bucky and jiji grandpa hours

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[unsaid]

Ah. If you would be so kind.

[he will absolutely take the help? he loves being helped? he will shift so that

a little over half of the flowers are placed in bucky's arms instead]

[frostythehitman]

[ MORE than half???? alright, freeloader grandpa

but bucky does it anyway because whatever, it's flowers, it's not like they're too difficult to carry.

lead the way! ]

[unsaid]

[yea he's bad

but he seems pleased with the assistance, headed over to the cemetery with them in tow. given that his hands are a little more free (thanks bucky) he will begin to arrange them against the graves]

Another week has passed us by.

[frostythehitman]

...Sure has. [ he watches him do all this, looking over all the graves, but...eyes particularly settling on Clem's. ]

[unsaid]

[mikazuki follows his gaze before returning to his work.

after a moment - ]

Did you care for her?

[frostythehitman]

I guess I did.

We were in the last round of these places together, before.

[unsaid]

Ah...

Does it feel like losing a familiar comrade?

[frostythehitman]

Not really. We weren't exactly close.

But she was a good kid. Really had her head on straight and helped us save everyone.

[unsaid]

[nodding...]

... her loss is a heavy one.

[but - he can't help but think - every loss will be a heavy one]

[frostythehitman]

Did you get to know her much?

[unsaid]

In part but... not enough to claim closeness in the way that most humans would.

[he tilts his head]

However I think there is something particularly disquieting... when our youth are some of the first to be lost.

[frostythehitman]

[ He huffs--not quite a laugh, not quite a sigh. ]

It's what happens, when kids have to be adults.

[unsaid]

[ . . . ]

I knew a man, once, who wished to end all wars... so that children would be able to listen to lullabies, rather than war cries.

[frostythehitman]

Sounds nice. I'm guessing it never happened.

[unsaid]

[he hums faintly]

It did, actually.... to a degree. Battles continued on in smaller magnitudes, and there was one distinctly difficult rebellion...

But for three-hundred years, the country was at peace. Even though many called that man a fool, a swindler, a scheming tanuki.

[frostythehitman]

Three hundred years isn't bad, for human lifetimes. But it just came back, huh.