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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 18:07:27 GMT -7
When Lexi had rang her up and asked if she wanted to go out Teresa had jumped at the chance. Between school, training at SHIELD and with Bucky,when she could, it left no time to have any time with her cousin who lived not that far from her. But it was a crazy time and Teresa felt bad. But then she had some time off and she had gone straight to Stark Tower to train with Bucky and now she was quite possibly three sheets to the wind. But she was having fun and that's all that mattered. She then turned to her cousin who was dancing to the music of the club and quite possibly more drunk than she actually was.
"We should get Sam down here" Lexi had said and then looked up at Teresa with a grin before she knocked back her shot. God, this stuff was terrible but it definitely done the job.
Teresa laughed, that was actually the best idea Lexi has had for a while. Getting Sam down here meant that she too could see him, having not really been around him since that incident in Stark Tower when he found her in his bed. It had been slightly awkward but in the end they had laughed it off.
No one actually knew that Teresa had joined SHIELD, well none of the group of course, Graeme knew but she made him swear to keep it secret and she knew she could trust him to do that. But the lecture she would get from Barton and possibly Lexi too was something she was hoping to avoid so she decided it was best not to tell anyone else. She hadn't even told Bucky and yet she had been training with him. The time would be right when she felt like telling him. She pulled her lip in between her teeth and then took a sip of her drink from a black straw. This stuff was pretty good.
Lexi smiled to herself and then looked around for her cell, It was in her pocket, and when she finally found it decided she was going to drink dial Sam. Get him down to the club and have some drinks with them. It had been a while since she too had come face to face with Sam, as well as Teresa, but that didn't mean she didn't call him when she had time. Between classes, working in the local Starbucks (again) and Skype-ing with Jake.. Everything else had slipped away but no doubt Sam was busy too with SHIELD stuff.
She had come to the decision that instead of calling Sam, she was going to FaceTime with him. Her black hair, which she absolutely loved, and decided to wear, was keeping her crazed hair at bay as she put in the permission to actually FaceTime with him, a stupid grin on her lips as she waited.
When the person on the other end answered she waved at the screen and then saw who it actually was "Bucky!" she said with a grin on her lips.
Teresa raised her eyebrow at that because Lexi was never pleased to see Bucky, so yeah she really was drunk if she was happy to see him but she let the conversion carry on as she ordered another drink.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 18:41:48 GMT -7
He picks up his phone with a curious arch of his brow in between sips of beer, staring down at the name listed for a long time. It'd been a while since he'd even seen Lexi, considering that she has little love for him or any of his peculiarities and only seems to enjoy Sam's company out of everyone in this thrown together group, but he can't name a single time in the history of their very limited friendship - if it can even be called that - that Lexi has willingly called him.
Let alone FaceTimed him.
He didn't even know she had his number.
Bucky glances up, his lungs filling with a deep unsure breath, and briefly considers the pros and cons of taking this call.
Pro, it's not meant for him. Con, it is.
Huffing out the breath, he swipes his thumb across the screen, accepting the spontaneous video chat. Lexi's waving before her face even appears on his phone's screen, her surprisingly pleased head surrounded by colorful, flashing lights. A barrage of noise accompanies her, and Bucky is already regretting this decision. "That would be me." He replies, lifting the lip of his beer to his mouth and looking down at the screen with a slightly puzzled expression.
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 18:57:51 GMT -7
With the grin still on her lips Lexi then moves so that he can hear her better, even though she's sure that he could hear her anyway. Then she starts talking too fast that she's not even sure she can keep up but she talks about anything and everything and all the while she keeps looking up to see that Teresa is sipping on another drink with another straw before putting her eyes back on the phone. Just as she's about to ask for Sam two people pop up and wave and Lexi can't help but laugh. "You should come and join the party" she said and then moved away so that the two others were out of shot. But instead she came over to where Teresa was.
Teresa looked down into the camera and waved. "You should definitely come down" she said and then looked up to see that Bucky was on the other end still, she was surprised because she had expected for him to have hung up on Lexi but she guessed not. She then blew him a kiss before grabbing her drink and taking a sip.
