fandomtownies | Caritas; Wednesday [08/14].

You know, Summer had long ago come to terms with the fact that she was, technically speaking, standard issue human with no special abilities or powers or unique supernatural skills or magic or anything like that. She made up for it, clearly, with her sharp wit and undeniable charm and being able to punch and shoot things really, really well. And she was okay with that. She'd accepted her basic ass bitchness.

But, by god, what she wouldn't give right now for some sort of ability to spontaneously make a keg explode or have a zombie have an emergency or even just sort of phase through stuff like Kitty, because Summer had (admittedly, very stupidly) agreed to let Tino show her some of his pictures from visiting roadside attractions on the island's little excursion last week.

And there were so, so many of them.

He said there were only a few!

That was on her for believing him, but you'd better believe she was desperately sending eyes to the door and willing people to come in so she had a reason to finally break away from a million shots of Tino posing to make it look like he was holding up the World's Biggest Ball of Twine on his shoulders like he was Atlas or something.

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"....wait a second," Summer realized, quite a bit later, "who even took those pictures, though??"

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Now here was a very rare sight. Bucky was trying to expand his 'doing normal person things' repertoire from just going to the Perk all the time. He also almost turned away at the door, but managed to soldier on (no pun intended) all the way to the bar.

But he reserved the right to walk out the second he started feeling like it again.

"Hi. A beer, please."

Well, that was...definitely a right that everyone had!

"Hi!" said Summer, at first only really getting a vaguely familiar vibe from this guy that made her pull back slightly on the whole full-force introduction thing, and she tilted her head as she tried to place exactly where that feeling was coming from.

Wait, wasn't this--

"And sure! Anything specific? Or just something...." Hold for vaguely significant pause, "generic?"

And yet still a right Bucky had not had for the majority of the last century. Fancy that.

"Generic's fine," he said. If he noticed any pauses, he may have been chalking them up to what usually caused them lately: the missing left arm.

Well, when it came to leaving Caritas after coming in, anyway. Not...oh, never mind.

Summer nodded, feeling like that answer didn't quite give her the confirmation she would have hoped for, but it was still something, and she did always have generic beer on hand, so it was easy enough to get one for him, and then maybe venture a little more on her suspicion.

"So I don't think I've seen your face in here much," she noted. "You usually come in on a different night, or...?"

Bucky gave a vague little head shake. "Been away for a couple of years."

Not that he'd been any kind of a regular before that either, but that was beside the point.

"...normal years?" Summer asked. "Or, like, that weird thing that happens to some people where they're gone for a lot of years back wherever they were but not nearly as many years have passed by here?"

What? Like, how many people did she know come back old? She literally couldn't count them all on just one hand.

"Normal years," Bucky replied, although even he had to qualify that with, "in that sense."

He had not had an otherwise normal year since before the war.

"Well," said Summer optimistically, "there's at least that, then! I've never had to deal with one personally, but I know those time disparities can really mess with some people's heads. But, uh, hey, welcome back! Is it, uh, a good return? Or one of those kind of...awkward and tenuous ones?"

"It's... just a return," Bucky said, with a lopsided shrug. (Lopsided by necessity, because the left shoulder was fucked.) "Might be too soon to tell."

No, it had definitely been a little awkward so far.

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