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Text messages between Wanda Maximoff and Sam Wilson
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Today 9:42 PM
Wanda: Your boyfriend just told me he'd kill me if I hurt you.
Sam: oh, for fuck's sake
Sam: and he's telling me off for snapping at you??
Wanda: I understand how he feels.
Wanda: But I swear that I wouldn't have hurt any of you.
Sam: yeah.
Sam: I know.
Sam: you do get that not hurting me, nat, or steve isn't really the point, though, right?
Wanda: yes
Sam: good
Sam: just so we're clear
Text messages between Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson
Bionic Man ♥️
Today 9:45 PM
Sam: seriously???
Bucky: it's different
Bucky: you're just a person
Bucky: I'm a supersoldier, I can take her
Sam: thanks for that
Bucky: a durable person!
Bucky: I'm not saying you're not tough, I'm saying you probably wouldn't survive a thousand foot fall from a train
Sam: well
Bucky: WITHOUT the wings
Sam: first you come for my dignity, and now for my wings?
Sam: that's cold, bucky
Bucky: you know what I mean
Bucky: I'm glad you're not like me, it's exhausting to be me
Sam: it's exhausting to date you, too
Bucky: that sounds like a you problem
Bucky: you can walk away anytime
Sam: can I, though?
Bucky: yes
Bucky: the point is, you're a durable person, not a medical experiment from world war two
Sam: I really don't think there's as much of a difference as you seem to think there is
Sam: not with this
Sam: bucky, you saw what she did
Bucky: she's a glass cannon
Sam: you do realize that she almost killed thanos, right?
Sam: like, by herself
Bucky: yes
Bucky: that's the cannon part
Bucky: but she's still made of glass
Sam: you have literally no magic
Sam: she could blast you into a thousand pieces
Bucky: yeah, but I think she has just enough sentiment to not immediately blast me into a million pieces
Bucky: and I'm willing to take that chance
Sam: you said you didn't trust her not to hurt me
Bucky: I don't
Bucky: that's why I said "not immediately"
Bucky: just a little hesitation is fine
Bucky: one good hit is all I'd need
Sam: you're not helping
Bucky: on the contrary
Bucky: I think I'm being very helpful
Sam: the medical experiments clearly knocked a few screws loose, then
Sam: because you're wrong
Bucky: sam, she's dangerous
Sam: so were you
Bucky: ouch
Bucky: and here I was thinking I'm still dangerous
Bucky: are you saying I'm washed up?
Sam: you're very spry for your age
Bucky: I'm spry for most ages
Sam: bucky, the point is, if you think I can't antagonize her, I don't get how you think you can get away with it
Sam: she quite literally likes me a lot more than she likes you
Bucky: so tell her not to kill me
Sam: I have!
Bucky: well, if you trust her, you have nothing to worry about, do you?
Sam: that's not how any of this works
Bucky: sam, you really do spend way too much time with mass murderers
Bucky: I don't get it
Bucky: you know that you don't need to balance yourself out, right?
Bucky: like, you get to just walk around being a good person
Sam: I'm not trying to balance myself out
Sam: and steve was one of my best friends
Bucky: yes, and he did the same damn thing
Bucky: "I won't fight you, bucky, I don't care if you beat me to death, I'm with you til the end of the line"
Bucky: for fuck's sake
Sam: yeah, but that's the other captain america
Sam: I wouldn't do that
Bucky: yes you would, you'd just put your own spin on it
Sam: I definitely wouldn't let you beat me to death
Sam: I'd fly away with my vibranium wings
Bucky: sam.
Sam: bucky.
Bucky: I really, really don't like this.
Sam: I know
Sam: but I have to do it
Bucky: yeah
Bucky: I know you do
Bucky: but I still hate it
Sam: I'll be okay
Bucky: you'd better be
Today 11:03 PM
Bucky: i figured it out
Sam: figured what out?
Bucky: wanda's your me
Sam: okay, it was funny in a dark humor way the first time
Sam: now you should drop it
Bucky: what?
Bucky: oh
Bucky: no, i don't mean like that, don't be stupid
Sam: what do you mean, then?
Bucky: you need a friend to be stupidly supportive of just like steve did
Bucky: but i don't work for you, so you decided on wanda
Bucky: that tracks
Sam: that's not what's happening
Bucky: i mean, it's stupid, but it tracks.
Sam: bucky.