Unnamed Legends/Avengers Verse

[strongerthanyouknow]

The Waverider isn't foreign to having the every now and again visitor, picked up in the middle of a mission. Dragged along for one. Dropping off, like so much chaff or a wayward puppy. The Avengers aren't exactly that, but at the end of the day The Avengers aren't Sara's concern. Her people are. Time is.

Cleaning house, and sweeping the people out, brings with it a sort of peace.
Another check in the books, that means they are at the end of the mission.

Means they can pretend for five or ten minutes, they're normal. Eat a damn meal all together, without everyone running off helter-skelter, guns at blazing. Means she can get some rest, in a bed really, really not made for three, but they've found ways to make it work, and there's nowhere else she'd be. Just a few more loose ends and mission notes to tie up. Then, a cursory glance over the timeline to see what and where Gideon thinks they should be headed next, and she'll be done with today.






[ For Bucky's Request To Come Aboard & Steve/Sara Conversations About This ]

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[strongerthanyouknow]

Somethings happen to you.
Things you don't get to choose.
Things to you have to deal with.



He's talking about Bucky, and even though Sara's expression remains a sympathetic neutral, she knows she doesn't fit his example and she knows it would do him no kindness to remind him of that. It doesn't change that she's probably the best person on this ship, in all Bucky's option, for someone with options for him to explore. A team that can stop him, or at least slow him down seriously, if he makes the wrong ones.

"If you promise him that, make sure you can back it up."

This is careful. Maybe even too careful, too close.
A kind of tether that shouldn't be left dangling in the black unless meant.
Unless you know what that promise can mean, can bring back from the black, too.

[noblecaptain]

Steve's shoulders seem to square and his face takes on a harder look. He glances up at Sara, his jaw set and his brow furrowing a little. He's not sure what she's implying with the words that she is saying. "I'll back it up," he states, his voice firm. "No matter what, end of the line, that's how I feel about him. He'd have to kill me to get rid of me."

He doesn't say that they've already tried and been there.

"He'll always have me. If he wants me."