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[gevurah]

Date & Time: 22nd to the 24th
Location: a synagogue in the city
Characters: Kate & whoever else volunteered to help and/or anyone who wants to see what is going on.
Summary: can we fix it? I hope so.
Warnings: ???


The exteriors of the synagogue aren’t too shabby surprisingly, but the main door needs a good push before it can be shouldered open properly and it creaks loudly as it swings on its hinges. Bits of the walls outside are chipped and discoloured, slowly but constantly being eroded each day in the never ending rainfall that blankets the city.

Inside the building is still as cold as it is outside; windows missing entire panes or broken bits still clinging to the frames, still sharp and dangerous enough to cut deep into one’s flesh if they’re not careful enough. Wherever the windows are, cold wind blows in, and the floor beneath the sills are damp and around the edges have some mold growing. There’s also pieces of glass laying on the floor.

There’s dust and broken bits of wood everywhere. Wooden beams that are supposed to support the building lay half rotting around the building. Some of them are in the way if people want to go further into the building, so they’ll need to be carried out outside by a few helping hands. The air in the building is stuffy and unpleasant, even with wind passing in every now and then.

Honestly, it may feel more depressing inside the worn down building than it does outside in the rain that never ceases.


( ooc: feel free to tag in however as you like! characters can work together, do their own clean-up, take breaks, whatever you want. )

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[kneecaptain]

[ His first inclination was to refuse. He liked to carry things on his own. ]

I guess I could use the pair of eyes, huh?

[gevurah]

[ She beckons him to follow, heading out toward the front. She does gesture for him to be careful around his feet though. There's still some broken blocks of wood around that need to be moved. ]

Watch your step. [ She pulls her jacket closer after she pushes the door open. It's always so cold and miserable outside and she usually likes the dark. ]

[kneecaptain]

[ He was wearing good boots, the kind that made it easier to navigate your feet in in the rain. ]

Thanks.

[gevurah]

[ She points to the pile. It's kept in a corner and out of the streets and anyone's way. ]

Thanks for helping out.

[kneecaptain]

[ He's slow at lowering the giant wooden beam, because giant wooden beam, but he manages alright. The rain is whipping at his face, fresh and cool, turning his cheeks red. ]

Hey. It's not like I had anything better to do.

[ It's not a joke, it's the truth, but he tries to pitch it the way you would "aw shucks." ]

[gevurah]

[ She observes from where she stands. Kate's always gauging others when they may least expect it. She's curious about Bucky, her interest piqued even more after the Transporter malfunctioned back in January and messed with everyone's ages.

She'll pretend it never happened, but she does wonder what happened to that seemingly talkative soldier from then. ]

It's really getting to everyone, isn't it? Some kids volunteered to help, too.

[kneecaptain]

[ Bucky was just pretending that timeswitch thing didn't happen. He was predending it pretty hard. ]

They don't give us a lot to do except when they give us a lot to do. You know the joke, right? Hurry up and wait?

[gevurah]

[ She snorts lightly. ]

And they get messy, don't they? [ Re: the last mission. Kate's still irked over that, still angry with Remy and their heated argument. She looks back inside briefly, as if expecting to see him. She doesn't want to be in the same room as him if it can be helped. ]

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, I ran into you while… while you weren't.

[ Maybe he shouldn't have said that. ]

[gevurah]

[ Her head snaps back in Bucky's direction, eyes narrowed. It's not him, it's Remy.

Stupid Remy. ]

Ugh. He didn't do anything [ gross or stupid ] did he?

[kneecaptain]

He… [ boy this is an awkward thing ] I guess he was trying to steal something?

[gevurah]

For the mission? [ It better have been only that. ]

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, for the mission.

I'm glad I didn't get switched around for that one. Turning seventeen was bad enough.

[ No what he'd meant to say, but it came out anyhow. ]

[gevurah]

[ There's a teensy bit of relief in her shoulders. She'd seen some of the posts on the network during that week. People taking advantage of the bodies they had been stuck in.

... So Remy's some kind of thief but at least he didn't humiliate her all over the network. Small blessings.

She pauses when he mentions the previous incident. She's trying not to think of how cowardly and emotional she was then. (It's not her fault; she'd just lost Beth and mom.) ]

Makes you wonder what's next.

[kneecaptain]

I dunno. I think I'd be fine with nothing.

[ He knows that she's right. They have to be prepared for these sorts of things, now. They have to anticipate. But his way of coping always involved closing his eyes and pretending good, even for a little while, even for the space of one bad joke. ]

[gevurah]

[ She folds her arms over her chest, watching some locals wander on past the building. They look over curiously but continue on their way.

She doesn't know which makes her madder: being stuck in a body in which she swore she heard a voice in the back of her (his?) head or being a kid and crying for the father she no longer wanted to deal with. ]

Yeah.

It's like being stuck in the Twilight Zone. [ References Bucky will probably not get!! ]

[kneecaptain]

You're just saying that 'cause I don't know what it is.

[ He grinned. His hair was soaked by now. ]

[gevurah]

[ This is why she didn't step out into the rain. She continues to take shelter underneath the building. ]

It was a TV show. About paranormal and bizarre events.

[kneecaptain]

[ Bucky Barnes: Shirtless in Siberia. ]

Yeah, okay. I guess that'd work.

[gevurah]

[ She leans against the wall, pressing her heel toward it. ]

There were supposed to be lessons in that show.

I don't think there's really a point in being turned back into a kid or switching bodies. [ Can't change the past. She learned that the hard way. ]

[kneecaptain]

The point is the Initiative doesn't know what it's doing.

Or it wants to remind us that it can twist us up all sorts of ways. Take your pick.

[gevurah]

[ Her feelings about the Initiative are complicated. ]

Which do you chose?

[kneecaptain]

Who says you have to? [ When you're dealing with unknowns, it's better to remember they're unknown, he thinks. But he does have an opinion. ]

I think, if they wanted to show us how powerful they are, they're doing a crappy job of it.

[gevurah]

Could be they want to get on our good side. [ Even if their methods are completely off the mark for that. ]

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, but if they wanted that, they wouldn't be messing us up to keep us in line.

[ A pause. ]

I think they do want us on their good side. [ Which scares him a bit, because it's not how he's used to operating. ]