U guys have no clue how obsessed I am with Nick Suzuki. He dgaf. He’s a young captain. His whole team loves him. His coach has absolute faith in him. He has faith in his teammates. He’s solid as fuck. Unwavering on his skates. Plays a calm 100 minutes per game. Hasn’t missed a game in so fucking long they don’t even mention it on the broadcasts anymore. He has huge legs. Plays well with everybody. Always sniffling in post games interview. Lips always recently moisturized whenever he appears on your TV. What else. Like what more do you want. Mon capitaine…
BONUS: not convinced? Need more pointless trivia? Here's fashion report from the previous year and charity basket review from the current year. And just bunch of stuff. Oh, and the archive of (sometimes poorely) edited getty images.
- Max let’s Lucas braid her hair sometimes even if he’s bad at it
- Steve and Jonathan secretly call each other but hang up before either one can talk because they are too afraid to say they kinda miss having the other around ( Joyce is the only one that knows and thinks it’s funny )
- Mike secretly thinks Max is the coolest person he’s ever met ( besides Will & El ofc )
- Robin has a key to Steve’s house and let’s herself in with no notice whatsoever as if she lives there
- Dustin also has a key ( he stole Robin’s and got one copied for everyone )
- Moms approach Steve all the time asking him to babysit and he’s just so confused because why are they doing that?? ( as if he doesn’t parade around town with at least 1 of 7 children at all times )
- Max has a seashell from California that she puts up to her ear every night before going to bed because it reminds her of her dad :(
- Lucas pretends to hate having Erica around all the time but is actually relieved because he knows she’s safe when she’s with him and his friends
- Steve has showed up to all of Lucas’s games in hopes that he would get to see him play ( He was SO proud when he scored the winning shot )
- Max listens to all of Lucas’s games
- El and Lucas have a weekly call where they catch one another up on everything and gossip about drama and their friends
- When Will misses home he calls Dustin so they can talk about dnd :(
- Nancy takes Max shopping every couple of weeks to help get her out of the house and take her mind off things
- Max thinks Nancy is the coolest person in the world and actually looks up to her a lot
- Steve picks the boys up after every dnd session because a small part of him is always going to be worried abt the upside down and he can’t stand the idea of anything bad happening to them
- Jonathan has several letters he’s written to Nancy over the last 8 months that he’ll never send ( some are break up letters that he can’t bring himself to send because he just loves her so much but he knows he can’t go with her to college )
- When El misses home Jonathan let’s her go through all the pictures he’s taken of everyone over the years to make her feel better ( Her favourite is the one of her and Max making silly faces behind the boys )
- Will and El have weekly movie nights
- Argyle helps El with her English homework after school and is surprisingly really good at it
- Dustin secretly LOVES cats- he was devastated when Dart ate Mews but he wanted to look brave in front of Steve
- Steve knew he was devastated which is why he bought Dustin’s mom a new cat ( This is literally canon idc- he got Claudia that cat and I’ll die on this hill )
- Jonathan is secretly an ABBA lover ( His favourite is Take A Chance On Me because it reminds him of how he felt when he first fell in love with Nancy )
- One time when everyone was in The Wheeler’s basement Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac came on and everyone danced and sang horribly off key to it ( Jonathan and Mike tried their hardest to stay out of it but Nancy outright refused this and made them join in )
- Will is the personalized gift giver of the group… he spends so much time making everyone the sweetest and most personal gifts ( Max cried when she first got one )
- When Max is avoiding Lucas and Will is avoiding Mike they’ll hide out at each other’s houses because the party doesn’t think they are that close ( They are actually best friends they told me themselves )
- Steve thinks Robin is the best friend he’ll ever have
- Robin thinks the same
- When El and Will moved away Max convinced the party to make them a going away present- it was a box filled with comics, pictures, letters and small things that would remind the two of them of everyone ( Max gave it to Jonathan and told him to hide it until they got to California- the two cried when they opened it )
- Steve called The Byers residence the night before they moved and apologized for not being able to be there when they left but thanked them for giving him a second chance
- El has the pictures of her and Max from the mall hung up on her wall in frames that Will decorated for her
- Mike makes Max tell him all about her day at the mall with El whenever he misses her knowing it was one of the happiest days of her life
- Mike also pretends to think Max is a bad influence on El but has actually come to the conclusion that she’s probably the best person for El to be around because she’s the one person who helped El truly become her own person instead of a shell of what other people wanted her to be
- Eddie thinks Max is the coolest out of the kids ( He loves Dustin the most tho )
- Mike cried after his fight with Will, he hates it when he screws things up like that but sometimes ( most of the time ) his mouth moves faster than his brain and he can’t help what he says
- Lucas has a box under his bed filled of pictures with Max and love letters he’s written to her but never given to her ( Erica found it and now threatens to expose Lucas whenever he won’t do what she wants him to do )
