A Stucky Story

The Asset and The Bad Day

Ever since Bucky started taking the anger management pills, he's been more relaxed. There aren't as many meltdowns. But with every drug came a side effect, sure he was sleeping more and he was drinking a little more but the worse had to be his tantrums. Before the pills, his tantrums were only occasionally physically harming. But now, they were all physical. Both of them always came out with a few bruises. But nothing too serious.

The tantrums usually happened whether or not there was a reason. Sometimes Bucky just got overly frustrated about nothing and lashed out. Sometimes Steve wouldn't give him what he wanted and he lashed out. Steve knew there was only so much of the anger the pills could take away, but he felt better about teaching Bucky how to control himself.

Today was one of Bucky's off day, or as Steve would put it. Bucky's terrible two's day. When they woke up, Steve had forgotten to charge Bucky's tablet last night. And when Bucky woke up and his tablet wasn't turning on, he woke up Steve begging for the tablet. But it wasn't charged and Steve told him not to touch the tablet while it was charging.

He didn't like that.

That was the first tantrum of the day. After breakfast, they had to go to the store to get more diapers and food. Bucky didn't mind, he finished his food and let Steve dress him. It was getting out the apartment that Bucky was causing problems. First, he didn't want to get in the car, then he didn't want to get out when they got there. They ran out of lollipops so Steve didn't have a way to persuade him.

"Okay, how about if you behave for this trip, I'll get you candy." Said Steve. Bucky looked at him then got out of the car. Steve put the harness on him and Harley and they went in the store.

The store wasn't too busy, hopefully they could get in and out quickly.

Steve got more fruit and two gallons of milk. After getting a few more stuff, they needed to get diapers,  which Steve had to say a silent prayer for. Why? The adult diapers were next to the children's diapers and pull ups. And a lot of the pull ups had cartoon designs on them. For boys, that meant Paw Patrol. Bucky has been good so far, occasionally picking up stuff and not putting them back. But all that could change once he saw the pull ups.

Once they got to the section, the pull up were the first thing he saw.

"Want." Bucky said making grabby hands.

"No, you wear these." Steve got two boxes and put it in the cart. Bucky started to pull against him towards the box of pull ups.

"Want, please."

"Bucky, those are pull ups, you wear diapers. And they are for actual babies and toddlers."

"Please." Bucky was pulling against him, hard.

"No." Bucky stared at him then sat on the ground, threw his Lamby down and cried. A few parents looked at them, Steve could only smile. Steve tried to get him on his feet, but Bucky started to squirm and sat on the floor. Steve sighed, a tiny part of him just wanted to carry him out the store even if he started to hit and kick. But Steve knew better and that wasn't the best option.

"Remember what I said about you behaving during this?"

"Want." He pointed to the box.

"No and that is the final answer." Bucky frowned, his cries got louder but he didn't scream. Steve got him on his feet and picked up Lamby and they walked towards the front of the store.

"Book?"

"You want a book? That's doable." They went in the small book section. Bucky once again was pulling towards something. A Paw Patrol book, it was one of those books that you push a certain button and it made noise. Bucky got the book and pushed the button. It was one of the characters voices. Bucky pushed another, it was a siren.