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A couple of months ago Sam gave Steve a pen drive with a lot of music on it. Everything he had to know from the sixties to the two thousand.
“You need to catch up to the classics, man. Can’t have you walking around without knowing Abba” Sam Said
So Steve took it and has been listening to it ever since. There were a lot of bands and solo singers in the tiny thing but there was one in particular that he couldn’t stop listening to: Queen.
The device that Sam gave to him only had the “most well-known” songs of the band so everything else that he knew he found it on his own (Yes, he learned how to use YouTube, thank you very much)
He found it easily to like the band because even thought they were “new” to him he could find songs that resemble somehow the rock from his day. He really like the lyrics and he started to find him liking more and more all kinds of rock bands from these days.
So there he was, a Sunday afternoon, alone in the common room, sipping his coffee and reading the news in his tablet while his mind was repeating the same song over and over like a broken record. He looked around and saw the large black piano standing in the corner of the room with the guitar right by the left side of the piano, facing the door. He always wondered why Tony had a piano, he never saw him playing it.
He strode to the piano and sat in the bench in front of the instrument and put his feet on the pedals, searching for the sheets of the song he wanted to play on his tablet and put it on the pin block while looking down at the black and white keys. It’s been an actual life time since he last played but might as well give it a try, Steve thought to himself.
Played some tentative notes to see if the piano was tuned and once he was satisfied with the sound he begin to play the first notes and also singing along with it
“You say you love me And I hardly know your name
And if I say I love you in the candle light
There's no-one but myself to blame
But there's something inside
That's turning my mind away
Woh - how I could love you If I could let you stay”
His fingers moved easily across the keys and his voice was like velvet while singing
“It's late - and I'm bleeding deep inside
It's late - ooh, is it just my sickly pride?
Too late - even now the feeling seems to steal away
So late - though I'm crying I can't help but hear you say
It's late - It's late - It's late But not too late”
He sang the chorus with his attention distributed between the scores and the sound of the piano. So absorbed in music that he did not hear Bucky entering the room until he was looking over his shoulder to see the music sheets and began to sing the next verse
“Mmm, yeah
The way you love me
Is the sweetest love around
But after all this time
The more I'm trying
The more I seem to let you down, yes
Now you tell me you're leaving
And I just can't believe it's true
Oh, you know that I can love you
Though I know I can't be true
Oh, you made me love you
Don't tell me that we're through”
Bucky sat in the bench next to Steve when they reach the chorus again and their voices melted into it
“It's late - mmm, and it's driving me so mad
It's late - yes I know, but don't try and tell me that it's
Too late - save our love you can't turn out the light
So late - I've been wrong but I'll learn to be right
It's late - It's late - It's late
But not too late”
They kept singing, forgetting the world around them, they felt like there were again back in the church where the old priest let them use the piano when there wasn’t anybody around. They were back to the good old days in Brooklyn of their amazing duets.
“It's late - ooh, but it's time to set me free
It's late - ooh, yes I know, but there's no way it has to be
Too late - so let the fire take our bodies this night
So late - let the waters take our guilt in the tide
It's late - It's late - It's late - It's late It's late - It's late - It's late
Oh, It's all too late”
They sang the last verse in perfect unison and finished the song to be startled by applauses and when the turned around they found Tony, Natasha and Sam looking at them
“Didn’t know you could play piano, man” said Sam
“Or sing” Tony added
“Yeah, well. It was at old habit that we kinda lost” Steve said while playing random notes
“Steve always sang during the masses back in the forties” Bucky and they smile to that memory “
"Didn’t know you knew the song, Buck”
“Are you kidding? You have been playing that song like 6 or 7 times a day.” Bucky replied laughing while Steve slightly blushed
"If you liked Queen so bad I'm definetely going to introduce you to David Bowie's music" Sam said
"I really like this band as well. Do you know that one called in the lap of the gods?" Natasha asked and took the guitar that was next to the piano
Steve smile to her and started to play the piano again