darthstitch:

offtide:

sarah rogers had the patience of a saint, and loved her troublemakers very much.

She taught Steve how to play poker and how to cheat so that he’d know if someone was putting one up on him.  She taught him how to play chess and one memorable afternoon, when Steve was too sick to go to school, she spent it detailing one of Napoleon’s military campaigns. 

(Sarah loved history, especially military history.  Her Da used to call her The Morrigan, Boudicaa the Queen and she’d laugh and toss her head and say, maybe so.  It was what made Joseph Rogers fall in love with her.)

Bucky would make it just in time, with Steve’s homework, as Sarah Rogers would get to the part about Napoleon Bonaparte’s attempt to conquer Russia.

This was when the boys would first learn that ancient proverb:  Never attack Russia in winter.

She bandaged up hurts and kissed bruises better and even Bucky didn’t escape the coddling because, “Oh no you don’t, Bucko, I am not sending you back to your mother like that.”

Sarah Rogers knew a lot of things and would stare you down coldly if you mouthed off about “knowledge not suitable for the “weaker sex.”  Her general response to that was, “Sir, you come back to me after pushing out an eight pound child out of your nether regions and then speak about us being the ‘weaker’ sex.” 

Sarah was not often given to vulgarity but she had little patience for fools.  She hated bullies as much as her son did. 

Sarah Rogers had the difficult task of being father and mother to her boy Steve.  She managed to be both.  Exceptionally well.

She called Bucky “Bucko” and he got just as many hugs as Steve did, mainly because she could see how much he loved her boy, looked out for him and was, indeed, the best and dearest friend he could ever have. 

The boys still miss her to this very day.