Scraps
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Bucky’s about to ship out, and Steve sees him off at the station.
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- Part 1 of Scraps
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Scrap Metal by Scappodaqui, tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
17 Sep 2015
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Steve and Bucky write each other during the war. With more than your usual inclusion of spam & jam sandwiches, chickens, radar-evasion devices, Dum Dum Dugan's hat, and that dumb lunkhead who plays Captain America. Who's that, Steve? Oh, just some guy I work with.
Title is a reference, in part, to this scene from The First Avenger--
Bucky: Why are you so keen to fight? There are so many important jobs.
Steve: What am I gonna do? Collect scrap metal...
Bucky: Yes!
Steve Rogers: ...in my little red wagon.
Bucky: Why not?Note: tinzelda writes Steve's letters; Scappodaqui writes Bucky's.
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- Part 2 of Scraps
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Blowing Smoke by Scappodaqui
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
24 Sep 2015
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Bucky, in a letter to Steve:
A funny thing happened the other night. I saw a couple of soldiers sneaking extra food behind the mess. They didn’t see me passing by at first but I guess I made a noise. They finished up what they were eating--really stuffed it down--but then one of them hauled off and grabbed the other one up by the scruff of his neck and punched him like it was all his fault. I said “sorry” and beat it quick but I don’t know, one of them had a bloody lip and spitting out what he’d been eating and everything and looked pretty sore about it.
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- Part 3 of Scraps
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While on tour with the USO, Steve gets dragged to a decadent Hollywood party.
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- Part 4 of Scraps
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A Little Blue by Scappodaqui
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
08 Oct 2015
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They exit the Paramount Theater and it feels for a moment as if they are riding off into the sunset just as the actors do, leaving behind the brass and velvet gloom for the setting sun outside. The sunset over Brooklyn. It glints off buildings. It gilds storefronts in blinding yellow. It glances over alleyways and leaves them in warm dark shadow, and it touches hints of mica in the flagstone streets and sidewalks and makes them sparkle.
They leave the technicolor world inside the theater and the real world stands out in sharp relief; the relief of freedom, of breath held and let out.Bucky returns safely after a dangerous mission.
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- Part 5 of Scraps
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Shrapnel by tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Oct 2015
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Phillips shuffled through the files on his blotter until he found the one he was looking for. After reading for several minutes, his eyebrows lifted, then his gaze shifted back to Steve’s face as he set the papers back down on the desk.
“I see,” Phillips said.
What the hell was in that file?
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- Part 6 of Scraps
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The Dazzle Effect by Scappodaqui, tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
21 Oct 2015
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Do you know what they paint a lot of the boats out here in really crazy funny colors? Well, I know you couldn’t see them all, but you could see some. Like these jagged blue and darker blue. One is like a zebra, big bold stripes. And one of the ones we saw when we landed here on the coast of XXXXXXXXXXX is like this crazy Picasso with all the colors mixed up in chunks and you know you told me that didn’t ya? You can imagine it, anyhow. The camoufloors in the Great War they did that too, to confuse the U-boats.
--from Bucky's second letter to Steve, describing boats painted in "dazzle camouflage," which did not deceive enemies as to the location of a ship but rather its type, speed, and direction.
The Howling Commandos watch Steve's Captain America movie. Steve and Bucky finally get a sundae or three.
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- Part 7 of Scraps
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Strange Bunkmates by Scappodaqui, tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
29 Oct 2015
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I can’t believe you saw a picture of Captain America. I feel kind of embarrassed. It’s all so corny, and I can’t believe that people actually like it. But you should hear the audience cheer and clap when he decks Hitler. Poor Bill—that’s the guy I share a room with sometimes. He’s our Hitler and even when he’s not wearing the costume and the fake mustache there’s a bit of a resemblance, and you should see the dirty looks he gets when he’s walking around. I think sometimes people don’t even realize they’re doing it, but they frown at him, like they know him from somewhere and don’t like him but can’t even remember why.
[-Steve Rogers, in a letter to Bucky Barnes](Because of course Steve wound up bunking with the only other male stage performer, who just happened to be the guy he decked 200+ times in front of a crowd for his country.)
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- Part 8 of Scraps
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Two Bits by Scappodaqui
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
29 Oct 2015
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Bucky realized he still owed Lou money. Twenty-five cents for an egg. He guessed he could send that with the letter but what would his two bits mean, really? They got the ten thousand dollars from his insurance. He guessed probably that didn’t mean much, either.
Steve and Bucky discusss the Captain America comics and figure out how to spend the rest of their down time before their first mission. Bucky writes a letter.
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- Part 9 of Scraps
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A Good Thing by Scappodaqui, tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
04 Nov 2015
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“Shut up.” Bucky’s voice came out muffled from underneath the pillow. “I don’t know what the hell I’m saying at times like that.”
“Is that a good thing or a bad thing?” Steve yanked the pillow away. Bucky was trying hard not to smile. “Cause sometimes I wonder if I’m doing it right if you can still think enough to talk so much.”
“I’m not really thinking. That’s the problem.”
“But—”
“It’s a good thing.”
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- Part 10 of Scraps
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Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On by Scappodaqui, stripyjamjar, tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
16 Nov 2015
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They tell us that letters help boost morale for the boys over there, and I’ll do my best to raise your spirits. In the meantime, I’ve got your sketch here, and it makes me think of you, practicing hard to get better at your particular art, even over there. That’s pretty damn inspiring, if you ask me.
[—Frank Maitland, in a letter to Steve Rogers]Letters from later in the war.
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- Part 11 of Scraps
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Shared Experience by Scappodaqui, stripyjamjar, tinzelda
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
31 Dec 2015
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You should have heard the guy we played darts with the other night, he talked so fast and funny like Danny Kaye but British sort of only Northern (that is Scots? Or like scots. But not). it was great, he even got Steve to loosen his collar and have a good time.
--from Bucky's letter to Mrs. Barnes
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- Part 12 of Scraps