CHILD one-shots | james b. barnes

[ Simping ]

Simping

[ after Tony helps Angelika set up a social media account, she realizes her papa is practically famous. . .and their seems to be fans that. . .'simp' for him? ]

Sometimes in 2022

LIKE ANY OTHER DAY ANGELIKA found herself scrolling through Instagram as she would whenever she got bored. It was a daily occurrence, since college was fairly easy for her. She hummed to herself, sinking into the comfort of the compound's comfiest couch. Wanda sat besides her, and Sam was making cereal- for what seemed to be the fifth time that day.

She furrowed her eyebrows in slight confusion at the clearest photos of her papa walking down the street, with Steve appearing on her feed. She clicked on a hashtag labeled 'wintersoldier' and her eyes widened at the amount of photos there were under the tag. There was one of her father and Steve laughing whilst holding groceries, then another with just her papa looking to the side of the camera with a grin on his face- completely oblivious.

She continued to scroll until she reached a video of her papa jumping onto a car, smashing the roof, and stalking towards his target, Natasha and Steve, sometime in 2014. He did look rather cool, and she curiously clicked on it.

There were over a hundred comments and she looked genuinely confused at one of the words everyone seemed to be repeating.

"Wanda?" She said, not looking up from her screen.

Wanda turned her eyes from the TV, looking at her with a smile.

"What's up?" She asked and Angelika turned her phone, pointing to one of the comments.

"What does simping mean?" She asked and Wanda blinked a few times.

Angelika heard Sam snort, choking on his cereal. The pair looked up from the couch as Sam coughed, grabbing a napkin to get rid of what he spilled.

"Do you know what it means, Sam?" Angelika asked and Sam sighed.

"I was seeing that on some of my fan posts too so I looked it up, and it uh, it means they are essentially begging or doing anything a girl or guy wants them to do." He said.

Angelika and Wanda looked at each other, both faces scrunched with confusion, before they looked back at her phone. She watched the video of her papa again, frowning as she turned to Sam again.

"Sam, why are people, uh, 'simping' for the Winter Soldier?" She said confusedly and Sam, this time, choked on his spit.

"What?!" He shrieked, rushing over to her quickly.

She held up her phone and Sam pulled out of the post, scrolling through all of the seemingly paparazzi pictures of her papa with his metal arm glinting in the sun. Steve stepped into the kitchen, hair soaking wet with a towel wrapped around his shoulders. He grabbed a glass of water and completely drained it.

Bucky stepped inside after him, his knuckle bleeding. Angelika jumped off the couch and grasped his hand, regenerating his ripped skin with a concerned frown on her face.

"Are you okay?" She asked softly and Bucky pointed at Steve.

"It was his fault." He said childishly and Steve rolled his eyes.

"I didn't know the Winter Soldier was triggered." He fired back and Bucky scoffed.

"You know when I'm training I'm- the other me is sensitive." He retorted and Steve frowned.