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Super Soldier Theater: Jaws

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers x Reader, Stucky x Reader. It's not specific. No pronouns assigned to Reader past "you".

Summary: Bucky Barnes missed out on a lot while being controlled by HYDRA. Steve Rogers missed out on even more being frozen in ice. Since Sam has made it his mission to update them on music, you decide that it's your job to update them on what they've missed out on in cinema.

Chapter Summary: The education of Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers on movies they missed out on continues. This time they bring it on themselves and learn no one is exempt and why a bigger boat is needed. They also learn about MythBusters.

Word Count: 8K

Warnings: Mild Language (Steve will deal), All the standard warnings that come with a movie about a giant shark eating people, Bucky and Steve being very upset about what people the shark does and does not eat, shark facts, shark myths, discussion of the USS Indianapolis, possibly traumatizing two PTSD suffering WWII vets more than they already are, other stuff I probably forgot.

A/N: It took me forever to find that gif. Poll for the next movie is at the end. If you notice typos along the line of he instead of the or is instead of his, like a word out of place. It's my keyboard. I do not support my work being put into AI in any fashion.

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You debated for a few days over what movie to show Steve and Bucky next. The options were endless but ultimately they made the decision for you. Well, Steve did.

“Where does ‘We’re gonna need a bigger boat’ come from?” he asked as he walked into the living room with Bucky, the ex-assassin in his new black “Jurassic Park” T-shirt.

You looked at Steve. Then you realized he was serious. Well, that settled that. If he was gonna ask, you were gonna show.

“Are you afraid of water?” you asked and both he and Bucky looked at each other then looked at you.

“No.” They both answered.

“The ocean?”

“Well, I’m not…really fond of crashing into it.” Steve said and you nodded, “Why?”

“Go get the snacks. We’re watching Jaws tonight.” You answered and Bucky thought for a moment.

“Isn’t that the man-eating shark movie Spielberg directed?” he asked and you nodded.

“Yep.”

Several minutes later you were back in your accustomed spot between Bucky and Steve with Alpine sitting on the back of the couch behind you. The lights were shut off, your feet were propped up as usual, and you took a breath in before addressing them both. You knew you’d need to.

“Okay. This movie was made in 1975. It is based off of a novel from 1974. I haven’t read the book in its entirety, but I do know other things about the movie that will answer your questions. There are sequels to this movie but…we are not talking about those. Same rules as before. You can talk and ask questions, but if I tell you to watch, just watch. This is a different movie than Jurassic Park. Sharks are real animals and the author of the book actually felt regret for writing the book later in his life due to the aftermath that he felt that his book and this movie caused. It is a classic and the source of more than one movie reference you should know. Some of it may be upsetting to you both. Okay?”

They both nodded, confused and a bit concerned but watched the screen when you hit play. You kept the remote in your hand. You knew too well you’d need it…and you did.

It wasn’t when Bucky spoke, “You’re not drunk. Sure you’re not drunk.”

It was after that when the girl took her shirt off and Steve spoke.

“Is she naked?” he asked and you nodded.

“It’s the seventies and they’re going skinny dipping.” You answered and Bucky looked at you.

“In shark infested water?”

“They don’t know it’s shark infested just yet.” You answered and hit play again, both snickering when the guy fell face first down the sand dune and struggled to undress himself.

Bucky shook his head , “If you can’t walk or undress yourself how’d you expect to swim or do anything else?”

“Bucky!” Steve scolded and Bucky just looked at him, eyebrow raised as he put a piece of caramel popcorn into his mouth, “They wouldn’t show that.”

“Not in your day.” You replied and they both looked at you as you hit play again.

They both watched as the underwater shots zeroed in on the girl before jumping and staring wide eyed as the attack began. Mouths dropped open and then they gestured at the screen as it showed the guy passed out on the beach. You paused.

“Get it out of your systems.” You said.

“How’d you sleep through that?!” Steve asked looking at you.

“Lots of alcohol. It’s not over yet. You good?” You asked them both and they nodded so you hit play.

Bucky just watched in horror, “How’s she still alive?”

Steve spoke when she was dragged under the water, “Well she’s not now.”

They watched as the scene shifted to the police chief Brody and his family. They were quiet. At last until Brody’s son asked to go swimming.

“NO!” both said at the same time as Brody talked about the body washing up.

“Wait…they found her already?” Bucky asked and you rewound a few seconds and Steve nodded then angrily gestured at the screen causing Bucky to nod, “Oh…she’s just missing.”

“There he goes swimming.” He said and Bucky shook his head when Brody scoffed about staying safe in the town.

“Doesn’t matter what a town is like. Anywhere can be dangerous.” He said and Steve shook his head when they saw who it was that called the girl in as missing.

“He’s a great witness.”

You didn’t have time to respond as the deputy quickly found the body. What was left of it. Crawling with crabs.

They both just looked at the screen in horror. Horror that continued when the deputy returned to tell Brody about the boy scout merit badge swim. You knew exactly what was going to happen.

“No! No no no no no!” They both said shaking their heads.

You didn’t have the heart to tell them and knew they were going to have a new John Hammond figure very soon when the mayor made an appearance. They knew it, too, when he showed up with his cronies on the ferry and started on about shutting down the beaches.

“Rushing into something serious? A girl was eaten by a shark at your beach!” Steve said and Bucky groaned as he shook his head.

“Typical asshole.” He said and you nodded.

“You’re not wrong.” You answered while Steve scowled, “I’m surprised you’re not yelling at him.”

“He’s right.” Steve said while scowling, “Does the mayor get eaten?”

“You know I’m not telling you who or who doesn’t get eaten, Steve.”  You answered and he sighed before letting you hit play.

When the next scene zeroed in on the boy you prepared yourself. The tension was clear on their faces when the one swimmer surfaced from under the woman floating. They jumped when the couple playing in the water resulted in the girl screaming. Both were wound up tight and silent. Especially when they showed the boy on the raft again.

“They’re not…” Steve started and you remained quiet.

Then the dog disappeared.

“It’s there. It ate the dog!” Bucky whispered, eyes glued to the screen and jumped a bit when Alpine meowed, “I know you don’t care.”

“Oh no…it’s the music. NO!!” Steve started and Bucky joined him when the attack happened.

“NO!!! NOT THE KID! NOO!”

“NO! NO! IT ATE THE KID!!”

Alpine went into Bucky’s lap while you worked on calming Steve down and then Bucky. You had your work cut out for you. So did Alpine.

“It’s okay. It’s a movie. It’s a movie.” You soothed and they took a moment before nodding and zeroing in on the two beings they blamed it all on.

“That shark has to go.” Bucky scowled and Steve nodded.

“The mayor too.” He said and they both scowled at the reward offered, “It ate two people and you’re offering a 3000-dollar reward for something that ate a child?”

You pulled your phone out to calculate the difference, “That’s under 20 grand in today’s money.”

“It ate a kid! You should do it for free!” Steve said and you instantly had to pause again.

“It’s not the town offering the reward. It’s the kid’s mom.” You explained and they both calmed and nodded.

“Oh.”

They weren’t calm for long and you hit pause almost immediately after hitting play again when the motel owner started denying it was a shark.

“WHAT ELSE DOES THAT?!” Bucky asked and you just hit play again deciding to let them ride out their emotions about the town, its business owners, the mayor, and everyone else.

“A small story?!”

“You’re gonna bury it with the ads on the back?!”

“You hope they don’t close the beaches?!”

“All you people care about is money!”

“At least she doesn’t think the joke’s funny. Okay maybe she doesn’t need to get eaten.” Bucky said with a scowl while Alpine just looked up at you from your lap.

“I know, Al. Just…let them go.” You said quietly to her while they both continued grumbling and arguing with the new focus of their intense ire.

“Are you going to close the beaches?”

“Yes. We are.”

“Good!” Both Steve and Bucky said and groaned as the room began complaining.

You soothed Alpine and lowered the volume down lower when you saw the shark hunter Quint’s hand raise up to the chalkboard. They flinched and grimaced anyway being well aware of what the sound was.

They listened to Quint’s speech and then just scowled at the mayor. Yeah, they absolutely detested the mayor. You could see the gears turning in their heads.

“Who’s he work for?” Bucky asked, eyes narrowed and Steve looked at you for an answer…then Bucky did.

You knew damn well you’d have to give them one, “Okay…this isn’t in the movie. The book is different from the movie as is usually the case. In the book the mayor is in hock up to his ears to the mafia. They’re the ones pressuring him to keep the beaches open so they don’t lose money. In this he’s just a sleazy businessman.”

“He’d make good chum bait.” Bucky said and Steve shook his head in response, “He would.”

You hit play again and quickly both agreed with Brody yelling at his kids to get out of the boat.

“You have horrible maternal instincts, ma’am.” Steve said in response to Brody’s wife disagreeing with getting the kids away from the water and you paused the movie, “My mother would have moved us to a desert.”

Bucky had to think for a moment before responding, “If you’d have had more money back then I think she’d have tried anyway.”

“Well…yeah.” Steve nodded and thought wistfully for a moment before thinking, “I’m surprised she let me learn how to swim at all.”

“Well…technically she didn’t. I just taught you anyway.” Bucky said and Steve looked at him, “Yeah…I didn’t exactly tell her where we were going.”

“You’re lucky I didn’t get eaten by anything.” He replied and you just shook your head.

“Can we continue?” you asked and they both looked at you, the screen, and then nodded causing them to laugh when Brody’s wife changed her mind at seeing a picture in the book.

The laughter was soon replaced with shaking their head as the two fishermen chucked in one’s wife’s holiday roast.

“Someone is in a lot of trouble.” Bucky said and you and Steve both nodded, but for separate reasons they soon learned after grimacing at the photos of shark attack bites.

“I think I understand why the bigger boat thing is a thing.” Steve said after the shark ripped the dock off, “Swim, Charlie, swim!”

He and Bucky both relaxed after Charlie made it safely back onto the dock. Yet Bucky sat there thinking about it for a moment.

“His wife is probably going to try feeding him to the shark once she finds out what he did with her roast.”

You just chuckled and shook your head. Their next question came when Hooper arrived in the form of: “Is he gonna get eaten?” from Steve.

Bucky just nodded in agreement with Steve, “Yeah, everyone they focus on so far gets attacked or eaten ‘cept Brody and Mayor Chum Bucket.”

“BUCKY!” Steve scolded and Bucky just blinked at him.

“What?” asked and you just shushed them both.

“Just watch. They’ll explain who he is.” You said and they watched the chaos on the docks, including Hooper telling the fishermen that they were going to overload a boat before they acted like assholes to him when he asked a simple question.

Then you paused the movie due to laughing with Bucky as Steve spoke at the same time Hooper did saying almost the same exact thing.

“Well they’re all gonna get eaten.” Steve said then laughed with the two of you, Bucky pointing at the screen.

“I like him.” Bucky said and laughed again when Hooper walked into where Brody was and doubled down on how none of the men in the one boat were getting out of the harbor alive before introducing himself, “OH! He’s the shark guy they called.”

“He’s gonna get eaten.” Steve said and you just looked at him only for him to point at the screen, “Unpause it. Please.”

You just shook your head at him and hit play once more. They watched the ensuing chaos on the water with the multiple fishermen. Several comments were made about safety, stupidity, and then the use of explosives.

“Are they serious?” Bucky asked and you looked at him, “They’re chumming, one doesn’t know what that is, and the other is throwing explosives into the water. They’re just setting up a buffet. That shark pulled the dock off. It’s probably big enough to eat one of those boats whole.”

“You have no idea…” you thought to yourself and just smiled and gestured at the screen for him to keep watching as Hooper examined the remains of the first victim.

“Well he’s not happy.” Steve said as Hooper examined the remains and started scolding people about calling it a boating accident, “He’s definitely getting eaten.”

“He has sense. Of course he is.” Bucky agreed and looked at the screen in disbelief when it showed a shark that the fishermen had caught, “That’s way too small.”

“The crazy guy knows it.” Steve said and you nodded then waited for them to scowl at the mayor again, “The mafia angle would make a lot of sense but so does him just being…him..”

You nodded and waited then watched as they scowled as Brody was the one that got blamed for the boy getting eaten.

“It wasn’t him! It was your corrupted mayor and council!” Steve scowled.

“She’s grieving, Steve, and he didn’t fight it either.” Bucky countered and Steve looked at him with a scowl.

“Don’t you two start arguing.” You said and they nodded before returning to watching Hooper explain how he got into studying sharks.

“I don’t think I’d start studying them if they ate my boat out from under me.” Steve said and Bucky thought for a moment.

“I mean…I might. Just to learn how to not have that happen again.” He said and you thought about it yourself.

“I’d never set foot near the ocean again.” You said and once again hit play.

They weren’t surprised when the shark turned out to not be the right shark. They were already aware of that. They were however surprised by the license plate. Both nodded when Hooper explained why, yet they were both shaking their head at his dismissal of the mayor as being a small problem.

“Look, you’re not wrong about the shark being a problem.” Steve said and Bucky shook his head.

“No, but the mayor is a major problem because he’s the one standin’ in the way.” He said and you nodded then nodded again, “I also think you’re underestimatin’ the size of that shark’s mouth as for night feeding…did you skip the part about the daytime attack?”

It then took Steve two seconds to guess that Brody was drunk when he started rambling about the crime rate in New York. That launched him and Bucky both into a discussion on how much things had, or hadn’t, changed since their day. That then launched them into a short tennis match over how Steve getting beaten up in alleys back then was different before you put a stop to it devolving any further.

“Sorry.” Both apologized so you could hit play again, learning more about Hooper and Brody, “Why’s the chief hate water s’much?”

You paused, “I can’t remember if they explain it in the movie or the book. He almost drowned as a kid so developed a phobia of water.”

“Oh.” They both nodded and you hit play again, watching as the boat’s fish finder picked up something else being out in the water.

When it turned out to lead to an abandoned boat both of their eyes widened. It was easy to tell that they were torn between moving forward and leaning back to prepare themselves. They didn’t stay quiet, though.

“Sure I know him. He’s a fisherman.” Brody said on the screen while he and Hooper drew up on the banged up and attacked boat.

“Knew him. You knew him.” Steve said and Bucky nodded.

“Yeah and he was a fisherman. He’s fish food now.” He said and you held back the snicker that threatened to erupt from you and it got better.

“Look Martin, I’ve gotta go down there and check their hull.” Hooper said and both Steve and Bucky shook their heads.

“No.”

“Wait a minute. Why don’t we just tow it all in?” Brody asked and they both nodded.

“Listen to him, Hooper.” Steve said and Bucky nodded.

“Yeah, don’t get eaten.”

“We will. I just got to check something out.” Hooper insisted and they both sighed, shaking their heads, “Hit the lights for me.”

“He’s getting eaten.” Bucky sighed and Steve nodded.

“Yeah and Brody’s gonna be left out there alone on the boat…”

You said nothing. You just let them watch and tell Hooper he’s an idiot a few times. Alpine was curled up in your lap watching the screen with them while you stole bits of their snacks waiting.

“Don’t worry Martin. Nothing’s gonna happen.”

“You said the shark’s a night feeder. It’s night.” Steve pointed out and Bucky nodded.

“Yeah and you’re gonna get eaten so something is definitely gonna happen.”

“Don’t touch any of the equipment. I’ll be back in two minutes.”

“He’s gonna touch it.” Steve said and once again Bucky nodded.

“Yeah, and Hooper’s gonna come back in two small pieces.” He said and they watched as Hooper swam into the water, both shaking their heads.

You remained silent as he investigated the boat and dislodged the huge tooth. You watched their reactions more than the movie. So when the head of the fisherman came through the giant hole you watched them both jump in their seats enough that you bounced in your own when they both came down, disturbing Alpine enough she meowed at them.

“Sorry.” They said and shook their heads.

“Of course he dropped the tooth!” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“And the light.” He said, “Get out of the water.”

The scene changed to daytime.

“Oh look it’s Mayor Chum Bait with his anchor suit again…” Bucky said as Hooper and Brody tried to tell him about the danger of the shark but then both Bucky and Steve looked at you when they listed off a different incident that happened in 1916.

“Wait…” Steve said, thinking, “I think I heard my mom talkin’ about that once.”

You nodded, “Yeah. The Matawan shark attacks took place in July of 1916 and was likely the inspiration for the novel itself. Five people were attacked, four fatally. There are debates about what kind of shark it was, though. At the time they said a white shark but the attacks also took place in a creek. Fresh water. Not many sharks are able to swim in both fresh and salt. White sharks are rare around Jersey and don’t swim into brackish or fresh water like bull sharks or tiger sharks do and there’s been even more debate around if it was just one single shark as well. Bite ratios from more modern studies say up to three sharks could have been responsible.”

“How do you know this?” Bucky asked and you looked at him, blinking.

“Because I watch Shark Week on Discovery. Can I unpause now?”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and once you did they were both soon groaning when the mayor refused to believe them and refused to close the beaches, both yelling at the mayor with Brody and Hooper, “You depend on the summer months for money! You’re gonna have no summer tourists left!”

“People aren’t gonna want to come back to a place that has a man-eating shark and a tacky damn mayor that doesn’t care if they get eaten!”

“Who’d bring their kid to a beach where the mayor practically sprays them down with tuna oil?!”

“Tuna oil?”

“I dunno the shark might like it more than barbecue sauce!”

“All he cares about is the summer and the sign!”

“Hooper is the only one with sense!”

“He’s laughing now.”

“He’s frustrated and just done.”

“That’s it! I vote the mayor gets tied up to the damn pier!” Bucky said and you just shook your head as Alpine looked up at you.

“Just let them go.” You said to her and she just nudged your hand to be petted as the tourists arrived, being labeled a “buffet on legs” by Steve with Bucky adding it was “all you can eat courtesy of Mayor Dumb Ass”.

When the mayor urged someone to go into the water they just jaw-dropped and then glared at the screen. The gears turning in their heads were spinning fast enough you could practically see the smoke coming out of their ears. You debated pausing it to let them process everything.

Once the mayor came back on announcing that they had already caught a large predator and was otherwise trying to cover everything up you debated it again, but waited once the shark fin was spotted. Then you paused it.

They both just glared at the screen then looked at you.

“Movie. Breathe. Calm. Deep breaths.” You knew what was coming and didn’t need either one wanting to tackle the tv, “Calm…it’s a movie…”

“That mayor…needs his face shoved into the sand…” Bucky said slowly, “And his ass kicked so hard…it becomes his head.”

“And then he can be shark bait.” Steve added and you licked your lips before speaking.

“Boys…I’m not pressing play until you both calm down. We all know the mayor is a major jackass.” You said and Alpine meowed.

“Mao.”

They both nodded and calmed down. Once you were satisfied you hit play again watching them glare at the ensuing terror-filled chaos. They both scolded the two boys for playing the prank, seeing them relax a bit, but you knew better. You knew the pause was needed for what came next. Especially when the shark was spotted going into the pond where Brody’s son was boating. It didn’t go over their heads just how large the shark was either.

“That thing is huge.” Steve said and Bucky nodded then both started shaking their heads.

“No one’s off limits in this movie. Get your kid outta the water, Brody!”

“Why isn’t he more worried?” Steve asked while gesturing at the screen.

“I don’t think he believes the screaming after the two prank boys.” Bucky said and he nodded.

“Probly.”

“We never would have done that.”

“No. We wouldn’t have.”

You agreed, but not because you believed them to be angels as children. You just knew that Steve wouldn’t have been able to. Had he been…you’d have audibly disagreed with them. Instead you just nodded.

You nodded and you said nothing and just held the remote at the ready. Alpine shifted around on your lap; aware you were getting ready just in case she needed to move. They were on the edge of their seats again when the shark was spotted making a beeline for the boat and the guy on the rowboat.

They were shaking their heads as Brody ran. Both jumped when the rowboat was capsized, eyes wide and then wider when the shark made its first appearance. Mouths slowly opened while they watched the man get dragged under. Then they leaned back when the next shot of the shark showed it taking another bite. Heads were shaking when the severed leg dropped to the bottom.

“Get out of the water.” Steve said quietly, both watched as Brody’s son was taken out of the water and was left in shock, “Oh that poor kid…”

“He’s alive. That’s what matters. He wasn’t eaten.” Bucky said and they watched him in the hospital scene asking for cars and coffee, “Knows his priorities.”

“I agree with mom. Go home to New York.” Steve said and they both glared full fury and rage at the mayor when he was apologizing to Brody, “Only thing he needs to sign is a resignation letter.”

“Or a note saying he wants to apologize by volunteering to be bait.” Bucky said while the mayor mumbled and tried to get himself out of trouble.

Neither cared about how the mayor felt at that point. Even when he mentioned his kids. Especially then and you found you had to pause or they’d miss the next part.

“Who the hell would reproduce with you?!” Bucky asked while holding both hands out to the screen and you laughed.

“Give me a break. ‘My kids were on that beach, too’. Maybe if you cared about your kids you shouldn’t have offered them up on an all you can eat buffet for ocean predators.” Steve glared at the screen and they looked at you to unpause it, “We’re okay.”

“Yeah.” Bucky nodded.

“Good.” You said and hit the play button letting them watch as Quint was hired and started listing off everything he wanted.

You watched them all jostle and maneuver each other’s egos. Steve and Bucky were obviously not very sure what to make of Quint. Other than that they thought he was rude, crude, and had definitely been in the military in some capacity.

“Navy.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Definitely.” He said, eyes glued to the screen while watching Brody chum the water and Quint go on about how much shark fishing had changed, “Do we sound like that?”

You paused and thought for a moment, “Sometimes you go on about how things were. You both do…”

You glanced at Bucky as he opened his mouth causing him to shut it and smile at you.

Then you continued, “But you don’t really do it to the same degree as he does. Mostly I think he’s just trying to annoy the piss out of them both.”

They both nodded and continued watching the movie and as you predicted Bucky made a comment when Hooper freaked out about the compressed air tanks. You weren’t even surprised. You just knew him too well.

“No they won’t. They’re scuba tanks not aerosol.” He said and you looked at him, “They wouldn’t explode.”

“It’s a movie, Buck.” You reminded him and he sighed and nodded.

“Fine.” He said and gestured that you could unpause the movie once again.

They both looked at the reel when it began clicking. Brody was busy trying to tie his knot while Quint prepared himself. You could see they were both mentally debating if strapping himself to the pole was a good idea or not.

“Y’know…” Steve started and Bucky nodded, “I recognize that’s how you’re supposed to do it…but…”

“Yeah. He’s shark food.” Bucky said and tossed a bite of his Cracker Jacks into his mouth, “That shark’s huge. I don’t think you’re gonna be able to use a rod and reel to get it.”

You just shrugged and stole some of Steve’s popcorn.

“Y’know Chief, he’s either very smart or he’s very dumb…” Quint said on the screen while considering what the shark was doing.

“Sounds like he’s describin’ Steve.” Bucky said and snickered when Steve threw a piece of popcorn at him causing you to look at him sharply.

“What’d I say about throwin’ food?” you asked and he sighed.

“Sorry.” Steve said and you looked at Bucky.

“Behave.” You said and he nodded while watching the movie as they argued about it and Hooper said it wasn’t the shark before they both jumped as the line came free.

“I agree with Quint. It was the shark. They really need to stop competin’ with each other.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, but if he’d stop pickin’ on Hooper for being educated he’d stop tryin’ to prove himself to him all the time.” He said and Bucky nodded.

“Yeah…” he said and they both nodded when Quint explained how he fished for sharks, tricking them up and jabbing at them.

They continued watching as Brody chummed the water before jumping when the shark made another appearance. Then Brody said the line that started all of this.

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat…”

“I agree completely.” Steve said and so did Bucky.

“Yeah. Preferably one with torpedoes.” He said then thought for a moment with a face on that you knew very well.

“No. You cannot have Bruce as a pet.”

“Bruce? You named it. It’s a pet now.” He said and you laughed but shook your head.

“No! I didn’t name it Bruce. The movie crew did when they were making it! You can’t have a great white shark for a pet. They don’t really do captivity. It stresses them out too much and you’d have to feed them a lot.”

“Hm…true.” He said while thinking.

“Just watch the movie.” You said and hit play again.

They both watched as Quint and Hooper sized it, arguing again about the size.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s 20 or 25 it’s still going to eat you!” Steve said and Bucky nodded, watching them react, laughing a bit as Quint got rid of Brody’s wife on the radio after assembling his spear gun.

“Why are they putting Brody in charge of driving the boat?” Bucky asked and answered himself a few seconds later, “Because Hooper knows how to handle the barrels. Never mind.”

“What’s he doing?” Steve asked of Hooper and you just gestured at the screen as the barrel was pulled under, “It pulled it under.”

“That thing is gonna eat him.” Bucky said and you just gestured at the screen.

They watched as Hooper and Quint started having a competition on whoever had the bigger scar. You knew what was coming. It was expected as Bucky waved his vibranium arm at the screen.

“I win.” He said and smiled as they started laughing together, “Well at least they’re getting along now.”

“’Bout time.” Steve said and you nodded, waiting, and you watched them as Quint explained his removed tattoo was the U.S.S. Indianapolis and Hooper stopped laughing.

You watched them as Quint explained what had happened to him. You could see the shift in their eyes as they listened. It was after they both disappeared from the war. You knew they were aware of the war’s history after they both were out of it. Still, you knew they weren’t aware of everything.

They listened and watched as he continued. The horror was clear on their faces. You knew damn well you had to do it when they looked at you.

You paused and nodded, “Yes. It happened. The U.S.S. Indianapolis was charged with delivering parts of one of the bombs. I don’t remember which. The return voyage was when it was sunk. It was a secret mission, I don’t think they even had an escort because it was so secret. The number of survivors isn’t an exaggeration. Only 316 survived. It wasn’t June, though. It was…July I believe and the number on board was closer to twelve hundred not eleven hundred. Otherwise…yeah. It’s not made up for the movie. It happened.”

“That’s…” Bucky started and Steve nodded.

“Horrible.” He said and you nodded.

“It is. War didn’t end with Schmidt’s defeat. Took a few more months and a lot happened. You know won’t I lie to you about it.” You said and they nodded, “You need a minute or you want to keep going?”

“How long is left?” Steve asked.

“About another half hour…ish?” you answered and he nodded.

“Bathroom. The water’s gettin’ to me.” He said and both you and Bucky nodded.

“Yeah.” You said, “We’ll take a bathroom break.”

Bucky nodded and after a short break of relieving yourselves you got settled back in and hit play.

It picked up as Quint and Hooper started singing. It wasn’t long before the barrel returned. It also wasn’t long before one of them spoke. This time it was Steve.

“They’re singing and it’s ramming the boat and taking out the lights. What made this shark?”

“The ocean.” You retorted and they both looked at you, “Nature.”

“It’s too smart.” Bucky said and you just shook your head.

“Just watch the movie.” You replied and they returned to looking at the screen, watching Quint try to shoot the shark and asking what was wrong with the gun when it jammed.

“Top round was probably loaded on the right.” Bucky said then thought about it, “He’d have the clip fully loaded, though so he’s not down to the 7th and 8th round. Probly the bolt not working…and now he’s singing again. He’s crazy…but I like him…but he’s nuts. He’s gonna get eaten and we all know it.”

They watched Quint and Hooper in the daytime trying to fix the boat before jumping a bit when the barrel resurfaced. Once again they were leaning forward, eyes fixed on the screen as Hooper used the boat hook to get the rope. Both were tense, expecting any moment for the shark to pull the rope, and therefore Hooper, into the water. They were expecting it yet they still jumped when the shark surfaced and ripped the rope out of Quint’s hands.

They watched as Brody then went to make a phone call right afterwards. Both guessed he was after a bigger boat but jumped when Quint destroyed the radio. They also both agreed with Brody that Quint was certifiable even if they understood, in their opinion, that Quint was just out for blood and revenge against all sharks at that point.

Then Hooper announced the shark returned and Quint demanded another barrel. Neither one believed the jubilant music for a minute. They didn’t care how hopeful it sounded. They were both ready for chaos and Bucky raised his eyebrow as Brody shot at it before it took the two barrels down. Steve was shaking his head when Hooper was then later caught by the rope behind him and both questioned the logic of tying the ropes to the boat when the shark was that big.

“They’re just askin’ for it.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“They know how big it is…”

“They’re still just underestimatin’ it.” Bucky said and you all nodded, especially as it started to turn the boat and then pull the boat even after another barrel was shot into him.

“Not with three he can’t!” Quint said and both gestured at the screen when the shark pulled them under.

“Tell that to Bruce.” Steve said and jumped a few moments later when the boat listed as the shark returned.

