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Captain America & Bucky Bear's Most Excellent Tumblr Adventures

Chapter 4

Summary:

Steve and Bucky discover their RPF fandom and Bucky has epic feels about their "ship name."

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Per the infamous "Tony Rule," this, as always, started with Tony.

"The kids call it Stucky." Tony began.

"No, Tony, no no no no no!" This from Bruce who promptly buried his face in his hands and started to breathe evenly.  No point in breaking the living room as the Hulk.  And Tony had just replaced Bruce's favorite couch seat too. 

Of course, Tony was not to be stopped.  "Personally, I rather like the ring of ‘Starbucks’ myself."

Okay, so that alone should have told Bucky not to ask.  But he was curious and Steve wasn’t the only one with a thing for cats and curiosity so he took the plunge.

And asked the Question. 

"TL;DR:  It’s a shipping thing the fans got into after everyone went nuts over the Howling Commandos series on HBO.  Try not to poke at it anymore,” Sam explained, effectively putting the kibosh on Tony, who pouted. 

"I was just going to say that it’s like the whole Science Bros thing with me and Brother Banner here!  It’s SWEET!" 

So Bucky, naturally, ignored the pleas of common sense from both Sam Wilson and Bruce Banner, and went on Tumblr.

And then promptly started swearing in Russian.  Then Brooklyn-ese.  Which he was both equally fluent in.

Steve spluttered and went pink after seeing some of the slightly more…. racy artwork of him and Bucky …. no, Bucky Barnes could just not finish that thought.  Too much to ask of a man who already had his brains fried fifty-seven ways to hell and back. 

"But -  we didn’t…. we weren’t together in that  way yet…. not during that time…. I mean…."  And then, because Steve was Steve and he was not really the angelic blushing virgin everyone else in America liked to think he was, looked closer at one of the artworks and then slanted a Certain Kind of Smile in Bucky’s general direction.

Said smile was generally guaran-damn-teed to take out any sane person at the knees.  Bucky could vouch for that.

"Hey, Bucky, you think we could try this one out later?"

Amidst the cries of “AAAAUGH! BRAIN BLEACH! TMI!!!” from the others, Bucky gave Steve his own slow smile and purred back a definite yes.

Later on, Tumblr was again sent into a major meltdown after Operation: Troll the Stucky Fans was put into effect by Captain Steven Grant Rogers and Sargeant James Buchanan Barnes.

However, it did not end there. 

Eventually, Bucky had to say his piece about Certain Things. 

"I don’t get it.  Everyone else gets really cool names for their ‘Ship’," Bucky still can’t help putting in the verbal quotation marks because he constantly has to remind himself that "ship" doesn’t just refer to a sailing vessel anymore in this day and age.  "Why do Steve and I get the really ridiculous ship name?  I mean, seriously, Stucky.  Really?”

"Maybe because ‘OTP: Stupidly Adorable Nonagenerians’ is too long to remember?" Darcy volunteered.

"Stupidly Adorable whatsis now?" This from Steve.  The fact that he is currently sprawled on the couch allows Darcy to pat him on the head, coolly ignoring the possessive growl from one ex-brainwashed Super Assassin. 

"I'm still voting for Starbucks," Tony puts in.  "Or hey - Buck Rogers! There you go.  New Ship Name solved!"

"You - you do not get to have an opinion on this.  You with your Science Bros thing!  You even have a Pepperony thing!" And okay, Bucky feels a good ol’ dose of Classic Brooklyn Rage upon him and he lets loose.  "You and Bruce are the Science Bros.  The kids shipping the Hobbit and the Perpetually Lost Dwarf get to call it Bagginshield.  Even Legolas and Gimli get to be Gigolas, which reminds me of something between giggles and Orlando Bloom being an Elf Gigolo.   Birdbrain Number One over there gets to be Shield Husbands with his Agent…."

"Should I be glad that we’re not included in this rant?" Natasha murmurs to Birdbrain Number Two…. er….. Sam, who has the sense to duck and cover.

"You had to say the 'Buck Rogers' thing," Steve sighed.  "Bucky hates being called Buck Rogers.  You know, he actually threatened to shoot Dum Dum's nuts off if he called Bucky the 'little Missus' one more time?"

"No, wait, they were shipping you guys even then?" Sam asked in astonishment.  

"I'm not deaf; I know what the scuttlebutt was about us - we just ignored it." 

"Correction, you ignored it - I tried to squelch it but the rest of the fellas decided to take care of it for us," Bucky said.  "We take care of our own." 

"You know, I kind of like us being ‘Captain Buckaroo’…" Steve offers with his best angelic expression. 

That stops Bucky in his tracks and he directs his best Dracula Glare of Death in the general direction of his Idiot Boyfriend.  Who, of course, sensibly counters it with big, fluttery, “Love Me?” eyes. 

And then Bucky just buries his head in his hands.  “Fuck me.  Fine.  Captain Buckaroo it is.” 

-tbc-

Notes:

These originally appeared on the Blanket Fort:

In Which Steve & Bucky Discover Their RPF Fandom

In Which Bucky Protests About Their Ship Name

I blame tumblr buddy tygermama entirely for this because of this particular headcanon where the Howling Commandos were immortalized in an Emmy-award TV series produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Notes:

This piece of ridiculous shenanigans was originally posted at The Blanket Fort

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