- She thinks it’s really sweet though and absolutely adores Max ( Lucas was horrified when they first met because within the first twenty seconds they had already started conspiring against him )
- Eddie secretly feeds the dog outside ( Him and Max ran into each other once and he lent her his favourite mix after deciding she was a pretty alright kid )
- She gave him one back and he was absolutely horrified that he was actually super into Kate Bush ( Max knows this but refused to tell another soul )
- Dustin was the most hurt when Max shut herself away from everyone, it made him feel like he wasn’t doing enough as a friend
- In her letter to him she assures him that there was nothing else he could have done and that she was tired of feeling like she was bringing them down with her and figured they were better off without her
- Dustin cried so hard after reading his letter before he was hit with a violent wave of anger, cursing Vecna for taking away two of his best friends in such a cruel and unforgiving way
- Steve gave Dustin Eddie’s vest
- Nancy knows it was El that brought Max back but hasn’t said anything about it
- Robin calls Nancy every night before bed after Vecna to make sure she’s alright
- Nancy calls Robin every morning after she wakes up to make sure her nightmares weren’t too bad
- The moms try and give Steve money for stuff like gas and snacks but he always refuses because he takes care of the kids because he loves them and not because it’s an obligation
- Karen still manages to slip him some money every once in a while ( Mike literally just throws it somewhere in his car and leaves him to find it )
- Nancy thinks it’s funny that most of the town sees her as some pretty princess that lives in her own little world when in all reality she’s out fighting inter dimensional monsters, saving the town every other day and owns several different guns
- Steve and Nancy take turns driving the kids to the hospital to visit Max
- Steve read his letter from Max out loud to her before bursting into tears. It was the first time any of them had seen him cry ( excluding Nancy and Robin )
- Steve feels extremely guilty and at fault when anything bad happens to anyone- Robin is the only one who knows how horrible he feels about Max and Eddie ( She held him as he cried and softly reassured that he did everything he could have done given the circumstances)
- That doesn’t stop him from blaming himself for what happened
- Mike is fully prepared to fight Lonnie if he so much as looks at Will, Jonathan or Joyce the wrong way ( This is the first time Hopper has been in full agreement with Mike )
- Lucas finds a box in Max’s room filled with pictures of the two of them and notes he never received ( He breaks down and has to call Steve to come get him )
- One Christmas the kids all come together to get Steve his own Walkie-talkie ( it’s always on and set to their channel in case there’s a code red )
- Nancy’s not sure if she was jealous of Robin or if she was jealous of Steve when she thought the two of them were together ( Ronance <3 )
- Will hasn’t played dnd since he left Hawkins
- Jonathan doesn’t take as many pictures anymore ( he’s been so distant from everyone and everything he loves for the last 8 months )
- Dustin thanks the universe everyday for sending Steve his way ( he really does love him so much and sees him as an older brother <3 )
- Lucas misses Will the most ( he would have somehow convinced Eddie to move dnd and then forced them all to go to Lucas’s game )
- Mike wanted to call Nancy after his fight with El because he knows she’s the only person that understands why it’s so hard for him to say he loves someone
- If they can’t find Susan or any other member of Max’s family Steve fully intends to legally adopt her ( Even if it means sacrificing his pride and going to work for his dad so he can afford it )
- Mike goes to visit Max when no one else is there because he doesn’t want anyone to know how guilty he feels ( He cries every time he sits there and talks to her, silently praying that she’ll wake up and he’ll get another chance to be her friend )
- Steve calls Joyce or Karen when he needs some sort of motherly guidance ( The two treat him like one of their own )
- Robin and Jonathan actually get along really well despite their clashing opinions on Steve ( They are also Will’s biggest protectors )
- Steve redecorated the guest room that’s across his bedroom for the kids ( His Father was furious but his mother couldn’t help but be proud that her son cared so much for the kids )
- He never really talks about it but his relationship with his parents really messed him up which is why he makes sure he’s a stable figure in the kids life ( It means the world to Dustin, Max, El and Mike because Steve really had nothing to do with the upside down but he sticks around regardless and is constantly jumping head first into danger for them )
- Erica always calls Robin after she has a nightmare about the Russians ( Robin always takes her out for ice cream the next day )
- Everyone thinks Lucas’s favourite memory with Max is when they first kissed but it’s actually the night on top of the bus because he knew he made her feel safe and at home in Hawkins
- Robin and Dustin have grown to hate Fast Times but they still watch it once a month because it’s one of Steve’s favourite
- Writing Steve’s letter hurt Max the most because it was everything she wanted to say but never could and he would only know how much she truly cared about him if she died
- After Eddie died Dustin started sleeping over a Steve’s house a lot more
- Max thinks Steve is the best person she knows. The comfort and safety she feels with him is one she’s only ever felt with her dad before.
