#the winter soldier x yn

Hydra agent #1: *Points weapon at Y/N and Bucky* What is your purpose in this base?

Hydra agent #2: Yeah. And no lies.

Y/N: Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships.

Y/N: Pick up the rest of the Avengers in Switzerland, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out.

Hydra agent #2: I said no lies!

Y/N and Bucky: *Looks at each other and rolls their eyes*

Y/N, to Bucky: You take idiot number one and I’ll take idiot number two.

Bucky: You got it.

*A few moments later*

Y/N: Well that was easy.

Bucky: Yeah, tell me about it.

Y/N: Say, why don’t we go get some pizza before we go pick up the others?

Bucky: Alright! But you’re paying this time.

Y/N: Aw, come on! I paid last time.

Bucky: No, you didn’t. You drove us to get pizza then you “accidentally” left your wallet in the truck, went to go get it and didn’t come back in until I paid.

Y/N: Pfft! I- thought I left it in the truck! *Mumbles* it just so happens I had it in my jacket the whole time…

Bucky: Ya know I have super hearing right?

Y/N:…

Y/N: *Starts running* Last one to the ship pays for pizza!!

Bucky: Dang it! *Starts running behind Y/N*

Steve, to Bucky: Ok, so you have a few options.

Steve: This one *points to Wanda* is adorable, knows how to cook and has awesome powers.

Steve: This one *points to Natasha* can fight really good, has a nice smile and a sweet personality.

Steve: This one *points to Maria* has amazing fighting skills, has bright eyes, makes amazing muffins and can salsa.

Steve: This one *points to Y/N* uh, is clumsy, likes disney, cake and is kinda broken. Yeah, maybe not that one-

Bucky: I want that one.

Steve: Wh- But what about the others?

Bucky: No. I want that one *points to Y/N*

Steve: But the others-

Bucky: I. Want. That. One.

Y/N: *Awkwardly waves*

Bucky: Yup, that’s the one. It’s mine now.

Natasha: Y/N, you’ll be working with Steve and Bucky.

Y/N: Alright! My fantasy threesome!

Everyone else: *blank stares*

Y/N: …Of people on a team.

Sam, to Y/N: Have you seen Bucky?

Y/N: No, but I’ll get him for you!

Sam: Nah, it’s ok I’ll-

Y/N: *Screams* FUCK YA LIFE!

Bucky, from the bathroom: BING BONG!

Sam:…

Sam: Who showed him TikTok?

Y/N: I did! You should’ve seen him the other day!

Sam: What’d he do the other day?

Y/N: He was making a TikTok video of himself swinging his arm around in circles and he was going so fast that he started to get lifted off the ground so I put the “helicopter helicopter” sound over it. It was hilarious.

Bucky, walking in: Yeah. It was hilarious till Steve tried to grab my leg and pull me back down.

Y/N: Then Bucky started swinging his arm faster and they both kept going while Steve was screaming “don’t drop me!” then they landed in the zoo and got banned.

Y/N, and Bucky at each other: *Starts laughing hysterically*

Sam, slowly walking out: I'ma head out.

Y/N, and Bucky: BING BONG!

Y/N, to Bucky and Sam: And then I kicked h-

Hydra agent across the field: *Screaming* hey! I can see you!

Y/N: Shit. Hide!

*Y/N, Bucky and Sam hides*

Y/N: *Screams back* can you see me now?!

Hydra agent: *Signs*Yes!

Y/N: *Whispers* damn it.

Y/N: *Hides behind a tree*now?!

Hydra agent: *Sighs louder* oh my- YES!

Y/N: *Screams* do I at least look good?!

Sam, and Bucky:*Wheezing in the background*

Sam, to Bucky: *Nudges Buckys arm* Go wake Y/N, we need to leave soon.

Bucky: Uh, no! Are you crazy?!

Sam: Why not? *Smirks* are you afraid of Y/N?

Bucky: Hell yeah! You weren’t there the last time I had to wake them up!

Sam: *Confused* It can’t be that bad.

Bucky: Last time I woke Y/N up from sleeping they suplexed me into the table!

Y/N, who’s been awake from hearing Bucky yell: Well next time I’m sleeping comfortably on the table leave me alone.

Bucky: *Screams*

Sam, to Steve: How does Y/N and Barnes usually get out of their messes?

Steve: They don’t, they just make a bigger mess to cancel out the first one.

Bucky, and Y/N: *Running back to the car screaming*

Steve: What did you two do now?

Y/N: Bucky thought it was a good idea to challenge me. He said “I bet you can’t run faster then that bull.” So, um, I did a thing.

Sam: What did you do?!

