A Stucky Story

The Asset and Valentine's day

The day of love. Frankly, Steve didn't see a point of it. You should love your spouse every day and cherish them every day. He understands that people want to spoil their loved ones on this day, but getting gigantic stuffed animals, chocolates and roses wasn't that appealing to him anymore. Maybe back when things were simpler, Steve cared more. Now it wasn't that meaningful.

To Bucky, back then, Valentine's day meant impressing the ladies. And he would always attract the ladies, go on a short date then come back to Steve to give him the number of the girl, but he was always sure to give Steve a rose.

Now, Valentine's day meant candy.

Watching commercials, Bucky's interest wasn't on people in love, he was interested in sweets. Chocolate and strawberries covered in chocolate sounded amazing.

"Daddy, that." Said Bucky pointing to the tv.

"What?"

"Want, that." Said Bucky pointing to the candy. It really wasn't helping that it was Valentine commercial after commercial. Steve never so badly wanted a holiday to be over.

"Buck, I don't think you need that much sweets."

"Please?" Steve sighed, big blue puppy dog eyes won.

"Alright, on one condition. You will share your candy with me. And you will get candy for the others. Deal?"

"Mine."

"Bucky, remember what Dr. Nicole said?"

"Share is nice."

"Right, so let's get dressed." Bucky came out from his blanket cocoon. They got dressed and went to the car. Speaking of cars, Tony sends at least ten cars a day to Steve saying 'this is the one'. Half of them were family sport cars with child locks, but size was a factor for Harley. The cars were nice, but it wouldn't do them much good if Harley couldn't even sit down comfortably. So Tony kept searching.

Steve was slowly regretting asking Tony to look for a car.

Once they got to the store, it was more crowded than Steve expected. He knew some of these people were last minute shoppers, but this was ridiculous. Bucky started to become nervous, he saw that a bunch of people were grabbing candy and huge teddy bears. 

"Doing?"

"They are getting their loved one presents for Valentine's day, a day of love."

"Me, present?"

"The candy is your present. Let's go grab a bag before it's gone." There was no small bag of candy, all of them were classroom shareables. Then he had an idea, Valentine's day around the tower. Steve wasn't sure who was in the tower, he knew for certain that Thor was on Asgard. So that just left a whole bunch of candy left for Bucky to eat. 

"Alright, get a bag." Bucky picked up a lollipop bag without hesitation. Steve grabbed a small bag of M&M's for his own sake. "Also can you grab a box of cards, we're going to do something special." Bucky looked at him then at the row of Valentine cards, hearts, roses; all so boring. Then something caught his eye.

"Daddy." Avengers Valentine cards. Of course he would. Then Bucky started to grab at the stuffed animals.

"Bucky, you can't have those." Mainly because he already has numerous stuffed animals.

"Please?"

"Either you can have one toy or the candy. You are not allowed to have both." Bucky started to tear up a little, he wanted both. This wasn't fair. But he went with the candy.

"Good choice." Steve wasn't prepared for a tantrum in the store, he was glad he could avoid it. Once they checked out and settled into the car, the car started to make weird noises when he turned the key.