I. Snowfall? - Rock Garden, night before the platform
Before bedtime every night, Soldat makes a patrol up and down the length of the train. Some nights it's more lazy than others, sure, but it's still done. It makes them feel safer, and also more like they're doing something to help protect the rest of the train's passengers. Even if it's not really necessary.
Tonight they're standing in the rock garden looking in bafflement at the snow falling from the train car ceiling. "Well. That's pretty weird."
II. Familiar Ingredients - Storage and Kitchen Cars
"Oh my god." Soldat has a can of the bully beef open in their hand with a stunned expression on their face.
Because at the sight of the can they knew, they knew this was something they knew. Because pulling the top open the smell sent them spiralling back to Brooklyn in the 1920s-- in a good way, for once. "This is amazing."
Then they can be found happily making soup in the kitchen car for a solid chunk of the afternoon, munching on gingerbread from the train's gift to the team and on trail mix, chopping onions and garlic to add to the simmering pot and humming 40s jazz to themselves.
III. Snow time - Rock Garden
Soldat remembers winter in Beacon more than winter in Brooklyn or the Western Front. They remember watching Misty and Sora have their snowball fight, but being too afraid to join in, lest they fall back on more violent habits. They remember trudging through the cold with warming rubies in their pocket. They remember hot chocolate and huddling under blankets by the bonfire. They remember the dumb things the spirits used to do for the new year.
They don't make anything out of the snow or pelt anyone with it unless, but they do glide around on the pond in a warm coat and scarf, swapping their combat boots for the train's provided winter shoes just this once, since combat boots don't slide very well.
IV. New Year's Traditions - Kitchen Car
The spirits in Beacon did, indeed, have a lot of strange new year's traditions. But with the snow and the last train's stop bringing in their own new year and the bully beef reminding them of home, Soldat's thinking about them.
So at the end of the day, when dinner's done and being cleaned up, they take one plate, old and already battered and not likely to be missed, and break it noisily in the kitchen sink. "Happy New Year," they say into the startled silence afterwards. Then, slightly sheepish: "I'll clean that up."
Bucky/Soldat | MCU | Purple team | OTA
Before bedtime every night, Soldat makes a patrol up and down the length of the train. Some nights it's more lazy than others, sure, but it's still done. It makes them feel safer, and also more like they're doing something to help protect the rest of the train's passengers. Even if it's not really necessary.
Tonight they're standing in the rock garden looking in bafflement at the snow falling from the train car ceiling. "Well. That's pretty weird."
II. Familiar Ingredients - Storage and Kitchen Cars
"Oh my god." Soldat has a can of the bully beef open in their hand with a stunned expression on their face.
Because at the sight of the can they knew, they knew this was something they knew. Because pulling the top open the smell sent them spiralling back to Brooklyn in the 1920s-- in a good way, for once. "This is amazing."
Then they can be found happily making soup in the kitchen car for a solid chunk of the afternoon, munching on gingerbread from the train's gift to the team and on trail mix, chopping onions and garlic to add to the simmering pot and humming 40s jazz to themselves.
III. Snow time - Rock Garden
Soldat remembers winter in Beacon more than winter in Brooklyn or the Western Front. They remember watching Misty and Sora have their snowball fight, but being too afraid to join in, lest they fall back on more violent habits. They remember trudging through the cold with warming rubies in their pocket. They remember hot chocolate and huddling under blankets by the bonfire. They remember the dumb things the spirits used to do for the new year.
They don't make anything out of the snow or pelt anyone with it unless, but they do glide around on the pond in a warm coat and scarf, swapping their combat boots for the train's provided winter shoes just this once, since combat boots don't slide very well.
IV. New Year's Traditions - Kitchen Car
The spirits in Beacon did, indeed, have a lot of strange new year's traditions. But with the snow and the last train's stop bringing in their own new year and the bully beef reminding them of home, Soldat's thinking about them.
So at the end of the day, when dinner's done and being cleaned up, they take one plate, old and already battered and not likely to be missed, and break it noisily in the kitchen sink. "Happy New Year," they say into the startled silence afterwards. Then, slightly sheepish: "I'll clean that up."