Mar 17, 2017
Sure, they had been inseparable. But Steve didn't think it had been in quite the way that the Smithsonian meant.
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Sure, they had been inseparable. But Steve didn't think it had been in quite the way that the Smithsonian meant.
And it’s just. It’s too much. Weeks of pain and months of missing Steve and his mouth and the stupid shit that comes out of it; years of molding himself to his back at night and pretending there’s nothing else to it apart from sharing warmth; a decade of his stomach twisting with the foolish desire to make Steve laugh. It's August and sweltering when Steve asks, out of nowhere, if Bucky wants to try kissing. Just to see what it's like. Bucky then spends far, far too many years pretending it didn't mean anything at all.
Bucky knows what Steve wants when he comes in like that, hair wet, robe slipping off his shoulder.
Bucky’s six years old when he falls in love with a fair haired boy with eyes that shine like the stars and a smile brighter than the summer sun on a cloudless day.
Somewhere in the SHIELD archives, which eventually got released to the public, much to the amusement and joy of everyone who ever said "I SHIPPED IT!!!!!" is a List.
The List was compiled by the long-suffering Colonel Phillips, who should have been more thankful that Steven Grant Rogers was the lone Super Soldier from Erskine's Project Rebirth. Add in Sgt. Bucky Barnes and the Howling Commandos and it was a sheer miracle that Phillips managed to make it through the war with his sanity relatively intact. Mostly. Sort of.
He's still not going to accept a teddy bear as a Corporal in his own regiment. God damn it!
Warning: WIP, but it ends at a good place. I promise you won’t miss anything.
A sort of companion to this fic.
He knelt, touched his fingers to forehead, chest, left shoulder, right, and said more words than the soldier could ever remember speaking together.
They came in a well-worn fluent rush, easier than any post-mission report: “Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been a long time since my last confession.”
In which Steve Rogers loses God and finds God and loses God, and also: Bucky.
Steve’s known Bucky his whole life.