I may or may not have found my new favourite fanfic relationship trope… accidentally secret relationship. Otherwise known as, we’ve always been so gone on each other and our friends are idiots so no one noticed when we started dating.
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🌸 wakanda stucky + rich
His mother was the first to warn him, back when Steve was knee-high to a grasshopper: sometimes, things simply don’t go the way you had planned them, or wanted them to go.
If he could have had it his way, he would have laid the world’s weight in gold on Bucky’s lap. But life has a wicked sense of humor, and so Steve comes to him just as he once was: with no home, no shield, nor a penny to his name. In fact, with nothing but the name itself, and a bad reputation attached to it.
Bucky has seen him like this before, Steve knows; it’s no more and no less than Steve had for most of their lives. He won’t scorn Steve for it.
This doesn’t stop Steve’s hands from shaking when he sits with Bucky by the hearth, late in the afternoon, with dirt from the garden under his fingernails, and the smallest of three tabby kittens waging a vicious war against the toe of his boot.
“The truth is,” he confesses softly, because after all he’s done, after all he’s seen in this ever fickle world of theirs, he’d rather swallow his pride now than waste another day waiting for the right time, and risk missing his chance all over again. “I’ve got nothing to offer you. Except for. Except for myself.”
Surprisingly, Bucky laughs. It’s not scornful, though: it’s a soft, a tender sound.
He sets his mending aside, and slips his hands into Steve’s own.
The palm of his flesh hand is rough and warm, and against his skin, Steve feels the calloused fingers of a man who’s been tending to soil and cattle day after day; a man who’s been spending his evenings whittling clumsily shaped animal figurines for the neighbors’ children out of scraps of firewood, just to watch them laugh in shrill delight at his misshapen dogs, at the oddly rectangular horse he attempted last week, and the chunky little block that was supposed to be a cat, but turned out bearing a remarkable resemblance to a piglet instead.
“You think that’s nothing,” Bucky rumbles, rubbing gentle circles on Steve’s knuckle with the pad of his thumb, “but it’s everything to me.” He finds Steve’s eyes, love written openly in each crease and dimple of his features, and the heart of the heart beating in Steve’s chest clenches with the sweetest pain of all. “You’re everything to me.”
The world, Steve wishes he had enough voice to whisper now, The whole world, the sun, the stars, I’d give it all to you.
He curls his fingers around Bucky’s, slipping to the edge of his seat to rest their foreheads together.
Here he was thinking his hands were empty, and yet – they’ve never felt so full before.
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Me when the narrative is offering a dynamic between a trauma-induced cynicism bordering with madness and a seemingly naive somewhat autodestructive altruism
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"That goat has been out for too long. Now that I've finished doodling it should be my turn. "
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cw!sambucky my beloved
bucky not even hesitating to protect sam
despite just meeting him after coming out of being the winter soldier, he knows sam must mean a lot to steve.
bucky knows how little steve has in his life.
bucky wants to be able to get along with someone he knows the only person he trusts completly (steve) because he wants both steve and sam to be comfortable around him and them as a trio.
sam not only joining team cap for steve, but lowkey because he knows how much bucky means to steve.
he says he "hates" him but I know deep down he respects sam because he knows how much sam is risking not only for steve but for himself.
despite everything bucky has done to sam in winter soldier mode, he still feels comfortable sitting in a cramped car with him.
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