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comment_ficWell, it's now Saturday, so time for the free for all. Here are the rules:
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Have fun, y'all!
+ No more than five prompts in a row
+ No more than three prompts per fandom
+ If one or more of your prompts is filled today, then you may prompt again
+ No spoilers within prompts until a week after the airdate/release
+ Warn for spoilers in bold and leave at least three spaces before the text
Have fun, y'all!
1/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-18 04:00 am (UTC)...
When Steve Rogers arrives in Gotham, everyone knows.
It is only surprising, Jimmy thinks, that it took him so long. They’ve been in Gotham for seven months, and were together on the road, burning down Hydra, for five months before that. It’s been a year and a half – he thinks – since the asset left Captain America on the riverbank. He’s been Jimmy for a year and a half.
Jason asks, “What are you going to do?”
Jimmy says, “I don’t know.”
.
Bruce Wayne, of course, makes a grand spectacle of meeting Captain America, even though Captain America is dressed as Steve Rogers and isn’t carrying the shield. Wayne takes Steve on a tour of Gotham’s most-hoity toity place; Jimmy knows that Steve must be hating it.
But all the pictures show Steve’s wide, gorgeous smile – his USO smile. Bucky Barnes hated that smile. Jimmy has no opinion either way.
But --
“He’s here for you,” Jason says. He looks solemn. A little sad. “Are you gonna let him see you?”
Jimmy finally nods. If nothing else, it might lay Bucky Barnes to rest.
.
Steve graciously declined Wayne’s offer of his mansion to stay in while he was in Gotham; Jimmy knows that they were both secretly relieved. (Of course, if Natalia is supplying Steve with intel, he probably already knows that Wayne is Batman.)
If Steve could’ve gotten away with it, he’d gone to some rat-trap motel but his face is famous all over the world. So instead he chose the fifth-ritziest hotel in town and quietly slammed anyone who tried to convince him to go somewhere better.
It doesn’t matter where he stays; Jimmy can get in no problem.
It helps, of course, that Steve wants him to.
.
Jimmy knows what Jason fears. But he watches Steve watch him and he knows that the fear is unnecessary.
“Bucky,” Steve says.
Shaking his head, Jimmy says, “Bucky Barnes is dead. I’m Jimmy.”
Steve nods. “Jimmy, then,” he says. “I hope – I just.” He chews at his lip, scratching the back of his head. “I had all these things I was gonna say. I miss you. I hope you’re happy. I’m so glad you’re alive but I hate how.”
There are tears in his eyes. He says again, “I miss you.”
Bucky Barnes would pull him in close and hold him. Kiss his face. Take him to bed and never let go.
“I cannot be the man you remember,” Jimmy tells him as gently as he can. “But – ”
Steve’s face crumples but he nods again.
And Jimmy – Jimmy steps forward to place the real hand on his shoulder and squeeze, just a little. “Let me finish, punk,” he says softly. “I’m never gonna be that man again. But I can still be your friend.”
“I’d, I’d like that,” Steve says through the tears.
Jimmy pulls him in close with a muttered, “C’mere.”
.
They spend all night talking – about the movies they’ve caught up on, about the best ways to blow Hydra to hell and back, about Steve’s new team and Jason.
“Can I meet him?” Steve asks.
Jimmy says, “I’ll ask him when I head back.” He knows that Jason wants to meet Captain America – it’d fulfill one of his childhood dreams. But to meet Steve Rogers…
They don’t talk about what Jimmy and Jason are doing in Gotham. Steve just says, “Be careful.”
Jimmy nods. He then recites a phone number and says, “Call me around lunchtime; I’ll let you know if Jason wants to get together.”
“Alright, Jimmy,” Steve says. “It… it was so good to meet you.”
Jimmy smiles at him. “You, too, Steve.”
.
“How’d it go?” Jason asks without looking up from his tablet.
“Steve’s a good friend,” Jimmy says, sliding the tablet out of Jason’s hand. “And that’s all he’ll be.” Jason lets out a small sigh of relief and Jimmy tilts his chin up with the not-hand. “He’d like to meet you.”
Jason surges up, kissing him fiercely, and it’s a long time before he pulls back far enough to say, “Meet Captain America? Fuck yeah.”
.
2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-18 04:02 am (UTC)“Um,” Steve says. “Anything’s good, honestly.”
“Okay,” Jimmy says. “Me and Jason’ll be there in an hour with pizza.”
“Oh, good,” Steve says, sounding relieved.
