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buckyballbearing:

Imagine the quartet as the world’s worst gift givers tho:

Like Sam always has the best of intentions (and he starts shopping weeks in advance) but he also procrastinates wrapping things

There’s always so much else to do and Christmas is still a week away – er, two days away – well, he’ll finish wrapping after breakfast

Inevitably he’ll have a gradient of packages from neatly wrapped with three different ribbons to a grocery store sack filled with the stocking stuffers he never got around to stuffing

Steve isn’t much better – he’s good about wrapping things but then he forgets to put on a label

Leading to the incident where Natasha got Sam’s boxers and Sam got Natasha’s lingerie

Natasha likes orchestrating what everyone should give each other but her delivery could be better

She hates wrapping things so much that you’re more likely to walk in and find three identical trash bags on the couch

Or a single sheet of wrapping paper flopped across a pile of random boxes

Bucky, for his part, gives everyone a single orange and claims that he was frozen too long to put up with this strip mall nonsense

(it’s still one of the happiest times of the year though)

(They all laugh at Sam and Natasha and help Steve search for the right presents)

(And everyone appreciated Sam in Natasha’s lingerie)

Barbershop Quartet soulmates!AU

suzukiblu:

  • Soulmate marks trigger with a combination of eye contact and direct skin-to-skin contact and are usually traceable to an event that is either directly responsible for the soulmates’ meeting or will be exceptionally significant in their relationship. 
  • Steve and Bucky got theirs in before they ever spoke a word to each other, when Bucky was pulling Steve off the ground after he’d lost a fight with some other boys. They both have a white star on their left bicep. 
  • Bucky and Natasha got theirs in the Red Room, and both had them burned off a dozen times before the Red Room finally gave up and just fried them out of each other’s heads. The marks didn’t disappear with the memories, though, and they both have red hourglasses on their stomachs. Bucky shot Natasha right through hers, after which she remembered him. She still hasn’t figured out if that was him remembering her, though. 
  • Steve and Sam’s marks came in on the first morning when Steve was pulling Sam off the ground, a dark gray wing on their right forearms. Sam made a dumb joke about “on your right” and Steve tried to laugh, but was thinking about Bucky pulling him off he ground. 
  • Steve and Natasha didn’t get theirs until the kiss on the escalator. It is, in fact, a black kiss mark underneath their left ears. Natasha thinks it’s hilarious but also is kind of annoyed it’s so visible. At the same time, though, it is STEVE so of course it is, she thinks. 
  • Sam and Natasha got theirs in the helicopter. It’s Steve’s shield on the inside of their left elbows, which made him make a very undignified noise the first time he saw it. Very. Undignified. 
  • The paint on Bucky’s metal arm started bleaching out the first time he punched Steve in the face with it. It’s an ugly streaky pink right now, most days. He doesn’t think about it very much. 
  • Sam and Bucky still haven’t actually touched, but at this point, Sam knows it’s coming. He’s just not sure if Bucky knows it’s coming. 
  • Bucky does not know it’s coming. Bucky doesn’t even remember Natasha, although obviously the scar in the soulmark on his stomach means the person it belongs to is already dead anyway. Bucky’s not even sure he believes the museum about Steve. 
  • The paint on his arms’s a little paler, lately.