They both shook their head when Quint pushed the boat to its absolute limit against Hooper’s urging him not to. Neither were surprised when the boat started spewing black smoke though they did jump when the engine blew.

Watching what they dubbed as “Plan B” come together they agreed with both Brody and Hooper. The shark would rip the cage to pieces but they didn’t really have any better plan to go with. Both said the same thing about the strychnine, though.

“Twenty ccs. I’d pour the whole damn bottle in.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

They were both tense and threw their hands up when Hooper dropped the spear. They weren’t surprised by it but were surprised that he was putting up a fight. Then they both predicted the boom breaking as they tried raising the cage.

Yet, what took them by surprise the most was the shark rearing up and launching itself partially onto the boat. Their eyes were wide and you prepared yourself for their reaction to Quint sliding down the boat straight into the shark’s mouth.

Alpine put herself into Bucky’s lap while you checked on Steve. Both were just staring at the screen, processing it. Yet they both nodded that they were good to go so you unpaused the movie and prepared yourself.

Both of them narrowed their eyes when Brody was attacked by the shark and shoved the compressed air canister into its mouth. You could tell they were well aware of what was about to happen up to a point. So you cut them off before they questioned it.

“Movie.”

They just nodded and watched the ensuing battle between Brody and the shark. You also knew damn well Bucky was counting the shots.

“Smile you sonovabitch.” Brody said one more time before hitting the canister with the shot resulting in the infamous explosion of the man-eating shark.

They watched through the rest of the movie to its end. They were quiet. You weren’t quite sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing just yet.

“Well?” you asked and they looked at you.

“How different is the book?” Bucky asked and you answered.

“A bit. There’s a subplot where Brody’s wife cheats on him with Hooper because of something to do with how she feels like she missed out on a better life with Hooper’s brother or something. I’m not upset they left that out.” You answered and Steve nodded.

“Yeah that sounds confusing. I liked it, but that canister wouldn’t have blown up like that.” He said.

There it was. You knew it’d happen. You also knew what else was gonna come…and it did.

“How’d they do the shark? Was it like the T-Rex?” Bucky asked and you answered.

“There is a nearly two-hour long behind the scenes documentary about Jaws. The long and short of it is that: yes, the shark is an animatronic. However, the animatronic shark had a lot of issues. It didn’t work half the time, which is where the barrels came from. If the animatronic worked more there’d have been more scenes with the shark in it.”

“I think the barrels added tension more than seeing the shark would.” Steve said and Bucky nodded as did you.

“Yeah. As for the canister…no. There’s debate, it’s been tested several times, but it’s a movie.” You reminded them and they nodded then tilted their heads when you shut the movie off and turned on something different, “And now…we’re going to watch clips on YouTube of sharks hunting seals.”

“Why?” Bucky asked and you just smiled as they looked at the screen.

“Because I want to show you breaching great white sharks.” You answered and Steve looked at the thumbnail on the first one.

“They don’t jump that high.” He said and you just smiled and hit play, “Why are there ads on everything?”

“There wasn’t in the early days but this is life now. Just watch.” You said and gestured at the screen for them to watch.

They did then stared wide eyed when the 10-foot shark leapt out of the water to strike the seal dummy. They both just pointed at the screen. When another one breached they were both leaning forward and glued.

“They do jump that high.” Steve said and you nodded.

“They just…wham!” Bucky said and you nodded; then they both looked at you once the short video was done, “Are they all like that?”

“Mmm…sort of but there’s different sharks. Let’s find one with Colossus…” you said and scrolled down to the first one you saw, “These are off a Discovery show called Air Jaws from Shark Week. This one explains why they do this. The Sharks.”

They nodded and listened again, nodding as the narrator explained it was a learned adaptation to surprise seals, but they were still fascinated by it.

“That’s a big shark.” Bucky said and you nodded as Steve spoke.

“I suppose that’s why they call him Colossus.”

“Yep.” You nodded and watched several more clips with them, letting them pick each one.

Then you introduced them to MythBusters. The third season Jaws special to be specific after finding it on YouTube once you discovered you couldn’t find it on Discovery. You explained it briefly, knowing the opening would explain it more for you.

“It’s science based. You’ll like it. They test movie myths and other stuff like that. A lot is blown up. They’re nuts. Just watch.” You said and they nodded.

“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

“Steve.” Bucky said and Steve side-eyed him.

“I kinda like it in here. It’s private.”

“That’s you then.” He retorted and Bucky just shrugged as you shushed them both.

“Behave.” You reminded them and they nodded while watching and listening to the line up of the myths to be tested.

They both nodded when the narrator explained the difference between continuous force and shock force. Both were fascinated and paying attention. You knew they were because they were silent and absorbed as Adam explained what they were doing. At least until he started getting seasick.

“Yeah. He’s Steve.” Bucky said and you sighed, “Sorry.”

Steve shook his head yet they watched the episode continue as the testing of great whites failed and the team went to the Bahamas to test some other things. They were largely silent as they watched the data collection and how the pair on the tv calculated what force a shark could produce.

At least until they introduced Buster. They didn’t ask who Buster was as Jaime explained who, or rather what, Buster was. Still a comment came.

“They have a crash test dummy.” Steve said, “Named Buster.”

You beat Bucky to it, “Yes. Not everyone is exactly willing to be a guinea pig for things so they have a crash test dummy instead.”

“Yeah. That.” Bucky said and Steve just nodded.

“I wouldn’t be volunteering for that.”

Both you and Bucky looked at him skeptically.

“I wouldn’t.” he said and nodded, “Unless it was important, but not just to test somethin’ like that.”

“Sure.” Bucky said and you hit play again to watch with them as the plan was drawn up on how to test the effect of deterring an attacking shark by punching it.

Both stared at the guy that just deterred great whites with his hand. You explained once again that the author of Jaws came to regret his actions for misrepresenting the animals so badly, but you agreed that the guy was still nuts. They went back to silence once the testing began again at least until the Red Man suit came back again.

“Steve needed one of those back in the 40s.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“I won’t argue about that.”

“Good.” You said and they returned to silence once the testing and science started again.

Bucky accepted their entire build of the punching machine despite having a vibranium arm. Then again you were pretty sure he understood the difference between what other people had access to in science versus what Wakanda and HYDRA had. That or he and Steve were just totally absorbed in the show.

Looking at them you were pretty sure they were absorbed. Watching the team build a shark ram and watching Adam build a shark cage without either Steve or Bucky saying anything while both were still very awake you knew they were just simply absorbed in the show. Even as Adam and Jaime tested the piano wire they only nodded in agreement that more movie magic had been used when it came to Quint using piano strings as a leader.

Seeing just how absorbed they were you weren’t exactly sure if it was a good thing or not. Ultimately you decided it was a good one since it gave them something else to watch that was science and entertainment.

They chuckled at times but otherwise they were absorbed. Then the tank arrived to tow the shark ram.

“They were actually given a tank?” Steve asked and you nodded.

“It’s a good idea to not let Adam drive it.” Bucky said and you chuckled then watched with them when Adam was allowed to control a crane, “But they let him operate heavy machinery.”

“He knows what he’s doing.” Steve said and you just smiled. “I still can’t believe they let him use the actual props.”

They continued watching as the testing moved back to the punching a shark test. Adam’s refusal to leave Buster behind if he got cut loose by a shark instantly had Bucky agreeing once again that he was Steve. It also had Steve’s instant agreement and admiration.

“I like him.” Steve said and you nodded.

“Buster is a part of the team no matter what they put him through.” You said and they nodded while watching, including when Buster’s arm got bit by a shark.

“Fight Buster fight!” they urged and cheered when he was raised from the water.

Then things moved onto the exploding scuba tank. It was the entire reason you put the episode on. They ultimately agreed with both Spielberg and the author Benchley about the ending of Jaws.

“I mean, yeah, we know they don’t explode like that…” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“But it was still the ending that made it memorable and it felt fitting.” He said but then they returned to silence again while watching the shark strength test at pulling the boat backwards.

They enjoyed the test’s chaos, though they countered with a “what if the shark wasn’t a natural shark but a science lab creation”. Then they just stared when the narrator said the FBI was using it as a training session. You weren’t sure what to make of their reaction other than to be mildly impressed at how thorough they were when it came to safety and testing.

Though Bucky ultimately disagreed with Adam’s prediction about the bullet not going through the aluminum. He was right, as expected and as you knew he’d be.

They largely returned to silence yet they were fascinated by the contraption Adam was put into to watch Jaime get ready to punch at sharks. Even though they thought it was stupid they were still fascinated by the entire thing nodding at times, tilting their heads at others.

They were back on the edges of their seats deeply interested in the results of the shark ram versus the shark cage, but you knew they were mostly eager to see the end result so were disappointed when things went wrong. You knew very well that it couldn’t be a full MythBusters episode until something went wrong. Still they listened to Adam explain the ballast issue and the physics of it before everything was fixed.

Then they watched the results. Both were staring fascinated and nodded in response to what was said about there not being evidence of a shark attacking a cage like that. Then they watched the ram hit the boat. They nodded when the ram hit the boat creating a hole without sinking it.

Then came the scuba tank myth.

“We know this isn’t going to work.” Steve said and you nodded.

“Yeah, but they’re gonna show you how it can be made to work, too. There’s always an explosion every episode.” You said and they both nodded and watched.

Neither were surprised that it didn’t work on either attempt but they both shook their heads when the team rigged it so it would explode. It was still amusing to them that the FBI was involved.

“Well?” you asked afterwards and they nodded.

“What’s the sequel like?” Steve asked.

5 days later

“Mao!” Alpine meowed while dropping down from her cat tree like her Papa had a habit of doing straight onto a catnip filled shark toy as you walked in with the mail.

You tossed the package addressed to Steve at him and the one addressed to Bucky at Bucky. You knew what Steve had ordered and weren’t surprised when he pulled out a custom-made cat ball shaped like the amber piece from John Hammond’s cane he then tossed to her to bat around. Bucky pulling out T-shirts from his package didn’t surprise you either, though you had to laugh when he handed Steve one that had Buster on it proclaiming the dummy was his personal hero.

Steve smiled, “I love it.”

A/N: I had to give them a little something to untraumatize them at the end. The Matawan Man-Eater is a real event that happened and so is the sinking and aftermath of the USS Indianapolis. There's plenty I left out on both. I hope you enjoyed this episode (I'm sticking with episode. Calling them chapters or parts just doesn't fit right for me). The next poll will be up for 3 days instead of one. Mostly to give myself some time.

Ao3 Link: Super Soldier Theater: Jaws

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HI! I am back...sorta.

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SO...what does this mean?

1: I am going back to work editing and posting Howling Witch.

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Super Soldier Theater: Jurassic Park

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers x Reader, Stucky x Reader. It's not specific. No pronouns assigned to Reader past "you".

Summary: Bucky Barnes missed out on a lot while being controlled by HYDRA. Steve Rogers missed out on even more being frozen in ice. Since Sam has made it his mission to update them on music, you decide that it's your job to update them on what they've missed out on in cinema.

Chapter Summary: You begin their education with Jurassic Park and they quickly develop opinions regarding the stupidity of cloning dinosaurs, John Hammond, who should be eaten or not, and dinosaur rights.

Word Count: 6.1K

Warnings: Mild Language (Steve will deal), Jurassic Park-Canon Violence (both movie and book are mentioned, if you've seen the movie itself you know what to expect as far as that goes). Bucky is grumpy. He and Steve share opinions on John Hammond's effectiveness as a grandpa. Wishing People Get Eaten By Dinosaurs.

A/N: This was both fun and a bit of a challenge to write. I couldn't find my copy of Jurassic Park anywhere so had to rely on YouTube clips and the wiki for scene order since it isn't streaming anywhere right now that I have a subscription to. I have seen the movie countless times but my memory can get scenes out of order without direct help. I may eventually go back and tweak this one at a later date.

Ao3 Link: Super Soldier Theater: Jurassic Park

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Next Movie: Jaws

It was movie night. You, Bucky, and Steve had movie nights usually once or twice a week. Really it was whenever you decided that unwinding with some snacks sounded like fun.

You knew very well that your two favorite super soldiers were men out of place in your time and very fond of the music and movies of their own. You respected that and you understood fully well what it meant to them. Still, you couldn’t take seeing them go around completely clueless when it came to modern references from movies they’d never seen anymore.

They had missed out on so much. It was going to take time to catch them up, but it had to be done. One way or another.

Sam had been painstakingly updating them on music. He had his own methods for doing so. He broke them in slowly with things similar to what they knew.

You had no plans of doing that whatsoever. Not that you were going to throw something completely new at them. Not Avatar or something. No.

You decided to start with Jurassic Park.

It was a classic. One you were excited to see their reaction to. Even if Bucky grumbled at first.

“I thought we were watching something else tonight.” He said as you led both him and Steve into your living room set up with everything you’d need.

All their favorite snacks, yours, pillows, and the usual for your movie nights. You just smiled in response and nudged both him and Steve into their seats before taking your usual spot. Right between them nice, snug, and cozy.

“No. You two need to get up to speed with movies. Jurassic Park is great.” You said and Steve thought for a moment.

“Isn’t that the one with the dinosaur park and the raptor guy?”

You shook your head while handing him his bowl of popcorn then Bucky his Cracker Jack box, “No. That’s Jurassic World. Same franchise but it’s a sequel of Jurassic Park. The…fourth movie. Jurassic Park is the first one that started it all. It’s different from the book, considerably, but it’s still good despite that.”

“Fine.” Bucky sighed and sat back putting his feet up alongside yours which were alongside Steve’s then looked at Alpine as she hopped up onto the back of the couch and meowed, “Jurassic Park.”

She moved a bit along the back until she reached a spot where she could tuck her paws under herself and assume her little powdered sugarloaf form. It always amused you how she would pick a spot where she could watch the tv with you. As sassy as she could be she was still much more open to watching whatever was put on than either of them could be at any given moment.

“Alright. You’re allowed to ask questions and talk, but if I tell you to wait until later, just wait. Okay?” you asked and they both nodded, relaxing into their seats on either side of you as you hit play.

You made sure to keep the volume loud enough for you to hear yet not too loud for their more sensitive hearing. Especially as you knew what was coming having seen it so many times. You expected countless questions and comments from both of them and it didn’t take long for the first to come.

You were far from surprised that it didn’t take long for one of them to say something. It was also absolutely no surprise to you that it was Bucky. At all.

“Okay, so…they’re going to fight a dinosaur with cattle prods and one…what is that? A Franchi SPAS-12?” he asked, gesturing at the tv with his vibranium hand as you hit pause and looked at him, eyebrow raised, “A twelve-gauge? Really? A dinosaur? Those things jam like hell and you’re gonna take down a T-Rex with it? Yeah. Sure.”

Steve looked at him, “Bucky! Shh!”

“Just watch!” you said, trying not to laugh before hitting play again and watched them both tilt their head at the crate being hauled in.

Alpine’s ears twitched at the sounds of the raptor inside the crate, tail flicking as she looked at the tv with them. You could already see Bucky wasn’t a fan of the whole loading process, it likely being an uncomfortable reminder of things with HYDRA and his capture and reactivation by Zemo. Steve caught it too and glanced at him as you pat the ex-assassin’s leg.

He gave you a small smile and a nod before looking at the guy on top of the crate lifting the gate. You knew what was coming and paused it again. He just shook his head and pointed.

This was going to be a long movie.

“So they can create dinosaurs but they can’t have a machine load the crate and lift the door?” he asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, that’s just…that’s asking for it. I mean…not safe. It’s not even secured.” He agreed and you nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, they explain things in the book about certain…other things that happen…you know what just watch.” You started before waving your hands and hitting play again.

Both of them just shook their heads as the worker was knocked off the crate and the raptor inside started dragging him in. Bucky was definitely rooting for the dinosaur when you glanced at him and glancing at Steve you were fairly sure he was, too. Still, he was obviously more torn about it than Bucky was.

“That could have been completely avoided if they had secured the crate.” He said, shaking his head while his blue eyes were still locked on the screen, and Bucky nodded as the shots rang out and the screen faded to black.

“Or if they just didn’t make dinosaurs and put them in a crate then electroshocked them with cattle prods…”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and they watched as the scene changed to the introduction of Gennaro on the raft.

In a suit. In the jungle. At a mine.

“Lawyer.” Steve said with a gesture before eating a bite of popcorn he then choked on, “Twenty-million-dollar lawsuit?!”

“They deserve it.” Bucky said and ate a bite from his own box, “Shh.”

You just shook your head and chuckled as they both reacted the same way to Gennaro complaining that the investors were questioning the safety of the park: two dry scoffs that simultaneously said “No shit” without actually saying the words.

“Hammond hates inspections…that just screams responsible employer…” Steve said with a dry sigh shaking his head.

“You know damn well they’re doing this in Costa Rica to avoid labor laws or something.” Bucky added, eating another bite of his Cracker Jacks and you nodded.

“You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s not working out so well is it?” you asked and they both shook their heads.

“No. What’s in that thing?” Steve asked as he looked at the screen and the piece of amber being zoomed in on.

“A mosquito. Why the mosquito?” Bucky answered then asked and you just gestured at the screen, “Now we’re in Montana. Why?”

“Just watch.” You said quietly, shaking your head.

“I hate computers.” Alan Grant sighed on the screen a few moments later and Steve nodded.

“Sounds like Bucky.” He said and chuckled as a caramel coated piece of popcorn pelted him in the head.

“I can use ‘em better than you!”

“Oi! Stop throwin’ food!” you scolded, scowling at Bucky which made Steve smile triumphantly until you scowled at him, too, “You behave yourself, too. Watch the movie.”

Steve only doubled down on his opinion as Doctor Grant explained to the boy what a pack of velociraptors would do to him. You couldn’t exactly disagree. Neither could Bucky.

“Yeah, I’d do that.”

“So that means Steve is Ellie.” You said and Bucky nodded while watching as she scolded Grant.

“Yeah.” He nodded and Steve couldn’t exactly disagree.

“I’d probably be doing that, yeah…” He agreed then shook his head at the helicopter landing and the introduction of John Hammond, “Well he’s rude and…”

“Creepy. No one should be that happy.” Bucky said, “’Specially with a twenty-million-dollar lawsuit because your mistreated dinosaur ate your underpaid worker. He’s rude and I don’t like him.”

“You’ll love him even more later…” you thought to yourself while just nodding in response to the two as you continued to watch the scene.

 Bucky and Steve both watched as Hammond talked to the two scientists. They watched as Hammond explained what he needed, glossing over everything that it really meant, or why he needed them there to sign off on the park, before bribing the two to agree to go. It wasn’t a surprised that the two men on either side of you only reaffirmed their initial opinions on the character.

“I don’t like him.” Bucky said, shaking his head and Steve shook his.

“No. No one should smile like that after something they made and locked in an obviously ineffective containment cage ate someone else like that.” he said and ate another bite of popcorn, narrowing his eyes as the scene shifted to the meeting between Nedry and Dodgson, “That…can…”

“Hm?” you asked blinking at him and Bucky as he narrowed his eyes at the screen as well, “What about it?”

“That’s something HYDRA would do…but…they’d try to make them into weapons.” Bucky said and you nodded, knowing fully well he was right.

“Yeah.” Steve agreed, “Why’s that guy want them?”

“Corporate Espionage. They explain Dodgson’s role and company better in the book. Biosyn, his company, their whole schtick is reverse engineering the work other companies do to make money. The book has a whole…moral undertone about the ethics of bioengineering, what rights cloned creations have, and everything more than the movie has.” You explained and they nodded before watching as Ian Malcolm was introduced and Steve gestured at the screen.

“Mmh!” he excitedly mumbled, mouth full of popcorn.

You paused it so he wouldn’t choke, “Chew, swallow, then talk.”

He nodded before speaking once he was done, “That’s the guy. The life guy.”

“The life guy?” Bucky asked with a perplexed look on his face and Steve nodded.

“Y’know. The…the life finds a way guy.”

“OH!” Bucky nodded and looked at Malcolm, “Yeah. You’re right. So this’s where he’s from. Huh.”

“He reminds me of Tony.” Steve commented while eating another bite of popcorn and you paused while thinking.

“Mmm…on rockstar vibe levels…yes. Intelligence levels…I wouldn’t really know if I could say yes to that. Other levels no. Absolutely no. Ian Malcolm would have been telling Tony several thousand shades of “No” and “Stop” and “You’re an idiot” during the whole…Ultron thing.” You replied and they looked at you, “Just watch you’ll see.”

“Y’know…for a dinosaur movie…there’s a lack of dinosaurs…” Bucky commented a few seconds later.

You just chuckled, smirking at his timing as the characters were driven on the jeeps and Ellie talked about the plant life. You knew what was coming and it was worth it as the movie’s iconic score began playing and first sighting of the Brachiosaurus and they saw their first dinosaur on the screen.

You couldn’t help but laugh.

Their faces mimicked the faces of Grant and Sattler on the screen. Eyes wide and mouths agape. Then the Brachiosaurus fed from the tree, causing it to move its branches. That only made them stare more, heads cocked to the sides at the same time as they tried to figure out how it was done.

Then it got even better when Gennaro the lawyer spoke.

“We’re gonna make a fortune with this place…”

“There’s a magnificent, beautiful dinosaur and the first thing you think of is making money?!” Steve asked the screen and you burst out laughing again, especially as Bucky gestured at the screen nodding and looking at you.

“There’s a dinosaur.”

“I know.” You nodded, trying not to laugh as he continued while gesturing at the screen and still shot of the dinosaur on it since you paused.

“It’s…so majestic and he just…is he gonna put it in a cage?” Bucky asked and scowled at the screen, “I hope he gets eaten.”

“Does he get eaten?” Steve asked with a similar scowl and you bit your tongue while gesturing at the screen.

“Just watch. I’m not spoiling it.” You answered and hit play when they nodded only to pause again.

“Wait! T-rex?!” Steve asked and you nodded.

“Yeah. They have a T-rex.”

“How is that a good idea? I was joking before!” Bucky asked while staring at the screen still, both were just staring so you hit play again and then they nodded when Grant asked Hammond how he did it, “I wanna know that, too.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and you pat both their arms and pointed back at the screen when they looked at you for answers.

“Keep watching. It gets better and there’s a behind the scenes featurette we’ll watch after the movie.” You said and they nodded, watching the movie continue to the “ride” where Hammond, Hammond, and Mister DNA explained how the dinosaurs were made.

“Sophisticated techniques…they drilled a hole in the amber and used a syringe to suck it out.” Bucky said while rolling his eyes and you nudged him as Steve shushed him.

“Shh!”

They both watched as the lab was shown. Both agreed that they’d have stopped the ride as well to see the lab and then they stared once more when the baby raptor was born. Once again their heads tilted at the same time, but there was a difference between the two.

Namely in Bucky’s reaction and, once again, you laughed.

“I want one.” Bucky said and Alpine looked at him as did Steve, “It’s cute! Look how small and defenseless it is.”

“It’s a dinosaur, Buck. I doubt its defenseless.” Steve said with a look and Bucky just blinked back at him waiting for him to make his point.

“And? I deal with you.”

“What’s that s’posed to mean?” Steve asked with a scowl and you shook your head.

“Don’t you two start. Besides, it’s small and cute now but they get bigger and they’d probably try to eat Alpine.” You said and Bucky shook his head as Alpine looked at him and meowed.

“Never mind.”

You nodded and hit play again, “Exactly.”

It didn’t last long as you hit pause again when Steve began pointing at the screen.

“So this is why he says it! Because they tried to control the breeding!” Steve said after the iconic line was delivered and Bucky nodded, scowling deeply.

“They’re no damn better than HYDRA…” he said and Steve nodded in agreement, as did you and the baby dinosaur was revealed to be a baby Velociraptor before the movie switched scenes to the Raptor pen.

Bucky scowled instantly.

“Hammond is so…I don’t like ‘im. He’s hiding something. Wait…that’s the Velociraptor pen? That’s not a pen. Those things are in raptor prison.”

“Well, they did eat a guy.” Steve countered and you looked at him with Bucky, both of you raising an eyebrow, “Yeah, I know…”

“They should all be destroyed.” Muldoon declared on the screen and Bucky scowled at him, clearly having chosen his side for the moment.

“What’d they do to you?”

“They ate his friend.” You reminded him and he nodded with a sigh, obviously having forgotten.

“Oh…yeah, well…that’s Hammond’s fault.” He said and you couldn’t argue with him yet when the crane raised what remained of the cow harness you couldn’t help yourself.

“Still want one?”

He thought about it for about two seconds before answering.

“I’d get them a secluded island and let them run free where they can’t hurt anyone. Maybe feed them Hammond.”

“Bucky!” Steve scolded and Bucky just shrugged.

“He deserves it for putting them in that. Shouldn’t be locked up in an electrified prison.” He answered and took a bite of his food, “S’not right.”

Steve nodded while reluctantly agreeing, “No…it isn’t. It’s so small…and I really don’t like Hammond. He’s just…I don’t like him.”

You nodded, knowing it was only going to get better and it did the moment the children were introduced. Seeing their eyes widen you paused the movie to let them process when they both started gesturing at the screen. Then you counted down from three to one in your head and they began talking as soon as you hit one.

“Kids…they let…” Bucky started and Steve shook his head while looking at you.

“He brought his grand…”

“His grandkids!” Bucky said and you nodded, “To a place where people get eaten?!”

Steve just gestured angrily still, “To an island with a T-Rex on it?! He…that’s stupid!”

“Stupid? That’s irresponsible!” Bucky continued and flung his hands up into the air, “He might as well spray ‘em down with barbecue sauce and ring a damn dinner bell!”

“Exactly!” Steve nodded, “What kind of a grandpa is he?!”

“Evil. He’s an evil grandpa.” Bucky answered and once again you couldn’t disagree.

“Book gives you more insight into Hammond’s mind…and you’re not really wrong.” You said and hit play then paused immediately once again as the cars rolled up and they started pointing at the screen again.

“And we’re sending them into the park with the dinosaurs!” Steve said in disbelief, “He wants them to be eaten.”

“Well he doesn’t think anything is gonna go wrong. We’re the audience that knows it will or there wouldn’t be a movie.” You remind him and he sighed but nodded and you hit play again to watch as Doctor Grant interacted with Tim, once again causing you and Steve to both agree that Bucky was Alan Grant and Steve was Ellie Sattler.

“You would definitely do that to me.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, well…I would, but Sam would do it to us both first.”

“You’re not wrong.” Bucky agreed and tossed another piece of popcorn into his mouth to watch as the tour began, “Spared no expense my ass…”

“Mh.” Steve agreed and they both watched the tour go past the Dilophosaurus enclosure, “It spits poison.”

“Mmh. Definitely put it on a tour.” Bucky nodded and then they both paused, “Wait…”

“That guy…looks like Fury.” Steve said while gesturing at the screen, “Like a younger, two-eyed, Fury. Sounds like him, too.”

You nodded after a drink.

“I asked him about that once and all he said was, and I quote: ‘Yeah, I get that a lot’ and then he walked away.” You answered and they both thought about it for a moment as the tour continued yet no dinosaurs showed up.

At least until the goat scene happened and Bucky looked at it. You had forgotten about his attachment to goats. He pointed at the screen.

“So they’re just…gonna chain it there…and let it get eaten?” he asked and you nodded.

“That’s the plan…yeah.”

“It’s gotta eat, Buck.” Steve said and Bucky glared at him.

“It can’t even run away.”

“Well it’s clearly not worried about it. It’s going to sleep.” Steve countered, “You can’t blame the T-Rex.”

“No. I blame Hammond.” Bucky said with a scowl, “S’not even a full meal for the Rex. Just a snack. I blame Hammond.”

You nodded as the tour continued, “Good idea.”

Chaos theory went right over their heads when Malcolm explained it. You weren’t surprised and figured it would. Yet you couldn’t help but laugh when Steve spoke.

“I’d love to put him in the same room with Zola and his equation.” He said and you laughed, so did Bucky.

“That would be a disaster I’d pay to watch. Zola would lose his mind.” Bucky said and you nodded.

“You can predict everything versus you can’t predict anything.” You laughed and they nodded then stared at the Triceratops making you smile with glee at their faces.

“It’s…it’s a triceratops…he’s touching it.” Bucky said, eyes wider than the first dinosaur scene.

Steve wasn’t far behind as he stared, “I know the first one was…a computer thing. You explained that CGI thing the other day…but…that’s not…that. That’s real. Like…physical real. Not a computer.”

You smiled and shook your head, “No. It’s not. We’ll watch the behind the scenes later.”

“It’s so pretty…” Bucky said while watching it, thinking and you shook your head.

