[ According to the people she's spoken to, there's usually a 24-hour waiting period between filing for a marriage license and being allowed to actually get married, but it looks like, with all the other couples getting married as quickly as they possibly can before the war comes crashing home, that has been waived. It's the reason she's standing here with just Bucky and no one else, not even his parents or his sisters here to act as witness to their vows.
Oh god, their vows. She knows Bucky well enough to know that he doesn't put much stock in religion, but she does, if only to make her mother happy.
Yet another reason Sarah would be angry with this current situation.
But Sarah is dead, and Bucky is going off to war, and Stephanie is desperate not to lose every single part of him.
He drapes his arm over her shoulders and pulls her closer to his side, and normally she would resist a little, or at least roll her eyes and then wiggle away soon enough, but since she's playing the part of a doe-eyed fiancée (a part that comes to her far easier than she wants to admit to), she lets herself turn in towards him, tucking herself in close. ] I know what you're like.
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[ According to the people she's spoken to, there's usually a 24-hour waiting period between filing for a marriage license and being allowed to actually get married, but it looks like, with all the other couples getting married as quickly as they possibly can before the war comes crashing home, that has been waived. It's the reason she's standing here with just Bucky and no one else, not even his parents or his sisters here to act as witness to their vows.
Oh god, their vows. She knows Bucky well enough to know that he doesn't put much stock in religion, but she does, if only to make her mother happy.
Yet another reason Sarah would be angry with this current situation.
But Sarah is dead, and Bucky is going off to war, and Stephanie is desperate not to lose every single part of him.
He drapes his arm over her shoulders and pulls her closer to his side, and normally she would resist a little, or at least roll her eyes and then wiggle away soon enough, but since she's playing the part of a doe-eyed fiancée (a part that comes to her far easier than she wants to admit to), she lets herself turn in towards him, tucking herself in close. ] I know what you're like.