Sam Wilson
Word Count: 530
Tags & Warnings: POV Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Pre-Slash, Steve dealing with his son's return from the 'dead' ( Ian Rogers ) and Sam telling him he's allowed to be happy
Summary: Post-Captain America: Cold War, canon divergence, where after Ian comes back into their lives, Sam finds Steve at his favorite bar.
For @steverogersbingo R3 / March Monthly Adoptables
“Did you know about him this whole time?” Steve asked, beer in hand as the strobing lights came and went.
“Not the whole time, no.” Sam paused to take a swing of his own cooled beverage. “We were a bit busy, as you can probably guess, but he wasn’t ready either.”
Steve dropped his eyes to the table, the abandoned menu sat teetering over the edge. He plucked it out of its precarious position and stood it up on the opposite corner. They’d already ordered something.
In the meantime, he wasn’t quite sure how to feel. He was elated, surely, but he’d spent so long in mourning. How could one turn that off?
Ian was well and alive, and he was delighted.
Why did it feel like extra weight was packed onto his shoulders?
“He wasn’t sure how you would take it,” Sam continued. “From the sounds of it, y’all had a good time catching up.”
“We did,” Steve answered with a reassuring nod. “We did. I didn’t think I’d ever get that chance again—to hug him, to ask him how he was doing.”
Sam looked at him, then, a little more closely. The man had years of experience reading him. It was as if all he had to do was push a button and all his secrets were right there for the taking. Steve had never felt good with lying, even lying by omission, but honesty came easy with Sam, as did so many other things.
It was apt, he supposed, that Sam would find him holed up here—the same bar he last took Sharon on a date with. Steve wasn’t sure if the universe was trying to tell him something with that.
“It’s okay to be happy, y’know.”
Confused, he looked at Sam with furrowed brows. He could hear the waiter pick up their orders now, already on their way over. Steve took the chance to think that statement over.
“Thank you,” they’d both said to the waiter in unison, friendly smiles on their faces all the while.
“Ian’s still finding himself, so he’ll be here and there,” Sam waved a hand between the world and themselves. Steve is inordinately pleased with that news. “I’ll make sure he doesn’t chicken out in giving you his number. Kid’s still nervous.”
“I’m glad he has you, Sam—that you’re partners and you’re friends,” Steve said earnestly. “You’re family, always have been.”
Sam stopped and put down his burger, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and leaned back in his seat. The man looked at Steve with a quirk of his lips, something between and smirk and smile.
“You have permission to be happy, Rogers,” Sam reiterated, and he was glowing as he said it—as if he saw something in Steve before he could even recognize it in himself. “You get that, right?”
Steve let his own smile curve onto his lips, finally letting the music from the jukebox flow into his ears as a sweet melody instead of background noise. He looked at Sam, sitting across from him in this booth in the corner of his favorite bar, and he knew right then that he had another reason to be happy.
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This week on Marvel Comics (16th May 2023):
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I know it may seem that the writers included Alpine for funsies but I kinda felt that Alpine's presence humanized Bucky because for most of this event we didn't even know his motivations (which was filmsy anyway).... but like we knew he still really loved his cat, at least. Maybe it's just the pun in the whole land on my feet thing here that's making me have thoughts.
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