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[laviny]

пожалуйста.

[You're welcome. She wasn’t just going to leave him like that, she understands what the loss of autonomy does to a person. If she could have snapped him out of it, she would have.]

How are you now?

[starer]

Same as always.

[Which is about all he can say, these days.]

Feeling any better?

[laviny]

So…sad, worried and kind of lonely?

[No offense to Bucky, but that seems to have been his mood in general the last few months, since Sam went to sleep.]

I am definitely less hungry than I was on the mission, at least.

[starer]

I'm not lonely.

[Though he isn't commenting on the rest of her assumptions. She deserves better than a lie.]

Do you regret it? What we did on the last mission.

[laviny]

[She's not sure she entirely believes him about that, but she also won't argue.]

I will be honest with you, I haven't really processed it yet, I think. I was sent on a little detour home after it ended. It's been a lot.

[starer]

You went home?

[Sure, it may not be fair to break out the twenty questions immediately. But-]

How long for? What's the last thing you remember now?

[laviny]

Christmas 2024.

Did you know there’s a broadway musical about Steve Rogers?

[starer]

Tell me you've got a recording of it on you.

[laviny]

I wasn't able to get one, but I was thinking about asking Viveca.

[starer]

You've got to wait till Sam wakes up. He'll kill us both if he misses it.

[laviny]

I was hoping to ask ahead of time so I could have it for him when he wakes up, though.

[starer]

Asking her's not a problem. We've just got to wait to watch it.

[laviny]

That is what I was planning. Yes.

But you do know a recording can be played more than once, right?

[starer]

I might be old, but I'm not an idiot.