"Fair warning, Steve, I'm gonna sneak into your room and pour hot sauce down your throat. Don't think I won't."
He won't. Threat stands though.
Sam's mind is circling back to the days after the fight too. Everything had been rapid fire. Dying, coming back, stumbling into a fight against Thanos again. Tony's death. Reunions. The funeral.
Learning about Natasha.
Steve... leaving. The shield.
Sam and Bucky had been hauled off for their respective pardons. Turns out being dead for five years doesn't exactly automatically put you back in a government's good graces, and Secretary Ross was as smarmy as ever. Hence the contract work for the Air Force that Sam fled into almost gratefully.
Cue six months of having the government in his ear about the damn shield, Bucky going full hermit, having to deal with his nephews barely remembering him and being actual small persons now instead of the toddler and newborn Sam never saw again after the Raft.
"That almost worked, didn't it." The humor's bleeding out of the quip. Sam sounds tired, but he nods after a moment. He told Tony. He can tell Steve. Most of it at least. The broad strokes. Definitely edit out Zemo - he doesn't need Steve to pull a disappointed mom face around Bucky. Maybe also edit out that Bucky was a massive dick for a good six months there, because really, Steve's disappointed mom face is powerful and Sam can't stress enough how much he doesn't need that to show up around Bucky. Helps that Bucky's made a nice recovery on that and is now the one person Sam knows to be in his corner. "Let's... alright. I need a shower, first of all. But... yes, Tony's here. Right after... y'know. Right after. We had to amputate his arm. Bucky and I are from... shit, 6 months post the battle. Been 5 months in here, now. So... lemme grab a shower. Then we'll grab something to eat and drink so you can do spit takes at the appropriate moments."
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He won't. Threat stands though.
Sam's mind is circling back to the days after the fight too. Everything had been rapid fire. Dying, coming back, stumbling into a fight against Thanos again. Tony's death. Reunions. The funeral.
Learning about Natasha.
Steve... leaving. The shield.
Sam and Bucky had been hauled off for their respective pardons. Turns out being dead for five years doesn't exactly automatically put you back in a government's good graces, and Secretary Ross was as smarmy as ever. Hence the contract work for the Air Force that Sam fled into almost gratefully.
Cue six months of having the government in his ear about the damn shield, Bucky going full hermit, having to deal with his nephews barely remembering him and being actual small persons now instead of the toddler and newborn Sam never saw again after the Raft.
"That almost worked, didn't it." The humor's bleeding out of the quip. Sam sounds tired, but he nods after a moment. He told Tony. He can tell Steve. Most of it at least. The broad strokes. Definitely edit out Zemo - he doesn't need Steve to pull a disappointed mom face around Bucky. Maybe also edit out that Bucky was a massive dick for a good six months there, because really, Steve's disappointed mom face is powerful and Sam can't stress enough how much he doesn't need that to show up around Bucky. Helps that Bucky's made a nice recovery on that and is now the one person Sam knows to be in his corner. "Let's... alright. I need a shower, first of all. But... yes, Tony's here. Right after... y'know. Right after. We had to amputate his arm. Bucky and I are from... shit, 6 months post the battle. Been 5 months in here, now. So... lemme grab a shower. Then we'll grab something to eat and drink so you can do spit takes at the appropriate moments."