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Bucky has a thing. He loves to watch Skye blow her hair dry. It isn't the act of drying her hair that he loves, it isthe way she peers at stroke with great concentration. Her lip curls slightly in a small unconscious smile, her eyebrows make that little furrow. It's the same reason why he loves watching her read especially when it's a thriller. He loves curling up on the opposite end of the couch, pretending to watch the television when he's really watching her read.
Some nights he would rouse in the wake a nightmare and remembers where he is when he sees her pressed against his side. On the nights when she leaves for missions, he finds himself curling around her pillow, missing the smell of her as he falls asleep. Those nights are always long and lonesome and he mostly spends it watching crap television.
Bucky loves how Skye is a tactile person, she touches him gently as she passes him his coffee or brushes her cheek against his when he brings her coffee. Their off-days are mostly spent curled around each other regardless of whether they're doing the same things or different things. Her heat brings comfort to him, the same way his weight around her does to her.
She doesn't tell him much about her childhood, but it makes Bucky sad to know of how rejected she felt when she was a child. And sometimes when she follows him around the house, it makes him sad that she does it because she fears he would walk away from her and never come back. She doesn't tell him these things, Bucky knows because he's sharp. Likewise, she knows how he gets discomforted by crowds and not having clear exits. He is broken but when he is with Skye, he feels like a complete person.
Skye is constantly trying to expand his horizons, dragging him out to do new things: watch a 3D movie, ride a 4D roller coaster, try an 'escape from the dungeon' game. Sometimes he can't help but wonder if she just doesn't get enough thrills from their superhero work that she has to seek her adrenaline from these things.
Bucky wonders occasionally how he got such a dame for a soulmate. The way her hair tumbles from her shoulders, her warm brown eyes as they crinkled in amusement. He doesn't tell her but his favourite sound is the way she chuckles which is the only reason why he puts up with watching Dog Cops.
More importantly, Bucky loves how she doesn't try to eat his poptart that he hides from Hawkeye and Thor. He knows she had found it and sometimes she quirks an eyebrow at him then at the book. He just likes sweet things.
Which is also why he loves to kiss her after she applies her cherry lip balm. She complains how she needs to reapply it after that but doesn't really seem to put up a fight when he does it anyway, only giving him a wry sigh.