A simple "I'll see you in an hour" follows that, not as a way of shutting down the conversation but, Bucky realizes he has an hour ( less than, since he has to get to her place ) to go through the box that arrived during the time he was talking to her so he can get out the harness she mentioned earlier and any of the other assorted things he might need that are in the box. He never had a cat ( or dog ) while he was growing up, it was more important to make sure that the human mouths were fed, so they didn't have the extra to spend on a pet. There might have been an alley cat or two that might have been fed by one of his younger siblings, but that was about it. This was new for him.
In the end, he has Alpine stashed inside of his leather jacket ( she's nestled between that and the hooded jacket he's wearing underneath, followed by the two layers of shirts that follow ) so he knows she's snug against him on the way over to Natasha's. While the time since half the world's population came back ( him and Natasha included ) led to their little group doing a lot of their own thing - he and Sam working together, Steve in a brief 'retired' state and Natasha off on her own missions and dropping in on his and Sam's on occasion, they did all manage to reconnect at least briefly in those spaces and it was a trade off on who's space ( not his, never his ) everyone ended up at.
So he's been here before, just...not without it involving two other members of their group and without it having to do with making casual small talk that doesn't delve too deep. Now he's about to eat, drink and watch a movie with her. That's new too. Guess you really can make it to over one hundred years old and still do something new from time to time, even if he was in and out of cryosleep for a large majority of that time.
It's exactly an hour later and he's rapping at her door with the knuckles of his flesh hand, using the vibranium one to keep Alpine secure in his jacket before following up with his act of knocking with a verbal 'knock-knock' a moment later.
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In the end, he has Alpine stashed inside of his leather jacket ( she's nestled between that and the hooded jacket he's wearing underneath, followed by the two layers of shirts that follow ) so he knows she's snug against him on the way over to Natasha's. While the time since half the world's population came back ( him and Natasha included ) led to their little group doing a lot of their own thing - he and Sam working together, Steve in a brief 'retired' state and Natasha off on her own missions and dropping in on his and Sam's on occasion, they did all manage to reconnect at least briefly in those spaces and it was a trade off on who's space ( not his, never his ) everyone ended up at.
So he's been here before, just...not without it involving two other members of their group and without it having to do with making casual small talk that doesn't delve too deep. Now he's about to eat, drink and watch a movie with her. That's new too. Guess you really can make it to over one hundred years old and still do something new from time to time, even if he was in and out of cryosleep for a large majority of that time.
It's exactly an hour later and he's rapping at her door with the knuckles of his flesh hand, using the vibranium one to keep Alpine secure in his jacket before following up with his act of knocking with a verbal 'knock-knock' a moment later.