Let's Hear It For Captain America!

He had 5 years of processing losing his best friends. He never mourned them, not once during the 3 hours of Endgame. He didn’t fight beside them in the final battle, he didn’t stand beside them at Tony’s funeral. He gave a half-hearted goodbye to Bucky, and didn’t even bother to say goodbye to Sam. He lived the rest of his life without them and came back pretending everything was fine when in reality they are strangers to him.

He didn’t give two shits about the people in his present life and yet he gave up everything for a woman he never dated, a woman he knew off and on for about 4 years. He prioritized his relationship with her over the relationships he had with people he knew twice as long.

I just wanna say: I drew this before I saw the movie and then…realized how it came out. ;w; 

by diner_drama

It’s about three weeks after Steve wakes up on the bank of the Potomac when he realizes he’s being followed. He sees flashes of metal in the corner of his eye, a dark shadow that scurries away when he turns his head, but it’s not until he notices things moved in his apartment that he figures out who it is.

Steve lives alone, so it’s been a long time since he’s woken up from a nap on the couch to find a glass of water waiting for him on the table and a blanket draped over him. Seventy-odd years, in fact.

Once he knows what’s going on, he keeps an eye out for pencils that weren’t where he left them, glasses put away in cupboards, thumbprints on his sketchbooks. It’s like having an affectionate poltergeist.

Sam’s having the same problem, a shadowy presence just out of sight everywhere he goes. One day he’s walking in the park and a bush starts whispering to him, telling him to stop using dark chocolate chips in his cookies because Steve prefers milk.

“This is not OK,” says Sam when he recounts this story in the Avengers tower later that evening to his assembled superhero friends. “I do not need baking advice from the ghost of Edward Scissorhands.”

Words: 1736, Chapters: ½, Language: English

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Peggy Carter

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Steve (A4) - 2018