bakerstreet | kinda stuck meme

THEKINDASTUCKMEME
Well, at least it's not glue.

RULES:
o1. Put down your character ( name | series | any preferences).
o2. Those replying can pick / rng / ask Snape on the astral plane to choose one of the prompts below.
o3. You know what they say: birds of a feather get stuck in questionably legal situations together!

Hope you enjoy your enforced quality time, when you're both stuck -

o1 in traffic, after an atrocious argument.
o2. distracting this person, while your partner in comedy/crime organizes their surprise party, or slashes their car tyres.
o3. defending the base for the next vicious 42 min, until your cavalry to get here. Ladies, gentlemen: good luck.
o4. on a raft, idly drifting the way of the nearest deserted island, a surely cute shark in tow.
o5. in an air vent, after fruitlessly stalking this person, whom you thought to be a serial killer. They don't make friendly neighbours like they used to.
o6. trapped in a codependent relationship with your bed / pet / really domestic hobby, from which this person hopes to break you by way of ~~alcohol~~ a social intervention.
o7. in a waiting room, while you're hanging around for the results for a highly embarrassing disease test, and would really rather not run into anyone you kno - ...God damn it.
o8. trying to safely navigate through a department store, after carelessly forgetting you were out on your measly errand during Black Friday / the year's biggest one-day sale.
o9. standing guard in front of a bedroom with this nigh-stranger, so your Romeo-Juliet-like friends can finally get it on in behind closed doors, thematic noises included. Get the small talk going.
10. with your hair in one of their zippers. You pick which. Everyone else just points and laughs.
11. delivering some pretty terrible news to them.
12. with your hand in their mailbox, just as they're coming out of their house, or apartment.
13. doing the dishes, when you both forgot your wallets and can't foot the bill.
14. playing moral support for your friend, who's stuck in a magician's box, while said magician goes off to look for the key. And coffee. And dinner.
15. reading a manual on how to defuse a bomb, or a very sensitive alarm system. Tick-tack. No rush.
16. waiting for the movie reels to get changed over from an accidental porn showing, courtesy of teenagers in charge of the screening room. You're also out of popcorn.
17. under the only stone building around for miles in the middle of an acidic rain. And then you wonder whether pollution's really on the rise.
18. on the roof, after the ladder's snapped in half. Your neighbour's particularly irritable cat might also be out on the prowl.
19. in a bdsm swing. Look, no one's judging.
20. baby-sitting, pet-sitting, or car-sitting. Yes, that new Ferrari needs day and night surveillance.
21. in a lake, because this person caught you skinny-dipping and won't. Go. Away.
22. on the phone for an important interview / business conversation, while this person tries to distract you.
23. waiting to be ransomed, while in the actually quite loving care of especially incompetent criminals.
24. with your and this person's thumbs engaged in a dysfunctional Chinese finger trap.
25. waiting for them to make the Important Announcement they've been hinting at all week, while they taunt and tease you with it.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ Being on the run means you have to do a lot of sneaking around and squatting and breaking into people's apartments when they're gone. Bucky chooses the blind lawyer's place thinking he can grab what he needs and be out of there. It's easier than picking someone sighted.

Matt can catch Bucky raiding his fridge and he'll be missing a few of his knives, too]

[Matt wished he could say walking in on people who broke into his apartment was unusual. Of course he didn't actually say anything out loud right away, instead stepping lightly toward the sounds of the invader searching through his fridge.

He was dressed for work in a suit and tie. That didn't mean he held any doubts about his ability to beat this guy to the ground if he was forced.]

Hey! What are you doing here?

[ Bucky freezes with a carton of leftovers. How a blind guy managed to sneak up like that is going to be one of those things keeping him awake at night. He can't tell if he got sloppy or what ]

Why don't you step outside and I'll be out of your hair?

[ Because as desperate as he is, Bucky really doesn't want to get into a brawl with a blind man if he can help it. Hydra would've wiped him for even thinking soft thoughts like that. ]

[Step outside? Clearly this guy has no idea what he's dealing with here, which is honestly a good thing. Better it be a coincidence that someone broke into his apartment than to find out they were searching for him specifically.]

Why don't you tell me what you're doing here and I'll consider it?

[He listened for a heart rate, any clues as to what sort of person this might be. He was holding food. If that was all this was about, then... Matt wouldn't want to make too big a deal in response.]

[His adrenaline's going out of instinct, heart thundering like it's prepping him for that "fight" part of fight-or-flight. That's how it usually went with Hydra. Sanction all witnesses. Bucky fights off the urge to abandon the fridge and fall back into instinct and muscle memory. He sets down the carton of left overs with deliberate care onto the counter, wetting his lips, knowing the blind man can't see the look on his face ]

Got hungry. Seemed like an easy place to hit.

[The way someone's heart rate changed based on any given scenario told much more than their words ever could. Matt listened, eventually determined that the intruder was telling the truth, but also noticed the way he seemed pumped with adrenaline as if ready for a fight.

This hinted at some form of desperation. After a few more tense moments, Matt eventually nodded.]

Go ahead and eat. I won't stop you.

[And he wouldn't abandon the typical mannerisms others expected from a blind man either, since it was always to his benefit for others to underestimate him. That meant walking over to the living area without his usual confidence.]

Maybe I'll even order a pizza. If you tell me about yourself.

[ Bucky wars with his options, the look he shoots Matt quietly suspicious even though he knows damn well the lawyer can't see him. Did he already call the cops? Is that why he's playing smart with him, to buy time? Bucky pauses, then, straining for the sirens or the sounds of tires several floors down. No heavy steps outside. No radio chatter muffled by a hand. So far the signs point to the blind man being alone ]

What's there to tell? I'm starving and I can't hold a job down.

[ HYDRA doesn't exactly give glowing references - what they do is either sanction assets who lose their value (traditionally bullet to the head or a neatly placed car bomb) or they drag them back for "rehabilitation", if they're valuable enough. Right now Bucky isn't sure which one he is. He rather not risk it by trying to get food and money the traditional way.

That said, he's hungry enough that he does help himself to the leftovers. Soggy fries and what looks like a greasy quesadilla. Bucky shovels it into his mouth, his eyes on Matt the whole time, more like an animal about to bolt than anything else ]

kinda stuck meme

you rang? also a variation of 12

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