#candycanecarter

Maybe it’s the holidays or the fact that every morning seeing your displays bring a smile to my face… or the fact that you sample and test even the worst of my creations, but I’m feeling sentimental and I wanted you to know if I haven’t said it already— I’m so very grateful to know you and have you in my life.

Last year my Christmas wish was for someone I could call a friend as it’s been lonely since I moved over here. You have been an answered prayer Bucky, a friend and more, and you bring me so much joy.

Next night out, drinks are on me.

Bring both your left feet 😂

I’ll make sure there’s snacks in my purse to soak everything up when we get ahead of ourselves.

Never change. ♥️

-P x

Bucky finds the note slipped into that morning's bag of croissants he'd picked up on the way to his shop. Bakeries and florists did not have the luxury of closing for Christmas --- too many people in need of last minute gifts, and something to take back to their families --- though Bucky had started a little later, stopping by for a Christmas morning breakfast at his sister's house.

He reads Peggy's note as he munches on a croissant, hearing the words off the page in her voice. They bring a smile to his face, and a warmth to his chest. It seemed they had both found each other in times of need, become a support first by the proximity of their shops, and then as friends.

He sends her a text during the first ten minutes that he doesn't have a customer in the shop.

fight the capitalist entertainment machine!!! no but really it’s a great option as a try before you buy kinda thing, i’m of the opinion that it’s totally okay so long as if you really want to support a creator you do your best to buy the thing later?

how are you even awake anyway, aren't you the loser who goes to bed before midnight

why would you do this

OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS IS NOT OKAY THIS IS NOT OKAY AT ALL THIS IS THE FARTHEST THING FROM OKAY LETS TALK ABOUT IT IN DETAIL

Steve didn’t do anything bad he really didn’t he just- Bucky Bear fell, he tried to catch him but he missed, and Mr. Pierce said he wasn’t being careful enough with his toys and maybe he’d get him back later if he was good.

And Steve is being good, he tries so hard to be good, sometimes he’s a little- his mommy says ‘rambunctious’ and ‘a handful’ and Steve likes those much better than what Mr. Pierce says- but he’s good.

Natasha sees it happening and she doesn’t like it, doesn’t like it at all. She won’t tell Steve what Mr. Pierce took from her but he can tell from the look on her face that she took something. Or maybe it’s just that Natasha likes Mr. Fury better. Mr. Fury and Mr. Pierce say they’re friends but they never really seem to get along.

Sam doesn’t think it’s fair either. He doesn’t have strong feelings one way or another about Mr. Fury OR Mr. Pierce, at first. But he cares very much about right and wrong. And he knows that no one should have their favorite stuffed animal taken away, unless they did something very, very bad. And Steve didn’t. Sam knows that he didn’t.

(Sam lost his stuffed bird last year at the park. His mama said she’d find him another stuffed falcon but Sam doesn’t want another stuffed falcon, he wants Riley. Sam knows what it’s like to lose a best friend.)

oh no, i’m so, so sorry D: [gives you so many hugs]