weirderthanthou: (jesse - giving you side-eye)
an ordinary girl from an ordinary town ([personal profile] weirderthanthou) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2024-08-15 02:18 pm

Town Hall, Thursday

You know, these big summer moves always seemed so great, until you knew how much paperwork was involved. The permits. Fines, from places that didn't know how to respond to a random island appearing out of nowhere.

Poor Jesse was now halfway through the island's Largest Mug Of Coffee. It was her third.

She bent over the papers and groaned. "My fingers hurt."

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shapethecentury: ([pos] my mind is lost)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-16 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"The vibes," Bucky echoed. "A known solid basis for plans."

God, was that teasing? Was he managing an attempt to tease?
shapethecentury: ([pos] hi there)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-16 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Most solid, huh?"

Yeah, that wry look was staying put.

"New information for me."
shapethecentury: ([pos] gonna make an aside)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-17 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not from the forties," Bucky replied, on the slightest huff.

Technically speaking.
shapethecentury: ([neu] couch commentary)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-17 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why would it even be the twenties? Unless you mean the current ones."

He knew she didn't mean the current ones.
shapethecentury: ([neu] idgi)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-17 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Bucky gave her a confused, questioning look. "Why would that be the most relevant part? When you were a kid."

Okay, now he was showing his age.
shapethecentury: ([neu] unsure bout that)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-17 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That made two of them. In a continued fashion. "Is that how it's supposed to go?"

He came from a very different era of thinking on childhood.
shapethecentury: ([neu] funeral chic)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-18 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, I wouldn't know anything about that," said the man who kept showing movies from the thirties and forties at his theater.

With a feigned sort of dry tone.
shapethecentury: ([neu] buying plums)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-18 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Bucky gave a little shrug, as lopsided as it always was these days.

"Glenn Miller never fails, for one," he offered.
shapethecentury: ([neu] sure okay)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-18 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Bucky came to a stop. It was the only way to deliver a look this incredulous. (Still pretty mild. This was still Bucky, after all.) "You don't know who Glenn Miller is?" he asked, then shook his head without waiting for an answer. "Jesus Christ, what are they even teachin' you kids these days?"
shapethecentury: ([neu] talk therapy)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-18 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"What a waste," Bucky deadpanned.
shapethecentury: ([neu] talking)

[personal profile] shapethecentury 2024-08-18 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, that makes one of us," Bucky replied, as he finally moved again.