“No you don’t want one.”

“S’too small here. It needs space. Like in Wakanda. It’d get along with a rhino.”

“Why is it sick?” Steve asked as he looked at you and you gestured at the screen.

You watched the absolute look of horror on their faces when presented with the dung heap after a brief moment of the pair once again complaining about Hammond’s lack of grandparent skills. The shift from disgust at Hammond to disgust at the dino droppings was rapid and you couldn’t help the smile on your face.

Or “comforting” Steve when Malcolm said “shit.”

“That’s never going away…” he sighed and both you and Bucky shook your heads with a smile.

“Nope.” You smiled then answered his question from earlier, “Okay, they don’t really explain it in the movie why the dinosaur is sick. They do explain it in the book better. They’re not eating the toxic berries directly. They’re picking them up when they swallow stones near where the bushes are. Gastroliths. Like how chickens and other birds swallow small stones to help grind up food in their stomach.”

“Oh.” They both nodded and continued watching the movie up to the point where Nedry shut off the security in the park and the chaos that then ensued between him stealing the embryos and the introduction of the T-rex.

They were both on the edge of their seat when the goat disappeared. Bucky was grumbling about it when Lex asked where the goat went. Neither had any time to make a remark about it as the leg hit the clear roof of the jeep making not only Lex jump but both of them as well. The T-rex’s hand on the wire brought a jaw drop and head shaking.

That and a quiet: “Hammond you bastard your grandkids are gonna get eaten because of you!” from Bucky that only turned into a louder complaint from Steve when the lawyer Gennaro got out of the jeep and ran for the bathroom.

“So you’re leaving the kids alone in the jeep to hide in a toilet?!” he asked and looked at you, “Why doesn’t anyone care about the kids?”

“He deserves to get eaten.” Bucky scowled and you just patted their hands and gestured at the screen for them to watch as the T-rex escaped its paddock and Lex turned the light on attracting the dinosaur, “You’d do that.”

“I would not!” Steve hissed and you shushed them both even though they were both staring at the dinosaur’s eyes constricting, heads tilted then shaking when the kids were being attacked.

“NO! Not the kids!”

“No! Eat the lawyer!”

“Eat their grandpa! Not the kids!”

They watched in horror and then confusion when Grant grabbed the flare to distract the T-rex. You could tell they were about to ask until Malcolm jumped out. It was a mixed reaction from both of them as he began waving the flare, yelling “Get the kids!” and running.

“How is someone so smart so stupid?” Bucky asked, hand held out to the screen, and Steve shrugged, eyes still glued to the screen.

“At least he cares about the kids.” He said and then scowled when Gennaro was back on the screen until Bucky smiled when the T-Rex ate him.

“Deserved it. Oh that’s satisfying.” He said and you chuckled as Steve nodded, both still glued to the screen eating their snacks.

Then came the question you knew was coming when the jeep was pushed over the cliff into the paddock. Well, honestly you weren’t sure if it was going to actually come or not, but you weren’t surprised when they both started gesturing at the screen. You knew what it was before they even started so paused the movie once more.

“How’d the…” Steve started and Bucky nodded.

“Where’d the cliff…”

You shook your head, “It’s a plot hole. A lot of people question it. I don’t know the explanation off the top of my head. You’re not the first to notice.”

The movie continued, both being concerned for Timmy. You knew well enough that the boy was alive but that they were both convinced he was because he was a “tough kid” to soothe themselves was another thing. They moved on from it when Nedry was back on screen, scowling at him before scoffing as he spun the arrow like it was actually going to tell him what direction to go in.

“I hope he gets eaten by something slow.” Bucky scowled and Steve looked at him.

“Bucky!”

Bucky gestured at the screen, pointing with his vibranium hand, “Tell me he doesn’t deserve it! Only one that deserves it more is Hammond!”

“Stop arguing!” you shushed them both before hitting play again, Bucky smiling satisfied while Nedry was being eaten by the Dilophosaurus as Steve just shook his head.

“That’s horrible…”

“It was worse in the book.” You replied and they both looked at you wide-eyed.

“How?” both asked and you just shook your head to direct them back to the movie where Tim was rescued, the scene immediately erasing Nedry from their concern.

“Poor kid.” Steve sighed at the sight of Timmy in the jeep, his heart obviously going out to the boy.

Both were chanting at the screen a few seconds later as Grant and Timmy raced down the tree away from the jeep, “Go! Go go go go go! Run! Go! Run! NO!”

Steve sighed in relief when Grant and Timmy were okay even after the jeep fell back on them. Bucky nodded and relaxed into the couch. At least for a few moments. He was soon enough back on the edge of his seat chanting at it after Malcolm was rescued and the T-Rex came back. So was Steve.

“Get off the stick!”

“Go faster! That thing can go faster than that!”

“Go!”

You sat calmly between the two, stealing bites of their forgotten snacks as the chaos continued. You then let them both chastise John Hammond the entire time he explained about his flea circus. It only made them double down on their disgust for the character. It also made them agree again that Steve was Ellie when she started scolding John.

“Tell me he gets eaten.” Bucky said to you and you just gestured at the screen.

“Just watch the movie.” You answered and he sighed before smiling at the Brachiosaurus scene while Steve did as well until both grimaced when it sneezed.

“Ugh. That’s like the time Steve sneezed on me in spring.” Bucky said and Steve scowled at him.

“I had allergies!”

“You had everything.”

“Behave!” you shushed and pointed back to the movie.

The revelation of the nest scene next both had them agreeing with Malcolm’s whole opinion on the entire park scheme again. When the park shut down scene came next that triggered a whole slew of remarks on John Hammond’s unsuitability as a grandparent once more along with Bucky asking if they forgot about the whole raptor angle. Steve answered that they obviously had once they shut the park down entirely.

“Why are they walking in an open field?” Bucky asked next with a look and Steve shook his head.

“I don’t know, not a good idea.” He agreed and nodded when the T-Rex came out of the tree line to eat the Gallimimus, “And that’s why.”

“Exactly.” Bucky nodded and took a drink but was soon questioning the logic and sense of everyone involved when the raptor pen was shown torn open, or rather when Muldoon walked out with the shotgun again, “And what is that supposed to do to a T-Rex besides piss it off?”

You just snickered as the raptor enclosure was then shown torn apart. He nodded slightly after a moment of consideration. Steve beat him to it, though.

“Might take one of them down, though.” He said and Bucky nodded.

“Maybe. If he can hit it and the gun doesn’t jam.”

“The shutdown must have turned off all the fences.”

“No…” Bucky said and Steve continued flawlessly.

“Imagine that.” he said and shook his head as the scene continued from there to the fence climbing sequence that had both him and Bucky telling Timmy to jump.

“Just jump! You can do it! Jump!” Steve urged and Bucky nodded, “I’d have been off that already!”

“You’d have fallen off half-way up at that age!” Bucky retorted and you couldn’t help but laugh before comforting them when they started freaking out when Timmy was electrocuted.

“NO! Timmy! Why’d you electrocute the kid?! Why is it always Timmy?!” Bucky asked, upset and Alpine moved over to him to nuzzle into him calmly, “Okay…I’m okay. He’ll be fine. He’s tough.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded as they watched the scene cut back to Ellie triumphantly celebrating the return of the power in the park for two seconds.

The appearance of the Velociraptor made them both jump and Alpine leapt herself into your lap. You comforted the cat while the two super soldiers stared wide-eyed at the screen. Shouting at it again.

“Run! Run! The light isn’t that heavy just run!”

“Shut the door! Shut it! Don’t stop!” Steve said with a frustrated gesture when Ellie started sobbing after she shut the fence gate before shaking their heads at Muldoon’s demise. Once again you just counted down in your head from three to one.

Right on cue Steve spoke, “The raptor expert forgot there were other raptors while hunting raptors.”

“And got flanked. Shouldn’t’ve electrocuted them.” Bucky said while nodding and looked at Alpine as she curled up in your arms, “You’re still better.”

“Mao.” Alpine replied and contently returned to watching the movie while you scratched her ears.

Both were relieved when Timmy was still alive, feeling sorry for the boy even more than they were before. They then started yelling at Grant for leaving the kids alone in the visitor center until they rationalized that it should be fine since raptors shouldn’t be able to get inside because of the doors.

That lasted for about three seconds, as you expected it would.

You watched them as they watched the kitchen scene, complaining that “of course it can open doors!” when it opened one. They were both quiet after that, tensely watching as the scene unfolded. Still, you could see the questions in their eyes at how the dinosaurs could look so real. Then they questioned what Lex was doing until both laughed when the raptor knocked itself out. Then when the raptor was locked in the freezer they nodded their approval, though they were soon questioning the adults’ logic again even while cheering on the kids for getting things back up and running only to yell at Hammond again.

“Oh, yeah, now you care about the kids.” Steve said and Bucky nodded.

“I hope he gets eaten.”

They were on the edge of their seats again watching the lobby scene. Both sighed as Tim was almost crushed by something again, deciding that someone writing the script hated him. When the T-Rex came through they were both happy to see it though Bucky was overall disappointed that Hammond wasn’t eaten at the end.

“Damn.” He scowled and you nodded as Steve shook his head.

“He should have been eaten.” He agreed and you nodded again.

“Well…he does get eaten in the book. The kids are different. Lex is the most annoying thing ever and you kind of wish she gets eaten half the time, but Hammond is even worse.” You said and navigated to the behind-the-scenes features, “Now…we see how they did it all. A bit.”

They watched it completely enraptured. Eyes wide in an almost child-like wonder that was downright adorable. They didn’t stay silent though. Far from it as their silence only lasted until they saw the T-Rex animatronic.

“They built the entire T-Rex?” Steve asked, wide-eyed and you nodded, gesturing at the screen for them to watch and listen.

You could see they recognized part of the process in the sketches, modeling, and creation, but it was that they built a full-scale animatronic dinosaur that really blew their minds. You loved how enamored they were with the process. Though they felt horrible for the stop-motion crew having lost out on it.

You promised them that stop-motion wasn’t extinct as they put it and that they were still put to work during the making of the movie. After you assured them of that they enjoyed how the crew merged the two worlds of digital creation with stop-motion input.

They also had several comments about how Spielberg treated the kids.

“Well at least someone likes them and cares.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Hammond clearly didn’t.” he said and shook his head later as Spielberg talked about the character and the actor, “I agree with Bucky. He should have been eaten.”

“Mm.” Bucky nodded and they continued watching to the point where the triceratops came back, “That thing is…it’s…”

“It’s amazing.” Steve said and he nodded, “It’s so real…it’s…just…beautiful in a way.”

Bucky nodded. So did you and you continued watching with them as the crew talked about the hurricane that hit during the filming of the movie and they both nodded when Spielberg quoted Richard Attenborough as saying the hurricane was nothing because he survived The Blitz. That made them pause.

“Wait…” Steve said and thought, causing you to pause the movie, “Did he serve?”

You pulled your phone out to look it up and nodded, “Yeah. He was in the RAF film production unit, went on several bombing raids over Europe while filming from the rear gunner’s position. He got permanent ear damage after training and also achieved the rank of sergeant.”

They both nodded and you hit play when they gestured for it to continue. Once again they were astonished by the sight of the full-sized T-Rex animatronic. They also decided that Gennaro’s toilet demise was still satisfying before they became fascinated by the Velociraptor process.

“Wait…they’re…they’re people in suits?” Steve asked and you nodded as Bucky just leaned closer to the tv to watch; both of their heads tilted while scowling fascinated.

The change in the end where the T-Rex saved everyone instead of the bones taking the raptors out was a change they agreed with. There was only one problem with their new admiration for the T-Rex.

“No.” You and Steve both said at the look on Bucky’s face, “You don’t want one.”

“No.” Steve agreed and Bucky looked at you both.

“I wasn’t gonna say I wanted one…”

You weren’t convinced, neither was Alpine.

“Mao.”

“You’re still my princess. I would never replace you.” He said and she blinked at him yet cuddled into you more anyway though she was in his lap happily by the end of the behind-the-scenes videos.

“Well?” You asked them both when you shut it off.

They took several moments to respond. Clearly it was something they were processing. Not just the movie itself but the extent to which movie making had developed from what they had known.

Some things didn’t change and yet so much had. Still, you weren’t exactly expecting the reaction you got. Not really.

“Can we watch it again?” Bucky asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I wanna watch it again. There’s more, right?”

“Yeah. There’s five sequels. None recapture this entirely, trust me. Jurassic Park is a pinnacle in filmmaking, but we can watch it again if you want to.”

“Yes.”

“Now…please.”

3 Days Later

“I am so happy they changed Lex…” Bucky said as he sat at the table with Steve and you over breakfast, the book on the table between the three of you, his eyes wide while staring off in memory of the annoyance she was just as Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I mean, she has some cute moments but…the whole button thing…” he said shaking his head, “Why’d they trade Hammond for Muldoon? I mean he lives in the book…and Hammond is horrible.”

“At least he gets eaten in the book.” Bucky said and Alpine hopped onto his lap, “Right?”

“Mao.”

You just shook your head and laughed, “I swear the only reason you read the book was to see Hammond get eaten at the end.”

They both nodded.

“So what’s next?” Bucky asked and Steve looked at you, both ready for more.

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A/N: I feel like crap today. I'm better now than I was earlier. I wanted some period care with Bucky and decided to write it myself. I've got other fics to write, but this is the one that came of today. It's not in the Scorpio AU. It's just a standalone.

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Summary: Bucky comes home and finds you in a state of pain because of your period and takes care of you.

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Warnings: Strangely enough I don't think there's any LANGUAGE to warn about for once. Fluff. Care. Talk of heavy period pain symptoms (because I'm not in the tribe of periods being unmentionable). Bucky and Alpine being cute. I can't think of anything else. (I'm sure there's more but I can't remember)

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You were still home when Bucky walked into the house. His brows scrunched together as his blue eyes looked at you as you shuffled back through the doorway from the bathroom, Alpine following you with a worried meow.

Concern bubbled in his stomach at the sight of your pale face and tired, heavy-lidded eyes, sweat soaking through one of his T shirts you were wearing. Then you looked at him as he was looking at the pulled-out drawers, tears pooling in your eyes as he stepped in with a gentle sigh and locked the door as he always did.

He knew what this was. He hated it, but not for most reasons men hated it. Bucky hated what it did to you.

Not every month, but too often for his liking your period put you in a state like this. The last couple of months had been alright, but not this one.

You sniffled, “I can’t find the heating pad anywhere. I’m so hot, though. I’ve already changed my clothes twice. I’m hungry but the thought of food makes me wanna puke. I did puke. It feels like my uterus wants to implode. My head hurts…and I’m so tired!”

You were overwhelmed. It wasn’t the first time.

Pain radiated in your lower back, your lower abdomen felt like it was a hand mercilessly squeezing a tube, your thighs ached and you could feel the start of a migraine coming that was almost guaranteed if you started crying. If you cried you were done for but you were so tired it hurt to hold it together.

He didn’t hesitate another moment.

“Shh…I’m home now, sweetheart. It’s gonna be alright.” Bucky soothed, walking quickly over to you to scoop you up in his arms to carry you to the couch, “The heating pad is in the closet. I’ll go get it. Does it help to sit or help to walk?”

“Sit.”

“Okay. Don’t move. I’ve got you, okay?” he asked and you nodded, wiping your eyes, smiling a bit when he kissed your forehead.

You’d been worried when you first moved in together that he didn’t understand what you meant when you said your periods could get bad. It worried you how he’d react to them and how long it’d take before he got annoyed with them. The first time he saw what happened in its full “glory” Bucky had been intensely worried but had also sprung himself into action to do everything he could to alleviate it.

He had even asked Sarah for help and followed her advice to the letter. Including trying to get you to go to the doctor. You found it ironic with how much he hated going to them himself that he was willingly taking you to one.

The experience didn’t improve his opinion on them. Not that you didn’t warn him what would happen. You’d been through it enough.

Just take Tylenol, Advil, Aleve, Pamprin, Midol, etc. Eye rolls. Ignored.

You were used to it. Bucky didn’t give up. He kept trying and whenever you had a bad month he was always there to take care of you. It helped more than the OTC meds and even though you found a doctor that listened, which you were slightly convinced their fear of your boyfriend played a large factor in, you still had bad months.

In a moment he was there with the large pad, plugging it in and handing you the controls to place it over your front, and he had another one of his shirts. You just raised your arms for him to pull the sweat soaked one off and let him put on the lighter dry one. He put an extra blanket on the couch behind you knowing once the hot flash was over you’d get cold. Bucky didn’t want you to feel cold just in case he wasn’t done before you did.

Next came a large glass of water with a wedge of lemon in it and three different flavors of candy canes or peppermints. He kept them in the house year-round once he figured out that one of them was usually likely to help with your nausea. The next part was the hard part.

“I know you don’t feel good, sweetie, but you really do need to eat. What have you tried?”

“Toast. It didn’t stay down…and I just can’t…think of something that tastes…good.” You answered and he nodded, thinking before carefully suggesting a few things that you usually would eat on days like this until you slowly nodded, “That…that’s not nauseating…”

He nodded and went back into the kitchen, Alpine hot on his tail. Occasionally you’d hear her meow at him and him respond to it. Soft, short, then a bit more accusatory.

“Have you been watching Kitchen Nightmares with her again?”

It made you chuckle sleepily. He brought out your food a few moments later, sitting with you to eat, putting on one of your favorite shows that you knew he secretly liked even if he said he didn’t. Still he mostly kept his eyes on you with soft, caring, and concerned ones.

The food stayed down. You’d love to say it always did when he made it, but sometimes it didn’t want to. You’d love to say the moment he got home that the pain subsided but you both knew that wasn’t how it worked. You’d love to say a lot of things you couldn’t, but you focused on what you could before the heaviness of your thoughts could pull you down too far.

Bucky was a cuddler on regular days but on these ones he took it to the next level whenever you needed it. Sure there were days you didn’t want to be touched, which he respected without question, but those days were far fewer than the ones where you just wanted to be held.

This was one of them and as soon as you were both done with your food and the dishes put away Bucky returned and pulled you into his lap, heating pad and all.

Alpine hopped up into your now vacant seat as she always did, curling herself up where you had been. Like usual she looked at you, then looked at Bucky, and then he nodded. Only then did she either lay her head down or turn it to look at the TV with the two of you.

It depended on what you were watching.

You were still sweating. Bucky noticed this and held out his left hand to you. The metal of it was cool, soothing, and even if it was a strange use for it, in some ways, to him, he was grateful for it. So were you while guiding it where you wanted, usually to your spine which sometimes required you to shift around a bit so he could run his hand up and down it. Sometimes it was just to your face. Sometimes, like today, you just slipped it under his shirt on you and around your side so he’d hold you closer.

He always did and you never failed to doze off, head against his shoulder within the next ten or so minutes. Usually less. Eyelids heavy, head foggy, you’d doze off even if it took you some time.

“Thank you.” You said softly, meekly, and his heart clenched as it always did.

To him it wasn’t something he needed to be thanked for, but, he supposed, he thanked you for things you didn’t think needed thanking for.

So he replied the same way you did, “You don’t need to thank me, but if it makes you feel better, you’re welcome.”

“Hmm.” You hummed, cuddling into him more with a small smile.

“Feelin’ better?”

“Yeah…sleepy…” you answered and he nodded, holding you close, “Sleepy and weird questions. Like: what did women with periods crave before chocolate was a thing?”

“I don’t know, sweetheart, I’m not that old.” He retorted lightly, lips curling up softly when you chuckled heavily, drifting off slowly, “Probly some other sweet thing. Like honey.”

“Mh…why?”

“I don’t know. Energy from the sugar?”

“Then why’d I crave chips?” you asked sleepily.

“They’re carbohydrates. Carbs are energy.”

“Then why’m I so sleepy?” you mumbled and he just cuddled you with a small smile.

“Hormones and other things. Get some sleep, baby, I’ve got you.” Bucky said and you smiled while dozing off, knowing you were safe and cared for.

Once he was sure you were asleep, and that Alpine wasn’t watching it, he turned your show off to put something else on. Something he knew you liked even if you teased him for it being old and kind of corny. He wasn’t really watching it; he was typing into his phone.

To your doctor.

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A/N: Someone might be in trouble. Slight, teensy weensy itty bitty kinda sorta soft dark Bucky. Maybe. Bascially this is what I'd want from Bucky today for myself so...call it self indulgent. It helped. I feel better now. Sort of. Enough to function on my other fics.

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Super Soldier Theater: Jurassic Park

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers x Reader, Stucky x Reader. It's not specific. No pronouns assigned to Reader past "you".

Summary: Bucky Barnes missed out on a lot while being controlled by HYDRA. Steve Rogers missed out on even more being frozen in ice. Since Sam has made it his mission to update them on music, you decide that it's your job to update them on what they've missed out on in cinema.

Chapter Summary: You begin their education with Jurassic Park and they quickly develop opinions regarding the stupidity of cloning dinosaurs, John Hammond, who should be eaten or not, and dinosaur rights.

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Warnings: Mild Language (Steve will deal), Jurassic Park-Canon Violence (both movie and book are mentioned, if you've seen the movie itself you know what to expect as far as that goes). Bucky is grumpy. He and Steve share opinions on John Hammond's effectiveness as a grandpa. Wishing People Get Eaten By Dinosaurs.

A/N: This was both fun and a bit of a challenge to write. I couldn't find my copy of Jurassic Park anywhere so had to rely on YouTube clips and the wiki for scene order since it isn't streaming anywhere right now that I have a subscription to. I have seen the movie countless times but my memory can get scenes out of order without direct help. I may eventually go back and tweak this one at a later date.

Ao3 Link: Super Soldier Theater: Jurassic Park

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It was movie night. You, Bucky, and Steve had movie nights usually once or twice a week. Really it was whenever you decided that unwinding with some snacks sounded like fun.

You knew very well that your two favorite super soldiers were men out of place in your time and very fond of the music and movies of their own. You respected that and you understood fully well what it meant to them. Still, you couldn’t take seeing them go around completely clueless when it came to modern references from movies they’d never seen anymore.

They had missed out on so much. It was going to take time to catch them up, but it had to be done. One way or another.

Sam had been painstakingly updating them on music. He had his own methods for doing so. He broke them in slowly with things similar to what they knew.

You had no plans of doing that whatsoever. Not that you were going to throw something completely new at them. Not Avatar or something. No.

You decided to start with Jurassic Park.

It was a classic. One you were excited to see their reaction to. Even if Bucky grumbled at first.

“I thought we were watching something else tonight.” He said as you led both him and Steve into your living room set up with everything you’d need.

All their favorite snacks, yours, pillows, and the usual for your movie nights. You just smiled in response and nudged both him and Steve into their seats before taking your usual spot. Right between them nice, snug, and cozy.

“No. You two need to get up to speed with movies. Jurassic Park is great.” You said and Steve thought for a moment.

“Isn’t that the one with the dinosaur park and the raptor guy?”

You shook your head while handing him his bowl of popcorn then Bucky his Cracker Jack box, “No. That’s Jurassic World. Same franchise but it’s a sequel of Jurassic Park. The…fourth movie. Jurassic Park is the first one that started it all. It’s different from the book, considerably, but it’s still good despite that.”

“Fine.” Bucky sighed and sat back putting his feet up alongside yours which were alongside Steve’s then looked at Alpine as she hopped up onto the back of the couch and meowed, “Jurassic Park.”

She moved a bit along the back until she reached a spot where she could tuck her paws under herself and assume her little powdered sugarloaf form. It always amused you how she would pick a spot where she could watch the tv with you. As sassy as she could be she was still much more open to watching whatever was put on than either of them could be at any given moment.

“Alright. You’re allowed to ask questions and talk, but if I tell you to wait until later, just wait. Okay?” you asked and they both nodded, relaxing into their seats on either side of you as you hit play.

You made sure to keep the volume loud enough for you to hear yet not too loud for their more sensitive hearing. Especially as you knew what was coming having seen it so many times. You expected countless questions and comments from both of them and it didn’t take long for the first to come.

You were far from surprised that it didn’t take long for one of them to say something. It was also absolutely no surprise to you that it was Bucky. At all.

“Okay, so…they’re going to fight a dinosaur with cattle prods and one…what is that? A Franchi SPAS-12?” he asked, gesturing at the tv with his vibranium hand as you hit pause and looked at him, eyebrow raised, “A twelve-gauge? Really? A dinosaur? Those things jam like hell and you’re gonna take down a T-Rex with it? Yeah. Sure.”

Steve looked at him, “Bucky! Shh!”

“Just watch!” you said, trying not to laugh before hitting play again and watched them both tilt their head at the crate being hauled in.

Alpine’s ears twitched at the sounds of the raptor inside the crate, tail flicking as she looked at the tv with them. You could already see Bucky wasn’t a fan of the whole loading process, it likely being an uncomfortable reminder of things with HYDRA and his capture and reactivation by Zemo. Steve caught it too and glanced at him as you pat the ex-assassin’s leg.

He gave you a small smile and a nod before looking at the guy on top of the crate lifting the gate. You knew what was coming and paused it again. He just shook his head and pointed.

This was going to be a long movie.

“So they can create dinosaurs but they can’t have a machine load the crate and lift the door?” he asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, that’s just…that’s asking for it. I mean…not safe. It’s not even secured.” He agreed and you nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, they explain things in the book about certain…other things that happen…you know what just watch.” You started before waving your hands and hitting play again.

Both of them just shook their heads as the worker was knocked off the crate and the raptor inside started dragging him in. Bucky was definitely rooting for the dinosaur when you glanced at him and glancing at Steve you were fairly sure he was, too. Still, he was obviously more torn about it than Bucky was.

“That could have been completely avoided if they had secured the crate.” He said, shaking his head while his blue eyes were still locked on the screen, and Bucky nodded as the shots rang out and the screen faded to black.

“Or if they just didn’t make dinosaurs and put them in a crate then electroshocked them with cattle prods…”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and they watched as the scene changed to the introduction of Gennaro on the raft.

In a suit. In the jungle. At a mine.

“Lawyer.” Steve said with a gesture before eating a bite of popcorn he then choked on, “Twenty-million-dollar lawsuit?!”

“They deserve it.” Bucky said and ate a bite from his own box, “Shh.”

You just shook your head and chuckled as they both reacted the same way to Gennaro complaining that the investors were questioning the safety of the park: two dry scoffs that simultaneously said “No shit” without actually saying the words.

“Hammond hates inspections…that just screams responsible employer…” Steve said with a dry sigh shaking his head.

“You know damn well they’re doing this in Costa Rica to avoid labor laws or something.” Bucky added, eating another bite of his Cracker Jacks and you nodded.

“You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s not working out so well is it?” you asked and they both shook their heads.

“No. What’s in that thing?” Steve asked as he looked at the screen and the piece of amber being zoomed in on.

“A mosquito. Why the mosquito?” Bucky answered then asked and you just gestured at the screen, “Now we’re in Montana. Why?”

“Just watch.” You said quietly, shaking your head.

“I hate computers.” Alan Grant sighed on the screen a few moments later and Steve nodded.

“Sounds like Bucky.” He said and chuckled as a caramel coated piece of popcorn pelted him in the head.

“I can use ‘em better than you!”

“Oi! Stop throwin’ food!” you scolded, scowling at Bucky which made Steve smile triumphantly until you scowled at him, too, “You behave yourself, too. Watch the movie.”

Steve only doubled down on his opinion as Doctor Grant explained to the boy what a pack of velociraptors would do to him. You couldn’t exactly disagree. Neither could Bucky.

“Yeah, I’d do that.”

“So that means Steve is Ellie.” You said and Bucky nodded while watching as she scolded Grant.

“Yeah.” He nodded and Steve couldn’t exactly disagree.

“I’d probably be doing that, yeah…” He agreed then shook his head at the helicopter landing and the introduction of John Hammond, “Well he’s rude and…”

“Creepy. No one should be that happy.” Bucky said, “’Specially with a twenty-million-dollar lawsuit because your mistreated dinosaur ate your underpaid worker. He’s rude and I don’t like him.”

“You’ll love him even more later…” you thought to yourself while just nodding in response to the two as you continued to watch the scene.

 Bucky and Steve both watched as Hammond talked to the two scientists. They watched as Hammond explained what he needed, glossing over everything that it really meant, or why he needed them there to sign off on the park, before bribing the two to agree to go. It wasn’t a surprised that the two men on either side of you only reaffirmed their initial opinions on the character.

“I don’t like him.” Bucky said, shaking his head and Steve shook his.

