One-Shot ; Bucky x Steve
"You can't just do stuff like that, you moron! You could've gotten yourself killed!"
"Well, I didn't, so can we please move on?"
Despite his size and his muscles, and the arm he can't ignore, Bucky doesn't look intimidating at all. His expression is stern, yes, but the pout on his lip is almost childish, if it weren't for the hard expression that's on the rest of his face and in his body language. He understands that James doesn't like him jumping out of airplanes, but for god's sake, it's quiet and he knows he can do it.
With a sigh, Steve settles down on the couch in the living room, watching the angry other pacing through the room while murmuring curses to himself.
"Stupid, Steve, it's stupid, you could've hurt yourself, or gotten killed, what if the water hadn't been deep enough..." he murmurs and shoots Steve angry glances, which the Captain is willing to receive. He takes up a towel and brushes it over the bleeding spot on his eyebrow, which casts Bucky's attention back onto him. He curses again and vanishes and for a moment, Steve thinks that he's going to have some silence for once.
"You're really stupid, you know." Bucky says and now it just sounds like he's stubborn as Steve can feel the couch sinking in a little to the right, a cold, metal hand touching his cheekbone, the other hand taking away his own to clean the wound and cool the swelling. It gives Steve the opportunity to look into Bucky's face so much more closely that he can see the worry hidden somewhere under the stern, seemingly angry expression.
Bucky's hand wanders up to brush Steve's hair away to get a better look at the wound, but by now, he's not even looking at it anymore, but looks back at Steve, their gazes locking. "You're a punk." Bucky says suddenly and draws a smile onto Steve's lips just like that, before he feels warm lips brushing against the skin of his forehead, and then Bucky's falling down next to him onto the couch, shoulders touching.
"Don't do something like that again." he says and tries to sound angry, but he's sounding more worried and so his voice tells Steve something entirely different.
I don't want to lose you.
