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Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] onlyapassenger) wrote2013-07-04 03:40 pm

[for Various] Steve Rogers' Birthday

Memorial Day had passed by with little more than a couple of a beers and a five minute conversation, but Bucky'll be damned if he lets Steve's birthday go the same way. Even during the darkest days of the War, birthdays were always given the special treatment; hell, Toro once blew their cover making sure Bucky had a good one. The gruelling grind of the past couple of months is still fresh in body and mind, but in the simple preparation for the day's get-together, Bucky's found some semblance of peace.

He's not much of a party animal -- he's not even much of a planner -- but things fall into place easily enough. They set up in and around Steve's place, that nice bar of his getting some use for once. There are a couple of goats spinning on a spit outside, courtesy of Thor, and a more traditional grill manned by Bucky himself. Platters of cheeses and fruits and vegetables line a table covered in a red, white and blue tablecloth, and there's more than enough flag-themed birthday cake to go around (strawberries, blueberries, and whipped cream make up the familiar stars and stripes, doubling as both food and decoration). Music from Steve's youth plays in the background out of borrowed speakers, and in lieu of streamers, there's a banner that stretches over the front door of his house that reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD MAN.

It's not a lot, but it's something.

[Open to Marvels, significant others/close friends of Marvels, and any assorted friends of Steve. This post will be linked to the main community on July 4th. Slated post here. ST/LT welcome!]
learnfromthem: ([ya] listening)

[personal profile] learnfromthem 2013-06-23 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
"You're not used to this?"

I don't actually know if this guy likes me-me or not, but I think I can more or less say the same thing about the Tony Stark at home, too. Not that it really matters, I guess. It's a party and I'm just a little bit tipsy on a glass of punch that was more spiked than I thought it was going to be and parties mean mingling.

So I'm, like, mingling.
notaparker: ([pb] Soooooo about that)

[personal profile] notaparker 2013-06-23 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Man, how did you manage to get glasses?" I say, squinting at them. Which, although not entirely necessary, reinforces that maybe I should be looking into it for reading. Losing the superpowers seems to have had an impact, there, apparently without them my genes are coded for bad eyesight. Yay.
notawastedlife: (One slick mofo)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-23 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm at a flag-themed event and no one's trying to sell me on invading a small, oil-rich country?" Tony ventured. "That, for one. For starters."
notawastedlife: (Whaaaat)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-23 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I think I was more in favor of the whatever, I think... you could do with some whatever-ing in your life," Tony said, craning around to fix Peter with an appraising look as he tried to work out where this was coming from. "That's what I was saying."
notawastedlife: (Walked right into that one.)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-23 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. Lab rat who wasn't lab rat. Speaking of surreal...

"I'm not a hundred years old and from a black and white television series, so... no," Tony said.
notawastedlife: (Is that so?)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-23 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay, actually, though?" Tony said, as if they'd both been involved in the debate he'd been having with himself for several minutes until he'd turned around and found Steve there. "It is actually today? They didn't just make you pretend like it is?"
notaparker: ([pb] Soooooo about that)

[personal profile] notaparker 2013-06-23 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Future-me-that-I'll-never-be is on the Ultimates. I don't know what that's like. Not her, may never end up being her, I don't know how the timelines work. But presumably used to rubbing shoulders with said Ultimates (who are actually Avengers. Gotta admit I kind of like it better, it's got a better style, less blatant self-promotion). I should... also be used to that, or at least not be intimidated. They're just people. I've chatted with a bunch of them.

Still, though, kind of gravitating to the people my age who aren't crazy famous punchers of people from space.

(I could totally punch people from space. If I had a shot.)
daretodo: ([smm] Really think you're somethin'.)

[personal profile] daretodo 2013-06-23 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Apparently, Hulk's smashing Wanda," I say off his look, then promptly shake my head to get rid of the mental image. "Makes a guy reassess a few things."
notawastedlife: (You're dumb. I'm listening.)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-23 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Bruce?" Tony said, eyebrows going up. "And..." He twisted, trying to get a bead on Wanda, if she was present, to remind himself of what that consisted of. "That sly dog."
learnfromthem: ([ks] okay seriously?)

[personal profile] learnfromthem 2013-06-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay, but no way is this the weirdest party you've been to," I reply, stirring my drink with my straw before I take another sip. "Money and eccentricity go hand in hand."
notawastedlife: (Well... good.)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-23 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
"But it is possibly the most sincere party I've ever been to," Tony said, gesturing to the event at large with the hand holding his drink. "Which is weird. To me. It's new. And thus... weird."

