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Author's Note: I'm just marking off prompts, mah frens.
Submitting Info:
Stacked with: Hogwarts (Post Term 16); Ministry (Pre-Open); MC4A (Summer Year 5)
Individual Challenges: Red Bull; Rainbow Rainbow; Rian-Russo Inversion; Rian-Russo Inversion; Ethnic & Present; Zed Era; Old Shoes; Marvelous Cinema; Inks & Stinks; In a Flash; Bucket Listing (Y); Two Cakes (Y); Eating Cake (Y); Green Ribbon
House: Slytherin
Ministry Challenges: August Bingo [E5](Flower Shop AU);
Other Hogwarts Challenges: 365 [77](Ragamuffin); 1000 Prompts Challenge [619](Getting a new pet); Days of the Year [Aug 21/Senior Citizens Day]("I am not old!"); Teddy Bear Day [01](honey); Colors [12](Champagne)
Other MC4A Challenges: AU [3A](Flower Shop); Chim [Gyv]("King" - Florence & the Machine; Crimson);Fire [x3](Torture); Garden [Bargain Beans (Lilacs)]; Harvest [AUs (Flower Shop; No Powers); Items (Flowers); Relationships (Pet & Owner)];
Representation(s): Bucky Barnes & Darcy Lewis; Alpine the Cat; Flower Shop AU; No Powers AU; Chim Song Prompt
Primary & Secondary Bonus Challenges: Lyre Liar; Muck & Slime; Surprise!; Second Verse (Ladylike; Not a Lamp; Found Family; Nontraditional; Teat Juice; Unwanted Advice; For the Vine; Lovely Coconuts); Chorus (Endless Wonder; Odd Feathers; Pear-Shaped; Wabi Sabi; Bee Haven; Fizzy Lemonade; Machismo; Peddling Pots; Tomorrow's Shade; Bandstand; Larger than Life; Unicorn; Bast's Blessing; Vid Tangent); Demo 1 (Under the Bridge; Snow Lemon); Demo 2 (Sitting Hummingbird; Soul-Like; Lost Llama)
Tertiary & Generic Bonus Challenges: Once (Santa Fe; Cabernet); FR (Satisfaction); O3 (Ox)
Word Count: 436 words
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Arrival of the Snow Queen
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"Lots of shops have pets," Darcy had argued when she had brought home the little beast that she had declared was something called ragamuffin and looked like just a large cat to him. Bucky had stared at her with his most unimpressed expression. The petite woman had scowled in the way that usually meant she was thinking about bringing out Sparky. Bucky hurried to appease her. The last thing they needed was a customer to come in while he was twitching on the ground from being tazed.
"I'm sure we can find some way to keep the cat from eating the inventory," he assured her. The cat scowled at him as if she understood just how much he didn't want her around and especially anywhere near the tiny flower shop that he ran with Darcy. Bucky could almost see her white fur turning black with the red hot flames of her righteous fury. All without doing more than twitch her perfect ears and flick the very tip of her very fluffy tail.
Great. Typical. Bucky could just see how his future continuing in the same cycle of irritable and irritated women making his life into a wild ride. When he was younger, it was his sisters with their mother barely managing to corral them. Then during his years studying at Columbia University, it was Natasha, who Bucky was still not completely certain wasn't a secret assassin who was going to kill him and sell his organs on the black market. Not that the fear stopped him from drinking with Natasha and her favorite human pet, Clint. Now it was Darcy, another college holdover, and this tiny white beast.
"Have you named it yet?"
"This beautiful princess," Darcy replied tartly, "is named Alpine, and you will be worshiping her soon, don't you worry, old man."
"I am not old!" he protested. "And I wasn't worried!"
"Well, maybe you should be worried," Darcy suggested as she sashayed over to her work station, beginning to arrange a half-dozen crimson roses with a few sprigs of bleeding hearts and champagne lilacs. "Just because you worship the queen that she is, doesn't mean that she will grace you with the same. Cats are excellent judges of character and you do have terrible taste in coffee."
Just to be obnoxious, Bucky took an extra loud sip of his caramel latte with honey and triple whip. The debate on how many ways Bucky could order coffee from the cafe across the street where the drink was more sugar than cofee was still ongoing, but the way he saw it, he was definitely winning.