#also Peter prob showed up in one of those giant t rex costumes

[wienerbarnes]

OKAY BECAUSE I LOVE CHEEK TO CHEEK!! do you think the reader plans her halloween costume in advance with bucky and when it’s time, they have this whole extravagant costume that wins an award at the tower just because everyone thought it was so good

(cheek to cheek masterlist)

oh, absolutely.

If there’s one thing she’s good at, it’s dressing up.

So when Sam mentions a costume party consisting of newly graduated agents as celebration for completing their physical combat training with Bucky, it’s the best news she’s heard all year.

Bucky’s lame about it, though.

“Babe, what are dressing up as for the Halloween party?”

“An Avengers Agent.”

“Bucky!”

“Fine. I’m kidding. I’m going as The Winter Soldier.”

Eventually, she convinces him to match with her, but definitely not before... playing it up a bit.

“Babe, this is my first Halloween party, ever, don’t you want to help me make the most of it?”

And Bucky just can’t say no to that face, especially to those pouting lips.

So he agrees and gives her full control. 

Which he soon realizes is a mistake when she finally tells him her idea. 

He was expecting something cute, like Mickey and Minnie, which was popular when he was a teenager. Not -

“The weird white people from Tiger King?”

He only has himself to blame; he was the one who showed her the damn show in the first place.

“Bucky, imagine how funny that’d be!”

“Didn’t she kill her husband? And didn’t he try and kill her?” 

“Bucky, what describes us better than killing?”

She’s got a point there.

“So, what, you need to me to go buy you some fake flowers for that crown she wears?”

“Oh, I’m not going as Carole.”

So that’s how he ends up in flared jeans and a flower crown on his head. He glances over at the body next to him, blond mullet and fake mustache paired with a shiny, fake eyebrow piercing. She tried to kiss him earlier but he didn’t let her.

He refused to wear the long blonde wig, but he still feels ridiculous in the horrendous pink flowy shirt he’s got on. He’s got to admit though, he’s kinda glad she picked to be Joe Exotic.

She’s wearing white men’s pants and a god awful, neon blue button down shirt, with black, shiny tiger strips on it. She has cowboy boots on that are too big for her feet and a brown leather gun holster that’s too big for just about anybody. The two of you look ridiculous.

And Bucky doesn’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that they’re the most dressed up ones when they arrive. There are people that aren’t even wearing costumes here and he’s dressed like this. 

There are people in typical devil and angel costumes, some ghost - bedsheet costumes, some people just came in their tactical uniforms, something he was planning on doing.

“Oh, babe, we’ve got this in the bag.” She whispers to him excitedly.

He looks at her, that big, goofy grin on her face underneath that ugly handlebar state, and he can’t help but smile back.

They win the contest by a landslide. Their competition was a Joker and Harley Quinn costume which Miss Exotic thought sucked, and someone who dressed as the Captain. But Bucky thinks Sam called him just because he dressed like him, not because the costume was good.

In the end, Bucky did it to make her happy, and boy was she happy with that little plastic trophy. And he’s not sure if all of the pictures Sam took of him was worth it in the end; God knows what he’ll do with those pictures.

But seeing his girlfriend so happy with her win was worth whatever blackmail Sam will use against him in the future.