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Singing.

[Said like this is the worst crime imaginable.]

Humming. Tapping. I told him to stop more than once, I told him why, he wouldn't.

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[John sighs to himself.]

That's not... he's just an arse, Bucky. A childish arse. [He wonders how much to say.] There are movies about him...

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[Childish arse does not mix well with paranoid ex-assassin.]

He knew about the infinity stones, I figured there must be. You've seen them?

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Yeah. The first one. I think there's a second one I haven't seen, though. [Because he's mentioned things that John has no idea about.] I just mean that he's not a bad person. Just... I dunno? ADD? He can't sit still and be quiet. He mucks around even in dangerous situations. It usually works for him.

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[He trusts John's judgement on that, which means he sounds slightly ashamed when he replies.]

I nearly went for him.

[He's not sure how much of it was MN paranoia and how much was his own, but Peter worked his last nerve pretty impressively.]

I have him tied up now.

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But you didn't, so that's good. [Baby steps, Bucky.]

And tying him up's probably for the best, but you might want to pull off the ropes pretty quickly if he's not still mad. We're all back to normal, which means he probably is, as well. How much medical attention is he going to need?

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None.

[Or, at least, none in his opinion.]

I broke his nose and his cheekbone, nothing life threatening and it'll have already healed by the time a doctor got over to us.

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Bucky, how long d'you think it takes for those kinds of things to heal? You can't be two or three weeks away from a doctor. I'll come over there. We were gonna meet up with Royce and Alfie to grab food at the school, but I can head your ways after that.

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[He's not exactly going to say no to that, but--]

If he wants a doctor, I'll let him contact you. I'm not making those decisions for him.

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Fair enough. I'll wait for him to wake up. In the meanwhile, can you try to get him into a semi-comfortable position?

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Fine, but I'm not untying him until I know he's not going to stab me again.

[That hurt, okay?]

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Wait. He stabbed you? [Bucky, you failed to mention this!] How deep, with what, and where?]

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Scissors, through the shoulder.

[Not ideal, considering he already only has the one working arm, but hardly deadly.]

I've packed it with some rags, it'll be fine.

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[John is worried about you, friend.]

I'll have a look at it if we meet up with you, too. I have a needle for proper stitches now. Won't be as hard.

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Sure, if I see you.

[It's not exactly high priority.]

...you get through yesterday okay?

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Yeah. We all split up as soon as things started going wrong. I gave everyone handcuffs to lock themselves in place. No incidents.

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Good plan, well thought through.

[He knows how badly killing Quark and Luna had affected John, so it must be a relief to the other man not to have hurt anyone this time.]

...I should go, make sure Peter isn't dangerous any more.

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Right. I'll talk to you later, Buck. Be safe and take care of that wound.