[OPEN] don't you say it.

[letmetakeaselfie]

CHARACTERS: T STARK & YOU
LOCATION: In camp and surrounding area within radius.
WARNINGS: Nohomo sads
SUMMARY: Tony (and Digby) venture out in search of (1) missing Bucky Barnes.
NOTES: Catch him in camp or after he's already out


[ tony searches the treehouse he had made with bucky first, naturally, though he doesn't expect to find him. next is the campground and the med tent, though those also come up empty. he's trying not to panic, it isn't exactly unheart of for the man to go m.i.a. or to go long stretches without checking in. but tony thinks he earned at least a brief text or something in notification. especially after he'd fixed his arm; he thought they were really getting somewhere. so of course this place would deam now to be the time to take the soldier back.

another thing that disturbs him: if bucky really did go back 'home,' did he have anywhere to go? anyone to care what happened to him? tony seems even more listless than usual as he heads away from their settlement and out into the wilderness. he's carrying a handmade lantern and his gun is carefully tucked into his jacket in case he encounters more of those terrible creatures. but he wouldn't be opposed to company either. ]

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[klutziness]

[She shrugs, a smile easily finding its way to her lips.] It isn't lame if you believe it. [Rikku looks away a bit, off into the distance. That is a sentiment she can definitely, definitely relate to.] Yeah... it sucks being alone. But the guilt from feeling happy about having a friend with you sucks even more. It's a no-win situation, no matter what dimension you're in. [Trust her, she knows a thing or two about guilt.]

[letmetakeaselfie]

I'm used to being alone. [ he could be comfortable with that, even if he did hate it. he won't admit that, not even to someone who feels the same way. ] Guilt, too.

[ there was no second he was alive that it didn't attempt to crush him in one way or another. tony looks around again, growing weary of this search though they can't have left long ago. that's the problem with doing something from your heart rather than a logical place. he knows there's no way bucky is out here and yet-- ]

Do you think they go back? The people who disappear. [ obviously as she had come from another universe, the possibilities were endless. but he likes to think bucky is happy, or the man's version of it, wherever it is he ended up. again, not at all rational but it gives him a small degree of comfort all the same. ]

[klutziness]

[It... hurts her to hear him say that. She doesn't want him to feel alone, or guilty. But it seems as if that's all anyone here feels anymore. And Rikku hates that. At least in the City, people could flourish. Here, they're all just dying slowly from boredom and humidity.

But she can at least be optimistic about this.] I like to think so. People always said that about the City--that when people left, they went back home. I guess there's an exception to every rule [She gestures to herself.] but that doesn't make it the rule.

[letmetakeaselfie]

[ somehow, it's a comfort. he nods once, hoping wherever bucky is that he's safe. if there is such a place for him anymore. ]

While we're out here... you want to show me that lizard trick?

[klutziness]

[A small grin flicks across her lips, and then she resumes intertwining her fingers behind her head, the picture of nonchalance.] Sure. You ever made a snare before?