Movie Night
This is my first writing challenge entry ever!
Summary: Post-Endgame AU (probably). Steve cuts out on Friday Night Movie Night and it’s just Reader and Bucky.
Warnings: mild language, it’s all fluff; very unlike me
Word Count: around 1,300
Prompt: “How’s that for a first kiss?” for “Teamcap4bucky 2kcelebration” challenge
A/N: Congrats @Teamcap4bucky on 2K followers!
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Nobody really understood how it had all worked. The Avengers were allusive with their answers. Truly, most of them didn’t understand it themselves. It had something to do with quantum physics and the relative nature of time and other uber-science. Those who knew best, like Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and Scott Lang, had gone off helping to accelerate mending critical infrastructure like the Internet, power grids and cellular networks. When the world had returned to kind of normal, basically picked up where it had left off before The Snap plus a few catastrophes, people were too busy with recovery to question too hard.
Almost a year to day of The Return, Steve Rogers shocked the entire planet by announcing his retirement as Captain America. He had handed over the shield to the former Falcon, Sam Wilson. The Snap had finally been the brick necessary to fall on his head in order to realize there were other important aspects to leading a fulfilling life that had gone too long ignored. He had done more than his fair share of public service.
Not many days after the news broke, Y/N heard lots of heavy footsteps and grunting pass by her Brooklyn apartment door. A curious person by nature, she opened up to a mass of movers loaded with boxes and furniture passing by. They filed into the apartment at the end of the hall. She followed. That’s how she came to meet Steve and Bucky who lived a couple doors down from her.
They were both incredibly sweet, and incredibly handsome, each one trying to figure out their way in a place that was both familiar yet new at the same time. The guys came to rely on her when they needed help and they struck up an easy friendship.
One day, through casual conversation, Y/N learned that there was a slew of popular movies that they hadn’t watched. With nothing that she would like more, having recently sworn off the bar and club scene, she instituted Friday Movie Night to help them catch up.
Each of her new friends were great. She loved spending time with both of them. But there was something about Bucky that had wormed its way into her heart. His eyes had an alluring intensity. They could be mirthful one moment, then hard and serious the next. His sense of humor was snarky, much like her own. When he sat next to her on the sofa, she noticed it was always a little bit closer than Steve did. Thankfully, she had seen all the movies before, so that she could answer their various questions. It was becoming increasingly difficult to concentrate with the inviting heat that radiated off of Bucky.
I still love this one. 💛😏 Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. Life has been crazy hectic.
