Stucky Week: Cuddling (Pre-War)
Glass Negative. Dated: Brooklyn, July 8rd 1940.
Steve and Bucky love spending time looking at what people call "old pictures" in librarys' and museums' online catalogs: They go through them on their phones just the same way people from this century do with their photo libraries... It brings back memories, smells, and places that are not longer there.
It's Bucky who finds the picture: one lazy summer afternoon and after too many pictures of random cars from the 40s, he's presented with two young men in bed.
Bucky can see their relaxed and blurry faces, the brick wall, an open window, clothes hanging from the bed.
But he can also see what's not in the picture: the kitchen on the other side of the bed, the humidity of a July afternoon, the increasing worry over the latest news from the war, the ghost of a kiss on the lips.
He takes his eyes off the phone for a second and smiles as he looks at his legs, entangled with Steve's who is currently laying there with his eyes closed, enjoying the air conditioning on this hot summer day.
"Look at this, Steve," he says as he handles him the phone. "I found a mirror to the past."
HISTORIC BROOKLYN ITEM DESCRIPTION: Glass negative found amongst a set of pictures from the Brooklyn Docks. Rest of the pictures seemly unrelated to this one. Once developed using two different exposition times, it shows the inside of a brick apartment with two men laying together in bed in close intimacy. Unidentified.
I don't know where this came from @stucky-week , but here it is. And I wasn't supposed to be doing anymore prompts, i need to sleep!
