Inseparable

Right in front of me

Bucky shouldn't have listened to him, he should've  known he'd end up here. Steve talked too much sense that Bucky had lost his mind and agreed to let them both try to get in the army although he knew Steve wouldn't be able to. Steve was all he was focused on, all he wanted to be, brave, courageous, good, and loyal.

Bucky had moved the farthest he ever thought he could from home but now he missed Steve more than he thought he would. He'd be more careful next time, whenever Steve would say to do something out there he wouldn't listen no matter how much sense it made, he promised himself. He found love where he least expected it, in Steve who had been right in front of him.

Was it right to love someone so much that you'd go to hell and back for them? He'd loved his siblings incredibly but never as much as Steve. How could anyone make sense of that he wondered? He was straight as they'd come but he loved Steve so much he would flat out marry him if he was a woman. Was that wrong? Bucky didn't know and he didn't care and that's what he couldn't make sense of.

Steve loved Bucky but he assured himself he couldn't show it too much, Bucky could be fine with a hug one minute, and other times no. He used his expressions to gauge how much affection to give or take. Was love supposed to be this way? Could Bucky talk some sense about how he felt? Would he accept the hug Steve so badly wanted to give him?

Bucky pulled him in and held him, "Let them say whatever they want Steve. It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense to them, but I love you, pal. I didn't realize how much until now, all I needed was in front of me this whole time."  Steve hugged him back, "It wasn't supposed to be you but it is. Friends over girls always, I'd miss you more than Peggy. Can't live without ya Buck." Their love was pure and strictly platonic but they knew no one would understand that such a bond could be so strong, and thus Stucky was born.