Your Ghost || dancingagent
Soft melodic notes came from the old gramophone, an original from the 1940’s. Retro, is what it had been classified as. Not quite old enough to technically be antique, but getting close. It had cost a lot more than one had brand-spanking new, but he had learnt that things from his time were now worth a great deal, and highly desirable, god knows why. Perhaps there was nostalgia for an earlier time, predating some collectors by decades. It amused him greatly that they called them the good old days, especially when they probably would not have coped one day living them.
Eyes softened as memories came to mind, remembering the more pleasant days of yore. Those people that made such great impressions, helping mould him into the man he was now. The ones that, even if only briefly, drifting into his life. The Howling Commandos among them, a group of the most eccentric but skilled people he had ever worked with.
Flipping through the photo album, Steve paused at the picture of ‘Captain America and his Howling Commandos!’ posing somewhere in Europe. It was the best visual representation of each of their personalities, which he could only laugh at. And there was Bucky. And there was him. It seemed like they were mid-laugh, although what exactly they were laughing at had escaped him completely.
Closing the book, he sighed, deciding that was not where he was emotionally prepared to go, not yet anyway. Rather he sighed, glancing over a shoulder.
“You know, it makes me uncomfortable when you creep up like that”.