"Wow, so this is mama's new house?" Bucky looked around, "It's way bigger than his last one. Way bigger."
"Yeah he even designed it to have two basements," he leaned and whispered, "Technically three but the lowest one is a panic room of sorts. Shh," he put his finger to his lips, "Come on, I want to show you our rooms upstairs."
Bucky smiled as he was pulled by the hand, following his baby brother.
x
"So you knew he was coming back and kept it a secret?" Steve smiled, "This is why you planned such a big dinner, huh?"
"Oh yeah, I knew everything was tense so I figured a distraction would be great. He had already planned to come I just told him to let me know when so I could give him the proper ability to get to my house."
The blond smiled, "I think it's nice to have him back, He couldn't have come at a more opportune time." he sighed, "Where is he going to sleep? I didn't see a vacancy sign."
"Where he loves to sleep best, with daddy," he waved a hand, "Well I'm going to read a book on gardening. Thinking about getting a greenhouse behind my place."
"With the cute sun hat and all?" he snickered, "And the adorable gloves with flowers? Oh thats precious."
"Laugh it up, you love when I cook my sweet potato pie," he flicked him before walking upstairs to his computer.
Bucky came down the stairs past his mom, "Hey daddy," he nearly crashed into Steve, "Come look. I brought some pictures to show you," he smiled and tugged him along to the front.
"Alright, what did you bring me?" he smiled and sat on the couch while the boy mounted his lap.
"Mama gave me a scrapbook thing before I left and I did it," he showed him the book, showing him all the pictures from his travels, "I knew you'd like this," he pointed to a picture of him in Berlin.
"How did you get there?"
"I'm good at traveling under the radar," he smiled. That and his little brother had given him some cash, "We have to go traveling some day. And take Tony. He needs to go somewhere and just have fun instead of analyze everything."
"Isn't that the truth," he looked through the pictures.
"I had fun."
"I'm sure, the most travelling I do is job based and it kind of sucks the fun out of it." he smiled, happy to have his little buddy back and acting as chipper as he's always remembered him, "Think you'll ever cut your hair again?"
"I want to, it's rather bothersome at time," he scratched his scalp, "And it gets hot too."
He chuckled and looked through the pictures.
"I finally got to try alligator too. Mama was right, it's so good!"
"I could've told you that," Tony looked to the pictures, "How many places did you go?"
"Three really. Germany, Australia, and Canada. I went to Canada first with Logan and Victor," he smiled.
"Another fun road trip?" Steve smiled.
"Super fun. I can't wait to visit them now that I'm back. And I want to see Sam too!"
"You can visit all your friends now that you're here," he smiled and rubbed his head, "Want to go visit him now?"
"Yeah! Can we?"
"I don't see why not," he stood and walked to the stairs, "We're going to visit Sam. Coming?"
There was a pause, "Why don't you guys go visit him. I'll visit later. Don't forget Tony's bag."
"Will do," he grabbed the bag and both his boy's hands before leaving.
X
"Looks like Winter Soldier is back," Sam smiled and let the trio in.
"Yep, just in time for the changing seasons,"Steve joked and rubbed his hair back.
"Daddy's back in business," the pilot teased and patted Steve's back, "Coffee for us two and juice for the kids?"
"Maybe I'll have a juice myself."
X
Bucky smiled and showed off his pics to Sam. The man nodded and smiled, hearing the boy go on about the foods he'd eaten and the sights he'd seen.
"Sounds like a good time. I'm going to take you to New Orleans. The Cajun cuisine is grand, and with your pallet you would be in heaven."
"When can we do it?" He smiled widely, "Oh. Do you like dogs?"
"Dogs? Yeah, love them. Why?"
"No reason," he smiled, "How have you been? Still jogging in mornings?"
"Yeah, gotta keep in shape and compete with daddy small ss there," he smirked.
Both Bucky and Tony snickered and looked to Steve who rolled his eyes.
"You do have a small ss," Tony laughed.
"You're just mad because you're Falcon big butt," Steve shrugged.
"Well...ok…."
