#sarah bucky cass aj wip
Head Canon / Sketches for Prologue of Upcoming One-shot Fic: “Formal Introductions”
“Momma?”
“Yes, baby?”
“Momma! I’m a big kid now. If you’re gonna call me baby, you have to add Wolf to it.”
“You want me to call you Baby Wolf, AJ?”
“Well…yeah!” He grins around the mouthful of sugar cookie he’s devouring.
She knows where all this came from. She’s not exactly mad at it.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Bucky Barnes is a 107 year old White yankee from New York, a US Army Veteran and former POW, former international Russian assassin/HYDRA spy and Wakanda warrior, she’d consider him and her 8 year old Black son to be two peas in a pod: White Wolf and Baby Wolf. Both tender-hearted and kind. Both fiercely loyal to family and friends. Both sometimes stubborn as mules. Both happiest when snuggled up on her. Both owners of her heart.
“Ok. Yes…Baby Wolf?”
“Now that you and Uncle Bucky are, like, going steadily…can he come with us to visit Daddy?”
“It’s going steady. Did you ask him if he wanted to? And where did you hear about going steady?”
“Uncle Sam said Uncle Bucky gets all smiley when he thinks about you when they’re at work, and that he acts like you guys are goin’ steady. He said Uncle Bucky’s fixin’ to ask you to go to The Prom. What’s The Prom?”
“We’ll talk about all that later, sweetheart. You and Cass can definitely ask Bucky if he wants to come with us to visit your father. But…don’t be disappointed or sad if he says no. Ok? The cemetery might be an uncomfortable place for him, because of all the people he…remembers and have passed. But I’m sure he’d be happy if you guys asked.”
She takes a dishcloth and wipes the cookie crumbs off of her child’s mouth.
“And…” she murmurs and tries to hide her grin, “I’m gonna smack Sam upside his head next time he’s here. Goin’ steady….”
As Sarah is rinsing out a glass, AJ looks over and sees her smiling to herself. And he can tell by the way she kind of glows, that his Momma is blushing.
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A quick wave to @pickwick12 over at AO3 for the nickname “Baby Wolf”. Because of the lovely “Bucky and the Wilsons” series she wrote, that nickname is ensconced into my headcanon too.
