Avengers Texts 2

1:37 AM (Arguments That Solved Nothing)

Bucky and Steve had been sitting in the huge movie theater watching Mad Men for three hours.

"What time is it?" Bucky asked when they finally finished season six.

"FRIDAY, what time is it?" Steve asked the ceiling.

"12:07 AM, sir," FRIDAY replied.

"Thanks."

"You're not supposed to thank the AI," Bucky said. "What do you wanna watch now?"

"It's polite."

"Clint says you're not supposed to."

"He's a liar. It doesn't matter."

"Hm. So why do you do it?"

"It's polite. And- I don't know. What are you watching now?"

"Hannibal. Been sitting back there forever. Is it good? Do you know?"

"Yeah, it's- Well, Tony and I watched it," Steve laughed. "It's really messed up, it's about this cannibal, who's like, in love with this really cute guy who has all dogs. Tony thinks it's hilarious."

"It's about cannibalism," Bucky said slowly. "But it's funny."

"No, it's not, but Tony just talks through it and makes comments the whole time because he can't shut up for more than ten minutes."

"Uh huh."

"We all watched the Discovery channel in here one time because they do this whole week of shark stuff, and we braided Nat's hair. And Clint had lost his hearing aids, but he kept yelling at all of us to shut up."

"Mhm."

"And Tony talked all the way through that too, until he fell asleep. And then I fell asleep. And when I was asleep he painted stuff on my nails."

"Mhm."

"But we watched shark week before we watched Hannibal. Hannibal was just me and Tony. He was giving me a culture crash course."

"With shows about cannibalism."

"Yeah. Yeah," Steve looked over at Bucky. "What?"

"Nothin'. Keep talkin'."

"You're being weird."

"You are."

"Whatever."

"So is it a good show or not?"

"I can't really remember."

"Mhm."

"Yeah," Steve paused. "He hasn't eaten all day."

"You should probably do something about that."

"Yeah."

Steve didn't move.

"But you're not going to, because..."

"I just- He and I right now, are just..."

"Right."

"Don't take that tone with me."

"What do you guys even fight about?"

"Things. I don't know. Nothing important."

"So..."

"So..."

"Go talk to him, jackass."

"But he's impossible to-"

Bucky snorted.

"What?"

"He's impossible. Okay. You're delusional. It's cool."