[Shield Winter] Meeting upside down

—James Buchanan Barnes!I think the aliens shot not your hand but your head!Think about what you just asked!You asked little Stevie to wear!Varied!what!Inside!pants!What a lively hooligan, look at how panicked the most beautiful face in America is?You are fucking blaspheming!

Bucky curses himself inwardly that, for some reason he doesn't want to dwell on, Steve stops in the stairwell and doesn't chase him out.And he mobilized the super soldier's speed and fled like a hurricane, rushing into the elevator.

The moment the elevator doors closed, he couldn't help but crane his neck to look at the end of the stairs—it was empty, and Steve hadn't come out yet.

Bucky leaned against the wall of the elevator and exhaled, the mirror-like material made him see himself in a panic.He wiped his face, with that fleshy hand.

"Maybe it really scared him, forget it. Captain America is always busy... Maybe Fury gave him a short notice to wrestle with those bullshit documents, and it will be forgotten, absolutely."

"Mr. Barnes?"

"Oh fuck!" Bucky, who was immersed in self-comfort, was taken aback, "Jarvis?"

"Yes sir, you have been in the elevator for almost a minute, but you haven't pressed the floor. I noticed this and came to ask if you need help."

Bucky frowned, shaking his head.

"I don't need help, I need to relax. Alcohol, music, a luxurious bed that's big enough to sleep comfortably for the night after a hangover."

"No problem, I think the entertainment facilities on the ninth floor are enough to meet your requirements."

"Thanks sweetheart."

The button with the number 9 lit up, and a faint sense of weightlessness climbed up from the soles of his feet.He didn't hear Jarvis again, probably the smartest electronic butler had left here.Bucky tried to pull his collar uncomfortably—half his hand and then his right.

He glared hard at the iron arm hanging by his side.

"Honestly, if it weren't for the aliens coming so frequently recently, I really want to unload you, look at how much trouble you have caused..."

"Ding--"

"Hey Bucky! I knew you'd come to me when you were done."

Bucky looked up with a stiff neck, and Rogers, who he had driven to rest in the guest room on the ninth floor, was sitting on a high stool in the open bar and smiling at him.The combat uniform was replaced by a pure white T-shirt and black overalls. He looked very relaxed, as if he had quickly integrated into the life here.

"Well, of course, I can't just put you here and forget about it."

Bucky resolutely sat down on the stool next to Rogers, and the other party took a bottle of Corona from the refrigerator and opened it to him.

— Anyway, Bucky did need some alcohol to forget about the embarrassing things he did.So he took it with a smile, not even refusing the invitation to clink glasses from Rogers.

The wine flows through the bottle of lime, refreshing with a little bit of sour and sweet.The cold beer flushing down the throat had a self-deceiving sedative effect. Bakiyan drank half of the bottle before recovering from his embarrassment, and turned to look at Rogers who was shaking the bottle.

"Hey, I mean, no offense meant." Bucky leaned closer. "Can you... normally metabolize things in our world? Food or drink?"

Rogers hooked one side of his mouth, raised his head and downed the whole bottle of beer.He looked as usual, and even pinched the lime and chewed it in his mouth.

"OK, I believe it, you are indeed not a cardboard character." Bucky raised his hands, "I just saw you staring at the wine in a daze, and thought you couldn't drink."

Rogers spat the lime zest into the trash can aside.

"I'm just thinking of the Fulian Building that I'm familiar with."

"Oh... so what?"

"It's not much different from here. The ninth floor is full of entertainment facilities, open bar, luxurious home theater, man-made hot spring and Jacuzzi that Tony took a little effort to make... and guest rooms. There will be a closet on the right hand side of the door. The basic men’s and women’s clothing is for the people who stay to choose, and I searched for 2 minutes before I found the only one without the Stark logo.”

"Wow." Bucky had already finished his second bottle of Corona, licking off the sour lemon juice from his lips, "That's exactly the same as here, especially the T-shirt part, I must say the person who created your world Knows very well about real superhero life.”

Rogers didn't speak, the neon tubes dyed his blond hair and cheeks a rich shade of pink, that familiar face frowning—Bucky bet that the crease between his brows was exactly the same as Steve's.

"Feel sorry."

"what?"

"I shouldn't have said 'create your world'." Bucky shrugged, "For you, that's the real world, and I shouldn't judge from a bird's-eye view."

Rogers looked at him and smiled.

"You're always like this, Bucky."

"Huh? What? Like your... Bucky Barnes you know?"

Rogers was silent again, his perfect profile was like an ancient Greek statue.This time he was quiet for a long time, the fourth song was changed on the stereo, and two-thirds of the third bottle of Corona was consumed before Bucky waited for an answer.

"I'm not familiar with Bucky Barnes."

"Cough cough cough cough what?" Bucky choked on the beer, "Oh, well I get it, like us... You and that Barnes have been separated for a long time, and you don't even know he's alive ; or you get the news, but he’s not the James that he was back then, he’s had...something, a huge change, you’re no longer familiar with it.”

Unexpectedly, Rogers shook his head.

"James Buchanan Barnes. I know the name, I know his face and personality, I know he and I had a long and complicated relationship...but that's all, all the specifics, I don't know anything Know."

