Winter (A Bucky Barnes recovery story)

27. Chirstmas Eve.

Bucky was excited when Steve woke, he could practically feel Bucky's excitement resonating off him.

"Why are you so excited?" Steve asks yawning.

"Tomorrow's Christmas." He beams, he was super excited to be having a Christmas for the first time since before he... fell.

"Well it's good that your excited, but I'm going back I sleep." He says looking at the clock which read 4:00 am.

"Okay." Bucky nods and then goes back to watching his show.

Steve laughs to himself then rolls over and falls asleep again. At about 9:00 Natasha wakes up to see Bucky half asleep, watching the tv. When she stands up he turns and looks at her beaming.

"You excited?" She asks, his grin contagious and causing her to smile. He nods like an excitable puppy. She laughs and goes to the kitchen and makes some coffee. "Did you like Sleeping beauty?"

"Yes. It was really good." He says, moving to stand behind her. She turns around smiling. She hands him a mug and they wait for the coffee to get done.

They pour the coffee and sit down at the table. Bucky was still smiling and his knee was bouncing up and down continuously.

She smiles and laughs. Steve sits up on the couch.

"Morning... Again." Bucky says, smiling widely.

"Good morning. I see your still just as excited." He says, standing and walking into the kitchen and getting himself coffee then sitting down at the table with them.

"Yep." Bucky nods vigorously.

"We're going for Christmas dinner at Sam's." Steve says, reminding them.

"Okay." Natasha says, watching Bucky.

Bucky stands and makes himself some toast, and then spreads peanut butter on it, setting the plate aside he pulls a spoon from the drawers and scoops peanut butter onto it then sticks it in his mouth, smiling he walks back to the table and sits down with his toast in front of him.

"Really?" Steve says grinning.

"Ymes." He mumbles through the peanut butter. Natasha laughs and watches him try to eat the mouth full of peanut butter. After they eat breakfast they gather in the living room to watch Ruldoph the red nosed reindeer.

Bucky holds back tears when they watch the part with the island of misfit toys.

"You okay?" Nat asks him. He nods and sniffles. "What's wrong?" She asks.

"I... I think I'm a misfit toy." he says, sniffling.

"No, you aren't. Otherwise you wouldn't be here with us right now. James you are loved, promise me you'll remember that." She says, smiling at him.

Bucky nods and wipes his nose with his sleeve. They finish the movie then they watch Elf and at about 11:25pm Bucky falls asleep.

Steve and Nat smile at each other and then sneak into the bedroom and put all the presents under the tree. After a while they fall asleep as well.

A/N: I'm sorry I didn't update Friday or yesterday, I'll be starting school tomorrow. Finally! But until I get used to the routine, and get settled in, I will only be posting on Fridays. Again I'm sorry. Thank you all for reading! I really am so proud of how well this book is doing. Again thank you and I'm sorry.

Love, spideymanandloki :)