Imagine Clint being the one who finds Bucky and brings him in. Bucky and Clint end up having a good relationship; Clint is full of joking bravado and confidence but knows when to tone it back, and he’s all too familiar with what it’s like having someone in his head. (It also helps that they both keep really unusual sleeping schedules.)

imaginebucky:

clint doesn’t mean to befriend the world’s most deadly assassin, but then again, he doesn’t mean to do a lot of things – piss off the fucking mob, for one. dangerous people tend to be drawn to him, whether because they want to beat the shit out of him or – well, actually, that’s usually the only reason they’re drawn to him. but so far he’s done pretty well with not dying/convincing the dangerous people to switch sides and not try to kill him anymore

he’s not really sure how it happens, but after he brings bucky in (something he’s still not entirely sure wasn’t dream) bucky is spending more and more time at his shithole apartment and eating all of his shitty takeout food and sleeping on his shitty second-hand couch. they talk sometimes, about their favorite weapons or nat’s horrible dorky jokes or how terrifying it is to put yourself back together after being unmade, but most of the time they prefer silence

and yeah, occasionally clint gets fed up with bucky eating all of his food and spoiling pizza dog rotten and always always always hanging out in his apartment even when he wants to be alone, but then bucky will smile at him, hesitant and still a little broken, and clint can only sigh and pull out the frozen pizza he’d been hiding for a special occasion

well. he’s always had a habit of picking up strays