Fics like It's a strange way of saying that I know I'm supposed to love you

It's about three weeks after Steve wakes up on the bank of the Potomac when he realizes he's being followed. He sees flashes of metal in the corner of his eye, a dark shadow that scurries away when he turns his head, but it's not until he notices things moved in his apartment that he figures out who it is. Steve lives alone, so it's been a long time since he's woken up from a nap on the couch to find a glass of water waiting for him on the table and a blanket draped over him. Seventy-odd years, in fact. Once he knows what's going on, he keeps an eye out for pencils that weren't where he left them, glasses put away in cupboards, thumbprints on his sketchbooks. It's like having an affectionate poltergeist. Sam's having the same problem, a shadowy presence just out of sight everywhere he goes. One day he's walking in the park and a bush starts whispering to him, telling him to stop using dark chocolate chips in his cookies because Steve prefers milk. "This is not OK," says Sam when he recounts this story in the Avengers tower later that evening to his assembled superhero friends. "I do not need baking advice from the ghost of Edward Scissorhands."

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