A Stucky Story

The Asset goes to the Bahamas pt. 6

Friday/ Day at Sea

They were on their way home. Finally going back home. Some of the Avengers weren't happy to go back home. Others preferred to be back home. Mainly Bucky, Steve was close to being homesick. Not a lot just a little. He missed his bed, this one was too soft and he wanted a home cooked meal.

Bucky just wanted to be home. He loved the trip and Steve knew he did despite the many request to go home.

Harley probably liked the trip also, but she needed a bath. The wet dog smell was lingering.

"Want. Want, please?" Asked Bucky pointing to the ice cream cone that Lila had.

"You're swimming, you can't eat while you're swimming." It was already past two. Bucky fought nap time with everything he had. So there was no nap today, but Steve was sure he would crash tonight.

"Please?" Bucky got out of the pool and was about to go to Lila but Steve got his hand.

"You are not going to take that from her. If you get ice cream, you are to wait an hour until you can swim again. Fair?" Bucky nodded. Steve wrapped him in a towel and went to the dining area. Bucky chose strawberry ice cream but before Steve could put it in a bowl, Bucky pointed to the cones. "You can't have that, you won't understand it and it's too hard."

"Please?" Bucky begged. Steve sighed and thought. If he put the ice cream in the cone, no doubt it would cause a bigger mess than without the cone. But he wanted to try and Bucky was killing him with blue begging eyes. Then he had an idea.

What if he crushed the cone into smaller pieces and still left the ice cream in the bowl? Maybe that will prevent a mess and help Bucky understand a cone in a different way.

So he did just that. He left a few large pieces for Bucky to try to chew on and added a sprinkles because why not? Steve got himself a bowl of jello and they went up to the top deck again.

Bucky sat down on a lounge chair and ate his ice cream then he noticed the cone chunks. He ate one and was confused. He never chewed ice cream but the chunks confused him. So he chewed on the piece in his mouth. It was weird. So very weird, but also very good. So he kept eating.

Steve smiled when he realized Bucky sort of figured out the cone. Maybe Bucky really was on the road to a more solid diet.

Then Steve noticed Bucky's hair was getting in his ice cream which was ending up on his mouth. So Steve asked Natasha put Bucky's hair in a pony tail or something just to keep it out of his food. She put his hair in a half bun, exposing his sharp jawline.

After Bucky finished his ice cream and waited a few minutes to digest then he noticed something jumping out of the water. Then another. And another. Bucky stood up and looked over board.

Nothing for a minute. Then something jumped.

"What are you staring at, Buck?" Asked Steve. Then he saw what Bucky was staring at. Dolphins jumping out of the water.

"Oh, that's really cool." A family of dolphins jumping out the water. Seeing them in their natural environment was more satisfying than seeing them up close.

"Play?"

"They're playing with each other. You do not play with them." Bucky sat down and watched the dolphins jump out the water. It was really cool, why didn't they do this when they were at the beach?

After a few minutes, the dolphins left and Bucky was inching towards exhaustion. But first he had to swim to with papa. It wasn't really swimming, more like pressure seeking. Steve left to use the bathroom and at that moment Bucky felt off. He went to Rumlow and hugged him tightly. Rumlow wasn't exactly sure what was going with Bucky until Steve came back and explained to him that Bucky needed pressure and if he wasn't near his blanket, he tried to make someone give it to him. Usually it only lasted a few minutes if Bucky was having a good day.