Bucky: They let a bunch of bulls out and now they’re chasing us!

Y/N: It’s your fault!

Bucky: How is it my fault?!

Y/N: Because you told me I couldn’t do something! And you know how competitive I am!

*Bulls running towards them*

Y/N: *Grabs Bucky’s hand*Run!

Steve, and Sam: *Laughing*

Sam: Wait- shouldn’t we be running, too?

Steve: Get in the car!

Sam: What about Y/N and Bucky?

Steve: They’ll be fine! This isn’t the first time they had to run from something like this.

Y/N, and Bucky: *Somewhere in the distance*Ahhhhh!

Bucky: Hey Y/N. Wanna reenact the boat scene? *Winks*

Y/N: Uh, that didn’t end too well.

Bucky: *confused* Wait, what are you talking about?

Y/N: Ya know, from Jaws. The boat scene didn’t end very well.

Bucky: Wha- that’s not what I meant- You know what nevermind. Let’s just watch Beauty and the Beast.

Natasha, to Y/N: Hey- Why is your tongue purple? I thought you had a red icee?

Y/N: I did but-

Bucky, walking in smirking: They did, but I had blue.

Sam: *Gasps* I KNEW IT! I CALLED IT! I TOLD Y'ALL THEY WERE FUC-

Y/N, and Bucky:SAM!

Steve: Damn. Guess I owe Sam 50 bucks.

Natasha: You bet money-

Y/N: Thank you!

Natasha: And didn’t include me?

Y/N: Oh come on!

Bucky, looking at Sam: How do you get rid of stupid?

Y/N: Add more stupid.

Bucky: So to get rid of stupid you have to add stupid?

Y/N:Yup!

Bucky: That’s stupid.

Y/N:Exactly!

Bucky: I’m just gonna sit over there.

Y/N: Told you it works.

Bucky: Wha- Ohhhh! Hey!

Pairing(s): Steve Roger x Reader, Bucky Barnes x Reader

A/N: First off, I would like to apologize for how long this took to get out. I was feeling super unmotivated for a while there. Also the day that I finished this was the day before Chadwick Boseman’s tragic death and I just didn’t feel right posting this immediately following that, so I made the decision to wait a couple of days though that is not enough time to properly mourn this legend that was gone too soon. So without further ado, here is part 3 of Time Gone By.

Steve was called to the Council Room at noon. He walked in to already find every available Avenger and fighter already crowded into the room. Various representatives from each battalion were scattered around the edges of the room while T’challa stood with you, Bucky, Sam, Rhodey, and Nat around a large table. Steve spotted his sister and mother sitting just behind T’challa. All of the chairs that usually adorned the room had been moved somewhere else in the palace to make room for everybody. The mood was somber and heavy. Almost everyone’s expression was stormy except you and Nat who were talking animatedly with one another. Bucky was caught in a serious looking conversation with T’challa. You looked up to see Steve walking towards you and immediately you shut up and your facial expression became just as gloomy as everybody else’s. Bucky noticed as you tensed and cut off his conversation with T’challa to stand protectively behind you and placed a gentle arm around your waist possessively.

“Your Majesty, I’m sorry I didn’t realize that I was late.” Steve apologized as he approached T’challa.

“Nonsense Captain.You’re right on time. We were just finalizing the battle plans and we wanted to catch you up to speed.” T’challa said as warmly as he could muster given their current situation, but Steve could see the thinly veiled fear in his eyes.

“Oh?” Steve asked in a false disinterested tone barely masking his shock at having been left out of the planning.

“Yes, Steven. We’ve been planning this for weeks, but you wouldn’t know that, would you? You were too far off the grid to call or write so how could we have found you to help us make battle plans,” you said in a mock cheery tone, disguising all of the things that you really wanted to say to him.

“That was uncalled for,” he replied authoritatively.

“What did I say that wasn’t true?”

“Please, please. Can we resume discussing strategy?” T’challa cut in.

“Sorry, T’challa,” you said as you returned to your previous more focused stance, your eyes intent on the battle plans on the table before you.

“Thank you. So the Dora Milaje as well as the Jabari will follow the majority of the Avengers and I into battle. We will all advance in a line and hope to defend the border. If they break through, we will need to forma U and funnel them into our waiting arms. Y/N and Wanda will stay to defend the palace, my sister and Vision.”

“It’s too dangerous,” Steve protested.

“Who said that you got an opinion?” you muttered venomously.

“When I left-“

“A lot has changed since you left.”

“When I left,” Steve continued, attempting to pick up where he left off.

“When you left is irrelevant!”

