Everyone was sad to be back at home except Bucky who was glad he could hug Steve without turning him into toast. Luckily they both didn't have to go out on a mission until tomorrow so they could spend the whole day to themselves.

"Do you want to go shopping?" Steve asked Bucky, looking up from his newspaper. They were both sitting in front of the TV; they weren't watching it was just background sound.

Bucky was sitting cross legged on the floor in-between the sofa and the coffee table playing cards by himself just to pass the time, "I don't need anything" Bucky said puzzled. Because his family was poor he was so used to only going shopping when he needed something but now that he was earning money and there was no rations or shortage of anything he forgot he could just go out and buy anything he wanted with Steve's permission first of course.

"Okay then let's just stroll around until we see something we want?" Steve suggested Bucky nodded jumping up to get out of his sweat pant and into a white t-shirt and blue jeans. When he entered the main room he saw that Steve was wearing almost the exact same outfit.

"You have to change." Bucky protested.

"I was wearing this first! You change!" Steve shot back.

"Why?" Bucky moaned

"Because I said so." Steve said with a stern look.

Bucky re-entered the main room wearing; a black short sleeved t-shirt with a gray hoodie zipped to the top, to hide his left arm and a darker pair of blue jeans. "better?" Bucky said sarcastically.

Steve moved over to where Bucky stood, unzipped the jacket a little and adjusted the hood, "perfect." Steve said kissing Bucky's forehead and move towards the elevator. The grabbed their coats as it was still cold outside especially if you compare it to Hawaii and went down to the garage, Steve had his motorbike bought over from Washington and this was the first time he'd ridden it since leaving.

"Oh how I've miss it." Steve said swinging a leg over the seat of the motorbike, Bucky did the same and wrapped his arms around Steve and rested his chin on Steve's shoulder. The wind rushed through their hair until they had to pull over and tie up Bucky's hair because he it kept wiping him in the eye. They didn't go far before parking the bike and when they both got off they put on their baseball caps in an effort to hide their faces and started strolling down the street.

Walking closely next to Steve, Bucky whispered "do you think it's okay if I hold your hand?"

"Who cares?" Steve laced his fingers through Bucky's and they walked down the street together unnoticed until a gust of wind blew Steve's hat straight of his head revealing the face of Captain America that everyone knows almost too well. A flood of people swarmed around them all wanting a picture with the legend himself. Steve and Bucky tried pushing on but the storm was not going away anytime soon. Bucky tugged Steve along when he lost his grip and was pushed to the back of the group surrounding Steve, he tried getting back to Steve but the people were being stubborn and he couldn't get back to Steve. Eventually he heard Steve's voice "...so if you could respectfully let me get back to my day off I would deeply appreciate it." there was a disappointed awww from the civilians and the clump of people separated following Steve's wishes.

When Steve got back to Bucky he almost flung himself into a hug, "this is why I need a secret identity." Steve said into Bucky's neck and he chuckled in response.

"let's get some food." They walked a little until they found a small pizza restaurant, they were both starving so they orders straight away, Steve had the pepperony and Bucky had the meat feast they were both eating in piece and talking about 5 things they missed from the past, when Bucky felt something tugging on his sleeve; he looked down to see a little girl with small pig tails looking up in awe at him.

"hello little one," Bucky looked around and couldn't see an adult she might belong to "where's your mum and dad?" he asked her in a voice that you only use when talking to children, Bucky had always been good with kids he had lots of younger siblings who were likely all gone now just like everyone else he once knew apart from Steve. Even when he was the winter soldier he had a lot of self-control (which didn't come round often) when it came to children.

"They're over there" she pointed to a table across restaurant where two people were sitting eating, having not realised their child running away to speak to a stranger. "You're my favourite." The little girl said suddenly.

He frowned "favourite what?" Bucky was confused she'd changed conversation so quickly he hadn't caught on what she was talking about.

"Avenger!" the little girl informed him.

"Me?" he was still confused. "Are you sure you don't mean Ste..."

"No I do mean you, look if even drew a picture of us" she handed him a small A4 drawing of him and the little girl, Bucky was standing on what looked like grass and had a speech bubble that read 'I'll protect you' she smiled at Bucky and waited for his opinion. He opened his mouth but no words came out he didn't know what to say. "Could you sign it for me?" the little girl held up a crayon, before he could stop them, tears began running down his face.

