Next To Me // A Stucky Au

Chapter Seventeen

Bucky took a sip of his warm coffee and took a seat next to Steve and Sam in the large lecture hall where they wore going to have their first official meeting about the film. The place looked like it could've held several hundred people, which was probably how many people were working on the film.

Everyone was here today. Today was the day that Pepper Potts was telling everyone exactly what the film was about and who's doing what and everything like that. Bucky was exited, but something told him it was going to become very long and boring.

"I haven't been anywhere like this since art school," Bucky heard Steve whisper to him, looking around at the place. It buzzed with exited and nervous chatter, and it really wasn't that hard to remember that everyone here was new, just like them.

"I haven't been anywhere like this ever," Bucky replied, having never been to any sort of college.

It was at that moment when Pepper Potts decided to start. She walked into the centre of the enormous lecture hall and a respectful hush came over everyone.

"Good morning!" She said cheerfully, "I understand that most of you here are completely new to this Hollywood blockbuster kind of movie, so I am going to start of by introducing myself and the two other professionals I have with me today. I, as you probably know, am Pepper Potts, and I will be overseeing practically everything. This here is Tony Stark, and he will be spending quite a bit of time with our actors on and off set, making sure that we get their best performances. And, last but not least, this is Bruce Banner, and he will be overseeing most of the editing and computer work that goes on.

"Just so we're all clear, I will be going over what each team will be doing. You know which team you're in from the emails you all got so hopefully I don't need to go over that." Bucky half zoned out of what everyone was doing because, quite honestly he didn't care. He listened again, however, when Steve's team came up.

"Concept art team b will be managing all the character designing and some of the animals." Steve lit up at this, he loved drawing people, especially non-human people. Bucky was happy for him, and could see that he was practically glowing with pride and joy.

"The Avengers, who you may or may not have heard of, will be doing two different songs. For one of them, they will be working quite closely with the story board team," (Bucky had no idea who they were, he was zoned out for that bit, but he pressumed they kept track of the storyline) "and for the second one they will be working with character concept team, which mainly consists of concept art team b and a few other people." Clint cheered, causing everyone to turn and look at them, and the rust of the team just flushed in embarrassment, wishing they could dissolve into their seats, which, of course, is exactly what Clint wanted.

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The rest of the day passed slowly, and by the end they were all feeling like they were back in school in a boring grammer lesson (but it's not like interesting grammer lessons were a thing). It was a stereotypical Hollywood space movie: big handsome guy and his quirky best friend going around the universe, they have to save the universe, they almost fail, there's a big fight, they save the universe, handsome guy get a girlfriend, the end. No matter how much he complained, however, Bucky was still thrilled to be doing this movie.

Bucky climbed into Steve's car (which had finally been fixed) and they drove round to Steve's house. As soon as they got there, Bucky flopped down on Steve's sofa and pulled out his phone, and started scrolling through instagram like he did a lot now.

"Hey Stevie," he called to Steve, who was in the kitchen making himself another coffee, "do you think I should video call that girl from Instagram I've been talkin' to?"

"The one from New Orleans?" Steve asked and Bucky nodded, "yeah, but hang on and wait for me to get over there!"

Bucky waited a few minutes before asking the girl if he could call her, who (surprise suprise) turned out to be online and immediately replied with a yes. She picked up almost immediately and Steve waited to see her reaction when the screen came into focus.

"Hey," said Bucky, smiling, and the girl's face slowly went through ALL the emotions; confusion, then shock, then disbeleif.

"No way," she said after a while, "nuh-uh. No way is James Barnes calling me. No freaking way."

"Yeah, it's me," he said calmly to the girl, who was still freaking out, though not as much as before.

"Prove it," she said, "touch your left ear with your pinky finger," Bucky touched his left ear. He could hear Steve snickering slightly next to him."Holy shit, holy shit, you're not some kind of video recording, holy shit." She continued her little freak out session.

"What's your name, please," Bucky asked "I feel bad that I don't know your real name."

"My name's Megan," she said, and she seemed to have relaxed a bit now.

"And my name's Bucky Barnes," he added.

"I thought your name was James."

"It is," Bucky admitted, "but I prefer people I know to call me Bucky. It's my middle name." Megan nodded her head, lost in thought for a few minutes. She had a shoulder length auburn hair and freckles were splashed across her face. Bucky would have found her pretty if he wasn't completely and utterly gay.

"Where are you," she said at last, "not to be creepy or anythin', I'm just curious."

Bucky smiled and replied, "I'm at Steve's house."

"Who's Steve?" Megan asked.

"That would be me!" Steve yelled from the other end of the sofa, and Bucky turned the camera around and Steve waved, although he was careful to keep their legs, which were tangled together, out of the frame.

"Is he your friend or somethin'?" Megan asked curiously.

"Or something," Bucky replied, trying to keep the sly smile off his face. After that, they started chatting, and it became easier and less awkward as the time went on. Bucky told the Megan about how he would delete this account after this (which she wasn't entirely happy about), but he didn't say that he'd probably end up making himself another one. After a while, they realized they had been talking for about an hour, and with only a few interruptions from Steve. Bucky found himself a little bit sad when Megan declared she had to hang up because she had a four year old brother who needed to sleep.

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"Hey Stevie," Bucky asked after a while,  "can I stay the night?" Steve immidiately agreed, and not long after they decided to go to bed.

Bucky curled himself around Steve's small frame, clutching him tightly. Steve found himself trying to get as close to Bucky as possible, and pressed his face into Bucky's shoulder, wanting to remember how Bucky smelled.

"I love you, babydoll," said Bucky softly, and Steve could feel the vibrations his chest made when he spoke. He loved it.

"I love you to, Buck."

A/n: heellllooooo what is up good people of wattpad. Today I was writing and I was randomly like, huh, I'm only on 700 (ish) words and I've done everything I told myself to write about. So, cos I could not be bothered to get out of bed and get my notebook to check what's meant to come next, I just wrote that. Like, ik it was supposed to go somewhere in the story, but I have no clue where. Also, I convinced my parents I was going to bed early so I could stay up and write this for ages with no one disturbing me. Ok then, byyyyyeeeeeehdgskakagdfzghjshsgzffshsjklfk.