Happy Thanksgiving, Steve ch 10

A/N These chap-lets may be short, but I'm trying to polish them. Still deciding on what amazing dialogue I'll write for the actual dinner…. (no pressure, or anything.) Patience is requested.

"There is a God." Bucky exhaled breathlessly, but just enough for Steve to hear as Sharon opened the door to her apartment. Steve smiled and patted his friend on the shoulder, reassuringly.

As the door parted, Carter behind, Black Widow was revealed in dark charcoal leather pants, black, heeled booties decorated with small metal studs, and a deep jewel tone green cashmere sweater with a deep cowl in the front. A lace camisole kept the sweater from revealing too much.

"Natasha." Bucky rushed in and embraced her, burying his face in the pillow of her scarlet hair. He gently twirled them around, Romanov's feet coming off the ground. Did Steve hear a sob of joy in their reunion tangle? "Я так по тебе скучал.**" he whispered into her ear. ** "I've missed you so much."

"Я тоже, любимая.** " She replied, her eyes crushed shut and hands wrapped around his neck. **" Me too, beloved."

Steve, watching Bucky and Widow, more cautiously stepped across the threshold as Sharon closed the door behind them. Carter, beaming at the reunited couple, warmly placed her arm behind him, drawing Cap closer by the hip. Rogers jumped at her touch, then looked at her, "Like what you see, Cap?" she commented wryly.

"My… I.. umm. You look … amazing." was all Rogers could choke out, blinking as Sharon stood beside him, skinny jeans, knee high brown suede boots and a coral colored sweater topped by a complimentary scarf. Her hair cascaded in rivers of wavy gold over her shoulders and her sapphire eyes twinkled. A more plum lip shade graced her face instead of the classic crimson her great aunt preferred, but it didn't matter to Steve. It was like as if Peggy was giving them some sort of sign to begin again and that felt good.

"You clean up pretty well too, Rogers." Sharon chuckled, "Remember, it's just me- Sharon."

"Yeah. I know… but just… Bucky is the guy with the silver tongue, not me." Rogers replied, his cheeks coloring but liking how close they were standing, the feeling of Sharon's hand on his hip.

"Well, Mom always warned me about those guys." Sharon said loud enough for Bucky and Nat to hear as they were busy still embracing and whispering in Russian to each other. Steve averted his eyes to the ceiling and began to whistle a tuneless song.

"And look where that got you. No sense of adventure." Natasha shot back, her eyes aflame with love and tears as she gazed at James. She kissed him, Barnes did not resist.

"Ok you two. It's not like this is prom. It's Thanksgiving, for crissakes." Steve admonished them.

Bucky glanced at Steve, a few marks of lipstick on his mouth and commented, "We're just making up for lost time."

"Lost time." Rogers replied a shadow of melancholy in his tone then glancing at his watch, "We'll all be losing time and food if we don't get ourselves going here."

Sharon wrapped her other arm around Steve with a gentle hug as he looked at her; understanding in her eyes, "I'm sure you'll find a way to catch up on that time, Steve."

" I need to touch up a bit." Widow extracted herself from James' embrace to the restroom. James watched her walk down the hallway, arms crossed over his chest, a warm smile on his face, which was nice to see.

James felt Roger's eyes on him, "What?"

"You have some explaining to do, mister. Later." Rogers teased from behind Carter's hold, as she unfolded herself from him. Suddenly Cap felt colder when she let go.

"Steve, when will you learn, I'm your best friend but I don't have to tell you everything." his voice was deadly low, but eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Apparently." Rogers stiffed up a bit as Romanov appeared again. He held the door for the ladies, then playfully shoved Bucky out the door. James cussed under his breath, casting glares over his shoulder.

Sharon locked up and Steve politely offered his arm to her. Wrapping her hands around his forearm, it felt nice to finally have a gentleman but equal to her. Looking at Rogers and Bucky holding hands with Romanov, she thought with great fondness that they certainly did have a lot to be thankful for.

"Let's go eat!" James declared.

"I'm all for that." Rogers seconded.