Anonymous asked:
bucky on the run
steve is looking for him
they meet
they talk
bucky: i can get by on my own
steve: you dont have to
rillils answered:
NONNIE!! I’m so sorry it took me a few days to reply to this, but NONNIE, NONNIE YOU’RE A GENIUS 💕💕💕 Please forgive me, I just couldn’t resist 🥺 A little post-catws fic, 2404 words, just because.
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It’s not until Paris that Bucky takes pity on him.
Maybe he only does it because it’s the ass-freezing end of January; and he still remembers, sometimes, how the cold used to make him softer before. How his body would know with the first chill – that it was time to hold, now, to open his arms; make his chest into a welcoming haven for the slim shape curled up on the other side of the bed.
Maybe he does it because Steve’s sitting on his doorstep, ass glued to the frosty stone and long legs gathered up to his chest, not like the (mostly) inconspicuous spy Natalia taught him to be, but rather like a sad puppy left out in the rain. Knowing, of course, that Bucky would see him long before he even realized that Bucky was near; accepting that Bucky could turn on his heel and disappear without a word, and still giving him the choice. Sentimental fuck.
Steve stands up the moment he sees him, white sprays of snow still settled over his hunched shoulders, like he’s the saddest gargoyle on the roofs of Notre Dame. Bucky wants to dust it off for him, cover Steve’s wind-burned cheeks with his hands and warm the red tip of his nose with a kiss.
He stuffs his hands in his jacket pockets instead, watches Steve’s breaths puff soft clouds of steam from his lips.
“Rogers,” he says. Walking around in this cold with your ears all bare like that? Your Ma would kill us both.
“I just want to talk.” Steve swallows. “Please.”
Bucky makes him wait. One second. I’m getting you a fucking beanie, just you wait and see. Two seconds. Earmuffs too. Pink. And fluffy. Pink and fluffy.
“Come on, then,” he nudges, snow crunching under his boots as he steps back. “I’ll let you buy me coffee.”












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