[IC] [SELF-INDULGENT MUSEBOXING]

[senior_citizen]

because Sabra AUs are fun and games until someone loses an eye

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[senior_citizen]

[ I heard "love" okay ]

The ones not from Sabra?

[midgardener]

That's right.


[ TEAM MEANS LOVE OK. holds out the package. ]


Sorry, I couldn't find steak, but I got you a beef shank.

[senior_citizen]

[ god that smell is driving him crazy. he takes it with trembling hands. ]

That's ... no, that's fine. It's still meat.

[midgardener]

I'll move you back to my room?

[senior_citizen]

[ n-nods ]

It's gonna be messy.

[midgardener]

An empty one then!


[ grab and poof! she turns her back as soon as they're in there, though, already heading for the door ]



Well, I'll give you a minute.

[senior_citizen]

[ wow that teleporting is disorienting. ]

-- Wait. It's not dangerous for you if I'm eating. I don't change the same way as the others.

[midgardener]

[ pauses, turning back around ]


Got a special deal, huh?

[senior_citizen]

Yeah. Since I was dead and all.

[ though it's still messy. hes just kind of. holding it up to his mouth and taking big bites out of the raw meat. ]

[midgardener]

[ she's just. not looking away. it's fine. that's beef. it's OK. this is fine this is fine thisisfinethisisfinethisisfinethisisfine ]

[senior_citizen]

[ toootally cool. nevermind that meat is meat and he's still getting awful red from it splattering everywhere... ]

[midgardener]

[ HAHA THE SOUND OF MEAT PULLING APART, SEEING BONE ITS FINE ITS GOING TO BE OVER SOON ]

[senior_citizen]

[ at least. at least he eats very quickly. though that's probably unsettling too, seeing all that flesh disappear so rapidly into such a tiny frame. ]

[midgardener]

[ she's silent for a long, long moment, then hands him a clean rag ]

[senior_citizen]

[ sssets the bone back down, then takes the rag ]

... Thank you. I feel a lot better.

[midgardener]

We're team mates.

[senior_citizen]

...

[ cleaning himself up ... ]

The me who has these dog tags?

[midgardener]

[ she pulls out her own from under her dress ]

[senior_citizen]

[ compares them, seeing the salamander ]

Did ... did I forget ...

[midgardener]

I don't think so. I think you're different.

[senior_citizen]

Someone different ...

[ a flicker of recognition ]

Was I Captain America?

[midgardener]

[ nods ]

[senior_citizen]

[ his shoulders droop a bit ]

The alternate universe. The one Dr. Banner knows.

[midgardener]

But also . . . the one where you grew up in the slums, where no one thought you were worth it as a person. Where you just wanted to be someone who could protect people.

[senior_citizen]

[ bows his head ]

That's all the same.