𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀; 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲

champion

they were still driving it was quite a comfortable silence feels the car, as steve continued to drive, he hummed whatever was playing on the radio, bucky looked over at steve smiling at his friend then looked back forward watching the road before them.

not knowing where they're going, just letting the road take them wherever is something peaceful to him.

“steve?” bucky speaks up. steve keeps his eyes on the road making a 'hm' sound in acknowledgement that he's heard the other.

“you know where we're going?” it's been bugging him not knowing then again not knowing too may be keeping him sane and there with steve instead of his mind by himself.

“yes i do” steve looked over bucky then back to the road before speaking again “why?”

bucky didn’t have an answer for that, not a good one.  he didn’t know ‘why’ exactly he just wanted to know he guess’ but then again he didn’t he did want it to be a suprise or something, just somewhere steve knows they’re going, so it’ll be a surprise to him. Bucky shakes his head of the thoughts and looks to steve who has his eyes are focused on the road, and he finally spoke up, “don’t know, i just want to know where we’re going, where your taking me”

“do you though?” steve asked him

bucky shrugs “no, not really, and yes”

“you want me to tell you or let it be a surprise for you?”

“don’t tell me, leave me not knowing, who knows it may be a murder spot or ya know a cliff”

steve laughed looking at bucky, then back to the road as he spoke “okay. it’s not a murder spot or a cliff, there will be no killing or dying on this trip”

bucky frowns pretending to be disappointed “awe but stevieee, i want to kill” he giggles a little

“nope not gonna let you”

bucky crosses his arms “hmpf, finee, but your lost i would’ve let you help”

steve laughs again “like i want to help you kill something”

“you do”

“not”

“kay kay stevie, whatever you say”

they go back to sitting in silence listening to the quite radio playing and the sound of the each others breathing as they continued driving to their ‘surprise location’

~~

it’s been a little over an hour and they were finally nearing their location. bucky was fast asleep in the passenger seat. steve looked over at bucky’s sleeping self, not sure if he should wake him or not to tell him they were almost there. he quickly decided to wake him, steve quietly whispered loud enough so bucky could hear him “bucky.. bucky wake up”

bucky stirs in his sleep, opening his eyes slowly as they adjust to the light coming from outside. he yawns as he speaks “are we there?”

“yeah, almost just a little less than  five minutes 'till we actually get there. also i am sorry that i woke you up, i just thought you would want to know”

“your fine, steve, i probably should’ve been woke up anyway, and yeah i did want to know,  thank you for telling me”

“yeah, no problem”

~

they had finally got there after what felt like forever, in which it was kinda forever, but whatever they were finally there to wherever steve has brought them.

“so you going to finally tell me where we are, where you’ve brought us” bucky asked

steve shrugs, putting the car into park, looking over at bucky “don’t know, where do you think we are?”

“why do you expect me to know cause i don’t steve”

steve shrugs again “just get out of the car, and i guess you’ll find out then”  he says getting out of the car shutting the door behind him, bucky followed suit getting out of the car and closing the door behind him.

bucky looks around him at wherever they’re at he still had no clue where they are, but he’s sure he has seen this place before, but doesn’t remember ever going there before. he looks at steve shrugging as he speaks, “i still don’t know, but i’m sure i’ve been here before because i recognize it a whole lot”

“i’m glad you recognize it.. kinda recognize it i guess. we used to come here all the time when we were kids''

they were in an open field like thing except the grass that used to cover the field is now just dirt only a little bit of patches here and there, there was a shed closer to the back of the property, there were a lot of trees around..

bucky smiled looking around starting to remember the place they’re at now

“do you think our treehouse is still here?” steve asked bucky

“we had a treehouse?”

“yeah somewhere through here, you don’t remember?”

bucky shakes his head, as he answers “no not entirely”

“that’s okay come on let’s go and see if it is, i know the way”

“okay, let’s do that”

so they went to find their old treehouse. eventually they find it, their treehouse up in an old oak tree and the little swinging laiter hanging down from the door of the treehouse. It wasn’t anything special, just a normal enough treehouse.

“yes!” steve exclaimed excitedly “we found it come on let’s go in” he continues as he starts going up the latter, bucky following suit.
once they were up there, they sat down on the floor of the treehouse.

“i don’t think we’re supposed to be up here”  bucky says looking around “i think we’re too tall”

“you’re not” steve tells bucky “you’re short”

bucky crosses his arms, and pouts “i am not short.. and i used to be taller than you”

steve laughs a bit, “key word used to be, i’m taller than you now. and we’re going to be fine up here, the treehouse isn’t going to fall, it’s been up all these years, so i doubt it’s going to fall”

bucky unfolds his arms “yeah, yeah you’re probably right”

steve laughs again “i know, i’m right”

“so why did you bring me here” bucky asks

steve shrugs “i don’t know, first place that came to mind for some reason”

“oh.”

“buck..”

“yeah steve?”

“i think.. i think i may actually love you” steve says in a hushed tone

“i love you too, stevie”

“still, even after i kinda rejected you when you first made a move”

“yeah obviously you dumbass, i know what you meant and it was okay, i’ve told you that”

“yeah i know, but i didn’t think you did” steve frowns

“i am in love with you, you fucking dumbass. that’s all you need to know, okay?”

steve nods “yeah okay”

“i love you steve

“yeah i know, i love you too buck”

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this chapter was alright i guess