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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers Additional Tags: Amusement Parks, Coney Island, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Service Dogs, Fluff and Humor, Surprise Kissing, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, First Kiss
Summary:
“Do you, uh… d’you want to go in?” he asks. Jeez, he’s nervous. He doesn’t think he’s been this nervous since 1940 and asking Mary Margaret to come dancing, standing out on her stoop with all her brothers and sisters watching and Bucky egging him on from under the stairs. She’d turned him down in front of God and country and even slammed the door in his face.
Steve really, really hopes Bucky’s not about to slam the door in his face.
Snippet:
Pyshka allows Steve to pet her ears while they wait for Bucky, and Steve stares up at the board and tries to sound out the Cyrillic. "You speak Russian, right, girl?" he asks her. "What's it means when I say p… pwi… pwishi. Pwishki?"
"Pyshki," Bucky says, dropping a plate in front of him. It's the same durable plastic they used to use for meal trays and clatters a little on impact. "Plural of pyshka. And your accent is still terrible, it's more of an aue sound."
Under the table, Pyshka's tail is swinging at the speed of a lazy clockhand. Over the table, Steve stares at Bucky in confusion. "And pyshka means…?
"What you're about to eat," Bucky says, pointing at the plate.
Dusted with powdered sugar, a heaping pile of fried dough rings beckon. Steve takes one between two fingers, still hot from the fryer, and holds it up between them.
"Buck," he says very seriously, "are you telling me you named your dog Doughnut?"
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