The bowtie is a distraction. The cute puppy is my real endgame. Have I mentioned you look really nice?
[ Dodger gets up long enough to bark a happy little greeting at Pepper and sniff at her legs for pets before he settles down to go right back to sleep, as puppies do. Bucky takes a sip of his coffee to hide the apprehension that seems to come out of nowhere. It's not even that big of a secret, all things considered, but he realizes he's almost never thought about what it would be like to tell anyone about the two of them.
In Brooklyn, he wouldn't have. People would have looked the other way, if he was lucky. The army... Christ, he's glad he doesn't have to think about that. He knows he doesn't need to worry much about Pepper, it's just hard to break old habits, is all. ]
Look, before I say anything, I want you to know it wasn't anything personal... we just wanted something to ourselves for a while. We had things to work out. This is gonna sound -- I'm gonna sound like a jerk, but I didn't really want to tell anyone besides you anyway.
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[ Dodger gets up long enough to bark a happy little greeting at Pepper and sniff at her legs for pets before he settles down to go right back to sleep, as puppies do. Bucky takes a sip of his coffee to hide the apprehension that seems to come out of nowhere. It's not even that big of a secret, all things considered, but he realizes he's almost never thought about what it would be like to tell anyone about the two of them.
In Brooklyn, he wouldn't have. People would have looked the other way, if he was lucky. The army... Christ, he's glad he doesn't have to think about that. He knows he doesn't need to worry much about Pepper, it's just hard to break old habits, is all. ]
Look, before I say anything, I want you to know it wasn't anything personal... we just wanted something to ourselves for a while. We had things to work out. This is gonna sound -- I'm gonna sound like a jerk, but I didn't really want to tell anyone besides you anyway.