Rich boy

Chapter 7

Waiting in a crowded airport, with children crying and screaming had to be the worse foreshadowing that Bucky has experienced. Regret was an understatement of how Bucky felt.

Putting a war vet in an overcrowded building, like a New York city airport, is definitely the best way to get a large number of civilian casualties. Not that Bucky was a violent person per se. Just that he was a very large man who has pumped with a lot of drugs against his will for the "greater good".

Which is a load of bullshit.

Bucky definitely knew his strength and didn't like to be in situations where his control could be compromised in any way. Now that begs the question of why he would agree to be a bodyguard. Now Bucky did consider himself the smartest of all his friends when it was clearly Natasha, but something definitely happened to his brain cells when talking to steve.

Maybe it was a war bond or even the deep memory of a tiny skinny sick Steve. Whatever it was it made Bucky a little soft and mushy, making him say yes to things that he normally hated. Like children.

Apparently Steve had a son. And even though the boy was adopted he had inherited Steve's sickly body and stubborn attitude. The Vet had only seen pictures of the boy and was honestly surprised he was not related to his parents. Now biologically Steve and Tony could not make a child, but Stark was supposedly this massive genius! So, Bucky wouldn't be surprised if the kid was theirs.

And boy did he look like Tony. Brown eyes, brown hair, that mischievous twinkle in his eye. All Tony probably.
But the soft nature and cute button noise was all Steve.

Bucky was in way over his head. Hopefully this was a standard "sit by the door" type thing.

The boy, Peter, had an aunt that his parents had wanted to stay in contact with. It did the boy well in the long run. From what Bucky had been told at-least. Stark had offered her a full time position under them with a massive salary. The woman was more than willing to watch over her nephews health.

Now watching a teenage boy. This was another hurdle Bucky was not ready to deal with. Was teens Steve and Bucky were hell upon the streets if Brooklyn. Steve would stand up to bullies twice his size and Bucky would have to finish the fight. Bucky was used to having to back up Steve. But that was long before the torments of war, of hydra.

Bucky was a different person than the man Steve once knew. Both weighed down with the sins of WWII, but Steve got the better of it. He got to be a hero. Steve got to sleep for centuries and still be a hero when he woke up.

Bucky was considered a hero too, the great Captain America's best friend. Through all those years Steve was asleep Bucky was a shell of a man forced and trained to be a killing machine. Bringing down governments without a trace.

A man who lives through hell being the executioner. Will never be the same.
Yet Steve trusted him with something as precious as his first child.

Bucky really hoped the kid was easy enough to look after. If he had a Stark Jr. on his hands then Bucky might actually just lock the child inside and sleep outside.

Not that Bucky thought any kid of Steve was capable of bad intentions. Bucky knew how soft the blond was. He wouldn't be surprised is this was the most spoiled teenage boy in the world.

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★ I'm back will only be working on two stories at a time. Prioritizing this one and Daddies Little Spider as they are the only ones that I still am very much active in the fandom/am a fan of.