TEST DRIVE MEME #5

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

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[wipedclean]

[He doesn't remember it specifically, but he remembers... something. It feels like an echo of an echo, a soft, dream-like image.]

You needed it.

[His brow furrows as he remembers it, but he doesn't know if he can trust it, because he remembers... he remembers him smaller. And it doesn't make sense.]

You were... smaller.

[starspangled]

[Steve pauses at that, brows drawing together as he watches Bucky working it through.]

You remember that?

[And again he hears that warning, tread carefully. Bucky is powerful physically, but he doesn't know where all the fractures are just yet. It's the flip-side of decades ago, when a good gust of wind could blow steve over but he was strong in other ways.]

Or maybe you saw it at the museum.

[wipedclean]

[...he did see it at the museum, but this is different. It's not pictures, it's an actual sense of looking at Steve, but having to look down to do it. Of Steve being frail, but the strongest person he had ever known.]

I... remember...

[But it's still faint, not nearly as strong as it should be. Too easily lost.]

[starspangled]

[Steve watches him, and he sees it, the way Bucky's eyes lower sometimes. At first he thought he was avoiding eye contact with him for some reason. But they almost always lift again, and now Steve understands: he's looking for his eyes on the level they used to be at.]

You're right.

[He says it firmly, because Bucky's confidence is starting to waver and he doesn't want it to. He wants him to trust himself first, and maybe then he can trust him too.]

I was small and sick and you took care of me a lot. Sometimes I didn't have anything but you. And that's why I had to do it. I couldn't just let you go off to war without me, it wasn't right.

[wipedclean]

[He's right?

He's right.

He takes a deep breath and nods, and though he's not confident, he feels... better about believing the shadows.

He wishes there were more.

Maybe... if he stays with Steve, there will be more.]

You're not anymore.

[starspangled]

No, I'm not.

[And he's not sure how to explain it from there. Not because he doesn't think he'll understand; if anything, he's afraid that he'll understand too much.]

I volunteered for a special program. It made me taller.

[And stronger, and faster, and everything really.]

[wipedclean]

[He nods again, because... that makes sense. It coincides with the exhibit. It talked about the serum...

The serum.

Remembering that makes him flinch. It makes him think of needles, and treatments and all the pain that comes with it.]