(August Catch-All) The Things We Do

[unclesam]

CHARACTERS: Sam Wilson & You (Open + Closed Starters)
LOCATION: Various aboard the station
DATE: Immediately post mission + the days after.
CONTENT: Catch-all prompts for post mission feelings
WARNINGS: Will be added to Top Levels

[ Top Levels in comments:
Infirmary: angsty hurt people after returning from the mission
Mess Hall: the evening post mission, after the food delivery, alcohol is on the table
Simulation Room: the day after the mission, sam disappears and can be found zoned out in the simulation room
Training Room: hot dude working up a sweat while training, various days post mission
Lab and Tech Storage: redwing is the best boi, fight me (and Sam)
TBA: maybe closed starters for Bucky/Natasha?

If you'd like a closed starter or have a different kind of thread idea for which none of these setups work, feel free to hit me at inkcharm, Discord inkcharm#4573 or send me a PM. ]

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[unclesam]

[ It's the same expression that Sam had when Bucky apologized to him over the shield. A furrow between his brows, that shaky intake of breath and slow exhale on slumping shoulders. Some things you need to hear, but they still pull at you hard. Sam... hadn't quite realized how badly he needed to hear someone tell him this lately. It's something he's known, on some level - he's got his sister, he's got the community in Delacroix, and he knows he's got Bucky - and Natasha, here and now.

Still hits different to be told he's not alone, especially when that's something he tries very hard to be. Alone in shouldering the weight of the whole damn world if he must.

But he's really not, isn't he? Maybe it's time he starts letting himself count on the fact that he's got Bucky - and that opening up to him won't be seen as burdening him. That Bucky has planted himself in Sam's corner not out of obligation but because it's where he wants to be, and would stop anything else to have Sam's back just the same as Sam would for him. ​]

Thank you.

[ Because he is grateful to hear it - and perhaps, needed that reminder a little bit.

He holds his hand out, offers it to Bucky just like they clasped hands after their tough love heart to heart back in Delacroix, before Bucky had to leave to deal with the rest of his list, and Sam had to invest time in training with the shield. ]

You keep finding me when I need it. Promise I'll make that a bit easier on you in the future. You gonna allow me to do the same for you?