Well, relatively new, he had been here a while, there was the occasional event like this. Still, though.
daretodo: ([smm] Frank.)

[personal profile] daretodo 2013-06-23 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Still shaking my head, I cough out a disbelieving laugh. It's just weird, you know? At least I'm beyond the stage of grief that makes me automatically bitter of anyone else's happiness, but... Weird.

"Heh. Yeah," I reply. "So anyway, that's a thing that's happening."
learnfromthem: ([ya] listening)

[personal profile] learnfromthem 2013-06-23 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I point at him with my straw.

"Okay, I'll give you sincere," I say, nodding. "That one's fair. Not a whole lot of sincerity among the rich and famous."

My eyes narrow a little at his drink. "Wait, does that have--?"

Foot in mouth, Kate, foot in mouth. I clear my throat.
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[personal profile] halfscarlet 2013-06-23 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"You've made a terrible mistake," Billy deadpans. He considers grabbing either the drink or the cake, but he steps up to Teddy and pushes the glasses back in place instead. And, while he's there, Billy plants a kiss on him.
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[personal profile] manwithoutfear 2013-06-23 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
With Ellen settled for the moment, I decide to pay my respects to the man of the hour.

"Dare I ask how old this makes you?"

wasafreak: (YA: happy and relieved)

[personal profile] wasafreak 2013-06-24 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Teddy grins, first at the Arrested Development speak and then at the kiss, leaning into it.

"My hero," he said, smiling and easing back.

"I hate glasses." This was not at all an uncommon phrase to hear from Teddy Altman. He wasn't so much aware of it anymore, it was just a go-to interjection, but he said it to Billy at least once a day.
wasafreak: (JH: serious and calm)

[personal profile] wasafreak 2013-06-24 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
"They're Ray Bans," Teddy says defensively, "I got them from the Powers That Island for Hanukkah."

His boyfriend iss Jewish and Teddy embraces that.

The glasses themselves were nice- thick, dark blue plastic frames with wood panels on the side, a very classic 50's Hawaii look, but that didn't mean Teddy didn't hate them.
wasafreak: (YA: :\)

[personal profile] wasafreak 2013-06-24 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
"It's still weird seeing through these things," Teddy sighs, flashing Kate a grateful, if rueful, half smile.

"You know it never even occurred to me, that my eyes might be shifting like that. Kinda freaks me out, to be honest, thinking about what else could have been fixing itself that isn't anymore."
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[personal profile] onlyforthedream 2013-06-24 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't dream of it," I reply, turning, and bite back a grin, shaking my head a little. I accept the bag with one hand, but hold it in both to turn it over a little, and let out a low whistle.

"Nice wrap job."
onlyforthedream: (a bullet in the barrel of your best guy')

[personal profile] onlyforthedream 2013-06-24 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
"It is actually today, yes," I answer, smiling a little and glancing over at Tony.

"If they'd released my identity to the public at the time, I'm sure the PR guys would have had a field day."
notaparker: ([pb] The feminine mystique.)

[personal profile] notaparker 2013-06-24 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Functional, stylish, and they don't encourage jumping off high cliffs," I say, nodding thoughtfully at them. "I think the Pee-Tee-Eye might like you more than me."

Powers That Island, I like it. Catchy.
notaparker: ([comics] Ta da?)

[personal profile] notaparker 2013-06-24 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Billy and Teddy's friend, right?" I say, having absently sidled closer to someone closer to my own age while casting the occasional sideways glance at the other attendee in purple.

He seems nice enough, honestly. A Hulk-variant once punched me into a floor and then I woke up here, is all. It's a thing.

"Also neighbor. Um, which I know because we are also neighbors, not because of stalking. Probably wasn't a concern until I said that."
notawastedlife: (Whaaaat)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-24 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you think he's the candles and Barry White type, or does he just... cut loose?" Tony said, now attempting to spot Bruce in the mix, as if this super-appropriate line of thought could be assessed just by looking at him. "I feel like it could go either way."
notawastedlife: (One slick mofo)

[personal profile] notawastedlife 2013-06-24 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
"A full body, with layers of salt and hints of peatiness? Sure does," Tony said, taking a sip and raising his eyebrows at her over the glass. New people got to ask about that even less than the usual kind. Even new old people. Maybe especially new old people.

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