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Sam Wilson ([personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-10-02 05:51 pm

[OPEN]

Who| Sam Wilson + open!
What| Trying to figure out wtf is going on after just arriving
Where| Around the Training Center
When| After the arena
Warnings| none yet!


None of this was what Sam'd expected when he woke up on that cot, and was all but dragged out of the room by a group of guards. Not that he had all that much experience with kidnapping or being taken prisoner, but he was pretty sure they didn't normally include a kickass suite and free run of not only pretty much the whole building, but whatever city they were in. And he was definitely sure prisoners usually didn't get handed a map of the damn place and a credit card.

It didn't make him feel at all better about being grabbed, of course. If anything, their determination in treating him like he was supposed to be some kind of honored guest was making him twitchy, almost as twitchy as being told he'd been picked up off the streets to fight to the death like some kind of gladiator.

...it's also making him wary about just how good their security has to be, if they're actually letting prisoners have free range like that. Not enough not to test it, but definitely wary. So he waits a little bit after the guards leave him alone, exploring the room and giving them long enough to actually get gone, if they're really going. Then he's out, intent on seeing just how much leeway he has, and if he can figure out where he really is.


District 5 Suite

His first stop is the rest of the suite they'd dropped him off in, of course. He lingers in the kitchen - not really for food, though he is kind of hungry. At the moment, he's not willing to risk eating anything that might be available, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to check it out.

Which is why he's opening cabinets and peering in the fridge, eyeing the kitchen knives he'd found and wondering if they'd do anything if he grabbed one to keep on him.


Training Center

He has to admit, the place that gives the building its name isn't bad. In fact, it's pretty damn good, if he'd had a place like this back home, he'd probably have been there every day. It makes sense, he guesses, to give them access to a place like this, if they're supposed to be gearing up to participate in a battle to the death. But it also means their captors are either stupid or really, really good, and he doubts it's the first.


Rooftop

By the time he makes it up to the top of the roof, he's feeling a little overwhelmed. He'd gone up to clear his head a little, get some air, but he's not up there long before he's wondering if it wasn't a bad idea. Just looking out towards the edge makes him miss his wings; he sure as hell could use them right about now.

He stays anyway, sitting on one of the benches to look up at the sky, and keep an eye out for any fellow prisoners - or any of their captors - that might be up there as well.
tookthewheel: (Sidekick stance)

[personal profile] tookthewheel 2014-10-17 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"Steve would..." he starts but doesn't finish, looking uncertain at the explanation. Steve is Sam's friend already and not a man who tried to kill him. Bucky understands this sort of thing from Steve who knew who Bucky was before, who wants to find that man in the Asset's shell again, from others though he still can't entirely wrap his head around it -- not after decades of being treated more like a thing than a person.

The guy he was now. That was good to hear on Bucky's end, sometimes the shadow of the man he'd once been loomed larger than he was comfortable with, a shadow he didn't know that he could ever live up to. Certainly not someone he ever thought he could be again.

"I won't." he decides after a few moments. He has enough to consider already and while Bucky can't promise Sam anything he does make one concession, "I'll think about it."
tookthewheel: (Dead-eyed stare)

[personal profile] tookthewheel 2014-10-19 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Bucky watches Sam as he moves but he doesn't step back or otherwise react like he might once have, back in the earliest months since escaping HYDRA's leash, back when he'd been more like a feral animal or malfunctioning machine than a man. He's gained a lot of ground since then.

He nods, acknowledging the next offer the same way he did the first. In all honestly he probably won't, it'll take Sam approaching him some more first (likely if he visits Steve in D9, given how much time the former-asset spends there), or Bucky trailing in on Steve's heels to get them to that point. The fact that Sam made it though isn't something he'll forget, heaped in with all the other small acts of kindness he's received from men and women he barely knows here. "I'll remember."

Now Bucky steps away, not turning his back on Sam but signifying the conversation is at an end as far as he's concerned, barring any closing statement Sam might want to make.