"See? That's why you and Sam should get down here" Lexi said and moved the camera away from Teresa who was now dancing on her seat. The music was a little rubbish but the drinks were worth it, well some of them are, plus it was more better when there was more of them. Plus she was sure that she had actually FaceTimed Sam but she got Bucky instead and she was actually completely happy with that and at least he answered the call rather than reject it. But yes, they needed to get their asses down to the club and hang out with her and Teresa. After all it was much more fun with more of them and plus she hasn't seen Sam in a while and would love to see him down in the club.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 19:16:05 GMT -7
Bucky stares at the screen, impressed that any one person can talk so fast or so excitedly in only thirty seconds. He doesn't catch a single word of it, but Lexi looks damn pleased with whatever she's trying to say to him, which is the first time he's ever seen her be pleased with anything that has to do with him. It doesn't take Bucky long, or by much surprise, that she's drunk off of something; whether it's the alcohol in her glass or the music that's pulsing at him through his phone's speaker. Barton leans over, his shoulder bumping into Bucky's and his own eyes directed down at the phone, brows raised high.
"What the hell are you listening to?" He asks, and Bucky gives a vague shrug of his shoulders.
"Beats me."
"Oh sweet Jesus," Barton blurts out as soon as he connects the dots. "Is that Lexi?"
"Lexi?" Sam guffaws out in surprise, and Bucky looks up from his phone to glance at the couch opposite him.
They're all - well, most of them; Steve's somewhere in Morocco and Tony's holed up in her lab doing god knows what - gathered in the living room of Steve's penthouse at Stark Tower, a deck of cards sitting on the coffee table in between bottles of beer and glasses of wine. Nat is curled up on the armchair, cards spread evenly between her long pale fingers, her curly red hair pulled up in a messy bun and her brows knitted close in concentration. Sam is a little tipsy already, and losing badly.
"Why is Lexi calling you?" Sam asks, but it's less accusatory and more teasing. He of all people knows how little Lexi actually likes Bucky, and how unlikely it is that she'd ever call him for anything. Not even if she was in danger.
"Party, apparently." Bucky replies, glancing back down to his screen just in time to catch a glimpse of Teresa dancing in her seat. A vague smile tugs at a single corner of his mouth.
"Well, you'd definitely be the first person on my call list." Nat comments a little wryly, grey eyes flicking towards him. Bucky smirks a little at her.
"Sam, what do you say." Bucky says aloud, turning his phone so the camera points in Sam's direction. He snorts as soon as he sees Lexi, with her big black hat and her drink. "Party?"
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 19:31:32 GMT -7
Lexi looks up and sees Barton. "Barton!" she calls out and then puts her drink down before giving him a thumbs up. In honesty Sam was the only person, other than Teresa, that she actually got on with in the group. So just the fact that she ended up calling Bucky and is pleased to see both him and Barton should really be held against her some time down the line and in fact she's pretty sure that no one will ever forget this.
Teresa is actually having a hard job keeping herself from laughing, it's strange to see Lexi so excited by the people that, she herself, got on with and her dark haired cousin not. But this definitely was something that was likely never going to be forgotten as the night that Alexandria Richards finally realised that the two people Teresa cared about weren't actually that bad. Plus she did have to admit that these two knew how to party. She has been to a couple of parties where the group had been there and she's definitely enjoyed herself.
The camera moves from Bucky and over to Sam and she grins when she sees him. "Yes, come down to party with us, Teresa is here and the drinks are flowing. The beats are.. beating and you guys should be here with us!" she called out and then moved once more so that Sam could see Teresa then hands the camera over to her dark haired cousin.
"Seriously, you really should come down" Teresa was slightly more sober than Lexi, slightly. But that didn't mean that she wasn't enjoying herself because in honesty this actually felt good. She had a couple of days off from SHIELD and now spending it out with her cousin and hopefully the rest of the team. "Plus it clearly looks like you're having a good time there.." she said in a teasing tone before grinning at him. Even from here she could see that they were playing cards, it sounded like fun but this was more better than sitting at home and playing cards. "You know you want too.." she said in a sing-song voice.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 19:46:36 GMT -7
"Well, hell," Sam begins, picking up another card from the deck and glancing for a fleeting second towards the camera pointed at him. "You know I'm always down for a party." He gives the camera a charismatic grin and a wink, and Bucky scoffs a little on the other side.
"Might stop you from losing the rest of your money to Nat." Barton retorts quickly, flicking a poker chip at Nat and hitting her square on the back of her hand. She tilts her cards towards herself a little, and raises a brow at Clint. But only a second later she concedes with a shrug of her shoulders, grey sleeve of her crop-top falling a little further down her arm, and a cock of her head to the side.
"He does have a point." She admits, reaching forward to lay down her cards. "Full House."
"Goddammit!" Sam blurts out.
Bucky swings the phone back around to face himself, pulling the lip of the beer bottle from his mouth to look down at the screen. "I guess they're goin'." He tells the two women who are very clearly on their way to being blissfully drunk.
