Armor (Winter Soldier)

[21]

"So you're saying that you have never seen The Notebook?"

"No." Natasha shook her head and took a swig of beer, then setting it down on the black coffee table.

"But," she stopped guessing that she had been an agent her whole life. She had no time to watch a Nicholas Sparks movie.

"You're unbelievable." Sam chuckled while Nat leaned back on the white sofa.

"I get that a lot." She smirked, sliding the beer bottle across the wooden surface of the coffee table with her sneakers.

Sam didn't mind at all. It had been almost two hours since Steve and Nat came along. They wanted to have a good time before Nat left for St. Petersburg and Steve to track down Insanity.

Especially Steve, he had a lot of catching up to do with Bucky. And they were both conversing on the stools of the kitchen island.

"You're watching it." Sam almost ordered, standing up.

"What? No! Its–" Natasha protested, sitting straight up and setting her feet flat on the ground.

"Oh come on! What bad things can happen?" Sam asked while looking for it in the brown, moving box marked: 'Movies', in black sharpie.

Thankfully, almost all of her belongings (including the necklace), had been delivered right to her new home.

"Nudity?" Bucky piped in, while sitting on the reclineable seat, Steve sat beside Natasha, who was looking intently at Sam.

"You watched it?" Steve asked, looking surprised, his eyebrows a little raised.

"What?" He innocently asked, shrugging. "It was the only thing I could do while she," he pointed at Sam. "Was at work."

"There were a bunch of other movies that you could've watched!" Sam said, the movie in her hand.

"Like what? 'Enchanted'?" Bucky askedreferring to the princess movie, making Steve laugh.

Sam rolled her eyes while everyone broke into giggles.

Bucky really had learned something from Tony.

"At least that was better than The Notebook," she said preparing the movie.

She went over to sit on the couch and Bucky following, laying his whole body on the remainders of the couch and his head on Sam's lap.

Steve just sat beside Nat on the love seat and waited for the movie to begin. And once more, Steve was still surprised at the use and functions of today's technology.

In about thirty minutes into the movie, Steve groaned and Bucky was lightly snoring on Sam's lap. Natasha's eyes stayed glued to the screen.

"Can't we do something else?" Steve asked while running a hand through his hair.

"Shh!" Natasha hit his arm.

"Ow!" Steve cried out as if he had been brutally injured, then before he knew it, one of the navy blue cushions hit his face.

"Wuss..." Natasha muttered than felt the small cushion she had thrown, hit the back of her head.

By now they had been throwing the cushion back and forth. Steve and Natasha slapping each other with them.

What happened next is what shocked everyone in the room: one of the cushions flew towards Bucky and his metal arm caught it, precisely.

This reminded Steve of when he first saw the Winter Soldier. This scared Sam, knowing that he could explode into violence at any second.

After that, the cushion went flying and hit Steve's shocked face: square.

Sam and Natasha burst out laughing then they realized that they too, had been hit.

The movie wasn't even played attention to anymore. Everyone in the new home were fighting, giggling and tickling each other.

"I...give...up..." Sam announced between breaths, while crumpling to the ground and dropping the over-used cushion.

"No! Don't die on me! We have to beat them!" Bucky exclaimed, pretending to cry.

"Build a fort..." she commanded, barely audible.

"What was that?" Steve asked from the other side of the living room.

"None of your buisiness!" Bucky yelled, then he turned his attention back to Sam.

"What was that?" he cooed.

"Build a fort, dumbass, " she repeated while chuckling. "I thought you were the Sargeant here."

"I've always been." Bucky smirked and ran upstairs to get more pillows.

Sam sat up and spotted Natasha and Steve nowhere.

Suddenly, a pillow came into contact with the back of her head and she spun to look at Nat smirking while hiding behind Steve's fort.

At the same time, Bucky ran down the stairs with huge pillows, stumbling to get the fort ready.

After a few minutes of construction , both Sam and Bucky started throwing the soft cushions to Steve's fort, knocking it down.

"Hey!" Steve shouted, ducking his head behind the remains of the fort with Nat.

Sam giggled while Bucky pulled her in behind their own fort.

"We are gonna beat them." Bucky smirked.

Sam smiled and pecked his lips quickly.

"But before that," she said looking as deep as she ever had into his misty, blue eyes. "I want to thank you."

"Why?"

"For knocking at my door."