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I'm afraid that only works in L. Frank Baum stories.

[she gives a small smile]

Had to try.

It's always worth at least one.

You're trying to get home from Oz too?

No, I live in Kansas. I meant you should try most things at least once.

[she laughs] Yeah, guess that's true. I might try hot air ballooning.

Edited 2012-09-05 22:19 (UTC)

It's actually kind of fun. Barring a random tornado.

Does that happen often?

No, you generally need the right atmospheric conditions for one.

Edited 2012-09-06 17:34 (UTC)

Are you from Topeka?

Smallville, actually. Same state, just a bit smaller.

Is it a nice place to visit?

[grinning]

So does that make me the one in need of a brain?

[she rolls her eyes at that one] Don't know if it'll do much for you to get one if there is a wizard out there. [she grins either way]

Oh, well. I've managed just fine so far.

How are you, Steph?

[she pats the seat next to her and fumbles with the remote to put the movie on pause. Okay, it took her a few more seconds than necessary but she got it]

Got shown a stack of movies I've missed and trying to catch up on that. How about you?

[still amazed by all this, but impressed by your 'mastery' of it]

[lifts a shoulder, lets it drop] Anything good? I guess Judy Garland isn't really making 'em much any more.

I'm okay. After everything that we've been through, it's easier to take weird stuff like all this in stride. [indicating the scary TECHNOLOGY in the room]

She died in 1969.

[It goes unsaid, "like nearly everyone else we knew." Steph fiddles with the remote control a little bit]

Crazy, isn't it? Howard would just lose himself in all this or try to make it supposedly better.

[She mostly just wants to know how he's doing because it's been so long since she's seen him and she hugged him so tightly when they brought him in and now...]

1969-?

[deep breath, noting you fidgeting]

Yeah. I didn't spend near as much time with him as you did, but he would've loved all this. And it's all normal to these folk.

[I'm not sure I know how to talk to you about all this. I panicked when I woke up. It was easier when I saw you, but I'm worried about you...]

I'm not even sure they know how lucky they are to have all this. [she gives a small laugh and tucks her legs under her on the couch cushion.] Remember how we used to go and stand outside the department store becuase they got a new television set that was a whole twelve inches?

[She waves at the big movie-theatre like screen] Now they have this and the picture is so real, I'd swear we're there.

[She misses home, Bucky. It happens often but she doesn't show her teammates. Or SHIELD. But she sees you and she feels a little less homesick when she does]

[brightens, remembering] Yeah, it was magic. They have all this newfangled stuff here. I don't know if they really appreciate it.

...and now I sound like my father.

[I know you're tough, both physically and emotionally. But I can't help remembering my skinny little friend who needed me. I just want you to be all right.]

I wonder if they still light up Macy's for Christmas...

[She laughs at the comment about sounding like his father and teases him]

The day you turn into your old man, Barnes...gonna start chasing kids away with your cane?

[She bites her lip a little]

Come sit down, Bucky, I'm not gonna have an asthma attack because we're together again.

[She might just try and hug you to death again]

They better. Macy's is still around, right?

[covering my face for a moment] Aw, Steph! I was always so darn embarrassed when he did things like that. He chased off Timmy Eckhardt one time and he was only bringing my homework to me because I forgot it.

Eh? -oh, yeah. Sorry.

[sitting down gingerly next to you; I'm delighted to see you but everything's still so weird since I woke up]

[She automatically leans against him just like they did when they were younger and on their own, snorting at the mention of Timmy]

Bucky, you chased off Timmy when you thought he was getting fresh with me. Didn't need to be an old man to do that one.

[Weird but you're still Bucky and that's all she needs]

[and my arm goes around you automatically; you're not as small and slight compared to me as you were back then, but you're still you, and I need that, too]

[laughs] Kid could run pretty fast when he wanted to. He didn't have the right to pester you like that.