[Zhongyingmei] At the end of time

After simply pasting the window, Bucky went out, and when he came back, he carried a bag with a few clothes and toiletries in it.

After the two ate the sandwich Bucky brought back for dinner, they sat at the table and looked at each other.Luna saw that dusk had just arrived outside, and it would be several hours before going to bed after dark, and the two of them couldn't just sit here awkwardly for several hours.

Bucky stared at a bare wall with an ethereal expression on his face, as if he was about to become a fairy in the next second.

Looking at his expression, Luna felt that she had a toothache, so she stood up and said to him, "I'm going to take a shower."

Bucky's enlightened expression suddenly disappeared, he raised his head and said to Luna seriously: "The landlord has provided them, I just washed them and put them in the bathroom, and I just bought pajamas..."

Luna stepped in front of Bucky, lowered her head and kissed him. Bucky subconsciously turned his head away, and then turned back a little stiffly.Luna's lips brushed against the side of his cheek, and Bucky showed a fierce expression as if he was going to kill someone with a gun in the next second, but Luna saw his hidden embarrassment.

She straightened up, smiled at Bucky as if nothing had happened, turned and went into the bathroom.

After taking a shower, she stood naked in front of the mirror, staring at the WS on her shoulder through the mist.

It is not so much a tattoo, but a scar. In those dark days, every time she regained her memory, she had to scratch it again to prevent the wound from completely healing and leaving no scars. After dozens of times, it finally formed Scars that have lasted for more than ten years may not fade in a lifetime.

She lightly touched the scar in the mirror, and the rough environment here made her feel as if she had returned to the Hydra base in Siberia.

But this is different, she said to herself silently, now that you have a father and friends, and a career that you want to fight for your whole life, you know that you are worthy of standing in the sun.

Luna put on the pajamas, which were just the right size, and walked out.

Bucky was sitting at the table writing something in a black leather notebook, when he saw Luna come out, he snapped the notebook shut.

Luna didn't approach him, but said: "I'm a little tired today, I'm going to rest first." Then she climbed into bed.

It didn't take long for her to feel that Bucky had quietly washed up and didn't go to bed, but just stood by the bed and watched her quietly.She pretended to be asleep with her eyes closed, her heart beating like a drum.

The two have different last memories of each other.

For Luna, the last time the two met in her memory was in front of Bucky's house in Brooklyn. At that time, the two were in love, and he was still young and ignorant of the world.

For Bucky, the last time he saw Luna was in Eastern Europe. He touched Luna's head and walked out of the hiding place of the two in order to protect Annie. When he looked back, the eight-year-old girl had disappeared.

To Luna, he's her Bucky brother, and to Bucky, she's the little girl he saved at the Hydra base.

She loves him, but he just pities her.

Why doesn't Luna understand this, but she understands that Bucky will recover his memory one day, and her brother Bucky will come back one day, so she is not sad about Bucky's indifference, but there will be some emptiness in her heart. Empty regrets.

We reunited after such a long time, which makes me cherish the time with you very much. After parting, I have experienced many things and have many things to tell you, so please remember me as soon as possible, okay?

Time passed silently in the room like water, and after an unknown amount of time, Bucky carefully laid his back on Luna and lay beside her. Luna turned around and hugged Bucky, pressing her face against his back.

Bucky's body stiffened like a piece of wood for a moment, and he didn't move, but Luna just let go of his hand after taking a deep breath, and turned back.

The two of them slept back to back in this way for the whole night, no one moved, in fact, no one fell asleep.

Luna's life was confined to this room. She was really idle and bored, so she had to study how to use the two people's meager living funds to decorate this room with an unknown history.

Fortunately, although Bucky's memory has not been fully recovered, he has recovered his aesthetics as the little prince of Brooklyn. Even if Luna just asked him to buy a cup, he can pick out the best looking one with the least amount of money.

After the two lived in the room for a week, the whole room changed dramatically. The kitchen utensils became much more complete. The tabletop was covered with the cloth that Bucky bought according to Luna's description, and a large amount of dark blue and bright colors were splashed on it like splashed ink. Yellow, very much like Van Gogh's famous painting of crows in a wheat field.The same fabric was cut and cut by Luna for the cushions on the chair backs, and she even re-sewed the pillowcases and sheets.

Bucky unconditionally supports Luna's struggles, and he knows in his heart that although Luna acts like she loves life and doesn't care about world affairs, there is a sense of powerlessness in her heart.

Bucky went out this morning as usual to buy some vegetables and a newspaper.The headline on the front page was glaringly "Separate but equal?"

Bucky read the front page article word by word three times, sighed deeply, tore off the front page, folded it neatly, stuffed it into his pocket, and casually threw the rest of the newspaper into the trash can.

