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[Steve is commandeering the floor's kitchen for the moment. With the festival going on, he gets more time to himself, but there's still the situation to consider. They are all new people getting used to Quarantine. So Steve sets up with his device, sending out a message while he takes a break from the activity.]

Floor five, clean up your messes. Loki, that means you.

[Because that's easier to start with than anything else he can think of.]

If we haven't met yet, my name is Steve Rogers. I'm working with the Perimeter Guard here in Search and Rescue. If you have any problems, you can contact me directly. It doesn't have to be an emergency situation. We're all adjusting here, so if you need anything, feel free to come up or give me a call.

I typically go for a run in the morning and train in the evening. Just in case anyone's interested in joining me. Thinking about taking a better look at what's surrounding us, too.

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[The video opens on a lightly smirking face, because he can't resist the opportunity to tease Steve a little bit, especially when he's getting serious like this. It's also an interjection to hopefully keep Steve from spiraling into a lecture, because he's dealt with someone trying to steal his identity before.]

My Steve's the wide one that can't fit through air ducts. He's blocky.

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[That makes Fatima laugh. Both because it answers her question and because she recognizes that sort of camaraderie. It's pleasant and comfortable. Like well-worn slippers.

It's something she misses, being alone as she is here.]

So should I call him "Blocky Steve?" And tell him you said it was okay?

I deny responsibility for that. [He shrugs briefly. Steve won't take it personally, coming from Bucky, but there's a little part of Bucky who still insists that his is the 'original' Steve.] You could call the other one Baby Face Steve. He looks fresh outta boot camp. Mine's got some weathering.

Okay, but if I call the other one "Baby Face Steve," can I still blame you?

From what I've learned in middle school, the first rule of nicknames is to always have someone to throw under the bus.

["But Katie called her a terrorist first, Mrs. Wilson." How many times did she hear that as a kid?]

I'll take responsibility for Baby-Face Steve. Just don't tell the other Bucky. Nobody needs that feud. [Honestly the other one is probably reading this and will take it up with him personally if he's offended, but oh well. Bucky is only responsible for his Cap.]

[She tilts her head to one side.]

There's another you? I find that hard to believe. You seem pretty one-of-a-kind to me.

[But then, she had that nagging feeling when she met him that she'd seen him somewhere before.

Well. Maybe she did. But why wouldn't she remember that?]

I am. Ain't like any of us are clones. Alternate timelines. [As if that explains everything. To someone from his world, his specific timeline, it would, honestly. His tone is gently chiding.]

Luckily we're easier to tell apart. [They could be brothers, maybe, but not twins. This Bucky keeps his hair cut short, his face clean-shaven.]

Alternate timelines.

[Sorry, Buck. This is all new to her. But she's slowly starting to get it. After all, she's read a book, seen a TV show, and gone to the theatre at some point or other.]

Then that means there was some...event or something that separated out your life from the other guy's? Is that how it works?

Not necessarily just one thing. [Not that he's going to go spreading personal details about either sets of men to a near-stranger.] We're not the same people exactly, Steve and Steve aren't the same guy.

Easiest thing to do is treat them like two guys who just happen to share a name.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I won't treat them like the same person.

[She lets out a slow breath.]

I'm just trying to understand. You know? How this place works. How it treats us. What the rules are. I keep getting caught up. This is definitely...new.

[It looks like it pains her to admit to not knowing something.]

I feel like I need a diagram.

Good. Steve Rogers is one of a kind, in any universe. [There's a fondness there that's hard to deny, that speaks of a long time spent knowing each other inside and out.]

The orientation guys could probably give you a better run-down of the multiverse. I'm not exactly an expert. It's a bit above my usual paygrade.

Maybe, but I trust you more than them.

[Which isn't to say he might not be full of shit. But as far as Fatima is concerned, she'll go with a supposed fellow kidnapee over the open face of her kidnappers.

She tries to insert a little lightness into her tone.]

I've seen you try to haggle.

You hardly know me. [But that's coming from Bucky Barnes, who doesn't trust that easily. Just because they're in the same 'would probably rather not be here' boat doesn't mean he necessarily trusts anyone here, barring Steve, Tony, and to an extent, Stephen.

He snorts quietly at the comment about his haggling skills.] I'm just rusty, s'all.

I'm sort of here at a disadvantage. Everyone else seems to have friends and family and familiar faces around them.

[He's got Blocky Steve. And apparently a doppelganger of his own. Fatima's flying solo and she kind of hates it.

She shakes her head.]

Anyway, all this alternate universe stuff is really helpful. I honestly didn't mean to piss off your friend.

Not everyone. [He's met a few people who are here as independents by now. It's probably difficult, but at the same time, it's not like he would want his friends to be pulled away from their worlds. That's just the way things happened.]

It's fine. You get used to Steve being Steve after a while.

Blocky Steve, at least. I'm going to assume Baby-Face Steve is different.

[He won her a stuffed unicorn, after all. That automatically makes him different.

Fatima's going to have to add all of this to her notes.]

And if I meet the other Bucky, should I assume he's better at haggling?

Probably. Things happened differently, for all of us. A man's experiences really shape him. [There are a lot of differences, but talking about them... That's too personal for Bucky. He doesn't know the other Steve well enough to say, anyway.]

...The other me probably has other things on his mind. [And that's about as much as she's going to get about the other Bucky, as a stranger on a public channel. There are some secrets he won't spill, even if they aren't his.]

[She frowns thoughtfully.]

What does it feel like? Knowing that there's another you running around out there?

[A pause.]

You don't have to answer that, if it's too personal. It's just that I've never really encountered anything like this before. I'm trying to ask myself how I would feel but...I'm not sure you can really answer that, unless it happens, you know?

[There's some silence, on his end. He doesn't really want to think about how it makes him feel. Thinking too hard about things is usually a bad idea for him. Eventually he decides on an answer, short and curt,]

That is too personal.

Okay.

[Really, she needs to just stay away from these people, doesn't she? It seems that her foot is just going to live in her mouth for the foreseeable future.]

Sorry.

Bucky.

[Of course his partner would see this. Of course. The only thing that could embarrass him more is to have Captain America there to tease him over it.

...And he misses that Bucky has again successfully distracted him from turning a conversation into a rant.]

Steve. [He could just go talk to him in person since they both live and work together, but it's fun to tease him a bit over video like this. And it keeps him off the less-pleasant thoughts that might come up.]

I coulda been more uncharitable. Dunno how she mistook your ugly mug for anybody else, pal.

[He could have just walked up to him, but that isn't the same as getting in between Steve and his problems, which Bucky has always been uncannily good at. He manages to find the right things to say. Even now, Steve just frowns on his end of the network, also wondering why Bucky didn't walk over to him. It's enough to distract him.]

Yeah? Maybe it's just because they like how I look. Don't be jealous.

[At least he seems in better humor now.]

[There. A noticeable uptick in Steve's mood, at least noticeable to Bucky, who reads his moods like a comic book. In full color, laid out on the page.]

Oh, buddy, you think I'm jealous. [His grin curls at the corners of his mouth, teasing.] I only speak the truth here.

[ OHMYGOD Buck. You are... Tony is cackling like a madman rn in his office space. Jesus. ]

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video; u little shit

u love it rogers

you are taking advantage of his love, bucky

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Not here. THIS IS A LURK.