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The Barnes Family -4
SiânSO1: James Buchanan Barnes
SO2: Natalia Alianovna [Romanova] BarnesDS [13]: Yevgeny Ruslan "Zhenya" Barnes [Abakan, Russia]
DS [11]: Miloš Teodor Barnes [Ostrava, Czech Republic]
DD [8]: Anastasiya Violeta Barnes [Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria]
DD/DD [5]: Nadya Anara & Darya Saltanat "Dasha" [Astana, Kazakhstan]Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nadya fit the prosthesis over her foot and ankle while surreptitiously stealing looks up at her new parents for signs of judgement or disapproval. James reached out and handed her her shoes when she was ready and made it a point to let his hand linger. She hadn't noticed before- most people didn't. His hand looked fairly lifelike to the passing eye, but upon a second look it was recognizable as a plastic and vinyl prosthetic. He tugged his sleeve up a bit to show the metal and plastic that helped to hold the arm together and operate the joints. Nadya took a moment to take in the arm before reaching up and touching it. James smiled."I fell from really high up when I was young," he explained*. "It was too broken to use anymore so I got this one." It wasn't exactly that simple, but he figured that was simple enough for someone only five-years-old. "Like your foot," Dasha had marveled to her sister and that had been that. Nadya reached up and took James's hand. Dasha had reached and taken Natalia's and the two of them walked out of the orphanage and into their new lives.
* Idk. They probably were speaking Russian.
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