On the way back, he saw a small stall on the side of the street with a few dolls and a few ferrules on it. Bucky wanted to habitually ignore and pass by, but remembered Luna casually saying that the room was still a little empty a few days ago. , he still stopped in front of the stall.

After returning to the room, Bucky, who was used to Hydra's repressed aesthetics, was blinded by the bold and bright decorations.Luna was squatting in front of the cabinet and doing something, when she saw Bucky come back, she stood up with a smile: "I plan to dig out the floor under the cabinet, and then make a few shelf boards on the wall, that's it, in a well-arranged pattern. Nail it to the wall."

Luna was gesturing on the wall, and Bucky glanced around vigilantly, then closed the door: "Okay."

Luna saw the plush rabbit in his hand at once, and she reached out to take it: "Wow, where did you get this?"

Bucky put the dishes on the table and the meat in the sink, and explained briefly: "There's that kind of hoop game outside."

Luna played with the long ears of the gray rabbit, and said happily: "This one can just be placed on the shelf, you see, it's just sitting on it with the legs hanging down."

While washing the vegetables, Bucky said, "I won't go out this afternoon, let me pry the floor."

Luna couldn't put it down and hugged the hairless gray rabbit: "You can talk to the landlord this afternoon, we can't do this without permission."

Bucky's expression remained unchanged: "It's okay, no need."

Luna smiled and said, "That's fine. I'll buy this room when I get the money when I get back to the United States. After all, it took so much energy to decorate it."

Bucky turned his head and glanced at her, and found that her expression was normal, so he said, "Okay."

After the meal, Luna leaned against the bed and wrote and drew with the notebook Bucky bought a few days ago, while Bucky sat at the table with his expression of cultivating immortals, most of the time in a daze, occasionally writing in his notebook. Write something on it.

The two had some guesses about what the other was writing, but tacitly pretended not to care.

Luna wrote all afternoon, flicked her wrist, quickly flipped through what she wrote a few days ago, and said calmly: "Did something happen today?"

Bucky stopped writing and closed his notebook: "What do you want to say?"

Luna couldn't help laughing: "Come on, you have never been able to fool me. You came back today a little differently, what happened outside? What kind of moth did Hawick make?"

Bucky didn't want her to know these things, but he also knew that one day she would need to face these things directly, and she was no longer the little girl who needed him to stand in front of her.

He worded a few words: "The Department of Mutant Affairs has been established."

Luna was not surprised: "Of course, it was established after we left the United States."

Bucky nodded: "On the second day we arrived here, the Department of Mutant Affairs was officially established."

Luna then asked, "So what happened today?"

Bucky was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing what to say, Luna sat on the bed and looked at him straightly with clear eyes.

Bucky got up, sat next to Luna and looked at her, feeling a little helpless, Luna sneered, and stroked Bucky's half-long hair: "Is it so serious?"

This was the first time that Bucky took the initiative to approach her in a week. Although Luna pretended to be fearless, her heart gradually sank, and she had a vague premonition.

Bucky pursed his lips and said, "Hawick proposed a theory called - separate but equal."

Luna repeated slowly: "Separate...but equal?"

Bucky continued: "Some states have already planned to add relevant provisions to the state bills, but there is no news of changes in the United States government yet."

Luna sorted out her thoughts, and then asked, "What about the public's reaction?"

Bucky summed it up: "It may be because he proposed equality, so most people support it, but there is a lot of controversy about its specific implementation content-for example, no ordinary person is willing to be a driver of a mutant bus, but the mutant Human drivers are unwilling to accept recruitment from the Ministry of Mutant Affairs, and so on, so it has not been fully implemented yet."

Luna didn't care about Bucky's evasion, and directly asked the question that Bucky didn't want to talk about: "If you want to implement this theory, you must distinguish mutants from ordinary people, but mutants are not like colored people. Some mutants are invisible from the outside."

"What did he do?"

Bucky could only say: "The mandatory blood test at the national level has been halfway done. In the future, personal identification documents, such as driver's license and medical insurance card, will add an item—whether you are a mutant or not."

Luna's fingertips were cold, and she couldn't even speak for a moment.

Bucky didn't know how to comfort her, but he just said: "But what you did before is not completely useless. Now there are waves of mutant parades across the country, and many mutants have signed petitions. You know, according to the American Relevant regulations, when the number of signatures reaches 10, the White House will respond to the petition.”

Luna's voice was dry: "Give me the report."

Bucky had no choice but to take out the report in his pocket, and Luna read it at a glance, her hands were shaking with anger.

All the efforts she had made before were dispelled bit by bit with skill.