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    Sometimes on good days, when his dad wasn’t screaming and shouting at everything that moved, he’d put Bob in the truck and drive out on the 72 and go fishing with him in the evening. Flashlights in the dark, streaking dim across expanses of black water, muggy air, mosquitoes. Little red eyes looking back out of the water. They’d sit and guess how big the gators were from the distance between the eyes. You’d better watch yourself out here, Bobby, his dad would say sometimes, and pretend to start to push him forward over the boardwalk with a big hand splayed on his back. And he’d laugh and laugh, like it was funny.

    Bob had never thought it was funny. But he’d learned early on to laugh along.

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    When Bob tries out a new solution for his wellbeing, he's advised by Barnes to keep to a schedule and avoid any variables. But this means pulling away from the New Avengers (and Yelena) for a while, and even though the results are fantastic, all that pent-up need for connection and affection has to go somewhere when the adjustment period is over.

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    21 May 2025

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    "He follows her around like a lost puppy.”

    "Well, she is the first one who went in after him, you know?" Alexei replies, sounding defensive. "They have... a understanding. A connection, ever since the shame rooms."

    "Is that all it is?" Ava asks with a headtilt, one eyebrow raised.

    "If it is more, I feel bad for that boy. Yelena never showed any interest in such things even as little girl."

    As the Thunderbolts learn to live together and save the world from a new threat, Bob tries to also learn to control his powers and Yelena learns new things about herself. Will she be able to come to terms with those things?

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    15 May 2025

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    Three months after New York was swallowed by a nightmarish blanket of psychological agony, Robert Reynolds was once again just Bob.

    And Just Bob liked boring French New Wave and Depeche Mode and pictures of baby Highland cows. He stacked fries in his burgers like Jenga towers. He liked Jane Kenyon, Allen Ginsberg. Made a mean Lasagna alla Bolognese. Played guitar (kind of). Knew how to jumpstart a car (pretty well, actually). He liked chess.

    He’d spent most of his life high, bridging sober gaps with odd jobs and side hustles and jail. He’d stolen from everyone who cared enough to let him into their home.

    Robert Reynolds wasn’t Sentry, he wasn’t the Void—but he had been.

    Wasn't it only a matter of time before he would be again?

    After the Void descended on New York, Yelena adjusts to the life her sister led—dealing with PR managers, government endorsements, and a team she’s only recently learned to tolerate.

    And then there’s the Bob thing.
    And the Bob thing is super fucking complicated.

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    07 May 2025

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    “I don’t think I can go anywhere again without you, Yelena Belova.”

    She feels the weight of his warm palm in hers, the way his long fingers curl around her delicate ones. Yelena breathes him in– the scent of chamomile and cinnamon cutting through the smoke in the air. She watches the slight way silver crescents bowl around the brown of his irises, feels his power thrum against her.

    “That’s a relief. I wouldn’t have let you go anyways.”

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    07 May 2025

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    Basically, Bucky being a meddling dad who made it his entire personal vendetta to stop workplace romance between young agents from blooming.

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    07 May 2025