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worthallthis ([personal profile] worthallthis) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2021-05-26 07:21 pm

Taking Some Me-Time [Open Catch-All]

Who: Bucky Barnes AKA Soldat, and OPEN
Where: Each prompt will have a car listed
When: Kazoo 13 and 14
What: The Bottomless Pit has something to say about self-care, and Soldat comes back
Warnings: Amiable disassociation, possible discussion of trauma


I. A First Time For Everything - Kitchen Car, Kazoo 13

This is ridiculous. The Bottomless Pit (that is not their name, but they don't know their name anymore, so they have accepted it for now) is not having any more of this "not sleeping" and "not eating" and "not taking care of the body" thing that is happening. The Sergeant slipped away during the morning unconscious time, and the Asset is close but not interested in shooting anything, and the actual host is still hiding and it is entirely unacceptable.

So the Bottomless Pit is using the body. The Bottomless Pit is in the kitchen car piling a plate high with as much food (and some not food) that they can scrounge up, and the Bottomless Pit is going to eat it all.

Anyone walking in early this morning will find Soldat muttering to themselves under their breath, only it's not English or Russian like usual, but some kind of sing-song, tonal, almost grammarless language. "No caring, no eating, no comfort, no nothing," they say to themselves. "All idiots. All stupid. Too much thinking. No, angry one, I want that--" A pause. "--well, if angry one is certain. Not wanting to hurt the body."

They put the plastic ceran wrap away. They won't eat it. Fine.


II. Taking It For Themselves - Spa car, Kazoo 13

The plate is taken from the kitchen to the spa car. And they wait outside until they're certain it's empty.

Then they go inside, close and lock and barricade both doors, and finally strip down to drop themselves into the hottest of the tiered pools with a happy sigh. The Bottomless Pit is finally warm and comfortable and is going to just sit and eat in peace.

Anyone trying to get from the sleepers to the armory and beyond, or going the other direction for that matter, will have to bang on the door for a while, shove the heavy shelving and massage tables blocking the doors away, or teleport through. The Bottomless Pit will not help. The Bottomless Pit will yell in the host's stupid human voice, "Go away! We are having a bath!"


III. Waking Up Again - Kazoo 13, Sleeper car Lower 2:A, closed to roommates

The Bottomless Pit sent the body to bed after the bath, and they actually slept, and now... Soldat wakes up. This is why no one else had wanted to sleep. They stay in bed for a good chunk of the day, which is stupid, and means if one of their roommates comes in, they'll find them bundled under their bearskin blanket, awake but not wanting to move.

"Hi," they say wearily. "Sorry. I'll get up." They do not get up, at least not until evening, at which point they trudge into the kitchen for some dinner and then sit in the standard car listening to people, or music, or both.


IV. Back To Normal (?) - Wildcard me, all over, Kazoo 14

The next day Soldat makes themselves get back to work. They have meals to cook and prep, people to teach the basics of falling and fighting, people who probably worried about them. So it's back into their standard routine they go, from patrol to kitchen to afternoon nap to kitchen to training car to patrol. And squeezed in between, they seek out a handful of people to talk to.

The Asset needs apologized for. Some people probably need reassurance that they're okay after their day of being very much not themselves. A couple people need a proper explanation of what happened in the maze.

They can't seem to find Steve, though, which is... weird....
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[personal profile] oceantier 2021-06-27 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
A nod. She would willingly ask other questions, learn more, but again, the Pit does not seem keen on providing, focused on the goal of awakening Soldat. She'll have to wait.

She can't say she likes waiting. She likes certainty, not time spinning out into space without out any clear boundaries.

But she certainly knows how to do it.

She asks one last question, though, that seems important: "What would I call you, if I saw you again?"