- The older teens love all the kids but they all have their favourites! Steve’s are Dustin, Max and Lucas, Nancy’s are Mike, El and Dustin, Jonathan’s are Will, El and Mike, Eddie’s are Dustin and Max and Robin’s are Erica, Lucas, Dustin and Max ( and eventually Will )
- Dustin is very loved by the older teens!
- They never say it enough but they all love each other so much and despite how they all came together they are eternally grateful that the universe threw them all together as one big ( Hopefully one day- happy ) Family.
Anyways these are just a handful of headcanons I have! The overall message is that they all love each other very much <3
Pairings: Bucky Barnes x Stark!Reader (endgame), Steve Rogers x Stark!Reader, OC Malcolm Brekker x Stark!Reader (past)
Genre: Fluff, Angst
Summary: Following the events of The Falcon, The Winter Soldier, and Static several people from Static’s past make their way back into her life. One of them just so happens to be her ex, America’s Ass; Steve Rogers. How will she deal with Steve’s return, her fragile yet burgeoning new relationship with Bucky Barnes while simultaneously fighting off demons from her past?
Warnings: Swearing.
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“Are you sure you didn’t get the time wrong?” Y/n asks, over the comms.
“Did you just—Of course I didn’t get the bloody time wrong!” Brekker exclaims in offence. “I’m not a bumbling rookie, you know?”
Bucky sees her shake her head from side to side, rolling her eyes.
They are on the third floor of the abandoned factory. The building itself seems to be coming apart at the seams, looking older than himself, Steve and Y/n combined… so, very old. The entire structure is built around a large hall in the middle, where the—now out of order—machines of a bygone era are catching rust.
They’re a couple corridors down the mezzanine looking down the spacious hallway (on the ground floor) where Brekker must currently be waiting. Having broken a window, Y/n is sitting over the ledge of it, with so much grace that it’s making Bucky lose function just looking at her. There are binoculars in her hand resting atop her folded knee, which is placed on the sill. Her sight is set on the only road that has access to the entrance of this place. The rest of the area surrounding the property is a desolate uneven concrete plateau.
In the gloomy light of the hidden London sun, along with the wind blowing with the threat of a storm just around the corner, her profile looks absolutely stunning. Bucky wants nothing more than to touch it. But he can’t. So he chooses to lean on the pillar nearest to the window, opposite her.
“Maybe they’re running late,” Torres chimes in from the jet which had landed not too far away from the building.
“Or maybe they stopped for some fish and chips,” Steve suggests, jovially. Bucky missed this cocky punk.
He and Sam are on the ground floor on the east side of the building. They are hiding inside a room with a good view of where Brekker stands. Meanwhile also making sure to camouflage themselves enough to not get spotted.
“Oooh, I could really go for some fish and chips right about now,” Brekker states. Bucky can hear the smile on his face when he adds, “Say, Joaquin, would you like to come along with me?”
“Did you just ask him out on a date over comms?” Sam exclaims at the same time as Torres asks with barely concealed enthusiasm, “You mean like a date?”
“It can be whatever you want it to be, handsome,” Brekker replies, ignoring Sam completely. “All you have to do is say yes.”
Torres makes some fumbling noises before breathing out an exasperated, “Yes.”
“Did you just say yes?” Sam balks, at Torres.
As they continue to bicker, Bucky breaks into a smile at the thought of a blushing Torres. He remembers being flustered like that. He’d grown up a suave charmer, pretty similar to Brekker in a way. But then, Hydra had ripped him apart piece by piece leaving him hollow. And when he’d put himself back together somehow he’d lost the suave part like one of the screws from the ungodly IKEA furniture Sam had made him buy… or so he thought.
Because Y/n had just decided to march into his life, make him sputter and fumble like a teenage boy with a stupid crush. But somehow built that piece of him back up at the same time. She could still fluster him, of course, she could. She’d flirt with him relentlessly, no matter the occasion, unashamedly and unabashedly. She’d call him pet names, and buy him flowers but somewhere along the way, he’d begun re-learning it all over again from her, with her. He’d whisper sweet nothings in her ear when they’d be out with Morgan at the aquarium or made her breakfast in bed or he’d flirt with her at the coffee shop and make her smile.
