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[stephrogers]

The mellow dance hall had an old timey feel to it: wooden paneling, sweethearts dancing slowly with each other as the gentle music of a big band song played. Steph was standing to the side, searching over the slow moving couples to see if she could find...if she could find him. But something was off. She knew she wasn't in the 40s anymore. She knew that. She was wearing her new Captain America uniform. One that Coulson designed. Yet...yet the setting looked just like home. And there was hope in her chest that Bucky was just really late.

No. This was a dream. It had to be.

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[stephrogers]

"Oh I'm not...I'm not good at this kind of thing." Dancing. Flirting. It wasn't just the girl that tipped her off. But the fact that Steph was taller. She looked down at her clothes. Nearly everything else was...perfect. The smiles, the music.

[waterfell]

Good. A lot of the worst things in Ami's world happened because of relationships between people who simply didn't let go - while the price was paid by everyone around them. But she's told herself not every relationship has to be like that, and she seemed to accept Stephanie's answer.

"So are you staying here, or going to look for him?"

[stephrogers]

"Maybe..." She hesitated a little. "Maybe I'll stay here and wait for him. He could just be late." She shuffled uneasily. At one point, she was small enough to cough and pretend she was sick and retreat back home but now...it wasn't the case.

[waterfell]

"In my experience," Ami offered, "It's not worth waiting for someone who won't come." It was not that she doubted Bucky in specific; it was that she doubted nearly everyone in this way.

"If you're that eager to find him, you were right to keep looking instead."

[stephrogers]

"Perhaps I should," Steph replied. Something just felt off about the whole thing. And she shook her head, feeling a little dizzy. There were so many conflicting ideas.

[waterfell]

"Or," Ami suggested, "Ask yourself where he'd be if he decided not to meet you."

She'd never known, herself, that when her comrades hadn't come to save her, they had been in battle themselves. She had assumed they simply didn't see her as worth coming for. Probably, she thinks, they'd been safe in their homes.

[stephrogers]

"He'd be here," Steph insisted. Bucky would never leave her like this. Not floundering on her own. Even if he had a date with him. But a loud blaring started to fill the entire room and the people began to disappear slowly.

"What the--?"

[waterfell]

It might have been the idea of Bucky waiting, or waiting for Bucky, that was enough to start to rouse Ami from her sleep. Whatever it was, the blaring noise melded itself into the alarms and shrill birdsong of a spring morning as she faded from sight, too.

[stephrogers]

The entire scene began to fade rapidly and the loud klaxon became her alarm. "NO!"