[ just two days ago, bucky came under jack's command, and he spent those two days trying to get some small measure of trust working between them again. trying to convince bucky that he wouldn't hurt him, that he'd be putting every effort towards protecting him, even, and now this?
of everyone on the crew, bucky? what are the fucking odds?
it's almost impossible to believe, and he calls instead, needing to actually hear it. ]
[It's jarring to him, too, the thought that after everything, this is what ended Bucky's life, and this time there was a body to count. It's not like he fell from a train and disappeared, Tony helped carry him out of the wreckage.]
CALLING: STARK, ANTHONY
I don't know the details. [There's a barb of irritation in this sentence, mostly at his own ignorance and sense of powerlessness.] Steve got there before me. He said he died trying to protect Arya.
d100
Bucky is dead.
1/???
What?
no subject
of everyone on the crew, bucky? what are the fucking odds?
it's almost impossible to believe, and he calls instead, needing to actually hear it. ]
done
What the hell do you mean, dead? Barnes? [ how the fuck does someone like him, who's survived so much, be the one to die first? out of all of them? ]
How?
no subject
CALLING: STARK, ANTHONY
I don't know the details. [There's a barb of irritation in this sentence, mostly at his own ignorance and sense of powerlessness.] Steve got there before me. He said he died trying to protect Arya.