[way backdated do not look at me, around the week that Billy disappeared]
There is a neat package left at the Soldier's door. It's a waxy leaf wrapped around a stack of comic books, all of them classic issues of Captain America featuring his plucky sidekick, Bucky Barnes! This Bucky can't be any older than 14, though, and is wearing a cute little costume and mask. They all must be quite old, the paper thin and limited colour printing imperfectly aligned, but are incredibly well preserved if so. Except for a note inside the front cover of the top comic, quickly written along the bottom of an ad for a burgeoning magician's first extraordinary magic kit, reading, Billy has stacks of these back home.
[time is completely fake anyway let's just live our best lives]
It's hard to know what to do with the package. Bring it inside certainly; the leaf wrapping is protective but not from serious weather. From there, unwrap it; no one would deliver something and expect it not to be opened.
It's complicated when he does though. Not for the comics; the Soldier is vaguely aware that propaganda material about Captain America existed. Not even for his own representation in it; what matter is fiction when he doesn't even remember the factual? No, it's the more that gives him most pause, the delivery of something Billy would presumably like. Or is it meant to be a memento?
No. He will not allow himself to think that way. Billy has not been gone for long.
A note therefore is attached to one of Tony's robots, when he runs across its path. Hopefully the folded paper will be delivered mostly intact. It reads, in painfully neat printing: I will inform you of his return when it happens.
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There is a neat package left at the Soldier's door. It's a waxy leaf wrapped around a stack of comic books, all of them classic issues of Captain America featuring his plucky sidekick, Bucky Barnes! This Bucky can't be any older than 14, though, and is wearing a cute little costume and mask. They all must be quite old, the paper thin and limited colour printing imperfectly aligned, but are incredibly well preserved if so. Except for a note inside the front cover of the top comic, quickly written along the bottom of an ad for a burgeoning magician's first extraordinary magic kit, reading, Billy has stacks of these back home.
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It's hard to know what to do with the package. Bring it inside certainly; the leaf wrapping is protective but not from serious weather. From there, unwrap it; no one would deliver something and expect it not to be opened.
It's complicated when he does though. Not for the comics; the Soldier is vaguely aware that propaganda material about Captain America existed. Not even for his own representation in it; what matter is fiction when he doesn't even remember the factual? No, it's the more that gives him most pause, the delivery of something Billy would presumably like. Or is it meant to be a memento?
No. He will not allow himself to think that way. Billy has not been gone for long.
A note therefore is attached to one of Tony's robots, when he runs across its path. Hopefully the folded paper will be delivered mostly intact. It reads, in painfully neat printing: I will inform you of his return when it happens.