[Shield Winter] Meeting upside down

No matter what the situation is, maintaining balance is always difficult, and Bucky is facing such a difficulty now.He thought he was trying to maintain a balance between Steve and Rogers - which manifested itself in trying to eat double meals every day.This is thanks to the serum, otherwise when he returned to New York he would have to face all the shrunken battle suits - but the facts told Bucky that the rivalry between Steve and Rogers was far from over, this was not maintaining balance at all, he clearly was Being dragged in a tug-of-war by two people.

"I think Bucky's hair can be left loose, it's natural and it doesn't detract from his handsomeness."

"Why do you think he should take your advice? When he first arrived in Wakanda he liked to have his hair done like this, it made him feel safe. Bucky doesn't like changes in his life, like every time he eats steak he always Choose black pepper sauce."

"Okay, but I bet I'm as good at piercing as you, maybe I can take over the job."

"Why? Since he came to Wakanda, I was here to help. If you take over, this is also a change. What if Bucky feels uncomfortable? He is so gentle, he will never say it."

Bucky, who was standing at the door, turned around silently, and he went to cut his hair back to short, immediately.

In addition to a series of differences in the details of life, they also paid close attention to Su Rui's two studies.

"How long will it take for Bucky's arm to be repaired? We have been in Wakanda for nearly a month, which is a bit beyond my expectations."

"Is it true that the absence of God particles will not bring him side effects? You know, he always gritted his teeth and endured everything, and refused to say anything."

"Can this guy disappear while getting rid of the God particle? Oh...well, well, that's good, congratulations, you still have to stay in the real world."

"Instead of caring about me so much, why don't you ask how your serum research is? If you can't change back to Captain America, you won't be qualified to fight with him for a day. If I disappear with the God particle, you guess the chance of injury will increase. who is it?"

At the beginning, Su Rui tried to answer their questions with a smile, but when he got annoyed, he simply posted a sign at the door of the laboratory - Blond-haired and blue-eyed Americans are not allowed to enter this place without communication.

Bucky agreed with this, and even wanted to make a copy and paste it on his door, but he gave up the idea within 2 minutes.He lost his temper two days ago, and as a result, both Steve, one big and one small, shut their mouths tacitly, and stared at him with those moist and beautiful blue eyes, even the frequency of their eyelashes trembling at the same rate, he In a daze, I felt that I was reprimanding two golden retrievers who demolished the house.

Forget it, Bucky Barnes will never be able to say no to Steve Rogers, whether he's real or from another fucking dimension.

Bucky was walking slowly by the lake, the cold wind in the early morning dried up the slight sweat from the morning run, it was not yet dawn, and he got up earlier than usual, so he was able to temporarily escape the torture of today's "love breakfast".

Walking to the third circle, he saw a figure hovering in front of Su Rui's independent laboratory not far away.That man was not a native of Wakanda, as evidenced by his skin color and the Quin-style parked on the invisible tarmac, which made Bucky raise his eyebrows.

"Uh, Agent Ross?" He walked over and made out the figure. "How did you end up in Wakanda?"

Rose looked taken aback by him, and waved to him in relief.Since Infinity War, this intelligence agency agent who had close contact with Wakanda was recruited by Fury to S.H.I.E.L.D. They can be regarded as colleagues, although they did not meet in the past.

"Mr. Barnes." He said politely, with confusion on his face, "His Royal Highness Su Rui asked me to come for a review. Not long ago, I underwent a minor operation here, but this brand..."

Ross pointed to the line of signs.

"Where did I offend her?"

"Don't worry, that doesn't refer to you." Bucky looked at Rose's hair, which was so light that he couldn't see the blond, and explained with a shrug, "But you came too early, Su Rui was busy late yesterday, and I probably need you to wait. "

"Oh, it's really early, I didn't pay attention to the time." Ross looked at his watch, turned around and took out two sandwiches from the fighter plane, "Do you want to eat?"