I don't know if it's because he drank too much cold beer, but Bucky felt his heart was tightly clenched by a layer of cold air.

"you do not know any think?"

"Well, it's blank." Rogers nodded his temples, "but don't worry, maybe it's just in that world, and it's not time for me to understand everything."

Bucky frowned, turned Rogers' face, and carefully inspected the vicinity of the forehead and the top of the head - Bucky was relieved that there was no scar from the shock under the blond hair.

For a moment, he really worried that this guy had been brainwashed by the hydra in the book.Captain America and Winter Soldier Swap?International jokes aside, no one is going to try to apply what happened to him to Steve Rogers.

The other party let Bucky hold his head to look around, his superior eyelashes fluttering like a butterfly.

"It's good that you haven't been reformed by the evil forces." He sat back on his stool, "It may be my fault. When I flipped through the book, I only paid attention to the first few pages..."

--etc.Bucky froze on opening the fourth beer.Was this guy just saying he didn't know Barnes?Then the first time they met, it was like bumping into a heartless person and kissed him?

This question, which Bucky deliberately avoided, surged up again, choked in his throat and couldn't get up or down.His eyes flickered, he raised the bottle and looked at Rogers through the orange glass, licking his lips uneasily.

According to the intuition of a spy, the timing is right now. This Rogers has a very relaxed attitude. They had a good chat before, and the other party did not intend to deceive, and was communicating with him very sincerely.

So, should he ask?

The neon tube changed to cool blue light with the music, the light reflected in Rogers' eyes, the black pupils contracted a few times, and fell on Bucky's lips.

From the time he appeared in this world until now—for about a few hours, he has always felt unreal.At that time, he had just completed a night raid mission, and when he returned to the building, he patrolled the perimeter a few times as usual.Then a golden hole appeared in front of his eyes, and an irresistible force rushed out from the middle, tearing and devouring him.

Then there was an unexaggerated "bang", he landed in a familiar library, standing in front of him was a man with a face full of surprise - with a fit body, mechanically made iron arms, soft brown hair and The most affectionate green eyes in the world.

He knew the look, it was in his files, in the frame that S.H.I.E.L.D. hung up occasionally, in every friend's mouth...but it was just fragments, they kept talking about the guy.Smart, strong, capable, and peace-loving; messy but pleasing eyebrows, gentle green eyes with laugh lines, straight and lovely nose bridge, and soft lips that always sparkle.

"I'm sorry you haven't thought of that yet."

He remembered Natasha's tone full of regret, and she said...

"You are the most affectionate couple in the world."

Natasha Romanoff was always right, Rogers thought.Because when he saw this person for the first time, the impulse in his heart was like a spark falling on the haystack, instantly igniting an inextinguishable flame.

He hit it, almost like a meteorite with a plan to destroy the planet; and then the bloody kiss, Bucky pushing himself away in a panic, the woman's scream and a lengthy and shocking explanation.

It wasn't his world, but the man with the iron arm was James Barnes, the love he didn't know but wanted.

Rogers' throat rolled: "You want to ask about that kiss, don't you?"

Bucky nodded with cute embarrassment on his face.

"You and Steve Rogers..." He gestured at the door with a wine bottle, "Steve who belongs to this world, what is your relationship?"

The silent one was replaced by Bucky.

It's a simple and complex question, Bucky thought.Of course, he and Steve are good friends. If there was a scale for friendship in this world, their value would definitely be so far ahead that they could break the Guinness Book of Records.But if we only use "friendship" to summarize the 100 years of entanglements, it would seem too light.

Bucky Barnes' literature grades were in jeopardy when he was a student, and he couldn't find any good words to reply to Rogers' tricky question that was a question instead of an answer.

"Good friends who can give their lives for each other."

Bucky took another gulp of his beer as he finished speaking, as if that would erase his dissatisfaction with the answer.

Rogers chuckled and clinked glasses with him.

"I'm very envious, that's something I didn't have the chance to experience. Bucky... means more to me, but I don't know if I will have the chance to meet him again in the future."

Bucky opened his mouth, closed it again after a while, and patted him on the shoulder silently.

What he wanted to explain was that his ability should have pulled him and his Bucky into this world together.But this is just an assumption, everything is still unknown until he finds him, he dare not give this guy hope.

He understands what it feels like to lose hope, which is far more painful than not getting what you want.

"Cheer up, maybe everything will turn around... Wait a minute, there is a message from Banner."

Rogers looked at Bucky, at the waistline that was exposed when he took the communicator off his waist.

——He doesn't believe in turning points, maybe it's a miracle from the goddess of luck to have a lively, gentle and funny Bucky appear in front of him.This Bucky and Steve are just good friends, which doesn't mean he can't accept his love.

He won't let go.

"...fuck Fury and that fucking biology lab!" Bucky slammed the table down, and a deep scratch appeared on the plastic plate, "Steve trusts Fury too much, that thing Haven't experimented with monkeys! Fuck, I know, let's get over it."

"Uh, what's the matter? That doesn't sound good."

Bucky retracted the line, let out a long breath, and looked complicated.

"Steve had a 'little' accident. By the way, Nick Fury already knows about your existence, and he must have a plan... Anyway, welcome to the real and brutal Avengers."

TBC

The self-body Shura field is really the ultimate sourness of the pure food party