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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

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[unclesam]

wakanda actually.

[ cue a bit of an internal crisis. are the things he's not saying as damning as the ones he is saying? perhaps.

how does he even begin to explain the mess of the present to her? ]

anyone can do it, it's you for sure. I've had redwing run perimeter checks, and I figure I could use both drones to scan for food sources outside the camp. making footage like that accessible would be convenient. I just don't wanna blast everything I ever get to everyone who can access the network, y'know? and I don't want anyone to get a backdoor into my shit, either.

[dissemblance]

（ she's used to reading between the lines.

even with their last stand in wakanda, she imagines the relationship that great nation and a man descended from the african diaspora are probably not going to be all warm and fuzzy, all the time, but she can see king t'challa reaching out like that.

thing is, though.

t'challa isn't an avenger. he's got his duties, his kingdom, his people. she has no doubt that he will always answer the call when the world has need of him, because he's like steve in that way. but sam said six months.

six months isn't long enough for any sort of real power shift to happen behind the scenes in the avengers. it's not long enough to have built up enough of an alliance with wakanda in a time they'll be looking after their own returned citizens for them to do have any real time or resources to do a favor for sam wilson, who had been there only briefly and had died on their soil.

so, those six months either put sam in wakanda directly and bought him credit and goodwill enough there that they gave him an upgrade, as a treat.

or barnes called in a favor from his time there.

or, something else happened, that made it necessary for one of the other genius engineers in the world to step into stark's shoes.

she hasn't asked yet, how it ended. she only knows it did end. who'd we lose? she can hear the echo in steve's voice. but she isn't going to put that on sam. ​ ）

Bragging rights. Shuri knows her stuff.

And I agree, it's logical. Necessary communications DM only for now.

[unclesam]

[ How 'bout we don't bullshit our friends?

But not saying something ain't the same as lying.

But goddamnit, it's Natasha, and he's not ashamed to admit that he cried his damn eyes out over the news of her the second he was alone to let that grief sink deep into him and grow roots he will feel for the rest of his life.

In his nightmares, Riley falls. But sometimes it's Natasha instead. He catches neither. And neither leaves behind anything to be laid to rest. ]

you know I'll tell you if you ask, just not here. it's all complicated.

[ And he won't tell her the things that Bucky doesn't even know about yet. Sam's just going to keep the doors a little more shut on a lot of those fresher hurts and aches. ]

[dissemblance]

I got the story from Barnes.

（ it's terse. not because of him sam — because she didn't want him to have to say it, was content to let it lay. but here he is, being honest and gentle and good in a way that makes her ache. he probably doesn't need any more of her crying into his shirt. ）

Don't worry about it. I appreciate it.

[unclesam]

shit
tasha I'm sorry

[ And he is, because all offense to Bucky, that's a shitty way to find out. And he still wishes he'd have carried that burden. And it's just not great news to receive. ]

you know better than to tell me not to worry about you. only just got you back.

[dissemblance]

It's fine, Sam. I knew what I was doing.

I'm not going to say not to worry, but I am going to insist you give me a little credit. I'm a big girl. 😘

[unclesam]

it's really not.

hey I know. without you I'd still be on the raft. Steve is strong and I'm pretty, but we all know you run the show.

[dissemblance]

I never kiss and tell. 😘😘😘

WOW the spelling

[unclesam]

you could whisper your secrets to redwing. he doesn't talk so he can't gossip.

[dissemblance]

I'm about 90 percent sure Redwing got tagged by the Gov't at some point in the last few years, so that's gonna be a no from me.

Thanks, though.

（ she does mean that genuinely. it's nice to know he's there, that he cares, and that he'll look out for her. ）