Warnings : none, all fluff
A/n: Please excuse all errors I currently do not have a laptop and am writing on a VERY old ipad💓 it also won’t let me do a page break. hopefully I will be able to get a laptop soon and everything will be more polished and edited. All feedback is loved and appreciated! Also peep the Ted Lasso quote🤣
Once in awhile, when even the fates feel for him, Bucky Barnes is granted a reprieve. He awakes with a glimmer of hope that reminds him of childhood; a gentle wind blowing after a cleansing rain. His body and his mind release their shares of pain and his smile reaches towards his eyes like a long lost friend.
These are the days him and Sam do not need to be together.
These are the days they’re pulled towards each other with with a near palpable force.
Today is one of those days, and Sam was knocking on your door before Bucky even finished braiding your hair.
“ Just a minute! I’m com-”
“ Don’ t worry about it!” Comes his muffled reply, accompanying a jiggle of a key.
“ Since when does he have a key?” You ask, craning your head back to meet Bucky cheeky grin. He offers only a shrug and a gentle tug of your braid to refocus you so he can tie the end up.
Sam enters with a determined look, barely acknowledging you as he goes to stand next to Bucky. “ Nice man, I see you’ve been practicing. That’s a decent part. Glad to see no additional bald spots.”
“ Wish I could say the same for you, man.” Bucky rebuts , and the room is filled with laughter peppered with vulgarity.
An hour and one broken lamp later the plans had finally settled on starting with coffee, and if you couldn’t keep up, a nap. There was no way they were getting out of your sight today though.
The coffee shop smelled rich and warm, with hints of mischievousness seeping off your cohorts. The teenage worker didn’t stand a chance once you saw the twinkle in their eyes as they made a silent exchange, a nod, unspoken agreement made.
“ Can I help you?” He asks, not bothering to look up from his phone.
“ I don’t know, Caleb, can you, a novice in life, help this man? So many have tried and failed, burdened by the defeat.” Sam delivers, unfaltering.
Caleb looks up, confused, but not enough to engage. “ What do you want today, sir?”
“What does anyone want really, how do you quantify the desires intrinsic to humanity?” Bucky delivers it perfectly, almost breaking Sam, but he covers it with a cough.
“ Would you like your philosophical debate decaf, sir?” Chad asks with a sigh that conveys his patience are waning and mischief isn’t a rarity today.
“ Existence is depleting enough, at least a man should be energized to face his lot.” Bucky adds, unmoved.
“Ma’am?” Caleb looks past Bucky to you for help now, his eyes almost pitying you as he waits.
“ Oh! I don’t actually know them, but sometimes people his age can’t hear well... SIR DO YOU WANT COFFE?” You say loudly in his ear.
He jumps, spinning to look at you with a smirk, Caleb looking on with what seems to be concern.
“ Oh sorry, I forgot how skittish older people were because of the war.” You quip, sending Sam into a wheeze as Caleb nods empatheticly. “ I’ll do my civil duty and get three mochas for me and the colonels, honor your elders and such.”
“ Great, name?” Caleb adds, as he punches in the order.
“I think you know who I am,” Bucky adds, refusing to give in just yet.
“ Sir, please, I’m under a time limit, my manager is a bitch and I can’t afford another strike. Your name?” He tries Sam this time, hopeful.
“Names are their attempts to capture that which cannot be captured.” Sam offers.
“ THATS IT, I DONT MAKE ENOUGH YO PUT UP WITH THIS SHIT. EVERYDAY, EVERY DAMN DAY GETTIN ASKED THE QUESTIONS OF LIFE LIKE IM FUCKIN GHANDI! I MAKE 9 FUCKIN 50 AN HOUR!” Caleb throws his apron on the counter and stomps off in a huff.
Sam and Bucky turn, accomplished at their mischief, simultaneously saying The name of the coffee shop two blocks over.
You’re going home for a nap, good luck New York.
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