A Stucky Story

The Asset and Christmas part 1

December 23rd 

Christmas was undoubtedly everyone's favorite holiday. Spending time with family and receiving presents. Steve loved Christmas, he loved all holidays equally, Christmas was loved just a tad more. This year, he had a reason to love Christmas even more. Bucky was with him and was learning so much. And with this being his first real Christmas since he got drafted, he wanted to make this one special for him. He knew the other avengers would go all out this year for him, but they always had to be considerate that Bucky got overwhelmed quickly with new stuff. So Steve had to think of a way to ease him into Christmas. If he could just find the little monster.

"Bucky, where are you bud?" Steve didn't realize they were playing hide and seek until Bucky and Harley just disappeared after taking his nap. Apparently, Bucky was finding new hiding places. He wasn't in his usual spot under the bed, so Steve, trying his best not to destroy his entire apartment, remained calm.

"Bucky bear, where are you?" He looked in the laundry room, then he heard laughing passing the bathroom.

"Are you in there?" He opened the door, he could hear laughing and dog panting from behind the shower curtain. Steve pulled back the curtain, Bucky laughed and hid his face.

"What are you doing in here?"

"Silly."

"You are silly. But don't hide in the bathroom, baby." Steve picked him up and brought him in the living room. While Steve fixed a snack for Bucky, Bucky watched the TV commercials. All of them had music, a tree and boxes.

Steve came and gave him his goldfish, but saw that he was intrigued by the commercials.

"It's almost Christmas." Bucky tilted his head.

"Christ?"

"Yeah, it's pretty much everyone's favorite holiday. Especially for little kids."

"Why?"

"There's a guy named Santa Claus. And he comes out the night before Christmas to deliver presents to children all over the world."

"Santa?"

"Yep, he lives in the North Pole and only comes out during that one night. He has a list that has all the children in the world name's on it that can tell if you've been bad or good this year."

"I bad?"

"No you've been a good boy this year. I think he'll give you a lot of presents. But we should get a tree first." Steve didn't buy trees. He usually put up lights around the window and just left it at that. Tony was the one who usually did Christmas parties, but recently they've been having sleepovers on Christmas Eve so they all can gather around the gigantic tree and open the presents together on Christmas Day. And Steve had a feeling Bucky was going to be spoiled this year.

Once Bucky finished his goldfish, Steve got him dressed and put on his winter coat. Harley waited patiently while Bucky played with her tail. Bucky was always gentle with her and she didn't mind much when he pulled on her ears or tail. But he always knew when to stop. 

"You guys ready?" Bucky nodded. They left the apartment and waited for the car to warm up. Bucky dragged his flesh fingers across the window, he was intrigued when there was prints. He drew circles and other figures, Steve smiled at him then drove off.

Steve drove by a tree farm and noticed there was way too many people there. A recipe for a meltdown. So he went to their regular store where he was comfortable.

Not as much as people were at the store, which was good. But still a crowd. Steve got a box of lights and a few other things. They went out to the garden area, a lot of fake trees. Bucky touched all of them with his mittens. He saw a Santa in a rocking chair and pushed a button on his hand.