I have this angsty head Canon about a world-weary Cap dating a younger, earnest bucky and things going disastrously wrong when Bucky wakes up one morning and says “I love you” and Cap is like, uh, “that’s ok.” This is how it goes (angsty, rated M-ish for mature themes):
Steve wakes early, thinking about a run. He’s almost made to pull off the covers and get moving when he realizes that the frantic energy he usually starts the day with isn’t there. Instead, he feels…he feels okay. So he turns over, pulls Bucky into his arms, closes his eyes, and goes back to sleep.
It’s later in the morning when he wakes again. He’s been at a light doze, flitting in and out of dreams that disappear the moment he’s conscious enough to take a look at them. He considers closing his eyes and going back to sleep, but his body is suddenly very aware that he has a handsome, lithe, twenty-four year-old kid in his bed, and well, it’s interested.
Bucky must sense he’s waking, because he snuggles deeper into Steve’s arms. He snuffles against Steve’s neck, pressing a kiss there, before sighing, “I love you.”
Steve doesn’t move.
It must take a moment for Bucky’s brain to catch up with his mouth, because suddenly he freezes. “Shit,” he whispers, and Steve feels the breath of it against his skin.
“That’s, uh, okay,” he says.
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