#offreedoms

Bucky's on his feet in like two seconds, phone pressed against his ear almost painfully. He doesn't even think to grab a jumper or his jacket (or use the front door, that is to say) and hurries to his window to climb out of it and down the fire escape.      "I'm there in one minute, okay, just keep walking as        though nothing is wrong. Maybe it really is just a        coincidence, but I'm coming nonetheless -- just to        see you in that gorgeous skinny jeans, you know,"        he adds to calm him down a bit, even though his        own heart his racing that quickly that he thinks he        might know what Steve's feeling when his arrhythmia         attacks again.

The weather is horrible but Captain doesn't seem to care, running through every puddle he's able to find, jumping and barking and making both of them just as wet as himself. Luckily it's spring and the air is mild despite the heavy rain that is drumming down on their heads. Every now and then Bucky fishes the ball out of Cap's mouth and throws it in the opposed direction so the dog needs to run all the way towards it and back to them again. Bucky doesn't doubt that he's going to drop off as soon as he reaches his dog bed at Steve's house. He wrestles the ball free one more time, dangling it in front of Cap's face before he turns around and throws;; the dog barks happily and storms past him, his bulky frame bumping into his legs and Bucky's already seeing himself in the next puddle when he feels Steve's strong grip holding him in place. He smirks and looks up to him.     "My savior," he says, "my diamond geezer!" Steve, of course,       just rolls his eyes at that, and Bucky uses that opportunity to       raise himself to tiptoes and plant a soft kiss to his lips to say       thank you in a proper way.

                 ❝ ... You know it will never work, Steven. ❞

   It's a nervous smile that alights her mouth,           one that she doesn't bother to try to           hide. Honesty is what works when it           comes to Steve ---- & he is           a friend she does not want                  to lose.

It's been five weeks after Bucky's moving-in and he has to admit it: he didn't think it would go so well. Okay, it didn't gowell the first two weeks but then Steve kept his promise andliterally threw him out after Bucky'd crawled away in his bedroom for whole six days. But then it got better and now heeven promised himself to only sleep at Steve's one day in aweek. For the beginning, at least. Currently he's cooking dinner, just some pasta with tomatosauce, and the TV is silently making noise in the background.That's why Bucky doesn't react when he hears a voice startingto sing (very flatly) because he thinks it's some show or seriesbut then his old neighbor Mr. Hendrik bawls a loud shut the fuckup and Bucky realizes that's coming from outside his window.Working up curiosity, he opens it and peaks out and sweet lordis that Steve?       "What the -- what are you doing there?!" he hisses back         because there's no way he wants his neighbor to know         that all this noise is coming from his boyfriend. "Are you--         are you drunk?"

       ’ Who are you, & why are you on my ship? ‘

Bucky doesn't care if he isn't allowed to sit on the tiny bed or not, he's leaning against the cold wall opposite Steve anyway, trying so hard to not laugh but he's failing terribly. A chuckle bursts out of him when he hears Steve's words and he presses his blood and flesh hand against his aching stomach.       "Don't you come at me like this," he snickers. "You         put your hand down my jeans in the first place. What         did you expect, that I would chicken out? Besides my         popcorn was finished and I still wanted to do something         with my mouth... and the movie was boring. Oh god, do         you think it's in the papers tomorrow? Captain America         gets a blowjob in the cinema. Well, I tried, at least. And I         would have gotten you off if you'd be able to shut your mouth         and stop moaning that loud everyone around us noticed. "

Bucky doesn't have much, just his school stuff and clothes and some personal things like photo albums of his family and the drawing of a half naked Charlize Theron he'd forced Steve to paint for him. Pierce said it would be no problem to hang it up in his new room but Bucky didn't do it -- he doesn't like the imagination of this old fart seeing it every time he comes in.  His room is pretty nice, actually, larger than the one back at the orphanage he had to share with another boy who's a bit younger than him. There's a bed and a wardrobe and a large desk with folders and new pencil but Bucky doesn't feel comfortable -- perhaps he really needs to come to know Pierce better until that feeling disappears. (By the way, he needs to call him Alexander. Weird.) It's 5 pm and Pierce's making the dinner and luckily he has no objections that Bucky wants to visit Steve now (Just make sure his poor mother gets her rest, it's not easy to work as a nurse) and hell, he thinks he never left an apartment that quickly. He knocks at the opposite door swiftly and then impatiently hops from one foot to the other.