“No. No one should smile like that after something they made and locked in an obviously ineffective containment cage ate someone else like that.” he said and ate another bite of popcorn, narrowing his eyes as the scene shifted to the meeting between Nedry and Dodgson, “That…can…”

“Hm?” you asked blinking at him and Bucky as he narrowed his eyes at the screen as well, “What about it?”

“That’s something HYDRA would do…but…they’d try to make them into weapons.” Bucky said and you nodded, knowing fully well he was right.

“Yeah.” Steve agreed, “Why’s that guy want them?”

“Corporate Espionage. They explain Dodgson’s role and company better in the book. Biosyn, his company, their whole schtick is reverse engineering the work other companies do to make money. The book has a whole…moral undertone about the ethics of bioengineering, what rights cloned creations have, and everything more than the movie has.” You explained and they nodded before watching as Ian Malcolm was introduced and Steve gestured at the screen.

“Mmh!” he excitedly mumbled, mouth full of popcorn.

You paused it so he wouldn’t choke, “Chew, swallow, then talk.”

He nodded before speaking once he was done, “That’s the guy. The life guy.”

“The life guy?” Bucky asked with a perplexed look on his face and Steve nodded.

“Y’know. The…the life finds a way guy.”

“OH!” Bucky nodded and looked at Malcolm, “Yeah. You’re right. So this’s where he’s from. Huh.”

“He reminds me of Tony.” Steve commented while eating another bite of popcorn and you paused while thinking.

“Mmm…on rockstar vibe levels…yes. Intelligence levels…I wouldn’t really know if I could say yes to that. Other levels no. Absolutely no. Ian Malcolm would have been telling Tony several thousand shades of “No” and “Stop” and “You’re an idiot” during the whole…Ultron thing.” You replied and they looked at you, “Just watch you’ll see.”

“Y’know…for a dinosaur movie…there’s a lack of dinosaurs…” Bucky commented a few seconds later.

You just chuckled, smirking at his timing as the characters were driven on the jeeps and Ellie talked about the plant life. You knew what was coming and it was worth it as the movie’s iconic score began playing and first sighting of the Brachiosaurus and they saw their first dinosaur on the screen.

You couldn’t help but laugh.

Their faces mimicked the faces of Grant and Sattler on the screen. Eyes wide and mouths agape. Then the Brachiosaurus fed from the tree, causing it to move its branches. That only made them stare more, heads cocked to the sides at the same time as they tried to figure out how it was done.

Then it got even better when Gennaro the lawyer spoke.

“We’re gonna make a fortune with this place…”

“There’s a magnificent, beautiful dinosaur and the first thing you think of is making money?!” Steve asked the screen and you burst out laughing again, especially as Bucky gestured at the screen nodding and looking at you.

“There’s a dinosaur.”

“I know.” You nodded, trying not to laugh as he continued while gesturing at the screen and still shot of the dinosaur on it since you paused.

“It’s…so majestic and he just…is he gonna put it in a cage?” Bucky asked and scowled at the screen, “I hope he gets eaten.”

“Does he get eaten?” Steve asked with a similar scowl and you bit your tongue while gesturing at the screen.

“Just watch. I’m not spoiling it.” You answered and hit play when they nodded only to pause again.

“Wait! T-rex?!” Steve asked and you nodded.

“Yeah. They have a T-rex.”

“How is that a good idea? I was joking before!” Bucky asked while staring at the screen still, both were just staring so you hit play again and then they nodded when Grant asked Hammond how he did it, “I wanna know that, too.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and you pat both their arms and pointed back at the screen when they looked at you for answers.

“Keep watching. It gets better and there’s a behind the scenes featurette we’ll watch after the movie.” You said and they nodded, watching the movie continue to the “ride” where Hammond, Hammond, and Mister DNA explained how the dinosaurs were made.

“Sophisticated techniques…they drilled a hole in the amber and used a syringe to suck it out.” Bucky said while rolling his eyes and you nudged him as Steve shushed him.

“Shh!”

They both watched as the lab was shown. Both agreed that they’d have stopped the ride as well to see the lab and then they stared once more when the baby raptor was born. Once again their heads tilted at the same time, but there was a difference between the two.

Namely in Bucky’s reaction and, once again, you laughed.

“I want one.” Bucky said and Alpine looked at him as did Steve, “It’s cute! Look how small and defenseless it is.”

“It’s a dinosaur, Buck. I doubt its defenseless.” Steve said with a look and Bucky just blinked back at him waiting for him to make his point.

“And? I deal with you.”

“What’s that s’posed to mean?” Steve asked with a scowl and you shook your head.

“Don’t you two start. Besides, it’s small and cute now but they get bigger and they’d probably try to eat Alpine.” You said and Bucky shook his head as Alpine looked at him and meowed.

“Never mind.”

You nodded and hit play again, “Exactly.”

It didn’t last long as you hit pause again when Steve began pointing at the screen.

“So this is why he says it! Because they tried to control the breeding!” Steve said after the iconic line was delivered and Bucky nodded, scowling deeply.

“They’re no damn better than HYDRA…” he said and Steve nodded in agreement, as did you and the baby dinosaur was revealed to be a baby Velociraptor before the movie switched scenes to the Raptor pen.

Bucky scowled instantly.

“Hammond is so…I don’t like ‘im. He’s hiding something. Wait…that’s the Velociraptor pen? That’s not a pen. Those things are in raptor prison.”

“Well, they did eat a guy.” Steve countered and you looked at him with Bucky, both of you raising an eyebrow, “Yeah, I know…”

“They should all be destroyed.” Muldoon declared on the screen and Bucky scowled at him, clearly having chosen his side for the moment.

“What’d they do to you?”

“They ate his friend.” You reminded him and he nodded with a sigh, obviously having forgotten.

“Oh…yeah, well…that’s Hammond’s fault.” He said and you couldn’t argue with him yet when the crane raised what remained of the cow harness you couldn’t help yourself.

“Still want one?”

He thought about it for about two seconds before answering.

“I’d get them a secluded island and let them run free where they can’t hurt anyone. Maybe feed them Hammond.”

“Bucky!” Steve scolded and Bucky just shrugged.

“He deserves it for putting them in that. Shouldn’t be locked up in an electrified prison.” He answered and took a bite of his food, “S’not right.”

Steve nodded while reluctantly agreeing, “No…it isn’t. It’s so small…and I really don’t like Hammond. He’s just…I don’t like him.”

You nodded, knowing it was only going to get better and it did the moment the children were introduced. Seeing their eyes widen you paused the movie to let them process when they both started gesturing at the screen. Then you counted down from three to one in your head and they began talking as soon as you hit one.

“Kids…they let…” Bucky started and Steve shook his head while looking at you.

“He brought his grand…”

“His grandkids!” Bucky said and you nodded, “To a place where people get eaten?!”

Steve just gestured angrily still, “To an island with a T-Rex on it?! He…that’s stupid!”

“Stupid? That’s irresponsible!” Bucky continued and flung his hands up into the air, “He might as well spray ‘em down with barbecue sauce and ring a damn dinner bell!”

“Exactly!” Steve nodded, “What kind of a grandpa is he?!”

“Evil. He’s an evil grandpa.” Bucky answered and once again you couldn’t disagree.

“Book gives you more insight into Hammond’s mind…and you’re not really wrong.” You said and hit play then paused immediately once again as the cars rolled up and they started pointing at the screen again.

“And we’re sending them into the park with the dinosaurs!” Steve said in disbelief, “He wants them to be eaten.”

“Well he doesn’t think anything is gonna go wrong. We’re the audience that knows it will or there wouldn’t be a movie.” You remind him and he sighed but nodded and you hit play again to watch as Doctor Grant interacted with Tim, once again causing you and Steve to both agree that Bucky was Alan Grant and Steve was Ellie Sattler.

“You would definitely do that to me.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, well…I would, but Sam would do it to us both first.”

“You’re not wrong.” Bucky agreed and tossed another piece of popcorn into his mouth to watch as the tour began, “Spared no expense my ass…”

“Mh.” Steve agreed and they both watched the tour go past the Dilophosaurus enclosure, “It spits poison.”

“Mmh. Definitely put it on a tour.” Bucky nodded and then they both paused, “Wait…”

“That guy…looks like Fury.” Steve said while gesturing at the screen, “Like a younger, two-eyed, Fury. Sounds like him, too.”

You nodded after a drink.

“I asked him about that once and all he said was, and I quote: ‘Yeah, I get that a lot’ and then he walked away.” You answered and they both thought about it for a moment as the tour continued yet no dinosaurs showed up.

At least until the goat scene happened and Bucky looked at it. You had forgotten about his attachment to goats. He pointed at the screen.

“So they’re just…gonna chain it there…and let it get eaten?” he asked and you nodded.

“That’s the plan…yeah.”

“It’s gotta eat, Buck.” Steve said and Bucky glared at him.

“It can’t even run away.”

“Well it’s clearly not worried about it. It’s going to sleep.” Steve countered, “You can’t blame the T-Rex.”

“No. I blame Hammond.” Bucky said with a scowl, “S’not even a full meal for the Rex. Just a snack. I blame Hammond.”

You nodded as the tour continued, “Good idea.”

Chaos theory went right over their heads when Malcolm explained it. You weren’t surprised and figured it would. Yet you couldn’t help but laugh when Steve spoke.

“I’d love to put him in the same room with Zola and his equation.” He said and you laughed, so did Bucky.

“That would be a disaster I’d pay to watch. Zola would lose his mind.” Bucky said and you nodded.

“You can predict everything versus you can’t predict anything.” You laughed and they nodded then stared at the Triceratops making you smile with glee at their faces.

“It’s…it’s a triceratops…he’s touching it.” Bucky said, eyes wider than the first dinosaur scene.

Steve wasn’t far behind as he stared, “I know the first one was…a computer thing. You explained that CGI thing the other day…but…that’s not…that. That’s real. Like…physical real. Not a computer.”

You smiled and shook your head, “No. It’s not. We’ll watch the behind the scenes later.”

“It’s so pretty…” Bucky said while watching it, thinking and you shook your head.

“No you don’t want one.”

“S’too small here. It needs space. Like in Wakanda. It’d get along with a rhino.”

“Why is it sick?” Steve asked as he looked at you and you gestured at the screen.

You watched the absolute look of horror on their faces when presented with the dung heap after a brief moment of the pair once again complaining about Hammond’s lack of grandparent skills. The shift from disgust at Hammond to disgust at the dino droppings was rapid and you couldn’t help the smile on your face.

Or “comforting” Steve when Malcolm said “shit.”

“That’s never going away…” he sighed and both you and Bucky shook your heads with a smile.

“Nope.” You smiled then answered his question from earlier, “Okay, they don’t really explain it in the movie why the dinosaur is sick. They do explain it in the book better. They’re not eating the toxic berries directly. They’re picking them up when they swallow stones near where the bushes are. Gastroliths. Like how chickens and other birds swallow small stones to help grind up food in their stomach.”

“Oh.” They both nodded and continued watching the movie up to the point where Nedry shut off the security in the park and the chaos that then ensued between him stealing the embryos and the introduction of the T-rex.

They were both on the edge of their seat when the goat disappeared. Bucky was grumbling about it when Lex asked where the goat went. Neither had any time to make a remark about it as the leg hit the clear roof of the jeep making not only Lex jump but both of them as well. The T-rex’s hand on the wire brought a jaw drop and head shaking.

That and a quiet: “Hammond you bastard your grandkids are gonna get eaten because of you!” from Bucky that only turned into a louder complaint from Steve when the lawyer Gennaro got out of the jeep and ran for the bathroom.

“So you’re leaving the kids alone in the jeep to hide in a toilet?!” he asked and looked at you, “Why doesn’t anyone care about the kids?”

“He deserves to get eaten.” Bucky scowled and you just patted their hands and gestured at the screen for them to watch as the T-rex escaped its paddock and Lex turned the light on attracting the dinosaur, “You’d do that.”

“I would not!” Steve hissed and you shushed them both even though they were both staring at the dinosaur’s eyes constricting, heads tilted then shaking when the kids were being attacked.

“NO! Not the kids!”

“No! Eat the lawyer!”

“Eat their grandpa! Not the kids!”

They watched in horror and then confusion when Grant grabbed the flare to distract the T-rex. You could tell they were about to ask until Malcolm jumped out. It was a mixed reaction from both of them as he began waving the flare, yelling “Get the kids!” and running.

“How is someone so smart so stupid?” Bucky asked, hand held out to the screen, and Steve shrugged, eyes still glued to the screen.

“At least he cares about the kids.” He said and then scowled when Gennaro was back on the screen until Bucky smiled when the T-Rex ate him.

“Deserved it. Oh that’s satisfying.” He said and you chuckled as Steve nodded, both still glued to the screen eating their snacks.

Then came the question you knew was coming when the jeep was pushed over the cliff into the paddock. Well, honestly you weren’t sure if it was going to actually come or not, but you weren’t surprised when they both started gesturing at the screen. You knew what it was before they even started so paused the movie once more.

“How’d the…” Steve started and Bucky nodded.

“Where’d the cliff…”

You shook your head, “It’s a plot hole. A lot of people question it. I don’t know the explanation off the top of my head. You’re not the first to notice.”

The movie continued, both being concerned for Timmy. You knew well enough that the boy was alive but that they were both convinced he was because he was a “tough kid” to soothe themselves was another thing. They moved on from it when Nedry was back on screen, scowling at him before scoffing as he spun the arrow like it was actually going to tell him what direction to go in.

“I hope he gets eaten by something slow.” Bucky scowled and Steve looked at him.

“Bucky!”

Bucky gestured at the screen, pointing with his vibranium hand, “Tell me he doesn’t deserve it! Only one that deserves it more is Hammond!”

“Stop arguing!” you shushed them both before hitting play again, Bucky smiling satisfied while Nedry was being eaten by the Dilophosaurus as Steve just shook his head.

“That’s horrible…”

“It was worse in the book.” You replied and they both looked at you wide-eyed.

“How?” both asked and you just shook your head to direct them back to the movie where Tim was rescued, the scene immediately erasing Nedry from their concern.

“Poor kid.” Steve sighed at the sight of Timmy in the jeep, his heart obviously going out to the boy.

Both were chanting at the screen a few seconds later as Grant and Timmy raced down the tree away from the jeep, “Go! Go go go go go! Run! Go! Run! NO!”

Steve sighed in relief when Grant and Timmy were okay even after the jeep fell back on them. Bucky nodded and relaxed into the couch. At least for a few moments. He was soon enough back on the edge of his seat chanting at it after Malcolm was rescued and the T-Rex came back. So was Steve.

“Get off the stick!”

“Go faster! That thing can go faster than that!”

“Go!”

You sat calmly between the two, stealing bites of their forgotten snacks as the chaos continued. You then let them both chastise John Hammond the entire time he explained about his flea circus. It only made them double down on their disgust for the character. It also made them agree again that Steve was Ellie when she started scolding John.

“Tell me he gets eaten.” Bucky said to you and you just gestured at the screen.

“Just watch the movie.” You answered and he sighed before smiling at the Brachiosaurus scene while Steve did as well until both grimaced when it sneezed.

“Ugh. That’s like the time Steve sneezed on me in spring.” Bucky said and Steve scowled at him.

“I had allergies!”

“You had everything.”

“Behave!” you shushed and pointed back to the movie.

The revelation of the nest scene next both had them agreeing with Malcolm’s whole opinion on the entire park scheme again. When the park shut down scene came next that triggered a whole slew of remarks on John Hammond’s unsuitability as a grandparent once more along with Bucky asking if they forgot about the whole raptor angle. Steve answered that they obviously had once they shut the park down entirely.

“Why are they walking in an open field?” Bucky asked next with a look and Steve shook his head.

“I don’t know, not a good idea.” He agreed and nodded when the T-Rex came out of the tree line to eat the Gallimimus, “And that’s why.”

“Exactly.” Bucky nodded and took a drink but was soon questioning the logic and sense of everyone involved when the raptor pen was shown torn open, or rather when Muldoon walked out with the shotgun again, “And what is that supposed to do to a T-Rex besides piss it off?”

You just snickered as the raptor enclosure was then shown torn apart. He nodded slightly after a moment of consideration. Steve beat him to it, though.

“Might take one of them down, though.” He said and Bucky nodded.

“Maybe. If he can hit it and the gun doesn’t jam.”

“The shutdown must have turned off all the fences.”

“No…” Bucky said and Steve continued flawlessly.

“Imagine that.” he said and shook his head as the scene continued from there to the fence climbing sequence that had both him and Bucky telling Timmy to jump.

“Just jump! You can do it! Jump!” Steve urged and Bucky nodded, “I’d have been off that already!”

“You’d have fallen off half-way up at that age!” Bucky retorted and you couldn’t help but laugh before comforting them when they started freaking out when Timmy was electrocuted.

“NO! Timmy! Why’d you electrocute the kid?! Why is it always Timmy?!” Bucky asked, upset and Alpine moved over to him to nuzzle into him calmly, “Okay…I’m okay. He’ll be fine. He’s tough.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded as they watched the scene cut back to Ellie triumphantly celebrating the return of the power in the park for two seconds.

The appearance of the Velociraptor made them both jump and Alpine leapt herself into your lap. You comforted the cat while the two super soldiers stared wide-eyed at the screen. Shouting at it again.

“Run! Run! The light isn’t that heavy just run!”

“Shut the door! Shut it! Don’t stop!” Steve said with a frustrated gesture when Ellie started sobbing after she shut the fence gate before shaking their heads at Muldoon’s demise. Once again you just counted down in your head from three to one.

Right on cue Steve spoke, “The raptor expert forgot there were other raptors while hunting raptors.”

“And got flanked. Shouldn’t’ve electrocuted them.” Bucky said while nodding and looked at Alpine as she curled up in your arms, “You’re still better.”

“Mao.” Alpine replied and contently returned to watching the movie while you scratched her ears.

Both were relieved when Timmy was still alive, feeling sorry for the boy even more than they were before. They then started yelling at Grant for leaving the kids alone in the visitor center until they rationalized that it should be fine since raptors shouldn’t be able to get inside because of the doors.

That lasted for about three seconds, as you expected it would.

You watched them as they watched the kitchen scene, complaining that “of course it can open doors!” when it opened one. They were both quiet after that, tensely watching as the scene unfolded. Still, you could see the questions in their eyes at how the dinosaurs could look so real. Then they questioned what Lex was doing until both laughed when the raptor knocked itself out. Then when the raptor was locked in the freezer they nodded their approval, though they were soon questioning the adults’ logic again even while cheering on the kids for getting things back up and running only to yell at Hammond again.

“Oh, yeah, now you care about the kids.” Steve said and Bucky nodded.

“I hope he gets eaten.”

They were on the edge of their seats again watching the lobby scene. Both sighed as Tim was almost crushed by something again, deciding that someone writing the script hated him. When the T-Rex came through they were both happy to see it though Bucky was overall disappointed that Hammond wasn’t eaten at the end.

“Damn.” He scowled and you nodded as Steve shook his head.

“He should have been eaten.” He agreed and you nodded again.

“Well…he does get eaten in the book. The kids are different. Lex is the most annoying thing ever and you kind of wish she gets eaten half the time, but Hammond is even worse.” You said and navigated to the behind-the-scenes features, “Now…we see how they did it all. A bit.”

They watched it completely enraptured. Eyes wide in an almost child-like wonder that was downright adorable. They didn’t stay silent though. Far from it as their silence only lasted until they saw the T-Rex animatronic.

“They built the entire T-Rex?” Steve asked, wide-eyed and you nodded, gesturing at the screen for them to watch and listen.

You could see they recognized part of the process in the sketches, modeling, and creation, but it was that they built a full-scale animatronic dinosaur that really blew their minds. You loved how enamored they were with the process. Though they felt horrible for the stop-motion crew having lost out on it.

You promised them that stop-motion wasn’t extinct as they put it and that they were still put to work during the making of the movie. After you assured them of that they enjoyed how the crew merged the two worlds of digital creation with stop-motion input.

They also had several comments about how Spielberg treated the kids.

“Well at least someone likes them and cares.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Hammond clearly didn’t.” he said and shook his head later as Spielberg talked about the character and the actor, “I agree with Bucky. He should have been eaten.”

“Mm.” Bucky nodded and they continued watching to the point where the triceratops came back, “That thing is…it’s…”

“It’s amazing.” Steve said and he nodded, “It’s so real…it’s…just…beautiful in a way.”

Bucky nodded. So did you and you continued watching with them as the crew talked about the hurricane that hit during the filming of the movie and they both nodded when Spielberg quoted Richard Attenborough as saying the hurricane was nothing because he survived The Blitz. That made them pause.

“Wait…” Steve said and thought, causing you to pause the movie, “Did he serve?”

You pulled your phone out to look it up and nodded, “Yeah. He was in the RAF film production unit, went on several bombing raids over Europe while filming from the rear gunner’s position. He got permanent ear damage after training and also achieved the rank of sergeant.”

They both nodded and you hit play when they gestured for it to continue. Once again they were astonished by the sight of the full-sized T-Rex animatronic. They also decided that Gennaro’s toilet demise was still satisfying before they became fascinated by the Velociraptor process.

“Wait…they’re…they’re people in suits?” Steve asked and you nodded as Bucky just leaned closer to the tv to watch; both of their heads tilted while scowling fascinated.

The change in the end where the T-Rex saved everyone instead of the bones taking the raptors out was a change they agreed with. There was only one problem with their new admiration for the T-Rex.

“No.” You and Steve both said at the look on Bucky’s face, “You don’t want one.”

“No.” Steve agreed and Bucky looked at you both.

“I wasn’t gonna say I wanted one…”

You weren’t convinced, neither was Alpine.

“Mao.”

“You’re still my princess. I would never replace you.” He said and she blinked at him yet cuddled into you more anyway though she was in his lap happily by the end of the behind-the-scenes videos.

“Well?” You asked them both when you shut it off.

They took several moments to respond. Clearly it was something they were processing. Not just the movie itself but the extent to which movie making had developed from what they had known.

Some things didn’t change and yet so much had. Still, you weren’t exactly expecting the reaction you got. Not really.

“Can we watch it again?” Bucky asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I wanna watch it again. There’s more, right?”

“Yeah. There’s five sequels. None recapture this entirely, trust me. Jurassic Park is a pinnacle in filmmaking, but we can watch it again if you want to.”

“Yes.”

“Now…please.”

3 Days Later

“I am so happy they changed Lex…” Bucky said as he sat at the table with Steve and you over breakfast, the book on the table between the three of you, his eyes wide while staring off in memory of the annoyance she was just as Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I mean, she has some cute moments but…the whole button thing…” he said shaking his head, “Why’d they trade Hammond for Muldoon? I mean he lives in the book…and Hammond is horrible.”

“At least he gets eaten in the book.” Bucky said and Alpine hopped onto his lap, “Right?”

“Mao.”

You just shook your head and laughed, “I swear the only reason you read the book was to see Hammond get eaten at the end.”

They both nodded.

“So what’s next?” Bucky asked and Steve looked at you, both ready for more.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed it! I may have gotten a scene or two out of order and may have missed one or two due to limitations I had. I'll eventually fix them once I find where my copy went.

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Super Soldier Theater: Jurassic Park

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers x Reader, Stucky x Reader. It's not specific. No pronouns assigned to Reader past "you".

Summary: Bucky Barnes missed out on a lot while being controlled by HYDRA. Steve Rogers missed out on even more being frozen in ice. Since Sam has made it his mission to update them on music, you decide that it's your job to update them on what they've missed out on in cinema.

Chapter Summary: You begin their education with Jurassic Park and they quickly develop opinions regarding the stupidity of cloning dinosaurs, John Hammond, who should be eaten or not, and dinosaur rights.

Word Count: 6.1K

Warnings: Mild Language (Steve will deal), Jurassic Park-Canon Violence (both movie and book are mentioned, if you've seen the movie itself you know what to expect as far as that goes). Bucky is grumpy. He and Steve share opinions on John Hammond's effectiveness as a grandpa. Wishing People Get Eaten By Dinosaurs.

A/N: This was both fun and a bit of a challenge to write. I couldn't find my copy of Jurassic Park anywhere so had to rely on YouTube clips and the wiki for scene order since it isn't streaming anywhere right now that I have a subscription to. I have seen the movie countless times but my memory can get scenes out of order without direct help. I may eventually go back and tweak this one at a later date.

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It was movie night. You, Bucky, and Steve had movie nights usually once or twice a week. Really it was whenever you decided that unwinding with some snacks sounded like fun.

You knew very well that your two favorite super soldiers were men out of place in your time and very fond of the music and movies of their own. You respected that and you understood fully well what it meant to them. Still, you couldn’t take seeing them go around completely clueless when it came to modern references from movies they’d never seen anymore.

They had missed out on so much. It was going to take time to catch them up, but it had to be done. One way or another.

Sam had been painstakingly updating them on music. He had his own methods for doing so. He broke them in slowly with things similar to what they knew.

You had no plans of doing that whatsoever. Not that you were going to throw something completely new at them. Not Avatar or something. No.

You decided to start with Jurassic Park.

It was a classic. One you were excited to see their reaction to. Even if Bucky grumbled at first.

“I thought we were watching something else tonight.” He said as you led both him and Steve into your living room set up with everything you’d need.

All their favorite snacks, yours, pillows, and the usual for your movie nights. You just smiled in response and nudged both him and Steve into their seats before taking your usual spot. Right between them nice, snug, and cozy.

“No. You two need to get up to speed with movies. Jurassic Park is great.” You said and Steve thought for a moment.

“Isn’t that the one with the dinosaur park and the raptor guy?”

You shook your head while handing him his bowl of popcorn then Bucky his Cracker Jack box, “No. That’s Jurassic World. Same franchise but it’s a sequel of Jurassic Park. The…fourth movie. Jurassic Park is the first one that started it all. It’s different from the book, considerably, but it’s still good despite that.”

“Fine.” Bucky sighed and sat back putting his feet up alongside yours which were alongside Steve’s then looked at Alpine as she hopped up onto the back of the couch and meowed, “Jurassic Park.”

She moved a bit along the back until she reached a spot where she could tuck her paws under herself and assume her little powdered sugarloaf form. It always amused you how she would pick a spot where she could watch the tv with you. As sassy as she could be she was still much more open to watching whatever was put on than either of them could be at any given moment.

“Alright. You’re allowed to ask questions and talk, but if I tell you to wait until later, just wait. Okay?” you asked and they both nodded, relaxing into their seats on either side of you as you hit play.

You made sure to keep the volume loud enough for you to hear yet not too loud for their more sensitive hearing. Especially as you knew what was coming having seen it so many times. You expected countless questions and comments from both of them and it didn’t take long for the first to come.

You were far from surprised that it didn’t take long for one of them to say something. It was also absolutely no surprise to you that it was Bucky. At all.

“Okay, so…they’re going to fight a dinosaur with cattle prods and one…what is that? A Franchi SPAS-12?” he asked, gesturing at the tv with his vibranium hand as you hit pause and looked at him, eyebrow raised, “A twelve-gauge? Really? A dinosaur? Those things jam like hell and you’re gonna take down a T-Rex with it? Yeah. Sure.”

Steve looked at him, “Bucky! Shh!”

“Just watch!” you said, trying not to laugh before hitting play again and watched them both tilt their head at the crate being hauled in.

Alpine’s ears twitched at the sounds of the raptor inside the crate, tail flicking as she looked at the tv with them. You could already see Bucky wasn’t a fan of the whole loading process, it likely being an uncomfortable reminder of things with HYDRA and his capture and reactivation by Zemo. Steve caught it too and glanced at him as you pat the ex-assassin’s leg.

He gave you a small smile and a nod before looking at the guy on top of the crate lifting the gate. You knew what was coming and paused it again. He just shook his head and pointed.

This was going to be a long movie.

“So they can create dinosaurs but they can’t have a machine load the crate and lift the door?” he asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, that’s just…that’s asking for it. I mean…not safe. It’s not even secured.” He agreed and you nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, they explain things in the book about certain…other things that happen…you know what just watch.” You started before waving your hands and hitting play again.

Both of them just shook their heads as the worker was knocked off the crate and the raptor inside started dragging him in. Bucky was definitely rooting for the dinosaur when you glanced at him and glancing at Steve you were fairly sure he was, too. Still, he was obviously more torn about it than Bucky was.

“That could have been completely avoided if they had secured the crate.” He said, shaking his head while his blue eyes were still locked on the screen, and Bucky nodded as the shots rang out and the screen faded to black.

“Or if they just didn’t make dinosaurs and put them in a crate then electroshocked them with cattle prods…”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and they watched as the scene changed to the introduction of Gennaro on the raft.

