Hello Sergeant (Bucky Barnes)

compromises

Steve's POV

It didn't take very long to get everything unpacked. Since the furniture had all been provided with our leases, we'd only had our clothes and personal items. Tony's movers had taken care of the boxes in short order, we'd just had to bring whatever we didn't want to send with the movers.

I'd taken my record player and boxes of vinyl with me, afraid they'd get damaged in the cold weather and jolting truck. Bucky brought his weapons, his box of journals and a backpack that contained his old Winter Soldier uniform.  He didn't trust anyone else with those things.

Bucky was sitting on my bed, watching me put my things where I wanted them and flipping a knife casually. It hadn't taken him very long to unpack his clothes and weapons. "This is weird, Stevie. I have my own room that's almost as big as our whole apartment was."

"I know," I said, looking over at him. "It'll take some getting used to, Buck. But that doesn't really change anything. We're still sleeping in Sarah's room like usual." Her large king bed had been set up earlier today by the movers, so at least something was the same.

"Good. Because there's no way in hell I'm letting her sleep alone. I don't care how much security Tony has."

"Bruce, Clint and Natasha are all here, too; they moved in last week already. And don't forget about Jarvis; he's available all the time."

"Not if the power goes out, he's not," Bucky said matter-of-factly.

There are several back up generators in the event of a power outage, Mr Barnes, Jarvis said quietly.

Bucky started at the sound of Jarvis' voice coming from the speaking in the ceiling. "Call me James, Jarvis. And that's good to know, but you still require power to run, and power can be shut down. Do you have to reboot when the generators come on?"

No, my system is designed to handle the switchover seamlessly. I would be down for less than 30 seconds in the event of an outage before the generators took the load. Any outage immediately brings up a notification at the security company, Mr Stark's phone and Ms Pott's phone.

"How much less than 30 seconds?" Bucky demanded, and I could see where he was going with this. He'd spent almost 65 years as a Hydra assassin, so he knew how they'd think and what they'd do to try and disable the security system. "How long did it take the security company to respond?"

It took 20 seconds during the last ice storm two weeks ago. Mr Stark was present then, so he talked to the security company directly and told them they did not need to respond. The time before that, 15 seconds when Mr Stark overloaded the circuits.

"Thanks, Jarvis."

You're welcome, James.

"So Tony basically invited the whole team and me to come live with him so Sarah would agree to move in?" Bucky asked, giving me a look.

I nodded. "He'd asked her before, but she hadn't wanted to be so far away from us, remember?" Bucky gave me a blank look, so I assumed he didn't. His memory was still sketchy at times from the reset. "This way the team's already in one place if she needs them. She can't protect herself as well as she usually could right now - not until her serum levels are back to normal."

"That's what I'm the most worried about, Stevie. If she get's hurt, she won't heal fast enough."

I sat down on the bed beside him and pulled him into my arms; I needed him as much as he needed me. I held him as tight as I could and he squeezed back just as hard.

"Don't talk like that, Bucky. Everything's going to be okay. Bruce said in two more weeks she should be almost back to normal again. Her body had a lot of healing to do before it could concern itself with serum levels."