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Flattery will get you everywhere, but if you're the same Bucky Barnes I've heard of and just met, then you don't have to ask.

If you're not, then yeah, this is a little weird. Is this one of those alternate universe things people have told me about?

Yeah, no, that's probably the other one. Similar worlds, but not exact. It's a mess, but you get used to it.

The important thing is that I'm the cuter one. Also a Dom, so I can actually pay you money.

Basically, I just want someone to go over this contract with me and make sure there are as few loopholes for this place to use as possible. And I trust you more than I do their lawyers for obvious reasons.

Sounds like my life back home. [ Everything's a mess, but he got used to it. Figures that would extend here. ] You said the magic words: cute and money.

All right, bad joke. But I'd trust me more than their lawyers, too, and I can help you out there. Contracts are the first thing I looked into when I got here; I wasn't going to sign anything if I didn't know it front and back.

Yeah, mine too. [He actually laughs at that a little, not that Foggy can tell.]

Thanks. We sorta talked about what we want for the most part. But...
Did you hear anything about Fort Harmony?
Because long story short it sucked, but there were some people that got out of parts of it because they had things in their contract about it.

So I just wanna make sure I do what I can to try and protect ourselves.

Yeah, a couple of people have told me about it. I would say it sounds like a wet dream of a civil suit, but laws and precedent are a lot different here.

[ Doesn't mean he's not tempted to try anyway, but they'll have to do a lot more research before they can figure out if it's worthwhile to even think about trying.

Knowing that people were able to get out of some of it because of their contracts is a good place to start, though. Maybe other people had things in their contracts that they weren't able to avoid, and they could go after them for violating the contracts they're so keen to -

No, okay, not the point right now, Nelson. ]

You want to get real specific, cover exactly what you two want and don't want and what you can and can't do. More complicated than going vague and leaving yourself a lot of wiggle room for anything that might come up, but a hell of a lot safer. Smarter, too.

Yeah, we can do that. Full disclosure - it'll be the first contract I've done here, aside from working on my own and drafting up a couple of hypothetical ones so I can get a handle on the differences between contract work here and back home. But I'll let you have a look at them, and we can work on it together to make sure it's what you want.

Yeah.

I mean, I at least wanna get explicit as we can about the worst stuff, like no public humiliation, forcing him to kneel in public, no causing him physical harm, that sort of stuff. And maybe next time things go crazy it doesn't matter, but I'd at least feel better knowing I tried.

That's alright, I'd rather take you guys being new to the city than anyone else here, really.

But yeah, that sounds like a plan. I know a quiet place for coffee, you can bring your drafts and we can talk it over?

I know exactly what you mean. I'm doing the same thing.

[ It's the only reason he's doing this, actually, because he wants to have as much protection in place as he can before Matt goes off and does something stupid and brave.

This is the only way Foggy knows how to protect people. ]

Works for me. Text me the address and I'll meet you there?

Sounds great.

[Bucky texts him the address, and it's a small place in the down. Coffee that's decent, if not what you'd find in the Up, a decided lack of fancy drinks. But it's clean and quiet, with nice sized tables if you're having conversations over a fair amount of paperwork. This late in the day the pastries aren't quite fresh out of the oven, but it's got something almost like charm. Or maybe Bucky just likes things a little basic.

He's got a few papers with him, too. Nothing fancy, just a rough outline for the things he'd talked about with Clint. Some of the things they hadn't exactly talked about but were just common sense; like that Clint could get a job if he wanted to and got to keep all his money. Not that he thought Clint wouldn't contribute if he could, he just didn't want that to be binding.

Bucky's in jeans and a tee-shirt, so the metal arm isn't hard to spot, and his hair is pulled back in a ponytail. He's got a smile and doesn't look as threatening as one might assume, though.]

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