“When I left, you were harmless. You wouldn’t be able to defend yourself, and for that matter, I have a hard time believing that you can now.”

“Asshole!”

“I’m just trying to protect you!” Steve shouted back.

“Well, stop it!” you said before storming out of the room.

…

A few hours later, Steve heard a knock at his door. He opened it up expecting to find Nat behind it, but was surprised to see Wanda there. She looked like a mess. Her hair looked as though it hadn’t been brushed in days, and she was wearing stained sweats.

“Hey. How have you been?” he greeted her.

“As well as can be expected, but really I should be asking you that question. I heard about your outburst today.”

“I just want to protect her.”

“But she’s not yours to protect anymore. Please tell me that you understand that. You have to stop living in this delusion that everything is the same as when you left three years ago,” Wanda said as she watched the light in Steve’s eyes dim as he stared at the floor. She could feel a piece of her heart breaking for him.

He was the one who had been there for her after she lost Pietro, and the only one who had provided her the slightest comfort. He had related. It reminded him of losing Bucky. He had always fought for her, even when she was responsible for all of those deaths in Lagos. He had been a father figure to her, but now he was just a shell of the man that she used to know.

“I know that I ruined everything when I left, but I thought that a part of her would still love me.”

“And a part of her does, but she had to move on. You weren’t there, but she was devastated. You were her everything and you dropped her like garbage.”

“I just need to know that she’s safe. What’s so wrong with that?”

“Possessive doesn’t look good on you Steve, especially not for another man’s girl.”

“She can’t have made up for a lifetime of training in 3 years.”

“You taught me in a couple of months.”

“But I never wanted this life for her,” Steve said as his voice broke.

“But it’s the one that she has, and you can’t take it away from her or turn back time. This is who she is now and you have to accept that. You know, I was so mad when you left. I’m even madder now.”

“I shouldn’t have left you like that. You were going through some terrible things, and I should’ve been there for you,” Steve said mournfully while still staring at his shoes.

“No. Do you realize that I might lose the only person that I have been able to bring myself to truly love since Pietro? I fell in love with him because he seemed so permanent, like he would never die, and now he might leave me too. You had a love like mine, you had everything, and you threw it all away. It seems so careless now more than ever when I am fighting for the very thing that you let die,” Wanda said, her voice breaking and her eyes glassy.

“I’m so sorry, Wanda. I didn’t th-“

“No you didn’t, but you should have. I’ll see you on the other side,” she cut him off as she reached for the door.

“Of the battle?”

“Or else” Wanda finished as she left.

Steve realized after his conversation where he had to go. He knocked on the door to find Bucky standing behind it.

“Hey man, what are you doing here?”

“Is Y/N here?” Steve asked tentatively.

“No.”

“Good because I’m here to see you. We need to talk,” Steve said as he walked past Bucky and into your room before taking a seat on the bed.

“Yeah, sure, come right in,” Bucky muttered under his breath.

“She thinks that I left her.”

“Yeah, buddy, because you did.”

“No I didn’t. I told you how to contact me before you went into the ice. You knew where I was. If she had wanted to find me, she could’ve asked you. Why doesn’t she know that? I never really left her. When were you going to tell her that?”

“When I went into the ice, I didn’t know what would happen, and then I came out and she was there and you weren’t. She was heartbroken, and I wasn’t at my best either, not that you cared. We had to help each other and then things just happened. No offense, but at that point, she didn’t really seem like she wanted to be in contact with you, and I didn’t want to upset her, so I didn’t tell her and risk upsetting her.”

“But I did care. I would’ve come back if I had known that she needed me!” Steve protested.

“She never stopped needing you, and you still left anyway. Now I think that it’s time that you leave.”

“And what about us Bucky?” Steve asked as he stood up angrily.

“What about us? You left me too!”

“No I didn’t. You could’ve come with me.”

“No I couldn’t. I was dangerous. I had to go into the ice. If it had been you, I would’ve been there.”

“I thought that we were past this.”

“Not as far past it as things seemed. Now I think it’s time that you go.”

Steve huffed as he stormed out the door. There was only one place that he wanted to go, one place that would make him feel better. He headed towards the gym, determined to punch his feelings out like a typical problematic white boy with anger issues. As he neared the gym, he could hear grunts and thuds coming from inside. Weird. He thought that he would be the only one at the gym the day before the fight. Everybody else should be resting, still the grunts persisted. He rounded the corner and peered inside of the gym to find you attacking a punching bag like your life depended on it, which it would tomorrow. Steve had to admit; you truly were talented and obviously a fast learner.

“Impressive form,” he commented as he walked through the doors.

“I don’t remember asking,” you panted as you stopped for just a second to grab a sip of your water.

