016 ♐ Video ♐ 17 company men, out of which only 12 will make it back again

[codename_duchess]

[This is a very slight change of pace from normal. Archer is up, be-suited, and holding a scotch on the rocks in his hand with the bottle tucked under his arm. The unusual part is that he's not in his room or the pub, he's outside the chapel. The very unusual part is that he's not drunk.]

Chances are no matter who you are on board, and no matter how shitty the place you came from is, someone died trying to make it better. Maybe lots of people. Maybe some of you died trying to help your country or your cause. And maybe people just don't talk about it because they don't want to think about people dying so they could have something good. Which is shitty.

So.

[Archer holds the glass out at arm's length and overturns it onto the ground, somberly.]

Pour one out for the guys who aren't here and remember the people who died. Here's to the vets.

Comments

[imfollowinghim]

[So, Bucky knows what today is, and while Steve probably would say something... Bucky's not Steve. And he was sort of not sure if anyone else gave a shit, so this is actually. Nice.]

Thanks. For saying that.

[codename_duchess]

Well, no one else did. For some reason.

[imfollowinghim]

Well, [He can think of a lot of reasons, really, but the one he winds up saying kind of comes out before he really realizes he's actually going to say it.] Captain America's not here.

[codename_duchess]

Um... so? Captain America's not a lot of places.

[imfollowinghim]

Forget it. [It had kind of been a joke at his own expense, nbd.]

[codename_duchess]

Wait, what?

[imfollowinghim]

If he was here, he'd've remembered and said something. I kinda get the impression this sort of thing's pretty far off everyone else's radar.

[codename_duchess]

Well, Captain America's not the only soldier. We've got a lot of them here and even more where we all came from.

...it seemed weird no one else said anything about it.

[imfollowinghim]

[Bucky... really doesn't think it is. It's easy to be forgetful, accidentally ungrateful, when you don't have it right in front of your face. God knows he's never expected thanks for what he's done.]

Well, thanks. Again.

[codename_duchess]

Yeah.

Thanks.