uncle sam & peter fic (post-endgame)
the fic
do you ever just keep writing and writing until your notes might as well be another chapter themselves? well.
A million light years away, and he can still taste the Afghan air after an explosion.
sam’s 2 tours in afghanistan
He’s wearing a gray hoodie with a navy graphic tee—”Lettuce, the taste of Sadness”. He really is just a kid.
i played the scene frame-by-frame. i love his stupid t-shirt
“Okay, Queens. Let’s go.”
sam refers to peter as “queens” like steve does/did
sambucky crumbs <3
The guy Sam chased across Eurasia, and maybe caught a couple times (which was nobody’s business but theirs); the asshole at the airport who wouldn’t put his seat up.
[headcanon] sam & bucky met post-TWS, pre-CW (i WILL write this later, trust, but if not just read ‘to be alive’ by the absolute goat napricot)
brokeback mountain reference (did you catch it?)
The first sensation after the bedlam calmed down was that his left arm hurt. It’s not necessarily that he’s not used to it, but it’s more grounding, bringing him back to the present.
peter gets injured on his left arm & i open bucky’s part ambiguously (fun!)
i overuse italics… [oops]
Peter moves his hand to the spider insignia wrapped around his torso, pressing down lightly. He can see now that it’s really the same as Stark’s nanotechnology. The particles move, to reveal— Another Spider-man suit?
peter never lost the old suit after gaining the iron spider, meaning he was doubled up the whole time
He drags his feet, ears twitching strangely. Sam can see that the hair on the back of his neck stands straight up.
big fan of hypothetical physiological aspects of spider mutation when it comes to peter's powers, like his ears twitching, his hairs standing up like in infinity war, parts of his eyes shifting. hes an unsettling little guy sometimes
It’s been a long, long time since he’s had that kind of communication with somebody.
it’s been a long, long time (song reference)
If they peg him as sick, a sick dog, they'll put him down. Candy's old dog. Welles has eyes like Steve, blue and emphatic.
candy’s dog → the character’s dog from of mice and men by john steinbeck (1937) which i feel like he would have read (spoiler: the dog dies!)
Greenfield isn’t far from Shelbyville, he thinks practically, making plans for a letter for Rebecca to deliver.
rebecca lives in shelbyville, IN, where they were born, after getting married. i hc that bucky was not present for the wedding, it taking place during his first active deployment in 1941/2. realistically, he would have been in morocco or pacific theater. this means that he does get [2/3] the european-africa-middle eastern campaign medal and, if in pacific theater (philippines, guadalcanal islands [operation watchtower, 1942-43, a hc i’m fond of], CBI, manila… a good reference for this is ‘Heart, Have No Pity on this House of Bone’ by Sena) the asiatic-pacific campaign medal. i have so much to say about his medals.
european-africa-middle eastern campaign medal
asiatic-pacific campaign meda
US army expert marksmanship qualification badge (he’s probably requalified this so many times)
ph (probably like 2 of them, the second posthumous)
prisoner of war medal (posthumous - two of them, even, once he makes it out of hydra)
combat infantryman badge (obvious)
those little howling commando badges that are designed after steve’s wings on the helmet (uso outfit)
silver & bronze star?
joint service commendation medal (posthumous)
distinguished service cross (i don’t think i’m glazing… right?)
meritorious unit commendation (probably like all the howlies) / legion of merit
world war II victory medal (posthumous)
american campaign medal (posthumous)
medal of honour ?
good conduct ribbon
this amount of decoration and things awarded to him posthumously would be part of the reason why the 2014 revelation that JAMES BUCKY BARNES is a HYDRA TERRORIST ASSASSIN OH EM GEE!!!! is such a moment and then they were probably taken away and reawarded
EUREKA MOMENT: they are rewarded at that ceremony i was planning to write
There’s probably some science-physics explanation for how it still has battery, or even exists anymore at all, but he doesn’t care for it.
suspend your disbelief about them being able to keep their phones, ok? ok. every avenger has a hidden phone pocket. no they did not break. why? stark industries, of course #paidpromotion
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crying because the other day i was watching jessica jones and in one of the scenes jessica’s texting an unknown number and at the top the contact says ‘unknown’ but the text message says ‘unkown’ and i cackled because guys. really. this is a marvel netflix production. come onn
Because it’s a fucking mess. It’s a cacophany of car horns, the odd alarm, and people shouting at each other to move. Everybody wants to go home. Understandable. But the entire population of Harlem might as well be here, seeing the sheer amount of people.
and if i said spider powers were just neurodivergence? /hj
sam stayed in harlem at some point during college (funded by usaf; maybe social care and engineering, that kinda combination)? homage to his comic origins -- i do find delacroix/nola a nice switch up because not every black character has to be from harlem or atl, marvel, as significant as these places are
He wasn't even Spider-Man yet. A mutate teenager full of rage, purposefully lingering in alleyways just to see what came crawling out of the woodwork.
so heres my peter timeline in this universe. ben dies when he's 13, he gets his powers just as he's 14, he operates roughly and intermittently as a vigilante, at early points not even having a costume (just straight up rawdogging it in a mask and hoodie, probably [i'll write about this later maybe]), upon turning 15 (like a week later, canon) he appears in CA:CW. he is currently 16, almost 17. and, because i'm evil, skip westcott exists in this universe. he is in prison. i'm currently deciding whether he should get beaten to death with hammers, though.
“… Basically, they used to put these little, cheap coins called Charon’s obols by the deceased, or um. Even in their mouth. So that they could cross the Styx, you know, pay the ferryman. That’s Charon.
spideychelle crumbs + classical mythology nerd mj
charon is the ferryman that helps the dead cross the river styx to the gates of hades, to get into the underworld.
The kid swallows, like he's making room for air. Pulls oxygen inwards, shakily, slamming his eyes shut, like there's too much input all at once.
i’m bad at writing panic attacks etc because i’ve had only a handful in my life and i’ve forgotten everything that happened during them
Peter can do traumatic events. He can do trafficker-takedowns. Hell, he can do warzones. But the moment everything quiets, the tiniest thing becomes way too much.
comics maintain that spidey is unusually calm in the face of high-stress situations (including heart rate)
It’s like after the Incident, when their whole apartment complex was flattened by the Chitauri. He’d been 10, almost 11, and they’d been couch-surfing across New York for the next 7 months. The only positive during this time was that it was decided that Peter should just skip a grade up.
referring to the chitauri invasion (which that or the NY invasion is what avengers might call it) as the incident because peter & vigilantes are new yorkers first before anything else
their place DEFO got fucked up did you see all that property damage
smart Beter