In a suit. In the jungle. At a mine.

“Lawyer.” Steve said with a gesture before eating a bite of popcorn he then choked on, “Twenty-million-dollar lawsuit?!”

“They deserve it.” Bucky said and ate a bite from his own box, “Shh.”

You just shook your head and chuckled as they both reacted the same way to Gennaro complaining that the investors were questioning the safety of the park: two dry scoffs that simultaneously said “No shit” without actually saying the words.

“Hammond hates inspections…that just screams responsible employer…” Steve said with a dry sigh shaking his head.

“You know damn well they’re doing this in Costa Rica to avoid labor laws or something.” Bucky added, eating another bite of his Cracker Jacks and you nodded.

“You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s not working out so well is it?” you asked and they both shook their heads.

“No. What’s in that thing?” Steve asked as he looked at the screen and the piece of amber being zoomed in on.

“A mosquito. Why the mosquito?” Bucky answered then asked and you just gestured at the screen, “Now we’re in Montana. Why?”

“Just watch.” You said quietly, shaking your head.

“I hate computers.” Alan Grant sighed on the screen a few moments later and Steve nodded.

“Sounds like Bucky.” He said and chuckled as a caramel coated piece of popcorn pelted him in the head.

“I can use ‘em better than you!”

“Oi! Stop throwin’ food!” you scolded, scowling at Bucky which made Steve smile triumphantly until you scowled at him, too, “You behave yourself, too. Watch the movie.”

Steve only doubled down on his opinion as Doctor Grant explained to the boy what a pack of velociraptors would do to him. You couldn’t exactly disagree. Neither could Bucky.

“Yeah, I’d do that.”

“So that means Steve is Ellie.” You said and Bucky nodded while watching as she scolded Grant.

“Yeah.” He nodded and Steve couldn’t exactly disagree.

“I’d probably be doing that, yeah…” He agreed then shook his head at the helicopter landing and the introduction of John Hammond, “Well he’s rude and…”

“Creepy. No one should be that happy.” Bucky said, “’Specially with a twenty-million-dollar lawsuit because your mistreated dinosaur ate your underpaid worker. He’s rude and I don’t like him.”

“You’ll love him even more later…” you thought to yourself while just nodding in response to the two as you continued to watch the scene.

 Bucky and Steve both watched as Hammond talked to the two scientists. They watched as Hammond explained what he needed, glossing over everything that it really meant, or why he needed them there to sign off on the park, before bribing the two to agree to go. It wasn’t a surprised that the two men on either side of you only reaffirmed their initial opinions on the character.

“I don’t like him.” Bucky said, shaking his head and Steve shook his.

“No. No one should smile like that after something they made and locked in an obviously ineffective containment cage ate someone else like that.” he said and ate another bite of popcorn, narrowing his eyes as the scene shifted to the meeting between Nedry and Dodgson, “That…can…”

“Hm?” you asked blinking at him and Bucky as he narrowed his eyes at the screen as well, “What about it?”

“That’s something HYDRA would do…but…they’d try to make them into weapons.” Bucky said and you nodded, knowing fully well he was right.

“Yeah.” Steve agreed, “Why’s that guy want them?”

“Corporate Espionage. They explain Dodgson’s role and company better in the book. Biosyn, his company, their whole schtick is reverse engineering the work other companies do to make money. The book has a whole…moral undertone about the ethics of bioengineering, what rights cloned creations have, and everything more than the movie has.” You explained and they nodded before watching as Ian Malcolm was introduced and Steve gestured at the screen.

“Mmh!” he excitedly mumbled, mouth full of popcorn.

You paused it so he wouldn’t choke, “Chew, swallow, then talk.”

He nodded before speaking once he was done, “That’s the guy. The life guy.”

“The life guy?” Bucky asked with a perplexed look on his face and Steve nodded.

“Y’know. The…the life finds a way guy.”

“OH!” Bucky nodded and looked at Malcolm, “Yeah. You’re right. So this’s where he’s from. Huh.”

“He reminds me of Tony.” Steve commented while eating another bite of popcorn and you paused while thinking.

“Mmm…on rockstar vibe levels…yes. Intelligence levels…I wouldn’t really know if I could say yes to that. Other levels no. Absolutely no. Ian Malcolm would have been telling Tony several thousand shades of “No” and “Stop” and “You’re an idiot” during the whole…Ultron thing.” You replied and they looked at you, “Just watch you’ll see.”

“Y’know…for a dinosaur movie…there’s a lack of dinosaurs…” Bucky commented a few seconds later.

You just chuckled, smirking at his timing as the characters were driven on the jeeps and Ellie talked about the plant life. You knew what was coming and it was worth it as the movie’s iconic score began playing and first sighting of the Brachiosaurus and they saw their first dinosaur on the screen.

You couldn’t help but laugh.

Their faces mimicked the faces of Grant and Sattler on the screen. Eyes wide and mouths agape. Then the Brachiosaurus fed from the tree, causing it to move its branches. That only made them stare more, heads cocked to the sides at the same time as they tried to figure out how it was done.

Then it got even better when Gennaro the lawyer spoke.

“We’re gonna make a fortune with this place…”

“There’s a magnificent, beautiful dinosaur and the first thing you think of is making money?!” Steve asked the screen and you burst out laughing again, especially as Bucky gestured at the screen nodding and looking at you.

“There’s a dinosaur.”

“I know.” You nodded, trying not to laugh as he continued while gesturing at the screen and still shot of the dinosaur on it since you paused.

“It’s…so majestic and he just…is he gonna put it in a cage?” Bucky asked and scowled at the screen, “I hope he gets eaten.”

“Does he get eaten?” Steve asked with a similar scowl and you bit your tongue while gesturing at the screen.

“Just watch. I’m not spoiling it.” You answered and hit play when they nodded only to pause again.

“Wait! T-rex?!” Steve asked and you nodded.

“Yeah. They have a T-rex.”

“How is that a good idea? I was joking before!” Bucky asked while staring at the screen still, both were just staring so you hit play again and then they nodded when Grant asked Hammond how he did it, “I wanna know that, too.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and you pat both their arms and pointed back at the screen when they looked at you for answers.

“Keep watching. It gets better and there’s a behind the scenes featurette we’ll watch after the movie.” You said and they nodded, watching the movie continue to the “ride” where Hammond, Hammond, and Mister DNA explained how the dinosaurs were made.

“Sophisticated techniques…they drilled a hole in the amber and used a syringe to suck it out.” Bucky said while rolling his eyes and you nudged him as Steve shushed him.

“Shh!”

They both watched as the lab was shown. Both agreed that they’d have stopped the ride as well to see the lab and then they stared once more when the baby raptor was born. Once again their heads tilted at the same time, but there was a difference between the two.

Namely in Bucky’s reaction and, once again, you laughed.

“I want one.” Bucky said and Alpine looked at him as did Steve, “It’s cute! Look how small and defenseless it is.”

“It’s a dinosaur, Buck. I doubt its defenseless.” Steve said with a look and Bucky just blinked back at him waiting for him to make his point.

“And? I deal with you.”

“What’s that s’posed to mean?” Steve asked with a scowl and you shook your head.

“Don’t you two start. Besides, it’s small and cute now but they get bigger and they’d probably try to eat Alpine.” You said and Bucky shook his head as Alpine looked at him and meowed.

“Never mind.”

You nodded and hit play again, “Exactly.”

It didn’t last long as you hit pause again when Steve began pointing at the screen.

“So this is why he says it! Because they tried to control the breeding!” Steve said after the iconic line was delivered and Bucky nodded, scowling deeply.

“They’re no damn better than HYDRA…” he said and Steve nodded in agreement, as did you and the baby dinosaur was revealed to be a baby Velociraptor before the movie switched scenes to the Raptor pen.

Bucky scowled instantly.

“Hammond is so…I don’t like ‘im. He’s hiding something. Wait…that’s the Velociraptor pen? That’s not a pen. Those things are in raptor prison.”

“Well, they did eat a guy.” Steve countered and you looked at him with Bucky, both of you raising an eyebrow, “Yeah, I know…”

“They should all be destroyed.” Muldoon declared on the screen and Bucky scowled at him, clearly having chosen his side for the moment.

“What’d they do to you?”

“They ate his friend.” You reminded him and he nodded with a sigh, obviously having forgotten.

“Oh…yeah, well…that’s Hammond’s fault.” He said and you couldn’t argue with him yet when the crane raised what remained of the cow harness you couldn’t help yourself.

“Still want one?”

He thought about it for about two seconds before answering.

“I’d get them a secluded island and let them run free where they can’t hurt anyone. Maybe feed them Hammond.”

“Bucky!” Steve scolded and Bucky just shrugged.

“He deserves it for putting them in that. Shouldn’t be locked up in an electrified prison.” He answered and took a bite of his food, “S’not right.”

Steve nodded while reluctantly agreeing, “No…it isn’t. It’s so small…and I really don’t like Hammond. He’s just…I don’t like him.”

You nodded, knowing it was only going to get better and it did the moment the children were introduced. Seeing their eyes widen you paused the movie to let them process when they both started gesturing at the screen. Then you counted down from three to one in your head and they began talking as soon as you hit one.

“Kids…they let…” Bucky started and Steve shook his head while looking at you.

“He brought his grand…”

“His grandkids!” Bucky said and you nodded, “To a place where people get eaten?!”

Steve just gestured angrily still, “To an island with a T-Rex on it?! He…that’s stupid!”

“Stupid? That’s irresponsible!” Bucky continued and flung his hands up into the air, “He might as well spray ‘em down with barbecue sauce and ring a damn dinner bell!”

“Exactly!” Steve nodded, “What kind of a grandpa is he?!”

“Evil. He’s an evil grandpa.” Bucky answered and once again you couldn’t disagree.

“Book gives you more insight into Hammond’s mind…and you’re not really wrong.” You said and hit play then paused immediately once again as the cars rolled up and they started pointing at the screen again.

“And we’re sending them into the park with the dinosaurs!” Steve said in disbelief, “He wants them to be eaten.”

“Well he doesn’t think anything is gonna go wrong. We’re the audience that knows it will or there wouldn’t be a movie.” You remind him and he sighed but nodded and you hit play again to watch as Doctor Grant interacted with Tim, once again causing you and Steve to both agree that Bucky was Alan Grant and Steve was Ellie Sattler.

“You would definitely do that to me.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, well…I would, but Sam would do it to us both first.”

“You’re not wrong.” Bucky agreed and tossed another piece of popcorn into his mouth to watch as the tour began, “Spared no expense my ass…”

“Mh.” Steve agreed and they both watched the tour go past the Dilophosaurus enclosure, “It spits poison.”

“Mmh. Definitely put it on a tour.” Bucky nodded and then they both paused, “Wait…”

“That guy…looks like Fury.” Steve said while gesturing at the screen, “Like a younger, two-eyed, Fury. Sounds like him, too.”

You nodded after a drink.

“I asked him about that once and all he said was, and I quote: ‘Yeah, I get that a lot’ and then he walked away.” You answered and they both thought about it for a moment as the tour continued yet no dinosaurs showed up.

At least until the goat scene happened and Bucky looked at it. You had forgotten about his attachment to goats. He pointed at the screen.

“So they’re just…gonna chain it there…and let it get eaten?” he asked and you nodded.

“That’s the plan…yeah.”

“It’s gotta eat, Buck.” Steve said and Bucky glared at him.

“It can’t even run away.”

“Well it’s clearly not worried about it. It’s going to sleep.” Steve countered, “You can’t blame the T-Rex.”

“No. I blame Hammond.” Bucky said with a scowl, “S’not even a full meal for the Rex. Just a snack. I blame Hammond.”

You nodded as the tour continued, “Good idea.”

Chaos theory went right over their heads when Malcolm explained it. You weren’t surprised and figured it would. Yet you couldn’t help but laugh when Steve spoke.

“I’d love to put him in the same room with Zola and his equation.” He said and you laughed, so did Bucky.

“That would be a disaster I’d pay to watch. Zola would lose his mind.” Bucky said and you nodded.

“You can predict everything versus you can’t predict anything.” You laughed and they nodded then stared at the Triceratops making you smile with glee at their faces.

“It’s…it’s a triceratops…he’s touching it.” Bucky said, eyes wider than the first dinosaur scene.

Steve wasn’t far behind as he stared, “I know the first one was…a computer thing. You explained that CGI thing the other day…but…that’s not…that. That’s real. Like…physical real. Not a computer.”

You smiled and shook your head, “No. It’s not. We’ll watch the behind the scenes later.”

“It’s so pretty…” Bucky said while watching it, thinking and you shook your head.

“No you don’t want one.”

“S’too small here. It needs space. Like in Wakanda. It’d get along with a rhino.”

“Why is it sick?” Steve asked as he looked at you and you gestured at the screen.

You watched the absolute look of horror on their faces when presented with the dung heap after a brief moment of the pair once again complaining about Hammond’s lack of grandparent skills. The shift from disgust at Hammond to disgust at the dino droppings was rapid and you couldn’t help the smile on your face.

Or “comforting” Steve when Malcolm said “shit.”

“That’s never going away…” he sighed and both you and Bucky shook your heads with a smile.

“Nope.” You smiled then answered his question from earlier, “Okay, they don’t really explain it in the movie why the dinosaur is sick. They do explain it in the book better. They’re not eating the toxic berries directly. They’re picking them up when they swallow stones near where the bushes are. Gastroliths. Like how chickens and other birds swallow small stones to help grind up food in their stomach.”

“Oh.” They both nodded and continued watching the movie up to the point where Nedry shut off the security in the park and the chaos that then ensued between him stealing the embryos and the introduction of the T-rex.

They were both on the edge of their seat when the goat disappeared. Bucky was grumbling about it when Lex asked where the goat went. Neither had any time to make a remark about it as the leg hit the clear roof of the jeep making not only Lex jump but both of them as well. The T-rex’s hand on the wire brought a jaw drop and head shaking.

That and a quiet: “Hammond you bastard your grandkids are gonna get eaten because of you!” from Bucky that only turned into a louder complaint from Steve when the lawyer Gennaro got out of the jeep and ran for the bathroom.

“So you’re leaving the kids alone in the jeep to hide in a toilet?!” he asked and looked at you, “Why doesn’t anyone care about the kids?”

“He deserves to get eaten.” Bucky scowled and you just patted their hands and gestured at the screen for them to watch as the T-rex escaped its paddock and Lex turned the light on attracting the dinosaur, “You’d do that.”

“I would not!” Steve hissed and you shushed them both even though they were both staring at the dinosaur’s eyes constricting, heads tilted then shaking when the kids were being attacked.

“NO! Not the kids!”

“No! Eat the lawyer!”

“Eat their grandpa! Not the kids!”

They watched in horror and then confusion when Grant grabbed the flare to distract the T-rex. You could tell they were about to ask until Malcolm jumped out. It was a mixed reaction from both of them as he began waving the flare, yelling “Get the kids!” and running.

“How is someone so smart so stupid?” Bucky asked, hand held out to the screen, and Steve shrugged, eyes still glued to the screen.

“At least he cares about the kids.” He said and then scowled when Gennaro was back on the screen until Bucky smiled when the T-Rex ate him.

“Deserved it. Oh that’s satisfying.” He said and you chuckled as Steve nodded, both still glued to the screen eating their snacks.

Then came the question you knew was coming when the jeep was pushed over the cliff into the paddock. Well, honestly you weren’t sure if it was going to actually come or not, but you weren’t surprised when they both started gesturing at the screen. You knew what it was before they even started so paused the movie once more.

“How’d the…” Steve started and Bucky nodded.

“Where’d the cliff…”

You shook your head, “It’s a plot hole. A lot of people question it. I don’t know the explanation off the top of my head. You’re not the first to notice.”

The movie continued, both being concerned for Timmy. You knew well enough that the boy was alive but that they were both convinced he was because he was a “tough kid” to soothe themselves was another thing. They moved on from it when Nedry was back on screen, scowling at him before scoffing as he spun the arrow like it was actually going to tell him what direction to go in.

“I hope he gets eaten by something slow.” Bucky scowled and Steve looked at him.

“Bucky!”

Bucky gestured at the screen, pointing with his vibranium hand, “Tell me he doesn’t deserve it! Only one that deserves it more is Hammond!”

“Stop arguing!” you shushed them both before hitting play again, Bucky smiling satisfied while Nedry was being eaten by the Dilophosaurus as Steve just shook his head.

“That’s horrible…”

“It was worse in the book.” You replied and they both looked at you wide-eyed.

“How?” both asked and you just shook your head to direct them back to the movie where Tim was rescued, the scene immediately erasing Nedry from their concern.

“Poor kid.” Steve sighed at the sight of Timmy in the jeep, his heart obviously going out to the boy.

Both were chanting at the screen a few seconds later as Grant and Timmy raced down the tree away from the jeep, “Go! Go go go go go! Run! Go! Run! NO!”

Steve sighed in relief when Grant and Timmy were okay even after the jeep fell back on them. Bucky nodded and relaxed into the couch. At least for a few moments. He was soon enough back on the edge of his seat chanting at it after Malcolm was rescued and the T-Rex came back. So was Steve.

“Get off the stick!”

“Go faster! That thing can go faster than that!”

“Go!”

You sat calmly between the two, stealing bites of their forgotten snacks as the chaos continued. You then let them both chastise John Hammond the entire time he explained about his flea circus. It only made them double down on their disgust for the character. It also made them agree again that Steve was Ellie when she started scolding John.

“Tell me he gets eaten.” Bucky said to you and you just gestured at the screen.

“Just watch the movie.” You answered and he sighed before smiling at the Brachiosaurus scene while Steve did as well until both grimaced when it sneezed.

“Ugh. That’s like the time Steve sneezed on me in spring.” Bucky said and Steve scowled at him.

“I had allergies!”

“You had everything.”

“Behave!” you shushed and pointed back to the movie.

The revelation of the nest scene next both had them agreeing with Malcolm’s whole opinion on the entire park scheme again. When the park shut down scene came next that triggered a whole slew of remarks on John Hammond’s unsuitability as a grandparent once more along with Bucky asking if they forgot about the whole raptor angle. Steve answered that they obviously had once they shut the park down entirely.

“Why are they walking in an open field?” Bucky asked next with a look and Steve shook his head.

“I don’t know, not a good idea.” He agreed and nodded when the T-Rex came out of the tree line to eat the Gallimimus, “And that’s why.”

“Exactly.” Bucky nodded and took a drink but was soon questioning the logic and sense of everyone involved when the raptor pen was shown torn open, or rather when Muldoon walked out with the shotgun again, “And what is that supposed to do to a T-Rex besides piss it off?”

You just snickered as the raptor enclosure was then shown torn apart. He nodded slightly after a moment of consideration. Steve beat him to it, though.

“Might take one of them down, though.” He said and Bucky nodded.

“Maybe. If he can hit it and the gun doesn’t jam.”

“The shutdown must have turned off all the fences.”

“No…” Bucky said and Steve continued flawlessly.

“Imagine that.” he said and shook his head as the scene continued from there to the fence climbing sequence that had both him and Bucky telling Timmy to jump.

“Just jump! You can do it! Jump!” Steve urged and Bucky nodded, “I’d have been off that already!”

“You’d have fallen off half-way up at that age!” Bucky retorted and you couldn’t help but laugh before comforting them when they started freaking out when Timmy was electrocuted.

“NO! Timmy! Why’d you electrocute the kid?! Why is it always Timmy?!” Bucky asked, upset and Alpine moved over to him to nuzzle into him calmly, “Okay…I’m okay. He’ll be fine. He’s tough.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded as they watched the scene cut back to Ellie triumphantly celebrating the return of the power in the park for two seconds.

The appearance of the Velociraptor made them both jump and Alpine leapt herself into your lap. You comforted the cat while the two super soldiers stared wide-eyed at the screen. Shouting at it again.

“Run! Run! The light isn’t that heavy just run!”

“Shut the door! Shut it! Don’t stop!” Steve said with a frustrated gesture when Ellie started sobbing after she shut the fence gate before shaking their heads at Muldoon’s demise. Once again you just counted down in your head from three to one.

Right on cue Steve spoke, “The raptor expert forgot there were other raptors while hunting raptors.”

“And got flanked. Shouldn’t’ve electrocuted them.” Bucky said while nodding and looked at Alpine as she curled up in your arms, “You’re still better.”

“Mao.” Alpine replied and contently returned to watching the movie while you scratched her ears.

Both were relieved when Timmy was still alive, feeling sorry for the boy even more than they were before. They then started yelling at Grant for leaving the kids alone in the visitor center until they rationalized that it should be fine since raptors shouldn’t be able to get inside because of the doors.

That lasted for about three seconds, as you expected it would.

You watched them as they watched the kitchen scene, complaining that “of course it can open doors!” when it opened one. They were both quiet after that, tensely watching as the scene unfolded. Still, you could see the questions in their eyes at how the dinosaurs could look so real. Then they questioned what Lex was doing until both laughed when the raptor knocked itself out. Then when the raptor was locked in the freezer they nodded their approval, though they were soon questioning the adults’ logic again even while cheering on the kids for getting things back up and running only to yell at Hammond again.

“Oh, yeah, now you care about the kids.” Steve said and Bucky nodded.

“I hope he gets eaten.”

They were on the edge of their seats again watching the lobby scene. Both sighed as Tim was almost crushed by something again, deciding that someone writing the script hated him. When the T-Rex came through they were both happy to see it though Bucky was overall disappointed that Hammond wasn’t eaten at the end.

“Damn.” He scowled and you nodded as Steve shook his head.

“He should have been eaten.” He agreed and you nodded again.

“Well…he does get eaten in the book. The kids are different. Lex is the most annoying thing ever and you kind of wish she gets eaten half the time, but Hammond is even worse.” You said and navigated to the behind-the-scenes features, “Now…we see how they did it all. A bit.”

They watched it completely enraptured. Eyes wide in an almost child-like wonder that was downright adorable. They didn’t stay silent though. Far from it as their silence only lasted until they saw the T-Rex animatronic.

“They built the entire T-Rex?” Steve asked, wide-eyed and you nodded, gesturing at the screen for them to watch and listen.

You could see they recognized part of the process in the sketches, modeling, and creation, but it was that they built a full-scale animatronic dinosaur that really blew their minds. You loved how enamored they were with the process. Though they felt horrible for the stop-motion crew having lost out on it.

You promised them that stop-motion wasn’t extinct as they put it and that they were still put to work during the making of the movie. After you assured them of that they enjoyed how the crew merged the two worlds of digital creation with stop-motion input.

They also had several comments about how Spielberg treated the kids.

“Well at least someone likes them and cares.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Hammond clearly didn’t.” he said and shook his head later as Spielberg talked about the character and the actor, “I agree with Bucky. He should have been eaten.”

“Mm.” Bucky nodded and they continued watching to the point where the triceratops came back, “That thing is…it’s…”

“It’s amazing.” Steve said and he nodded, “It’s so real…it’s…just…beautiful in a way.”

Bucky nodded. So did you and you continued watching with them as the crew talked about the hurricane that hit during the filming of the movie and they both nodded when Spielberg quoted Richard Attenborough as saying the hurricane was nothing because he survived The Blitz. That made them pause.

“Wait…” Steve said and thought, causing you to pause the movie, “Did he serve?”

You pulled your phone out to look it up and nodded, “Yeah. He was in the RAF film production unit, went on several bombing raids over Europe while filming from the rear gunner’s position. He got permanent ear damage after training and also achieved the rank of sergeant.”

They both nodded and you hit play when they gestured for it to continue. Once again they were astonished by the sight of the full-sized T-Rex animatronic. They also decided that Gennaro’s toilet demise was still satisfying before they became fascinated by the Velociraptor process.

“Wait…they’re…they’re people in suits?” Steve asked and you nodded as Bucky just leaned closer to the tv to watch; both of their heads tilted while scowling fascinated.

The change in the end where the T-Rex saved everyone instead of the bones taking the raptors out was a change they agreed with. There was only one problem with their new admiration for the T-Rex.

“No.” You and Steve both said at the look on Bucky’s face, “You don’t want one.”

“No.” Steve agreed and Bucky looked at you both.

“I wasn’t gonna say I wanted one…”

You weren’t convinced, neither was Alpine.

“Mao.”

“You’re still my princess. I would never replace you.” He said and she blinked at him yet cuddled into you more anyway though she was in his lap happily by the end of the behind-the-scenes videos.

“Well?” You asked them both when you shut it off.

They took several moments to respond. Clearly it was something they were processing. Not just the movie itself but the extent to which movie making had developed from what they had known.

Some things didn’t change and yet so much had. Still, you weren’t exactly expecting the reaction you got. Not really.

“Can we watch it again?” Bucky asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I wanna watch it again. There’s more, right?”

“Yeah. There’s five sequels. None recapture this entirely, trust me. Jurassic Park is a pinnacle in filmmaking, but we can watch it again if you want to.”

“Yes.”

“Now…please.”

3 Days Later

“I am so happy they changed Lex…” Bucky said as he sat at the table with Steve and you over breakfast, the book on the table between the three of you, his eyes wide while staring off in memory of the annoyance she was just as Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I mean, she has some cute moments but…the whole button thing…” he said shaking his head, “Why’d they trade Hammond for Muldoon? I mean he lives in the book…and Hammond is horrible.”

“At least he gets eaten in the book.” Bucky said and Alpine hopped onto his lap, “Right?”

“Mao.”

You just shook your head and laughed, “I swear the only reason you read the book was to see Hammond get eaten at the end.”

They both nodded.

“So what’s next?” Bucky asked and Steve looked at you, both ready for more.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed it! I may have gotten a scene or two out of order and may have missed one or two due to limitations I had. I'll eventually fix them once I find where my copy went.

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Super Soldier Theater Masterlist

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers x Reader, Stucky x Reader

POV: 2nd

Summary: Bucky Barnes missed out on a lot being while being controlled by HYDRA. Steve Rogers missed out on even more being frozen in ice. Since Sam has made it his mission to update them on music, you decide that it's your job to update them on what they've missed out on in cinema.

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Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Original Female Character, Bucky Barnes x Witch!Baker!Female

POV: 3rd Person

Summary:Someone that works at the Avenger's Compound made a BIG mistake. Not only did they cheat on the Witch they'd been secretly dating for several months but they also stole something from her and gave it to the sidepiece. Well, technically they stole multiple things. Can Bucky navigate the relationship weary road to a Witch's heart when she doesn't believe anyone ever stays and considers herself cursed.

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Super Soldier Theater: Jurassic Park

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers x Reader, Stucky x Reader. It's not specific. No pronouns assigned to Reader past "you".

Summary: Bucky Barnes missed out on a lot while being controlled by HYDRA. Steve Rogers missed out on even more being frozen in ice. Since Sam has made it his mission to update them on music, you decide that it's your job to update them on what they've missed out on in cinema.

Chapter Summary: You begin their education with Jurassic Park and they quickly develop opinions regarding the stupidity of cloning dinosaurs, John Hammond, who should be eaten or not, and dinosaur rights.

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Warnings: Mild Language (Steve will deal), Jurassic Park-Canon Violence (both movie and book are mentioned, if you've seen the movie itself you know what to expect as far as that goes). Bucky is grumpy. He and Steve share opinions on John Hammond's effectiveness as a grandpa. Wishing People Get Eaten By Dinosaurs.

A/N: This was both fun and a bit of a challenge to write. I couldn't find my copy of Jurassic Park anywhere so had to rely on YouTube clips and the wiki for scene order since it isn't streaming anywhere right now that I have a subscription to. I have seen the movie countless times but my memory can get scenes out of order without direct help. I may eventually go back and tweak this one at a later date.

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Next Movie: TBD

It was movie night. You, Bucky, and Steve had movie nights usually once or twice a week. Really it was whenever you decided that unwinding with some snacks sounded like fun.

You knew very well that your two favorite super soldiers were men out of place in your time and very fond of the music and movies of their own. You respected that and you understood fully well what it meant to them. Still, you couldn’t take seeing them go around completely clueless when it came to modern references from movies they’d never seen anymore.

They had missed out on so much. It was going to take time to catch them up, but it had to be done. One way or another.

Sam had been painstakingly updating them on music. He had his own methods for doing so. He broke them in slowly with things similar to what they knew.

You had no plans of doing that whatsoever. Not that you were going to throw something completely new at them. Not Avatar or something. No.

You decided to start with Jurassic Park.

It was a classic. One you were excited to see their reaction to. Even if Bucky grumbled at first.

“I thought we were watching something else tonight.” He said as you led both him and Steve into your living room set up with everything you’d need.

