Three resounding cracks came down on Steve's jeanclad rear.
"At what point were you planning on telling me you brought someone home to keep?" Rhodes brought the spoon down again to Steve's dismay.
The blond, slammed his fist on the couch several times. He could see why Tony hated the spoon so much, "I was going to tell you!"
"Oh yeah? When?" He glared down at the man over his lap.
"I tried to tell you, you kept having to rush off the phone," he winced, rubbing his rear, "That thing hurts!"
"And you couldn't have sent me a text? I got about seven from Tony asking when I was coming back, you couldn't have sent one?"
"Sorry, I was going to tell you!"
Outside the sounds of poor Steve getting beat to death with the wooden spoon was entertaining Tony, who snickered happily. I mean how often does one hear the goody two shoes captain get yelled at, let alone spanked, and with the horrid spoon! Something Rhodes used for extra naughtiness.
Bucky wasn't as entertained by the sounds, "What is he doing?" he looked to Tony and Sam.
Sam shrugged, knowing full well but not willing to laugh out loud, so he opted to quickly continue packing and chuckling to himself.
"Steve is in trouble for not telling Mama he brought you home." he snickered.
"Why would he be in trouble for bringing me?" Had he done something to earn predjudice unwant?
"Well it's only polite to ask a homeowner and those of the household before jumping to such a decision." Although Tony was always breaking rules like that too, but Steve was expected better from.
After a moments Steve emerged from the room, almost running out, left cheek held in a firm grasp.
"I didn't think that would really hurt a super solider," Rhodes said in a joking manner.
"Oh believe me, I felt every bit of that," he rubbed the sting from his rear. He noticed Bucky's face, "Whats wrong?"
The man looked and shook his head, "Nothing, uhm...I'm going to go work out," he scurried away.
Steve gave Tony a glare, to which the man hurried after his preferred parent.
Bucky huffed, running on the treadill, he'd messily tied his hair back to keep it from whipping his eyes. As Steve had told him, this was a great way to keep stress at bay, and was he stressing. Why would that man be unhappy to have him there? Unhappy enough to punish Steve.
"Going for a new record?" Steve chuckled, coming next to him, "What's wrong? I know you." Bucky tried to ignore him, or rather he was trapped in thought. The blond decided to slowly reduce his speed before asking again, "Come on, talk."
He panted, he'd been running on one of the higher settings, "Why," he paused to suck another breath in, "Why is he upset?"
The man shrugged, "He's not upset at you, he's upset with me for not telling him that you were here." he smiled at him, "Come on, lets go meet your new mama," he took his shoulder and escorted him back.
Tony was happily giving Rhodes a synapsis of what he'd done with the man. Needless to say The Col just nodded and gave him a verbal head pat before taking him to see the items he'd brought him.
Steve caught them midway, "Well, I guess now is the proper time. Rhodes this is Bucky," he showed the man the guest.
James looked at Bucky and held out a hand to shake, "Steve tells me we have another mouth to feed. Nice to meet you."
Bucky reeled back a bit from the hand and gave a quiet hello.
"Not much of a talker. You'll warm up," he smiled, "It's nice to have you here."
His sudden kind attitude toward him confused the man but he accepted it.
"Well if you need me I'm somewhere around here," he took Tony to the bags. He had gotten his boy some new clothes and a new stuffie.
"What is that?" Buck looked to Steve.
"What? A toy?" he looked over, "Do you want one?" the boy nodded, "Well I don't see why we can't get you one. Tony, why don't you take Bucky to your room and show him your things?"
The genius paused for a moment to think and shrugged, "Sure, come on, Full Metal," he happily walked to his room, leaving Rhodes to put his stuff away.
"Like what you see?" Tony smiled, showing off his room. Bucky had seen it once before when he first got the tour.
"You have a lot of toys," he felt a little envious. They all looked nice and well loved, as most of Tony's items were.
"Yep, and mama just got me this one," he happily showed off his polar bear, "I'm gonna name him Dawn," he hugged it.
Bucky's demeaner was less than happy for the man. Tony looked to Bucky, "What are you making that face for?" he looked about the room and thought some, "Do you want one?"
He blinked and looked toward the man, "I can have one?"
"Yeah, sure," he looked about his pile of stuffed friends and looked about, "What would fit you?" he scratched his head and finally grabbed one. It was a pretty realistic, yet cute raccoon, "Here, you can have this one."
Bucky looked at it with a smile on his face, petting its head gently. It was so soft and fluffly, the man couldn't help put snuggle it, "I like this a lot." He looked at Tony and pulled him into a rough hug, "Thank you, little brother."
The smaller man grunted in surprise as he was held by the metal appendage.
"Aww, what a sweet display of brotherly affection," Rhodes smiled as he put Tony's items away.