“I want to apologize for what I said this morning. I was wrong. You can obviously hold your own, and I’m sorry for insinuating otherwise.”

“Insinuating? Are you kidding me! You did everything but flat out call me incapable in a room full of people, whose respect I had to work so hard to earn. Do you know that when most of these people met me I was an emotional mess? They never thought that I could learn to fight because I was pathetic, and you made me that way, but you know what? I worked, and I trained, and I tried so hard, and I clawed my way to the top of the chain of command. I earned my spot at that table, and you came in there today and placed doubts in the mind of those people, my people! You called back all those memories of the weak little girl I was, and I hate you for that. You can leave me, and I’ll survive, but you cannot just come back into my life and call my accomplishments into question like you know me or the work I put in. You cannot base your opinion of me off of the mess you made me,” you finished in a dangerously even tone.

Steve stood there in shocked silence for a few moments. You would never have spoken to him like that 3 years ago. The maddest you ever got was when he argued that Coke was better than Pepsi or that Coach was the best roommate on New Girl. He didn’t recognize the strong, confident, and independent woman standing in front of him today. He finally found the strength to speak again and muttered out weakly, “I just came down here to hit a punching bag.”

“Really? And here I thought that you were more the punching holes in walls type of incel.”

“Y/N, please.”

“Fine, you wanna spar?”

“Sure,” Steve said as he headed over to the mat that covered a large expanse of the floor.

You took your place opposite of him, and out of nowhere, leapt at him like a tornado. You kicked at his stomach, but he blocked it at the last minute. He tried to punch you, but swung too far to the left, leaving his middle unguarded. You ran at him headfirst like a battering ram and knocked him onto his back. He tried to wrestle for control and flip you, but you clenched your thighs and remained squarely on top of him. You bent down slowly until your lips brushed against Steve’s ear and whispered in a low husky voice.

“You let me win.”

“What? No I didn’t!” Steve exclaimed as he tried to sit up.

“Do you wanna try this again?”

“Y/N, you know it’ s not fair, no matter how good you are.”

“Do you let Nat win?”

“Well no, but she’s Nat. If I did, she would cut my balls off, and besides, she’s a former Soviet spy. She sneaks up on me.”

“Ok, and she trained me. Honestly, of the two of us, I’m the more likely to cut off your balls. I have a motive and all.”

“Fine. Do you really want to do this?”

“No, Steve. I asked you to spar, but I really wanted to sit down and have a tea party,” You said sarcastically as you stood up and let Steve up from the ground.

“Was that sarcasm? I feel like that was sarcasm.”

“No shit, Sherlock.”

“You know I actually understood that!” Steve said excitedly.

“I would hope so because those stories were written in the 1800s. God, you expect people to applaud everything you do, don’t you?”

“You used to.”

“I was a fool back then. Like Daisy Buchanan said, ‘That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“The Great Gatsby,” Steve said almost reverently.

“Wow! You got that one too!” you mock exclaimed even more sarcastically than before. “Now, fight me for real this time, and I mean it.”

You resumed your position and Steve came at you this time. He tried to sweep your legs out from under you, but you stepped back out of his range quickly. You aimed a blow to his side, but he blocked it easily.

“You know, I’m actually at a disadvantage without my shield.”

“Shut it supersoldier!” you panted.

Steve kneed you in the stomach and you quickly had you on your back after that. You almost managed to wriggle out from under him, but he pressed his grip tighter. You managed to flip him on his back though, and pin him, but he pulled you off of him by your thighs and pushed you into the mat face first.

“Is this what you wanted, daisy?” he asked, using his old pet name for you.

Hearing it again sent you spiraling. It reminded you of the date that he had given it to you on. It was one of your first ones, and also your favorite. Before he had left, you considered it the best day of your life. After, it just served as a cruel reminder of everything that you had lost.

He had taken you out to the middle of upstate New York, promising a surprise you wouldn’t forget. He pulled the truck over to a service road, and led you through the woods until you reached the edge of a meadow filled with daisies. You had a picnic and talked and just enjoyed each others’ company away from all of the pressures of the city and saving the world. Later, you had fallen asleep in the warm sunshine and when you had woken up, there was a daisy chain waiting on your chest. You sat up, grinning and placed it on your head, beaming from ear to ear.

“You’re so beautiful, like my little daisy,” he had whispered awestruck. That was the moment that you knew you loved him. That was the moment that would remained burned into your heart forever and you hated Steve for souring it.

Coming back to the present, you roughly shoved Steve off of you, you face burning red. You rushed out of the room right as the tears started running down your cheeks.

“Y/N,” he called after you.