All their favorite snacks, yours, pillows, and the usual for your movie nights. You just smiled in response and nudged both him and Steve into their seats before taking your usual spot. Right between them nice, snug, and cozy.

“No. You two need to get up to speed with movies. Jurassic Park is great.” You said and Steve thought for a moment.

“Isn’t that the one with the dinosaur park and the raptor guy?”

You shook your head while handing him his bowl of popcorn then Bucky his Cracker Jack box, “No. That’s Jurassic World. Same franchise but it’s a sequel of Jurassic Park. The…fourth movie. Jurassic Park is the first one that started it all. It’s different from the book, considerably, but it’s still good despite that.”

“Fine.” Bucky sighed and sat back putting his feet up alongside yours which were alongside Steve’s then looked at Alpine as she hopped up onto the back of the couch and meowed, “Jurassic Park.”

She moved a bit along the back until she reached a spot where she could tuck her paws under herself and assume her little powdered sugarloaf form. It always amused you how she would pick a spot where she could watch the tv with you. As sassy as she could be she was still much more open to watching whatever was put on than either of them could be at any given moment.

“Alright. You’re allowed to ask questions and talk, but if I tell you to wait until later, just wait. Okay?” you asked and they both nodded, relaxing into their seats on either side of you as you hit play.

You made sure to keep the volume loud enough for you to hear yet not too loud for their more sensitive hearing. Especially as you knew what was coming having seen it so many times. You expected countless questions and comments from both of them and it didn’t take long for the first to come.

You were far from surprised that it didn’t take long for one of them to say something. It was also absolutely no surprise to you that it was Bucky. At all.

“Okay, so…they’re going to fight a dinosaur with cattle prods and one…what is that? A Franchi SPAS-12?” he asked, gesturing at the tv with his vibranium hand as you hit pause and looked at him, eyebrow raised, “A twelve-gauge? Really? A dinosaur? Those things jam like hell and you’re gonna take down a T-Rex with it? Yeah. Sure.”

Steve looked at him, “Bucky! Shh!”

“Just watch!” you said, trying not to laugh before hitting play again and watched them both tilt their head at the crate being hauled in.

Alpine’s ears twitched at the sounds of the raptor inside the crate, tail flicking as she looked at the tv with them. You could already see Bucky wasn’t a fan of the whole loading process, it likely being an uncomfortable reminder of things with HYDRA and his capture and reactivation by Zemo. Steve caught it too and glanced at him as you pat the ex-assassin’s leg.

He gave you a small smile and a nod before looking at the guy on top of the crate lifting the gate. You knew what was coming and paused it again. He just shook his head and pointed.

This was going to be a long movie.

“So they can create dinosaurs but they can’t have a machine load the crate and lift the door?” he asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, that’s just…that’s asking for it. I mean…not safe. It’s not even secured.” He agreed and you nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, they explain things in the book about certain…other things that happen…you know what just watch.” You started before waving your hands and hitting play again.

Both of them just shook their heads as the worker was knocked off the crate and the raptor inside started dragging him in. Bucky was definitely rooting for the dinosaur when you glanced at him and glancing at Steve you were fairly sure he was, too. Still, he was obviously more torn about it than Bucky was.

“That could have been completely avoided if they had secured the crate.” He said, shaking his head while his blue eyes were still locked on the screen, and Bucky nodded as the shots rang out and the screen faded to black.

“Or if they just didn’t make dinosaurs and put them in a crate then electroshocked them with cattle prods…”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and they watched as the scene changed to the introduction of Gennaro on the raft.

In a suit. In the jungle. At a mine.

“Lawyer.” Steve said with a gesture before eating a bite of popcorn he then choked on, “Twenty-million-dollar lawsuit?!”

“They deserve it.” Bucky said and ate a bite from his own box, “Shh.”

You just shook your head and chuckled as they both reacted the same way to Gennaro complaining that the investors were questioning the safety of the park: two dry scoffs that simultaneously said “No shit” without actually saying the words.

“Hammond hates inspections…that just screams responsible employer…” Steve said with a dry sigh shaking his head.

“You know damn well they’re doing this in Costa Rica to avoid labor laws or something.” Bucky added, eating another bite of his Cracker Jacks and you nodded.

“You’re not entirely wrong, but it’s not working out so well is it?” you asked and they both shook their heads.

“No. What’s in that thing?” Steve asked as he looked at the screen and the piece of amber being zoomed in on.

“A mosquito. Why the mosquito?” Bucky answered then asked and you just gestured at the screen, “Now we’re in Montana. Why?”

“Just watch.” You said quietly, shaking your head.

“I hate computers.” Alan Grant sighed on the screen a few moments later and Steve nodded.

“Sounds like Bucky.” He said and chuckled as a caramel coated piece of popcorn pelted him in the head.

“I can use ‘em better than you!”

“Oi! Stop throwin’ food!” you scolded, scowling at Bucky which made Steve smile triumphantly until you scowled at him, too, “You behave yourself, too. Watch the movie.”

Steve only doubled down on his opinion as Doctor Grant explained to the boy what a pack of velociraptors would do to him. You couldn’t exactly disagree. Neither could Bucky.

“Yeah, I’d do that.”

“So that means Steve is Ellie.” You said and Bucky nodded while watching as she scolded Grant.

“Yeah.” He nodded and Steve couldn’t exactly disagree.

“I’d probably be doing that, yeah…” He agreed then shook his head at the helicopter landing and the introduction of John Hammond, “Well he’s rude and…”

“Creepy. No one should be that happy.” Bucky said, “’Specially with a twenty-million-dollar lawsuit because your mistreated dinosaur ate your underpaid worker. He’s rude and I don’t like him.”

“You’ll love him even more later…” you thought to yourself while just nodding in response to the two as you continued to watch the scene.

 Bucky and Steve both watched as Hammond talked to the two scientists. They watched as Hammond explained what he needed, glossing over everything that it really meant, or why he needed them there to sign off on the park, before bribing the two to agree to go. It wasn’t a surprised that the two men on either side of you only reaffirmed their initial opinions on the character.

“I don’t like him.” Bucky said, shaking his head and Steve shook his.

“No. No one should smile like that after something they made and locked in an obviously ineffective containment cage ate someone else like that.” he said and ate another bite of popcorn, narrowing his eyes as the scene shifted to the meeting between Nedry and Dodgson, “That…can…”

“Hm?” you asked blinking at him and Bucky as he narrowed his eyes at the screen as well, “What about it?”

“That’s something HYDRA would do…but…they’d try to make them into weapons.” Bucky said and you nodded, knowing fully well he was right.

“Yeah.” Steve agreed, “Why’s that guy want them?”

“Corporate Espionage. They explain Dodgson’s role and company better in the book. Biosyn, his company, their whole schtick is reverse engineering the work other companies do to make money. The book has a whole…moral undertone about the ethics of bioengineering, what rights cloned creations have, and everything more than the movie has.” You explained and they nodded before watching as Ian Malcolm was introduced and Steve gestured at the screen.

“Mmh!” he excitedly mumbled, mouth full of popcorn.

You paused it so he wouldn’t choke, “Chew, swallow, then talk.”

He nodded before speaking once he was done, “That’s the guy. The life guy.”

“The life guy?” Bucky asked with a perplexed look on his face and Steve nodded.

“Y’know. The…the life finds a way guy.”

“OH!” Bucky nodded and looked at Malcolm, “Yeah. You’re right. So this’s where he’s from. Huh.”

“He reminds me of Tony.” Steve commented while eating another bite of popcorn and you paused while thinking.

“Mmm…on rockstar vibe levels…yes. Intelligence levels…I wouldn’t really know if I could say yes to that. Other levels no. Absolutely no. Ian Malcolm would have been telling Tony several thousand shades of “No” and “Stop” and “You’re an idiot” during the whole…Ultron thing.” You replied and they looked at you, “Just watch you’ll see.”

“Y’know…for a dinosaur movie…there’s a lack of dinosaurs…” Bucky commented a few seconds later.

You just chuckled, smirking at his timing as the characters were driven on the jeeps and Ellie talked about the plant life. You knew what was coming and it was worth it as the movie’s iconic score began playing and first sighting of the Brachiosaurus and they saw their first dinosaur on the screen.

You couldn’t help but laugh.

Their faces mimicked the faces of Grant and Sattler on the screen. Eyes wide and mouths agape. Then the Brachiosaurus fed from the tree, causing it to move its branches. That only made them stare more, heads cocked to the sides at the same time as they tried to figure out how it was done.

Then it got even better when Gennaro the lawyer spoke.

“We’re gonna make a fortune with this place…”

“There’s a magnificent, beautiful dinosaur and the first thing you think of is making money?!” Steve asked the screen and you burst out laughing again, especially as Bucky gestured at the screen nodding and looking at you.

“There’s a dinosaur.”

“I know.” You nodded, trying not to laugh as he continued while gesturing at the screen and still shot of the dinosaur on it since you paused.

“It’s…so majestic and he just…is he gonna put it in a cage?” Bucky asked and scowled at the screen, “I hope he gets eaten.”

“Does he get eaten?” Steve asked with a similar scowl and you bit your tongue while gesturing at the screen.

“Just watch. I’m not spoiling it.” You answered and hit play when they nodded only to pause again.

“Wait! T-rex?!” Steve asked and you nodded.

“Yeah. They have a T-rex.”

“How is that a good idea? I was joking before!” Bucky asked while staring at the screen still, both were just staring so you hit play again and then they nodded when Grant asked Hammond how he did it, “I wanna know that, too.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded and you pat both their arms and pointed back at the screen when they looked at you for answers.

“Keep watching. It gets better and there’s a behind the scenes featurette we’ll watch after the movie.” You said and they nodded, watching the movie continue to the “ride” where Hammond, Hammond, and Mister DNA explained how the dinosaurs were made.

“Sophisticated techniques…they drilled a hole in the amber and used a syringe to suck it out.” Bucky said while rolling his eyes and you nudged him as Steve shushed him.

“Shh!”

They both watched as the lab was shown. Both agreed that they’d have stopped the ride as well to see the lab and then they stared once more when the baby raptor was born. Once again their heads tilted at the same time, but there was a difference between the two.

Namely in Bucky’s reaction and, once again, you laughed.

“I want one.” Bucky said and Alpine looked at him as did Steve, “It’s cute! Look how small and defenseless it is.”

“It’s a dinosaur, Buck. I doubt its defenseless.” Steve said with a look and Bucky just blinked back at him waiting for him to make his point.

“And? I deal with you.”

“What’s that s’posed to mean?” Steve asked with a scowl and you shook your head.

“Don’t you two start. Besides, it’s small and cute now but they get bigger and they’d probably try to eat Alpine.” You said and Bucky shook his head as Alpine looked at him and meowed.

“Never mind.”

You nodded and hit play again, “Exactly.”

It didn’t last long as you hit pause again when Steve began pointing at the screen.

“So this is why he says it! Because they tried to control the breeding!” Steve said after the iconic line was delivered and Bucky nodded, scowling deeply.

“They’re no damn better than HYDRA…” he said and Steve nodded in agreement, as did you and the baby dinosaur was revealed to be a baby Velociraptor before the movie switched scenes to the Raptor pen.

Bucky scowled instantly.

“Hammond is so…I don’t like ‘im. He’s hiding something. Wait…that’s the Velociraptor pen? That’s not a pen. Those things are in raptor prison.”

“Well, they did eat a guy.” Steve countered and you looked at him with Bucky, both of you raising an eyebrow, “Yeah, I know…”

“They should all be destroyed.” Muldoon declared on the screen and Bucky scowled at him, clearly having chosen his side for the moment.

“What’d they do to you?”

“They ate his friend.” You reminded him and he nodded with a sigh, obviously having forgotten.

“Oh…yeah, well…that’s Hammond’s fault.” He said and you couldn’t argue with him yet when the crane raised what remained of the cow harness you couldn’t help yourself.

“Still want one?”

He thought about it for about two seconds before answering.

“I’d get them a secluded island and let them run free where they can’t hurt anyone. Maybe feed them Hammond.”

“Bucky!” Steve scolded and Bucky just shrugged.

“He deserves it for putting them in that. Shouldn’t be locked up in an electrified prison.” He answered and took a bite of his food, “S’not right.”

Steve nodded while reluctantly agreeing, “No…it isn’t. It’s so small…and I really don’t like Hammond. He’s just…I don’t like him.”

You nodded, knowing it was only going to get better and it did the moment the children were introduced. Seeing their eyes widen you paused the movie to let them process when they both started gesturing at the screen. Then you counted down from three to one in your head and they began talking as soon as you hit one.

“Kids…they let…” Bucky started and Steve shook his head while looking at you.

“He brought his grand…”

“His grandkids!” Bucky said and you nodded, “To a place where people get eaten?!”

Steve just gestured angrily still, “To an island with a T-Rex on it?! He…that’s stupid!”

“Stupid? That’s irresponsible!” Bucky continued and flung his hands up into the air, “He might as well spray ‘em down with barbecue sauce and ring a damn dinner bell!”

“Exactly!” Steve nodded, “What kind of a grandpa is he?!”

“Evil. He’s an evil grandpa.” Bucky answered and once again you couldn’t disagree.

“Book gives you more insight into Hammond’s mind…and you’re not really wrong.” You said and hit play then paused immediately once again as the cars rolled up and they started pointing at the screen again.

“And we’re sending them into the park with the dinosaurs!” Steve said in disbelief, “He wants them to be eaten.”

“Well he doesn’t think anything is gonna go wrong. We’re the audience that knows it will or there wouldn’t be a movie.” You remind him and he sighed but nodded and you hit play again to watch as Doctor Grant interacted with Tim, once again causing you and Steve to both agree that Bucky was Alan Grant and Steve was Ellie Sattler.

“You would definitely do that to me.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Yeah, well…I would, but Sam would do it to us both first.”

“You’re not wrong.” Bucky agreed and tossed another piece of popcorn into his mouth to watch as the tour began, “Spared no expense my ass…”

“Mh.” Steve agreed and they both watched the tour go past the Dilophosaurus enclosure, “It spits poison.”

“Mmh. Definitely put it on a tour.” Bucky nodded and then they both paused, “Wait…”

“That guy…looks like Fury.” Steve said while gesturing at the screen, “Like a younger, two-eyed, Fury. Sounds like him, too.”

You nodded after a drink.

“I asked him about that once and all he said was, and I quote: ‘Yeah, I get that a lot’ and then he walked away.” You answered and they both thought about it for a moment as the tour continued yet no dinosaurs showed up.

At least until the goat scene happened and Bucky looked at it. You had forgotten about his attachment to goats. He pointed at the screen.

“So they’re just…gonna chain it there…and let it get eaten?” he asked and you nodded.

“That’s the plan…yeah.”

“It’s gotta eat, Buck.” Steve said and Bucky glared at him.

“It can’t even run away.”

“Well it’s clearly not worried about it. It’s going to sleep.” Steve countered, “You can’t blame the T-Rex.”

“No. I blame Hammond.” Bucky said with a scowl, “S’not even a full meal for the Rex. Just a snack. I blame Hammond.”

You nodded as the tour continued, “Good idea.”

Chaos theory went right over their heads when Malcolm explained it. You weren’t surprised and figured it would. Yet you couldn’t help but laugh when Steve spoke.

“I’d love to put him in the same room with Zola and his equation.” He said and you laughed, so did Bucky.

“That would be a disaster I’d pay to watch. Zola would lose his mind.” Bucky said and you nodded.

“You can predict everything versus you can’t predict anything.” You laughed and they nodded then stared at the Triceratops making you smile with glee at their faces.

“It’s…it’s a triceratops…he’s touching it.” Bucky said, eyes wider than the first dinosaur scene.

Steve wasn’t far behind as he stared, “I know the first one was…a computer thing. You explained that CGI thing the other day…but…that’s not…that. That’s real. Like…physical real. Not a computer.”

You smiled and shook your head, “No. It’s not. We’ll watch the behind the scenes later.”

“It’s so pretty…” Bucky said while watching it, thinking and you shook your head.

“No you don’t want one.”

“S’too small here. It needs space. Like in Wakanda. It’d get along with a rhino.”

“Why is it sick?” Steve asked as he looked at you and you gestured at the screen.

You watched the absolute look of horror on their faces when presented with the dung heap after a brief moment of the pair once again complaining about Hammond’s lack of grandparent skills. The shift from disgust at Hammond to disgust at the dino droppings was rapid and you couldn’t help the smile on your face.

Or “comforting” Steve when Malcolm said “shit.”

“That’s never going away…” he sighed and both you and Bucky shook your heads with a smile.

“Nope.” You smiled then answered his question from earlier, “Okay, they don’t really explain it in the movie why the dinosaur is sick. They do explain it in the book better. They’re not eating the toxic berries directly. They’re picking them up when they swallow stones near where the bushes are. Gastroliths. Like how chickens and other birds swallow small stones to help grind up food in their stomach.”

“Oh.” They both nodded and continued watching the movie up to the point where Nedry shut off the security in the park and the chaos that then ensued between him stealing the embryos and the introduction of the T-rex.

They were both on the edge of their seat when the goat disappeared. Bucky was grumbling about it when Lex asked where the goat went. Neither had any time to make a remark about it as the leg hit the clear roof of the jeep making not only Lex jump but both of them as well. The T-rex’s hand on the wire brought a jaw drop and head shaking.

That and a quiet: “Hammond you bastard your grandkids are gonna get eaten because of you!” from Bucky that only turned into a louder complaint from Steve when the lawyer Gennaro got out of the jeep and ran for the bathroom.

“So you’re leaving the kids alone in the jeep to hide in a toilet?!” he asked and looked at you, “Why doesn’t anyone care about the kids?”

“He deserves to get eaten.” Bucky scowled and you just patted their hands and gestured at the screen for them to watch as the T-rex escaped its paddock and Lex turned the light on attracting the dinosaur, “You’d do that.”

“I would not!” Steve hissed and you shushed them both even though they were both staring at the dinosaur’s eyes constricting, heads tilted then shaking when the kids were being attacked.

“NO! Not the kids!”

“No! Eat the lawyer!”

“Eat their grandpa! Not the kids!”

They watched in horror and then confusion when Grant grabbed the flare to distract the T-rex. You could tell they were about to ask until Malcolm jumped out. It was a mixed reaction from both of them as he began waving the flare, yelling “Get the kids!” and running.

“How is someone so smart so stupid?” Bucky asked, hand held out to the screen, and Steve shrugged, eyes still glued to the screen.

“At least he cares about the kids.” He said and then scowled when Gennaro was back on the screen until Bucky smiled when the T-Rex ate him.

“Deserved it. Oh that’s satisfying.” He said and you chuckled as Steve nodded, both still glued to the screen eating their snacks.

Then came the question you knew was coming when the jeep was pushed over the cliff into the paddock. Well, honestly you weren’t sure if it was going to actually come or not, but you weren’t surprised when they both started gesturing at the screen. You knew what it was before they even started so paused the movie once more.

“How’d the…” Steve started and Bucky nodded.

“Where’d the cliff…”

You shook your head, “It’s a plot hole. A lot of people question it. I don’t know the explanation off the top of my head. You’re not the first to notice.”

The movie continued, both being concerned for Timmy. You knew well enough that the boy was alive but that they were both convinced he was because he was a “tough kid” to soothe themselves was another thing. They moved on from it when Nedry was back on screen, scowling at him before scoffing as he spun the arrow like it was actually going to tell him what direction to go in.

“I hope he gets eaten by something slow.” Bucky scowled and Steve looked at him.

“Bucky!”

Bucky gestured at the screen, pointing with his vibranium hand, “Tell me he doesn’t deserve it! Only one that deserves it more is Hammond!”

“Stop arguing!” you shushed them both before hitting play again, Bucky smiling satisfied while Nedry was being eaten by the Dilophosaurus as Steve just shook his head.

“That’s horrible…”

“It was worse in the book.” You replied and they both looked at you wide-eyed.

“How?” both asked and you just shook your head to direct them back to the movie where Tim was rescued, the scene immediately erasing Nedry from their concern.

“Poor kid.” Steve sighed at the sight of Timmy in the jeep, his heart obviously going out to the boy.

Both were chanting at the screen a few seconds later as Grant and Timmy raced down the tree away from the jeep, “Go! Go go go go go! Run! Go! Run! NO!”

Steve sighed in relief when Grant and Timmy were okay even after the jeep fell back on them. Bucky nodded and relaxed into the couch. At least for a few moments. He was soon enough back on the edge of his seat chanting at it after Malcolm was rescued and the T-Rex came back. So was Steve.

“Get off the stick!”

“Go faster! That thing can go faster than that!”

“Go!”

You sat calmly between the two, stealing bites of their forgotten snacks as the chaos continued. You then let them both chastise John Hammond the entire time he explained about his flea circus. It only made them double down on their disgust for the character. It also made them agree again that Steve was Ellie when she started scolding John.

“Tell me he gets eaten.” Bucky said to you and you just gestured at the screen.

“Just watch the movie.” You answered and he sighed before smiling at the Brachiosaurus scene while Steve did as well until both grimaced when it sneezed.

“Ugh. That’s like the time Steve sneezed on me in spring.” Bucky said and Steve scowled at him.

“I had allergies!”

“You had everything.”

“Behave!” you shushed and pointed back to the movie.

The revelation of the nest scene next both had them agreeing with Malcolm’s whole opinion on the entire park scheme again. When the park shut down scene came next that triggered a whole slew of remarks on John Hammond’s unsuitability as a grandparent once more along with Bucky asking if they forgot about the whole raptor angle. Steve answered that they obviously had once they shut the park down entirely.

“Why are they walking in an open field?” Bucky asked next with a look and Steve shook his head.

“I don’t know, not a good idea.” He agreed and nodded when the T-Rex came out of the tree line to eat the Gallimimus, “And that’s why.”

“Exactly.” Bucky nodded and took a drink but was soon questioning the logic and sense of everyone involved when the raptor pen was shown torn open, or rather when Muldoon walked out with the shotgun again, “And what is that supposed to do to a T-Rex besides piss it off?”

You just snickered as the raptor enclosure was then shown torn apart. He nodded slightly after a moment of consideration. Steve beat him to it, though.

“Might take one of them down, though.” He said and Bucky nodded.

“Maybe. If he can hit it and the gun doesn’t jam.”

“The shutdown must have turned off all the fences.”

“No…” Bucky said and Steve continued flawlessly.

“Imagine that.” he said and shook his head as the scene continued from there to the fence climbing sequence that had both him and Bucky telling Timmy to jump.

“Just jump! You can do it! Jump!” Steve urged and Bucky nodded, “I’d have been off that already!”

“You’d have fallen off half-way up at that age!” Bucky retorted and you couldn’t help but laugh before comforting them when they started freaking out when Timmy was electrocuted.

“NO! Timmy! Why’d you electrocute the kid?! Why is it always Timmy?!” Bucky asked, upset and Alpine moved over to him to nuzzle into him calmly, “Okay…I’m okay. He’ll be fine. He’s tough.”

“Yeah.” Steve nodded as they watched the scene cut back to Ellie triumphantly celebrating the return of the power in the park for two seconds.

The appearance of the Velociraptor made them both jump and Alpine leapt herself into your lap. You comforted the cat while the two super soldiers stared wide-eyed at the screen. Shouting at it again.

“Run! Run! The light isn’t that heavy just run!”

“Shut the door! Shut it! Don’t stop!” Steve said with a frustrated gesture when Ellie started sobbing after she shut the fence gate before shaking their heads at Muldoon’s demise. Once again you just counted down in your head from three to one.

Right on cue Steve spoke, “The raptor expert forgot there were other raptors while hunting raptors.”

“And got flanked. Shouldn’t’ve electrocuted them.” Bucky said while nodding and looked at Alpine as she curled up in your arms, “You’re still better.”

“Mao.” Alpine replied and contently returned to watching the movie while you scratched her ears.

Both were relieved when Timmy was still alive, feeling sorry for the boy even more than they were before. They then started yelling at Grant for leaving the kids alone in the visitor center until they rationalized that it should be fine since raptors shouldn’t be able to get inside because of the doors.

That lasted for about three seconds, as you expected it would.

You watched them as they watched the kitchen scene, complaining that “of course it can open doors!” when it opened one. They were both quiet after that, tensely watching as the scene unfolded. Still, you could see the questions in their eyes at how the dinosaurs could look so real. Then they questioned what Lex was doing until both laughed when the raptor knocked itself out. Then when the raptor was locked in the freezer they nodded their approval, though they were soon questioning the adults’ logic again even while cheering on the kids for getting things back up and running only to yell at Hammond again.

“Oh, yeah, now you care about the kids.” Steve said and Bucky nodded.

“I hope he gets eaten.”

They were on the edge of their seats again watching the lobby scene. Both sighed as Tim was almost crushed by something again, deciding that someone writing the script hated him. When the T-Rex came through they were both happy to see it though Bucky was overall disappointed that Hammond wasn’t eaten at the end.

“Damn.” He scowled and you nodded as Steve shook his head.

“He should have been eaten.” He agreed and you nodded again.

“Well…he does get eaten in the book. The kids are different. Lex is the most annoying thing ever and you kind of wish she gets eaten half the time, but Hammond is even worse.” You said and navigated to the behind-the-scenes features, “Now…we see how they did it all. A bit.”

They watched it completely enraptured. Eyes wide in an almost child-like wonder that was downright adorable. They didn’t stay silent though. Far from it as their silence only lasted until they saw the T-Rex animatronic.

“They built the entire T-Rex?” Steve asked, wide-eyed and you nodded, gesturing at the screen for them to watch and listen.

You could see they recognized part of the process in the sketches, modeling, and creation, but it was that they built a full-scale animatronic dinosaur that really blew their minds. You loved how enamored they were with the process. Though they felt horrible for the stop-motion crew having lost out on it.

You promised them that stop-motion wasn’t extinct as they put it and that they were still put to work during the making of the movie. After you assured them of that they enjoyed how the crew merged the two worlds of digital creation with stop-motion input.

They also had several comments about how Spielberg treated the kids.

“Well at least someone likes them and cares.” Bucky said and Steve nodded.

“Hammond clearly didn’t.” he said and shook his head later as Spielberg talked about the character and the actor, “I agree with Bucky. He should have been eaten.”

“Mm.” Bucky nodded and they continued watching to the point where the triceratops came back, “That thing is…it’s…”

“It’s amazing.” Steve said and he nodded, “It’s so real…it’s…just…beautiful in a way.”

Bucky nodded. So did you and you continued watching with them as the crew talked about the hurricane that hit during the filming of the movie and they both nodded when Spielberg quoted Richard Attenborough as saying the hurricane was nothing because he survived The Blitz. That made them pause.

“Wait…” Steve said and thought, causing you to pause the movie, “Did he serve?”

You pulled your phone out to look it up and nodded, “Yeah. He was in the RAF film production unit, went on several bombing raids over Europe while filming from the rear gunner’s position. He got permanent ear damage after training and also achieved the rank of sergeant.”

They both nodded and you hit play when they gestured for it to continue. Once again they were astonished by the sight of the full-sized T-Rex animatronic. They also decided that Gennaro’s toilet demise was still satisfying before they became fascinated by the Velociraptor process.

“Wait…they’re…they’re people in suits?” Steve asked and you nodded as Bucky just leaned closer to the tv to watch; both of their heads tilted while scowling fascinated.

The change in the end where the T-Rex saved everyone instead of the bones taking the raptors out was a change they agreed with. There was only one problem with their new admiration for the T-Rex.

“No.” You and Steve both said at the look on Bucky’s face, “You don’t want one.”

“No.” Steve agreed and Bucky looked at you both.

“I wasn’t gonna say I wanted one…”

You weren’t convinced, neither was Alpine.

“Mao.”

“You’re still my princess. I would never replace you.” He said and she blinked at him yet cuddled into you more anyway though she was in his lap happily by the end of the behind-the-scenes videos.

“Well?” You asked them both when you shut it off.

They took several moments to respond. Clearly it was something they were processing. Not just the movie itself but the extent to which movie making had developed from what they had known.

Some things didn’t change and yet so much had. Still, you weren’t exactly expecting the reaction you got. Not really.

“Can we watch it again?” Bucky asked and Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I wanna watch it again. There’s more, right?”

“Yeah. There’s five sequels. None recapture this entirely, trust me. Jurassic Park is a pinnacle in filmmaking, but we can watch it again if you want to.”

“Yes.”

“Now…please.”

3 Days Later

“I am so happy they changed Lex…” Bucky said as he sat at the table with Steve and you over breakfast, the book on the table between the three of you, his eyes wide while staring off in memory of the annoyance she was just as Steve nodded.