"I'll drag James with us." Nat calls out, loud enough for Teresa and Lexi to hear over the club's loud music and Sam's almost pained groaning as he sinks further down into the couch cushions, hand over his heart. Bucky slides his eyes towards her, a brow twitching upwards the surety in her tone. "What?" She asks, a crooked little smile playing on her red lips, grey eyes dangerous and mischievous. "You like dancing."
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 20:00:47 GMT -7
"Sweet" she said once they all agreed to coming down to the club. "It's Club Citadel and it's not actually that far from Stark Tower" she admitted and gave them all a smile. Other than the visits she makes to Stark Tower, when she can, she hasn't seen the others for a little bit. She used to train with Bucky every day but now that she's joined SHIELD, she hasn't really got time. It sucked and that is why they needed to get their asses down to the club and party with the two girls.
Lexi was drinking out of her shot glass before holding it up and wiggling it in the air for the bartender to get her some more. Tonight this party was going on. And she was definitely on the way to being blissfully drunk, the good thing about this was that she never got a hang-over in the morning. Compliments of her father. A grin pulled at her lips as she moved back to the camera.
"You definitely are going to be dancing, you can't go to a club and just stand there not dancing. It's completely against the rules!" Teresa calls out before reaching over and grabbing her drink, she took a sip and put the glass back down on the wooden counter of the bar.
"Teresa will gladly dance with you" Lexi says to the camera and looks at Bucky before nodding.
The two girls loved to dance, whether it was at the clubs or a party. The first two on the dance floor was Teresa and Lexi, even when they were younger that's where everyone would find them and that still hasn't changed. They still loved the feeling of letting the music move their bodies.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 20:17:43 GMT -7
"I don't even know where that is." Bucky murmurs, brows furrowing.
"I do." Sam comments, sitting back up but with a slight scowl on his face at having lost. Again. "Ya'll need to get out more."
Nat slips off of the armchair and moves on light feet to Bucky's side, kneeling on the cushion in between him and Barton and draping an arm around his shoulders. She smiles right into the camera, and Bucky looks up to her, expecting the worse. "We'll meet you there." She tells them definitively, and Bucky rolls his eyes a little as he looks away once more. Nat looks down to him, arching a manicured brow and pretending like she's not enjoying every single second of this. "Right?" She asks, tickling his neck with light fingers.
"Fine." Bucky replies, heaving out a sigh and looking back to the camera. "We'll meet you there. Here," He tosses his cellphone to Sam, who catches it against his chest. "Talk to your girlfriend. I'll get ready."
"Are we going to cut to a Winter Soldier Fashion Montage?" Barton comments around the mouth of his beer, watching as Bucky rises from the couch and steps passed them to make his way to the bedroom.
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 20:40:11 GMT -7
Lexi looks up and sees Nat and gives her a smile. "Good, yes go with that" she points at the camera, hopefully Bucky knew that she was pointing at him. Then looks up and sees Sam. "Hey Handsome" she waves at him.
Teresa rolls her eyes playfully behind the camera, of course she would be talking to Sam. After all that was who she had originally tried to call in the beginning. She orders them a couple more drinks, the bartender asking her where the hell they were putting all this stuff and she was tempted to say in a bottle so they could drink it on the way home but the last thing she wanted was for him to actually think she was serious. Too many people were uptight and working behind a bar usually gave people that impression of them.
"So, anyway, why did Bucky answer your phone?" she raised her eyebrow at Sam. But then looked over when Teresa started howling with laughter, "What?" she asked and pushed her eyebrows together. Her eyes now on her cousin who looked like she was crying while sat in her seat.
"Nevermind" she pushed out around a laugh before watching Lexi shrug up a shoulder and go back to her conversation with Sam. Of course Lexi would think Bucky had Sam's phone, she would never admit to the fact that she had FaceTimed Bucky because that would be too hard for her to do so. But it was hilarious to hear her ask the question.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 21:12:21 GMT -7
They get to Club Citadel in less than ten minutes, each of them both under-dressed and somehow overdressed for the venue. Despite the cold winter weather hitting New York, Nat wears a pair of black shorts with her grey crop-top - bang, bang written across her chest in big block letters - revealing a sliver of her flat stomach. Her red hair has been pulled down, thick waves circling around her face. Bucky is dressed just as casually, black jeans tucked into black combat boots, his leather jacket open to reveal the low v-neck of his white t-shirt beneath.
"They look like a goddamn rock band." Barton comments under his breath to Sam as they walk straight for the front of the line, not even glancing at the straggling clubbers all freezing out in the below-zero winds in their mini-skirts and low, low, low shirts. His hands are stuffed deep in the pockets of his jeans, and he shrugs himself into his dark-grey Henley.
