put in a good word.
no subject
I know Rogers already. I'm talking to you, aren't I?
no subject
And I'm not complaining about that at all. He told you to get in touch?
[Has he finally learned what a wingman is.]
no subject
[ And maybe Steve never actually said those words but it's not like that should surprise anybody, right?
To clarify: ]
About you.
no subject
Like the people Melinda May called his allies (in 2014, a place Bucky's still damn sure he won't get to see - but that's all right, it was always Steve who was cut out for more)]
Then what can I help you with, Agent Romanoff?
[Yeah, it's a guess. But she doesn't sound so much like a Thor.]
no subject
Natasha smiles, even though the function is set on voice. It's audible though, in the little exhale of her laugh, the way she makes a little noise of consideration before replying.
Still, a correction: ]
Natasha.
no subject
Hey, Natasha.
no subject
[ To Arima, she means. ]
no subject
[That's what he's been told this boat used to be, anyway.]
Besides that, well. I'm a fan of shore leave. You didn't go?
no subject
[ Or that's her story. A beat, then: ]
Bring me anything?
no subject
[No hesitation, he just settles into the game.]
Do you?
no subject
[ What, like she's going to give you clues? ]
no subject
no subject
no subject
[And if this were someplace familiar maybe he'd take payment in a turn around the floor. But so far as he knows, everyone's displaced here and no one's much in the mood for dancing (which is funny, because when the bombs were falling you took the good times you could get)]
How about a little of your time. You got questions, you can ask them then.
no subject
[ Literally. Natasha hums again, the sound kind of hard to discern in its point. ]
Sure.
[ A tsk. ]
But if you had played your cards right, you could have gotten that for free.
no subject
But would I have got a smile?
no subject
Come find out.
no subject
Just tell me where.
no subject
no subject
no subject
Meet me there in ten.
no subject