Title: A New Man Fandom: Captain America (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationship: Steve/Bucky, Steve/Peggy warnings for mention of Bucky's arm, light medical horror
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Steve will get over it.
Carter or the Army or both will take care of him; promote him up, get him married, get him a whole passel of hard headed, good looking baby girls to puff himself up about. Steve'll start over, whole new life with Carter to keep him in line and kick his ass for him.
Carter's something else, she won't take any of Steve's bullshit, won't let him play the selfish martyr and mourn for longer than he needs to. She'll kick his ass and make him pick himself up and they'll win the war just between the two of them being hard headed fools together, Bucky knows it.
There'll be parties after the war, swank to-dos where Steve won't know what to do with himself or how to drink champagne or what fork to use, but Carter'll teach him how to dance, how to put together his uniform so he doesn't look like such a fucking butter bar all the goddamn time. Somebody's got to do it, with Bucky gone.
They'll be the best looking couple in New York and London both, probably on magazine covers and doing radio interviews. Glamorous as all hell, married within the year. Nice Catholic thing like Steve's ma always wanted, too much incense and enough candles to burn down the church. Big fancy car to drive off after and a honeymoon at Niagara Falls in the spring, when the cherry trees are blooming.
Three or four baby girls, and maybe Steve'll get some time to paint again when the Army realizes they don't need the dancing monkey in peacetime and that Carter's smarter besides. Steve'll get up at the asscrack of dawn to make Carter her coffee, make pancakes with smiles baked in and put the baby's hair in pig tails. He'll send Carter off to work in the city and the girls off to school, then maybe do the dishes because he's a fucking boy scout, but then he'll paint, real high brow stuff like he wanted and not like blue drawings to make ends meet.
Well, a couple of blue drawings. Of Carter mostly, because they don't stay married forty years with four kids for no good goddamn reason. They'll be so fucking happy.
It keeps his mind off the pain, at any rate, keeps himself from thinking about the hot sepsis and gangrene creeping up his shoulder.
The door swings open when Bucky's just figured out where they live (apartment in the city, summer house in the Hamptons with a tire swing out back and that asshole Stark dropping in), all harsh, cutting light in the gloom. Bucky rolls up onto one knee, the floor swaying under him.
There's three of them, two guards and that little bastard Zola, swimming in and out of his vision. They haul him up like a rag doll, and Bucky knows it's going to be bad when Zola smiles at him. “Come, Sergeant Barnes, it is time to make you a new man.”
Steve'll get over it, make a new life for himself. It doesn't matter what they do to Bucky. Steve'll get over it.
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Date: 2016-01-07 02:50 am (UTC)Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationship: Steve/Bucky, Steve/Peggy
warnings for mention of Bucky's arm, light medical horror
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Steve will get over it.
Carter or the Army or both will take care of him; promote him up, get him married, get him a whole passel of hard headed, good looking baby girls to puff himself up about. Steve'll start over, whole new life with Carter to keep him in line and kick his ass for him.
Carter's something else, she won't take any of Steve's bullshit, won't let him play the selfish martyr and mourn for longer than he needs to. She'll kick his ass and make him pick himself up and they'll win the war just between the two of them being hard headed fools together, Bucky knows it.
There'll be parties after the war, swank to-dos where Steve won't know what to do with himself or how to drink champagne or what fork to use, but Carter'll teach him how to dance, how to put together his uniform so he doesn't look like such a fucking butter bar all the goddamn time. Somebody's got to do it, with Bucky gone.
They'll be the best looking couple in New York and London both, probably on magazine covers and doing radio interviews. Glamorous as all hell, married within the year. Nice Catholic thing like Steve's ma always wanted, too much incense and enough candles to burn down the church. Big fancy car to drive off after and a honeymoon at Niagara Falls in the spring, when the cherry trees are blooming.
Three or four baby girls, and maybe Steve'll get some time to paint again when the Army realizes they don't need the dancing monkey in peacetime and that Carter's smarter besides. Steve'll get up at the asscrack of dawn to make Carter her coffee, make pancakes with smiles baked in and put the baby's hair in pig tails. He'll send Carter off to work in the city and the girls off to school, then maybe do the dishes because he's a fucking boy scout, but then he'll paint, real high brow stuff like he wanted and not like blue drawings to make ends meet.
Well, a couple of blue drawings. Of Carter mostly, because they don't stay married forty years with four kids for no good goddamn reason. They'll be so fucking happy.
It keeps his mind off the pain, at any rate, keeps himself from thinking about the hot sepsis and gangrene creeping up his shoulder.
The door swings open when Bucky's just figured out where they live (apartment in the city, summer house in the Hamptons with a tire swing out back and that asshole Stark dropping in), all harsh, cutting light in the gloom. Bucky rolls up onto one knee, the floor swaying under him.
There's three of them, two guards and that little bastard Zola, swimming in and out of his vision. They haul him up like a rag doll, and Bucky knows it's going to be bad when Zola smiles at him. “Come, Sergeant Barnes, it is time to make you a new man.”
Steve'll get over it, make a new life for himself. It doesn't matter what they do to Bucky. Steve'll get over it.