Bucky readily accepted, planning to use Ross as an excuse to refuse the two Steves' breakfast.

"How's the Bureau doing? Is New York safe?"

"It's normal. The frequency of alien attacks is steadily decreasing, but there is still turmoil within the country... Well, two spy gangs were pulled out a while ago, with Natasha and Clint involved."

"Two at a time? God, they can do it."

Rose's expression was a bit strange: "Thanks to the two weird reports. The clue provider is very capable. Even if we asked Jarvis for help, we couldn't determine the real address of the other party... But the information is accurate, it is simply better than A.I.E.L.D. The Bureau’s work over the past two years has been useful.”

Bucky finished the last bite of his sandwich, and became a little interested in Rose's You-Know-Who.

"Top Hacker? Cool, I guess Fury wants to get him in."

"Indeed, if such a powerful person cannot enter S.H.I.E.L.D., it will be a great hidden danger. Director Fury has organized IT elites to encircle and suppress him three times, but they failed to catch a trace of that guy on the Internet. He sent Fury an email last night, we all thought it would be a gauntlet or another attack or something, after opening it under heavy security..." Rose frowned, as if he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, "found It was a 3-minute long video of a kitten licking milk that couldn't be turned off. The expression on Chief Fury's face...was brilliant."

Bucky laughed unabashedly, he already had a picture in his mind, Fury looked like a mutant goldfish with a cold face and puffy eyes, it must be very funny, he likes this unknown hacker.

"In short, after the video is played, a line of address pops up, which locates in Prague, Czech Republic."

"The hacker's real address?"

"I don't know, but Fury decided to send someone to go after finishing the work at hand. Natasha and Clint can't get away, so he has to consider another candidate."

It was already nine o'clock in the morning after saying goodbye to Ross, and Bucky walked towards the cabin with some guilt. Fortunately, the two golden retrievers were not blocking the door waiting for him this time. Nord passing by asked what was going on.

"They went to help Aunt Joyce cut down trees." Nord pointed to the north, "The Joyce family is going to build a new small house."

"Wait, you mean those two people have gone?"

"Yes, Aunt Joyce only wanted to ask for you, but they were very active in saying they would help." Nord approached mysteriously, "We all know that the big man is the captain, who is the little man?"

"Secret." Bucky waved his hand and walked north, "I have to go see them."

Steve knew early on that cutting down trees was not suitable for him now, but seeing the smiling faces of the Joyce family at Rogers and the compliments, "You and Bucky are such good buddies, always willing to do things for him." "In that case, he couldn't calm down.

"I'll go too." Steve puffed up his chest and quietly stuffed the asthma spray into his pocket, "I can help, pick up branches and the like."

"Oh, young man, you don't look suitable for this." Joyce looked at him in surprise, and seemed to realize that there was a second person in the room. "You look alike, and you belong to the captain..."

"Nephew." Rogers answered first, "His parents passed away due to illness, and he has been in poor health."

Steve glared at him, did not refute, just walked into the room where the tools were stored, took out two axes, and stood in front of Joyce with stubborn eyes.

"You're so cute. It reminds me of my youngest son leaving Wakanda for summer camp for the first time." Joyce patted him on the shoulder. "Since I insist on helping, I certainly don't mind."

They walked all the way to the jungle more than 500 meters away from the cabin. Solid trees grew lushly, and there was a winding stream beside it. Many local Wakanda women were walking by the stream. Joyce rushed to them wave.

"Look, the captain and his nephew are coming to help me cut down the tree."

The girls greeted each other warmly, and Steve was fascinated by the sight.The folk customs of Wakanda have always been simple and hospitable. When he came back here as a wanderer to find Bucky, these girls came here to chat like this, but this time their goal...

"It's been a long time since I saw our handsome and strong white guy, how are you doing recently?"

"What's wrong with White Wolf's arm? Is it serious? Oh promise me, you have to take good care of him."