"And I don't?" Sam bobs his brows up humorously, popping up the collar of his brown leather jacket and looking at Barton over the rim of his dark sunglasses.
"It's nighttime, Sam. You look ridiculous."
"I'm sorry, miss, you'll have to go to the back of the line." The bouncer huffs out, splaying out a hand to stop Nat from passing through the doorway into the club. She regards him with an arched brow, grey eyes unimpressed.
"I'm on the list." She tells him, confidently, chin lifting high. The bouncer sighs out a breath and looks down at her disbelieving. Bucky comes to a halt by her side, metal fingers pushing the long strands of his hair back. "Natalie Rushman." The man shakes his head slowly before looking down to the clipboard held tightly in his hands, muttering under his breath about goddamn kids, I swear to god... But he stops halfway through when his eyes catch on a name, printed clearly on the white sheet. Nat is already smiling by the time he looks back up to her, a guilty expression on his face.
"Sorry, miss. Go right ahead." He clears his throat sharply, stepping aside to let them pass.
"Do you have access to every club in this city?" Barton asks as he quickly steps forward to catch up. Sam gives the bodyguard a pat on the shoulder.
"Maybe." Nat replies, grinning mischievously back at him over her shoulder. Bucky can't help but smile, a slow shake of his head swaying his hair slightly.
The club is bigger than it looks from the outside, a huge space opening before them as soon as they're through the door, filled with dancers all moving to the pounding beat of the music. Bucky sees the bar right away, crowded by those too drunk to dance or trying to get drunk enough to dance, but he continues to follow after Nat as she makes her way through the crowd.
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 21:30:14 GMT -7
Mixing drinks definitely wasn't a smart thing but that didn't seem to faze the two girls as they got another drink, hell by the time they were in their thirties they were more than likely to be alcoholics. But at the moment they were in their twenties and just having a good time. "Oh, god, that was terrible" Lexi huffed out after she had just finished up a cocktail and then made a weird face. She was pretty sure that Teresa could do cocktails better, or at least Teresa's blonde friend from Mystic could. She had met her on Thanksgiving last year and Lexi had to admit that she did do really amazing drinks.
"Oh, I don't know.. It wasn't too bad" Teresa huffed out before taking another drink of her cocktail. Lexi liked too over exaggerate things a little bit too much. It wasn't the best one, she did have to admit that but it was drinkable and it gave Teresa that instant boost to get up and dance. She looked around and then saw that Bucky and the others had turned up and they were heading straight to the bar. She nudged Lexi and then pointed to Sam and the gang.
Lexi smiled to herself and then moved away from the bar to meet them, then brought them back to where they were at the bar. Of course they had been waiting for them to turn up before they found somewhere, plus at the bar it was better to get the drinks. She took a drink from her glass of.. whatever it was she had ordered along with the cocktail before giving Sam a grin. She hadn't seen him for a while. She leaned over and whispered in his ear. "You look pretty good" she then pulled back and the grin was still on her lips.
Of course Lexi was flirting with Sam, it was always the same. Teresa rolled her eyes playfully and then waved slightly at Barton. The last time she had seen him was before Christmas when she had taken his presents to him and had text him over New Year to wish him a happy 2016 but other than that they hadn't really seen each other. In fact she's seen more of Bucky than anyone else but Barton never actually knew about it. It's a good thing because she wasn't sure just how Barton would react if he found out that Bucky was training her up for SHIELD or that she had actually joined the organization.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 21:51:49 GMT -7
They found the pair at the bar, already neck deep in the party and the drinks. Bucky is unsurprised at how quickly Lexi latches on to Sam, already whispering in his ear with a big grin and a flirty look. Even despite her guy at home, she isn't hesitant in the slightest. Sam chuckles a little under his breath, tugging his sunglasses off to hook them around the collar of the black shirt he wears beneath. "Thank you." He replies, a smile remaining stuck on his mouth. His brown eyes look Lexi over once, his head bobbing a little. "Though you certainly look better."
Barton rolls his eyes and throws himself towards the bar. "Can I get a drink please. Something strong. And a fire-hose for these two." He jabs a thumb back towards Sam and Lexi. Nat smirks a little, squeezing herself in right next to Barton, her black-painted nails tapping lightly on the glass surface of the bar.
"Make that three." She tells the bartender with an easy smile, her shirt slipping off her shoulder once more, but she makes no effort to fix it. "And a round of vodka for everyone."
