Bucky thinks that maybe Yelena had forgotten about their tentative plans when he doesn't hear from her for two weeks. It's fine though, since they hadn't made solid plans, and Steve got back from his mission the night before. Bucky was definitely otherwise occupied so it's a good thing she hadn't messaged. He's back home now though, not needing to be part of Steve's debriefing at headquarters.
He definitely remembers locking his door, so finding it unlocked is a little strange. He doesn't often get visitors, aside from Barton coming over to harass him and bring him pizza. He knows that Barton is also at the debriefing though, so he steps into his apartment with caution. Looking around, he spots her. Yelena is fast asleep on his couch. That explains the door.
Bucky drops his bag on the counter, making sure to not be too quiet. He's positive that she's clocked him being home already, and just written him off as a non-threat. He knows what it's like, sleeping lightly, just in case. But she knows that she's safe here, and if she doesn't want to wake up just yet, then who is he to force it on her.
She's been away for two weeks now doing who knows what, so if Yelena wants to sleep in a safe place, Bucky isn't about to stop her.
Instead, he puts his groceries away and settles into the chair to finish his book.
The soft, but distinct noises of him moving about the flat are welcome, given the almost contented sigh that escapes her. She is aware, but not awake, clinging to the last dregs of sleep.
So for a bit, Bucky can enjoy his book in peace. But eventually she slowly starts to stir. An annoyed growl first, reaching blindly for the first thing her hand lands on— a tiny throw pillow, which she immediately shoved against the side of her head.
A deeper, more resigned groan is next as she huffs and shoved the pillow under her head instead, tilting her head to squint over at Bucky perched in his chair. “Your couch is trying to eat me,” as evidenced by the way she managed to wedge one leg between the cushions in her sleep.
Bucky looks up over the rim of his book when he hears Yelena start to wake. He knows better than to wake up an assassin without warning, so he just lets her come to consciousness on her own. Finally, she speaks and he can't help but quirk his mouth up, amused. "I got the comfiest one on the market. You have no idea what they were like, back in the twenties and thirties, like sitting on a goddamn board."
He slips a bookmark between the pages of his book and sets it down on the table next to him. "Kinda surprised to find you here. You can't warn a guy? What if I had someone here with me," he teases. She probably knows that he wouldn't, since Steve is busy with the Avengers. Their relationship isn't a well kept secret, even though they don't openly share it either.
"I can tell," she says to the first comment, other than tugging her leg out of the wedge it'd managed to get into, she seems not very eager to move from her place on the couch. "Everything was worse then," at least she does manage to sit up, shoving herself with her back into the corner of the couch. "You barely even had tv."
She snorts softly at that. "What warning did you need? Was me on your couch not enough?" What kind of spy would she be if she went around warning everyone every time she planned to swing by? Honestly. "Oh, no, I might see you chastely kiss your husband!" she pretends to be clutching pearls she isn't wearing. "The scandal!" she laughs at her own joke, grinning at him all the while.
"We didn't have tv," Bucky corrects. "Just movie theatres. We had a phone at my place though, and people from all over the neighbourhood would come and use it when they needed to." It's so weird to think about now, since Bucky currently has a phone sitting on the table next to him, with no cords attaching it to anything, and the capability to connect to the internet. He can keep in touch with anyone he chooses to, and avoid those he doesn't. The future is wild.
"If you think that all me and Steve do in here is kiss chastely, then you are very misinformed about our relationship." Neither he nor Steve are loose lipped about their relationship, choosing to keep things pretty private, but he's never once let anyone believe that they're not fucking like rabbits the moment they head back home together. "If word got out that we're not innocent old grandfathers, it might actually be a scandal."
“God, you are older than TV?!” Is she really that shocked or is it just the dumb little sister energy she holds so much of finding a way to burst out of her? Always hard to tell, actually.
She laughs, and it’s a raucous thing, loud and uninhibited. “Oh my God, I want to read the TMZ article they would do! It would be so funny.”
"I was born in nineteen eighteen, Yelena," Bucky states dryly. "TVs weren't invented for in home use until almost the thirties, and I was way too poor to have one." His parents had been better off than Steve was, but that's not to say that he was rich at all. Far from it.
He agrees with her on her second point, though, since that article would be hilarious to read. "I feel like no one would believe it, even with photographic proof. Steve is so good at playing the boy scout that no one even suspects that he lives in a den of sin."
"Well, I don't know, okay. I wasn't there when it was invented, it's always existed to me!" It's very, very obvious she is not nearly as offended or upset as she sounds. It's all for the joke. Like so many things can be with her. It's a coping mechanism, and also just her style of humor. A wham-bam, one-two punch of inescapability!
"They would say one of you was a stand-in, or it was actors or oohh-" she's literally bouncing on the couch now with her excitement at the sudden thought in her mind, "Oh, have you seen the musical? It is hilariously terrible."
"It is a pretty good invention, even though people use it for evil," he's not going to clarify that without her asking. He just takes a sip of his coffee and shrugs. "I do like watching movies though. I always liked fantasy and science, and there's a lot of that stuff now."
"We're not talking about the musical. I can't believe they used our vows in it. And not only that, they made 'Steve' say them to Peggy instead." Bucky shakes his head. It's really upsetting to him, because history has rewritten him into some sort of side kick instead of Steve's partner. They're married now, but they would have back then too, if it was legal.
"All good things can, and will be, used for evil. It is an unfortunate fact of our reality." That... well, that's a lesson she learned very young. "But what evil are you speaking of, specifically? Movies are the best! Did you know they made Tolkien's novels into movies?" Someone must have told him, surely. If not, that may be what she insists on later, even if they are the longest ever.
