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"JACK DAVIS"
"FRED MONROE"
"SHIRTLESS MAN ON 005"
"MISS C4 2015"



James Buchanan Barnes

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[ It's not the imposition that bothers him, but the trust it implies — the vulnerability she'd expose as a result. The day he'd met her, he'd come a few heartbeats and fortuitously timed passersby from trying to snap her neck and put her out an airlock, and some days all that's changed between them is that's not immediately necessary. (Some days, he wonders if he'd hesitate, if it was — but they don't test it, and he's not sorry for that.)

But her head tilts that slight degree, and his chest aches in a way it hasn't for weeks now, like the tightening of the string that tethers him to his own ribcage, and for a second her weight against his arm feels like his arm instead of somebody else's. She doesn't close the distance, though, and neither does he. It's better if he doesn't. ]

Yes ma'am, [ is his answer, with a cheeky lift of his chin when she pulls away. (That quite the threat, ok, he's not taking any chances.)

He doesn't tell her to say goodbye to her gloves, that this is going to hurt like hell now and twice as bad when they cut them off again, because he imagines he doesn't need to. He just opens a glove between metal fingers and teeth and gets started. ]