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WHO: Adult!Bucky!Cap and you?
WHERE: Around this snowy planet they're on.
WHAT: It's tough to be an adult when your best-friend-slash-boyfriend is not. Or, come to think of it, most of the people you know...
WHEN: Anytime during the Us Make For They event~
WARNINGS: Just Bucky-appropriate swearing, I think?

Bucky knew better than to just shove the first - or fifth - thing he came across in the village into his mouth. And once he saw the effect it was having on others... well, he doubly knew better. Which means, of course, now he is one of only a few adults in a sea of super-powered and/or hyperactive children. It... kinda feels like old times, except during actual old times, Steve was a lot easier to keep up with.

Either way - Bucky's got experience. He can be found doing his best to chase down kids and make sure they're dressed warmly enough, not getting into too much trouble, and getting enough non-candy items to eat. Once the candles appear and start multiplying, he might start hoarding the ones he can get his hands on - some of which turn out to be power crystals, so hey. There's that. His bunk on the Bloodsport - which is where he goes to catch catnaps, few and far between though they might be (thank God for being a super soldier) - has started to accumulate what looks like a year's worth of candles and power crystals on, around, and underneath it. Look, you can never have too many supplies.

After a day or two, he decides he's calling in reinforcements over the network:

Adults, sound off. We should each try taking a couple of kids apiece, based on who's got the resources to manage which powers or abilities or whatever. If we split up the responsibility, I think we've got the best chance at keeping everything under control.

I call Steve. And anyone else no one wants to handle, I guess.

He also shoots his beardy, metal-armed counterpart a text after he discovers the sweaters their hosts left for them: Hey. I think we're supposed to share. You want first dibs?

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Excuse you, of course I was.

[He was not. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, you know?

But,] At least, compared to Steve - who wouldn't be?

Just imagine him pulling the shit he's gonna pull, but without the superpowers.

Why does that make it more frightening somehow?

Because the trouble Steve gets into is always frightening. Now you're learning.

You know, the worst part about all this is I like chocolate.

The worst part of half of us being children, many of them with super powers and mischievous dispositions, is that you can't indulge you sweet tooth?

Just making sure I have this straight.

Is there anything worse than having chocolate but not being able to eat it?

[He might be shitting you. But he also might not be.]

Can't imagine.

[Can text sound sarcastic? Because this text sort of sounds sarcastic.]

You holding up okay?

[It does, somehow, sound sarcastic.]

Well, I survived Steve's childhood once.

I can do it again.

[That text might sound a little put upon, but hey, at least Steve really won't fall over of an asthma attack.]

His ma was a saint, though.

Edited 2020-01-22 03:52 (UTC)

[Maybe asthma was nature's way of keeping Steve from getting too powerful too soon?]

I can only imagine. She'd basically have to be to live with Steve and never let him get her in trouble.

[Could be, quite honestly.]

That we know of, at least.

Think you could manage that? Or am I gonna regret taking you up on your offer?

Would I let Steve get me in trouble?

I think we both know the answer to that question.

I think you're implying I don't need Steve to help me get in trouble.

I think you're implying that's what I'm implying, yeah.

[He is 3000% implying that.]

You going to say that to my face?

Depends. Where are you now?

Around. I could be more around, if you really want.

Edited 2020-02-01 23:27 (UTC)

If you're more around, I can re-introduce you to tiny Cap.

I wouldn't say no to it. Somehow, I have confidence in my ability to wrangle him.

Somehow, I do, too.

Still doesn't mean I don't want to see it.

You watch him for a coupla hours, and I will supply you with all the hot chocolate you can drink. Fair deal?

Barnes, you've got yourself a deal.

And probably a nap.

I mean, I will not turn down a nap. I'm not that stupid.

No. I'd never call you stupid.

Not to my face, anyway, right?

Oh, if I were going to say it it'd be to your face.

Well, that's a relief.

Besides, I mean - being Captain America doesn't automatically mean you have to shuck all your common sense.

That's just Steve.

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