"Sorry I don't know what..." Bucky took a deep breath and wiped the tears away "thank you... what's your name?"

"Rebecca Thornton but my friends all call me Becca." She shyly shrugged.

"My sister was called Rebecca, you remind me of her a little because she liked having her hair in pig tails to and she like drawing." Bucky smiled down Rebecca and began to scribble down his name in the corner of the page. He handed back the drawing, it said 'dearest Rebecca, thank you for your wonderful drawing and I hope that you grow up to be strong enough that you won't need someone to protect you but always know if you do need someone to help you when you're scared, know that we're never far away and will be happy to protect you. James Bucky Barnes.' When she read what he'd written her face light up and she smiled all the way back to her table.

Bucky sniffed and turned back to Steve, he had not been expecting that. Steve smiled "that was adorable."

Bucky just nodded.

Bucky was still incredibly shocked at little Rebecca when they were walking around the men's cloths shop about an hour later. Steve had said that they needed to get Bucky some new t-shirts as they kept getting caught on his left arm and ripping the fabric which meant he could only get one or two uses out of each t-shirt. "We should really talk to Tony about maybe getting him to do something about you arm, like making it smoother or less prone to malfunction."

"and get rid of the ugly red star." Bucky added. They carried on shopping walking in and out of shops when Bucky suddenly stopped and walking into a big toy shop. "Oh my god we have to get this!" Bucky picked up a small stuffed teddy bear wearing captain America outfit. "I actually think this is more adorable than you!"

Steve raised his eyebrows. "I don't think so, put it back."

Steve and Bucky both left the store with an extra bag that contained a new stuffed teddy bear. The journey home was quick and before long they were back in stark tower emptying their shopping bags.

An excited Nat rushed into the apartment, she was wearing leggings with striped fluffy socks and one of Clint's jumpers "grate! You back, you have to come and play twister with us, were all in the games level. Hurry." She ran up to them both grabbed their wrists and pulled them to the games level.

When they entered they found the red, blue, yellow and green mat sprawled across the floor and the game about to started, they paused to explain the rules to Steve, Bucky and Thor who'd never played before. Bruce was on the spinner and the game began. With in just a few turns Steve was already working out that he didn't like this game at all. Natasha on the other hand was a pro and was doing a hand stand in the centre of the twister mat. Bucky had his left arm hold his weight and his right leg in-between Natasha's arms and in one swift movement he kicked her arm's out from beneath her and she came crashing down. She was swearing in very loud Russian at Bucky who spoke fluently back at her, what they were saying sounded very serious but looking at their faces everyone knew they were only joking.

After a few more turns Steve pretended to fall and got up and sat down next to Natasha. "That's quite a game." Steve said leaning his shoulder against Nat's.

"Well if it hadn't been for your BOYFRIEND" she shouted so Bucky would hear and he looked over at them and smiled "I would still be in the game"

"You were showing off." Bucky explained

"prosto podozhadat' moyego druga" Nat said in Russian.

"Oh I'm so scared." Bucky said in a sarcastic tone then turned back to the game.

"What did you say?" Steve inquired.

"I said 'just you wait my friend'. So how are things going between you two?"

"Good, really really good." Steve told Natasha about the little girl Rebecca approaching Bucky earlier that day.

"That's good for him. I think he needed that he defiantly seems happier today." Natasha said. They both watched Bucky play the game for a while when Tony's foot slipped and knocked everyone over and the group burst out laughing.

While the rest of the group where focused on laughing Steve whispered to Natasha, "can you keep a secret?"

"Do I need to remind you who you're talking to?" Nat pointed to her face.

"No" Steve laughed paused for a second then added "I'm going to ask Bucky to marry me." Natasha was speechless.

Author's notes: it's only been 3 days but I seem like much longer. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter. It was interesting to write, I didn't know how Bucky would react to someone saying they like him the most, so tell me what you though. Thanks guys for the reviews and thank you for still following my story. Ps during the twister game there's a line of speech from Natasha in Russian that's not actual Russian just how you pronounce it, the real way it's written is a lot more complicated.