[for Bucky] Who is the lamb and who is the knife

[notaparker]

Part of me is kind of hoping this city thing sticks around after the snow goes away. If it does, since things apparently are getting seriously remixed this Christmas season

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[onlyapassenger]

Bucky is beginning to wonder if rapid fire banter isn't genetic. His face screwed up into a dubious expression -- its default around Jessica Drew -- he dismisses the request as he does half the rest, and leans back against a protruding chimney, resting his one and only hand on his hip. The mechanical arm's a lot more dexterous than it has any right to be, but it's too heavy for the kind of training they're here to do, so he ditched early on in the session.

The change of scenery is nice, but he's counting down the days until everything's meant to change back; he'd gotten used to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s upgrade.

"I want to work on some more offensive strategies," he says. "You're still too reactive."

[notaparker]

"That didn't sound like him at all," I say, perching on a smokestack. "Isn't that the thing, though? I'm not looking to start fights, I'm looking to stop the people who start fights. Unless you have some kind of fancy machine that tells me who I should be punching before they go to cause trouble. Which... would still be morally dubious."

Admittedly, the days of 'sense incoming attack, get out of way, knock out bad guy' are far behind me, because I can do approximately half of that, half of the time. In theory. I don't have a lot of bad guys to practice on. But still, I'm not sure what he means. Sucker punches?

[onlyapassenger]

"Strongest defense is a good offense," he replies, wry. There are times where it pays to wait for the other guy to throw the first punch, but they're limited to acts of vigilantism. In a life or death situation, you don't want to wait for someone else to pull the trigger unless you have a damn good reason you want to die.

"And if you need a machine to tell you when someone looks suspicious, then we're going back to square one."

[notaparker]

"Thanks, coach," I say, linking my fingers and stretching them out in front of me, and then moving them, still linked, behind my head. "I hear that 90 percent of baseball is mental, too. But, so, I mean- offensive strategies in what sense?"