#and Bucky going a bit feral and protective levels are off the charts

[alienoresimagines]

You know how Charles Leclerc (F1 driver) once went to a restaurant and took a picture with someone who ended up being a criminal wanted by Interpol ? I'm thinking this but make it Clegan (modern AU) aka

John and Gale are in an established relationship and trust each other completely, hence why Gale has no problem letting Bucky go clubbing because he knows the other would never do anything with how in love they are. John knows Gale isn't really comfortable in clubs so even if he sometimes manages to convince him to come with him because there's nothing better than spending time with Gale, sometimes Gale'd rather stay home and that's okay too. Bucky gets to spend his energy dancing and socialising, Gale can spend his night at home in the quiet after a long day and it all works out.

On those occasions, Bucky always makes sure not to drink too much and to come home before 1:30-2:00 since he knows Buck always waits for him to come home to go to sleep. A few times he's loses track of how many glasses he's in but that's only when he has friends he knows there (aka Brady or Curt) to crash at their place and send Gale a text. This isn't one of those occasion.

The night is going very well, Bucky has a lot of fun dancing and chatting around. At some point, he starts talking to another guy (thinking of Haussmann cuz why not) who he hits it off with immediately (purely platonic from John's part though because he has Gale and Gale is absolutely all he needs or wants). They talk about baseball, the music, and John thinks that this is a very nice fella and he's just a bit tipsy so when Haussmann asks if they can take a picture to remember the good night, Bucky agrees and posts it on his Instagram story

He comes back to Gale at around 2 a.m., he talks to him a bit about the nice guy he met and they go to sleep. But when they take their breakfast, Bucky freezes then frowns looking at the news. When Gale asks him if something is wrong, Bucky shows him an article of a criminal wanted by Interpol being caught near the club John was at the night before and says "That's the guy I was telling you about", all confused and a bit lost because John really thought he was good guy

And, well... Gale just loses his shit and loses it even more when Bucky tries to play it as a joke. Gale's an anxious mess, googling who that guy was to know what he'd done, and thinking about all the what-ifs, refusing to let Bucky out of his sight while Bucky lost his footing a bit because he's always had a good judge of character ? He just doesn't know what to do with that experience but eventually they have a fight when John tells Gale he goes clubbing a month after

John doesn't really understand why Gale is so worried because nothing happened at all which only makes Gale more mad but don't worry they'll work it out and hug :)

Just maybe, it'll be Gale convincing John to spend a quiet night in more often than the other way around now