#.・゜✭ . the likes of those old crows ———— interactions

[assetfcrged]

      no matter what his heart said getting used to this had taken a lot out of him.  a lot of nightmares.  a lot of looking himself in the mirror.  bucky even had to learn it was okay not to sleep on the floor even though he still hated the mattress.  it was too soft.  he felt like he was goin to fall to the center of the earth every time he sat on the edge.  worst of all, the cloud feeling made him anxious he wouldn’t be able to react in time in case danger came blazing through the door.  or, well, the window.  he’d shot fury through a window so, that was definitely a possibility.

     when a mattress was finally in the picture, however, the soldier couldn’t help but set it up near the wall facing the inside and not right under the picturesque window like a normal person would’ve done.  actually, putting it in the living room made the most sense considering every memory he had but that was also the furthest thing from attempting a new civilian life with kelly.  with all that in mind the mattress stayed in the bedroom in the strangest angle he could manage considering the door.

     bucky learned the silence was what bothered him the most.  not knowing where kelly was triggered something in him, at least in the beginning.  his shoulders would stay tense as if he was worried someone was going to sneak up on him.  he wasn’t.  logically, he knew kelly wasn’t going to do anything to hurt him but there was nothing logical about all the things that went through his head.  seeing her head on - anyone, really - made it easier to accept the company.  but, he was learning.  slowly.

     “ what? “ his head shot up from one of the newer sci-fi novels steve left behind.  mostly just a stack of things he’d read to catch up on life when he first came out of the ice.  frank herbert’s dune was sitting in his lap.  the spice was fascinating.  more than that, all the descriptions of the body suits and how the technology developed to survive on such an extreme weather planet has his mind reeling.  “ does that mean they plop bulgogi into a tortilla?  actually… “  both his head and his eyebrow lifted at the idea.

     setting aside the book, the soldier stands to join his girlfriend at the counter.  cold beer comes up to his lips much more easily than it did when they were at the sushi place down the street.  in the sanctity of their own walls bucky didn’t have to be self conscious of the metal arm that labeled him, without so many words, as a criminal.

     “ there’s a place in vegas steve took me to a little while ago.  they make sushi burritos. except, there’s no tortilla.  it’s basically a giant sushi roll. “  the memory makes him smile.  even in such a busy city people had been respectful enough to give steve his space.  either that or there were so many celebrity look-a-likes that no one gave them a second look.

     it’s not until kelly leans in for a kiss on the cheek that he realizes just how normal the conversation is.  at one point he honestly didn’t think that was in the stars for him.  not after everything he’d been through.

     “  if it’s cherry and you don’t share,  i’m going to be really sad. “

Tony had teased her, when he realized just how deep her feelings for James Barnes were. Not in a cruel way, Tony was never cruel with her, not once since she had shown up on his doorstep not long after Ultron and Sakovia and begged him to teach her how to save the world instead of breaking it. He had teased her the way big brothers did about your crushes and stumbling through those first parts of relationships. 

And then promptly fucked off to take a late honeymoon with his husband.

When you’re both super soldiers with massive amounts of trauma from being brainwashed in one form or another and used as an assassin for HYDRA stumbling through all those awkward firsts and seconds and thirds of a relationship can be a minefield. They’d worked through them, taken one cautious step after another until they found something like this where it took time, fits and starts. Sharing their space full time was a different kind of intimacy, a kind Kelly was acutely unfamiliar with. She had been used to having no space of her own within the confines of the barracks where she and the other children raised in the War Gods program spent so much of their time. When she had escaped, being a mercenary and then an arms dealer afforded her privacy but she never had enough trust or friendship that she could share space with another person. Becoming a hero had given her friends and family, a way to breathe easier when there were six people in the kitchen all trying to cook at the same time. Soothed down the instinct to lift her hands when she found someone else in the gym at 2 am. Still this particular cliff was one she only wanted to jump off of with Jamie.   

Kelly holds up a piece of paper, the scrawl written over it only legible after the years of knowing the Iron Man. She notices the way James seems to pause over not being sure where to order from and decides to roll right past it. They have their various quirks. “One half of the superhusbands left a list of places to order from, apparently they’re all great and we’re contractually obligated to try” she pauses, squinting at the note on the top again “I think this says Mexican-Korean fusion.” The super soldier rolls her eyes and drops the list back onto the stone of the counter top. Kelly picks up the menu for the pizza place along with two bottles of beer, handing both the menu and one of the bottles to her boyfriend. “So at least one pepperoni, I want a bacon pizza to smother in maple syrup and then I was thinking maybe half of the sides section of the place on this list. And maybe if you’re lucky, I will share the ice cream I hid in your freezer when I got here” she teases, leaning over to place a kiss on his cheek. 

[hadesfought]

icarusxfalling​   //   tony

Aunt Peggy had told him the stories. About Steve falling off the train, about Barnes being the one to pick up the shield and go down into the ice. He had been Tony’s first real crush, not that he would ever admit that out loud now that the man wasn’t doing time as a frozen super solider. Howard had held Barnes in the same light he held Steve. Better men than he would ever be.

He’s coming up from the workshop to grab some food and another drink, stopping into the communal kitchen he had offered the other planet side avengers, pausing when he sees there’s someone else already in the room. His eyes widen just a little when he realizes it’s Barnes. Tony closes his eyes, wondering if maybe he should skip the food and go up to his own floor for a drink. But JARVIS instance to lock him out until he ate made him think better of it.

“Can’t sleep capsicle?” Tony quips as he comes around the island and opens the fridge, eyes roving over the contents for some leftover take out. “Or does Barton snore so loud you can hear him from a floor down?”

@forgcdasset gets a semi plotted starter

          maria hill was helping him try to find out what happened to his family.  decades was a long time to try and sort through.  bucky had tried to do it by himself but between briefings and reminiscing and signing documents, there was only so much time left to traverse the internet.  ( all that new technology??? )

          he’d woken up to the sound of someone coughing in their sleep.  instincts threw him out of bed to look around for steve, thinking medicine needed to be at the ready.  the darkness reminded him these were different times.  not so long ago steve had come to him behind enemy lines a completely new man, free of any illness that ever tried to slow him down.  the sadness that washed over barnes at the realization of how much had changed over the decades had him going for a jog.  

         once back, he started talking to the coffee maker as the grounds were poured in and the water sloshed through.  what he hadn’t been expecting was anyone else up after the fight they just had.  “ steve used to snore, “ a reminiscent smile leads to barnes shaking his head.  “ but, uh, i’ve always been a light sleeper.  he should consider getting that checked out, though. “  the latter was an attempt at humor, probably poorly timed since he hadn’t had caffeine yet.  “ what about you?  looks like you’ve been going all night. “