“Yeah. I mean, she has some cute moments but…the whole button thing…” he said shaking his head, “Why’d they trade Hammond for Muldoon? I mean he lives in the book…and Hammond is horrible.”

“At least he gets eaten in the book.” Bucky said and Alpine hopped onto his lap, “Right?”

“Mao.”

You just shook your head and laughed, “I swear the only reason you read the book was to see Hammond get eaten at the end.”

They both nodded.

“So what’s next?” Bucky asked and Steve looked at you, both ready for more.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed it! I may have gotten a scene or two out of order and may have missed one or two due to limitations I had. I'll eventually fix them once I find where my copy went.

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White Rabbit Info Post

Because the Jefferson in my head won't go away unless I make one of these...

Pairing: mobBoss!Jefferson x OFC

POV: Switching. Madness reigns here.

Summary: The March Hare is no more. The White Rabbit took his place. Friend or Foe? They're not quite keen to let Jefferson know but, oh, they do so love to toy with him. In a city as twisted and falsely gilded as this one, how ever is he to manage his "business" with the duties of fatherhood and a budding romance with the tea shop owner when there's a new boss in town to put in their place?

Word Count: TBD

World: Original world loosely based on Wonderland insanity in a modern era that has varying degrees of magic in it.

Premise: Jefferson is a mob boss juggling single fatherhood in a city ruled by various factions with running his "business", venturing into dating again, and a newcomer to what used to be the March Hare's so-called throne.

Thought Process That Birthed This: Not sure what thought process conceived this but the one that birthed it was Jefferson getting into my head and constant signs to just start writing this thing along with a drive to see just how mad I can drive myself (and potentially others) with switching POVs. I've done it before quite some time ago but that was some time ago and I'm still shaking off the rust.

Warnings/Contents: Plenty. I'm not listing all here as it may be spoiler-ish. LANGUAGE (obviously), Violence, Morally Dubious Actions, Threats, Insanity, POVs that switch depending on what I feel is stylistically suitable for each scene but likely will be mostly 3rd with the occasional 1st. For now.

Other Notes: I'm going for something that is a romance, thriller, mystery, and exploration into writing madness all at once. I rather enjoy writing madness. I have two unfinished fics of Sheogorath I dabble in continuing every so often for my own personal amusement...and no I'm not ashamed of it.

*Contents subject to revision and change as I go along.

Estimated Time of Release: I have no clue. Jefferson invaded my brain. Likely after I finish writing Howling Witch (no matter what Jefferson wants or how much he pouts at me).

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White Rabbit Info Post

Because the Jefferson in my head won't go away unless I make one of these...

Pairing: mobBoss!Jefferson x OFC

POV: Switching. Madness reigns here.

Summary: The March Hare is no more. The White Rabbit took his place. Friend or Foe? They're not quite keen to let Jefferson know but, oh, they do so love to toy with him. In a city as twisted and falsely gilded as this one, how ever is he to manage his "business" with the duties of fatherhood and a budding romance with the tea shop owner when there's a new boss in town to put in their place?

Word Count: TBD

World: Original world loosely based on Wonderland insanity in a modern era that has varying degrees of magic in it.

Premise: Jefferson is a mob boss juggling single fatherhood in a city ruled by various factions with running his "business", venturing into dating again, and a newcomer to what used to be the March Hare's so-called throne.

Thought Process That Birthed This: Not sure what thought process conceived this but the one that birthed it was Jefferson getting into my head and constant signs to just start writing this thing along with a drive to see just how mad I can drive myself (and potentially others) with switching POVs. I've done it before quite some time ago but that was some time ago and I'm still shaking off the rust.

Warnings/Contents: Plenty. I'm not listing all here as it may be spoiler-ish. LANGUAGE (obviously), Violence, Morally Dubious Actions, Threats, Insanity, POVs that switch depending on what I feel is stylistically suitable for each scene but likely will be mostly 3rd with the occasional 1st. For now.

Other Notes: I'm going for something that is a romance, thriller, mystery, and exploration into writing madness all at once. I rather enjoy writing madness. I have two unfinished fics of Sheogorath I dabble in continuing every so often for my own personal amusement...and no I'm not ashamed of it.

*Contents subject to revision and change as I go along.

Estimated Time of Release: I have no clue. Jefferson invaded my brain. Likely after I finish writing Howling Witch (no matter what Jefferson wants or how much he pouts at me).

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SO...what does this mean?

1: I am going back to work editing and posting Howling Witch.

2: I will get the Monty Python episode of Super Soldier Theater underway soon.

3: I will return to writing other stories.

4: i will return to thanking rebloggers and interacting as much as I can.

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Howling Witch, Chapter 4: Mine

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Original Fem Character

POV: 3rd Person

Summary: To the intelligence community the Winter Soldier is a ghost, but to HYDRA the Howling Witch is a harbinger of doom that will stop at nothing to get at their prized asset. A phantom that leaves swathes of destruction in her wake. She is the biggest mistake they ever made.

Chapter Summary: The Winter Soldier receives his briefing on his new target, but he hasn't been as completely wiped as HYDRA may like...and someone is playing with fire, meanwhile, Planning for the assault on Project Insight Steve gets his chance to confront Essie with his questions.

Word Count: 5.2K almost 5.3K. I tried cutting it down and failed.

Warnings: Language, Canon Typical Violence, Canon Divergence, Gun Violence, Shifting Character POVs, Frustrated & Aggravated Superheroes, HYDRA ( legitimate warning on their own), Light Angst, Self-Loathing, Flashbacks, Electroshock Torture, Unwilling Medical & Scientific Experimentation, Blood, Vampires (the bad kind), Wolf shifters (the good kind). I may make a separate post just for warnings soon...

A/N: Here it is. Enjoy. I'll update the Ao3 link later. REPOST BECAUSE I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE OLD ONE.

NOTE: I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY WORK BEING COPIED OR PUT INTO ANY FORM OF AI. (Also if there are typos it's likely my keyboard. I will fix as I find them, because no matter how many times I proofread there's always at least one).

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Esteria…Stark.

Familiar.

Trained assassin.

Unfamiliar.

Highly trained sniper.

Familiar.

“Remember, you don’t want to pull. You need to squeeze. Got it?”

“Yeah.”

“Repeat what I said.”

“Squeeze, don’t pull.”

“Good girl.”

“I’m not a dog, Bucky.”

Bucky. Again.

Familiar.

He turned the page. They were watching. He showed nothing.

“Alright…back off of the Asset and let me do my job.”

Familiar. Male.

The Soldier looked as they all backed off and recognized the authority. Tall, taller than him, dark haired, green-eyed, strong, male, familiar.

Not his handler but someone they brought to missions when he needed more information. Missions the information mattered. Missions he could not fail.

The Soldier liked this operative. This one answered questions. Some. Not many. Only important ones, but this one valued information, time, and wasn’t rough. Usually, but when he spoke it was with a rough authority that expected obedience.

“I’ve got him. Out. Contents are classified so stop trying to sneak a look.” The man glared.

The others filtered out as the man sat across from him and looked at the papers. He was waiting. Like he said the information was classified. Everyone else had to leave and lock them in. It was a regular routine.

The gun was on the table closer to him than the Soldier.

Safety precaution.

Routine.

The door shut. The man waited. Silent, watching, waiting, assessing, and nodded.

“I know Karpov briefed you on some of it already. I’m here to fill in blanks he wouldn’t know or think to tell you. So…Esteria Stark. Questions?” the agent asked, green eyes watching blue closely; no point hiding it…this one always knew.

The flash of pulling his goggles off, cracked from a bullet strike, raced in his mind. It hurt but it was familiar.

“Someone shot me. Was it her?” he asked and his handler nodded, not catching that he had remembered it.

“Yes. Distraction most likely. She does that. You’ve encountered her before in previous past missions. First time she’s ever shot at you like that, though. We think it’s because of the other three.”

Three. What three? His head hurt. It would pass.

“The other three are part of your mission but the main two are her and Steven Grant Rogers. Captain America. He’s the one with the shield. Super soldier. Durable. He’s the lesser threat.”

“What does he look like?”

“Trust me…you can’t miss him. He’ll be running around in a blue suit with red and white stripes on it carrying a large round metal shield. He’ll probably try talking you out of it.”

“Her?” he asked and watched the agent pull a photo out of his tac vest, folded up with another folded inside it.

The Soldier watched him unfold it calmly and set the first one down.

It was familiar. A female in a hooded grey tac suit, face covered by the bottom, hood over her head, glasses obscuring her eyes, and a large sniper rifle resting on her shoulder. Something was written alongside the stock of the weapon, but he couldn’t make it out.

“Caliber?” he asked and was answered.

“Unknown. It does not match the make, model, ballistics, or anything of anything we have in or out of development. It’s called the Amarok. She doesn’t always use it and we do know that wasn’t what she shot you with. You wouldn’t be sitting there if she had.”

Then why didn’t she use it? Fleeting question he left unasked. It was seen anyway.

“We don’t know why. We don’t know why she does most of what she does. A lot of her is unknown.” The agent said and the Soldier’s eyes looked at the large stack of papers; something about that didn’t seem right, but the man across from him nodded, “Yes, we have information. A lot. She’s been dogging your steps from the very beginning. Sometimes she slows you down. Sometimes she even helps you. She’s taken out your teams but then helped you complete missions afterwards. Profiling labeled her as psychopathic, sociopathic, obsessive, and highly dangerous. She is ruthless and she is not human.”

“Not…human…” the Soldier said slowly, his brain twitching against that for some reason, arguing with it, it wasn’t right…he knew it wasn’t but how?

“I know she looks it.” The agent said while looking at the other photo then shook his head, “Very much so, but there are noticeable traits. Her eyes glow or glint in the light. Silver. Far too silver for a human. Then there’s the teeth. Canines top and bottom that are far larger than most. We thought she was a mutant for a long while, but no, she’s something different.”

The Soldier looked at the back of the photograph the agent held. There was a brown splotch of dried blood on the corner of it. He was curious.

What did this non-human threat look like? Why did it feel wrong?

“Doesn’t matter. She won’t come at you like this. She’ll come at you like that.” the operative said with a nod at the other photo and his eyes went back to it, studying it, memorizing it as the man across the table from him folded the other photo back up and tucked it into his sleeve, “Questions?”

“What is she?”

“A monster. She is the single largest threat to HYDRA today. She’s taken down countless operatives. Several directors even. Set back our efforts by years. Deprived us of billions of dollars in assets. Demolished dozens of installations. Hell, there’s even reports that she ate several dozen of our scientists. Don’t know if I’d call it ate, though. They were exsanguinated. We know she’s not a vampire. She’s seen in daylight, not that she’d be the first, but the dentition isn’t correct and she’s known to eat garlic. We think she’s some sort of werewolf creature, but…she has no reaction to silver. Current theories are she was created somewhere and escaped.”

“Eliminate or capture?”

“If possible, capture, but that is unlikely unless you can get the upgraded collar on her. We have several just in case she tries to get in but she never tried after the first time. Eliminate and retrieve the remains if you can’t get the collar on her. You’re the only one that can do this. She’s threatened leadership. She’s done it before and when she does it she follows through. We cannot afford that right now.” The operative answered and he nodded, “Questions?”

“No.”

“Good. Hail HYDRA. Now stand up.” He said and the Soldier did as told then followed the man out of the vault where the others were waiting, weapons drawn and trained on both.

“What is that?” Fury asked as Essie walked in with several large bags in her hands.

“Chinese and garlic knots. I ate the pizza already. Sorry.” She said and he shook his head.

“No. That.” he said and she glanced at the rifle she had resting against her shoulder.

“Mine.” Essie answered simply and set the bags of food down on the table, “The ones labeled pork or no veg are theirs. The knots are shareable. I didn’t know what everyone wanted so I just…ordered everything. You’ll have to fight for the eggrolls, though. They were good so I didn’t stop at one.”

They just watched her set the rifle down on the table with the food. It was obviously different from the one she had used before. Larger caliber definitely. Multiple scopes. “AMAROK” etched down the side. Looking closer at it they also saw it had a second barrel and a second magazine slot. They could easily see it wasn’t anything standard issue.

“Essie…” Steve started and she looked at him, blinking slowly, eyebrows raised, “Why did you shoot him?”

“I shot him with a lower caliber bullet that I knew wouldn’t penetrate the glasses. That’s not what it was developed to do. It was a distraction. He was focused on Natasha. Then he wasn’t. It’s not the first time I’ve shot at him. I don’t like doing it, but when push comes to shove…I do what I must.” She said while setting out food from the bags, “If you’re going to sit there and try to ‘Captain’ me…I’d think twice if I were you. You know some details of what my life has been, not all.”

Steve sighed, trying not to get aggravated again. He’d always had a harder time dealing with Essie than Bucky did. She was different from dealing with Peggy. Sharper, more closed off, stiffer, more prone to lashing out, and that was saying something considering Peggy shot at him.

The only one she wasn’t like that with was Bucky save for a few occasions he’d experienced himself. Other than that only Bucky seemed able to get her softer side. To everyone else she was hard, sharp, unyielding, dismissive, and walled off.

This Essie was even more so and he hated it. He knew why, then and now. To a point as he suspected there was more. So much more. So much more than what her two subordinates revealed.

Even about how she had become their Alpha. That was a story he didn’t want to rehear. Particularly when it came down to what she did to the last one.

Even if he deserved it. It was just hard hearing what she had done. It was hard hearing what she had become and to imagine most of it.

Steve could easily imagine Essie sitting, listening, and looking at a map. That formed a large part of his memories of her, that and her sharp tongue towards people.

He found it harder to imagine her willingly starving herself, letting Blade chain her, and then letting him offer her up to the former Alpha as tribute. On purpose. After what HYDRA had done to her.

Yet…when he thought about it he realized he could. Bucky always said it’d be stupid to underestimate her. That she wasn’t one to back down from any kind of fight. That as much as they clashed with each other at times…she and Steve shared several traits.

“She just has more sense…most of the time.”

Steve wasn’t sure that applied to this here now or any of what had just happened.

He still had so many questions…but one above all others.

“Why haven’t you gotten him out?” he asked and Essie looked at him.

A range of emotions washed over her eyes. Sadness, anger, frustration, threat, and hurt. He realized it was a bad question the moment it left his lips but it was too late to take it back.

“Why haven’t I gotten him out? Do you think I’ve just been on a beach vacation for the past several decades? That I haven’t been trying to get him free until now? That his freedom hasn’t been the one thing I have wanted more than anything? That I’ve been happy to just go about as whatever I am while he’s frozen and thawed and frozen and thawed over and over and over again while being used as nothing more than an attack dog?”

She was angry, he could see that, as he’d seen it plenty of times before, but it was different now. She wasn’t snapping at him. She wasn’t flapping her hands about. Instead she was still and had centered her eyes on his as she spoke…not yelled.

“Why haven’t I gotten him out yet? I can’t just waltz in where they keep him. I can’t just walk up to him like you did. They learned from you to keep him under a lot of security. I tried once and almost didn’t make it out. When they let him out he’s monitored and watched. Taking out his minders doesn’t help because then he runs back. Getting close isn’t easy unless you’re his target and even then it’s not easy because he is good at what he does. Then when he’s not out they lock him up. Everything they put him in is locked down tight and loaded. No. You aren’t getting him out when he’s in, you need to get him away when he’s out…and now…now is the best chance there’s been for it in decades. Decades, Steve, because he’s been out long enough the serum is able to kick in and heal some of the damage they’ve done to his brain that prevents him from remembering who he even is. To let his body heal and metabolize the chemicals they shoot him up with to keep him compliant and easily malleable. That stop him from being able to think. Whenever he thinks too much they wipe everything away until he’s gone again.”

“Essie…I-” Steve started, knowing he had jumped on the wrong nerve, yet she shook her head.

“This is why I didn’t want you to know who I was. It’s a distraction and we cannot afford to be distracted, Steve. Not now. So much is at stake. Not just Bucky and it hurts me to say that because his freedom is the one thing I’ve wanted since finding out he was still alive, but there’s more to it and you know that. Project Insight. Project Insight goes into effect and millions of people will be wiped off the planet for their precious vision to come to life and for control. They’ll target people and take them just like they did back then, but this time they’ll know more about who they’re taking. Project Insight succeeds and they won’t need him anymore and when they don’t need something anymore they get rid of it. I have been waiting for decades to break him free, and…I’m close. I’m so close. I want him free, I want my people to stay free, and I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did.”

He flinched a bit but she didn’t give him room to speak, not yet. Steve almost wished she’d yell, but she still didn’t. She talked low, quiet, and deliberate.

“No one deserves a life in chains, locked up, or used. I will not stop until he is free and I will take down anything and anyone that stands in my way. I will destroy anyone that threatens my people, and Project Insight threatens everyone. Even us where we are. I will take everything down that threatens the freedom of those I care about. HYDRA, SHIELD…and yes, Steve, that includes you if you get in my way. He may never forgive me for it, but I wouldn’t care because he’d be free and my people would be safe. He may come out of this wanting nothing to do with me, but at least he’ll be free. And I mean free…Fury. I don’t give a shit what he did to you or to anyone else because it wasn’t Bucky that did that. Bucky would never do anything that they made him do.”

“What if he’s not in there anymore?” Sam asked and both she and Steve looked at him.

“He’s in there.” Steve answered and looked at Essie and nodded, “He’s in there, Essie. I know he’s in there…and we’ll get him out. I promise.”

“You are not good at promises, Steve. All the times you promised you wouldn’t keep trying to enlist and the ones you made to Peggy. Bucky was much better with promises than you. Technically he didn’t break his last one. Yet.” Essie said and sighed, grabbing a container of food, Steve’s stomach knotted tighter, “Eat up. We’ve got a lot of planning and work to do. Tanis, Maggie, get some rest we’ve got night watch. I warded all the tunnels but that doesn’t mean a couple of vampires on the HYDRA payroll won’t just wander in.”

“You should sleep, too.” Tanis reminded her and Essie’s eyes snapped to him, narrowed enough he shrunk down a bit, “Just saying…”

She just dug a fork into the container and glanced at him darkly, “I’ll be fine.”

It was small. Cramped. Quiet. Just a place for him to wait. Prepare. That’s all he needed.

So he prepared. Made sure his knives were where they needed to be. Just within reach. They wouldn’t leave him with guns, but he made sure all his ammo was where it needed to be. Made sure his pockets were packed with everything he needed as he went over the information he was given.

His fingers brushed over a piece of paper in one. Rough, thick, folded. Different.

The Soldier pulled it out.

Written on it in black pen was a short message.

“Don’t make me lose my bet. Tell no one.”

It was the operative that had briefed him. His handwriting. The one he liked.

He had helped people with bets before. He couldn’t remember anything bad happening because of that.

Unfolding the thick paper the Soldier stared and blinked at the female face looking out at him.

Dark curly hair. Bright eyes. Black and white photo, but he knew they were grey eyes and her smiling lips were red. Just as red as the stain on the lower right corner had been when fresh…back when it was newer. Less worn.

“Come on. Just…just one. I know you hate your picture being taken, but…c’mon. For me. Please?”

His voice. He could hear it. Feel it. Faint but it was his voice. He knew it was his voice and he had said it. Why?

“We don’t have time.” Her voice, sweet, smooth, heavy…thick.

“We have plenty of time. Only a minute. C’mon. I want something to remember my girl with out there.”

“So you need a photograph to remember me?”

“I’m visual.” He had been teasing, he knew he was teasing her.

“You’re an idiot.”

“Maybe…but I’m your idiot…or are you gonna tell me, the day I head back out again, that you’ve got another guy lined up around the corner? When I’ve given you all of me? I’m hurt.”

“Don’t insult me. You know you’re it for me. I’m yours, no one else’s. You’re it. Just…come back. Please?” her voice had cracked, she sniffled, “Just promise me you’ll stay alive. One more thing. One more thing and…if they take you, too…I’m going out there myself. I mean it.”

“Hey…shh…shh…I promise. I’m not goin’ down without a fight. Not if I got you to come home to. Yeah?”

The door banged. He tucked the picture away swiftly and looked up as it opened, silent, emotionless. It was the operative again, this time on guard duty.

“You ready for tomorrow?” he asked and the Soldier nodded, “Questions?”

He had hundreds as another image of her face flashed through his mind followed by others. Ones of her smiling, some of her yelling at him angry, several of her rolling her eyes annoyed, and quite a number he did not want to share with anyone.

Ever.

“No.” he lied and the man nodded while looking down the hall, not paying much attention to him.

“Good. You’ll be armed with a shock collar. Your glove will be insulated. You get it on her, we push the button, you take her in. Got it?” the operative asked and he nodded, “Good. Do a good job and maybe they’ll let you have some ‘alone time’ for once with someone. Wouldn’t blame anyone that wanted it with her.”

He shut the door again as the Soldier’s stomach knotted and he scowled. He didn’t know why, but he didn’t like it. Then he remembered.

His girl.

She was his girl. She was his.

His.

No one else’s.

“You’re really wearing that?” Essie asked dryly as Steve adjusted his old uniform, “The 70-year-old outdated war suit?”

“Technically it’s not 70 years old.”

“You were trapped in a freezer, not a time machine. It’s 70 years old.” Essie countered while blinking, “You’re going to be at a disadvantage. It doesn’t have the same shielding as newer materials. Sure it worked fine back then, sort of, but now? You might as well start running around in your vaudeville tights again.”

“Are you actually worried about me?” Steve asked with a crooked smile and she looked at him flatly again, birds silent in the trees surrounding them though they hopped around on branches and watched closely.

“You could call it that or you could call it me questioning your ‘plan’. You better be careful in that. Bullets are gonna rip right through it.”

“I know, but maybe it’ll jog his memory.” Steve said and she nodded quietly, looking through the trees, silver eyes shifting in thought and her own memory, “I’m sorry. About yesterday. I know you’d never hurt him if you had a choice. I was…just…in shock, I guess.”

Essie looked at him silently for several moments. There were thoughts passing through her eyes but mostly it just looked as if she were searching his face. Scrutinizing every inch of it like she was remembering it again. Then she nodded and sighed.

“I’m sorry, too, Steve. I shouldn’t have snapped at you. I know you love Bucky just as much as I do. I’m glad you’re here, really. It’s…soothing, in a way…to…have someone else from back then. Someone that knew me before…” She said and gestured to herself, “This.”

“You’re not a monster, Essie.” He said as he looked at her and she looked back, shaking her head, “You’re not.”

“You don’t know what I’ve done. Not really, Steve. Not all of it. Not even Eric knows…but I do.” Essie replied and put her sunglasses on as the sunlight cut through the trees, “I know they said I don’t, because I say I don’t, but I remember exactly what I did when I was in that facility after they showed me his file. I remember what I did before Eric found me in Germany. Why I was being restrained by three of their soldiers. Maybe not solid memory but enough. It’s why I always eat as much as I can. Just to keep me sane even if I’m upset. Taking over as Alpha didn’t need me sane. It needed me to be a monster to match a monster. This needs me sane. Focused…but…we’re so close now I’m scared. I’m not allowed to be scared, Steve. I’m Alpha. I am…so much more than I was when we last saw each other.”

Steve looked at her, lips turning downwards slightly as he did. It was a side of Essie he knew damn well that he had never seen before. One he knew existed, but only because Bucky would point it out to people that she wasn’t heartless.

“Call my girl a cold bitch one more time and I will show you what cold is. You a smart lady, surrounded by a buncha clods like us, whose whole family was taken by HYDRA? No? Then shuddup. She has plenty of feelin’s…she just hides them because you jerks do that.” Bucky’s voice said in his memories; Steve could remember the blue-eyed glare he’d shot and how fast the laughter faded.

He remembered the brief flicker of joy that had flashed into Essie’s grey eyes when they had returned safe and sound before she had composed herself in front of Colonel Phillips. They all knew what the two were to each other, even Phillips, he just pretended he didn’t. As long as it didn’t interfere he didn’t care. He wanted results and she gave results…and nothing ever made Bucky so proud as when she’d get praised for it. He never doubted her.

Ever.

“Yeah, but you’re still his girl. Bucky looked at you like you hung the moon. You were never there when the guys would lay into him about how bad he had it for you. He always loved women. I think he was born flirting. He stopped it all when he met you. Dragging him in there after the bar…you never got to see the way he stared at you yellin’ at that guy that pissed you off.” Steve said and saw the muscles of her jaw tightened as she swallowed, “He’ll know you. He’ll remember you…and if he doesn’t want you after it’s all said and done…well…I’ll hit him with something for you. Just name it.”

Essie laughed. Really laughed, feeling it reach her stomach as she did. For the first time in a long time she felt herself shake with it as she imagined him doing just that and Bucky rubbing the side of his head with a glare.

“Ugh…even though I told him about the grenade incident?” she asked and he sighed and nodded, smiling softly as if remembering something.

“Yeah. Even though you got me in trouble. More than once.”

“More than once? What else did I do?” she asked, honestly confused and he chuckled while putting his helmet on.

“You talked to me in secret. After I brought back that bottle of peach schnapps you asked for. I never knew how possessive he could be until then. Wanted to know why we were sneakin’ around, what I was doing talking to you late at night, and only calmed down when I reminded him you were allowed to talk to people and you asked me to help you get something to surprise him.” He answered and she shook her head.

“Why are males neanderthals about their females? Then again I have no room to really talk. I got the same way with him a few times. Not billboard boobs. Others. That blonde you kissed. Lorraine. She tried with Bucky until I taught her that he was mine and not to touch him.” She said while pulling her hood up and Steve chuckled with a small smile, “Have you seen Peggy?”

Steve paused and nodded, “Yeah. She…”

“I know. I can’t go visit her, but I know what’s going on and…despite it all I’ve tried to help make sure she’s kept comfortable and…has everything possible. She doesn’t know it’s me and even if she’d forget if you told her…don’t. It’ll just set her off.”

“They showed her what you did in the facility there in England, didn’t they?” he asked and Essie shook her head.

“I don’t really know, but I hedge on yes. I realized the last time we actually met that it was better that way. If she didn’t know the truth and believed the lie. Safer.” She said and he nodded with a heavy sigh.

“They’d have gotten rid of her if she knew the truth. Like they tried with Fury. What about the others?”

“I saw the others on occasion. They knew…to an extent…that I wasn’t their enemy, but only out of loyalty to Bucky. Dum Dum…he knows everything. Just…keeps it quiet to stay alive. Anyone that didn’t…they’d send The Winter Soldier. The Winter Soldier is not Bucky. Do not go forward today thinking he is. They’re two separate people in the same body. I know…I know Sam doesn’t…think it’s worth it or even possible, but…”

“He’s in there. Buck’s in there and we’ll get him out. We’ll do it. For him, for you, for Peggy. I hate that this is what happened to what she helped build…but…it can’t be what it turns into. SHIELD has to go. All of it.” He said and Essie nodded.

“They’re gonna want someone to blame after this. Because…because I exist outside of any chain of command but my own, and…have the allies that I do, and am the ruler of my own small country…effectively…they can’t blame me. Well, not if they want results. Likely…it’s going to be you and Natasha and if not you…then Bucky.” She said as they heard the others approaching and he nodded, “I won’t let you take the fall for it. I’ll do what I can. I’d still sacrifice you in an instant for him or my people, but…that’s only if there were no other choice. You know that…right?”

“Yeah. I know. I’d sacrifice you too.” He said and she raised an eyebrow at him, her lips twitching upwards.

“No you wouldn’t. You’d throw yourself in a blender first.” She retorted and he smiled and laughed, “I remember your skinny, scrawny, but gutsy dumb ass diving onto a grenade. I just…couldn’t, and still can’t, really reconcile how someone smart enough to take down the flagpole is still as dumb as you. You willingly went onto a metal slab and into a metal chamber and let Erskine shoot you up with some blue goop then let him and Howard play Frankenstein and Igor. What was wrong with you?”

“Well I did get rejected from the army repeatedly during a war they drafted people so…a lot.” He said while laughing and she nodded.

“Obviously.” She replied and chuckled, shaking her head as the smile faded again and she looked out at their target, “Don’t change. You’re a good man. You understand what freedom is and you know the difference between right and wrong. You’re a better person than I am. Than most are.”

“You’re not a monster, Essie. No more than Buck is. He might not be the one calling the shots of what he does…and you might be the one calling your own shots…but you’re not a monster. You did what you had to do to stay alive. I’m sorry I wasn’t there…before. I should have…I should have been there with you. For you. I guess…I just never really…understood how much you loved him.”

Essie nodded as she looked out at their target.

