➼ MEMES !
@ghostasset asked : “ you deserve better. ”
clint can’t remember how long it’s been since bucky’s last nightmare. NIGHTMARE . . . that doesn’t really do these justice, does it ? people have nightmares all the time. these are something else, something with teeth and venom. clint wonders, sometimes, what bucky sees when it happens, but he’s quick to perish the thought. the man isn’t some wounded animal, and clint’s no therapist. what he is, what he’s very good at being, is just . . . there. he’s there in the bathroom, crouching beside bucky as he pants pitifully into the just - flushed toilet bowl, there pulling back strings of sweat - damp hair where they keep trying to fall into bucky’s face.
he’s there when bucky tells him, in a rough and quiet voice that just doesn’t sound like his bucky that clint deserves better. better than what ? a guy who loves him who survived the worst seventy years in all of history and has the occasional REALLY BAD NIGHT as a result ? 〝 have you met me ? 〞 clint wants to tell him, if anything, it ought to be the other way around, but that’s not an argument to have with a man with his head hovering over a toilet bowl. so, he swallows the rest down, and offers up instead, 〝 sorry, but you’re stuck with me, bud. 〞
in case there’s any doubt, clint settles onto a knee ― might as well get comfy ― and the hand not occupied with wrangling bucky’s hair fumbles for the old mug he’d filled with tap water while bucky had been . . . otherwise occupied. 〝 now, rinse. 〞