James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nerves_of_ice) wrote2022-03-29 01:08 pm
nerves_of_ice) wrote2022-03-29 01:08 pm
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[Leipzig AU] a new acquaintance
With the controls removed, there technically isn't any reason for Steve and Tony to remain, and Bucky's well aware that there are things they both need to be dealing with back in the States. He's the one to broach the subject with his best friend, late one evening, in private - and it's sometime before dawn before they've hashed out a few of the details to follow on an initial plan for future visits. It helps, he thinks, that there is a plan, rough though it may be.
Tony expresses mild curiosity about the coronation ceremony itself, but on finding out that it's closed to a very small group - what Bucky privately thinks of as Wakandan nobility - decides he'd rather go back in advance than be around and unable to attend. Bucky sees them both off, then throws himself back into further study of Wakandan history, having managed a basic command of the language by now. It helps keep him distracted from figuring out what comes next, and anyway there's no point in spending a lot of time thinking about that until after T'Challa's confirmed in his kingship and things calm down.
On the day of the coronation itself, Bucky finds a place in one of the smaller garden rooms to read, rather than be out and about anywhere in Birnin Zana or elsewhere in the Citadel. He could just as easily have stayed in his room, he knows, but he's decided that it'd be a bad idea for him to ever start thinking of the pleasant little apartment as being any sort of confinement. He should be out of the way enough here to not bother anyone.
After all, it's not like anyone's looking for him.
Tony expresses mild curiosity about the coronation ceremony itself, but on finding out that it's closed to a very small group - what Bucky privately thinks of as Wakandan nobility - decides he'd rather go back in advance than be around and unable to attend. Bucky sees them both off, then throws himself back into further study of Wakandan history, having managed a basic command of the language by now. It helps keep him distracted from figuring out what comes next, and anyway there's no point in spending a lot of time thinking about that until after T'Challa's confirmed in his kingship and things calm down.
On the day of the coronation itself, Bucky finds a place in one of the smaller garden rooms to read, rather than be out and about anywhere in Birnin Zana or elsewhere in the Citadel. He could just as easily have stayed in his room, he knows, but he's decided that it'd be a bad idea for him to ever start thinking of the pleasant little apartment as being any sort of confinement. He should be out of the way enough here to not bother anyone.
After all, it's not like anyone's looking for him.