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I Talk Too Much, Honey Come Put Your Lips On Mine by orphan_account
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
27 Jun 2016
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Steve was impaired, Bucky hasn't stopped compensating.
“Ok,” She says, sitting up and capturing the rooms attention. “How do you know ASL, and why do you report everything to Steve?”
The room is silent.
“Are you blushing?” Tony asks.
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Bucky looks a little lost for a moment, then shrugs. “Terminator is good,” he says, then, ignoring someone's quiet grumble of of course he chose that he announces “I'm going to get some more water from the kitchen.” He turns to Steve. “You want some water?”
At Steve’s negative, he gets up and heads off to the communal kitchen. He returns just as the movie begins. “I'm back. Movie is starting.” he informs the room at large as he sits down.
All of them exchange a look (or, you know, looks), except for Steve and Bucky, but collectively decide not to comment.
This occasion, however, opens up their eyes. In the next few days, it becomes apparent just how much Bucky narrated. If somebody was doing something notable in front of you, you'd hear about it. If you passed something interesting, Bucky would inform you with a detailed description. If somebody asked him a question, he'd repeat it before answering.
It was a bit, as Clint said, like living life with subtitles on.
The strangest thing, though, was that it wasn't constant. It almost seemed that he flipped a coin before each interaction. It was this irregularity that caused it to be of such great interest to the rest of them.
Consequently, Tony was only scared half to death when Natasha appeared all of a sudden to him and Bruce in the lab. He's been expecting her for a while, though he possibly (foolishly) expects a bit of a warning.
“I don't think this is Hydra’s work.” She says without preamble.
“Barnes’ inability to shut the fuck up?” Bruce clarifies demurely.
She hums her assent.
“Unless it's it's a teenage rebellion thing.” Tony suggest. “You know, he couldn't voice his own thoughts as the Soldier, so now he's doing it as much as he can.” He does his best to affect a wistful sigh. “They grow up so fast.”
“I don't think so.” Bruce says. “They're not opinions, they're just facts. Relatively useless ones, at that.” Natasha seems to agree.
“The key to figuring it out is noticing the pattern.” She insists.
“That's easy enough. Jarvis, analyze and find the common factor in all of our Morgan Freeman-aspiring friend’s cases of narration.”
“It would seem, sir, that Captain Rogers has been present every time Sergeant Barnes has described his surroundings in excessive detail.”
Natasha narrows her eyes at Tony slightly. “I'm sure that's cheating.”
Tony shrugs.
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“He's quite talkative.” She says in a casual tone.Steve grins as dopily as a national icon can, which turns out to be very dopey.
“I know. I'm so glad, you have no idea how unnatural the silence felt when I first got him back. I swear, I heard his voice more before that than during those first few months.”
She decides that's not hers to question, and asks “So he's always been like that?”
“Yep, that's Bucky. Talker, charmer, the whole lot.”
She's never known Mr. Helpful to be so unhelpful.
“I'm used to ex-assassins being less chatty.” She admits, trying to get him to say something more.
Steve looks dopey again. “He's recovering well.”
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“Because,” he says, “before the serum helped this little guy,” he pats Steve on his arm which is caught under Bucky's knee, “Stevie was half blind and half deaf at the best of times. Someone had to make sure he was getting all the information he needed.”The eye roll is practically audible. “I wasn't half blind or half deaf, honestly, he exaggerates so much…”
“Half blind and half deaf.” Bucky repeats firmly.
“So,” Bruce interjects, “you learned ASL?”
Bucky nodded. “it's a bit different from what you use,” he nods at Clint, “but I can get by.”
“And you developed the habit of narrating everything so he knew what was going on.”
Bucky shrugged.
“He never stopped.” Steve said from the floor. “Even with the Howling Commandos, he was always telling me ‘Jim is getting up now…’, honestly I've been living with this for so long I barely even hear it anymore-”
“Oh, you don't hear it?” Bucky grouses. “You don't hear it? Here I am, taking the time out of my day to inform your little punk ass about your life, and you don't hea-”
I liked the old lady theory better, Clint signs.
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