The Perk, Wednesday Noon

[weirderthanthou]

You ever wake up feeling like everything around you was coming apart, and yet you were fine? Jesse wouldn't be able to tell you why, exactly, but that feeling had settled in the pit of her stomach, drenching her in unease.

Town Hall just made it worse, so by the time the morning was almost done with, she decided to head out. Here, to the Perk, with her foot tapping impatiently against the floor as she waited for her coffee to show up.

"Seriously," she muttered.

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[shapethecentury]

"Well, if they start doing that..."

He shrugged.

"Call me, I guess?"

[weirderthanthou]

"Oh, are you going to menace them with your big broody scowl?" Jesse teased.

[shapethecentury]

"And unnatural strength," Bucky deadpanned.

What?

[weirderthanthou]

"I think you could probably cow the plants with just natural strength," Jesse said wryly.

[shapethecentury]

"I can't tell the difference anymore."

Mostly joking? But not really.

He took a sip. It turned out to be the last one.

[weirderthanthou]

"What is that like, anyway?" Jesse asked, looking at him. "It's one of the few of those I don't have."

[shapethecentury]

"Being freakishly strong?" Bucky replied, with a touch of something wry. He considered his empty cup, then set it down on the table. "Nowadays it's mostly just never having to worry about not being able to lift things."

He glanced over at where his left arm wasn't.

"Sort of."

[weirderthanthou]

"I'd say I need to remember that next time I need to carry a sofa up the stairs, but..."

Jesse wiggled her fingers.

[shapethecentury]

"I'd just get in the way," Bucky surmised, wryly but not without a little smile. (At her fingers. What of it?) "It's okay. I'll... try and make myself useful some other way."

[weirderthanthou]

"I think my apartment has enough furniture, anyway," Jesse admitted. "More might get in the way of the plants."

[shapethecentury]

"What, you don't wanna go back to the island with all the furniture in the world?"

It had a name, he remembered it, it was funnier to pretend like he didn't.

[weirderthanthou]

"I actually have stuff in my apartment," Jesse pointed out. "Unlike someone I know."

[shapethecentury]

"And do you need all of it?"

[weirderthanthou]

"You don't need to need all the stuff in your home," Jesse retorted, looking at him. "It just needs to make you happy."

[shapethecentury]

Bucky gave her a look back like he didn't know what she was talking about.

Sure, he was absolutely playing it up because this wasn't their first go-round with this conversation, but...

[weirderthanthou]

"You're impossible," Jesse told him.

She sounded way too amused to actually believe that.

[shapethecentury]

Bucky shrugged with his good shoulder.

"Well, you're not the first to say that, so it might be true."

[weirderthanthou]

"One of these days I'm going to sneak into your apartment and paint a wall a fun color and maybe put some knickknacks down," Jesse replied. "And you'll finally see the light."

[shapethecentury]

Oh, the deadpan was back. "Depends on the knickknacks."

No it didn't. Probably.

[weirderthanthou]

"I don't know, what kind of knickknacks do you like?"

[shapethecentury]

"I don't know," Bucky replied, his little shrug a little more thoughtful this time. "I told you what it was... before, right? Sort of... mementos."

Didn't work so great when a lot of your past was depressing Swiss cheese.

[weirderthanthou]

Jesse shrugged lightly. "Is there anything you like now?" she said. "It doesn't have to be 'like, like'. But I know you like some of the movies you play at the theater..."

[shapethecentury]

"Can't really put a movie on your mantle."

He did not have a mantle, and also he was still kind of wrong about that.

[weirderthanthou]

"I mean, we could get you a poster or a Blu-Ray..."

[shapethecentury]

Bucky looked sceptical. "A blue... ray?"

He had not been paying attention to the development of home media that much.

"Like a DVD?"

Much.