Jimmy laughs. “He used to hero-worship you,” Jimmy tells him. “Before Batman.”
Steve chuckles. “That is just so weird. I don’t – you remember King Arthur? Sometimes, I feel like that’s how people see me. I’ll never get used to it.”
“Oh, Stevie,” Jimmy murmurs fondly. “You really are the best guy, aren’t you?”
He hears Steve’s breath catch but Steve only says, “Can one of the pizzas have pineapple?”
“Sure,” Jimmy says. “See you soon.”
.
They show up with seven pizzas and it is still barely enough. Jason asks Steve about superheroing (especially that incident in New York) and Steve, bemused, answers far more honestly than he did when journalists asked the same questions.
In-between Jason’s endless barrage, Steve slips in a heartfelt, “Thank you, Jason.” Jason just blinks at him. Steve smiles his sincere smile, the one Bucky Barnes fell in love with when they were boys in Brooklyn.
Jason shrugs. “It was fun,” is all he says.
“You should both know,” Steve says seriously, even setting down his last piece of pizza, “that if you need my help with anything, you can call me. No matter what.”
“That could be dangerous,” Jimmy says. “Haven’t you heard? We ain’t exactly saints.”
Steve looks him right in the eye. “I don’t care.”
Jimmy nods. “Thank you, Steve.”
Jason looks from Steve to Jimmy. “Okay!” he says after a long moment of silence. “Favorite Jedi: go.”
Steve smiles, glancing away from Jimmy. “I liked Yoda, myself. But I think Chewbacca should’ve been a Jedi.”
“You will find no argument from me there,” Jason tells him. “Jimmy?”
“Mara Jade,” he says.
Steve frowns. “She wasn’t in the movies. Was she?”
Jimmy shook his head. “Jason told me about her; I just started the books with her a couple weeks ago.”
“I’ll research her,” Steve says, pulling out a little book and jotting something down.
Jason laughs. “The two’a are adorable.”
“And who’s your favorite?” Steve asks, closing the notebook and slipping it back into his pocket.
“Qui-Gon Jinn, for sure,” Jason says.
From there, the conversation meanders all over the place; Steve and Jason have quite a lot in common, and Jimmy is just… happy. He can see how Bucky Barnes fell in love and part of him wants to ask Steve to stay, help them complete the mission.
But Steve has a life and he would never be happy living as a crime lord. He would stay, if Jimmy asked. For that reason, Jimmy won’t.
.
Steve Rogers spends a week in Gotham. The gossip sites have numerous reasons why.
Every night, Jimmy (with or without Jason) visits him. They don’t talk about their boyhood in Brooklyn or the war, or Hydra and their respective crusades against it.
Instead, they talk of the future. Jimmy tells him the plan in full; Steve shows him the final choices in his apartment hunt since he wants to move out of Stark’s opulent tower.
On his last night in Gotham, Steve grabs Jimmy’s hand on his way towards the door, and when Jimmy looks at him, Steve says, “I meant it. No matter what. I’m your friend, Jimmy. And I will help you with anything.”
“You too, Steve,” he replies. “No matter what.”
Steve’s smile is wobbly and there are tears in his eyes. He opens his hand, slowly pulls away.
Jimmy says, “Steve. I’m glad… I’m glad we’re both here. Now.”
Steve nods. “Me, too.”
.
Steve Rogers leaves Gotham after a lavish lunch with Bruce Wayne and every eligible woman in 50 miles. Jimmy watches the footage and laughs. “Aw, Stevie, don’t look so miserable!” he tells the screen.
Jason drapes himself along Jimmy’s back. “He does look really fuckin’ miserable,” Jason says. “God, I always hated Brucie. He’s such a clueless dick.”
When the program ends, Jason says, “Billy Hue and Lynx called. They want to meet.”
“Why?” Jimmy asks, standing up and stretching.
“They found something in King Snake’s files,” Jason tells him. “I’ve set up the meet for tonight.”
Re: 2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-18 10:55 pm (UTC)Re: 2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-19 03:38 am (UTC)You're welcome!
Re: 2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-18 11:55 pm (UTC)also, yeah, of course Nat gave Steve intel about Bruce. :>
Re: 2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-19 03:41 am (UTC)Thank you so much for reading!
Re: 2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-22 01:31 am (UTC)Re: 2/2: DCU animated/Marvel movies, Red Hood/Winter Soldier, PG
Date: 2014-09-22 07:41 pm (UTC)Steve really is a good guy. *sigh*
Thanks for reading!