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Do you know who I am?

[ Bucky has thought about it, and then thought about it, and decided there's really no way to not make this weird. ]

santa claus? you're a little early, bud.

[ Yeah okay this was probably a bad idea. But so what? He's full of them. ]

Red isn't really my color.

I'm a friend of Steve's.

that doesn't really narrow it down. everyone likes Steve.

[ Not that everyone is a friend, but Steve has branched out a lot compared to when they were kids and all he can get from that comment is that it isn't Natasha. He's ruled out Iron Man because he's still alive, so Tony Stark is still sleeping. ]

Sorry. I don't mean to play twenty questions.

My name is James Buchanan Barnes. I thought you might have heard of me.

little bit, yeah.

[ He lets that hang for a moment before he sends anything else. ]

you're from the same place Natasha is?

Technically I'm from Indiana.

[ He squints down at the phone. A version of him that isn't from Brooklyn? It's got to be some sort of cosmic joke. ]

of course you are, but the important question is do you also have a wooden peg leg or is that just me?

Is this how my jokes sound to other people?

[ Probably, yes. ]

what about the eye patch? don't leave me in suspense.

[ At least someone thinks this is funny. Granted, he wouldn't be laughing if he hadn't met Natasha first. That had softened the blow. ]

Only missing the one limb.

missing or metal? serious question.

[ Not that it likely seems serious after he just tried to pretend to be a cartoon pirate, but that's fine. ]

I wear a prosthetic, yeah

this is really weird, right?

[ He just wants to check in on that. Then he'll go back to covering with humor.

It's one thing to accept that there's another Natasha or even another Steve who isn't here and who he doesn't have to meet in person, but this? This is some wacky funhouse mirror shit. ]

I don't think I know what that word means anymore

have you met other Buckys before? this has to be a new level, right? do we look the same?

Yes. [ More than once, and in a couple different circumstances. ]

And I'm not the best judge of that I don't think

I'm also not taking a selfie

then I'm going to assume that I'm the hotter twin

how many of us are there? do we all have metal arms? are we all vampires?

[ An innocent test. ]

Probably not.

And I'll explain all about Baron Blood and how I became a vampire, but not on this.

[ Or well, his actual life story. He's enough of a paranoid SHIELD vet to not trust public networks. Or private ones, either.

Be glad Bucky hasn't ever encountered the actual canon universe where he is both a vampire and a monkey. ]

where are we meeting up, then? does it have to be at night? I'll avoid Italian food, right?

Sunscreen works.

You live with Steve, right?

[ He'd say he's not a creepy stalker but that would be lying. ]

I'm guessing you already know the answer and you're just asking me so you seem like less of a creep. come on over.

[ Because that's 100% exactly what Bucky would do and he now sees that it's not a very successful tactic if that was the goal. ]

I was thinking of the place across the street.

Edited 2018-10-31 03:13 (UTC)

that works, too. ten minutes?

[ He's just going to assume other Bucky is already in the area. ]

[ He's not, exactly. He didn't know how his "meet up" suggestion would play. ]

<span style="font: 1.05em Courier, monospace;>Give me an hour?</span>

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(sorry just getting back from hiatus)

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