"I don't seem to see you and White Wolf acting together very often recently. Could it be that there was an argument? It turns out that when he saw you, he must have been within five meters."

Rogers answered these questions one by one with a smile. Steve held his breath in his heart, but he couldn't make a mistake. More dazzling.He felt familiar, like he was walking next to Brooklyn favorite James Barnes 70 years ago, and the comparison undoubtedly irritated Steve even more.

He silently picked up an axe and began to wrestle with the tree half as wide as his arm.This is nothing to a super soldier, he could even break this tree with one kick, but now that he has lost the serum, it is all on his own.Steve took a deep breath and slashed vigorously towards the tree, the result was frustrating - there was a gap the length of a finger, and his thin jaw was numb from the shock.

"It seems that we should work first and then chat. This kid has always been very active."

Rogers said goodbye to them politely, and began to chop down another tree not far from Steve with an ax in hand.

Steve knew early on that this guy would be better than him at felling trees, but that didn't mean he would take the initiative to admit defeat because he was stubborn.He blushed and worked hard secretly, glancing at the other party's progress from time to time.

But Rogers was always unexpected. After he easily felled three trees and wiped his forehead, he even tore off his T-shirt indifferently, revealing his smooth and hot upper body.The ladies present were boiling. They thought they were discussing in a low volume, and they praised Rogers' figure without hesitation. Some even compared him with the figure of White Wolf.

Steve, who was not far away, heard every sentence clearly. He held the ax and his eyes were full of disgust.

—Who the hell wrote that damn book?How could he write himself as a guy with such a low sense of public morals?Is this what girls think is "hot"?God, he really can't understand.

Steve lowered his head and looked at his current body. The smooth and strong muscles in the past were all gone. Under the protruding collarbone was a pale and thin body like a flat plate. He clenched his fists and hesitated, and unbuttoned the upper half of his shirt. Button, turned his head and continued to chop the tree.

When Bucky got here, Steve was sitting on a tree stump, coughing like hell.Subconsciously, he patted Steve on the back, and while helping him button up his shirt, he asked, "What's going on? Is it caused by too much dust?"

Steve tried to answer, but his heavy head and constant coughing overwhelmed him.Rogers, who was on the side, sorted out the wood they had cut, put on his T-shirt and came back to explain for him.

"He has a cold and a fever."

"Catch a cold?" Bucky immediately reacted, "God, don't you know how easy it is to get sick? The wind in the forest is so strong, you must have sweated when you felled the tree, and you actually unbuttoned it for the sake of the cold? Stevie, you are really worrying."

Steve stopped coughing, looked at Bucky's serious expression, and then lowered his head in silence.

—He didn't realize it, really.At that time, his mind was full of not wanting to be compared to Rogers. Even though he knew that everyone's eyes would be attracted to that guy, he just didn't want to be outdone.It wasn't until the discomfort took over and he sat down to rest that he realized he might have a cold.Steve sighs and thinks, damn it, Bucky must be worried again.

Sure enough, the bright green eyes in front of him were full of worry, the beautiful brown eyebrows were frowned, and the lips were pursed, as if they wanted to criticize him but were unwilling to speak harsh words.Steve wanted to apologize to Bucky, like he always did 70 years ago, but Rogers was standing next to him, he was too angry to open his mouth, and the groggy and nausea from the cold was getting worse , he almost couldn't sit still, his body swayed and swayed.

"Rogers, please go to the palace and ask for some cold medicine." Bucky stared at Steve's pale face and sighed, "I'll take him back to his room to rest."

Steve didn't hear what Rogers answered, he just felt a hand pull him up from the stump, and walked slowly forward firmly but gently.That hand was warm and soft, and every little scar and callus was so familiar to him, Steve couldn't help sniffing, and called "Bucky" vaguely.

He guessed that the tone of his ending was a bit off, and the other party might have taken this call as a question.

"I'm here." He heard Bucky answer him softly, "I've always been here."

TBC