A/N: I…have absolutely nothing to say…this just kind of happened…
Bucky Barnes (The Winter Soldier) & Max Black from 2 Broke Girls
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01 – First
Their first meeting is one that she knows her sister will never let her forget, as embarrassing as it was.
02 – Speed
He drives a little too fast when they're on his bike, the speed a little exhilarating for them both, but they haven't been pulled over yet and Max is decidedly not complaining.
03 – Candy
With her obsession with sweets, she can't believe that the only candy he really enjoys so far is old-fashioned salt-water taffy.
04 – Game
"This…this isn't a game for me."
05 – Nightmare
The first time he has a nightmare in her bed, Max just presses herself against his side, making herself as small and unthreatening as possible until he rises to full consciousness.
06 – Conscience
His conscience is weighed down by so much red he often wonders how she can't see it.
07 – Autumn
Max loves Autumn – the smell of warm food carts mixed with the changing of the leaves – and she can't help the blush that rises on her cheeks when she admits this to him.
08 – Trampoline
"Wait, you've seriously never been on a trampoline before?"
09 – Lake
James learns about her aquaphobia after some bike messenger in a hurry knocks her into the lake in the park.
10 – Change
"I'm not gonna change just 'cause you and the rest of the world probably think that I should!"
11 – Pillow
For someone of his bulk and muscle, he makes an awfully comfortable pillow.
12 – Freak
Max started calling herself a freak years ago, and she doesn't stop until James tells her otherwise.
13 – Bomb
"You jumped on top of a fucking bomb?!"
14 – Bank
After her last trip, it was decided that Max is no longer allowed to go to the bank alone ever again.
15 – Whale
"I feel like a whale!"
"Trust me doll, you're much prettier."
16 – Line
Max stares at the little pink lines and nearly throws up again.
17 – Connection
James is the first person Max has bothered trying to forge a connection with since Caroline forced her way into her life.
18 – Trip
"Let's take a trip. Just get out of the city for a while."
19 – Force
He loses his temper with her one time, and one time is all it takes after he sees the almost-imperceptible fear in her eyes as she forces herself to back away, pressing against the wall.
20 – Scar
Max has four scars to his many, but they're one thing she refuses to talk about.
21 – Eggs
"I'm out of eggs."
"That was your big emergency?"
22 – Imagine
Sometimes he sits and tries to imagine what life would have been like if he hadn't fallen, and all he can see is a world without Max.
23 – Mood
James doesn't quite comprehend her ever-changing mood, and has trouble keeping up until Darcy explains it to him.
24 – Octopus
After a trip to the zoo, Max insists that they buy one of the purple stuffed octopus plushies in the gift shop window before they leave.
25 – Quit
James is waiting for her outside the day she quits, and the emotions roiling on her face has him tempted to burn the place to the ground.
26 – Burn
He was concerned by the burns at first, but she does so much baking that it's inevitable that she's going to burn herself at least two or three times a month.
27 – Fight
They don't usually have serious arguments – not the long drawn-out screaming matches or anything – when they fight, it's over the stupid meaningless details.
28 – Found
They've both been lost and then found, but it never really counted until they were found by each other.
29 – Save
"I don't need you to save me!"
30 – Salvage
He's both Bucky and the Soldier, broken memories that don't quite fit together; but she helps him salvage what parts he can and fits them together.
31 – Nothing
It takes him a while, but she finally manages to convince him that nothing is going to drive her away.
32 – Prize
"You do know that I'm not some prize to be won, right?"
"Yea, but that don't mean I ain't gonna fight for you."
33 – Voice
On the bad nights, she talks, babbling nonstop until her voice lulls him to sleep.
34 – Blue
Everyone agrees that her eyes are one of the most gorgeous shades of blue, but no-one can agree on whether she inherited the color from her mother or from her father.
35 – Camouflage
James lets her get away with wearing it for a month before the camouflage hat finally 'disappears' from her collection.
36 – Hellion
She can be a right hellion some days, but he wouldn't want her any different.
37 – Search
He could search the world over and still never find anyone quite like her.
38 – Lead
The first night they spend together, and most nights thereafter, Max takes the lead, proving to him that he doesn't have to treat her like something fragile.
39 – Race
"You really want to do this?"
"You bet I do; or are you scared to lose a race against lil' ol' me?"
40 – Jail
When Max admits to him that she's spent time in jail before, James is somehow not surprised.
41 – Fork
"Did you just throw a fork at me?"
42 – Kite
When summer rolls around, the first thing Max does is take James to the Kite-flying contest in Central Park.
43 – Far
Department X's reach is far, and he will never stop worrying about all that that entails.
44 – Arrangement
That's all it is at the beginning; an arrangement and understanding between two mostly-responsible adults with loads of built-up sexual tension.
45 – Daisy
"How about Daisy?"
46 – Unfaithful
Once James finally talks Max into a real semi-normal relationship, he promptly receives a shovel talk from Darcy explicitly detailing what would happen to him if he's ever unfaithful to her.
47 – Vertigo
Occasionally, walking around the highly industrialized areas of New York still give even Max a slight sense of Vertigo, so she doesn't blame him for not wanting to go into the city much.
48 – Yesterday
"I want to talk about what happened yesterday."
"Yea? Well, I don't; so just…go away!"
49 – Alarm
Most mornings, it doesn't matter if Max manages to sleep through her alarm; James has much more creative means to wake her.
50 – Done
"Us? This…whatever we are? It's done!"
"It can't be done if it never even started."