[ WWII AU ] all this and heaven too

[from_the_outside]

She's been back in this decade now for months and months, just shy of a year, and she still has to laugh at herself when they drive into the city and she realizes it's not in black and white like all the photos she remembers. Of course it isn't — she's been in London and France and everywhere else the Howling Commandos and SSR were called — but for some reason Brooklyn, in her head, has always been sepia-toned or black and white. Removed from reality by time and subsequently categorized in her mind as almost fictional.

It certainly isn't that. This isn't the New York or the Brooklyn she knows — there are fewer skyscrapers, for one thing — but it's still a busy, vibrant city packed with people. And every damn one of them hasn't stopped celebrating yet.

"You realize you guys are going to have to be in the parade, right?" She directs it to Bucky as they're walking along the sidewalk, just a few days after arriving; one of the few times she's actually gotten to be alone with him. She and Aunt Peggy aren't roommates yet, they're still in the hotel, but her aunt has made it crystal clear that she's planning to keep a much sharper eye on the two of them now that they're back in the city.

It was cute, for about a day. But she's already starting to feel like she's going to explode if she doesn't get to be alone with him.