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“Steve, what are you doing?”
“Hanging this light garland.”
Yes, that much was obvious, as Steve had Christmas lights pooled around his feet. “I can see that. My question was about the method. You do know you can use a ladder for this, right?”
“Don’ ‘eed it”, his partner mumbled around one end of the garland.
“Okay; if you say so.”
Bucky shrugged then turned around, letting Steve - who was standing on his tiptoes on his log, try to hang the outdoor Christmas lights. At least nowadays, if he fell, he wouldn’t get hurt - too much, the punk could probably still find a way. Only his pride would suffer.
Bucky decided to get back inside to retrieve the rest of the material they needed to decorate the courtyard: a programmer and little animals. Just before he stepped over the threshold, he shouted “Don’t do anything stupid until I get back!”
Steve sputtered and Bucky smirked. That worked every time, Steve was too predictable.
Now , he wondered as he closed the door, where was this reindeer?
Ten minutes later, three trips and the double of boxes, Bucky was standing outside looking around, hands on his hips. Which decoration should he put first? The reindeer, the snowman…?
A swear made him turn around to stare at Steve, who was looking dejectedly at a portion of decoration that was swinging between himself and the wall. And, his partner definitely didn’t have the same defintion of stupid than Bucky, because he now looked like he could have replaced one of those artificial Christmas trees: wrapped in lights. Bucky suddenly wished he hadn’t left his phone inside.
Alright; helping Steve it was.
The two of them spent a good half an hour hanging the lights - some solar in the middle of the garden, some not - stepping away, rearranging them, stepping away again… Finally, once they were all put in place as they liked - that too had been fun, because if Bucky was helping, he was going to give his opinion - Bucky went back to placing their other decorations. Well, he started to at least, while Steve was setting the timer.
He had managed to install their cute snowman and placed the penguin when Steve swore again - seriously how did any of the Avengers believe that bullshit idea that Steve never swore? Bucky smirked, because he totally had anticipated it, and walked to his partner.
“I don’t understand. You’re perfectly at ease with all modern technology, yet you can’t set a timer.” Steve didn’t answer, he just huffed. “Alright, finish installing this Penguin, I’ll do it.”
Steve pecked his lips as he walked by him, then Bucky picked up the programmer. In two minutes, everything was set. They were going to have the nicest house of the area.