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gyokujyn · 1 year ago

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There was a war on. You take comfort where you can get it.

Marvel cinematic world and actors being indefensible aside, are we all just going to sit here and act like their swinger dynamics aren't happening

If you put these five souls on a graph and started red lining who's in a relationship with what and who's broke up with who and who had homoerotic relationships with who's dads you'd Pass Out

#marvel mcu #steve rogers #bucky barnes #howard stark #peggy carter #hank pym #yeah it's so messy #and it's cracky but i feel like once Tony figures out Steve and Bucky are a thing #he starts looking a little harder at his memories of his dad's hero worship of Captain America #he starts reviewing all his dad's old wartime notebooks and any recordings he can dig up #he starts asking Questions and Steve's a little embarrassed because it's not like the offer hadn't been on the table #but between Peggy and Bucky--well Steve had felt like he had enough on his hands but #Steve doesn't want to have that conversation with Tony--feels like it's not what Tony needs to hear so he tries to politely side step #and when that doesn't work he tries vaguely dismissing the question and when that doesn't work he tries begging Tony off #one day Tony is just staring at Steve with the gears churning in his head so hard there's practically smoke pouring out his ears #he's munching freeze-dried blueberries like popcorn and drilling holes in the side of Steve's head with his eyes #Steve knows he's there but has been dutifully ignoring him #and Bucky is aware of this weird tension but because of the whole father-murder angle Tony has avoided this topic around him #so it's the first time he's had the pleasure of directly witnessing Steve shrinking under the intensity of Tony's tenacity #he doesn't like it--it feels too much like after Bucharest--like Steve's somehow taking the heat for him again #it's Bucky that finally addresses the elephant in the room and even he's impressed by how calmly he asks Tony what his fucking problem is #Tony doesn't even look at him just stares at Steve because Steve knows and Tony says as much #Steve is exasperated--sighs with his entire body--and shrugs helplessly as he says “Tony--I swear that I did not sleep with your father.”#Bucky bursts out fucking laughing and both men turn to him as he tries to catch his breath through gasping peels of hysteria #“Tell him Buck!” Steve urges him and Tony's feeling that old murderous urge rising #Bucky's fucking chuffed--grinning like the cat that got the canary because “That's what this has been about???”#He's still grinning vaguely as he shrugs at Tony. “Look kid... He's telling the truth--he didn't sleep with Howard.”#And it would have been smart to leave it at that. It would have been so easy. But when did Bucky get the easy road?#Bucky's lips curl into that shit-eating smirk he's struggled to regain after decades of war and torture. He tips his head back and shrugs.#“But I did.”

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