"Ty v khoroshem nastroyenii." Bucky comments, leaning in close to her ear and smiling around his words.
"So are you," She replies back, tugging on the lapel of his leather jacket.
"Is there any place to sit down?" Barton asks, rising to his tip-toes to scan the club.
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 22:15:49 GMT -7
Lexi gives a soft smile and then looks down over her outfit, it's something simple. Jeans, a pair of heels, a black t-shirt and a jacket over the top. There wasn't anything good about the outfit, it had been something easy and that's what she really had gone for. "Well thank you" she grinned before grabbing her glass and taking a sip of the stuff in it. She rolls her eyes at Barton before looking back at Sam with a smirk on her lips.
"I've seen a lot worse" Teresa admitted and then looked over at Barton. Hell being on a plane with Poe when he was flirting with Simmons was bad enough. And oh god Hunter when he tried flirting with Emily was painful enough without adding the fact that she swears Caesar and Emily are together. But she shrugs up a shoulder before then nudging Barton. "Well there is make out spots in the corners and tables dotted around the bar but other than that I'm not sure there is anywhere to sit" she smiled and then looked around herself.
Lexi put her glass down on the bar before rolling her eyes once more. Of course Barton would think that as soon as her and Sam came into contact then they would flirt... The sad thing is that it's true, they did do that but it was harmless and they definitely enjoyed it. So what was the big deal? It's not like Teresa isn't flirty when her and Barton gets together... Well they say it's flirting when in fact the two of them try so hard not to kill each other and not because they don't like each other. It's because they like he each too much. "So did you end up winning at cards?" Lexi whispered into Sam's ear. It really was the only way that she could talk to him. The music was too loud but some how she managed to hear what Barton had said.. It was a miracle really.
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Post by Ray on Feb 6, 2016 22:39:07 GMT -7
"No, actually." Sam replies to Lexi in a loud laugh. "Nat beat me. Miserably." He reaches out with a hand to poke Nat lightly right on the back of her shoulder, and she glances back at him with an amused smile.
Barton cringes at the very thought of a make-out section, his blue eyes shifting back over his shoulder towards the rest of the club. "Jesus, that just sounds like a sure-fire way of catching an STD."
"But it also might be our only option for peace and quiet." Natalia comments with a hint of a smirk on her mouth, slinging an arm back around Bucky's shoulders. She has to rise up on the tip-toes of her black heels to do so, but the two of them look more comfortable together than just about anyone that Barton has ever known. Even more so than him and Nat, and he doesn't know if he should be jealous or if he should be flat-out weirded out by that. Maybe neither, if he knows what's good for him.
The bartender sets down their drinks, six shots of vodka and three tumblers of whiskey in all, and Nat pulls her arm away from Bucky's shoulders to pick up her glass.
"This is why I hate bars." Barton grumbles, picking up a shot and knocking it back without a second thought. "Fine," He swallows, setting the empty shot glass down. "Let's...find a makeout spot."
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Post by Snowglobe18 on Feb 6, 2016 22:55:57 GMT -7
Lexi snorts and then finishes up her drink. Of course Nat beat him to it. Although her own brother usually beat her at cards. It was all very sad actually. But she could finally beat James at pool so they were pretty much even. "Oh, well it is a gentlemen's prerogative to let a woman win anyway so don't feel so bad" she teased before pushing her empty glass away and back towards the bartender.
Teresa looked in the direction of the make out booths. It literally was where people went to make out and she didn't know whether to be weirded out or happy at the fact there were make out points in the club that they were in. "Plus it gives Lexi and Sam somewhere to go" she looks over at her cousin and smirks, of course Lexi would playfully glare at her and she was actually okay with that. It was cute and funny.
Lexi got off her seat and then grabbed her purse from the glass top. "Come on" she said and nudged her head towards one of the make-out spots. They had got the drinks from the bartender and Barton had finally relented and said that about going to one of the spots. She put her strap over her shoulder and let her purse hang down at her side before she took Sam's hand and danced with him through the crowd.
Teresa huffed out a laugh "My god" she said and slid off the stool herself and grabbed her glass before following after Sam and Lexi. It was oddly cute watching these two. They both flirted and nothing came out of it, even though she's sure that Lexi sometimes wants something. She walks behind them and over to the make out spot that they were taking up before she put her glass down on the table and moved into the seat. This definitely gave them more privacy than sitting at the bar. Plus it meant she didn't get elbowed in the shoulder everytime someone wanted to get the bartenders attention. It had happened four times. Around the fourth times she had nudged the girl back and there were strings of language and Teresa just smirked before the red head had moved away.
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