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Steve Rogers / Captain America ([personal profile] assembles) wrote in [community profile] entranceway2016-06-01 10:00 am

video; guess who's back, back again

[ The feed snaps on, and the frame is on the crowded side. In the foreground Steve and Wanda are seated, arranged on a couch in one of the mansion’s tea rooms, while Natasha stands behind them, leaning against the wall near the door. Steve has his phone tilted so that all of three them are visible, Wanda’s arm linked with his.

Steve’s in civilian wear, his expression composed and collected. He isn’t here to give out orders or make any speeches, though. ]


So it looks like Wonderland sent all three of us home at once. Sorry about that. [ As if they had any control over it. ] But we’re back now and more or less in one piece. [ Which isn’t the full story at all, but that isn’t something that needs to be shared with all of Wonderland.

Natasha pushes away from the wall at this and moves closer into the frame of the video, leaning on the back of the couch over Steve’s shoulder, expression mild. ]
I don’t know if any others of us were sent home recently, but if so, letting us know would be greatly appreciated.

[ Her lips quirk briefly. ] Either way, I think some of us will need to be assembling for a SitRep soon regardless. But we wanted to let you know we were back to keep people from worrying.

[ Steve glances over his shoulder at Natasha, nods, and then returns to looking at his phone. ] Let us know if we’re needed anywhere.

[ With that, the feed cuts. ]


[ They’ve done their duty and reported their return, which means that it’s time for all three of them to go and lick their wounds. Steve returns to his room first and foremost, finding Bucky even sooner than he had expected when it turns out he’d camped in his room.

Once they’ve reunited, though, Steve laces up his shoes and goes for a run up and down the beach, needing some time to clear his head. Everything that happened back home has him on edge, searching for a way to take action, to do something, and yet none of it means a thing here in Wonderland. There are no Accords here, but a secret that had been revealed in the worst possible way back home remains a secret here, and it’s eating at him.

He also heads up to the roof, as if hoping that a bird’s eye view of everything will somehow cause it all to make more sense. Wonderland isn’t where he’s supposed to be, but at least some of his team is here. They maybe be prisoners, but they’re not caged and collared. It’s something. ]

[ Once Natasha parted ways with Wanda and Steve, having had a chance to - finally - compare information, she briefly stopped by her room upstairs, checking to make sure everything she'd accumulated here was as she'd left it. Then, after replying to a few text messages that had been waiting for her, she headed to the fifth floor. And the bar.

Because damn, did she ever need a drink. Or twenty. ]

[ For most of the day following their return to Wonderland, Wanda remains out of sight. There's no trace of her in either of her usual haunts, the training room or the magic study: she shuts herself away in her room for the better part of the afternoon, door locked tight, though she'll likely answer for those who seek her out. It's been months since she's been this withdrawn-- longer, considering how much time had passed during her trip home, but she finds herself feeling very much like the Wanda who had first come to Wonderland one year earlier, skittish and wary of human contact, unnerved by the idea of having to explain exactly what had changed to rob her of the confidence she had spent so many months building alongside her teammates and new friends alike.

Eventually, it's one of the most basic of human needs that forces her to emerge, hunger driving her to leave her room behind and make her way down to the communal kitchen. After spending time in government custody, the need for a real meal as opposed to whatever the closets might be able to supply is enough to make her brave the mansion beyond her room. She keeps her focus narrow at first, rummaging through the pantry to see what it might have to offer in the way of ingredients, occasionally turning her attention to the kitchen at large to see who else might have wandered in since her own arrival, an attempt to remain aware of her surroundings. House arrest followed by more severe isolation has done very little to put her at ease, and she finds herself unwilling to trust even the slightest creak of the floorboards, regardless of the fact that here, the word fugitive means very, very little. ]


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widows_kiss: serious, curious (AoU 026)

[personal profile] widows_kiss 2016-06-16 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
He looks like he's seen a ghost suddenly and her gaze narrows on him thoughtfully, wondering at the sudden change. She'd known Natasha had experienced something similar - but still very different - but she hadn't considered that he had. And considering what Wanda had been through...

Her gaze narrows further.

"No," she answers mildly. "Not on our team. Colonel Rhodes was injured badly, however. An accident. There were some attacks in civilian areas - there were casualties there." But she suspected that was not what he was asking about.
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[personal profile] actualwizard 2016-06-17 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
He's almost afraid to asking he pauses for a second. "So when you say team, who does that consist of?" The Avengers or her side of the fighting, because that could easily be two separate teams. "Was Steve okay?" Because he might as well just come right out and ask.
widows_kiss: serious, curious (AoU 044)

[personal profile] widows_kiss 2016-06-20 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Avengers. Any of them." Because they were still a team, even if these events had divided them down the middle and made a mess of any trust and loyalty they'd felt. She still didn't know if they'd ever recover from it.

"Physically? Steve's fine. A little banged up, but I'm to understand he got into a hell of a fistfight with Tony." She suspected Tony was looking worse, however.
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[personal profile] actualwizard 2016-06-26 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Billy nodded. "Good, that's. No one died, that's good." The mention of Steve and Tony fighting isn't surprising. Billy had seen what they did to each other in battle right before Steve surrendered...

"Yeah, that. Back home Steve almost killed Tony with the shield. Then he surrendered and he was shot on his way to his arraignment. Not by Tony." He should probably give Natasha more context but his mind is racing a bit. He hadn't wanted this team he knew to go through that. They were different, greener. They didn't have decades of friendship and trust to fall back on in the fallout. They shouldn't have had to face the same things.
widows_kiss: serious, curious (CA3 005)

[personal profile] widows_kiss 2016-06-27 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"From what I've heard from Steve, that almost happened again - the shield part, I mean. He left it there and walked away. But Steve's not the sort to surrender." Her Steve isn't, at least. She can't imagine what would push him to that. Only if he saw no other options, but she knew that was never his first instinct.

A pause.

"You never mentioned he was dead in your world."
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[personal profile] actualwizard 2016-06-30 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Neither is mine, but I guess he saw what we were doing to each other. That wasn't the answer either." He shakes his head. It was years ago and they all were still feeling the after effects of that.

"He's not. Well, not anymore anyway."