[It's been so easy to take these small, significant steps that Steve is wondering how it hasn't happened sooner. Intellectually, he knows why--he's always busy, and more importantly Bucky's needed time to recover from a wide assortment of traumas. Or start recovering, at least; some things you don't get over, you just get past or through them. They both needed time to get used too...everything.
That's the thing about healing, though, and also about life. A lot of it happens subtly when you're not paying attention, and then time's gone by and things are different.
Steve and Bucky have always been tactile, quick to hug or clasp hands or shoulders, physically easy with each other. This is different. Steve, at least, knows it and knows why. Every time Bucky moves closer, Steve is there to welcome him and pull him in.]
I'd like that a lot.
[He would, too. He's had homes in the past few years, an apartment, his space in the Avengers Complex, but they were mostly places to leave things and to sleep in. This would actually be a home. One they made together, and that's the most appealing part of all.
Steve chuckles a little, the huff of breath moving Bucky's hair away from his scalp.]
If you think your landlord won't object. And I mean the goat, not T'challa.
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Date: 2019-08-01 10:10 am (UTC)That's the thing about healing, though, and also about life. A lot of it happens subtly when you're not paying attention, and then time's gone by and things are different.
Steve and Bucky have always been tactile, quick to hug or clasp hands or shoulders, physically easy with each other. This is different. Steve, at least, knows it and knows why. Every time Bucky moves closer, Steve is there to welcome him and pull him in.]
I'd like that a lot.
[He would, too. He's had homes in the past few years, an apartment, his space in the Avengers Complex, but they were mostly places to leave things and to sleep in. This would actually be a home. One they made together, and that's the most appealing part of all.
Steve chuckles a little, the huff of breath moving Bucky's hair away from his scalp.]
If you think your landlord won't object. And I mean the goat, not T'challa.