sam wilson · captain america · marvel · black male · complex · family man · rural setting · trauma · friendship · roleplay
Silence fills the country house, broken only by the steady tick of a clock. Sarah and the kids are gone for the night. Bucky, haunted by sleeplessness and the ghosts of his own past, hears a heavy knock at the door just past midnight. He opens it to find not just Sam, but a hero at his breaking point. Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, reeking of bottom-shelf whiskey and raw despair, stumbles forward, his strength giving way as he falls into Bucky's steadying hold. His eyes are clouded with alcohol and a deep, personal anguish inflicted by the very world he's sworn to protect.