But that was then, now all he can do is watch her laugh at Brekker’s shenanigans.
“Mal’s gonna eat that boy alive,” she says with a smile still present on her face, wind in her hair.
Wait, did she just talk to him?
No, no.
She just made a comment.
An observation.
“Don’t you think so?” She’s looking at him as she asks.
Oh fuck, she’s talking to him.
He can’t just let that thread of conversation go. Fuck no. He thought after that night it was over, that she'd never talk to him again. Not beyond mission commands and passing remarks. So he says, “I don’t know, I think Torres can hold his own.”
She nods in assent, looking out the window. “I might be biased.”
“You two do seem close,” Bucky says foolishly, without realizing the possible insinuation of his words.
And for a second Y/n’s calm façade fades, her jaw clenches but it’s gone in a flash. She relaxes instantly, calm again. Then she turns to him and says, “So I’ve been told.” The smile she wears on her face doesn’t reach her eyes. Not like the ones she used to wear with him. Not like the ones that reminded him of the drizzling rain. Not like the ones that calmed him down when he’d panic. No. This doesn’t look like those. This is just plastered on for show.
“I didn’t—that wasn’t—” he tries but can’t really make the words come outright. She just chooses to look out the window, disregarding the whole thing. He breathes in and tries again. But because he’s Bucky, and he might have gotten better with his words but not by much; the confession just falls out, “I meant, making me jealous.”
She cocks her eyebrow.
Fuck him.
“When I said I thought you were better than that, what I meant was you were better than wanting to make me jealous,” he clarifies, referring back to the incident at her place which now seems like years ago. “It’s not much better than the other thing. But I wasn’t insinuating the other thing. I would never—” He’s cut off.
“I know,” she says simply.
“You know?” He asks, not understanding completely.
“Yeah, I know.” When she looks back at him only to see his brows still furrowed in confusion, she adds, “I know you weren’t insinuating what you thought, I thought, you were insinuating.”
“What I thought, you thought—what?”
She sighs, “I know you weren’t calling me a slut, Buck.”
Oh. He straightens in his place.
“Give me some credit, I know you well enough to know you wouldn’t say that,” she chides, nose scrunching up.
God, she’s beautiful.
“But, you were pissed,” Bucky argues.
She pushes her hair back with the hand not occupied with the binoculars. “Your words still hurt.” There is such a vulnerability in that confession, Bucky feels the shuddering guilt creep up his spine. “But I guess it doesn’t matter much now, it’s not like we were a thing,” she spits out. The calmness of her face, a sharp contrast to the bite of her tone.
“Are you ever gonna let that one go?” He shouldn’t, but he’s kinda frustrated over it being used against him as a weapon again and again.
She sees his change in tone and raises him her own. “Sure. I can go with, ‘It was all just a distraction anyway’ or would you prefer, ‘It was nice while it lasted?”
Fuck! Fine, he’s pissed okay?
“If being passive-aggressive was a sport, you’d be an Olympic-level athlete.” he throws back.
She laughs darkly, “Well, at least I’m not a fucking quitter.”
“Excuse me?” He takes a few steps towards her. “You kissed him!”
She finally looks at him, “Oh come on, you can’t be serious—”
“Just suck it up and kiss me, Rogers,” he recites her words back to her.
She brings her foot down from the sill to the floor. “It was an act and you know it!”
“Do I?”
She stands up, “Are you seriously asking me that? Of course, it was an act!” She shakes her head, moving closer to him. “But you don’t want to hear that, do you? No, you want it to be something more, so you can hand me off to Steve and call it a day.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mea—”
“Exactly what I said,” she answers, cutting him off. Their eyes have met and he can see his own fury reflected back to him in hers. God, she’s a rainstorm in the shape of the most gorgeous woman. And that makes him hate this conversation even more. “You wanted an out… and Steve coming back was just the most convenient one,” she accuses, words being spat out in disgust.
And now that’s some utter bullshit.
“I asked you what to tell Steve, and you avoided answering the question. Because you didn’t want this to be a thing,” he throws back. She begins to protest but he cuts him off. “And that’s fine, alright? Like I said, he’s the better choice. He loves you, he really does. And I knew that. I never should’ve—”
“You finish that sentence and Sam will be wheeling you out of here on a fucking stretcher Barnes,” she threatens. But her words aren’t ferocious, they’re just trying to mask her hurt. He can see it in her eyes; they’re colder. He can see it in her stance; it’s more rigid. He can see it in her hands; they’re clasped shut.
