You Can Have Half
“I don't understand why you keep running off and won't tell me where you're going,” Stevie says while Bucky is in the kitchen making his breakfast.
“I'm not a child Stevie. I'm allowed to come and go,” Bucky says.
“I know but you're still adjusting to the present day. I don't want you to be overwhelmed somewhere and us not be able to get to you,” Stevie says.
“I'm actually starting to enjoy this new world. It's nice,” Bucky says and Stevie flinches as if he'd been slapped.
“Just tell us where you're going. We worry,” Sam says.
“Worry about what? Me, or the people that I could pose a threat to?” Bucky asks.
“Alright fine. We're worried about both,” Sam says and Bucky is proud at how easily it is to hold his temper at that.
“Bucky, I swear I'm not worried about any of that. The world out there is like nothing we've ever known. It still gets overwhelming for me,” Steve says.
“Maybe because instead of going out and learning about it, you hide in here and complain about how different it is and you want me to be as miserable as you are,” Bucky says giving up on breakfast and heading for the front door.
“Bucky wait!” He hears Stevie call but he's already out the door texting Stephen for a portal.
His phone rings a second later and he picks it up, “hello?”
“You're being followed,” Stephen says.
“Oh? I'm sorry I'm not in the mood for a magazine subscription,” Bucky says.
“The Widow and the Witch are following you.”
“I don't know who you spoke to but I didn't sign up for a subscription. Is there anyway for me to get out of it?”
“In another block there's a supermarket. Go to the vegan section. I'll be there with a portal,” Stephen says.
“Okay, yes my name is James Barnes. Oh, thank you. I'm glad we could sort that out. Good day,” Bucky says hanging up.
He goes into the supermarket and speeds to the vegan section and right through the portal with Stephen.
They come out in the penthouse kitchen where Loki is trying to feed Maria. Loki's own dounut sitting in front of him and Bucky's stomach rumbles making Loki look at him.
“There's a bag of them of them on the counter. You can have half,” Loki says with a soft smile at the same time Maria says, “Bu!”
That's why Bucky likes it here. They don't make him talk about things if he isn't ready, and for that he's grateful.