Dumpster #3: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Holy shitballs, look at us go. Welcome to Captain America fandom's resident wretched hive of scum and villainy: ROUND THREE. AKA Bad Guys Do Dirtybadwrong Things To Your Faves, AKA the Hydra Trash Party kinkmeme. As usual, BLANKET NON-CON AND NSFW WARNINGS apply: just assume going in that everything in this landfill is unfit for human consumption.

Rules in brief: don't be a jerk except to fictional characters, warnings for particularly fucked-up garbage are nice but not required, thou shalt not judge the trashiness of thy neighbor's kinks unless thy neighbor is trying to pass off their rotting banana peels and half-eaten pizza crusts as a healthy romantic dinner for two, off-topic comments may be chucked out of the dumpster at management's discretion, management's discretion decrees that omegaverse, soulbond AUs, D/s-verse, non-superpowered AUs, and dark!good guys AUs are off-topic.

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Round 3 is closed; comments and fills in existing threads are still welcome, but all new prompts go to Round 4.

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FILL: The Right Answer 3/?

[(Anonymous)]

It was a little strange how fast something like this could develop into a routine. Rumlow would ask where Bucky was; Steve would say he didn't know; one of Rumlow's men would punch him. They never hit him in the face, not wanting to compromise his ability to talk, but his torso, arms and legs were mottled with bruises, the oldest ones spreading out and beginning to fade.

Steve was very hungry by the time Rumlow said, "I have to admit, Cap, I'm impressed."

Steve laughed, honestly amused. "Are you kidding? I can do this all day." He felt pretty terrible, but it wasn't really much worse than an average day, back before the serum. Only the contrast with his current good health made it hard to take.

"Last time you saw him he tried to kill you. Why're you taking this for him?"

"The thing is, Rumlow? Back when you were working with me, I'd have done it for you too," Steve said. "That's what you do for your friends, for your team."

Rumlow's ruined lips set in a hard line. "It's bad enough that you say that kind of shit. What makes it pathetic is that you mean it."

"Well, that was before I knew you were Hydra," Steve said, shrugging as best he could. "It seems kind of stupid now."

Rumlow stood up and crossed to stand in front of him, drawing his shock baton as he moved. "Where's Barnes?"

"I don't know, and if I did I wouldn't tell you," Steve said.

Rumlow flicked the trigger of the shock stick and jammed it into Steve's ribs. Steve convulsed, trying to scream around the way his throat locked up. "Give me Barnes and you can walk out of here, Cap," Rumlow was saying, somewhere far away. Steve could feel the heavy metal band of the collar digging into his windpipe but he couldn't straighten enough to take the pressure off. The shock stopped and he slumped, struggling for breath.

"Where's Barnes?"

"Dunno," Steve muttered. Rumlow shocked him again, for long enough that Steve's vision was starting to bloom sparkly grey spots by the time it let up.

"Where. Is. Barnes?"

"I don't know," Steve said. This time the shock baton landed on his inner thigh and he screamed and screamed until darkness swallowed him.

*

When he woke up, the collar was gone. Steve couldn't decide if he was grateful for that. The damn thing had been uncomfortable, but being able to knock himself out at will could have been nice.

Almost all his weight was hanging from his arms, and his wrists and shoulders ached fiercely. He forced himself through the transition from dangling to standing and raised his head. Rumlow held out a plastic bottle with a straw in it. "Drink this."

"Why the hell should I?"

"Because dehydration is bad for your willpower," said Rumlow, with his best approximation of his old careless smile. "You want to protect your old pal Bucky, right?"

Steve glared. It was in Rumlow's interest for him to be lucid, but on the other hand it wasn't impossible he'd go out of his head enough to let something slip if he didn't take what he could get. He leaned forward and pulled the straw into his mouth.

The liquid tasted like nothing but the metallic flatness of tap water and Steve drank quickly. It was an illusion that he could feel the water moving through him, soaking into dry tissues. When the bottle was empty Rumlow set it aside. "OK, you remember the deal. Tell me where Barnes is and you're out."

Steve knew he couldn't waste the liquid on spitting in Rumlow's face, but it was awfully tempting.

*

Despite his best efforts he didn't manage to pass out again, but after a while Steve found himself drifting. He knew he still screamed and struggled every time the shock stick hit him, but he didn't care very much. Rumlow kept asking where Bucky was, and Steve kept insisting he didn't know. He wondered fuzzily if Rumlow thought he'd gotten much better at lying recently. Everyone knew Steve couldn't lie, didn't they?

"You can stop this any time you want, Cap. All you have to do is tell me where Barnes is."

Steve shook his head. The shock baton cracked down across his collarbones.

Re: FILL: The Right Answer 3/?

[(Anonymous)]

popcorn sweepings, banana peels, and 15 notices reminding me to renew my aclu membership for you, lovely trash author!

I love this. Steve is soooo good.

Re: FILL: The Right Answer 3/?

[(Anonymous)]

I love the part where Steve says he'd have done the same thing for Rumlow. And we know it's true, and Rumlow knows it's true, and I just - I know Rumlow's not the sympathetic one here, but you have to wonder if he knows what he's lost.

Poor Steve! Maybe it's just my suspicious mind, but I'm worried about that water. Though I suppose not many drugs would work on Steve... So excited for the rest of this. :D

Re: FILL: The Right Answer 3/?

[(Anonymous)]

you have to wonder if he knows what he's lost.

He sort of does, so he's done the thing where he's convinced himself that that kind of loyalty is for suckers. If you asked Rumlow'd say he'd flip on his guys instantly, and he'd expect them to do the same thing to him, because you have to put on your own oxygen mask first, buddy.

Maybe it's just my suspicious mind, but I'm worried about that water.

:whistles:

Re: FILL: The Right Answer 3/?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not much for Steve trash usually but this is great. I have a feeling it's gonna get pretty nasty... And I am here for that.