He doesn’t want to hurt her. That’s the opposite of what he wants.
“He came back, Y/n,” he says dejectedly. “That’s all that matters, right? You said it’s all that matters.”
She looks completely lost for a second, trying to remember when the words left her mouth. And when it clicks, she balks, “To Morgan?” She runs a hand down her face in what seems like clear frustration. “I said that to Morgan, right?” When he nods in response, she adds, “And you decided to take the thing I told my niece to make her stop saying the word ‘butthole’ as gospel?”
And Bucky just shrugs.
She lets out such a frustrated groan, Bucky takes a small step back in fear of it.
“I didn’t mean it, James. And for fuck’s sake it didn’t even work!” She exclaims. “She’s been calling all the boys at school 'buttholes’—”
Bucky can’t help but melt at the image of little Morgan Stark cussing the boys who annoy her. He also can’t help but feel a little proud.
But he’s gotta focus right now.
“—I think I might have to agree with her,” she finishes.
“Look, you avoided the question—”
“Cause I didn’t want to spook you!” She exclaims cutting her off, hands flying helplessly.
She’s making this so much harder than it ought to be. “He’s better for you, Y/n!” He shouts.
“Just because you don’t see the sun, when you look in the mirror, doesn’t make me a fucking liar!” She shouts back, thunder cracking behind them.
And what can Bucky say to that?
He always wondered why she called him ‘sunshine’.
She rubs both her hands over her face, calming herself down. “I wanted you…” she states. “But you didn’t want me,” she accuses him in a terrifyingly small voice. He’s never seen her this… vulnerable before. He’d heard from Sam about that night, about how she’d cried. He hated himself for being the reason for it. Steve had told him, he wasn’t. Assured him it was far more his fault than Bucky’s. But he couldn’t bring himself to believe him.
He knew he’d hurt her, but not in this way. He thought he was doing the right thing. And he’d made peace with the fact that sometimes the right way has got someone hurt. But he presumed he was the collateral damage. Not her.
“That’s not true,” he admits in a soft whisper. Because he does believe Steve is better for her, but he can’t fucking stand the thought of her thinking he didn’t want her. How can she possibly think that? He doesn’t really want for much since he came out of the deep freezer, all broken and battered, barely himself. But he does want her. He’d always want her. He fucking lov—
“If you did want me then you wouldn’t give me up, James.”
“You deserve—”
“For the sake of all that is holy in this god-forsaken world, do not tell me what I deserve,” she pleads in frustration. “And stop playing the damn ‘he’s the better choice’ card. The man literally left me.”
“But doesn’t it matter that he came back to you? For you?” Bucky asks, genuinely.
“Maybe, it would have—”
He ignores her, barreling on. “Because I think it has to. It has to matter, that he decided to sacrifice his perfect life, for you—”
“Can you please stop trying to pawn me off to him?” She snides.
He keeps ignoring her, continuing, “He loves you, Y/n. I know he does—”
“WHAT ABOUT WHO I LOVE?!!” She screams, cutting him off and stopping him in his tracks. The lightning that strikes behind her has got nothing on the spark she emits. “What about who I love, Jamie?” She asks softly, the loudness gone within the second just like the thunderclap. Her eyes are fucking glistening when she says, “Cause I am in love with a dumbass Super Soldier, but he sure as shit ain’t blond.”
If there were words that were written to describe how he feels, he hasn’t read them. If there were songs that were sung to describe how his heart was beating, he hasn’t heard them. If there were films made to describe his euphoria, he definitely hasn’t seen them. The most he could say would be that he hadn’t had a lot of good days in his disastrously long century-spanning existence. But today was a good day. Today was a great fucking day. And if he were a poet he’d write sonnets about this day, about this exact moment. Because it feels far too big and far too much for him to just summarize in feeble words. What the fuck could they possibly have on the way his heart was beating out of his goddamn chest?
He remembers kissing her for the first time and thinking he’d tear down civilizations for her. But he stands here now, ready to build civilizations just to hear her say those three words. Because fuck him. He’s in lo—
“I know this is a horrible moment to tell you that your comms were on the entire time, but they were. And also, we’ve got incoming,” Torres cuts in.
And just like that, Y/n falls back to the calm armor she wears to hide behind. She passes (a still very stunned) Bucky by, making her way out of the room, “Let’s just get this over with.”
Them all sitting there just listening to them argue and not saying ANYTHING until it’s time to get back to the mission is sending me so bad😭😭 You guys this whole entire series is SOOOOOOO good, I am OBSESSED