Christmas In The Sun || Stucky ✔

Chapter Five

"This weather is so damn hot." Bucky mutters, as he lay shirtless out on the grass next to Steve, who's currently cooking burger patties, sausages, and onion on their little gas cooker.

Steve looks down at him, shaking his head. "Well it sure beats being freezing cold back at home." He says. "And get up would you? You're meant to be helping me."

Bucky makes no move to get up off the grass, just waves Steve off. He's too hot to do anything right now, especially cook. Besides, he's already made two bowls of salad, and now is his time to just lay out in the sun to the point it feels like he's melting.

"We had an agreement, Steve." Bucky says. "I make the salads - which I've already done by the way - and you cook the food. Cause no way am I touching any hot surfaces."

"And yet you can lay out in the sun sweating your balls off in the sun." Steve asks, turning over the sausages and burger patties on the grill.

"Laying out in the sun and touching or working around hot surfaces are two completely different things, Rogers." Bucky says, sitting up a little and removing his sunglasses to look up at Steve. "Besides, you're better at cooking on that thing than I am."

Steve sighs, looking down at Bucky. It certainly wasn't a lie exactly. Bucky can't really use the gas cooker all that well, but it would be great if he was being a little more helpful than he's already being. At least he did make the salads. The first time Steve's actually seen him make salad....

"Well you could at least get the burger buns and everything else ready." He says. "And butter the bread for the sausages."

"Ugh, you know I hate butter." Bucky says, crinkling up his nose in distaste. He's really never liked butter....

"And yet you like garlic butter and garlic bread." Steve comments.

"Hey, that's different." Bucky says, pointing a finger at Steve. "Garlic butter and garlic bread is fucking fantastic."

He won't lie, Steve has to agree with that. Garlic butter and garlic bread is fantastic. Especially garlic bread. Though he's a little concerned about how much of it Bucky can and will eat of it on a weekly basis.

Maybe he should start thinking about putting him on a diet or something. Despite the fact that they can both eat a ton of food and not exactly gain a lot of weight if any, he's almost sure that there's a limit to that. Also considering the fact that the serum Bucky was shot up with by Hydra is different to his own, he's almost positive that it would be different for Bucky.

"You eat too much of it though, Buck." Steve says. "Don't make me put you on a strict no garlic butter or garlic bread diet."

Bucky narrows his eyes at him. "You wouldn't dare." He says. "Don't you fucking dare touch my garlic bread!"

"Oh just try me, Barnes." Steve says. "It may have to come to that. Who knows at what point you'll actually start gaining weight after eating so much?" He asks. "Not that I'd really mind if you were to get a little chubbier."

"Hey, at least I do exercise." Bucky says, finally getting up off the grass.

He's not lying there and Steve knows it. Bucky does exercise, in his own time. He never seems to want to go out jogging in the morning though. Steve chalks that up to the early hours of the morning he goes out jogging, and because most of the time Sam goes with him on his morning jogs. Bucky and Sam don't get along half the time, and almost everything has to be a competition with the pair of them.

"That may be true, Buck. But you still do eat a lot." Steve says. "Now can you go get the burger buns and everything else ready please?" He asks. "These are almost done cooking."