"You'll have to tell her that yourself, she'll be amused by it I'm sure." Steve said dryly, thinking it probably wasn't the first time she's heard a joke to that effect about her code name. Natasha had tried her best to set him up with various people, it wasn't her fault he had been stubbornly resisting her efforts. He still would be if she persisted. Nowadays occasionally she'll catch her give him this particular look he doesn't quite understand, then glance at Bucky and back again to him. "You. And my other friends of course." He answered Bucky's question succinctly. Steve had been entirely truthful when he had said he was busy. There were missions to do, culture and history to catch up to, and Bucky himself.

He reached up to brush his hand over Bucky's hair reassuringly. That had been one of the changes he'd been glad to see. He had never agreed with laws against homosexuality; so long as no harm was done, it shouldn't matter who a person loved, no matter the gender. "No, I'm not Tony and I don't want to be either. It's not illegal and so long as everyone involved gives consent and is happy, I don't think I'll care much about the opinion of other people on my my love life."