She wrinkles her nose at that little tidbit of information. "Oh, I did not know they really used your real ones, that's disgusting." And kind of a double-down of insulting, given the way they ended the play, actually. "Can't you sue them or something?" she asks, tipping her head a little to one side.
"Have you never accidentally watched the news?" Bucky responds. "I hate to be that guy, but back in my day, the news was all real. Now it's just sensationalism and outright lies. We used to have to have sources for our news, and they needed to be reliable. And yeah, there was war propaganda, and they didn't tell the whole truth but..." Apparently he feels pretty passionate about the state of the news now.
"Is it worth it? They're just gonna tell the story that they want to anyway," Bucky shrugs. "So. What brings you over?"
It’s a valid thing to feel passionate about, the state of news these days IS pretty abysmal. “Ahh, yes. It is all propaganda now, yes? Or some celebrity crying about things no normal person cares about,” because celebrities in the news? She’s pretty sure that’s a “her generation” normal, but definitely not his.
“We should watch them anyway, and you can tell me how wrong it is and throw popcorn at the screen about it.” Because if there is one thing this man needs more of in his life, it’s fun.
She shrugs at the question. “I was in town and I thought I would stop by.” It’s not an outright lie, but conveniently is also not the whole truth, either.
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Date: 2023-07-07 10:59 pm (UTC)He definitely remembers locking his door, so finding it unlocked is a little strange. He doesn't often get visitors, aside from Barton coming over to harass him and bring him pizza. He knows that Barton is also at the debriefing though, so he steps into his apartment with caution. Looking around, he spots her. Yelena is fast asleep on his couch. That explains the door.
Bucky drops his bag on the counter, making sure to not be too quiet. He's positive that she's clocked him being home already, and just written him off as a non-threat. He knows what it's like, sleeping lightly, just in case. But she knows that she's safe here, and if she doesn't want to wake up just yet, then who is he to force it on her.
She's been away for two weeks now doing who knows what, so if Yelena wants to sleep in a safe place, Bucky isn't about to stop her.
Instead, he puts his groceries away and settles into the chair to finish his book.
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Date: 2023-07-13 12:57 am (UTC)So for a bit, Bucky can enjoy his book in peace. But eventually she slowly starts to stir. An annoyed growl first, reaching blindly for the first thing her hand lands on— a tiny throw pillow, which she immediately shoved against the side of her head.
A deeper, more resigned groan is next as she huffs and shoved the pillow under her head instead, tilting her head to squint over at Bucky perched in his chair. “Your couch is trying to eat me,” as evidenced by the way she managed to wedge one leg between the cushions in her sleep.
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Date: 2023-07-17 12:18 am (UTC)He slips a bookmark between the pages of his book and sets it down on the table next to him. "Kinda surprised to find you here. You can't warn a guy? What if I had someone here with me," he teases. She probably knows that he wouldn't, since Steve is busy with the Avengers. Their relationship isn't a well kept secret, even though they don't openly share it either.
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Date: 2023-07-18 07:38 pm (UTC)She snorts softly at that. "What warning did you need? Was me on your couch not enough?" What kind of spy would she be if she went around warning everyone every time she planned to swing by? Honestly. "Oh, no, I might see you chastely kiss your husband!" she pretends to be clutching pearls she isn't wearing. "The scandal!" she laughs at her own joke, grinning at him all the while.
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Date: 2023-07-18 09:53 pm (UTC)"If you think that all me and Steve do in here is kiss chastely, then you are very misinformed about our relationship." Neither he nor Steve are loose lipped about their relationship, choosing to keep things pretty private, but he's never once let anyone believe that they're not fucking like rabbits the moment they head back home together. "If word got out that we're not innocent old grandfathers, it might actually be a scandal."
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Date: 2023-07-19 12:41 am (UTC)She laughs, and it’s a raucous thing, loud and uninhibited. “Oh my God, I want to read the TMZ article they would do! It would be so funny.”
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Date: 2023-07-20 03:08 am (UTC)He agrees with her on her second point, though, since that article would be hilarious to read. "I feel like no one would believe it, even with photographic proof. Steve is so good at playing the boy scout that no one even suspects that he lives in a den of sin."
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Date: 2023-07-20 11:47 pm (UTC)"They would say one of you was a stand-in, or it was actors or oohh-" she's literally bouncing on the couch now with her excitement at the sudden thought in her mind, "Oh, have you seen the musical? It is hilariously terrible."
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Date: 2023-07-22 02:27 am (UTC)"We're not talking about the musical. I can't believe they used our vows in it. And not only that, they made 'Steve' say them to Peggy instead." Bucky shakes his head. It's really upsetting to him, because history has rewritten him into some sort of side kick instead of Steve's partner. They're married now, but they would have back then too, if it was legal.
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Date: 2023-08-01 05:55 pm (UTC)She wrinkles her nose at that little tidbit of information. "Oh, I did not know they really used your real ones, that's disgusting." And kind of a double-down of insulting, given the way they ended the play, actually. "Can't you sue them or something?" she asks, tipping her head a little to one side.
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Date: 2023-08-05 12:56 am (UTC)"Is it worth it? They're just gonna tell the story that they want to anyway," Bucky shrugs. "So. What brings you over?"
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Date: 2023-08-18 07:10 pm (UTC)“We should watch them anyway, and you can tell me how wrong it is and throw popcorn at the screen about it.” Because if there is one thing this man needs more of in his life, it’s fun.
She shrugs at the question. “I was in town and I thought I would stop by.” It’s not an outright lie, but conveniently is also not the whole truth, either.