for the would you rather 2: Quiet Pining or Shameless Flirting (thanks for playing!)
2: Quiet Pining or Shameless Flirting
Awwww, thanks for making the game. Since I've already done Shameless Flirting, I'll do Quiet Pining this time 😆 Enjoy! 🥰
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Quiet Pining
Sam lay on the wooden deck of The Paul and Darlene. He could feel himself breathing with the movement of the waves. Smell the salt air in every deep inhale. Watched the haze of clouds above him.
It wasn't a beautiful day.
It was overcast and a little too muggy.
But Sam didn't care. He liked this. This felt like home.
"I could live here forever," whispered Bucky up at the sky.
They were taking a break. A small break between fixing things on the boat as they did every Saturday now ever since Bucky moved to Delacroix.
Sam treasured these little moments. These points in time where it was just him and Bucky, alone on the boat. Sometimes joking. Sometimes, listening to Marvin Gaye. Sometimes, in comfortable silence.
Sam forgot how easy it was to be with Bucky before this. Before his ghosting Sam. Before how he treated Sam those first few weeks of talking. Before Bucky needed to really work to make Sam trust him again.
How easy it was in Europe. In Birnin Zana. When Bucky living in Delacroix felt like a pipe dream. When Sam moving back home felt like a fantasy.
Sam missed this. His heart ached for silent moments like this where they just smiled at each other.
When Sam felt how much he loved this man.
How much this man probably loved him back.
But still.
Sam needed time before he could admit that. To even trust Bucky again like that.
Sam was sure they would get there, though.
"What?" whispered Bucky curiously, his shirt completely askew as he lay next to Sam on the deck.
"Nothing," said Sam as he stood up, "Let's get back to work."
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send me one of these would you rather and I’ll make a lil SamBucky micro fic