thinking about the stucky trope of bucky and steve writing letters to each other after bucky gets drafted + before he gets captured. except neither of them are good writers so the letters are like:
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hey bucky. hope you're good. i am good. here is a drawing of a cat i saw. do not die do not die do not die do not die or i kill you. -steve rogers
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steve we are in (chunk cut out by censors) and theres mud IN my boots. awful. if you got sick since your last letter ill kill you. boss says im best shot hes got. thats neat. not dead yet so you cant die yet either. do not die. DO NOT DIE. -bucky
steve if you don't write me back soon im gonna assume you got TB like mrs holt always said you would and i'll do something unwise. WRITE BACK. -BARNES
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buc mnotded. sick. v sicks. barns rtaking cakfere cakre care opf m e m not ded . not tbb srt ev
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BK Y NOT DAD SVE
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B, AM GD. .JUS F FVR. SBE
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bucky, i don't know how many letters i sent while ill but i'm fine now. don't do anything crazy IM FINE your ma made sure the fever broke DO NOT TRY AND COME TO NEW YORK. I AM FINE. -steve rogers
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steve, i am going to kill you with my gun you bastard. -bucky
#i wanna laugh but mostly i wanna bawl my eyes out over their mutual 'DO NOT DIE' like 😭😭😭#you just know that they were both worried SICK about each other#AND BUCKY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT STEVE HAD GOTTEN HIMSELF INTO YET#not about the serum and the signing up to be a human guinea pig thing#not about the traveling to an active war zone thing#i just need to know whose letters stopped first#steve's bc he was already touring the us/on a ship bound for europe?#bucky's when he was captured?#imagine the growing panic when weeks and months passed with no word from each other#the biblically proportioned argument they'd get in when they finally settled post-rescue from kreischberg#coming from a place of love and fear and a whole lot of barely restrained 'WTF DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING' aimed at steve's reckless ass#eventually followed by THE most desperate crushing hug because they can scream and fight and be frustrated with each other but#but they're really just terrified of losing each other#and now they're both in the line of fire and there's so scarily little they can do to prevent the bad things from happening#AJFUWJGFKDGDBFKSM I CAN'T DO THIS TODAY @rillils
<3<3<3<3 bucky stopped writing first, steve on tour actually let bucky know he got "a new job" for military propaganda that required travel. bucky assumed steve got work as an artist making posters or something. letters at that time looked like this:
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steve, you marry any of those girls you work with yet? the guys stole your drawing of them again. send another but include ur ugly mug so they won't steal it thanks. im fine not dead got new socks from rebecca. send me socks too you got that new paycheck you can afford it. included tim's bancroft baseball card for you couse he died so i nabbed it. haha. hope censor doesn't take it for himself. you better not be sick and hiding it i'll KNOW. dont die -bucky
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bucky, still not married. asshole. guys would stop stealing it if you'd stop showing it off. don't gotta show off every pretty lady you got, especially when shes PAPER, stupid. keep this drawing in your new socks. thanks for baseball card. girls thought it was morbid but they aint never heard bancroft play on the radio. NO DODGER FANS, can you believe? thats why i aint marry them. im NOT SICK. NOT DEAD. GOOD HEALTH FOR ONCE. return the favor and dont die also. -steve rogers
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NO DODGER FANS? WHAT KIND OF PLACE ARE YOU WORKING? CAN YOU QUIT OR WILL THEY SHOOT YOU? thanks for socks. new drawing lasted a while longer in them but then i forgto it was in there and crunched it up real bad. sorry. send another? - bucky
