A Stucky Story

The Asset and The Widow

Steve loved Mother's day, it was one of his favorite days since it actually mattered. Every year, Steve bought his mother's favorite flowers and sat next to her grave and talked to her. This year would be a little different. Bucky's been to Sarah's grave before but this time they would be looking for his mother too, Winnifred Barnes. It would take a little travelling, but it was going to be worth it.

"Bucky? Are you up?" Steve lightly knocked on the door. He opened the bedroom door, Bucky was still asleep. Nap time was going an hour over, Steve didn't know why he was sleeping so much but Steve also got in a well needed nap. Steve sat next to him and rubbed his shoulder. Bucky groaned and moved away from him.

"Come on, you've been asleep for two hours." Bucky wasn't budging instead he moved his blanket over his head. "We're going somewhere special." Usually that would motivate him a little, but nothing. So Steve continuously poked at his cheek. Bucky groaned then moved towards the edge, unfortunately falling to the floor.

"Owie."

"Are you okay, bud?" Steve was trying not to laugh but it was a little funny.

"Okay." Steve removed the blanket from his head, Bucky squinted his eyes at him.

"Are you pouting?" Bucky shook his head then yawned. Then he petted Harley. "Hey, we have somewhere special to go, so we need to start moving." Bucky got up and followed Steve to the bathroom. They got cleaned up and had a snack. Steve packed Bucky's bag and made sure he packed extra clothes. It would seem that Bucky was going through the 'playing in the dirt' phase. He broke one of Steve's pots and Steve found him eating dirt. It scared Steve to death so he immediately called Bruce. Bruce assured him that it was almost a right of passage for kids to eat dirt, so Bucky was fine as long as it was in small amounts and it didn't happen constantly. If it was constant, then it was another medical issue that needs  to be addressed.

Luckily, it was just the one time and hopefully the last.

After Steve packed everything and got Bucky's shoes on. Steve looked at Bucky's harness, they were working on following without the harness constantly. Bucky was doing okay with a few mishaps. So far, Steve had him hold his hand wherever they went. But Bucky would hit or bite on Steve's arm whenever he wanted to wonder around, Steve knew he would have to take a few hits in order for Bucky to start  understanding he had to stay close. It was a work in progress and that was okay. They went downstairs and got in the car then left. 

Their first stop was the floral shop. Bucky looked around, he thinks he's been here before, he just doesn't remember.

"Good afternoon." Greeted a clerk lady.

"Hello, may I get four dozen lilies?"

"Of course, it'll be a minute we have a lot of orders."

"That's fine, we'll walk around."

"Okay, give us ten minutes." Steve paid for the flowers then noticed someone was missing.

"Bucky? Did you see where the guy next to me went?"

"I think I saw him going over to soil section."

"Oh no." Steve quickly went to soil section, Bucky was sitting on the ground staring at one particular flower.

"Bucky, what did I tell you about walking off?"

"Bug." He pointed to a red ladybug crawling on a flower.

"Okay, let's go walk around for a bit." Bucky shook his head and continued to stared at the ladybug. Steve sighed then looked at Harley, who didn't seem to care about the little bug at all. Looks like they were going to be spending the next ten minutes staring at a ladybug.