AN: so this is just a bunch of one shots taking place in my high school au. If you want to see a certain group of characters interacting just let me know.


Not a Shrimp

[Steve Rogers -11th, Bucky Barnes -11th, Natasha Romanoff -11th]

"Hey, Bucky!" Steve called out, spotting his best friend across the parking lot. Steve ran over with a grin on his face and noticed that Bucky hadn't changed much in the last two years (aside from growing his hair out, of course, but Steve would bug him about that later).

"Steve?" Bucky asked in disbelief as he approached.

"Not a single e-mail all summer? I thought you were dead," Steve joked.

Bucky didn't have to look down to answer him. "I thought you were smaller."

"Yeah, 'were' being the key word," Steve answered, grin still intact.

Bucky pulled him into a hug. "Holy shit, man. What are you doing here?"

"I go to school here. Told you I had a surprise for you when you got back."

Bucky's grin now matched Steve's. "You moved back and didn't tell me?!"

"I would have if you had been in the country," Steve teased as they walked towards the building.

"That is not my fault. You know my parents are European culture nuts," Bucky said with a light punch to the shoulder. "You're staying at the Hill House then?"

"Yeah, Ms. Hill is great. Though it's a little weird being with so many kids. The Grays only had the one other kid."

"You definitely have some weird roomies now."

"Don't I know it."

"Thanks, Steve," a female voice said from behind them.

Bucky jumped in surprise but Steve was unfazed.

"Hey, Nat. You find Clint yet?"

"No." The red head glanced down at her phone. "He's running late."

"Bucky, you know Natasha, right?"

"Romanoff," Bucky nodded at her, still looking startled.

"Barnes," she replied. Her phone pinged. "He's here. Catch you later, Steve. Don't get lost." And with that she was off in the opposite direction.

Bucky opened the side door of the school. "'Nat'?" he asked for confirmation.

"Yeah," Steve said, unaware of the tension.

"Only Barton gets to call her that. In fact, only the kids in the Hill House get to call her by her first name. Even the teachers call her by her last name, well, except Coulson, but that's not the point," Bucky said.

Steve shrugged. "She kind of made me her new best friend over the summer. You and Clint were gone and he told her to make more friends so..." Steve trailed off, unsure as to how he could describe his summer with Natasha.

Bucky laughed. "That had to be interesting."

"It was. In a good way, though."

"Well, let me show you around campus, don't want your shrimpy self getting lost, now do we?"

"Hey! I'm as tall as you now!"

"Nope, must be a trick of the light. You're still a shrimp," he said, pulling him down for a noogie.

"Bucky!"

The only response he received was laughter.


AN: So the Hill House is a foster home run by Maria Hill. There are currently seven kids there. Steve, Natasha, Tony, Bruce, Sam, Skye, and Grant.

If you have any one-shots you'd like to see, drop me a review or a PM.