Cuddle up a little closer, lovey mine

[molotov]

The Cuddle Meme

Cuddling is pretty much the bee's knees. You can do it in bed, while watching a movie, or pretty much anywhere else. You can forcibly cuddle someone. You can cuddle a pet. You can even cuddle while eating delicious food! So start cuddling.

HOW TO PLAY
☞ Post a comment with your character
☞ Others reply
☞ Cuddle!
☞ Lather, rinse, repeat, have fun!

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[tookthewheel]

[It's good he's leant on Steve's left side, or there'd be a metal shoulder digging into Steve right now.

That gentle vibration just settles him further, dimly he thinks he couldn't pull back now even if he wanted to.]

Shows what you know.

[The words slip out and he feels like they've had something similar to this conversation before, somewhere back in the murky past. Bucky thinks he'd always been stubborn about going to bed when he ought to.

Maybe he's fighting a losing battle, doesn't mean he'll go down easy.]

[aboveangrybees]

[If there was something to bet, Steve would, because he knows he's going to win this one. Bucky had no chance of staying up much longer. He's seen the man fade off like this too many times back in the day to not know it when he sees it.

This was all familiar in a painful way. But a good pain.]

Sure does show what I know. People need sleep, you can't fight it. [Steve starts doodling a picture of Bucky sleeping in the corner of the page. Just a small cartoon of the other man, mouth open in a snore, a puddle of drool, loose limbed. He might be exaggerating a liitle.]

Like I said, five minutes.

[tookthewheel]

[He's not so gone yet he can't see the drawing. A gently whuff escapes him, breath puffing out against Steve's arm, it's a ghost of a laugh.]

You're a punk.

[He mumbles and there's his head going down onto Steve's shoulder. It's not his fault Steve gives off a comfortable warmth, so unlike the ice that has been his blanket in the decades past. When it's like this, this bridge between sleep and waking, when his mind isn't subconciously working against him it's easier to find pieces of who he used to be and let them out.]

[aboveangrybees]

[Steve feels the breath catch in his chest, his pencil stilling in his grasp, the words resting against him like a brick. It's always such a relief to hear Bucky utter anything so familiar, even if he might not remember the exact context. It makes him happy, but it also makes him ache to know the pain remembering will cause his friend over time.

Sometimes, he wonders if it's a kindness or cruelty to help the man remember.

But he doesn't let it dwell, instead finding air of his lungs and his pencil scratching against paper again.]

Jerk.

[tookthewheel]

[That what he's just said has caused such a significant impact on Steve escapes Bucky at the moment, already half-asleep, his eyes and ears tracking the movement of the pencil against the paper.]

Say that a lot.

[A yawn comes next as the seconds tick by and it's a fight to keep his eyelids from sinking down. Moving right now is unthinkable.

He actually feels safe, relaxed, like maybe he could sleep and not be haunted by the horrors he'd done and had done to him.]

[aboveangrybees]

Maybe you should take the hint then.

[But it's soft, he doesn't have any jib in it. He's just glad Bucky's slipping off into sleep, that he's fading away as the minutes and seconds tick by. Over the last few months, he knows how little the man sleeps, he knows how he can only let go for periods of time, Steve often offers to stand guard, let the man sleep in relative security, but it's nice to have this moment between the two of them.

For it to happen more naturally.]

[tookthewheel]

Shuddup.

[He says, slurring the words as he loses the battle to keep his eyes open.

Five minutes, he said, Bucky can last five minutes and prove him wrong he can't.. He's not quite asleep yet but any second now and he will be, his breathing is already starting to even out.

There's a quiet electronic whirr as he settles the left arm more comfortably in his own lap, shifts his cheek against Steve's shoulder.]