“I never really let anyone see. Only him. I never wanted him to doubt it. He got a different version of Essie from what everyone else did. A softer one. I was a woman in a man’s world and had to fight just as much as Peggy did. We couldn’t appear soft, feminine, girly…we had to be tough and show you men how tough women really are. Outwardly, I couldn’t be just another girl in love with her soldier. Only in private. With him. I just hope I showed him enough that he never doubted it.”

Steve shook his head, “He never did. Anytime we were out and the other’s got on about you finding some other guy if he took too long, picked on him for how deep in it he was for you… Buck would just…smile and shake his head. ‘Nah. Not my girl. You don’t know her like I do.’ He’ll know you. Maybe not your name, but you. He’ll know you.”

“Between you and me…and not those two…” she said as she glanced at Tanis and Maggie talking in the distance, “My life kind of depends on it. I pissed off Pierce yesterday. Enough that I’m hoping he keeps doing what he’s been doing: Underestimating you and overestimating HYDRA’s ability to control.”

“You made yourself a target.” Steve said with a frown and she nodded.

“I did.”

“Buc-He already shot Fury, he’s shot through Nat…” Steve said and she shook her head.

“They’ll tell him to take me alive. Arm him with a shock collar. It’s a risk. I know, but…my hope is that with…both of us there, something will trigger. He remembered you a bit. You look exactly the same, yes, but…he remembered you.”

“You don’t look that different, Essie. Well, when you aren’t hiding your face.” He replied and she looked at him and rolled her eyes.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t have a sparkly superhero outfit during the war that’s brightly colored. I had a military uniform and a blue dress. I can’t walk into a combat zone in those. I’m not a 6 foot…four…shiny American super soldier man.”

“I’m not shiny.”

“You were when you came out of the tube.” Essie retorted and he opened his mouth to retort but just shook his head as he chuckled lightly.

A/N: Late, yes, but here it is. Yes, a certain someone is a teeny bit possessive of his lady. Anyway, fun fact for the mythology and folklore nerds: Amarok/Amaroq in Inuit folklore is a giant wolf that stalks the wilderness going after any hunters stupid enough to walk out into the unknown on their own. They are creatures of vengence and yet are capable of rewarding those that show them the respect that they deserve.

EXTRA NOTE: This is why reblogging is amazing. Reblogging means that even if an author deletes a story (accidentally like me or on purpose) it lives on, so thank you @buckybarnesfic and @societyfolklore for reblogging the first one so I didn't have to completely redo this one.

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I really don't even understand HOW I did it!

Howling Witch, Chapter 4: Mine

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Original Fem Character

POV: 3rd Person

Summary: To the intelligence community the Winter Soldier is a ghost, but to HYDRA the Howling Witch is a harbinger of doom that will stop at nothing to get at their prized asset. A phantom that leaves swathes of destruction in her wake. She is the biggest mistake they ever made.

Chapter Summary: The Winter Soldier receives his briefing on his new target, but he hasn't been as completely wiped as HYDRA may like...and someone is playing with fire, meanwhile, Planning for the assault on Project Insight Steve gets his chance to confront Essie with his questions.

Word Count: 5.2K almost 5.3K. I tried cutting it down and failed.

Warnings: Language, Canon Typical Violence, Canon Divergence, Gun Violence, Shifting Character POVs, Frustrated & Aggravated Superheroes, HYDRA ( legitimate warning on their own), Light Angst, Self-Loathing, Flashbacks, Electroshock Torture, Unwilling Medical & Scientific Experimentation, Blood, Vampires (the bad kind), Wolf shifters (the good kind). I may make a separate post just for warnings soon...

A/N: Here it is. Enjoy. I'll update the Ao3 link later. REPOST BECAUSE I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED THE OLD ONE.

NOTE: I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY WORK BEING COPIED OR PUT INTO ANY FORM OF AI. (Also if there are typos it's likely my keyboard. I will fix as I find them, because no matter how many times I proofread there's always at least one).

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Esteria…Stark.

Familiar.

Trained assassin.

Unfamiliar.

Highly trained sniper.

Familiar.

“Remember, you don’t want to pull. You need to squeeze. Got it?”

“Yeah.”

“Repeat what I said.”

“Squeeze, don’t pull.”

“Good girl.”

“I’m not a dog, Bucky.”

Bucky. Again.

Familiar.

He turned the page. They were watching. He showed nothing.

“Alright…back off of the Asset and let me do my job.”

Familiar. Male.

The Soldier looked as they all backed off and recognized the authority. Tall, taller than him, dark haired, green-eyed, strong, male, familiar.

Not his handler but someone they brought to missions when he needed more information. Missions the information mattered. Missions he could not fail.

The Soldier liked this operative. This one answered questions. Some. Not many. Only important ones, but this one valued information, time, and wasn’t rough. Usually, but when he spoke it was with a rough authority that expected obedience.

“I’ve got him. Out. Contents are classified so stop trying to sneak a look.” The man glared.

The others filtered out as the man sat across from him and looked at the papers. He was waiting. Like he said the information was classified. Everyone else had to leave and lock them in. It was a regular routine.

The gun was on the table closer to him than the Soldier.

Safety precaution.

Routine.

The door shut. The man waited. Silent, watching, waiting, assessing, and nodded.

“I know Karpov briefed you on some of it already. I’m here to fill in blanks he wouldn’t know or think to tell you. So…Esteria Stark. Questions?” the agent asked, green eyes watching blue closely; no point hiding it…this one always knew.

The flash of pulling his goggles off, cracked from a bullet strike, raced in his mind. It hurt but it was familiar.

“Someone shot me. Was it her?” he asked and his handler nodded, not catching that he had remembered it.

“Yes. Distraction most likely. She does that. You’ve encountered her before in previous past missions. First time she’s ever shot at you like that, though. We think it’s because of the other three.”

Three. What three? His head hurt. It would pass.

“The other three are part of your mission but the main two are her and Steven Grant Rogers. Captain America. He’s the one with the shield. Super soldier. Durable. He’s the lesser threat.”

“What does he look like?”

“Trust me…you can’t miss him. He’ll be running around in a blue suit with red and white stripes on it carrying a large round metal shield. He’ll probably try talking you out of it.”

“Her?” he asked and watched the agent pull a photo out of his tac vest, folded up with another folded inside it.

The Soldier watched him unfold it calmly and set the first one down.

It was familiar. A female in a hooded grey tac suit, face covered by the bottom, hood over her head, glasses obscuring her eyes, and a large sniper rifle resting on her shoulder. Something was written alongside the stock of the weapon, but he couldn’t make it out.

“Caliber?” he asked and was answered.

“Unknown. It does not match the make, model, ballistics, or anything of anything we have in or out of development. It’s called the Amarok. She doesn’t always use it and we do know that wasn’t what she shot you with. You wouldn’t be sitting there if she had.”

Then why didn’t she use it? Fleeting question he left unasked. It was seen anyway.

“We don’t know why. We don’t know why she does most of what she does. A lot of her is unknown.” The agent said and the Soldier’s eyes looked at the large stack of papers; something about that didn’t seem right, but the man across from him nodded, “Yes, we have information. A lot. She’s been dogging your steps from the very beginning. Sometimes she slows you down. Sometimes she even helps you. She’s taken out your teams but then helped you complete missions afterwards. Profiling labeled her as psychopathic, sociopathic, obsessive, and highly dangerous. She is ruthless and she is not human.”

“Not…human…” the Soldier said slowly, his brain twitching against that for some reason, arguing with it, it wasn’t right…he knew it wasn’t but how?

“I know she looks it.” The agent said while looking at the other photo then shook his head, “Very much so, but there are noticeable traits. Her eyes glow or glint in the light. Silver. Far too silver for a human. Then there’s the teeth. Canines top and bottom that are far larger than most. We thought she was a mutant for a long while, but no, she’s something different.”

The Soldier looked at the back of the photograph the agent held. There was a brown splotch of dried blood on the corner of it. He was curious.

What did this non-human threat look like? Why did it feel wrong?

“Doesn’t matter. She won’t come at you like this. She’ll come at you like that.” the operative said with a nod at the other photo and his eyes went back to it, studying it, memorizing it as the man across the table from him folded the other photo back up and tucked it into his sleeve, “Questions?”

“What is she?”

“A monster. She is the single largest threat to HYDRA today. She’s taken down countless operatives. Several directors even. Set back our efforts by years. Deprived us of billions of dollars in assets. Demolished dozens of installations. Hell, there’s even reports that she ate several dozen of our scientists. Don’t know if I’d call it ate, though. They were exsanguinated. We know she’s not a vampire. She’s seen in daylight, not that she’d be the first, but the dentition isn’t correct and she’s known to eat garlic. We think she’s some sort of werewolf creature, but…she has no reaction to silver. Current theories are she was created somewhere and escaped.”

“Eliminate or capture?”

“If possible, capture, but that is unlikely unless you can get the upgraded collar on her. We have several just in case she tries to get in but she never tried after the first time. Eliminate and retrieve the remains if you can’t get the collar on her. You’re the only one that can do this. She’s threatened leadership. She’s done it before and when she does it she follows through. We cannot afford that right now.” The operative answered and he nodded, “Questions?”

“No.”

“Good. Hail HYDRA. Now stand up.” He said and the Soldier did as told then followed the man out of the vault where the others were waiting, weapons drawn and trained on both.

“What is that?” Fury asked as Essie walked in with several large bags in her hands.

“Chinese and garlic knots. I ate the pizza already. Sorry.” She said and he shook his head.

“No. That.” he said and she glanced at the rifle she had resting against her shoulder.

“Mine.” Essie answered simply and set the bags of food down on the table, “The ones labeled pork or no veg are theirs. The knots are shareable. I didn’t know what everyone wanted so I just…ordered everything. You’ll have to fight for the eggrolls, though. They were good so I didn’t stop at one.”

They just watched her set the rifle down on the table with the food. It was obviously different from the one she had used before. Larger caliber definitely. Multiple scopes. “AMAROK” etched down the side. Looking closer at it they also saw it had a second barrel and a second magazine slot. They could easily see it wasn’t anything standard issue.

“Essie…” Steve started and she looked at him, blinking slowly, eyebrows raised, “Why did you shoot him?”

“I shot him with a lower caliber bullet that I knew wouldn’t penetrate the glasses. That’s not what it was developed to do. It was a distraction. He was focused on Natasha. Then he wasn’t. It’s not the first time I’ve shot at him. I don’t like doing it, but when push comes to shove…I do what I must.” She said while setting out food from the bags, “If you’re going to sit there and try to ‘Captain’ me…I’d think twice if I were you. You know some details of what my life has been, not all.”

Steve sighed, trying not to get aggravated again. He’d always had a harder time dealing with Essie than Bucky did. She was different from dealing with Peggy. Sharper, more closed off, stiffer, more prone to lashing out, and that was saying something considering Peggy shot at him.

The only one she wasn’t like that with was Bucky save for a few occasions he’d experienced himself. Other than that only Bucky seemed able to get her softer side. To everyone else she was hard, sharp, unyielding, dismissive, and walled off.

This Essie was even more so and he hated it. He knew why, then and now. To a point as he suspected there was more. So much more. So much more than what her two subordinates revealed.

Even about how she had become their Alpha. That was a story he didn’t want to rehear. Particularly when it came down to what she did to the last one.

Even if he deserved it. It was just hard hearing what she had done. It was hard hearing what she had become and to imagine most of it.

Steve could easily imagine Essie sitting, listening, and looking at a map. That formed a large part of his memories of her, that and her sharp tongue towards people.

He found it harder to imagine her willingly starving herself, letting Blade chain her, and then letting him offer her up to the former Alpha as tribute. On purpose. After what HYDRA had done to her.

Yet…when he thought about it he realized he could. Bucky always said it’d be stupid to underestimate her. That she wasn’t one to back down from any kind of fight. That as much as they clashed with each other at times…she and Steve shared several traits.

“She just has more sense…most of the time.”

Steve wasn’t sure that applied to this here now or any of what had just happened.

He still had so many questions…but one above all others.

“Why haven’t you gotten him out?” he asked and Essie looked at him.

A range of emotions washed over her eyes. Sadness, anger, frustration, threat, and hurt. He realized it was a bad question the moment it left his lips but it was too late to take it back.

“Why haven’t I gotten him out? Do you think I’ve just been on a beach vacation for the past several decades? That I haven’t been trying to get him free until now? That his freedom hasn’t been the one thing I have wanted more than anything? That I’ve been happy to just go about as whatever I am while he’s frozen and thawed and frozen and thawed over and over and over again while being used as nothing more than an attack dog?”

She was angry, he could see that, as he’d seen it plenty of times before, but it was different now. She wasn’t snapping at him. She wasn’t flapping her hands about. Instead she was still and had centered her eyes on his as she spoke…not yelled.

“Why haven’t I gotten him out yet? I can’t just waltz in where they keep him. I can’t just walk up to him like you did. They learned from you to keep him under a lot of security. I tried once and almost didn’t make it out. When they let him out he’s monitored and watched. Taking out his minders doesn’t help because then he runs back. Getting close isn’t easy unless you’re his target and even then it’s not easy because he is good at what he does. Then when he’s not out they lock him up. Everything they put him in is locked down tight and loaded. No. You aren’t getting him out when he’s in, you need to get him away when he’s out…and now…now is the best chance there’s been for it in decades. Decades, Steve, because he’s been out long enough the serum is able to kick in and heal some of the damage they’ve done to his brain that prevents him from remembering who he even is. To let his body heal and metabolize the chemicals they shoot him up with to keep him compliant and easily malleable. That stop him from being able to think. Whenever he thinks too much they wipe everything away until he’s gone again.”

“Essie…I-” Steve started, knowing he had jumped on the wrong nerve, yet she shook her head.

“This is why I didn’t want you to know who I was. It’s a distraction and we cannot afford to be distracted, Steve. Not now. So much is at stake. Not just Bucky and it hurts me to say that because his freedom is the one thing I’ve wanted since finding out he was still alive, but there’s more to it and you know that. Project Insight. Project Insight goes into effect and millions of people will be wiped off the planet for their precious vision to come to life and for control. They’ll target people and take them just like they did back then, but this time they’ll know more about who they’re taking. Project Insight succeeds and they won’t need him anymore and when they don’t need something anymore they get rid of it. I have been waiting for decades to break him free, and…I’m close. I’m so close. I want him free, I want my people to stay free, and I don’t want anyone else to go through what I did.”

He flinched a bit but she didn’t give him room to speak, not yet. Steve almost wished she’d yell, but she still didn’t. She talked low, quiet, and deliberate.

“No one deserves a life in chains, locked up, or used. I will not stop until he is free and I will take down anything and anyone that stands in my way. I will destroy anyone that threatens my people, and Project Insight threatens everyone. Even us where we are. I will take everything down that threatens the freedom of those I care about. HYDRA, SHIELD…and yes, Steve, that includes you if you get in my way. He may never forgive me for it, but I wouldn’t care because he’d be free and my people would be safe. He may come out of this wanting nothing to do with me, but at least he’ll be free. And I mean free…Fury. I don’t give a shit what he did to you or to anyone else because it wasn’t Bucky that did that. Bucky would never do anything that they made him do.”

“What if he’s not in there anymore?” Sam asked and both she and Steve looked at him.

“He’s in there.” Steve answered and looked at Essie and nodded, “He’s in there, Essie. I know he’s in there…and we’ll get him out. I promise.”

“You are not good at promises, Steve. All the times you promised you wouldn’t keep trying to enlist and the ones you made to Peggy. Bucky was much better with promises than you. Technically he didn’t break his last one. Yet.” Essie said and sighed, grabbing a container of food, Steve’s stomach knotted tighter, “Eat up. We’ve got a lot of planning and work to do. Tanis, Maggie, get some rest we’ve got night watch. I warded all the tunnels but that doesn’t mean a couple of vampires on the HYDRA payroll won’t just wander in.”

“You should sleep, too.” Tanis reminded her and Essie’s eyes snapped to him, narrowed enough he shrunk down a bit, “Just saying…”

She just dug a fork into the container and glanced at him darkly, “I’ll be fine.”

It was small. Cramped. Quiet. Just a place for him to wait. Prepare. That’s all he needed.

So he prepared. Made sure his knives were where they needed to be. Just within reach. They wouldn’t leave him with guns, but he made sure all his ammo was where it needed to be. Made sure his pockets were packed with everything he needed as he went over the information he was given.

His fingers brushed over a piece of paper in one. Rough, thick, folded. Different.

The Soldier pulled it out.

Written on it in black pen was a short message.

“Don’t make me lose my bet. Tell no one.”

It was the operative that had briefed him. His handwriting. The one he liked.

He had helped people with bets before. He couldn’t remember anything bad happening because of that.

Unfolding the thick paper the Soldier stared and blinked at the female face looking out at him.

Dark curly hair. Bright eyes. Black and white photo, but he knew they were grey eyes and her smiling lips were red. Just as red as the stain on the lower right corner had been when fresh…back when it was newer. Less worn.

“Come on. Just…just one. I know you hate your picture being taken, but…c’mon. For me. Please?”

His voice. He could hear it. Feel it. Faint but it was his voice. He knew it was his voice and he had said it. Why?

“We don’t have time.” Her voice, sweet, smooth, heavy…thick.

“We have plenty of time. Only a minute. C’mon. I want something to remember my girl with out there.”

“So you need a photograph to remember me?”

“I’m visual.” He had been teasing, he knew he was teasing her.

“You’re an idiot.”

“Maybe…but I’m your idiot…or are you gonna tell me, the day I head back out again, that you’ve got another guy lined up around the corner? When I’ve given you all of me? I’m hurt.”

“Don’t insult me. You know you’re it for me. I’m yours, no one else’s. You’re it. Just…come back. Please?” her voice had cracked, she sniffled, “Just promise me you’ll stay alive. One more thing. One more thing and…if they take you, too…I’m going out there myself. I mean it.”

“Hey…shh…shh…I promise. I’m not goin’ down without a fight. Not if I got you to come home to. Yeah?”

The door banged. He tucked the picture away swiftly and looked up as it opened, silent, emotionless. It was the operative again, this time on guard duty.

“You ready for tomorrow?” he asked and the Soldier nodded, “Questions?”

He had hundreds as another image of her face flashed through his mind followed by others. Ones of her smiling, some of her yelling at him angry, several of her rolling her eyes annoyed, and quite a number he did not want to share with anyone.

Ever.

“No.” he lied and the man nodded while looking down the hall, not paying much attention to him.

“Good. You’ll be armed with a shock collar. Your glove will be insulated. You get it on her, we push the button, you take her in. Got it?” the operative asked and he nodded, “Good. Do a good job and maybe they’ll let you have some ‘alone time’ for once with someone. Wouldn’t blame anyone that wanted it with her.”

He shut the door again as the Soldier’s stomach knotted and he scowled. He didn’t know why, but he didn’t like it. Then he remembered.

His girl.

She was his girl. She was his.

His.

No one else’s.

“You’re really wearing that?” Essie asked dryly as Steve adjusted his old uniform, “The 70-year-old outdated war suit?”

“Technically it’s not 70 years old.”

“You were trapped in a freezer, not a time machine. It’s 70 years old.” Essie countered while blinking, “You’re going to be at a disadvantage. It doesn’t have the same shielding as newer materials. Sure it worked fine back then, sort of, but now? You might as well start running around in your vaudeville tights again.”

“Are you actually worried about me?” Steve asked with a crooked smile and she looked at him flatly again, birds silent in the trees surrounding them though they hopped around on branches and watched closely.

“You could call it that or you could call it me questioning your ‘plan’. You better be careful in that. Bullets are gonna rip right through it.”

“I know, but maybe it’ll jog his memory.” Steve said and she nodded quietly, looking through the trees, silver eyes shifting in thought and her own memory, “I’m sorry. About yesterday. I know you’d never hurt him if you had a choice. I was…just…in shock, I guess.”

Essie looked at him silently for several moments. There were thoughts passing through her eyes but mostly it just looked as if she were searching his face. Scrutinizing every inch of it like she was remembering it again. Then she nodded and sighed.

“I’m sorry, too, Steve. I shouldn’t have snapped at you. I know you love Bucky just as much as I do. I’m glad you’re here, really. It’s…soothing, in a way…to…have someone else from back then. Someone that knew me before…” She said and gestured to herself, “This.”

“You’re not a monster, Essie.” He said as he looked at her and she looked back, shaking her head, “You’re not.”

“You don’t know what I’ve done. Not really, Steve. Not all of it. Not even Eric knows…but I do.” Essie replied and put her sunglasses on as the sunlight cut through the trees, “I know they said I don’t, because I say I don’t, but I remember exactly what I did when I was in that facility after they showed me his file. I remember what I did before Eric found me in Germany. Why I was being restrained by three of their soldiers. Maybe not solid memory but enough. It’s why I always eat as much as I can. Just to keep me sane even if I’m upset. Taking over as Alpha didn’t need me sane. It needed me to be a monster to match a monster. This needs me sane. Focused…but…we’re so close now I’m scared. I’m not allowed to be scared, Steve. I’m Alpha. I am…so much more than I was when we last saw each other.”

Steve looked at her, lips turning downwards slightly as he did. It was a side of Essie he knew damn well that he had never seen before. One he knew existed, but only because Bucky would point it out to people that she wasn’t heartless.

“Call my girl a cold bitch one more time and I will show you what cold is. You a smart lady, surrounded by a buncha clods like us, whose whole family was taken by HYDRA? No? Then shuddup. She has plenty of feelin’s…she just hides them because you jerks do that.” Bucky’s voice said in his memories; Steve could remember the blue-eyed glare he’d shot and how fast the laughter faded.

He remembered the brief flicker of joy that had flashed into Essie’s grey eyes when they had returned safe and sound before she had composed herself in front of Colonel Phillips. They all knew what the two were to each other, even Phillips, he just pretended he didn’t. As long as it didn’t interfere he didn’t care. He wanted results and she gave results…and nothing ever made Bucky so proud as when she’d get praised for it. He never doubted her.

Ever.

“Yeah, but you’re still his girl. Bucky looked at you like you hung the moon. You were never there when the guys would lay into him about how bad he had it for you. He always loved women. I think he was born flirting. He stopped it all when he met you. Dragging him in there after the bar…you never got to see the way he stared at you yellin’ at that guy that pissed you off.” Steve said and saw the muscles of her jaw tightened as she swallowed, “He’ll know you. He’ll remember you…and if he doesn’t want you after it’s all said and done…well…I’ll hit him with something for you. Just name it.”

Essie laughed. Really laughed, feeling it reach her stomach as she did. For the first time in a long time she felt herself shake with it as she imagined him doing just that and Bucky rubbing the side of his head with a glare.

“Ugh…even though I told him about the grenade incident?” she asked and he sighed and nodded, smiling softly as if remembering something.

“Yeah. Even though you got me in trouble. More than once.”

“More than once? What else did I do?” she asked, honestly confused and he chuckled while putting his helmet on.

“You talked to me in secret. After I brought back that bottle of peach schnapps you asked for. I never knew how possessive he could be until then. Wanted to know why we were sneakin’ around, what I was doing talking to you late at night, and only calmed down when I reminded him you were allowed to talk to people and you asked me to help you get something to surprise him.” He answered and she shook her head.

“Why are males neanderthals about their females? Then again I have no room to really talk. I got the same way with him a few times. Not billboard boobs. Others. That blonde you kissed. Lorraine. She tried with Bucky until I taught her that he was mine and not to touch him.” She said while pulling her hood up and Steve chuckled with a small smile, “Have you seen Peggy?”

Steve paused and nodded, “Yeah. She…”

“I know. I can’t go visit her, but I know what’s going on and…despite it all I’ve tried to help make sure she’s kept comfortable and…has everything possible. She doesn’t know it’s me and even if she’d forget if you told her…don’t. It’ll just set her off.”

“They showed her what you did in the facility there in England, didn’t they?” he asked and Essie shook her head.

“I don’t really know, but I hedge on yes. I realized the last time we actually met that it was better that way. If she didn’t know the truth and believed the lie. Safer.” She said and he nodded with a heavy sigh.

“They’d have gotten rid of her if she knew the truth. Like they tried with Fury. What about the others?”

“I saw the others on occasion. They knew…to an extent…that I wasn’t their enemy, but only out of loyalty to Bucky. Dum Dum…he knows everything. Just…keeps it quiet to stay alive. Anyone that didn’t…they’d send The Winter Soldier. The Winter Soldier is not Bucky. Do not go forward today thinking he is. They’re two separate people in the same body. I know…I know Sam doesn’t…think it’s worth it or even possible, but…”

“He’s in there. Buck’s in there and we’ll get him out. We’ll do it. For him, for you, for Peggy. I hate that this is what happened to what she helped build…but…it can’t be what it turns into. SHIELD has to go. All of it.” He said and Essie nodded.

“They’re gonna want someone to blame after this. Because…because I exist outside of any chain of command but my own, and…have the allies that I do, and am the ruler of my own small country…effectively…they can’t blame me. Well, not if they want results. Likely…it’s going to be you and Natasha and if not you…then Bucky.” She said as they heard the others approaching and he nodded, “I won’t let you take the fall for it. I’ll do what I can. I’d still sacrifice you in an instant for him or my people, but…that’s only if there were no other choice. You know that…right?”

“Yeah. I know. I’d sacrifice you too.” He said and she raised an eyebrow at him, her lips twitching upwards.

“No you wouldn’t. You’d throw yourself in a blender first.” She retorted and he smiled and laughed, “I remember your skinny, scrawny, but gutsy dumb ass diving onto a grenade. I just…couldn’t, and still can’t, really reconcile how someone smart enough to take down the flagpole is still as dumb as you. You willingly went onto a metal slab and into a metal chamber and let Erskine shoot you up with some blue goop then let him and Howard play Frankenstein and Igor. What was wrong with you?”

“Well I did get rejected from the army repeatedly during a war they drafted people so…a lot.” He said while laughing and she nodded.

“Obviously.” She replied and chuckled, shaking her head as the smile faded again and she looked out at their target, “Don’t change. You’re a good man. You understand what freedom is and you know the difference between right and wrong. You’re a better person than I am. Than most are.”

“You’re not a monster, Essie. No more than Buck is. He might not be the one calling the shots of what he does…and you might be the one calling your own shots…but you’re not a monster. You did what you had to do to stay alive. I’m sorry I wasn’t there…before. I should have…I should have been there with you. For you. I guess…I just never really…understood how much you loved him.”

Essie nodded as she looked out at their target.

“I never really let anyone see. Only him. I never wanted him to doubt it. He got a different version of Essie from what everyone else did. A softer one. I was a woman in a man’s world and had to fight just as much as Peggy did. We couldn’t appear soft, feminine, girly…we had to be tough and show you men how tough women really are. Outwardly, I couldn’t be just another girl in love with her soldier. Only in private. With him. I just hope I showed him enough that he never doubted it.”

Steve shook his head, “He never did. Anytime we were out and the other’s got on about you finding some other guy if he took too long, picked on him for how deep in it he was for you… Buck would just…smile and shake his head. ‘Nah. Not my girl. You don’t know her like I do.’ He’ll know you. Maybe not your name, but you. He’ll know you.”

“Between you and me…and not those two…” she said as she glanced at Tanis and Maggie talking in the distance, “My life kind of depends on it. I pissed off Pierce yesterday. Enough that I’m hoping he keeps doing what he’s been doing: Underestimating you and overestimating HYDRA’s ability to control.”

“You made yourself a target.” Steve said with a frown and she nodded.

“I did.”

“Buc-He already shot Fury, he’s shot through Nat…” Steve said and she shook her head.

“They’ll tell him to take me alive. Arm him with a shock collar. It’s a risk. I know, but…my hope is that with…both of us there, something will trigger. He remembered you a bit. You look exactly the same, yes, but…he remembered you.”

“You don’t look that different, Essie. Well, when you aren’t hiding your face.” He replied and she looked at him and rolled her eyes.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t have a sparkly superhero outfit during the war that’s brightly colored. I had a military uniform and a blue dress. I can’t walk into a combat zone in those. I’m not a 6 foot…four…shiny American super soldier man.”

“I’m not shiny.”

“You were when you came out of the tube.” Essie retorted and he opened his mouth to retort but just shook his head as he chuckled lightly.

A/N: Late, yes, but here it is. Yes, a certain someone is a teeny bit possessive of his lady. Anyway, fun fact for the mythology and folklore nerds: Amarok/Amaroq in Inuit folklore is a giant wolf that stalks the wilderness going after any hunters stupid enough to walk out into the unknown on their own. They are creatures of vengence and yet are capable of rewarding those that show them the respect that they deserve.

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