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[lavieanomaly]

Not all the way, but I think I hit the parts you're thinking of. Even talked to Iron Man a little.

[ Peggy and James Barnes. Truth be told, that second name is off, but the 'Bucky' part is familiar enough. ]

I didn't know, you know. About some of the stuff in mine. I would have mentioned it.

[fossils]

Hope he was on his best behavior.

It's okay. I hadn't gotten to talking to them beforehand, about you. Had some problems after we got back from Lusania.

Agent Carter will be glad to meet you.

[ does he mention they are together ???

also probably not important right now ]

[lavieanomaly]

Problems?

[ She notices he only mentions one of the two and almost writes 'no one likes meeting their upgrade.' Honest to god has it typed out, but deletes it before sending. Joking was all well and good, but maybe she could wait until after a few months of getting to know this version of Steve. ]

I figure I'd wait for introductions. Texting isn't really how I like to make a first impression.

[ Because she'd been raised better than that. By a version of the woman she was talking about meeting.

God, life was weird.]

[fossils]

Ongoing thing. Might be easier to explain when you're down here.

[ Not very subtle, but he still doesn't have any answers for what happened at camp that night. ]

Might be for the best. I can give her a heads up if you want.

[ He doesn't know if Peggy's even gotten a chance to look through files yet. ]

[lavieanomaly]

I don't want to put anything on you with all this. But, honest, I'll take all the awkwardness reduction I can get.

If you do it, just tell them there's no expectations or anything, okay? I know this is beyond weird and there's enough problems in this place as is.

1/2

[fossils]

Was I really that bad when we met?

OK. Not much ruffles Agent Carter though, she'll be fine.

2/2

[fossils]

[ slight pause ]

But I'm going to have to ask that you don't immediately approach Barnes. Maybe not for a while.

More for his sake.

[lavieanomaly]

[ If only she knew Black Widow had given her essentially the same advice on her meeting Bucky. Too bad no one ever mentions reasons behind things to Rikki. ]

You did kinda ace taking the mid-battle PDA in stride. But you're different in so, so many ways than meeting AU grandma.

And, sure. I can do that. Probably for the best, anyway. But you know we're on the same team. I don't know how often those get thrown into close quarters together.

[fossils]

Right. Pretty different. Sorry.

[ The other one - ]

Not sure either. I'll talk to your team leader.

Really would like you to meet him. Barnes. Just not sure how he would react right now. He's been through a lot. Being here hasn't helped.

[lavieanomaly]

I am something of a big kid. I can handle the team talk stuff, don't sweat it.

[ Based on every single thing she has heard about dagger, requesting something not to happen seemed like a good way to make it so. ]

It's only we're going to at least see each other at some point.

And is that really what he's going by?

[fossils]

Didn't mean it like that. Just be careful with Dagger.

Going by Barnes? I guess. Why?

[ He calls him Bucky, just very rarely around other people. ]

[lavieanomaly]

I know, just have to establish some ground rules. I promise I've moved past the sidekick gig.

And it's just going to take some getting used to. Like imagine I kept calling some other guy Rogers to you.

[fossils]

I'll steer clear of the 's' word. But I've been here a few months longer. So if I can help, just ask.

I'd call him Jimmy but he'd really hate that.

[ if he remembered he hated that :( ]

What do you prefer to go by?

[lavieanomaly]

Hey, there's nothing wrong with being a sidekick. But we're in the wrong the dimension for it.

Just Rikki's fine. Not much point trying to get Nomad to stick with these files going around.

[ And, you know, no one here knowing the history of the name. ]