in the air (cover the stench of pain)

It starts with a candy manufacturer stumbling upon a strange device buried in a dessert. It ends with a fall. Everything inbetween, before, adjacent, and after is a lot more complicated than it seems.

or, Sam has a lot of feelings about a lot of things and no idea how to feel about those feelings and things.
or, the winterfalcon week 2k21 prompt list written as one coherent fic.

[ case/mission fic ; fluff and angst ; canon-typical violence ; hurt/comfort ; slowburn ; the color pink as a motif ; angst with a happy ending ; idiots in love ; sam finds bucky before civil war ; protectiveness ; canon compliant ; sam-centric ; post-tfatws ]

feedback is welcome & encouraged.

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