<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Bucky stayed leaned up against the wall, purposely not advancing on the kid.  He didn't want to make Peter uncomfortable, and he was all too aware that he was considered intimidating still by a lot of the Avengers.<br/>
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The request surprised him.  He did enjoy working in the shop or the garage -- he'd done a lot of machine maintenance on the docks in the 30s, more mechanic work during the war, and he'd maintained most of his own equipment even as the Winter Soldier.  But Stark -- Tony -- had been hesitant to fully trust Bucky, no matter how many times Steve vouched for it.  Bucky didn't begrudge him that.  Even aside from the violence he'd done as the soldier, it was obvious that Tony's workshop was sacred space.  There were, to Bucky's knowledge, very few people with unfettered access to it:  Bruce, Rhodey, Pepper, and Peter.  Steve was allowed in for Avengers related emergencies, and others came and went with Tony's permission, but only those four could come and go freely.<br/>
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"I don't know that I'll be all that much help," Bucky said after a moment to think.  "I ain't real good with nonfatal solutions... but I'd give it a go."  He pushed off the wall, his eyes on Steve.  "That okay with you, Stevie?"  It was important to him, after all these years, that Steve approved of his choice and his friends.  Too many people thought of them as codependent, unwilling to make decisions without consulting each other.  Bucky considered it a part of their partnership, and a vital one.<br/>
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He was curious though, why the boy was taking a break from Spidermanning.  Was it his choice, or Tony's?  If Tony's -- was it to encourage the lad to grieve, or because Tony did not trust him not to take his fear and anger out on the next jaywalker?  It bore thinking about.</span></span>