#capitansbarnes

Steve sitting in the vee of bucky’s legs, back against bucky’s chest, trying to focus on the feel of bucky’s heart and the press of his skin whenever bucky inhales long and deep, exhales slow and even

and bucky’s voice in his ear, telling him stories about his day at work, greatly exaggerating how the lady down the hall from them had yelled at him for walking too loud, one hand rubbing slowly over steve’s chest in slow circles, the other pointing out the barest hint of stars through the cloud and glare of the city

bucky knowing that the autumn chill is bad for steve’s lungs but hopes that the fresh air (as fresh as it gets in the city at least) helps more than the cold hinders as he does everything he can to keep steve thinking about other things as they wait out the attack

bucky, always prepared, tucking a blanket over steve’s legs and keeping him warm from behind, kissing behind his ear ands steve’s body starts to relax, starts to sag against him

yess bucky being salty at first because howard said like within the year steve what the hell are you lying to me but eventually he accepts the fact that flying cars still are not a thing (reluctantly)

and then he’s going through the file jarvis put together for him about things he’s missed and comes across the moon landing and freaks the fuck out and goes running to find steve, and steve thinks something’s wrong until bucky shoves a photo in his face and yells space and steve’s like he found the pic i told u and clint behind him is swearing and pulling out his wallet

and from then on bucky just won’t shut up about science and space and steve really can’t be angry because bucky’s happy and they go out stargazing and shit all the time when they can get away from the city for a few hours, and  for bucky’s birthday steve manages to wrangle an invitation to nasa out of tony and he’s not gonna ask how tony got it but there are astronauts that wanna talk to him and bucky and that’s an opportunity

but yesss steve’s harley breaking down in the middle of fucking nowhere-town and so he walks it to the only garage in town (luckily on the main drag so easy to find) and hopes to high hell that they’re open

and the door is open, propped by a brick, and there’s music going, so steve parks his bike in the drive and wanders in, calling out hey, anyone in here?

and there’s a crash and a lot of swearing, and someone comes out from under the hood of a car rubbing the back of their head and grumbling and steve’s all oh my god i’m so sorry

and the person turns around and steve’s like oh shit because he did not see that coming, didn’t expect the mechanic of a backwater town to be absolutely fucking stunning even with a grimace on his face and grease on his cheek

and so he stumbles through his words and points at his bike but the guy just rubs the back of his head and smiles and nods so steve just moves out of his way and lets him work

and the guy whistles appreciatively when he gets a good look at steve’s bike, and steve grins, misses the way the mechanic’s eyes flit to his mouth because he’s too busy looking at the ground to avoid staring at the guy

and after a beat of silence the mechanic hold his hand out for the keys and says there’s coffee in the office if you wanna stick around, it shouldn’t take too long depending on what it is and steve just nodes, smiles, heads in the direction the mechanic had pointed

and steve being curious he looks around the office for any hint of a name for the guy, finds a stack of business cards with James Barnes and thinks it’s a fitting name for the guy

this is actually super cute tho? not lame at all! like shifters/soulmates crossover without the actual shifting

so steve’s fiercely protective but sweet as hell, and it’s really easy for people who know him to peg him as some kind of dog, but he’s tenacious, cunning, and sometimes that confuses people. the only person it didn’t stump was his ma, who knew about the kid down the road that was part cat but his bark was worse than his bite

she doesn’t introduce them though, lets them quite literally run into each other, meets the cat (his name’s bucky steve had mumbled around a split lip) when he drags steve home after pulling him out of a fight

and both sarah and bucky’s parents knew that these two were soulmates, they could see it, but they let thw boys work it out for themselves

but, being the stubborn idiots they are, it takes them until bucky’s sixteen and steve’s fifteen, when bucky’s listening to his friends talk about how they behave with the dames (all the ones that hadn’t found their soulmates yet that is) and they keep expecting bucky to join in, show up with tales to tell and bucky never does

so one day he asks one of the guys who’s known his soulmate since they were kids, asks him what it felt like, and the guy’s explanation (it feels right, like there’s nothing else you need in the world, like there’s no place you’d rather be than right by their side) makes bucky freeze

and the guy’s like ??? but bucky turns, puts his head down, and runs and when sarah sees him coming she knows exactly what’s happened, lets him in before he can knock and says he’s in his room

and they don’t do anything about it, they’re little more than kids really, but sarah checks on them before she goes to bed and finds them curled up together, fast asleep on steve’s little bed, bucky half hanging off it and smiles on their faces even in sleep

nothing much changes from that point onwards, but steve’s immovable knowledge that bucky’s his and steve’s bucky’s, and bucky knows it too

I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU

YOUR CAT IS SO FLUFFY JSBFIEBFI but he looks like if he could kill me