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Thursday, December 4th, 2014 07:48 pm
Who: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
When: Post-TWS
What: Bucky is deaged to a ten-year-old. Avengers parental skills are not so good, so they make Steve handle it. He's practically dad material anyway.
Warnings: Cuteness.


[Steve had gone away; he had stayed behind. It wasn't an unusual arrangement. He had been at the Avengers Tower while Tony tried out new technology on the landing pad to test a new propulsion system on an Iron man suit. He had lurked in the shadows to observe, but he had moved at the sudden shot fired, slamming Tony out of the way and almost throwing the man clean off the rooftop. That too was not an unusual arrangement.

However, being reduced to a ten-year-old was very unusual, and no doubt the only reason he wasn't killed or reversed completely to his own death was the pseudo-super-soldier serum that ran through his veins. His clothing all fell off though, and it was much too blowy to be on a landing pad in the nude, so he skittered off towards the door and scratched his way back inside.

It was Clint who caught him racing the halls. Bruce apparently couldn't fix him outright and Tony just plain complained about having a child in the house. Given their equivalent emotional age, Tony was left in charge of him while Bruce resorted to going to get clothing and Clint left to get anything to bribe or entertain him with until a solution could be found.

Tony locked him in a bedroom. He broke the security panel in a tantrum.

Tony told him to stay put on the couch. He tried to sneak out a window. He ended up hiding in one of the cupboards of the kitchen instead when JARVIS told on him. Tony couldn't convince him out again. There wasn't anything to eat in the cupboard, but it was safe, small and dark, so he had no reason to come up even under threat at Tony would tear it apart. Bribing soon followed before Natasha, coming in hours later, made the call that Tony was a horrible parental figure.

She called Steve. He'd been around when Bucky had been ten-years-old before. It stood to reason that Captain America could deal with him now wedged in a kitchen cupboard when bribes, cooing and threats hadn't worked. They hadn't gotten clothing or lured him out with toys either. Clint suggested calling Thor instead; who didn't like a giant arrogant Asgardian?]