"Birthday Headcanon 1"
Headcanon: Everyone should love bubblewrap, even ex-brainwashed ex-assassins with PTSD. The Avengers are all so grown-up most of the time out of necessity, and thanks to what life has thrown at them; but Phil is determined to let them behave like children from time to time, and that includes pillow fights, water bombing SHIELD agents who've pissed him off during the week, and rolling about in plastic ball pits or covered with bubblewrap. Heck, the bubblewrap could be considered therapy, although it's cheating to use the Iron Man repulsors or Mjolnir. Bucky comes to love bubblewrap, and when Phil tells him that the company which makes it is planning to change the design - and make it less fun - he's horrified. And then leads a protest against it.
"You never should have told him," Maria said, watching from SHIELD headquarters as Bucky led an ever-growing group of protestors along the road, placards wavering in the strong breeze.
"It would be cruel not to," Phil protested.
"And you didn't see this as the result?" She arched an eyebrow, and he glanced down at the street.
"Honestly?" he said. "No. It's adorable, though, you can't deny it."
"I can deny it easily," she said. "You? You can't deny him anything." Phil pouted. "If he asked you to buy all the bubblewrap left in the world, you'd do it."
"He likes bubblewrap."
"Playing with packaging supplies is not a hobby, Coulson!"
This one was for zandperl, for Bubblewrap Day. Please review!