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"Living in the Avengers Tower is weird to say the least, I dont even feel like an Avenger, I feel completely useless, because without the... other part, my other side- I'm no one, I don't have any powers, the only kind of useful thing that i do around here is the dishes, and I still feel like it doesn't count.
The (new) Avengers always try to reasure me saying that they also dont have powers, which isn't true at all.
Alexei, John and Bucky are super soldiers, and that last dude has a vibranium arm. Yelena is a high trained Assassin super spy or something like that and ava has powers, so yeah, im the only one without any powers and that makes me completely useless. Im a dude with a lot of trauma and just wants to be on a big void— no, nevermind, scratch that, I dont want to talk about— yeah. That.
But somehow I still live here, in the Avengers Tower, with The (new) Avengers, it's crazy! Why would they even want me to stick around? Im completely useless! I stick around because they're the only people I trust... And also because I dont have to pay rent, Valentina is the one who takes care of that."
It was late at night, around 11pm, Bob was sitting on his bed, his hands on his hair, most probably at the verge of crying, having an existencial crisis. And while that was happening, he heard the door of his bedroom crack open, he looked at the dirección of the sound and saw John Walker standing on the doorway.
From all people, Why was John there? Surely it wasn't to comfort him, was he?
"What are you doing here?" Bob asked.
At first John didnt say anything, but then he just sighed and sat at the border of the bed. Bob, trying to be far away from John, almost fell of the bed. Luckily, John was fast enough to catch him by the arm and pull him back to the bed. Bob just nod, not even saying thank you, and when he was completely back on the bed, he moved his arms away from John's grip.
"Answer my question—"
"Are you alright, Bob?" John finally asked, looking at Bob, almost staring into his eyes.
Wait wait wait— hold up— John Walker? Asking someone if they're alright? That someone being Bob? And not even calling him by Bobb— the nickname that Bob hates? This has to be a joke right? Surely John is just joking around to be the asshole he always is, isn't he?
And even if It was a serious question, which Bob didnt think so, he wasn't going to open up to John Walker, that would be crazy.
"Why are you asking me that?"
"Just answer the damn question Bob"
"I'm fine!—"
"Bob I've known you for more than a year. Say the truth."
Was John really being serious? Was he actually caring about how Bob felt?
"You dont even care about the answer"
"You're right, I didnt" John said, making emphasis on didnt. "Somehow now I do. Answer the question Bob."
"Okay I'm not fine! I'm not fucking fine!" Bob blasted out. "I feel completely useless around all of you for fuck's sake! I'm powerless with the other side, I'm only taking up space here, I'm surprised that I havent been kicked out of here and thrown into the mud! Does that answer your fucking question?"
Bob didnt know what he just did, he just told John a very short summary of everything that goes inside his head every second of his life, that anxiety that lives inside of him and wont ever go away.
And John? John just sat there listening, not knowing what to say, because he isn't a man of words that's for sure, sympathy is still something that he's working on, maybe that's why he wants to try to cheer up Bob?
"You're not useless Bob. A depressed idiot? Sure, but not useless"
"Wow, way to cheer up someone John, real genius you are" Bob said sarcastically, to which John rolled his eyes and looked away.
"Still not useless" John looked back at Bob
A few seconds of silence passed before Bob spoke.
"... Do you really think so?"
That sounded soft, very soft, vulnerable even, Bob didnt want to sounds like that, specially not around John, but it still happened, shit.
John nod "Honestly I think that without you, we wouldn't be The new Avengers"
"How so?" Bob asked, because he didnt understand John's weird reasoning.
"Because for some reason, you bring us closer. You're the reason why we didnt kill each other on the vault and decided to work together. Hell, we risked our lives to save your ass from the void and now you're asking me why we haven't kicked you out of the tower?" Now John sounded too soft, god no, he didnt like that "God you really are a fucking idiot sometimes" there it is, a little bit less soft.
Now Bob was left without words, he was once again at the verge of crying, he felt so vulnerable and didn't even understand how. How did John leave him this way?
Ten seconds, ten seconds of staring of Bob staring at John while John looked away and then, Bob hugged John, wrapping his arms around the blonde man from behind, pulling him close, as close as posible.
John had never had someone hug him like that since— since something happened that he never wanted to think about again. But still, it felt nice, it felt nice to have someone hug him from behind, he still got a little flustered, even if he didnt want to admit it.
John turned around and hugged Bob back, his strong figure making them both fall onto the bed, and they stayed like that, because they needed it.
John laid his head down on Bob's chest, they were both very much flustered and blushing, did they care? No, not at all, they both needed the comfort, and they took it.
Bob looked down at John, he looked so soft, his blonde hair sticking out on his face, his perfect blue eyes, those lips... No, Bob, stop, you cant think about John like that... But maybe...
Bob put his hand on John's hair and played with it, god did it feel soft. That only made John even more flustered, but didnt pull away.
This was weird, they were both super flustered, blushing a lot, but they still didn't pull away.
And they stayed like that for the rest night, they fell asleep on each other's arms, and god did it feel good.
But they forgot one minor detail, they left the door open, and so, in the morning, around 6AM, Yelena was already awake, she walked past Bob's room and saw the two men on the bed cuddling. Obviously she took a picture of It and sent it to a group chat called "SentryAgent fans". A group chat that she had made with Ava, Bucky and Alexei at first for the shits and giggles, but now for this.
When John and Bob woke up, they didnt say much, just "good morning" and "this stays between us"
They got out of the room. Their first thought was to go to the kitchen to make something for breakfast but then they heard voices in the main area, hearing their names being mentioned.
"They were on the same bed, cud—" Yelena was telling everyone what she saw earlier, but then
"What are you idiots talking about?" John interrupted, Bob being by his side.
The rest of the Avengers turned to them.
"John, hey, how did you sleep last night?" Bucky asked. Smirking.
"I slept very good, actually, didn't realize how comfy the beds here were until now" The blonde guy answered the question, lying a little bit so that they wouldnt find out about yesterday, but of course, he didnt know that everyone already knew.
Bob tried to hide a smile, because he knew that the reason why John slept so good was him.
"I would also have a nice sleep if Bob was cuddling me for the whole night" Ava teased.
John and Bob paused, their faces going to a deep shade of red.
"John you left the door of Bob's room open" Alexei said "Yelena took a picture and showed us"
"God dammit Yelena!" John shouted "Y'know what? Fuck you all" he flipped everyone, except Bob, off, grabbing Bob's hand and going back to Bob's room.
"They can't even take a little bit of teasing" Alexei said "That's no fun"
"Oh but they surely will have fun now" Ava said, again with that teasing, joking tone of hers
"They sure will" Yelena joined in.
"Thank god we can't hear them from here" Bucky said. "I don't want to hear whatever the hell they're doing there"